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I'll post my reply to the questions asked of me with what I just said in another thread; and I'll preface it by adding that this is no "agenda", this is simple disgust at the treatment of Canadians by a supposed "friend" and "ally" of ours:

Hezbollah fires rockets at an Israeli town and kidnaps two soldiers. Israel retaliates by levelling Lebanon without warning or consideration for the tens of thousands of foreign nationals there who its actions, in bombing ports, roads, bridges, and the international airport have cut off from escaping the country - for a week - that they have turned into a warzone, killing 8 Canadian civillians in the process and severely injuring several others. By their own standards, this is an act of war against Canada, and an act of callous disregard by any standard.

But is Canada mobilizing for an all out war with Israel in kind, or even any kind of relatiation? No, we are just trying our best - within the limits imposed upon us by Israel and the IDF - to get our people out. Our own PM even diverted his own military A330 Airbus to Cypress to pick up as many stranded Canadian refugees as possible.

Meanwhile the US has finally landed 1,200 marines into Lebanon to get its own people out - all of this a week after events began, events that - without warning of any kind - turned our citizens into trapped refugees who are at the mercy of the IDF.

Meanwhile 500 German nationals are being evacuated to Syria.

You know, I don't have the solution to what Israel should do, but unlike you folks I'm not going to applaud this callous treatment, and killings, of my own fellow Canadians whose only fault was unknowingly being in a place Israel decided without warning to level, trapping them there in the process and putting their lives at risk as it bombed and shelled the country with them in it.

While I applaud my PM's personal efforts to get some of our people out, I find our government's otherwise apparent apathy and indifference to Israel's conduct disgusting. I no longer consider Israel any ally of ours because you don't treat your friends and allies this way.

And for you August, it is even more ironic given that its your own country's weapons and $3 billion/year subsidy to Israel that is being used to hold your citizens hostage in a foreign country turned warzone by the IDF. And not even a heads up to your embassy in Lebanon before hand so that you might get your people out first; no, instead the warning comes in the form of the bombing of the International airport trapping them there.

That the US has to send 1,200 Marines in a week later to rescue its people from the threat posed to them by one of its, supposedly, close allies and puppet states doesn't bother you August.

Personally I see this and I have to wonder which country is really the puppet state, and which country - just like its citizens - is the one held hostage to events of the other's making.

So to come back to your question about a solution to Israel's problem - why should I give a damn about them or their problems when they so blatantly could give a damn about Canadians when only just this week the IDF killed 8 of them? I don't, not any more. The hell with them as far as I'm concerned.