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August 04, 2006
War Crimes
I don't know how else to put it but these are war crimes:
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Israeli aircraft blasted main roadways north of Beirut for the first time in the three-week conflict on Friday, knocking out four key bridges.The attacks severed the last major overland route for relief supplies into Lebanon, international aid agencies told The Associated Press on Friday.
"This is Lebanon's umbilical cord," Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program told AP. "This [road] has been the only way for us to bring in aid.
It's just stunning that this all gets reported without comment. These ... are .. war crimes.
Also, look at the ratios:
As of midday Friday, 644 Lebanese civilians and soldiers have died in the three-week conflict, and 2,315 have been wounded, according to Lebanon's Internal Security Forces.Israeli authorities are reporting at least 68 deaths -- including 27 civilians and 41 soldiers -- since the conflict started. They say there are more than 600 injuries.
Hizbullah has been slammed for firing indiscriminately into civilian areas -- and that it does. But look, Israel, which has the power to aim, has killed a lot more civilians. So, how are we to compare a force that can't aim but kills more soldiers than civilians, to a force that can aim and still kills hundreds of civilians and bombs routes that refuges could use to get aid and aid could be brought in.
Posted by zeynep at August 4, 2006 10:38 AM
Comments
So what are we going to do about it?
Posted by: Bob at August 7, 2006 07:37 PM
The invasion and occupation of Iraq, and possibly even the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, were and are war crimes - as are the ongoing actions of the state of Israel who has - like the abused who grow up to become abusers - become the oppressors of others.
Israel has turned Palestine into a modern equivalent of the Warsaw Ghetto and is now pounding on another sovereign nation, Lebanon.
Maybe it's time for the world to apply the same kinds of sanctions to the USA and Israel as were applied to South Africa to force the end of its policy of apartheid. The suffering brought about by the actions of both the USA and Israel are even more horrific than those of apartheid.
I weep for all those suffering from the violence of war and war crimes.
All I can do at this time is to boycott products made by and/or in the US or Israel. I may not be able to identify all of them but our shopping as become BUY LOCAL (Canadian).
"What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism or
the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
- - - - Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
Posted by: Lani at August 9, 2006 03:08 AM
That's just what Israel is asking. And the U.S. replies, "nothing." And the U.K. replies, "nothing," for if they recognize the crimes for what they are, they have to admit to the ones they themselves have committed. And that will never happen.
Posted by: Pyrrho at August 9, 2006 04:33 AM