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Originally Posted by August
Geez man, I know it's only a silly comparison game but did you just call that poor young man "a pet rat"?
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About sums up how Israel seems to regard them. Hezbollah offered a prisoner exchange. Its been what, 2 weeks now? If Israel gave a rat's @ss about them then they could have spent the last 2 weeks negotiating with the Lebanese PM on a joint Israeli-Lebanese search and rescue mission in conjunction with international cooperation/assistance. They could have at least tried this route, and they have done prisoner exchanges before so this would not set a precedent.
Instead, they decided to destroy the country, weaken and destabalize the democratic Lebanese government, destroy the Lebanese army which is the country's only hope of providing the internal security Israel demands, and killing UN Observers and thereby further poising the International community against them and making any kind of international peace keeping force or cooperation less likely (given that nobody is going to commit their troops to becoming target practice for th IDF).
And where are these captured soldiers now? That issue has disappeared off the front page. Beyond servering as pawns and a convenient pretext for destroying Lebanon, I doubt the Israeli government cared less to begin with - not to judge by their actions anyway.
I mean, if someone kidnapped someone I cared about, I wouldn't react by blowing up their house and killing their family - not if I wanted this person I cared back alive, anyway.