do you think there is anything we can do to give a contribution to stop the war?

Lebanon, which has never fought Israel and has 40 daily newspapers, 42 colleges and universities and hundreds of different banks, is being destroyed by our planes and cannon and nobody is taking into account the amount of hatred we are sowing. In international public opinion, Israel has been turned into a monster, and that still hasn’t been calculated into the debit column of this war. Israel is badly stained, a moral stain that can’t be easily and quickly removed. And only we don’t want to see it.

While Israel fights Hezbollah with tanks and aircraft, its supporters are campaigning on the internet.

Israel’s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.

In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.

Israel and its supporters need more than better PR. They need to support a nation that doesn’t celebrate the death of innocents. A country that understands how military strength alone never brings security and safety. And a homeland, formed after the Holocaust, that cannot continue to act like it’s 1949. The days of Jewish absolutism and blind US-support are coming to a close.

And for those of us who see a vicious, egotistical and criminal Zionism, that day is never close enough."

Both sides have committed acts which should not be condoned. But itsaddens me that Isreal, by stealthily playing the "victim"over the last 60 years feels that morally it ccan onduct acts of "terrorism" against other nations. I love Israel and the Jewish people (my best man was a Hungarian Jew) but they forget that their own nation was born because the Jews conducted repeated abd vicious terrorst attacks up until 1948, against the British and Arabs in what was then Palestine. The UN granted them land through a resolution in the hope that the Jewish terrorist attacks would stop , not because they felt Jews deserved the land.

Today the same "terrorism" is being played out by Israel. But it's not me who says this but many Jews themselves.
Published on Antony Loewenstein's Web Site - An Australian Jewish journalist and writer.

Gideon Levy, Haaretz, July 30:

"In war as in war: Israel is sinking into a strident, nationalistic atmosphere and darkness is beginning to cover everything. The brakes we still had are eroding, the insensitivity and blindness that characterized Israeli society in recent years is intensifying. The home front is cut in half: the north suffers and the centre is serene. But both have been taken over by tones of jingoism, ruthlessness and vengeance, and the voices of extremism that previously characterized the camp’s margins are now expressing its heart. The left has once again lost its way, wrapped in silence or “admitting mistakes.” Israel is exposing a unified, nationalistic face.

The devastation we are sowing in Lebanon doesn’t touch anyone here and most of it is not even shown to Israelis. Those who want to know what Tyre looks like now have to turn to foreign channels - the BBC reporter brings chilling images from there, the likes of which won’t be seen here. How can one not be shocked by the suffering of the other, at our hands, even when our north suffers? The death we are sowing at the same time, right now in Gaza, with close to 120 dead since the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit, 27 last Wednesday alone, touches us even less. The hospitals in Gaza are full of burned children, but who cares? The darkness of the war in the north covers them, too.

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I agree.
How to be equidistant?

Between a libanese, israeli and palestinian population, which is frightened and thrilled from some of its own members who act as criminals, bombing israeli civilians, and a government, the one of Israel which acts as a criminal inhuman, genocidarian, warpower against innocents, hoping to reach a few guilty ?