<p>There still is plenty of England v Germany animosity. They just don’t use guns or bombs. More cartoons and jibes.</p>
<p>Animosity runs very deep between Japan and China . I can safely say there is still much animosity between former colonialists and their former colonies. Just ask people who had lived under it, people in Asia, Africa, Carribbean.</p>
<p>peace cannot be achieved in the middle east without war. These arabs must be crushed until new generation can be born that can live w.o their hate for jews. Look You claim that ISrael left the gaza in shambles and how bad it was for them etc…When gaza was under brits control the arabs did NOTHING with it, when gaza was under egyptian control the arabs did NOTHING with it, but when gaza was under jewish control the arabs still did NOTHING while the jews built up greenhouses and the agriculture there flourished. And who were the employtees at these farms, they were arabs. So when the jews left gaza after evacuating all the homes and synagogues and even taking jews out of their graves, they left them the agricultural infrastructure and what did the arabs do with it? they destroyed it and ran it into the ground. Not to mention, how much money they get in foreign aid from US, UN, EU , etc…only the arab countries do not give foreign aid to the palestinian arabs</p>
<p>Personally, no matter how much contempt I have for Hamas and Hezbollah, I find it really alarming that anyone is advocating “crushing” a people. How are you better than those who write the Hamas charter, if you really believe that “crushing the Arabs” is the answer to peace?</p>
<p>That is just plain so sad and pathetic.</p>
<p>im not talking about crushing the nation. Use ur brain. Im talking about crushing the terrorists. Not letting the wallow around till they can build up their arms and attack but i am talking about destroying all of them, mercilessly, however while sustaining the general populus as israel does now. And after many generations pass the arabs will not be so violent against the jews.</p>
<p>o and war is the only way to win peace with these people. Let me give you the example of egypt, after losing 4 wars to israel they sought peace</p>
<p>And you are advocating horrific violence, which is no better than Hamas or Hizbollah. What makes killing Arabs better than killing Jews? You are really very naive in your beliefs.</p>
<p>actually i am advocating horrible violence against those that initially use horrible violence. Tihs is not all to different from what america is doing in its terror war. I do not see why someone who sent an israeli teen to his death should not be hunted down and killed. Just like after wwII jewish heroes all over the world hunted down nazis and killed them in retribution for their crimes against jews, so too now should jews attack arab terrorists and kill them for the same reasons. The arabs started this war, and war is what they should get. </p>
<p>This is an interesting article by a jerusalem post reporter up in southern lebanon rite now</p>
<p>The small group of Ghanaian soldiers manning UNIFIL Position 6-52, to the west of the village of Maroun a-Ras, less than a kilometer from the border, hasn’t left its base in the last two weeks. </p>
<p>“Those are the orders of our superior officers,” explains one of them who presents himself as commander of the post, but refuses to give his name. “We have been visited by our officers three times since the fighting began and a supply truck arrives here every three or four days.” </p>
<p>On the wall nearest to the gate of the white-washed building is an “Alert State” board with the arrow pointed to black. But none of their information on the current situation has come from their own sources. “We know what’s going on from the television,” says the commander. </p>
<p>Even the deaths of four UNTSO members on Tuesday night in an IAF bombardment, at a base not so far away, wasn’t communicated to them from headquarters. That, too, they learned from TV. </p>
<p>The current contingent from Ghana has been in Lebanon for three months. The soldiers at the post are charged with patrolling and monitoring, with their single jeep, the area where the heaviest fighting has been going on for the last 10 days. The fact that Hizbullah has been well entrenched in the area ever since Israel’s withdrawal six years ago - with hundreds of fighters, well stocked ammunition depots and extensive fortifications - seemed to have escape the Ghanaians notice. “I have never seen one of them,” says the soldier. “You cannot easily identify them in the population.” </p>
<p>The UNIFIL soldiers have “zero contact” with the Lebanese living in the surrounding towns and villages. All their supplies are brought by UNIFIL, and they never go out for recreation, aside from periods of leave in Beirut. </p>
<p>The supply of “peacekeeping” troops to the various blue-helmet forces of the UN is a major source of income for Ghana’s army; they have soldiers in Ivory Coast, Liberia and Congo. The troops operate in rotations of six months. Those currently serving on the border profess to have never heard of the accusations that the force has cooperated with Hizbullah in the past and allowed the organization to build its posts next to UNIFIL bases. </p>
<p>However, they are aware of the ongoing debate over the force’s future and the growing support for a new multinational force to replace UNIFIL. </p>
<p>“The problem is not UNIFIL,” says the soldier at the gate. “It’s the mandate we have from the UN. That is what decides our job. In my personal opinion, if UNIFIL’s mandate was changed and the force increased, it would be more efficient.” </p>
<p>At the beginning of the fighting, a number of bombs exploded around the UNIFIL post, including one 150 meters from the gate. Two weeks later, the area around the post is quiet, except for the distant thud of artillery fire. Hizbullah has been banished from this small part of Lebanon. IDF Merkava tanks roar through a nearby opening in the border fence. There isn’t even a guard at the border and Israeli and foreign journalists pass in and out unhindered. </p>
<p>The Ghanaian soldiers weren’t even aware of the breach in the fence they are supposed to monitor, by mandate of the United Nations.</p>
<p>I think there are several issues here. First is peaceful coexistence by all parties, however that is achieved. The other is for the Palestineans in particular to end the corruption in their ranks and to demand economic accountability. That would be a fight worth fighting for them. Stop their “leaders” from taking billions of dollars earmarked for economic growth and either putting it into their personal bank accounts or spending it on weapons. Back to the fact that Arafat died with a fortune of at least $1 billion. He did not invent the Windows operating system like Bill Gates and earn his fortune, he personally decided that money sent to the Palestinean people was for his own bank accounts. There is no reason that his estranged wife and daughter should get over a million dollars a month to live in Paris, while that money was sent for enriching the lives of “his” people. This to me is the great challenge for the Palestineans, to get an honest government in power that will actually help them to build an economy and a future. The world will happily chip in for this, but not if the money goes for bombs and personal spending.</p>
<p>Horrible violence saves lives and ushers in peace quicker. The atom bombs killed 150K+ innocent Japanese civilians, ending the war quickly. At the same, many many American and Japanese lives were saved due to that. </p>
<p>I’m with ski on this one. If you are going to use force, you gotta use all the force you got. Sherman said “War is hell”. You have to utilize this concept in the Middle East as well. Terrorists nowadays know that after they attack US or Israel, the victims cannot strike back properly. If they do, they will be condemned by the UN (an association of scumbags), or by ‘world opinion’ for being ‘aggressors’.</p>
<p>I say, to hell with what everyone else thinks. If your country is being attacked by barbarians, you have every right to destroy them. If any civilians from Palestine or Lebanon die, then Hezbollah and PLO are to blame.</p>
<p>skisaloman89 and iloveagoodbrew, you guys are really sick. Do you really think you can crush a whole country and the next generation will forget???Don’t the Jews want everyone not to forget the Holocaust? What makes you think the Arabs will forget??? You guys are really naive. Violence will never lead to peace.</p>
<p>Yeah, hurray for horrendous violence. It always turns out swell.</p>
<p>“Those who fight monsters should take care that they never become one. For when you stand and look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” ~ Frederich Nietsche</p>
<p>Except for ending slavery, fascism, nazim and communism, war has NEVER solved anything. Be a good liberal and put yourself on a high moral pedestal.</p>
<p>You travel in good company, brew.<br>
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They have real brass.</p>
<p>yh lol ive seen that before very true statement. Why are u quoting some philosopher that means nothing. He also said god is dead. Who cares what he has to say, u mite as well choose some random guy and ask him to say some fancy line. What we need now is to win this war and destroy the terrorists. This current conflict is nothing but a continuation of the first war israel fought in 1948, its independance war, these people simply hate jews and will do everything they can to kill them. Israel did not start this and cannot be blamed for its self defense</p>
<p>Ugh I spelled Nazism wrong and there’s no way to edit it.</p>