Israel is targeting civilian targets in Lebanon just as the U.S. is doing in Iraq - ambulances, vehicles carrying aid, apartments, the infrastructure, hospitals, U.N. staff "It was deliberate", civilians fleeing their homes in South Lebanon after being told to get out of their homes by Israel. Israel is not specifically targeting Hezbollah - it is civilians and the whole infrastructure. As the war was planned over a year ago, the captured Israeli soldiers is only an excuse to implement their plan. At the least the objective seems to be expansion into South Lebanon and getting a UN Army to secure the area for them under the banner of "peace keeping forces".

It's a slaughter of the innocents which Israel tries to justify by various propaganda techniques, such as: they were really Hezbollah terrorists, it was mistaken killings, false definitions, telling only half the story, false stories, covert action, and a host of other tried and true propaganda techniques that keep the Israeli population: fooled, passive, accepting false definitions and only the consideration and bias of their leaders.

They are ready to be conscripted and fight. Polls show the majority of Israelis accept the views and actions of their governments. This is a real triumph for Israel's completely phoney, skewed war propaganda. Much like Bush's false excuses for his attack on Iraq. They cultivate the image of poor, little, endlessly suffering Israel, so endangered by it's neighbours, etc.

But Israel has 200-500 undeclared nuclear weapons making it perhaps the 6 most powerful nation in the world. But people are not supposed to remember that. You will earn the title of "anti-Semite" or "anti-Jewish" or "Jew hater" for any criticism. In short any criticism, no matter how valid, is to be trashed and the author vilified. That's a well-known propaganda technique that appears to silence most criticism or objective assessment of Israel's barbarism toward Palestine and Lebanon east conflicts.

Lest anyone do a knee-jerk "anti-Semite response to this criticism, I have always been a champion of Israel and Jews generally. I believe they are a wonderful, intelligent people who could, or could have, earned the respect and acceptance of their neighbours, and led a peaceful democratic evolution of governments so that the area became a unified, dynamic force in world affairs. So my criticism is not anti-Semite but against some Jewish political leaders, particularly those who are now in power.

The future looks very dark - very dark indeed, as the following article shows.

Among other severe problems Jews have been conditioned to become practicing paranoids with a persecution complex, which gives them the right to persecute others. Therefore any

George Orwell's book ":1984" has become reality in Israel.

More and more Israel is practicing a form of ethnic cleansing on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians calling it part of Bush's "war on terrorism".

The co-ordinated Israeli-U.S. strategy comes from the neocon cabal in the Bush Administration, which echoes or supports every Israeli action. There is a very close link between Israeli and U.S. war strategy. Their shared strategy is to begin a war on Iran, and perhaps Syria, but invent a story that it was really the Iranians and Syrians fault. Somehow the U.S and Israel believe they can claim the divine right to pronounce and be obeyed on all aspects of middle east affairs. Who shall be in government and who shall not. Who is a terrorist and who is not. No doubters "anti-Semites" please.

When Hubris is so calculatedly embedded and entrenched into government thinking, the present barbarism and slaughter could become far worse.

 

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UnQana - "Going from a union of nations to a bunch of gravediggers"

by Imad Khadduri, August 1, 2006

."I woke up this morning to scenes of carnage and destruction on the television and for the briefest of moments, I thought it was footage of Iraq. It took me a few seconds to realize it was actually Qana in Lebanon. The latest village to see Israeli air strikes. The images were beyond gruesome- body parts and corpses being hauled out from under tons of debris. Wailing relatives and friends, searching for loved ones… So far, according to humanitarian organizations, 34 were children. They killed them while they were sleeping inside their bomb shelters- much like the Amriya Shelter massacre in 1991.

We saw the corpses of the children on television, lifeless and twisted grotesquely, what remained of their faces frozen in expressions of pain and shock. I just sat there and cried in front of the television. I didn't know I could still feel that sort of sorrow towards what has become a daily reality for Iraqis. It's not Iraq but it might as well be: It's civilians under lethal attack; it's a country fighting occupation.
I'm so frustrated I can't think straight. I'm full of rage against Israel, the US, Britain, Iran and most of Europe. The world is going to go to hell for standing by and allowing the massacre of innocents. For God's sake, 34 children???

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