On 7/18/06, ken hanly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So what is the purpose of the Israeli attacks against the Lebanese military if they expect them to control Hezbollah in the south? Anyway most commentators do not think that the Lebanese military has the power to do that.
the purpose seems to be to prove that Israel is boss of the region, just as the US is supposed to be the boss of the world.
I am astounded that almost no major media even calls attention to the fact that Israel is engaged in major war crimes in attacking infrastructure and civilians who obviously have nothing to do with terrorism. Only a few have called attention either to the fact that using US supplied military equipment for these purposes also violates US law.
I hate to make Nazi analogies (since they are over-used and thus actually end up making the Nazi crimes look more moderate). But this Israeli invasion of Lebanon and destabilization of the Lebanese government and killing of Lebanese civilians is rising toward the Nazi league. Not the Holocaust, nothing like that. (Cole does mention "ethnic cleansing," the little cousin of genocide, however.) But the Nazi invasion of Poland. The only difference is that Hezbollah engaged in a little cross-border military adventure, whereas the Nazis cooked up their own "Poles" to do it. It feels like if the Hezbollah kidnapping hadn't existed, Israel would have invented it, since they had military destruction plans on tap, ready to use. Their attitude seems to be that everyone must obey Israel, that one (non-Arab) Israeli life is worth 20 or so Arab ones. Lebanon must be a puppet of Israel. Of course, Israel is a big ally of the US and there's been a lot of cross-fertilization of attitudes and strategies between the two countries' power elites, especially since Bush took power. It seems that the US and Israel (along with the two poodles, England and Japan) are leading the race to the bottom of moral standards.
Our premier Harper simply parrots the US line that Israel has a right to defend itself that the blame lies with SYria and Iran, and even that the Israel response was measured. Right! Ten Lebanese( and the odd Canadian) for each Israeli killed.
isn't it more like 15 or 20? I have two friends in Lebanon. They both moved from Beirut to Byblos when the fighting started. I hope that works. -- Jim Devine / "You need a busload of faith to get by." -- Lou Reed.
