From a practical point of view, that is kind of like The U.S. President saying: “Well, you can blow up Tacoma, Denver, Des Moines, Atlanta and Chicago, and we will just make a half effort to punish you, but don’t you dare blow up Washington DC.”.

And from a religious point of view, I don’t think ‘prophecy’ mentions Tel Aviv specifically. (does it?)

Let me repeat “Hazbollah gave exclusive access to the southern surburb of Birut”

So where is Lebanon located, exactly or is Beirut now the Capital of Hazbollahland?

Hot Air has the video…

It’s like Einstein being questioned by two chimpanzees.

“The Israelis know that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan River, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die.” — Bill Clinton

Well there are plenty of ditches in Israel now. Will Clinton finally pick up a rifle and defend Israel from the terrorist scourge.

Thanks :). I know what he meant, but it still galls me that the “int’l community” will, eventually, step in like it did in every other Arab-Israeli war and not let Israel win. Millions massacred in Sudan and Rwanda? UN hasn’t a care in the world. The Jews putting a final end to Hizbollah in Lebanon? Well, we just can’t have that.

Relax–he meant that the international community so far hasn’t forced a diplomatic stalemate, thanks to Bush and the ineffectiveness of the UN in pursuing its anti-Israel agenda.

Nice nic, BTW.

86% of Israelis support the operation.

If you go to the link above, you will read something interesting. At first, I was wondering about the 14% of the Israeli’s who don’t support the operation. Then you will realize that 18.5% are “Arab”, i.e., not Jewish, i.e., mostly Muslim Palestinians. I am betting that approval for the operation split down religeous lines, meaning most of the Israeli Jews approved of it, and most of the Israeli Muslims opposed it.

It would be very interesting to see how closely the vote followed religeous lines. For example, if 98% of the Jews approved, and 2% of the Muslims approved, that would give us our 86% approval rating. Or if 68% of the Jews approved and 32% of the Muslims approved, again we would get our 86% approval rating.*

I don’t bring all this up just to throw a bunch of statistics that I did in my head arround to show how “smart” I am. The point of all of this is I am wondering how the Israeli Muslims feel about all of this. Ironically, the lower the Jewish approval, the better it makes the Muslims look as far as viewing the State of Israel as “their” state, and not some “illegal zionist entity.” It means they are closer to really accepting Israel as a state and that they are really citizens of it. Unfortunately, the higher the Jewish approval, the less positive things can be seen in Muslim approval.

Thoughts?

Well, you know what they say about playing with fire ….

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But remember — it’s all the Jews’ fault. The IDF has found that Hizbullah is preventing civilians from leaving villages in southern Lebanon. Roadblocks have been set up outside some of the villages to prevent residents from leaving, while in……