Submitted by Richard Gill, Nov 4, 2007 14:19

To any sane (read: not leftist) observer of this area of the Middle East, there is a major war coming. Whether it will be over Iran or fought on the banks of the Litani, it is coming. Many European nations have troops present. How long into a shooting war before Hezbollah and Syria demand their removal or simply begin shooting at them? Or more likely, Hezbollah or an al-Qaeda group will kidnap some foreign soldiers, demand a ransom AND the withdrawl of that contingent. They will succeed in this because most European politicians are unwilling to stand up to jihadists, and more particularly, most European populations are not willing to fight. Once the UN troops are largely removed or irrelevent the bombardment of Israel will begin. It will be a nasty, brutal and long war. In this we should support Israel. But how? 1. Diplomatic support. Keep the UN from passing any resolutions. The UN is anti-semitic and anti-Israeli in sentiment and politics. 2. Financial support. A long war will drain the Israeli economy and wear out the population of Israel. 3. Provide all necessary intelligence data to the IDF to enable them to hunt down and destroy the enemy. 4. Military support. Provide munitions to continue the war, since expenditure rates will sky-rocket in the first 4 weeks. Provide replacements for foreign manufactured weapons in the IDF. All this should aim at giving Israel the means to defeat Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria, the first two once and for all, the latter for the time being.

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