Last night the TV news showed pictures of a Red Cross team in Lebanon that had come under Israeli fire. This morning the BBC News reports that UN observers have been killed in an air strike targeting their observation post. More examples of how Israel is exercising "restraint" in this conflict.
America says Syria has the power to stop the war, citing its support for Hezbollah. I say America has the power to stop the war by revoking its support for Israel, and by halting the supply of bombs it delivers with one hand while the other hand makes aid deliveries in Lebanon. How ironic is that? How shameful?
Those who blow up innocent civilians to make a political statement are terrorists. By taking this disproportionate action or "sending a clear message" Israel has become what it professes to detest. This is state-sponsored terrorism which ever way you cut it.
There is no moral right to destroy the infrastructure and fragile political stability of a neighbouring country in order to punish a minority behaving badly. Nor is there any legal right. Israel is in the wrong, yet it is unlikely to see prosecution for War Crimes.
Is Israel going to pay reparations to Lebanon for the destruction wreaked on that country and its population? Not bloody likely.
Hezbollah's rocket attacks against Israeli civilians are no less despicable. They're as bad as each other, and the leaders of Hezbollah and Israel have both failed their peoples.
I don't claim enlightened understanding of the background to this conflict, or to appreciate the fineries of international diplomacy—but I'd like to think I can recognize evil when I smell it. This situation stinks, and once again the world's only superpower supports aggression when they should be condemning it.
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The same old starrings in the same old story. Who cares about the fact that history will put'em in the right place. The problem is now and the innocent lives lost that will never see the sun again.
God, should you ever exist, please STOP THIS. Palestine has become the biggest concentration camp ever. USA the shame is on you!!!
It gets worse. "Israel says key world powers gave the green light to its Lebanon campaign by not urging an immediate truce." [BBC News]