Middle East thread continued

[Winston]

This is turning out to be difficult, somewhat unexpectedly. But there's no tradition for donating online in my country - and nowhere near as many organizations and foundations have websites as you see it in the U.S. Not ones that are updated with any regularity at least.

I will drop an e-mail to the Jewish Community in Denmark, and ask for directions on how to help. It will probably be by postal order, which is also fine by me.

And now, back to the delightful debates on the topic that caused all this.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Winston
This is turning out to be difficult, somewhat unexpectedly. But there's no tradition for donating online in my country - and nowhere near as many organizations and foundations have websites as you see it in the U.S. Not ones that are updated with any regularity at least.

I will drop an e-mail to the Jewish Community in Denmark, and ask for directions on how to help. It will probably be by postal order, which is also fine by me.

And now, back to the delightful debates on the topic that caused all this.

ive found this, not sure if its reputable

http://www.israel-info.dk/flora/?page=1182

and they link to this

http://www.supportisrael.net/

[Winston]

It's all done. I dropped you a PM.

[Kuciwalker]

nm, point's already been made

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
Protestants shouldnt be allowed to participate in the new crusade.

I'm not going anywhere until I receive a guarantee of admonition of my sins!

[Sandman]

Originally posted by EliThe current response is not an out of the blue attack. It is a wise decision to finally (try to) solve the Hizballah problem by force, instead of wasting another six years on "sabre-rattling, demands and diplomacy".

I'm not talking about months or years. I'm talking about days. Just a few days. Days to come up with a plan, to liase with the Americans, check and recheck intelligence.

There's not a chance of recovering the kidnapped soldiers now, with half a million refugees on the move. Of course, the 'danger' is that if Israel waited, the UN might actually have managed to come up with a decent plan.

Originally posted by Sikander
All the while moving assets to the region and negotiating basing and overflight rights so that we could actually get forces to that state (which is completely surrounded by other states.) Do you think we would have given the Taliban another chance if we could have immediately and directly taken out the AQ elements? Remember Clinton's attempt to hit AQ in Afghanistan a couple of years earlier?

You could have been all over them in two weeks. Also note the sabre-rattling with Iraq - even when America lauches a stupid and wrong war, it plays by the book better than Israel ever would.

Originally posted by lord of the mark
At last the international community is focused on the parts of UNSC 1559 that were never implemented, relating to Hezbollah. The damage to the airport and bridges can be made good quickly with international help - the damage to the Hezbollahs infrastructure, its missiles, launchers, bases, etc will hopefully take longer to be replaced.

Israel slays, the international community pays.

[Arrian]

Nice slogan there.

Wouldn't "Palestine pays" or "the Ummah pays" work better though?

-Arrian

[Eli]

I'm not talking about months or years. I'm talking about days. Just a few days. Days to come up with a plan, to liase with the Americans, check and recheck intelligence.

There's not a chance of recovering the kidnapped soldiers now, with half a million refugees on the move. Of course, the 'danger' is that if Israel waited, the UN might actually have managed to come up with a decent plan.

Why? What has changed between this attack and the prevoius one?

[Sandman]

How about 'the American taxpayer'? Edit - xpost.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Eli
Why? What has changed between this attack and the prevoius one?

If you're referring to a potential UN plan, I only said it might happen. It's not particularly likely.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Sandman
Of course, the 'danger' is that if Israel waited, the UN might actually have managed to come up with a decent plan.

Of course. It might have been a UN force akin to the one already in Lebanon cooperating in Hezbollah from time to time in attacks on Israeli soldiers. That plan was a bang up job there.

[Lord Avalon]

Of course many other attacks could occur while the UN debates on a course of action (which would probably end up in the form of a sternly worded resolution )

[Japher]

Kofi's call for cease fire

is
IMO
absurd

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Arrian


Nice slogan there.

But what exactly is false with it?

[Barnabas]

Has something new happened the last 2 days?