Heidegger

What about the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners held without charge? Remeber the Lebanese political prisoners held without charge? I guess the fact that the Israelis torture and beat to death children and teenagers in custody doesn’t get much attention in the American press. Have you forgotten that Israel has incessantly made incursions into Lebanon abducting and killing farmers on many occasions since the 2000 ‘withdrawal’? Gaza was never withdrawn from - it was first turned into rubble and then turned into a prison controlled in its entirety by the Israelis. They did this while continuing their expansionist policies in the West Bank and building their ’security wall’ - all of which have been condemned by the World Court as a clear and unambiguous violation of international law. Israel has on numerous occasions shot across the border in clear provocation. Also if a rocket is shot 100 feet from you house do you therefore believe that its justified to
sentence you to death along with you wife and children? Is this the demented ‘ethical calculus’ we are today faced with? The complete and utter idiotic belief that you can destroy Hezbollah once and for all through brute force - completely destroying the civilian infrastructure and killing 1000 civilians - is so misguided and delusional it can only spell more death, destruction and torment for many more generations. Undoubtedly another guerilla organization will be born out of this.

That Pete wrote: There was something called “land for peace”; Israel withdrew from Lebanon
and Gaza in exchange for peace? Remember that? Instead your mates moved
in and used the land to fire rockets at the “zionist entity”. Couldn’t
be disembowelled and dismembered and disconstructed fast enough if you
ask me.

— bob scheetz wrote:

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> These are the exact same ‘noble-liar’ folk who brought us wmd and the Iraq
> atrocity. Now it’s Lebanon’s turn. But even more, Hamas and Hezbollah are
> being disembowelled and dismembered, and their women and children openly
> slaughtered, -to annex to the Litani River to be sure, in a cold-blooded
> effort to provoke war with Syria & Iran.
> …and Mel Gibson is forced to apologize?
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>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0801/p09s0…
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> As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their
> conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is
> defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism.
> Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah’s capture of two Israeli
> soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel’s silent but unrelenting
> aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long
> Arab-Israeli conflict.
>
> Since its withdrawal of occupation forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000,
> Israel has violated the United Nations-monitored “blue line” on an almost
> daily basis, according to UN reports. Hizbullah’s military doctrine,
> articulated in the early 1990s, states that it will fire Katyusha rockets
> into Israel only in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians or
> Hizbullah’s leadership; this indeed has been the pattern.
>
> In the process of its violations, Israel has terrorized the general
> population, destroyed private property, and killed numerous civilians. This
> past February, for instance, 15-year-old shepherd Yusuf Rahil was killed by
> unprovoked Israeli cross-border fire as he tended his flock in southern
> Lebanon. Israel has assassinated its enemies in the streets of Lebanese
> cities and continues to occupy Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms area, while refusing to
> hand over the maps of mine fields that continue to kill and cripple civilians
> in southern Lebanon more than six years after the war supposedly ended. What
> peace did Hizbullah shatter?
>
> Hizbullah’s capture of the soldiers took place in the context of this ongoing
> conflict, ….
>
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Posted on Friday, August 4th, 2006 at 10:40 am
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