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Originally Posted by cybernator_uk

Fair point.... But Israel has the U.S supporting them.... With that support Israel knows they cant do anything really over the top.... People will think what they have done to Beirut is but America havent really said you shouldnt do that just exercise a bit of restraint.... I dont think they will do anything to p1ss of George Bush..... North Korea on the other hand really dont care what anyone else thinks of them... It only took them 45 minutes to tell the UN bo**ucks to you which is basicaly what they did......

First off. North Korea. The main problem is as you said that NK does not listen to anybody but if they ever did anything the US would probably put them back in the stone age and there would be no repurcussions unlike in the mideast. If NK attacks Japan, and they have a long standing hate for each other, the US will help Japan. I do not think that China would help NK if NK attacked Japn or any US interests. Also their rockets are not advanced enough to be able to really threaten the US yet but Japan could get hurt.

The problem between Israel and Palestine is religous and will not go away no matter what happens. Hamas and Hezbollah have learned how to make Israel look bad in the world press and it is all due to how Israel has decided to stand up for herself. They do not back down and as Dawsey and Marc26 said they are very heavy handed in dealing with problems over there and H & H use this to their advantage to try to make Israel look like the bad guy all the time due to the strength of their responses to an initial attack by H & H.

Well hopefully the whole conflict will stop soon but I personally think that if anything does blow up in to a huge World War type conflict right now it will start in the mideast.