how transparent you are, Mr. prthero!

you "forget" to mention 1/3 country in Israel ,is for 17 day, under rockets and missiles loaded with 40,000 samll iron balls each, that kills in a radius of 800 meters.rockets that are forbidden in all international conventions.

you "forget " to say that Israel is the only army in the world that send leaflets from the sky to tell the enemy - get out of this erea before we bomb it.

you "forget" to mention that one bright day the Hizballa attacked, killed and kidnaped- out of the blue.

you cry for lebanese casualties, and forget to mention israeli children and women who were killed and injured by those missiles.

you "forget to mention what other option do we, Israelies , have (as a matter of fact-none).

In general, you forget to say you are pro terror.

by the way- the Hizballa do use civilians to hide weapons in their houses, like the use mosques and like they used the unifil soldiers.

they do not mind casualties, they are ruthless, fanatic and do not mind the well of Lebanon at all!

No seriously, what's the difference? There's no punchline, I'm honestly trying to think of a difference. Maybe it's just a lack of courage.

If you're a non-Jewish, secular person, you can immigrate to Israel about as easily as someone could immigrate to the United States. You can stay there for a few years, do naturalization, and all that.

Of course, if you're a political hostile who plans to destablize the state, they may not want to let you in. It's their right.

Do you think every nation-state has the right to decide who can immigrate and who cannot? Just asking.

glad to hear Israel is a multi-cultural democracy. No problem then if I immigrate there as a secular person with no ethnic Jewish background then, right?

Mr. Prothero states Hezbollah doesn't mingle with civilians and it's almost impossible for a journalist to ever meet a Hezbollah fighter.

First, I guess all the rocket attacks are coming from those areas of Lebanon officially designated as "non-civilian", perhaps? And those people shooting at the IDF from Lebanese villages, most of whom, when filmed, are wearing civilian clothes, couldn't possibly be Hezbollah?

Second, perhaps he should take a closer look around at what his competition is publishing. See, for example, "Guns in the Closet: At home in a town in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah fighter waits to be called to action", Kevin Sites, Fri Jul 28, 8:23 PM ET on Yahoo! HotZone News. Mr. Sites seemed to have no problem finding a Hezbollah fighter to interview, and the Hezbollah fighter was certainly not shy about pulling weapons out of his home closet and having them photographed, and stating Hezbollah hides weapons in 'civilians' homes.

Finally, so perhaps either Mr. Prothero isn't as good a journalist as perhaps he believes himself to be, or perhaps he has other motives for attempting to state, in the face of significant contradictory evidence from other journalists, that Hezbollah hiding in amungst civilians is a "myth".

doc5467 claims that there are jews in Lebanon--maybe a few, but they are negligable demographically and politically...per wikipedia,

"In the 1980s, Hizballah kidnapped several Lebanese Jewish businessmen, and in the 2004 elections, only one Jew voted in the municipal elections. By all accounts, there are fewer than 100 Jews left in Lebanon"

Of course, it's unlikely that the wikipedia article takes into account the IDF members deployed now there.

Is Mitch Prothero covering another war?

http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,21985,19955774-663,00.html

Pictures and story of Hezbollah firing rockets from a residential area in Beirut, published today in Melbourne, Australia.

As the story says: "Hezbollah came in to launch their rockets and within minutes the area was blasted by Israeli jets.

"Until the fighters arrived it had not been touched by the Israelis. Then it was totally devastated."

and

" The images include one of a group of men and youths preparing to fire an anti aircraft gun metres from an apartment block block with heets hanging out on the balcony to dry.

"Others show a militant with AK 47 rifle guarding no go zones after Israeli blitzes.

"Another depicts the remnants of Hezbollah Katyusha rocket in the midle of a residential block blown up in an Israeli air attack."

One should note that the Hezbollah militants are dressed in civilian clothes and apparently do not lack for junk food.

I will hazard that YOU don't know what the word Anti-Semite means. What do you think it means? Does it apply to just Jews, or does it apply to both Jews and Arabs? Which do you think?

The "double standard" is that you get behind Hezbollah when she kills Israeli civilians. But Israel is not allowed to retaliate fight back. How's that for a double standard?

Or if Israel fights back, Israel must be careful to only target Hezbollah soldiers who hide among civilians (regardless of the deceits of Mitch Prothero) without hitting a single innocent. A task which is impossible.

However, Hezbollah can fire rockets at Haifa and kill all the innocents they want, and folks like you flock to their banner?

No double standard here?

[i]"it is, however, antisemitic when Jews are called "monsters" and "Nazis", when obvious double standards are used against the state of Israel[/i]

Isn't it ironic then that the word is being used for people who in fact are demanding that an "obvious double standard" no longer be available to Israel? That is, Israel no longer gets "special treatment" when it kills civilians because of its history and the reasons for its founding? That it is to beheld to the SAME STANDARD as other civilized countries and asked to answer for its actions?

[i]and finally, the lot of you hypocrites are antisemitic because all of America is "stolen land"[i/]

Bloody hell. Do you even know what the word "antisemitic" means? Because the above implies you think it means... I don't know... racist, or [i]something[/i]. You literally don't know what the words you are arguing about mean. I give up