Source for this please?
Pretty hard for me to fathom characterizing Hezbollah as such a serious threat as to compare it in any way to Hitler. These terrible rockets of theirs have only killed 1/20th of the cilivians that the Israeli army has killed using latest technology, precision-guided weapons. And if Israel has such great bomb shelters, why the great worry for them of Hezbollah and its rockets, worth invading and destroying a country over?
Also, while it is constantly repeated that the Israelis say they are trying so hard not to kill civilians, other reports indicate Hezbollah is paranoid about spies and therefore stays away from civilians. Reports from Red Cross workers, who one would assume are more reliable than the Israeli military (who keep feeding us one whopper after another -- the incursion being about freeing hostages, etc), indicated no Hezbollah activity around the apartment building where 60 mostly women and children were recently killed, for example.
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Today -- 33 Kurdish farm workers killed. Also, Christian areas of Beirut are now being bombed. And who is being appeased in all this? Israel got a blank cheque on this incursion from the US, and is using it to full effect.
Simply put, Israel, and the US for that matter, do not merely claim the right to self-defense. They claim the right to invincibility -- that is to say, they will do what they want to do, and any group or country who even thinks of opposing them with any force or having the capability of doing so is in for destruction. While anyone has a right to self defense, including the Lebanese, who are seeing their country attacked quite apart from Hezbollah, I think it frightening that anyone should exercise the right to invincibility. |
