According to the Angry Arab, the various "terrorist" targets that Israel successfully bombed in Lebanon are: schools, hospitals, factories, tents, TV stations, radio stations, radars, boats, ports, airports, apartment buildings, bridges, refugee convoys including many children, catholic churches, roads, alleys, mosques, husayniyyat, relief trucks, and telecommunications installations.
I read somewhere else the strategy was to bomb all electrical, telecommunications and transport infrastructure out of existence, disrupting evacuation in the south of Lebanon and then suggesting that they leave. Last night they bombed Sidon, where most of these refugees were massed.
Last night a major Australian Jewish leader urged the masses to remember the Holocaust. Nothing like grabbing the moral high ground. If you say it often enough, people will start to believe you. At least some of the European leaders are strongly condemning the Israeli action in diplomatspeek. Apparently these are strong words in the generally genteel commenting of diplomats.
The British Foreign Office apparatchick, Howells said: 'The destruction of the infrastructure, the death of so many children and so many people: these have not been surgical strikes. If they are chasing Hizbollah, then go for Hizbollah. You don't go for the entire Lebanese nation.' The minister added: 'I very much hope that the Americans understand what's happening to Lebanon.'
As for me, it just makes me really angry. It would be just like the Yanks bombing Haiti. Nothing like destroying already failed states, who really cannot retaliate. If the beef is with Syria, go and bomb Syria. Cowards pick on little guys. Civilians pay a huge price. Is Israel going to pay for the rebuilding of that society, assuming they can dislodge the naughty boys who want to get rid of them?
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