By pointing guns at them. Tony Badran of Across the Bay and Caveman explain:
Update: In the interests of clarity, let me reiterate what I have already said: Hizbullah attempted to enter Mari not to defend it from attackers, but so they could fire rockets from the village toward Israel. Hizbullah's intention was to bring Israeli reprisals on the town, ostensibly to destroy or damage it significantly, and to cause greater civilian suffering. Hizbullah's MO and tactics are well-known in the south. However, Druse typically defend their own villages, and in the case of Mari (a place I have been to several times, many of whose residents I know personally), the residents have desperately tried to keep Hizbullah fighters out of their area.If people don't cooperate, they're shot as "spies"
Several suspected spies were shot dead in the southern Lebanese port of Tyre, witness said on Thursday.This is how terrorists have usually won hearts and minds. "Social programs" have very little to do with it. Islamist terrorists are just better at this routine than most because they're state-sponsored; all of that money, ammo, and troops coming in from Syria and Iran buys a lot of hearts and minds.Passengers on board an evacuation ship told medical doctor Boris Buck from the German city of Munich that they had seen members of the Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah group or their sympathisers killing 18 Lebanese people during the night.
The victims were suspected of helping the Israeli air force pick out targets.
As a frequent visitor to Ireland during the time of the 'troubles', I saw two ways that terrorists win support among the population. There's the traditional headshot or kneecapping, or there's the kinder, gentler appeal of street cred by association. Supporting or pretending to have connections with terrorist thugs gives life's omnipresent losers a way to feel like tough guys. These losers blindly cheer on their terrorist team, despite the fact that their team will eventually destroy their society. [See the Palestinians]. Of societies based on terrorism, Andre Glucksman says:
"…what do extremist ideologies like the communism or Nazism of yesteryear and the Islamism of today have in common? After all, they support ostensibly very different ideals – the superior race, mankind united in socialism, the community of Muslim believers (the Umma). Tomorrow, it could be altogether different ideals: some theological, some scientific, others racist. But the common characteristic is nihilism."Human society has survived by not giving in to these impulses. When we don't suppress them, the result is a society like the Palestinians'.The root element is the attitude that anything goes, particularly when with regard to ordinary people: I can do whatever I want, without scruples. Goehring put it like this: my consciousness is Adolf Hitler. Bolsheviks said: man is made of iron. And the Islamists whom I visited in Algeria said that you have the right to kill little Muslim children, in order to save them."
Human civilization survives because most people are able to suppress their appetite for extreme, random violence (or belligerent hubris)
The Palestinians are among the most well-educated people in the Arab world, yet they can't survive without constant infusions of aid. They produce mostly hate and violence. Their society doesn't function. Terrorism can't physically destroy an entire society, but the Palestinians are proof that tolerating this hubris can ruin it all the same.
In related news, the New Republic reports on Nasrallah's cult of personality.
You do realize that Israel, too, receives constant massive quantities of aid, and would have been unlikely to survive without it?
What sort of aid does Israel receive, and why do they need it so badly?
The two are not equivalent because Israel has a flourishing economy, and enormous high-tech investment and returns. If it wasn't constantly beset on all sides, it would be even more prosperous. It doesn't need to aid to survive, otherwise. It isn't an economic basketcase. It needs military aid, but it also gives back in the form of R&D which the US uses it its military.
All the US does is help Israel's military stay on top, and a lot of this is loans which are repaid. Israel has never defaulted on loans. In return, the world gets more biomedical and communications research and commercial applications per capita than any other nation. This is a good summary.
The US also gives as much to Egypt as to Israel, just as a bribe to keep the peace. The US also sells weapons to KSA. The US also gives millions of dollars to the Palestinains and has nothing to show for it but more terrorists.
Funding the Arabs is like welfare, funding Israel is like seeding a free enterprise zone.
Funding Egypt and the Palestinians is more like paying extortion.
I think my biggest problem with framing the conflict in the Middle East as the "Israeli/Palestinian" conflict is that it forces people to compare the two cultures. Israel is fighting a bunch of AK-47 toting-thugs whose tactics make the Crips and Bloods look like statesmen.
The "Israel/Palestinian" meme is as lame as the idea that we're fighting an 'ideological war' with terrorism. Is the LAPD fighting an ideological war with local gangs? No. They're just enforcing the law.
I think Israel and the west in general started losing the propaganda war when we started seeing it as an ideological conflict. Fighting terrorism is just law enforcement. We can criticize the tactics used, but we should never lose sight of the fact that terrorism's infrastructure needs to be dismantled.
I agree. I was just pointing out that using the amount of aid that a people receive as a measure of their success may not be the best approach.
US 'aid' to Israel this year will set US taxpayers back over $10 billion. US aid to Egypt ($2 billion) is a direct payback for the treaty with Israel.
Israel is anything but a free market economy. Israel's economic structure is essentially a military marxist model.
Please research your topic and write the truth. Lying makes you look illinformed.
Corrupt governments, oppressive regimes, and intellectual stagnation makes many of the Arab nations a poor choice for aid. We'd have to cleanup their government infrastucture - which is seen as unwelcomed intervention.