--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > on the lie that Israel did not deliberately target the UN: > > > > > > It seems to me *vanisingly* unlikely that Israel > > > deliberately targeted the U.N. observers. My guess > > > is that it simply ignored the pleas from the observers > > > because of the perceived need to kill the Hezbollah > > > fighters in the vicinity. > > > > > > Not that this justifies the tragedy... > > > > Either way, it shows a major issue with how Israel is conducting > > the campaign. > > Yes, it does indeed. But if they're accused of > deliberately targeting the observers, they can > pretty convincingly deny it, because it wouldn't > make any sense. > > In other words, it's important to make the right > criticism, or it won't stick. >
Based on the other URL that was provided, the question arises: WERE there any fighters in the area? Israel may be acting to destroy Lebanon's infrastructure directly simply to deny its use to Hizbollah, and using "we're targeting Hizbollah strongholds" as an excuse. And in THAT context, targetting the UN observers certainly makes sense, because you don't want neutral observers to be able to say "now, wait a minute, we're just a few minutes away from that area, and there's no terrorist enclave..." Remember: this is the country that denounces terrorist acts by its enemies while praising the actions of "heros" who committed the very same actions against others, while defending them as "having no choice"--specifically, when the Irgun kidnapped several British soldiers and threatened to kill them if the Brits didn't free Jewish prisoners, the Irgun "had no choice" but to kill the prisoners when the Brits didn't comply, and in fact, they did, by hanging them. The Irgun was officially disbanded when Israel was formed, but the entire Irgun (aside from the most extremely violent, who were conveniently killed when their ship was accidentally sunk, IIRC) was incorporated into the IDF, and a goodly number of prime ministers and other high-ranking Israeli officials were high-ranking in the Irgun, and were either responsible for, or co-enablers of the very actions that led to the coining of the word "terrorist." I sympathize with the civilians caught in the crossfire between the ideological zealots, but I do NOT sympathize with the chest-beating of the Israeli government. Everyone has known for years that Hizbollah was at least as powerful as the Lebanese government if not considerably more-so, so to put the blame on the Lebanese government (as Israel and the US does) and require THEM to clean up Hizbollah's act, is blatant propoganda--it is impossible for the Lebanese government to do so, and Israel and the USA and everyone else knows this. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
