Hey Guys, I'm not a regular of "The Philosopher" board but I always lurk around here. Didn't expect to post again here on such a sad occasion, but I feel involved and I have something to share.
Anyways, most of you guys have a point to some extent. We, the people of Lebanon, are left confused and mad because of what is happening.
First off, someone asked why did Hezbollah kidnapp those two soldiers. They claim they did it because they want more of the Lebanese prisoners who are held in Israeli prisons released. (Mind you, they did the same thing last year and it did amount to the release of over a hundred prisoners) Hezbollah said had Israel released all the prioners this would have not happened. Either way, it seems to me that both knew this was coming. For the past five months, Israel had been constantly breaching our airspace, while it is no secret that Hezbollah got stronger over the past 6 years. I am pretty sure both parties were waiting for an excuse to attack each other, because they are both attacking their targets very accurately.
Personally, and I do not speak for the majority of the Lebanese people (or lets say for the majority of the muslims) when I say this but, I am very mad with what Hezbollah has done. It feels like they took over the country, our government claims it did not know about this attack, The leader of Hezbollah, Mr.Hassan Nasrallah is declaring open war on Israel without even asking the government, who does he think he is? he is dragging 4 million people to a war we never asked for or at least everyone except the Shi'ites in general did not ask for. Lebanon is NOT what you see on TV, we are not all followers or Hezbollah, we do not spend our days cursing the jews or cursing Israel and the Americans or the West or whatnot.
In the past few days we have lost more than a billion dollars because of this, we were expecting a record of Tourists this year, Concerts, festivals, Conferences...all gone. You might ask, why can't you stop hezbollah, why can't the government do it? Well simply because they we do not need another civil war. We've been through so much, and just when we thought we were out of it all and starting to build everything again, this happens.
I think Israel has the right to defend itself, but here's the problem, it is fighting an enemy that is hiding behind innocent people. We do not want war with them, but so far until today I think we are in too deep to be able to get out. All the foreigners are preparing to leave the country, it seems to me that the international community has condemned us to death.
I do not know what more to say, I just hope this ends soon.
Hope dies last.
Cheers,
