Sunday, July 30, 2006
The Israeli's Really Know How to Win World Support
It looks like the Israeli's really know how to get world support. Their response is totally "disporportionate" to the initial situation. Hizbullah aren't exactly the good guys in this either, but for Israel to destroy Lebanon in this way and miss Hizbullah for the most part is unpardonable.
As I have mentioned before it seems that for every Hizbullah fighter that the Israelis are killing they manage to kill 2 children along with many other innocent civilians.
The website From Israel To Lebanon has some rather disturbing and quite frankly sickening pictures of what is happening in Lebanon. The most disturbing in my mind are the pictures of Israeli girls, maybe around 10 to 12 years old, writing messages on shells at an artillery position in Kiryat Shmona. The web site suggests that these shells were then fired at civilian in Lebanon.
The US and UK governments are complicit in this action. The US for supplying the weapons and the UK for allowing them to ship via a Scottish Airport, Prestwick*, after the US government's request for shipments to pass through Shannon Airport in Ireland were rejected by the Irish government. In fact, it seems that the Irish people are so unhappy that Shannon is being used as a stop over for US Troops being sent to the Middle East that some of the planes used have been vandalised.
Links:
* Prestwick Airport, which has the darkly ironic tag line "Pure Dead Brilliant" written over the front of the terminal building. ¶ 14:26
It looks like the Israeli's really know how to get world support. Their response is totally "disporportionate" to the initial situation. Hizbullah aren't exactly the good guys in this either, but for Israel to destroy Lebanon in this way and miss Hizbullah for the most part is unpardonable.As I have mentioned before it seems that for every Hizbullah fighter that the Israelis are killing they manage to kill 2 children along with many other innocent civilians.
The website From Israel To Lebanon has some rather disturbing and quite frankly sickening pictures of what is happening in Lebanon. The most disturbing in my mind are the pictures of Israeli girls, maybe around 10 to 12 years old, writing messages on shells at an artillery position in Kiryat Shmona. The web site suggests that these shells were then fired at civilian in Lebanon.
The US and UK governments are complicit in this action. The US for supplying the weapons and the UK for allowing them to ship via a Scottish Airport, Prestwick*, after the US government's request for shipments to pass through Shannon Airport in Ireland were rejected by the Irish government. In fact, it seems that the Irish people are so unhappy that Shannon is being used as a stop over for US Troops being sent to the Middle East that some of the planes used have been vandalised.
Links:
- Irish refused bombs sent to Prestwick Airport
- Craig Murray on Lebanon
- From Israel to Lebanon
- Labour MPs pile pressure on Blair over bomb flights
* Prestwick Airport, which has the darkly ironic tag line "Pure Dead Brilliant" written over the front of the terminal building. ¶ 14:26
