Jerusalem's the Safe Spot??

I just randomly stumbled onto a blog, by someone thinking through and around what's going on in the middle east right now... I felt inclined to comment even though I didn't know the guy or anything.... and anyway, I got to thinking maybe I would just post that here too, seeing it's so much on my mind right now. I lived in Israel for a while and have friends there right now, whose lives are being turned upside down. Sadly the news we get here (namely CTV) is doing a very sloppy job of reporting. You're right, at the moment no sides are winners. But if you'd like to be a little more informed read on :D
The reason Israel has been taking out roads and airports etc.. is self defense. They generally try very hard not to take out civilians in fact it's been found that some "civilian deaths" were actually those that volunteered their lives for the cause - suicide casualties, in a way in order to win support. Not always the case of course, but Israel is very careful to warn civilains where they are planning to strike. In fact recently they dropped leaflets warning civilians to get out of the areas they were planning to strike. Some of the footage of "bloodshed in Lebanon" that ctv news showed was actually from the Haifa train station in Israel. A station I used many times while I lived there, and the "Lebanese" people it showed being loaded into ambulances were actually Israeli, you could see the Hebrew writing on the side of the Ambulance "M'gen David Adom" a red star of david, not a red crescent like they would have in Lebanon. HOWEVER, my heart aches for the innocent Lebanese whose homes and cities have been taken over by the Hezbollah. It's an old trick - use cilvilian homes, or even schools to fire from, and store your arms so that when there is retaliation, those will be the places destroyed. Some Arab friends of mine living in Bethlehem and Beit Jala, were forced from their homes because they were Christian, and their homes were turned into places to store armaments etc... as well as housed terrorists etc. Sometimes these families were allowed to stay, with the knowledge that these men would come and go as they please. My friends said they were so impressed though, that the Israeli army warned them ahead of time that their apartments were to be destroyed allowing eveyone to get out safely. A friend of mine in the Israeli army is a sniper for them and a Christian - for the first time in his military career he was called on to take out a couple of terrorists. The had gotten through the fence in Gaza, and opened fire on people in a mall. My friend saw these men kill soldiers on either side of him, and managed to save a little girl that they had shot... he and two others gave chase, cornered the terrorists in someones house and then "took them out". He cried over these men that wouldn't know Christ. The Israeli army questioned him and the others that survived that had taken part... not just questioned - interrogated for about 26 hours... The Israeli army is so careful, well aware it rarely has the full support of governments around the world. It had to make sure his actions were a trained response to the situation and not born out of hate or revenge, or a dislike of arabs. If that had factored into the equation at all he would have been absolutely reassigned and/or released of his duties. It makes me so frustrated when the news is reporting with such bias, and so sloppily. Oh if only the Lebanese government would stand against the Hezbollah. If only they wouldn't allow these terrorists to run their country into the ground. It is a sad state of affairs right now, for Israel and Lebanon. And sadly so little truth filters through on the news. At least not on our local news...