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 Wednesday August 20, 2008 13:46 by TD - Free Palestine Campaign
 "Gone are the days when wars are fought on remote and hidden battlefields while life in the cities carries on as usual," (Olmert) Barak Ravid is reporting in today's edition of Haaretz newspaper that Israel would, according to PM Ehud Olmert, "unleash more massive firepower" and to "hit back harder than before," if Lebanon were to become a "terrorist state" under the domination of Hezbollah. Israel "did not use all means to respond then, but if Lebanon becomes a Hezbollah state, then we won't have any restrictions in this regard ... gone are the days when wars are fought on remote and hidden battlefields while life in the cities carries on as usual," he said.
Gone then, as it were, are the relative halcyon days of summer 2006, when Lebanese civilians were not criminally cluster-bombed and life in Beirut and other Lebanese cities, towns and villages carried on "as usual" and Israeli children in Kiryat Shmona sent messages of fraternity and love to Lebanon.?
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Barak and Olmert spoke about a case inwhich Hizballah will rule Lebanon. And thus - probably attack Israel. This time it won't be different from a state's army attacking another state.
And the girls are residents of the city that suffered most from Hizballa's missiles. Do you know how many pictures of Lebanese and Palestinian children doing the same thing there are?
"how many pictures of Lebanese and Palestinian children doing the same thing there are" : for sure, the 1,050 Palestinian children murdered by Israel since September 29, 2000, the hundreds of Lebanese children murdered in the Israeli barbarity of summer 2006 and the hundreds of Palestinian/Lebanese children murdered in the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre by proxy Israeli gunmen; the Christian Phalangists, won't be "doing the same".
You should count as well the number of Christian Lebanses children who where massacred by the Palestinians in the monthes BEFORE Sabra & Shatila.
And the Christian Phalangists were Israel's allies, not proxy gunmen. You can blame israel with this no more then you can blame England in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Kahan Commission established by the Israeli government to investigate the slaughter subsequently found that Israeli forces were indirectly responsible and Ariel Sharon was personally responsible for the massacre. However, in the 2005 Swiss-French-German-Lebanese co-produced documentary, Massaker, six former Lebanese Forces soldiers who participated personally in the massacre stated there was direct Israeli participation. One of them said that he saw Israeli soldiers driving bulldozers into inhabited houses inside the camp. Another said that Israeli soldiers provided the Lebanese Forces soldiers with material to dispose of the corpses lying around in the streets. Several of the soldiers said that they had received training in Israel.
The United Nations Security Council condemned the massacre with Resolution 521 (19 September 1982). This condemnation was followed by a 16 December 1982 General Assembly resolution qualifying the massacre as an "act of genocide."
Sabra-Shatila massacre
Just to remind everyone
The PLO fighters were exiled from Lebanon to Tunisia as part of a ceasefire agreement in 1982. The safety of their families was suppossedly guaranteed by the US and other Western powers.
While the Male PLO fighters were transferred to another jurisdiction the Israeli Army arranged for the Fascist Christian Phalagne to massacre the unprotected Wives and Children of the exiled PLO fighters.
Rarely in the recent history of humans have we seen such bloodthirsty cowardly savagery
Wikipedia would have you believe that there is some dispute about whether or not the Israeli army had any foreknowledge of the bloodthirsty and cowardly massacre.
Wkikpedia seeks to cloud the issue.
THERE IS NO DISPUTE.
Even the Israelis themselves found Ari Sharon Guilty of complicity in this heinous massacre.
ONLY pro-Israeli zealots dispute the role of the Israeli Army in this bloodthirsty and cowardly massacre.
The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, is reporting that: The Lebanese cabinet on Friday approved a decision to formally complain to the United Nations about what it perceived as recent Israeli threats against Lebanon. "To hear what Israeli officials say, one would think Israel was showering Lebanon with roses during its last aggression," Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said of the 2006 summer war between Israel and Hezbollah, in which over 1,200 Lebanese - mostly civilians - were killed. The cabinet was responding to remarks made earlier this week by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who said Israel would dispense with restrictions it has so far imposed on itself in combating Hezbollah on Lebanese soil should Lebanon "become a Hezbollah state."
Not a lot of point complaining to the Americans, who will have authorised any such attack or threat, having been consulted in advance.