You just have to keep this thread going don't you! Do you really think that posting photos of the victims of war means anything other that war sucks, you moron. Did you bother to post any photos of blown up Israelis, who by the way are intentionally targeted by Hizballah? You want to side with the sub-human scum that hide behind women and kids and fire off rockets at civillians, that's fine!

Well, now I will post a little story of how the Israeli soldier fights.

Late last Saturday night, an Israeli commando unit landed by helicopter on a beach near the Lebanese city of Tyre. None of the soldiers wore military markings. All had grown beards, so observers would think they were just another group of Hezballah jihadis.


After landing, the soldiers made their way to a building that housed a three-man Hizballah rocket-launcher crew. From intelligence reports, the commandos knew the trio was holed up in a second-floor apartment.


The Israeli commander was the first through the door, and promptly took a bullet through a lung. The Israelis fired back. When the smoke cleared, all three Hezbollah members were dead. The Israeli commander was still breathing — but only barely. Another commando was also seriously wounded.


As the commandos left — their two wounded on stretchers — they were attacked by Hizballah gunmen spilling out of nearby buildings. Israeli helicopter gunships hovering nearby laid down a covering fire, allowing the commandos to retreat to their original landing area. After a military doctor performed emergency surgery that saved the commander's life, the whole team flew back to Israel.

Israel easily could have dropped a bomb on the building and taken out their targets while they slept.


Why didn't Israel do just that? Because as well as serving as a barracks for Hezbollah, the building also contained civilians. And Israel didn't want to spill their blood. Hezballah may wage war while hiding behind women's skirts and baby rattles. But Israel stubbornly adheres to a more humane creed.


This is not a new policy that Israel adopted in response to the July 30 Qana bombing. Israeli soldiers employed the same humane methods in one of the first major engagements of this war.


On June 26, Israeli infantrymen assaulted the outskirts of Bint Jbail, a major Hezbollah hub near the border. Israel could have flattened the town easily prior to its soldiers' advance — it lies well within range of its army's artillery, not to mention the Israeli air force. But according to a high-ranking Israeli officer, the carpet-bombing option was ruled out because several hundred Bint Jbail civilian residents had ignored Israel's warning to flee. As in Tyre, Hizbollah was using them as human shields.


The result? Battalion 51 of Israel's Golani Brigade was ambushed by dozens of Hezbollah gunmen wielding anti-tank missiles. In the hellish close combat that followed, eight Israeli soldiers died. Like the 23 Israeli soldiers who lost their lives in the warrens of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, the men of Battalion 51 died so that Arab civilians could live. Not one of Israel's enemies would have taken the same risks under similar circumstances.