FW: "Give war a chance!" ?

Interesting comments reader posted in a major non-us newspaper.

News "Cabinet rejects IDF call to expand war"

Talkbacks:

11. Politicians the problem
Darren - USA
07/27/2006 13:55
The politicians need to get out of the way and let the IDF prosecute this war. Sometimes the politicians are more the problem than the solution. Give war a chance!

13. Air Power and Civilians
Michael - USA
07/27/2006 14:00
Use the air power and bomb the village to smithereens. The civilians who remain are not more worthy of life than our boys. It is wrong to risk the lives of Jewish boys for the remaining civilians who hate us and wish us dead anyway. Bring overwhelming air power and blow the terrorists out of their lairs.

14. Do not send soldiers, strike form the air.
Mila - Finland
07/27/2006 14:02
IDF needs to strike this village from the air, not sending it's soldiers on the grownd. You try to rescue civilians and as the result Israely soldiers get killed. These civilians have taked the cide with hisbullah, that mens they need to pay the price. It is wrong to rescue the ones who take side with hisbullah and have Israely soldiers die on the ground.

15. security
catherine adam - USA
07/27/2006 14:04
Please do not commit the same mistake as the US did and does; not to follow the lesson learns during WWII: 'overhelming force'. If we are concern what the 'people' are saying Israel is doomed. Please be note, that we Jews will be hated anuhow. ONLY if we show strenght will be we saved.

19. Change the tactics
Rudik - Australia
07/27/2006 14:15
I do believe in trying to minimise the civilian casualties (so called collateral damage). And I really cannot describe my feelings when I learned that so many fine young Israeli warriors lost their lives during the battle, trying to avoid the Lebanese civilians being harmed at the expense of their own lives. What I do not understand is why Israel cannot do what it quite successfully performed in the southern Beirut - warn the locals of the imminent strike (a few times) and then
level the villages with all the terrorists in them.

24. Security Canbinet Opposes Expanded Ground Operation
Joe Farbowitz - USA
07/27/2006 14:50
When will Israel learn that the only way to make their Arab enemies understand and respect the IDF is to hit them hard, very hard, when given the opportunity to so. When a cancerous tumor exists it must be completely removed ( including surrounding tissue) or it will grow back-perhaps larger and more agressive. Hasn't 58 years of fighting the Arabs taught them anything?

25. This might be a major mistake
Bernard Ross - jamaica
07/27/2006 14:56
If Hezbullah is not soundly beaten before a cease fire is declared those htat died may have died
in vain. As civilians have been warned to leave south lebanon buildings should be leveled prior
to
IDF gioing into villages. It is important that the enemies of Israel see that Israel is willing
to
make massive retaliations causing great loss. Without great loss there will be no lesson learned.
The japanese became US ally after hisroshima.

29. Protecting Lebanese civilians costing Israeli lives
Bernard Ross - jamaica
07/27/2006 15:01
" Bint Jbail could not be attacked by air since there were still several hundred civilians there.
This is wrong, civilians have been warned, level the buildings first. Lebanese civilians are
hezbullah they are all one. They are sending rockets to kill Israeli civilians. The enemy cannot
be protected at expense of Israelis in order to satisfy the EU supporters of the murderers of
Jews.

36. THERE ARE NO "CIVILIANS" IN BINT JABAIL
Steve
07/27/2006 15:39
What is this reluctance in attacking by air. The civilians were given ample time and several days
to evacuate. Those that didn't are responsible for their persons, not us. Devastate the villiage
and spare our ground forces!

43. Civilians
Harold - USA
07/27/2006 15:54
You are receiving rockets on your civilian population and you're worried about the civilians in
Bint Jbail. The civilians in Bint Jbail are your enemy. Wake up.

44. Ari #21 and Uzi # 23 are right !
John from Northern Ireland
07/27/2006 15:55
Israel's leaders need to get real. They need to bring out everything in the arsenal to smash
Hezbollah. If that means carpet bombing Bint Jbail, so be it. Napalm the Hezbollah positions,
level the entire town - but stop wasting Israeli lives playing to world opinion.

49. dumb misstakes of idf
david - holland
07/27/2006 16:06
Damn, i don't get it! Why sacrifice our soldiers for some people who willingly serve as a shield
and are thus allies of hezbollah? Is that really true?? That idf deliberately sacrifices their
own
people to rescue this hezbollah allies? That's the most retarded tactics ever. And after that
they
shoot some UN people, to make sure that we do not only get killed, but get hated in the same
instance. I'd say do as the u.s. if you know where the terrorists are, flatten them from the air.
And civilians that die in the process, well i'm sure they'll be happy to meet the countless
virgins undoubtedly waiting for them

50. Delay at Israel's peril
Zachary Walusimbi - Uganda
07/27/2006 16:09
Russions tried the first time, failed with so may casualities in war against the Chechen rebels.
Second time, they had learnt. Take advantage of massive fire power against these international
lawness organisations. They won. Israel needs to do just that. Level villages and town after
warning civilians to free. Time is not on Israel's side as international pressure is mounting.

58. I agree with Mr.Ross
michael bergin - USA
07/27/2006 16:28
I completely agree with Bernard. While both Israel and the US continue to take civilian casulties
our enemies hide within civilian populations. In the case of the battle of Bint Jbail you drop
warnings and then you drop bombs. When the village is gone you move on to the next with the same
startegy not allowing IDF forces to be killed. By the time you get to the third village ... no
one
will be there as they will get the message. It sounds hash and inhuman but the enemy has no rules
and are fanatics willing and wanting to kill every citizen of Israel and the US. We are making
the
same mistake in Iraq with the same results. God bless Israel!

65. Tactical Mistake
Tadeu Mendes - USA
07/27/2006 16:42
With due respect to the IDF soldiers and their loss of life in this operation, I think it was a
mistake to send infantry troops to an area where the enemy is willing to die at any cost. If the
IAF bombed Beirut, why not carpet bomb Bint Jbail and then enter the area and finish the job.

69. Israel must obliterate Southern Lebanon
Hector-Michael - Canada
07/27/2006 16:45
By luring Israeli troops into their rat-holes, Hezbollah is scoring big time. Guerrilla warfare
is
the downfall of any army that follows an enemy into its ground turf. In the case of Israel in
Southern Lebanon, the enemy has been preparing deadly traps for years. Now it has lured Israel to
fight in the ground, and Israel has fallen for it. The results are Jewish lives been wasted in
death traps that can be bombed from the air. Why is Israel sending its soldiers into those traps,
is beyond me. Israel gave plenty of warning urging the civilian population to get out of the war
zone. If civilians are still there, it can be assumed they are part of what they call resistance.
That makes them the enemy too. Israel, your troops are the cream of the crop of Jewish youth.
Stop
wasting them for the sake of Muslim garbage. Hezbollah is cancer and will only be stopped by
annihilation. That s what they want for you. So give it to them now while you are in control! It
ll only take one bomb!

74. Change tactics. #19 Rudic
Kathy
07/27/2006 16:55
Rudic Well,they did warn the inhabitants and even with fliers. You must understand that they are
all part and parcel of Hisbullah also paticularly this town with I believe of 25.000 are all
Hizbullah followers.That is one of the reasons that our boys have encountered the fierce counter
attacks. Well,if that is the case,I think it is the life of our servicemen and our civilians
getting pounded daily by the missiles that should be concidered more importantly and if those
civilians who aid and abbet are killed is something that should not deter us from finish them
off!
Civilians or not,THEY ARE ALL TERRORISTS AGAINST ISRAEL. THIS SHOULD BE OUR OBJECTIVE AND DAMN
THEM TO HELL...

83. don't be so nice
n
07/27/2006 17:23
Israel has to learn something-the world hates us whether we act humanely or not. That being said,
it is time for the IDF to pick some towns that are hizbollah strongholds and turn them into
modern
day Dresdens, ala the Allied bombing there in 1945. Sure, the UN and all the other predictable
anti Israel, liberal coddle-the-terrorist-till-he-cuts-your-throat crowd will howl and scream,
but
maybe Hizbollah and their ilk will sit up and realize that we will destroy them even if they hide
behind women and children in hospitals and schools. And when the Arab on the street wakes up to
such a reality, watch how quickly they rise up and destroy terror from their midst and stop
bellyaching about how they can't take out the terror because of fear of a civil war.

86. Attack on all fronts
Rob - U.S.A.
07/27/2006 17:24
Israel has our full support. Attack by air and land. You must win this fight and eliminate the
ruthless enemy. Use tactics that will save Israeli soldiers regardless of the collateral damage.
Now that al-Qaeda says they support Hezbullah & will attack again, it is WW III. Take them out.

111. Destroy the enemy once and for all
Michael Walter - Canada
07/27/2006 19:17
I am a grade seven boy from Canada. My dad says it is okay for me to send you this letter. I love
Israel very much and would hate to see your soldiers die for the sake of stupid terrorists.
Israel, don t send your soldiers into a hellhole just to be killed by evil men full of hatred.
Your soldiers are the best in the world; no offense to America. Just drop a bomb in their place,
and problem solved! Blow those cowards out of their hiding places. God bless Israel!

118. Playing nice wont win wars
RA
07/27/2006 19:45
Israel needs to stop worrying about "civilians" and do the job right! As far as public relations
is concerned, it wont matter anyways. If Israel kills 10 civlians or 100000, Israel will always
have a negative PR in the antisemitic world. The IDF just needs to do the job no matter what.