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.

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!

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 ?

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?

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!

“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.

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/

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.