Watching American TV in Beirut

AlJazeera.net does its darndest to bring to light inaccurate reporting in the west regarding the current conflict/war between Hezbollah and Israel. It is summarized in these paragraphs.

Hours later, early on Tuesday, the casualty count in Lebanon stands at around 200 as cities and towns across the country are systematically pulverised, leaving hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians trapped and unable to escape the fighting.

A massive refugee crisis looms large while the country lies in complete disarray with its arterial roadways and bridges completely destroyed. Meanwhile, around a dozen are dead in Israel, with the last large attack occurring at a train depot on Sunday.

I only ask one question, just one. Did Israel start this crisis/war or did Hezbollah?

As the saying goes-All is fair in love and war.

Israel is not be disproportionate. It is prosecuting a war, a war started by Hezbollah with the killing 8 and kidnapping 2 IDF Soldiers from the Israeli side of the border. It started a war while it felt Israel was weak and involved in another crisis/war in Gaza. Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. It withdrew from Gaza in 2005.

No, Israel did not start this war, but it will finish it. The problem Al Jazeera has is not the lopsidedness of casualties or destruction, it is that it is lopsided against the Palestinians and Hezbollah.

Josh Manchester from TCS Daily stated it best when he said,

Decisive action is what has traditionally been missing from the wars of the Middle East. Land changes hands, blows are exchanged, and peace eventually is negotiated. But the underlying dynamic never changes because the sides are rarely faced with a decisive defeat, the only condition that can force the most avowed of men to abandon the ideas they hold dear....this moment would not have been possible without the invasion of Iraq.

Hamas and Hezbollah are both facing decisive defeat. That is what Al Jazeera is afraid of. They are afraid that these terrorist groups are facing decisive defeat. Iran and Syria have chosen to use these front organizations to spread Middle Eastern terror. Hamas and Hezbollah now face certain destruction. With their destruction, Iran and Syria will be siginificantly weakened. Internal regime change will happen most certainly in Syria. One can only hope Iran will soon follow. With their destruction, the last Axis of Evil, North Korea, will be alone in the world.

We are truly at a historic moment which started in 2001 in New York, continued to Afghanistan and then to Iraq, is now focused in Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon, and will hopefully end with the downfall of Syria and Iran.

We did not start it, but we will finish it. Likewise, Israel did not start it, but it will finish it.