The talk backs to this post on MSNBC say everything needed to be said. However, we’d like to add just a few quick thoughts.

Really, how are we ever going to have peace when after we completely leave territory once used to attack us and have the international community, i.e. the UN, certify our departure, and we’re still attacked, threatened, and bombed?

And now, the violent apocalyptic terror organization doing all of this, creates a nifty video game so the next impressionable generation will continue this hate filled campaign of violence.

From MSNBC:

Hezbollah game celebrates war vs. Israel

Categories: Beirut, Lebanon
By Richard Engel, Middle East bureau chief

It was a launch party that would have made Microsoft proud, if Microsoft were an anti-Israeli militant group.

Hezbollah held on Thursday what was basically a giant garden party to announce the release of its latest video game, “Special Force II,” in which players destroy Israeli tanks, shoot down helicopters and destroy warships; killing Israeli soldiers earns bonus points.

VIDEO: Hezbollah launches video game
Under a giant marquee in Beirutג€™s dusty southern suburbs, Hezbollah displayed captured Israeli helmets, rifles and ammunition in glass trophy cases. The turret of an Israeli tank and jeep Hezbollah captured during its 34-day war with Israel last summer were set on mounds like garden statues, artistically lit by red and green spotlights. Families took pictures of the Israeli weapons as their children paid $10 for a copy of Special Force II, designed by Hezbollahג€™s “Internet Division.”

Victory party
All week, Hezbollah has been holding victory celebrations to coincide with the end of the conflict in August 2006, which Hezbollah considers a major victory. Itג€™s a war Hezbollah says is not over.

So we do not confuse analogies with evidence, which can lead to disastrous and dangerous policies, we should take a moment and digest this very insightful article.

From the THE JERUSALEM POST:

Analysis: Why the N. Ireland comparison doesn’t fit

By: Herb Keinon

On the day that the British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee called for a reassessment of Britain’s Mideast policy, including dialogue with Hamas and Hizbullah, the Labor Party chairman of the committee, Mike Gapes, once again drew comparisons between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the troubles in Northern Ireland.

Saying that the lessons of Northern Ireland, where the Irish Republican Army moved away from terrorism and into political dialogue with Britain, should be applied to the Middle East, Gapes said: “I think from experience in Northern Ireland, you know that sometimes you have to engage with people in a diplomatic way, sometimes quietly.”

Ah, would that it were so. Would that Hamas would have proven itself to be a latter-day IRA. Indeed, were that true, Hamas would be willing to renounce violence and decommission its arms, as the IRA did.

The difference between the two situations is enormous.

We’d only like to add that it’s about time…

And for all you fluent in Farsi here’s a link to the website just launched today.

From YNET:

Foreign Ministry to launch website for readers in Iran

Ministry to launch Persian-language version website for Iranian Internet surfers to counterbalance Iranian regime’s anti-Semitic, anti-Israel propaganda

Itamar Eichner Published: 07.31.06, 18:05 / Israel News

The Foreign Ministry will soon launch a Persian-language version of its website, which will give Iranian Internet surfers direct access to the official position of the State of Israel.

The site’s editor-in-chief will be Menache Amir, an advisor on Iranian affairs who managed Israel Radio broadcasts in Persian for years.

With the world once again focused on the process of Arab- Israeli reconciliation and hopefully, one day, peace, we’d like to take a moment to recommend a recently published contextual piece in HAARETZ (see below). Written by David Govrin, director of the Islam department at the diplomatic planning division of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the article offers a birds eye view of the current round of talks, declarations, and rapprochements within the framework of the entire region in the hopes of giving the expert and novice alike a comprehensive perspective in which to follow along. Perhaps all the ducks are beginning to line-up in what could be an opportunistic row and we may be on the verge of a new Arab-Israeli relationship. Let us hope that this is indeed the case.

From Haaretz:

Between Tehran and Jerusalem

By David Govrin

The visit to Israel last week by the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan, coming as official representatives of the Arab League, was a historic event. The visit, which was the first time that such a delegation had met with members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, was aimed at advancing the Arab peace initiative and creating momentum that would enable the sides to move toward implementation of the vision of two states, Israeli and Palestinian, living side by side in peace.

What began as the Saudi initiative, when it was first published in 2001 and adopted by all of the members of the Arab League, is the first peace proposal in the history of the Israeli-Arab conflict to have been proposed by the Arab League countries. Until recently, it did not seem to be on its way to implementation, in part because Israel did not see in it a proper a basis for negotiations. Now though, it may be on track, after the Arab collective created for the first time, at the Riyadh summit in March, a mechanism for dialogue with Israel in the context of the initiative. The two foreign ministers visited Israel against the background of a new geo-strategic reality, which is characterized by increasing Iranian involvement in the region.