[Politics] Lebanon Aid Appeals

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Originally Posted by Skybird

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.

I'm not debating this with you in this thread Skybird, as not only is this debate irrelevant to it, it is completely counter-productive to it. You know, it is all well and good for the usual thread on politics or religion to stray off course, as they always do. But its a little different when a thread like this, which is not about politics or religion but about humanitarian aid, is hijacked from the very first response and every response afterward purely to poison the well with political bias and cynicism.

So if you want this debate, I ask again: if you're not interested in helping these people that you at least, please, show enough deceny to stop trolling this thread and take it instead to any of the many threads here where it really belongs.