israel and unilateral decisions

i'm a seed of peace (www.seedsofpeace.org)

i have a large number of israeli friends and acquaintances. these friendships were forged in times of conflict, intense discussions, shared feelings and great events that will forge friendships even amongst the most bitter of enemies. with friendship comes respect. with friendship comes trust. and sometimes with friendship comes love. some israelis i respect and trust. but these most recent events in beirut are simply wiping away any kind of non-negative emotions I had towards israel.

right now i have this deep, cold loathing of the acts of their government and those who support them. no matter how many silly explanations i get from israelis i will not accept the fact that israel decided to attach beirut's international airport, cut off land transportation and create a blockade about their sea-ports. i will look at it as an irresponsible, unilateral act of war, done with no consideration whatsoever to international law or treaties, done with no consideration of the ramifications or results on the lebanese people, done with absolute disregard of anything but its selfish desire to delusionally protect its forced existence. i have never been so frustrated with the inability to react to injustice that way. and what adds indult to injury is the way the rest of the world is reacting regarding this: the american idiotic president wants the world to blame hezbollah, syria and iran for this (axis of evil, anyone?) in my opinion, the american president should be voted into office not only by the american people but also the rest of the free nations: the presidency of the world's super-power is too big to be put into the hands of someone as unintelligent as bush. the media will take care of that though: the world is full or terrorist and the solution to that is war.

i understand arabs are the weaker side, as i understand that the us and israel will do as they please. it's a fact; we just have to deal with it. what i don't understand and what infuriates me is how israel still insists to play the victim, whining like a 5 year-old who had his candy taken away from him, but who then pulls a gun and kills the 3 year-old who took it from him. i mean for God's sake, you don't need to justify your acts, you're going to do them anyway. own your actions, you hypocrites! stand, be men (and women) and be true: we, israel, are more powerful and we will wipe lebanon off the face of the earth if they don't stop their attacks on lands that may be theirs. in addition, we won't bother with giving an explanation: we will do as we please and the lebanese, the arabs and the rest of the world can go kiss their own asses for all we care. stop your whining, dammit! you're not 5 any more!

after that, i might have some respect for israelis. israel will become an honest bully, someone who is feared but respected (a little like the soviet union when it was: their representative to the united nations used to use his shoe to bang the session into order). now israel is just as it always has been: a conniving, double-standard weaseling country who has no more respect for its neighbors than it has for itself. and the us is its bitch.