Who are the real terrorists
Does anyone actually believe that Israel is bombing innocent people and civilian infrastructure in Beirut to protect itself?It's a little hard to justify shelling civilians towns and infrastructure especially when there seems to be no burden of proof on Israel's shoulders. The destruction of Beirut airport was allegedly aimed at stopping arms trafficking. Though to be honest, if they wanted to do that, they really should have aimed for Damascus.
I'm not arguing that Israel does not have the right to defend itself. But given that most of the people being killed everyday are everyday folk, helpless women and children much like you and me, that excuse becomes merely that, an excuse for flagrant and outright assertion of might. It's not hard to see that these tactics are not working in Israel's favor. International outrage at the latest civilian deaths, mainly children, at Qana has seen Israel condemned for brutish, disproportional, and indiscriminate destructive actions.
Clearly losses were also sustained on Israel's side, but compare this to ever growing number of civilian deaths in Southern Lebanon and Beirut, and you will find a scene not unlike David and Goliath. I'm not a Hezbollah sympathizer. Rather I sympathize with those who cannot defend themselves against Patriot missiles and bunker blasters, those who are caught in the middle of a deadly war, and the country whose slow march to reconstruction and rehabilitation after years of civil war, finds itself kicked down to the ground yet again by cruel fate, politics and blind hatred.
posted by chronicblogger @ 10:30 PM
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