Reply #21: That's not happening. 700 plus Lebanese dead

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without any significant effect on the ability of Hizbollah to launch rockets into Israel. How many more should we stand by and watch Israel kill before we call them on their criminal incompetence? What sense does it make for them to point to war crimes committed by Hizbollah when they are actively disregarding the Geneva Protocol 1 provisions in Article 51 and in Article 57 as they launch these dubious airstrikes into populated areas of Lebanon, as they destroy life sustaining infrastructure, as they block aid and medical care from reaching those fleeing, as they impede the free movement of unarmed civilians in their own country? How can they expect anyone to take their complaints about Hizbollah's crimes seriously? I grieve for the loss of innocent lives on both sides of this conflict. I don't want to know anymore about who started what when. I want them to stop the madness now, before they create even more new tragedies which will create an new generation of reprisals and recriminations. Its time for the leaders and their supporters to begin to think in terms of reconciliation rather than continue to hold on to these false notions of victory.

What Israel is doing/ has done in this conflict will not make Israel more secure. The violence against the civilians is antithetical to that. There's been enough. I don't believe more weapons and more assaults will help. I think Israel has demonstrated that they can't be trusted with the responsibility for disarming Hizbollah. They've killed too many innocents. They shouldn't be given free reign to continue.