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Originally Posted by scandium
You know when I posted this appeal for aid, I wondered what kind of reaction it would get. The optimistic side of me hoped that the Subsim community might contain enough basic humanism within it to recognize that these 800,000 people who are displaced did not ask for this to happen to them, and in fact have seen more than their fair shair of war, destruction, killing, and terrorism. That these people are just people, many of them Christian, pro-American, and pro-democracy. And I'd hoped that, as this is an international community, others might at least contribute links to organizations in their own region accepting donations for this relief effort - if nothing else.
But the cynical side of me also realized, given the nature of the many other threads on this topic, that this thread would just as likely be hijacked by those who not only could care less about the plight of Lebanese refugees, but would go even further by interjecting their political bias into it in an effort to discourage others from contributing.
What you do with your money is your business, and you're entitled to your views on the conflict and their are many other threads for you to air them; but I'd ask that if you're not interested in helping these people that you at least, please, show enough deceny to keep your trolling out of this thread.
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There is one differenc ebetween you, and many of us. you are willing to accept a instabile, provisoric ceasefire - and letting Hezbollah remain armed and continue with it's terror, without timley limits. Many of us do seek a stable and lasting solutiuon in that way, that a disarmed and driven away Hezbollah is not only a benefit for Israel, but for Lebanon as well. Even the Arab governments are realtively silent about this mess, they also have an interest to limit Iran'S influence in the ME. none of them would shed a tear if hezbollah would get shattered by Israel.
You focus on the immediate moment only. Others look beyond it. I see no worth in a return to the previous status quo - that also saw a constant killing, inly with less spectacular pictures. Let Hezbollah be disarmed and driven away, then I vote for all humanitarian support that you want. But not before the fight is over, for I do not accept any weakening of the Isaraeli effort, any chance for Hezbollah to find rescue, any distracting away fromtnhe goal of this effort. Becasue then -it would all start again sooner or later. You accept an ongoing horror without end. I prefer an end with horror. Am i cynical? Maybe. War always is pure cynism, if compared with any humanitarian ideals, peace, reason. It is all that NOT.