Outcry grows over Israeli soldier smashing Jesus statue in Lebanon

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Couple of things:

1. This "mentality" of the Israeli soldier is akin to the "mentality" of the "settlors" on the West Bank. IOW, if it isn't fundamentalist Judaism, it's invalid and shouldn't exist.

2. It also shows the Hand of the Israeli government. It intends to take over (at least) the southern part of Lebanon and is using the same tactics it's used to take over and incorporate Gaza and the West Bank. You invade. You destroy a culture. You send the inhabitants into exile. You keep the land.

3. Israel is running out of water, even the salted variety. It has to conquer land outside its borders to keep surviving.

4. I've harbored a theory that Israel expanding its borders would go beyond what Britain and the UN proposed in 1948. It would eventually swallow all the land including Palestinian land and then take more outside its borders using the Six Day War model where you have a military crisis, win the "war" and keep the land.

Before anyone jumps on me, I'm from a Jewish heritage and my grandfather was Orthodox. He told me in 1978 that Israel "had to grab all the land that it could". This concept has been around for a long while.