Israelis See Their Own Nation As "Neighborhood Bully"

We know how they feel. It is a horrible thing when your own government goes psychotic and starts killing randomly and without conscious.

Wehen that happens, it is up to the people of a democracy to do all in their power, legally, to bring down that government.

If all legal recourse is blocked, then you are no longer living in a Democracy and all bets are off.

Do whatever the hell you have to do.

Israelis See Their Own Nation As "Neighborhood Bully":

You can see Lebanon from my sister's backyard. She and her family and thousands of others in northern Israel live with a constant roar of gunfire -- mostly from Israeli cannons aiming to kill Lebanese, occasionally from a Hezbollah shell that might land on them.

But the real threat to Israel doesn't come from Lebanese rockets. The real threat comes from the Israelis themselves -- and the rest of the world -- forgetting how and why this war started.

Israel does not go to war just to retrieve kidnapped soldiers. In the past, it has been ready to ransom them by returning Palestinian and Lebanese captives that it holds, just as the kidnappers ask. So why war now? For answers I've turned to Jewish writers in Israel's top newspaper, Ha'aretz.