I will share a link that will bring you to a transcript eloquently spoken by an Arab-American that I saw on a video clip with caption. Her name is Wafa Sultan. Here is her take on the Muslim world:

http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1050

Based on the video clip I saw, it appears that she
was speaking in Arabic language or it was only her accent that makes it look like that. If she does speak
Arabic, which I hope, it’s good that she knows another language to connect with the Muslim world.

If any one of you are able to find a video clip of the same transcript, please do share. It was powerful watching her speak.

As for which place is “better” - Israel allows lesbian and gay marriage. Yay! Well, sort of, anyway; there’s been lesbians allowed to adopt, but their army still beats up the faygehlehs… In fact almost every middle eastern country kills the homos except for Israel. Which may be one reason people don’t like them… *sigh* But I will support Israel as long as their behavior is reasonable. I do think they were stupid to go into Lebanon with the history of occupation behind them. It lost them a lot of support from regular Lebanese.

Both Israel and Hezbollah bear responsibility for their own actions. Who did this first, who did that first, is the province of the kindergarden playground, not adults, certainly not adults with weapons which cause death, yes?

This was the latest gasp in a war which has spanned decades, since Israel was formed. Israel tried to occupy southern Lebanon for many years. Hezbollah was created in 1982 to prevent occupation. You could say Israel sowed the seeds of its own destruction, but so far, Hezbollah has been sadly ineffective: whatever you think about who’s responsible, right now the total stands at 39 dead Israelis, over 700 dead Lebanese.

Obviously, Hezbollah has and never had any real weapons. Obviously, Israel had no clear plan of action, but Olmert seems to be pulling a “bush” by trying to do what his predecessors could not - occupy Southern Lebanon.

I think most of the anger at Hezbollah is basically because they’re Arab and we have the image of the Arab terrorist going around. Yeah, they’re “bad,” if you want an easy-to-point-to bad guy, but then so is Israel in its choices in history. But they should both be held responsible for their behavior. Especially with a total of oh, 800 dead? And for what? Some buildings Israel claims were Hezbollah’s were blown up on the ports. Hezbollah bombed some flowers and grass and occasionally accidentially hit someone.

Mainly because this will provide the means for wounded Hezbollahs to solicit funds and stock more weapons from Syria and Iraq.

The next time Hezbollahs attack Israel, it will be a major bloodbath. So you can see … the cease-fire is a way for Hezbollahs to recuperate its wounds and do things.

Let’s face the reality: the UN peacekeeping team is full of joke. They are powerless to stop the Hezbollahs from scheming for another round of attacks on Israel.

So this time, who really possessed the “victory”?

It is Hezbollahs. Why? Read above.

Israel lost the opportunity to crush and wipe the group off the map.

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July 22, 2006 - United States rushes delivery of precision bombs to Israel and US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice rejects calls for ceasefire, calling the violence in Lebanon “birth pangs of a new Middle East.”

July 25, 2006 - Israeli airstrike kills four UN observers, an act Kofi Annan calls “apparently deliberate”

July 26, 2006 - UN Security Council condemnation of the Israeli airstrike vetoed by the United States.

July 30, 2006 - Over 50 Lebanese civilians and more than thirty children killed in Qana, Lebanon by Israeli air strike, igniting international outrage. Israel announces a 48-hour cessation of air strikes, will it will later break, and 24-hours for Lebanese civilians to leave southern Lebanon through “humanitarian corridors” to be coordinated by the UN. UN says it was not given enough time to mobilize the effort.

August 1, 2006 - Israel troops push across border into Lebanon, killing 20 Hezbollah militants.

August 4, 2006 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gives several interviews to the international press in which he affirms Israel’s intention to cripple Hezbollah, but welcomes the role of an international peacekeeping force in the very near future and says Israel has no intention of broadening the fight to the rest of Lebanon. Meanwhile, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warns Hezbollah will fire rockets at Tel Aviv if Israel attacks Beirut and an Iraqi Shia leader calls for a “million man march” in support of Hezbollah.

August 12, 2006 - Israel and Hezbollah agree to a UN-brokered ceasefire to go into effect Monday, August 14, 2006. The ceasefire will provide for the release of the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers and for a buffer zone in southern Lebanon patrolled by Lebanese military and UN peacekeepers. (See: full text of the UN resolution). However, fighting continues on both sides as Israel initiates massive troop movement into Lebanon.

July 12, 2006 - Hezbollah launches rockets across the Lebanense border, targetting several Israeli border towns, and then stages an attack in which three Israeli soldiers are killed and two more kidnapped.

July 13, 2006 - Israel responds by imposing a blockade in Lebanon and hitting several targets within southern Lebanon, including two airports and a military air strip.

July 14, 2006 - Hezbollah fires rockets, causing major damage in the Israeli town of Haifa. Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announces that in order for Israel to call a ceasefire, Hezbollah must disarm, end its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, and return the kidnapped soldiers.

I am just curious thats all.