Posted by
Chuck Whitten on Sunday, July 30, 2006 6:49:05 PM
The big news today is the Israeli attack that has apparently killed something like 56 Lebanese children and women. The international community is after the U.S. and Israel to achieve a cease-fire, while ignoring Lebanon's responsibility in all of this. Does that impress anyone as nuts?! Hezbollah started this by repeatedly rocketing Israel from Lebanon, killing eight Israeli soldiers and kidnapping two. Lebanon is claiming "plausible deniability" since it's Hezbollah is doing this without the permission of the Lebanese government. So, Hezbollah is firing thousands of missiles from Lebanon, and the Lebanese government doesn't know about it? The Lebanese government is doing nothing to stop the rockets because . . . ? Lebanese civilians are being killed because the Israelis are trying to defend themselves from Hezbollah and the Lebanese government.
The Israelis are also being condemned for an attack on a UN outpost and killing several UN observers. Kofi Annan continues extreme criticism of Israel while ignoring the actions of Hezbollah and the Lebanese government. Everyone is insisting that the U.S. and Israel comply with the "Laws of War" while simply ignoring the fact that Hezbollah, Hamas, al Qaeda, and every other terrorist group is in violation of those laws by their very existence. A story in the Ottawa Citizen is reporting that one of the UN observers killed in the Israeli attack, only days before he was killed, was complaining that Hezbollah was using the observation post as a shield. Why isn't that anywhere else in the mainstream media?
These pseudo-Islamists have no concept of civility, nor of the Laws of War. They will do anything to destroy Israel and all Israelis. Let Israel do what it needs to do.