John G. cited the following, from Avi Shlaim: > > Israel is a "rogue state" that practises terrorism and threatens the > use of weapons of mass destruction, the Palestinians have built "the > only genuine democracy in the Arab world" against all odds. > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/gaza-israel-palestine > >
Ah, yes, the 1982 Lebanon invasion and its aftermath. Fast forward to 2006, and the fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. This is where Israel first made use of the laughable "human shields" argument, to which it is now getting its lapdogs in the US media to wag their tails in assent, and which the Siegrists of the world parrot at nauseating length. The truth? Listen to the extended clip from John Mearsheimer, available at the following URL (scroll down a bit to get to the YouTube excerpt from C-SPAN): http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/568 And here are some articles about one tactic employed by Israel to deal with those "human shields" in southern Lebanon during its fight with Hezbollah: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4AQ4CC20081127 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html#resp http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/VIDEO_Lebanese_children_victims_of_unexploded_0822.html Read the second article, Alan, you might learn something. You won't have to tax yourself much. The first few lines tell it all: [QUOTE] "What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war. [END QUOTE] This is the Israeli domestic press, covering its own war crimes in southern Lebanon, Alan. And of course the US is complicit in this, since we sold these bombs to Israel (with a strict prohibition on their use against civilians, of course). But what else is new? This also happened in 1982, and is why the Reagan administration suspended its sales of such munitions to Israel for 6 years. "Human shields", Alan? I guess that sounds better than "collateral damage", a term that has been rendered rather unpalatable by Timothy McVeigh and some recent US military misadventures in the Middle East. But as Mearsheimer notes about the 2006 war with Hezbollah, this is just another verbal fiction for covering up the use of unjust and heinous means to prosecute an unjust and unwinnable war. John Marchioro --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
