Does it mean Israel should forgo use of precision-guided weapons in favor of “dumb” weapons to satisfy HWR watch requirements?
I am sure they are technically capable of laying more than one carpet of those dummies. Daisy-cutters, anyone? What a load of …

“To the Zionist,
The phrase “Soon enough we will have to go nuclear”, that is not constructive. Such kind of talk gives right to crazy leaders in Iran to go nuclear as well. With such phrases you are not helping in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons in the region, and seriously who wants that?”

You are correct assuming Ahmadnejad reads this blog and assuming his desire to go nuclear rests solely on ability of Israel go nuclear.

That argument would make more sense had Hezbollah:

1) Not announced that they were intentionally targeting Israeli cities with no military value whatsoever; or

2) Not packed their missile warheads with ball bearings, which are useless against military targets (even individual soldiers) but perfectly tailored to maximize the damage to unprotected civilian flesh and unarmored civilian property.

Anyone who thinks Hezbollah had any interest at all in avoiding or minimizing civilian casualties needs their heads examined

I wouldn’t hold my breath on this one.

Or any of the others, really, though I hope someone in Israel is paying attention to this:

· Israel should revise its military policies that effectively treat all persons remaining in an area following evacuation warnings as combatants, so that in the future it targets only people or structures that constitute valid military objectives under the laws of war. Israel’s Winograd Commission, in particular, should investigate this issue.

Even if they think it will give Hezbollah a tactical advantage, as the July war proved the media disadvantage of being wrong and its impact on future action is probably worse than the tactical disadvantage of requiring more intel that “we said leave”.

Not to mention the moral implications.

takes alot of guts – I respect that – you are making the fate of your nation (rather than accepting it by default)

be well

It’s explained here:

“Reproduced below is a list of 97 incidents involving civilian casualties and civilian
infrastructure that we have investigated in Lebanon. The information listed below,
based on our field investigation of the sites and witness testimonies, includes the
date and time of the strike, the method of attack, the village where the attack took
place, and the death toll. Because place names often vary, our researchers also took
the GPS coordinates of individual strikes, which should allow the IDF to coordinate
this information with its strike logs and establish the specific military target attacked.”

97 incidents… that’s a lousy number if you would ask me.
Testimonies? Since when in Hezbollah reigned south testimonies are independent?

Reports such as these from human right organisations smell when research is done in messed up countries.

Unfortunately usually messed up countries have to deal with human rights organisations.

So I am not going to blame HRW for doing their work :)

keep on doing what you’re doing mustapha – you prove that maybe the good guys will win

Its funny – not one word from the Arab world when the serbians lined up muslims by the 1000’s and gunned them down in cold blood. No Jihad, No protest, No Nothing.

The Americans had to intervene – save muslim lives and now they are the “evil infidels”

Let me make it very simple for the Arab world to understand Israels position..

We know full well that you wont leave her alone until she is dead. Only the extermination of the Jewish people will make you happy.

Soon enough we will have to go nuclear – because you simply wont stop trying to kill her, when all she wants is to be welcomed home by her greater semitic family and be allowed her rightful space on the planet

only her blood and death will satisfy you

so when 1000 die – when she could have easily killed 100,000 – this is not a crime – its a gesture saying that she has no wish to harm you…please just once and for all leave her alone