Here’s one we bombed earlier
“Here’s one we bombed earlier”
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Archive > 14 August 2006
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“10 Children Die Everyday
By Anadolu News Agency (aa), Beirut
Monday, August 14, 2006
zaman.comIsrael’s attacks on Lebanon devastated the country’s economy and claimed hundreds of civilian lives.
More than 1,130 Lebanese, mostly civilians, were killed in the 33-day Israeli military operation, in which at least 3,600 were wounded.
One third of the 1,025 civilians killed were children under the age of 12.
Estimates put the number of Lebanese displaced by the war at around 915,000; with at least $6 billion of damage to the country.
Around 630 kilometers of highways, 23 oil stations, 145 bridges, 7,000 homes, and 900 factories have been destroyed in the Israeli attacks targeting Lebanese infrastructure.”
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If I Was An Israeli Officer
I’ll start by doing a copy from my posting of July 27th about Haim Ramon Israel’s Justice Minister :
Meet Haim Ramon. He’s Israel’s minister for justice. He used to be in the Israeli Labour Party but ditched them for Kadima when Ariel Sharon, the man the Kahan commission* found to be responsible for the mass murder of civilians at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps the last time Israel invaded Lebanon left Likud and founded Kadima. He’s generally reckoned to be very close to Israel’s Prime minister Ehud Olmert. Note Ramon’s branch of service. Like Donald Rumsfeld he’s an Air Force man in Ramon’s case he never made it beyond captain. Not a particularly impressive record. This is what he had to say today on Israeli Army Radio:
“We received yesterday in the Rome conference permission, in effect, from the world, part of it gritting its teeth and part of it granting its blessing, to continue the operation, this war, until Hezbollah’s presence is erased in Lebanon and it is disarmed,” Source
According to Haaretz today he said this:
“We have a internationally recognized document which bears great potential to entirely change [the state of affairs that existed] prior to July 12th and that was the objective of the war.”
I’m not going to spend time today analysing Resolution 1701. The world, his wife, and their pet tortoise have all blogged about it endlessly and anyone with half a wit can see that it’s a “finger pointing” resolution. Suffice it to say that:
- Everyone affected by it can drive either a Merkava tank or Katyusha rocket launching platform through it whenever they feel like it.
- As they do so they can point their finger at somebody else and say “they started it.”
If I was an Israeli officer I’d send a special forces team into the Ramon’s office armed with enough duct tape to permanently get the man to STFU. He keeps on giving the game away on Israeli Army Radio. He’s just admitted that there’s now an legally binding international agreement with a “terrorist organisation.” Don’t think that his little slip of the tongue won’t be noticed and seized upon for future use in the appropriate quarters. It will.
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Children of Zaafaraniyah
The attack on Zaafaraniyah was most likely a reprisal for the US army’s recent sweep of al-Dora. The attack was both large and sophisticated — a series of bombings coordinated with a rocketry barrage from al-Dora. It’s very similar to the July 27, attack on al-Karrada. Such attacks undermine public confidence in the green zone government’s plan to regain control of Baghdad. I expect many more such attacks in the near future.
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