Does the fact that Hezbollah kidnapped Israeli soldiers not count anymore? There is so much talk about what Israel is doing...and clearly enormous media manipulation going on by both sides. But one thing i do know is that Hezbollah kidnapped and still has not returned members of Israel's military and that seems be overlooked.

Does the fact that Hezbollah kidnapped Israeli soldiers not count anymore? There is so much talk about what Israel is doing...and clearly enormous media manipulation going on by both sides. But one thing i do know is that Hezbollah kidnapped and still has not returned members of Israel's military and that seems be overlooked.

Don't look for this crowd to emphasize that any time soon. Besides, Christian dispensationalists are a far worse threat to Israel than Hezbullah ever was.

George Monbiot from Guardian writes:

But there is no serious debate about why the two soldiers were captured: Hizbullah was seeking to exchange them for the 15 prisoners of war taken by the Israelis during the occupation of Lebanon and (in breach of article 118 of the third Geneva convention) never released.

Besides, does it make any sense to lose the lives of more than 70 Israel soldiers and kill about 1000 Lebanese (not to mention ruining the infrastructure of the country, leaving thousands without humanitarian aid), just to "save" the lives of two Israeli soldiers? This bloody operation was planned long before those soldiers were kidnapped, let's not deceive ourselves.

Actually, media would follow the Israelis if they were to stand with their demand to release those soldiers, but nobody saw them make such demand, instead we saw them do what Bush did with OBL situation, he went to Saddam to find WMD. You know, if he's still alive, OBL must be having a good laugh at all this, while choking on his kidneys.