Another massacre because of Israel and no one responds?

Question

lebanese who haven't done anything, without legs, arms, faces
unbelievable scenes
and you are telling me that hezbollah is the terrorist , no Israel is; killing civilians because it cannot reach hezbollah's soldiers,
33 are killed several moments ago with terrifying scenes aiming that the lebanese turn against hezbollah ; go to hell Israel

Answer 1

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The American Guilt
Nasim Zehra

We are witnessing real time unchecked killer machines at work. This is
all surreal. It appears that the world for the innocent seems no safer
today than when the Nazis and the Fascists were at work. Whatever the
explanations, the outcome of deliberate Israeli and retaliatory
Hizbullah
action is mayhem. Global paralysis is facilitating Lebanese and Israeli
deaths and colossal destruction of Lebanon. Innocent civilians fleeing
to
safety are being hit by Israeli bombs and missiles. Near 400 Lebanese
have
been killed and nearing a million rendered homeless. In Israel too
Hizbullah's retaliatory missile attacks have also tragically left few
innocent Israeli civilian dead. All this mindless killing of innocent
citizens is condemnable.

As Israeli bombs and missiles rain carnage on Lebanon world's major
powers still decry Hizbullah's provocation. The capture of two Israeli
soldiers and the subsequent deaths of six more as they entered Lebanon
to free the two, has been widely accepted as justification for
Israel's relentless air, sea and air attacks and blockades.

There are major holes in this justification. One, that there are
10,000 Palestinian and Arab prisoners, mostly civilians, in Israeli
jails and there is no way legal or political route to their release.
But the world doesn't care. Two, stonewalled by Israel's
intransigence on the
prisoners' issue the Hizbullah militia devised their own method for
the release of Lebanese prisoners. Use captured Israeli soldiers, swap
them for Lebanese prisoners. And it worked. Israeli Prime Ministers
Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak both opted for swap arrangements. For
example in January 2004, Israel released about 400 Lebanese and Arab
prisoners while Hezbollah returned a reserve Israeli colonel and the
bodies of three soldiers under a German-brokered agreement.

Three, Israel was intent on destroying the Hizbullah at an opportune
moment. Israeli's military strategists have been claiming that
Hizbullah's rockets arsenal had been growing. Zvi Shtauber former
head of Strategic Planning for Israel's armed forces and now head of
Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv told the Economist
(July22-28)that, "It was clear we couldn't live with the missiles…the
question was when to do it." Israel opted to use the arrest of
soldiers as pretext to remove what it had concluded was threat to its
security.

In search of security Israel resorted to State-terrorism in Lebanon
that produced the carnage. However with language play Israel seeks to
play down the scale and the consequences of its horrendous actions.
They are terming it pin-point incursions; "limited strikes." But media
reports tell another story…Israeli bombs and rockets battering
innocent children and women. Instead of engagement and compromise
death and destruction of the opponent has been a key element of
Israel's security strategy. Palestinian and Lebanese guerilla
leadership is routinely assassinated, also causing death to innocent
civilians qualified as 'collateral damage.'

On July 23 BBC reports that Jan Egeland the Chief of UN Emergency
Relief shocked that in Southern Beirut "block after block" of
buildings had been leveled by Israel's bombings. England said Israel's
"disproportionate response" was a "violation of international
humanitarian law." Contesting Israel's repeated statements that it was
allowing safe access to humanitarian groups he said "So far Israel is
not giving us access." Moreover the mass scale destruction of roads,
bridges and trucks will make aid distribution difficult even when
Israel allows to dock at the Beirut port.

The world has facilitated Israel's continuing crime. As always the
muted Arab and Muslim response are inconsequential. UN's early
murmurings against disproportionate response, were initially ignored.
Led by the United States the international community has given Israel
a carte blanche to do whatever Israel considers necessary to promote
its security. This was conveyed by the mild worded G-8 summit
statement. Ironically it is a security-starved nuclear-state. It is
not held to any accountability; it is not expected to abide
by any international norms laid down for inter-State relations.

Washington has emerged as the core accomplice in Israel's devastating
and illegal war on Lebanon. It gave Tel Aviv the green light to
continue the bombings. Bush has defended Israel's battering of
Lebanon. It is Israel's right to act in "self-defense", he says.
Washington okays Israel's bid of seeking security by inflicting mayhem
on another people. Surely this is disservice to a close friend. Yet it
continues. The attempt to discuss the Lebanon situation in the UNSC
was vetoed by the US. The US Congress, the House and the Senate both,
passed resolutions supporting Israeli action. The US is reportedly
rushing precision-guided bombs to Israel. By preventing any concrete
action taken at the UN to censure Israel's war on Lebanon, Washington
has ensured that Israel can continue the illegal one-sided war
unfettered.

In handling the Lebanon crisis US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
is at her weakest. bout Israel's relentless bombing
and land attacks killing hundreds of Lebanese civilians, displacing
half a million plus and reducing parts of Lebanon to rubble, she says
it signifies "the birth pangs of a new Middle East, and whatever we do
we have to be certain that we are pushing forward to the new Middle
East, not going back to the old one." Her words would make for parody,
if the backdrop wasn't unstoppable blood-spilling in the region
stretching from Afghanistan to Palestine.

Another Rice statement that "a cease-fire would be a false promise if
it simply returns us to the status quo" conveys Washington's position
that the problem with the "staus quo" is the presence of an armed
Hizbullah. History lesson is different. The primary problem with the
status quo is the unresolved Palestinian problem. Rest are the
inevitable 'secondaries.' But this truth gets drowned in the ballot
logic.

For the Bush administration a fair and swift settlement of the
Palestinian issue is not a priority policy concern. If Washington has
talked of a two-state solution, it has certainly not worked
judiciously to make it happen. Taking punitive action against groups
and states it has dangerously labeled as terrorism-related is. In
giving Israel the green light to destroy Lebanon, Washington
erroneously believes that Israel's military might will wipe out
Hizbullah, Hammas and Islamic extremism, help take punitive measures
against Iran and Syria, structure Lebanese politics according to
Israel's security needs and drive fear into the Palestinian hearts.
This is hubris. It is sheer stubbornness that makes Washington believe
that military force, the very policy tool that has produced a disaster
in Iraq will produce success in Lebanon and Palestine.

America's promise of a brave new Middle East is increasingly being
reduced to a ghastly joke. The list of blunders is endless. The Iraq
invasion, based on untruth has turned Iraq into a death zone. No less
than dozens of Iraqis are now dying daily. Yes daily. US has lost 2000
of its own men too. In Afghanistan, the New York Times has finally
conceded, all is not well. Its more than Pakistan mischief, there are
problems within Afghanistan. Meanwhile all these American operations
are costing the US army more than just the lives of America's best
men. Its honor is taking a battering. The gruesome stories of some US
soldiers torturing prisoners, many of them innocent, in Iraq,
Afghanistan and
Guantanomobay just don't end.

It turns out that 'Project democracy' in the Middle East too has gone
sour. Washington welcomed the first democratically elected government
in the region, the Palestinian government, with sanctions and
censures. Lebanon the other country with a democratic government is
being pulverized by Washington's key ally.

In the Middle East, Washington's proverbial 'ostrich with its head in
the sand' attitude will solve nothing. No matter what their problems,
countries including Syria and Iran and groups like Hammas, Hizbullah
and the talibaan, will have to be engaged. They constitute part of the
current reality. Washington will ignore them at its own peril.
Similarly on Palestine there is no substitute for a just solution. A
nuclear armed highly militarized Israel, a 'pacified' Arab elite and a
Palestinian people under constant siege can only provided the illusion
of a 'solution.' And also the mere illusion of peace and stability.

Diplomacy was forsaken by the US for the use of force. How many more
blunders will it take the US to realize that its ways are wrong.
Banishing and vanquishing governments, political groups and militias
doesn't work. Engagement, adjustment and compromises are ways towards
genuine multilateral security. Nothing else will work. The road to
Israeli security runs through the creation of a legitimate Palestinian
homeland.


Nasim Zehra
Harvard Fellow
Harvard University Asia Center
625 Mass Ave,
Cambridge Mass.02139}

Answer 2

When one person dies in Israel, it's enough to kill everyone in the country that attacked. Look at how Israel treats the entire West Bank and and all of Gaza. Completely goes against the United Nations. It's obvious that Israel wants war and a war is what Israel will get. But don't go crying if one more Israeli civilian is killed, because the massacre that is being put on Lebanon will not go down without a fight.

Answer 3

No civilians would be killed or mangled if Hezbollah were not using them as Shields. Tell Hezbollah to fight in the open like Israel.Have you noticed Hezbollah is not aiming their missiles at The Israeli army but in populated areas were there is no threat(you know missile launches) and still you back Hezbollah-How strange.

Answer 4

How about no one going to Hell and everyone taking a deep breath for a moment.

The only people we should be talking about are the "people", all "people", Israeli, Lebanese, Christian, Muslim, Jewish . . .

They are the only ones to suffer, and the press never reports on this in a true journalistic manner.

If everyone is able to drop their radical religious views for a moment, along with their displaced sense of national pride, then you will realize how wrong both sides are. Israel is no more or less any radical and violent than Hezbollah. Both sides are quite happy to sacrife their "people" for some greater good, that greater good being harder and harder to define as the killing continues.

Both sides are equally responsible for baiting each other. Israel and Hezbollah have engaged each other for almost 20 years, with both sides pointing the finger of blame at each other.

There is no clear cut instigator in this never-ending war of radicals. Israel and Hezbollah, and their respective benefactor nations, will not change their ways, regardless of the body count. While both sides dream of a war of attrition, it will never happen because both sides have endless resources.

The current Israeli leadership and Hezbollah will never realize how dangerous it is to slaughter civilians as a means of conquest. In thousands of years of war in this region, the slaughter of civilians has only lead to more slaughter of civilians.

The answer is for the Israelis to throw out the current Israeli leadership and for the Lebanese to throw out Hezbollah, although this will not happen for years.

When the people of the United States, Iran, and Syria finally decide to wake up from their dreams of military conquest, and face reality, and throw out the religious radicals, then I expect some real progress to be made.

Answer 5

Hezbollah is directly responsible for all deaths resulting from this conflict that Hezbollah started.

Get your head on straight, Islamo-facism is terrorism.... against the world and the Muslim peoples.

They who start the conflicts are responsible in full for the results.

Answer 6

Ain't war grand, you are having your a-- handed to you on a paper plate. Israel is reaching out and touching Hezbolla for now the Israelis hold more Hezbolla captives than Hezbolla holds Israeli Captives. Where are your friends the Iranians and the Syrians, They don't appear to want to get in the sandbox and have some fun. The Shiites are losing their homes to boot so it appears the bearded ones will be sleeping outside in Beirut for awhile.Pity the Islamic Fascists who have earned a well deserved dirtnap.

Answer 7

Hezbollah called for a cease fire. Israel said no.

Answer 8

I've yet to hear of a country in this world that drops leaflets over an area before they attack it saying "Get out!!!! We're going to be dropping bombs here tomorrow at around 8 A.M.!!! Get out now before it's too late!!!!"

But for some reason you don't know that Israel is doing this.

Answer 9

they gave Hezbollah a chance to stop the fighting, they kept attacking, so they deal with the consequences

Answer 10

Hundreds and hundreds of rockets fired into Israel daily and you feel sorry for the muslim pig terrorist that are responsible and you feel sorry for them? Hey don't pick a fight you can't win. GO ISRAEL KILL'EM ALL