Rebuilding Lebanon

Who should foot the bill for rebuilding Lebanon?

  • Lebanon herself.

    Votes: 20 23.0%
  • Israel

    Votes: 43 49.4%
  • America

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • International fund (US/EU/Whomever else)

    Votes: 22 25.3%

  • Total voters
    87
rmsharpe said:
If Israel wanted to kill the Palestinians and the Lebanese, do you really think either of them would be around today?

If the German and euro were anti-semtism, u think there will be jews around ? Like i said, the so called genocide had many level, and that including making life miserable for a selective and targetted group of ppl. In this case here, a prolong depreivation of statehood to the palestenian and now, killing lebanese civilian.

Of coz, im not saying its consider a full blown case of genocide either, but the Israelis is threading a very fine line there. 50 yrs and more than a generation of Palestinian are living in sub standard condition and forever till now still under the constant gunning of Israel and harass with its might.

If ur country loses it soverighty, will u fight back? could they make u losing the ability to fight back ?? what if Syria or Iran "donate" 100 tanks to palestinian ? will the israelis sit back ??

why is there so much double standard from the western power especially USA? where pyongyang was slap by sanction for test firing some missile, Iran denial the ability to develop nuclear weapon and Israel can do all that, exporting weapons, killing civilian and attacking other countries with punishment ?? Do they believe in karma ?? lol.
 
skadistic said:
If Lebanon had followed the UN resolution to disarm hezbola hezbola would not have fired missles into Israel thus stirring the the hornets nest.

hezbola should pay to rebuild Lebanon alond with Syria and Iran.

If lebanon can disarm Hazebolla u think their prime minister will be assassinated ?? If the country is rich enough, u think they wont militarilise themselve ?? How can 1 country stand beside and allow other country to "bully" it by killing it civilian ?? Is collective crime punishment is justifiable ? then will 9/11 consider just then ???

Do not do onto other what u dont want others to do onto u.
 
Ramius75 said:
If the German and euro were anti-semtism, u think there will be jews around ?
Are you unfamiliar with the Holocaust, Ramius?

If ur country loses it soverighty, will u fight back?
Yes, but my country isn't a loose coalition of sexually promiscuous kleptocrats and religious fanatics bent on destroying our neighbors.
 
rmsharpe said:
Are you unfamiliar with the Holocaust, Ramius?

of coz, i am. thats why im surprised that a race that went thru such horrible past are now spreading the same old racism to other parts of the world.

What irony.

my point is that, the Nazi also never manage to kill all the Jews right ?? So it doenst takes a full scale genocide or final solution to deal damage to a race. The discriminant are presence in many facets and some are extended for over 50 years.

rmsharpe said:
Yes, but my country isn't a loose coalition of sexually promiscuous kleptocrats and religious fanatics bent on destroying our neighbors.

Thats what u think so. most ppl will of think their own motherland is the greatest and defend it with every bit of breath they have.
 
Esox said:
Why on the green earth is America on that list?
You could have added Liechtenstein while you were at it.

Well I hear the argument that Israel acts on America's blessing so I figured it were a fair choice even if I myself think it's a moronic one.
 
newfangle said:
Since Eli is the only person from that part of the world to respond, he gets my vote.

I'm afraid that you overestimate my financial capabilities.
 
Israel is the one who caused all the destruction. Lebanon before Israel began bombing it was recovering economically from the civil war during a reconstrucntion campagain by the former President and it was develkoping a tourist economy.

Now Israels bombing have removed all of that and turned the country even violently against Israel, devestated its economy and infastructre, and made the pouplation resoloutely support Hezbollah. Brilliant really. Isreal will be fighting forever now. Congrulations.
 
International fund with Israil, Syria and Iran kicking in the most and everyone else topping it up.

Mastreditr111 said:
Most reasonable response I've seen. Also, whoever said the words "UN Peacekeeping Force" is smoking something again. Anyone ever notice that the UN has never successfully stopped a genocide or war, and actually made many worse?

Humm, Kosovo?
 
I think it is on topic to point out that it is likely that the most likely way that any of us can help with the rebuilding is to support Lebannon with our tourist currancy. Lebannon is a beutiful country (most of the tourist sites have been avoided in the bombing) and one of the few places where you can go swimming in the morning and ski in the afternoon. I am very tempted to go for a trip when the snow starts falling (assuming that the bombs stop before that).
 
Mastreditr111 said:
Most reasonable response I've seen. Also, whoever said the words "UN Peacekeeping Force" is smoking something again. Anyone ever notice that the UN has never successfully stopped a genocide or war, and actually made many worse?

Bright day
DRC? Cote d'Ivore? Was there peacekeeping to Eritrea too? Korea?
 
Well if I were to go outside right now and ram my car into someone I am required to foot the bill.
 
HawkeyeGS said:
Well if I were to go outside right now and ram my car into someone I am required to foot the bill.

Good quote in your sig. Most fitting for this situation I think.
 
Eli said:
Iran and Syria. They are the masters of Hizballah and they should pay for the damages it caused.

The USA, they are the Masters of Israel and they should pay for the damages it caused.

Well, maybe the USA should invade Lebanon and Bring Freedom and Democracy to Lebanon too, and why not, also Palestine.
After all its working so well in Iraq...
 
To these saying Syria and Iran- do you have any understanding what that would acomplish? Instead of talking about "Syria and Iran" we would be talking "Lebanon, Syria and Iran".
 
HawkeyeGS said:
Well if I were to go outside right now and ram my car into someone I am required to foot the bill.

Not if the person in the back seat was firing at you, and the driver didn't stop him. :rolleyes:


Fits the situation better.
 
Where's the "all of the above" option?

Israel should help out, because they're the ones bombing it. America should, to help support the fledgling democracy there, and to gain goodwill in the Middle East. Syrian and Iran should, because they're the ones who funded Hezbollah, and made all this necessary.

In a perfect world, all those nations would be pooling resources, and in five years Lebanon would be twice as great as it was two weeks ago. But then, in a perfect world this wouldn't have happened.

Ramius75 said:
If ur country loses it soverighty, will u fight back? could they make u losing the ability to fight back ?? what if Syria or Iran "donate" 100 tanks to palestinian ? will the israelis sit back ??
Sounds like a terrific idea to me. The terrorists can sit there, fumbling around, trying to load the darn things while the Israeli's move in and destroy them. Iran and Syria are out 100 tanks, and a couple hundred Palestinian terrorists are dead without having to hunt them down - it's a win win!
 
How is a couple of hundred dead, regardless of thier intentions, 'win'?
 
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