Just now, Israel bombed 4 important bridges that link Beirut to North Lebanon. I used 3 of them just Yesterday
The bombing targeted two bridges in Maameltein, one in Batroon and one in Halet.
I actually used 3 of those bridges when I took my fiancé to Jounieh yesterday. I could have been killed like that family that was in a car and fell in the hole formed in the Batroun bridge.
Land access to Beirut from the North is now completely destroyed.
For the record, those bridges link the Sunni North to the Christian Center of Lebanon. There are no Hezbollah supporters whatsoever in those areas.
This proves the point that Israel is using Hezbollah as an excuse to destroy Lebanon.
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Hello, my name is Mustapha and I've been blogging about Lebanese society, business and politics since February 2005.
That proof was on the first day when they bombed the airport.
This is just more evidence to support all the tonnes of proof we have.
It is indeed Lebanon and the Lebanese that are under attack. This is not about Hizballah nor is it about 2 soldiers.
My anger is overwhelming. I’ll stop typing.
All Lebanese are All under attack for not starting a civil war by trying to disarm HB while Israel is still occupying Shebba farms .
Didn’t before even a single rocket being fired at Isreal Olmert said that he will bomb Lebanon back to 20 years ago ?
Now I am not familiar with your region. But could it be possible that they are cutting off the Hezbullah from the transport of artillery from the North?
I have no experience in military. However common sence would be to isolate the area which would include cripple the airport or airports, restricting the shores any destroying main roads leading in to the country preventing additional supporters of Hezbullah and artillary.
Mustaph your comment: “This proves the point that Israel is using Hezbollah as an excuse to destroy Lebanon.”
Are you really that small minded!
The Ethnic Cleansing continues….
Anonymous said :
” Now I am not familiar with your region. But could it be possible that they are cutting off the Hezbullah from the transport of artillery from the North?
I have no experience in military. However common sence would be to isolate the area which would include cripple the airport or airports, restricting the shores any destroying main roads leading in to the country preventing additional supporters of Hezbullah and artillary. Mustaph your comment: “This proves the point that Israel is using Hezbollah as an excuse to destroy Lebanon.”
Are you really that small minded! “
I am afraid if there was a way to poison the air in Lebanon and Israel would do it closet Zionist like you would run and say : ” but wasn’t that the air that Hezbollah was breathing “!!
The IOF is always flying over Lebanon , if they see a suspicious truck on the road they can bomb that not every single bridge and road .What are all those smart bombs and sophisticated surveillance is good for ? IOF is too dumb for their advanced equipments ?
Well most of my friends are from the jounieh area and i live in Tripoli and now i can ‘t get to them……and you’re right Israel is using Hizbollah as an exuse to bomb and destroy lebanon………
Well as for my friend mojgan,i used to believe that there are some rational and civilized israelis,that we might find a way together to install peace in the region……and i used to think that Hizbollah is a terrorist institution,but this war showed the opposite of that.Hizbollah is protecting us and israel is a terrorist institution….
As for the Nazi Olmert saying he will take lebanon back to 20 years ago,i think Adolph Olmert is doing three things:
1-Switching the controling leach as Israel used to control the American politics,now it’s the americains that are forcing the israelis to do what they want
2-Olmert will take the israelis back to mere than 60 years,back to the world war 2 where Nazis did their racist war to get rid of a certain race in a terrible genocide….and that’s what the racist nazi olmert is doing,a savage genocide
3-Olmert will take israel to thousand and thousand of years back where cavemen used to kill each others in order to survive……..
ado said:Hizbollah is protecting us and israel is a terrorist institution….
no, u have got it wrong, israel is a soverign state’ a member of the un recognized by all countries’ and hizzballa is… what?
Friends, there is a campaign to reduce Lebanon to an Israeli-US protectorate. Destroying Lebanon is how they want to do it. Of course many Lebanese know that Israel was always jealous of Lebanon. Israel might claim that it is a democracy. But every foreigner prefers to live in Lebanon than Israel. Even foreigners who live in Israel say they prefer to be among Israeli Arabs than Jews. But on the political level, read this extract from a letter in yesterday’s UK Guardian:
“The US-backed Israeli assault on Lebanon has left the country numb, smouldering and angry. The massacre in Qana and the loss of life is not simply “disproportionate”. It is, according to existing international laws, a war crime.The deliberate and systematic destruction of Lebanon’s social infrastructure by the Israeli air force was also a war crime, designed to reduce that country to the status of an Israeli-US protectorate. The attempt has backfired. In Lebanon itself, 87% of the population now support Hizbullah’s resistance, including 80% of Christian and Druze and 89% of Sunni Muslims, while 8% believe the US supports Lebanon. But these actions will not be tried by any court set up by the “international community” since the US and its allies that commit or are complicit in these appalling crimes will not permit it. “
UGH! The disaster continues.
I’m an American Jew who feels despair for what Israel has wrought in Lebanon. I feel despair for the whole damn mess. When I was in school studying Jewish history they taught that Israel was “a light unto the nations.” What a cruel irony to think of that now!
What’s one more war crime when you have already committed hundreds?
“I’m an American Jew who feels despair…”:
American as a whole has a similar perception of itself. We are the “good guys” spreading liberty and so on. But, when we go to live overseas we may find that all is not what we have been lead to believe.
so, Israel is only using the HA as an excuse for destroying Lebanon.
wow!
I never thought of it this way.
but somehow it still doesn’t completely make sense to me.
as an Israeli.
why is it that I should want Lebanon to be destroyed?
just for the sheer joy of committing a genocide?
hmmmm.
genocide sounds like fun, but with all the damage on the Israeli side, I’m not even sure that it’s worth it.
no, there must be some other reason for the Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
does anyone here maybe have a clue?
TO HARRY U DONT HAVE TO BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ IN THE BIBLE, JUST GET THE FACTS RIGHT/ HIZBALLA DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ISRAELS RIGHT TO EXIST/ NEITHER DOES THE HAMAS BY THE WAY OR THE ISLAMIC JIHAD’ IF U WANT TO COUNT BODIES TAKE INTO ACCOUNT PLEASE ALL THE TERROR VICTIMS IN ISRAEL IN THE LAST TEN YEARS/ ITS A MIND BOGGLING FIGURE SO U WILL UNDERSTAND WHY IN ISRAEL THERE IS A FEELING THAT THESE ORGANIZATIONS WANT TO DESTROY ISRAEL OUT OF EXISTANCE/ ISRAEL HAS REACHED PEACE WITH THE GOVERMENTS THAT SAT TO TALK/ EGYPT AND JORDAN HOWEVER HIZBALLA DOES NOT REPRESENT ANY GOVERMENT SO WHO AND WHAT DOES IT REPRESENT AND WHY DOES IT OPERATE OUT OF LEBANON WICH HAS A DEMOCRATIC GOVERMENT AND LASTLY IN YESTERDAY’S ROCKET ATTACK ON THE NORTH OF ISRAEL 8 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED 4 OF THEM UNDER 20′ 3 OF THEM ISRAELI ARABS PLEASE CONSIDER THAT TOO AND ALSO CONSIDER THAT IN ISRAEL THERE IS NO DIFFERANCE BETWEEN A DEAD CIVILIAN TO A DEAD SOLDIER WE CARE ABOUT EVERY LIFE LOST BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT MANY OF US HERE/
HI MUSTAPHA
THINK ABOUT HOW NICE LEBANON WILL BE WITHOUT HEZBALLAH (DOES GOD REALLY NEED A POLITICAL PARTY?)
FREE – LIBERAL – MODERN – THINKING – OPEN – PROSPEROUS
YOU SHOULD HAVE NO WORRY OF ISRAEL – THEY ONLY COME IN ANGER WHEN THEY HAVE ROCKETS FIRED AT THEM. OTHERWISE – THEY REALLY WOULD LOVE TO BE YOUR FRIENDS.
JUST TALK TO LEBANESE IN AMERICA – AMERICA WANTS TO BE A REAL FRIEND TOO – ITS TIME TO SEE THEM AS SUCH
ITS HIZBALLAH – AND THEIR HATRED AND FASCISM THAT HAVE KEPT LEBANON FROM REACHING ITS FULL POTENTIAL
YOU MUST BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SIEZE THIS OPPORTUNITY – BECASUE IT MAY NOT COME AGAIN
THIS WILL ALL BE OVER SOON
BE WELL
ANDREW – USA
ever, don’t just read Israeli/US media propaganda. Don’t confuse Hez with al-Qaeda. Hez is in a coalition with Christians, Sunnis and Druze. US media propaganda claims Hez wants an Islamic dictatorship. That’s absolute rubbish! What is true is that former President Reagan invited Islamic extremist organizations into the White House. But the US media will never mention this fact
I look at actions not words. Israel has not declared it wants to destroy Lebanon. But it is doing that by mass terrorization and mass destruction and by preventing aid from reaching the 1 million it has forced out.
amit – if you are searching for clues I have an idea: read my previous post
To: “”"\Mustaph your comment: “This proves the point that Israel is using Hezbollah as an excuse to destroy Lebanon.”
Are you really that small minded!”"
If you think that Israel is doing all this because of their two soldiers than i guess you are the one who is small minded.
coming from a military family, but i myself never joined, i can see why israel bombed those bridges. it doesnt matter if hezbollah has supporters in that area. what matters is that those bridges still allow hez to move. there was a reason israel didnt bomb those bridges over 2 weeks ago. i would say it was because israel wanted to put it off to help the lebanese civilians and/or not creat more infrastucture damage. now, if you are hez and all your normal access points are taken out, what do you do?? if those are the only bridges left to get out of or bring supplies into beirut, i guess you have to use them, unless you want to swim. if israel really wanted to, they could have taken every bridge, road, mosque, hospital, etc out in a few days. but israel doesnt want that, what they do want is hezbollah. the problem is that hez doesnt care about civilians dying in their midst.
Hey Rice. USA
We used to be the good guys. Bush Inc has pretty much eliminated that one. Wondering why?
- see last 6 years
- see 42 year old recruits in the army (ha ha!) we’re voting with our feet even if diabolt (sp?) isn’t letting us.
- 300% increase in gas a coincidence with Mobil? Hmmmm? SO called limited Gas supply? Destabilization?
- See Wolfowitz Doctrine- pretty much clairifies what I’m trying to point out here.
In short- The US Middle Eastern Division (Israel) has been given the green light/encouragement to kill/destroy/ethnically cleanse (settlers) the area. Our dumbasses here in the USA have bought it hook, line and fishing reel from our sorry media (look internationally and from different regions) and the kids of the world are going to pay dearly for all of this already.
Is enough enough yet?
Spank an Israeli today! They could have stopped this years ago.
Of course everything I said is an oversimplification but this is a blog and none of us is going to solve this alone. Consensus maybe…but consensus from those in the region need to solve this not from the ilk of Bush Inc. and his cronies.
TO EVER,,
OH PLEASE U HAVE TO BE FREAKEN KIDDING ME!!!! U MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT 8 ISRAELIS WHO DID BEACUSE THEY ARE UNDER TWENTY. BUT IT DOESNT CROSS ANYONES MIND THAT ISRAEL IS USING BOMBS WITH ILLEGAL CHEMICALS ON INNOCENT CIVILIANS AND HAS MURDERED MANY CHILDREN AND WOMEN AND GUYS AND ONE OF THE CHILDREN THEY KILLED WAS ONLY ONE DAY OLD!!!! THE BABY DIDNT EVEN HAVE TIME TO OPEN HER EYES TO THE KNEW WORLD BY THE TIME HER DEATH DAY CAME!!! DO U PEOPLE LIVE WITH A CONCIOUS OR NOTT MY GOD U ARE SO COLD HEARTED. YESTERDAY WAS A “”REALLY DEADLY DAY FOR ISRAEL”" BECAUSE OF EIGHT PEOPLE BUT NINE OVER NINE HUNDRED DEAD IN LEBANON ISNT. WHAT THE HELL IS THE DIFFERENCE WE ARE BORN FROM THE SAMEEEEEEEE GODDDDDDDD. OUR LIVES AND SOULS ARE EQUAL NO ONE IS WORTH MORE THAN ANYONE.
Harry,
While Hezbollah may be in an electoral coalition with Sunnis, Druze and Christians it is a coalition based on the individual self-interest of each party, not mutual support. In Lebanon coalitions of political expediancy should never be mistaken for unity of purpose. Some of those with whom Hezbollah are aligned in parliament are outraged by Hezbollah’s instigation of this latest devastation.
Nasrallah is not solely for the independence of Lebanon. If you have read the transcripts of most of his speeches you would find that he has called for the destruction of Israel and would like to see Lebanon under sharia law. That being said, Nasrallah is politically savvy enough to have been able to position himself as the sole protector of Lebanon. Ironically, Israel has aided this image by its willful and wanton destruction of Lebanon and its civilians.
The only heroes in this tragedy are the Lebanese people who endure the suffering brought on them by the “occupiers” and the “resistance.”
Israel is the long arm of US, to control the Middle East,
Without the money and weapons of mass destruction from the US, Israel would be nonexistent
Impeach terrorist bush and put Bush and Olmert in the same cell with Saddam
St Andrew, think how beautiful the Middle East would be without the Zionists… (please note, I did not say: Jewish nor Israelis, so hold your horses!)
Anonymous 2pm: “israel wanted to (…) help the lebanese civilians (…)” – Is that why they rained flyers in southern Lebanon telling people to leave and then bombed those civilians as they were fleeing?
uberuntermenschen, you are so right, we are not going to solve the problem in blogs…
But you know what irks me? when people open up their mouths (or, in this case, start typing) when they have nothing intelligent to say. You, we, are all entitled to our own opinions (freedom of speech and all), but when you spew out lies you’ve heard, when you take them as truth, and preach them as gospel, with no respect to the real truth, with no analysis, rationalization, or factual research – then you’d better keep your mouth shut – or in this case, your fingers off the keyboard.
If it’s an opinion, do yourself (and all of us intelligent human beings) a favour, and state it as such.
female here:
I have a question. If the suicide bombers (males) get 17 virgins. What is the incentive for the female bomber?
I hope the offer would be better than 17 male virgins.
Sorry fellows!
You want to know the real reason why IDF bombed these bridges?
“Friday’s bombings cut off an “umbilical cord” for relief supplies and halted evacuations from the country to Syria, international and UN agencies said Friday.
(…)
This was the main supply route for UNHCR, all our supplies come from Syria,” said Jennifer Pagonis, a spokeswoman for the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
“
(Taken from Naharnet)
Hezbollah: Israelis’ SCAPEGOAT.
Occupy a country, torture its citizens and in the end you face resistance.In Israel’s case it was Hezbollah, and in the end Hezbollah ran Israel out of Lebanon, which is why a lot of Lebanese regard Hezbollah not as terrorists but as courageous liberators. The years roll by and Israel does its successful best to destroy all possibility of a viable two-state solution. It builds illegal settlements. It chops up Palestine with Jews-only roads. It collars all the water. It cordons off Jerusalem. It steals even more land by bisecting Palestinian territory with its “fence”. Anyone trying to organize resistance gets jailed, tortured, or blown up. Sick of their terrible trials, Palestinians elect Hamas, whose leaders make it perfectly clear that they are ready to deal on the basis of the old two-state solution, which of course is the one thing Israel cannot endure. Israel doesn’t want any “peaceful solution” that gives the Palestinians anything more than a few trashed out acres surrounded with barbed wire and tanks, between the Israeli settlements whose goons can murder them pretty much at will.
You can say that Israel brought Hezbollah into the world. You can prove it too, though this too involves another frightening excursion into history. This time we have to go far, almost unimaginably far, back into history. Back to 1982, before the dinosaurs, before CNN, before Fox TV, before O’Reilly and Limbaugh. But not before the neo-cons who at that time had already crawled from the primal slime and were doing exactly what they are doing now: advising an American president to give Israel the green light to “solve its security problems” by destroying Lebanon. In 1982 Israel had a problem. Yasir Arafat, headquartered in Beirut, was making ready to announce that the PLO was prepared to sit down with Israel and embark on peaceful, good faith negotiations towards a two-state solution. Israel didn’t want a two-state solution, which meant — if UN resolutions were to be taken seriously — a Palestinian state right next door, with water, and contiguous territory. So Israel decided to chase the PLO right out of Lebanon. It announced that the Palestinian fighters had broken the year-long cease-fire by lobbing some shells into northern Israel. Palestinians had done nothing of the sort. I remember this very well, because Brian Urquhart, at that time assistant secretary general of the United Nations, in charge of UN observers on Israel’s northern border, invited me to his office on the 38th floor of the UN hq in mid-Manhattan and showed me all the current reports from the zone. For over a year there’d been no shelling from north of the border. Israel was lying. With or without a pretext Israel wanted to invade Lebanon. So it did, and rolled up to Beirut. It shelled Lebanese towns and villages and bombed them from the air. Sharon’s forces killed maybe 20,000 people, and let Lebanese Christians slaughter hundreds of Palestinian refugees in the camps of Sabra and Chatilla. The killing got so bad that even Ronald Reagan awoke from his slumbers and called Tel Aviv to tell Israel to stop. Sharon gave the White House the finger by bombing Beirut at the precise times — 2.42 and 3.38 — of two UN resolutions calling for a peaceful settlement on the matter of Palestine. When the dust settled over the rubble, Israel bunkered down several miles inside Lebanese sovereign territory, which it illegally occupied, in defiance of all UN resolutions, for years, supervising a brutal local militia and running its own version of Abu Graibh, the torture center at the prison of Al-Khiam.
I just wanted to say that I love both Lebanon and Israel. I’ve visited both countries and I just can’t help but like them both. I am praying every day that your hard days may be over soon.
Actually I have honestly never met an Israeli who spoke lowly of the Lebanese. Like I know there are plenty of Lebanese who don’t have any problems with their neighbour provided they stay neighbours, which really, the Israelis want. They want to bask on the beach and hike in the hills. They don’t come to fight in your country for fun. They come because they are attacked from your territory and no-one stops that, not even the UN.
My dream is that both countries would be at peace. So that I wouldn’t have to lie anymore when I am asked at Beirut airport if I have ever been to Israel. Or I wouldn’t get peculiar looks when entering Israel with Lebanese stamps in my passport. But instead there would be an open border. Imagine the potential for your country if all the tourists who visit Jerusalem each year could also come to see the stunning temple at Ba’albek? Imagine how people would come to ski in your mountains, dance in Beirut and scuba dive in Eilat?
I would like to be among the first tourists to come back to Lebanon after these dark days are over. You will need the tourism income to restore the economy. I hope it won’t be the Iranians who will be “restoring” your country, only to make it a battle ground for a future war again. Don’t let them take control of your country. If necessary, your government should invite a strong international force to make sure Hezbollah lays down its toys like all the other groups in Lebanon have already done. Hezbollah has shown to be irresponsible, it does not act in the interest of Lebanon at all but merely obeys a foreign president who cares not a single thing about Lebanon. Hezbollah should not be allowed to carry arms any longer. You should say, well thank you so far for everything you have done for us, now please stick to building hospitals and schools and if the country needs to be defended we can do that ourselves.
My thoughts and prayers are with all people of good intentions on both sides of the border.
ever said :
“no, u have got it wrong, israel is a soverign state’ a member of the un recognized by all countries’ and hizzballa is… what? “
Mojgan : “And what is Lebanon ? An obstical to Israel’s water and not a soverign nation ?
Oh, so now UN has credibility? How come Israel is in defiance of Zillions of resolutions by the same UN ? ? Where are the legal borders of this so called Soverign nation of Isreal that is occupying 3 of her neighbors land ? How come Israel is the only country in the world that does NOT recognize it’s own borders and after 60 yaers still has no constitution ?
For those that Don’t know Israel’s meddling in Lebanon , Google and read :
MOSHE SHARETT DIARY
ISRAEL WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LEBANESE CIVIL WAR ,
This is the first time Israel has began speaking the “Middle East” language. After 60 years the Israel Defense Force has finally began to understand the rules of the region.
Israel currently understands that it must strike back at the first sign of violation and not wait for years, because it might prove to be too late. Had the IDF redeployed from Lebanon while destroying the south, this war could have been prevented. The same rule applies to the disengagement from Gaza.
The same applies to abduction. Had the IDF responded forcefully in 2000 over the kidnapping of its soldiers, Hizbullah and Iran would not have dared turn the whole of Lebanon into its playground. Israel has reversed the situation: instead of the abduction working against Israel, to the extent of extorting an entire country, the abduction will now work against the abductor and his country.
Civilians have never played a role in the Middle East. In the Iran-Iraq war thousands were killed, without it bothering one side or another. Israel however faced the moral obstacle, which was cynically taken advantage of by the opposite side: it chose to hide behind its civilians as it did in the village of Qana in south Lebanon.
This is the first time Israel has began speaking the “Middle East” language. After 60 years the Israel Defense Force has finally began to understand the rules of the region.
Israel currently understands that it must strike back at the first sign of violation and not wait for years, because it might prove to be too late. Had the IDF redeployed from Lebanon while destroying the south, this war could have been prevented. The same rule applies to the disengagement from Gaza.
The same applies to abduction. Had the IDF responded forcefully in 2000 over the kidnapping of its soldiers, Hizbullah and Iran would not have dared turn the whole of Lebanon into its playground. Israel has reversed the situation: instead of the abduction working against Israel, to the extent of extorting an entire country, the abduction will now work against the abductor and his country.
Civilians have never played a role in the Middle East. In the Iran-Iraq war thousands were killed, without it bothering one side or another. Israel however faced the moral obstacle, which was cynically taken advantage of by the opposite side: it chose to hide behind its civilians as it did in the village of Qana in south Lebanon.
Israel succeeded in overcoming this obstacle in this war when all the civilians living in the south of Lebanon asked to flee their homes during the temporary ceasefire. Those who didn’t bore the consequences.
The IDF’s hands are now free to destroy the Hizbullah, which to the organization’s astonishment has remained exposed, devoid of its women and children behind whom they seek shelter.
Who in their right mind thinks that you can get rid of 35% of Lebanese by force. There is no way Olmert thought he can eliminate Hizballah in 5 days (especially after trying for 18 years), which leads to the next question: What is his intention !!!
You people are such fools. Remember: Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear. Just because the Fuhrer with the black hat emerges from the bunker and makes his pronouncemets, it doesn’t mean their true. Fascists are so predictable. The brave fighters are dying in the hundreds.
Don’t worry, when he thinks the Israelis are done with his thugs, you’re next. The other muslims think that their the common religion will save them. Sunnis and Shiites breaking bread, I’m sure hat one will last for about a minute and a half.
You Christians and Druze know better.
Do you think the Nazis were ever elected into power? They just their foot in the door and then started killing all the opposition. Sound familiar?
Oh, don’t believe all that crap that Israel created the ‘resistance’. That one was invented in Iran in 1979 as the franchise for export and they were in Iran for training right from the beginning..
Oh so you think that the mullahs in Iran were just swept in by a popular revolution? Actually there were many elements of the real resistance, but when those nazis got their hands on the levers of power, they immediately began killing everyone in their way. Getting a little more fearful?
It’s understandable to be afraid of those gun-toting thugs who threaten even television producers of satirical comedy (that in turn seems to threaten such self-confident religious types) but to not admit it and call them: ‘your lebanese brothers’, ‘a wayward political party’, and ‘our protectors’ etc. etc. is beyond lunacy. It’s cowardice. It’s normal to be afraid, but if you’re going to sell your children as slaves and not even have the courage to admit it , then your all bunch of slaves already, you brave Cedar Revolutionaries.
You better hope that the Israelis continue grinding away in the south and that they kill that evil creature, and you better be ready to finish the job. This opportunity is not going to come again. Your place to begin is the central command and control center in the basement of the Iranian ‘embassy”.
I hope that you all still have access to your weapons as easily as the Shiites do. Wha were you thinking? Everybody gives up their weapons, except for the Shiites. What did you expect?
Excuse me there is one very courageous man in Lebanon. His name is Walid Jumblatt. He speaks the truth and none of you are listening.
Get out while you can.
Mustapha—
For the record, those bridges link the Sunni North to the Christian Center of Lebanon. There are no Hezbollah supporters whatsoever in those areas.
This proves the point that Israel is using Hezbollah as an excuse to destroy Lebanon.
Well Israel’s claimed reason for taking out bridges (as opposed to Hezbollah structures) is to prevent rockets, other weapons and war material moving from Syria to Hezbollah. Hez and Iran are both saying Iran has given Hez rockets that can hit Tel Aviv from deep in Lebanon. Maybe Israel has decided it can’t let that kind of rocket move south from hiding places up north, or from crossing the Syrian border to move further south, such as into the heart of Beirut which Israel has avoided bombing for the most part.
I’m not rah rah Israel. Truly. Just trying to be logical.
On the other hand there may be no really good and really plausible reason. Thinking often gets really one sided in war.
I very much doubt they are trying to hurt specifically Christian or even Sunni Lebanon though, per se. They’re just willing to.
Wild Rice said…
But, when we go to live overseas we may find that all is not what we have been lead to believe.
I agree that the Bush administration’s unqualified, unbalanced and sometimes unintelligent support for Israel isn’t in America’s best interests or the world’s. I also agree that most American administrations have tended to be too much that way, though less. And the general trend since WWII has been to get worse and worse.
But there is a great deal of criticism of the US which is simply grossly unfair and unbalanced. It stems mostly from two things: 1) we have too much power both militarily and economically which in combination lead to politically in the world since the Soviet demise and since the Euros won’t (because they won’t invest militarily primarily) and no one else can; and 2) we don’t pretend to be socialist in a world whose media is suffused with at least quasi-socialist values, worldview, and theories of how things work. The West in general and the US in particular as the “controller of the world system” is rich so it must be our greed and evil world system machinations that is keeping Africa and most of Latin America, and the non oil exporting parts of the Muslim world poor. And so on.
zbThough there might not be Hezbollah supporters in those areas (I was in Beirut in 1982 and can confirm that thsoe areas at that time supported Israel against the PLO), most likely that weapons are being transferred to the south over those bridges and thrgouh these areas.
Therefore, i think that Israel is not seeking to destory Lebanon, but rather prevent weapons from being transferred through these areas.
I do not know of an army that alerted civilianz before bombing military or military like posts. Therefore, the IDF has much higher standard than any other army around the world. See what the cowards of the Hezbollah bombed today. Was any of their targets a military one, absolutly not.
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