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Loving the pro-Israeli (or at least anti-Arab) bias in the media. Some things never change.
(disclaimer: I'm Lebanese-American and my parents still live in Beirut)
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1. How would you report the events differently?
2. How should Israel have responded to the cross border raid which resulted in the death of 6 soldiers and kidnapping of two more? (imagine u were Israeli PM)
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8 soldiers were killed. 3 in the patrol vehicle that was attacked, 4 in the tank and one soldier from the rescue mission, who was killed by a sniper.
2 more, as you said, are still in captivity.
The notion that Israel should negotiate a "prisoner trade" is insane. The Hizbollah, or Hamas (who still hold Gilad Shavit, a 19 year old israeli soldier in Gaza) cannot be rewarded for killing and kidnapping soldiers. If we release prisoners on their demand we will be rewarding terrorist for their actions. That is utterly unacceptable.
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Population Israel: 6,352,117
Population United States: 298,444,215
CIA Word Factbook
In U.S. terms 8 dead Israeli soldiers equals 376 U.S. soldiers. Think about what the U.S. would do if a terrorist organization crossed our borders and killed 376 soldiers.
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This kind of argument is absurd. If I declare a state of two people, and one of them gets killed, do I get to respond the same way China would if 500 million people got killed? People's lives don't become more or less important because they live in a smaller country.