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Acts of war, or war crimes?

07.15.06 (11:43 am) [edit]

Eli Stephens
Left I on the News
July 13, 2006

Israel says the seizing of two Israeli soldiers by Hizballah is an "act of war" (on the part of the Lebanese government). I wonder what they consider this to be, then?

Police said 52 Lebanese civilians, including 15 children, were killed in attacks on Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs and across southern Lebanon.

Security sources said the air strikes in south Lebanon also wounded 100 people. Ten members of a family were killed in Dweir village and seven family members died in Baflay.

Note that Israel has not declared war. Therefore these acts can be nothing other than war crimes. Not that most of the Israeli attacks wouldn't qualify as war crimes even if they had declared war.

posted by: tfruge1 (reply)
post date: 07.15.06 (5:53 pm)

The problem with this "war" is it is killing innocent civilians. It is one thing to bomb a country but not major civilan cities like is being done. There just is no reason for this. This is just causing more hostility and hatred between the two. Leave the innocent civilians out of it.

posted by: mambo (reply)
post date: 07.20.06 (1:04 pm)

Yes, you're right. Things will only get worse from here on out.
The scary thing is that no one seems to care about the innocents any longer. We are in for one rough ride.

posted by: thoolou (reply)
post date: 07.28.06 (11:10 am)

Had Israel wanted to destroy Lebanese civilian infrastructure, it would have turned out the lights in Beirut in the first hour of the war, destroying the billion-dollar power grid and setting back Lebanon 20 years. It did not do that. Instead it attacked dual-use infrastructure -- bridges, roads, airport runways -- and blockaded Lebanon's ports to prevent the reinforcement and resupply of Hezbollah. Ten thousand Katyusha rockets are enough. Israel was not going to allow Hezbollah 10,000 more.

Israel's response to Hezbollah has been to use the most precise weaponry and targeting it can. It has no interest, no desire to kill Lebanese civilians. Does anyone imagine that it could not have leveled south Lebanon, to say nothing of Beirut? Instead, in the bitter fight against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, it has repeatedly dropped leaflets, issued warnings, sent messages by radio and even phone text to Lebanese villagers to evacuate so that they would not be harmed.

Israel knows that these leaflets and warnings give the Hezbollah fighters time to escape and regroup. The advance notification as to where the next attack is coming has allowed Hezbollah to set up elaborate ambushes. The result? Unexpectedly high Israeli infantry casualties. Moral scrupulousness paid in blood. Israeli soldiers die so that Lebanese civilians will not, and who does the international community condemn for disregarding civilian life?

You guys really need something other than DU...

posted by: mambo (reply)
post date: 08.01.06 (9:12 am)

Yes they did issue warning for people to leave...after they bombed all the roads and all avenues of escape. So who is the terrorist??