If Hezbollah and the other terrorist groups dropped their weapons there would be peace.

If Israel drops their weapons there will be no Israel.

Agree with that statement or don't agree with it. ITS TRUE. Meanwhile Israel is constantly condemned for defending their citizens and their country by so many countries its absurd! Anti-Semitism is running rampant in this world. People may deny it and try to conceal it but it exists as much as it ever has.

A bunch of nations including France, who happens to have become a joke and our enemy, has constantly undermined the war on Terror. They are calling for a complete cease fire by Israel. Are they out of their minds? The United Nations is calling for a cease fire. The UN are out of their minds!

Lets address this situation…the current situation. I aint talking about the thousands of years of fighting that has taken place in the Middle East. I'm talking about the current war going on.

A long time ago Israel was attacked by a bunch of neighboring countries. Israel fought back and defended itself. They won these wars and occupied the territory where the attacks were coming from. They didn't want to be in these areas but had no choice but to be there for the protection of their own people. Places like the Gaza Strip and Lebanon where Israel was occupying were abandoned by Israel. They removed tens of thousands of their own citizens who settled in these areas and left. They pulled back and got nothing in return. Can you imagine that? In a war you win land and occupy the land so that no more attacks hit your own country and you give it away for nothing. Why don't we just give the United States back to the American Indians? Why don't we give Texas back to Mexico? How about we return Louisiana? Its PERPOSTEROUS! Any sane country wouldn't do that but Israel did for the sake of PEACE!!!

In 2000 the great (sarcasm) United Nations issues a resolution that called for the immediate disbanding of Militias in Lebanon. That included Hezbollah. The U.N. even went as far as to place an interim force at the border of Israel and Lebanon to help maintain the peace.

In 2006 what happens? Hezbollah sneak attacks an Israeli military unit that was on ISRAELI soil. They killed 8 soldiers and kidnapped 2 in this unprovoked heinous atrocity. They begin shooting missles into Israel also. Missles that they have due to the funding of Iran and Syria. Yes – Iran. The same Iran that is calling for Israel to be wiped off the map. So anyway, these savages crossed over international lines and committed atrocities!!! Do we hear the U.N. condemning Hezbollah? If France crying foul over the Hezbollahs slap in the face to the United Nations Security Council? No and no. Do you hear the left wing liberals who've overrun the democratic party stepping up and defending our greatest ally in the Middle East? NO YOU DON'T! It's a disgrace and only proves the hypocrisy of this world that we live in.

So here you have Israel saying enough is fucking enough. We are no longer going to sit around and let our people be murdered. We refuse to allow the next holocaust take place. The world wanted to ignore what was going on with the Jews in during the days leading up to World War II. That wont happen this time. The Jewish state has their own Air Force. They have a military. They will fight for their freedom and they wont bow down to the left wing political correctness that is tying our hands in fighting the war on terror. This is a war that has not been fought before. A war where the enemy has zero regard for human life. Hezbollah is firing rockets at Israeli civilians and then hiding behind Lebanese civilians. Israel is firing at Hezbollah. Unfortunately innocent lives are being lost. Maybe the Lebanese government should have done what they were told to do and that was disarm Hezbollah. Instead they allowed them to amass thousands of weapons to kill innocent Israelis.

Lebanon is now saying they will not disarm Hezbollah at all. They are now saying that 40% of their population probably supports this savage group of murderers. And the popularity of Hezbollah grows with each innocent Lebanese person that dies in an Israeli air strike. Recently that horseshit interim peacekeeping force at the border of both these countries was hit by an Israeli attack. Four peacekeepers were killed. One was a Canadian who had sent an e-mail saying that their post was coming under fire from both sides and that he doesn't believe they were the targets. He just thought they were in the line of fire. Gee lets see, why would they be in Israel's line of fire? Maybe because the Hezbollah was using them for cover to fire rockets and missles?!??!?! After this attack by Israel that killed the peacekeepers the Secretary General of the United Nations – Kofi Anan accused Israel of doing this on purpose!!!!! What the fuck!!?!?! Is this guy for real? This is the same Kofi Anan who's son was one of the main perpetrators in the Oil for Money scandal that proved so many countries like France, Germany, Russia and others were doing illegal business with Saddam Hussien. Ever wonder why those countries were against regime change in Iraq? Now you know. They had financial interest in keeping Saddam in power. Anyway….

So Kofi Anan goes off the deep end and accuses Israel of killing the peacekeepers on purpose. What an idiot. His dislike of Jews is obvious isn't it? Where was Kofi Anan when Israel was attacked? Where was he when those soldiers were killed? Where was he when those soldiers were kidnapped? Where is he when missles and rockets are being fired at civilians in Israel? He's no where to be found. He is a disgrace and so is the United Nations.

Israel has every right to defend itself and the countries that are condemning them could care less about them. If they stop Israel (which they cant do) from fighting back and defending themselves, Israel will be destroyed. This is an absolute disgrace!

I am including the speech given by Israeli Prime Minister Olmert on July 31st 2006 just so you can get an understanding where he and his nation stands. I give big time props to him! Olmert's Speech - July 31, 2006

Ladies and gentlemen, leaders of the world. I, the Prime Minister of Israel, am speaking to you from Jerusalem in the face of the terrible pictures from Kfar Kana. Any human heart, wherever it is, must sicken and recoil at the sight of such pictures. There are no words of comfort that can mitigate the enormity of this tragedy. Still, I am looking you straight in the eye and telling you that the State of Israel will continue its military campaign in Lebanon.

The Israel Defense Forces will continue to attack targets from which missiles and Katyusha rockets are fired at hospitals, old age homes and kindergartens in Israel. I have instructed the security forces and the IDF to continue to hunt for the Katyusha stockpiles and launch sites from which these savages are bombarding the State of Israel.

We will not hesitate, we will not apologize and we will not back off. If they continue to launch missiles into Israel from Kfar Kana, we will continue to bomb Kfar Kana. Today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Here, there and everywhere. The children of Kfar Kana could now be sleeping peacefully in their homes, unmolested, had the agents of the devil not taken over their land and turned the lives of our children into hell. Ladies and gentlemen, its time you understood: The Jewish state will no longer be trampled upon. We will no longer allow anyone to exploit population centers in order to bomb our citizens. No one will be able to hide anymore behind women and children in order to kill our women and children. This anarchy is over. You can condemn us, you can boycott us, you can stop visiting us and, if necessary, we will stop visiting you. Today I am serving as the voice of six million bombarded Israeli citizens who serve as the voice of six million murdered Jews who were melted down to dust and ashes by savages in Europe. In both cases, those responsible for these evil acts were, and are, barbarians devoid of all humanity, who set themselves one simple goal: to wipe the Jewish race off the face of the earth, as Adolph Hitler said, or to wipe the State of Israel off the map, as Mahmoud Ahmedinjad proclaims. And you just as you did not take those words seriously then, you are ignoring them again now. And that, ladies and gentlemen, leaders of the world, will not happen again. Never again will we wait for bombs that never came to hit the gas chambers. Never again will we wait for salvation that never arrives. Now we have our own air force. The Jewish people are now capable of standing up to those who seek their destruction - those people will no longer be able to hide behind women and children. They will no longer be able to evade their responsibility. Every place from which a Katyusha is fired into the State of Israel will be a legitimate target for us to attack. This must be stated clearly and publicly, once and for all. You are welcome to judge us, to ostracize us, to boycott us and to vilify us. But to kill us? Absolutely not. Four months ago I was elected by hundreds of thousands of citizens to the office of Prime Minister of the government of Israel, on the basis of my plan for unilaterally withdrawing from 90 percent of the areas of Judea and Samaria, the birth place and cradle of the Jewish people, to end most of the occupation and to enable the Palestinian people to turn over a new leaf and to calm things down until conditions are ripe for attaining a permanent settlement between us.

The Prime Minister who preceded me, Ariel Sharon, made a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip back to the international border, and gave the Palestinians there a chance to build a new reality for themselves. The Prime Minister who preceded him, Ehud Barak, ended the lengthy Israeli presence in Lebanon and pulled the IDF back to the international border, leaving the land of the cedars to flourish, develop and establish its democracy and its economy.

What did the State of Israel get in exchange for all of this? Did we win even one minute of quiet? Was our hand, outstretched in peace, met with a handshake of encouragement? Ehud Barak's peace initiative at Camp David let loose on us a wave of suicide bombers who smashed and blew to pieces over 1,000 citizens, men, women and children. I don't remember you being so enraged then. Maybe that happened because we did not allow TV close-ups of the dismembered body parts of the Israeli youngsters at the Dolphinarium? Or of the shattered lives of the people butchered while celebrating the Passover seder at the Park Hotel in Netanya? What can you do that's the way we are. We don't wave body parts at the camera. We grieve quietly. We do not dance on the roofs at the sight of the bodies of our enemy's children we express genuine sorrow and regret. That is the monstrous behavior of our enemies. Now they have risen up against us. Tomorrow they will rise up against you. You are already familiar with the murderous taste of this terror. And you will taste more.

And Ariel Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza. What did it get us? A barrage of Kassem missiles fired at peaceful settlements and the kidnapping of soldiers. Then too, I don't recall you reacting with such alarm. And for six years, the withdrawal from Lebanon has drawn the vituperation and crimes of a dangerous, extremist Iranian agent, who took over an entire country in the name of religious fanaticism and is trying to take Israel hostage on his way to Jerusalem and from there to Paris and London. An enormous terrorist infrastructure has been established by Iran on our border, threatening our citizens, growing stronger before our very eyes, awaiting the moment when the land of the Ayatollahs becomes a nuclear power in order to bring us to our knees. And make no mistake we won't go down alone. You, the leaders of the free and enlightened world, will go down along with us.

So today, here and now, I am putting an end to this parade of hypocrisy. I don't recall such a wave of reaction in the face of the 100 citizens killed every single day in Iraq. Sunnis kill Shiites who kill Sunnis, and all of them kill Americans and the world remains silent. And I am hard pressed to recall a similar reaction when the Russians destroyed entire villages and burned down large cities in order to repress the revolt in Chechnya. And when NATO bombed Kosovo for almost three months and crushed the civilian population then you also kept silent. What is it about us, the Jews, the minority, the persecuted, that arouses this cosmic sense of justice in you? What do we have that all the others don't?

In a loud clear voice, looking you straight in the eye, I stand before you openly and I will not apologize. I will not capitulate. I will not whine. This is a battle for our freedom. For our humanity. For the right to lead normal lives within our recognized, legitimate borders. It is also your battle. I pray and I believe that now you will understand that. Because if you don't, you may regret it later, when it's too late.

I look forward to ranting and hearing some feedback - whether it be good or bad.

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