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.
In a speech earlier this week, Hezbollah leader Sayid Hassan Nasrallah declared there is “no ceasefire” with Israel, but only a “halt of offensive operations.” Nasrallah also claimed his forces are fully rearmed with rockets that can reach “anywhere” in Israel, but added that he does not want another war.
Until there is a new war ג€“ many Lebanese fear it could happen at anytime ג€“ young people here can now relive the fighting on their computers.
Hezbollahג€™s celebrations and new video game may also have a domestic political goal. Many Lebanese now question if the nation gained anything from what Nasrallah calls his “Divine Victory” over Israel.
During the war, as Israel targeted ג€“ Lebanese say indiscriminately ג€“ the countryג€™s infrastructure, most people here were united behind Hezbollah. But today, Lebanon remains in tatters, and on-going Hezbollah-led protests against the U.S.-backed Prime Minister Fouad Siniora have closed most of the businesses in downtown Beirut and scared away tourists. Lebanon has not moved forward since the war. Lebanon has turned on itself. But thatג€™s not part of the video game.
it is a sad commentary on the situation there.there will,unfortunately,be no peace until basic institutions of education are changed.by this i mean the following:the schools must stop pumping propaganda,and hate ,into the minds of the youth:.as most everyone knows,this sort of thing is common among the arab populance.israel,s right to exist must be accepted,and the cult of death must end.
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