Thomas Friedman is an arrogant ignoramus part 4: " After Israel withdrew from Lebanon, the Hezbollah militia, on the other side, went on hating Israel and harassing the border but it never tried to launch an invasion. Why? Hezbollah knew it would have no legitimacy in the world or in Lebanon for breaching that U.N.-approved border. And if it tried, Israel would be able to use its full military weight to retaliate."

Much more obvious reason why Hezbollah "never tried to launch an invasion" is that Hezbollah, unlike Israel, is not an invader of other lands nor a colonial power. It was a resistance organisation against the Israeli invasion. Once the invader had withdrawn there was no reason to keep fighting.

The arrogant ignoramous sees 3 reasons why Israel should withdraw from the occupied territories, but the human rights of the Palestinians is not one of them. Racist moron. The occupation must end not because occupation is bad, unjust, brutal but because of the benefits to the state of Israel.

As Avi Shlaim writes today: "Over the past 36 years, Israel has tried every conceivable method of ending the conflict with the Palestinians except the obvious one - ending the occupation. And as long as the occupation continues, there will be no peace and no stability in the Middle East."