Casualties: 10 to 1
Thus far today Israel has killed 36 people in Lebanon, including 16 in Tyre, where a building used by rescue workers was hit. That brings the number of Lebanese killed to 120 since hostilities started. A lot of children died today in one particular attack.Hizbullah struck Haifa and killed eight people, bring the number of Israelis killed to 12 since hostilities started. It was the most daring and deadliest Hizbullah strike on Israel ever, and Olmert has said he would retaliate massively.
On top of this we must not forget that millions of dollars’ worth of critical infrastructure has been destroyed all across Lebanon — major roads, the airport, etc. Lebanon is a country that is largely dependent on trading and commerce. The strikes against its power stations are also very damaging because the country faces recurrent energy shortages, has no oil of its own, and therefore must get electricity a lot of the time from Syria.
Incidentally, there was a peace protest in Tel Aviv today with the protesters demanding an end to hostilities and an exchange of prisoners. About 2,000 people, mostly from the far left parties, peace movements and NGOs, both Jewish and Arab, took part. and Saw it in a AFP feed, but not elsewhere.
Foreigners and dual nationals living in Lebanon
Eight Canadian citizens have been killed by Israeli strikes in South Lebanon. Le Monde reports that 350 Europeans fled Beirut to Rome on Sunday, while the Prime Minister of Cyprus has said his country is readying to welcome “hundreds, if not thousands” of foreign refugees. Germany organized the evacuation of 200 of its citizens (and some Austrians) through Syria, Russia is also making plans.
The US and UK say they are planning the evacuation of their citizens from Lebanon and are sending emergency rescue warships. There are 3,500 British families living in Lebanon and 25,000 Americans. The State Dept. says there’s no immediate decision on whether they will stage a mass evacuation of citizens or diplomatic staff.
Obviously there are hundreds more or guest workers in Lebanon (from India, Sri Lanka, Philippines etc., but I haven’t heard anything about evacuation plans for them.
(Update: A friend sent in some wire reports about plans for guest workers. The Philippine government is trying to evacuate the 30,000 citizens it has in Lebanon but has not found an alternative route to the destroyed airport and roads. There are 100 Thais living in Lebanon, 25 have left through Syria, and a Thai govt. spokesman said “the rest living there have been moving to safer places, such as a Christian Lebanese community which is not the target of the attack.”)
US inaction in crisis
Allow to elaborate on my previous rant, namely that the US needs to act fast to contain and calm this crisis, which it is indirectly responsible for by having abandoned the Israel-Arab peace process since 2000.
This Le Monde editorial (my translation) on the situation sums it up well:
In the Near East, the Bush administration invented an empty shell to stand for negotiation: the Quartet. It combines the US, Russia, the EU and the UN and its purpose is to pretend to encourage Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. The Quartet serves no real purpose. Who knows when it met for the last time? Its members have chosen to be powerless, for various reasons.
Since the arrival of George W. Bush at the White House, the US has abandoned its role of “honest broker” and sticks to Israel’s policy, whatever it may be. The Russians have no particular strategy, except making life difficult for the Americans. The Europeans have a hard time making themselves heard, since they don’t exist politically. And, as a pathetic session of the Security Council showed on Friday night, the UN is powerless.: it is the reflection of the bad faith of all involved.
(Incidentally, side note on French politics: while Jacques Chirac came out steaming against the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Nicolas Sarkozy essentially took the same line as the Bush administration.)
From the latest State Dept. briefing it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing any creative diplomacy from the US:
QUESTION: Chuck Hagel suggested today that you all should appoint Colin Powell or James Baker or a similar figure as an envoy, send them there, do something dramatic, a U.S. — direct U.S. intersession. Is anything like that under consideration and is there anything — should the U.S. make some sort of next level intersession here beyond phone calls?
MR. MCCORMACK: Well, I think — a couple things. One, certainly, we have a great deal of respect for Senator Hagel and his views, but the fact is you have the national security apparatus of the United States working on this issue as well as a variety of other issues with which we are confronted around the world now. Secretary Rice has been very active working the phones, as I’ve talked about over the past couple days. David Welch and Elliott Abrams are — have been in the region.
One of the things you don’t want to do in a situation like this is you don’t want to have various envoys’ diplomatic efforts stepping on one another as they move about the region. Right now, you have a UN effort that’s underway at the behest of Secretary General Annan. It has our support. It really has its origins, I think, in some conversations the Secretary had with Secretary General Annan a couple of days ago. We support those efforts and we support Mr. Larsen as well as the two other members of the team that are going to be out there in the region. So we think that that’s where the center of international diplomatic effort should be. Also working with whatever bilateral efforts there might be with the governments in the region, we’re going to continue to stay very plugged in to these efforts, do what we need to do, working the phones and also having our embassies on the ground contribute to a solution in any way that they feel is appropriate.
QUESTION: Can I follow on that?
MR. MCCORMACK: Yeah, sure.
QUESTION: Is there anything that’s being considered over at the G-8 or within the Secretary’s discussions, as such a — like a wider kind of Quartet or Contact Group, that type of thing, to get interested leaders of the — in the region and the international community together to see if there’s something to be done to calm the tensions?
MR. MCCORMACK: I’m not aware of such efforts. It’s probably best to check with the folks in St. Petersburg. Right now, I’m sure that this is going to be right at the top of the agenda when the leaders get together to — for the G-8 Summit this coming weekend. I think it’s probably best to check with the folks in St. Petersburg as to what shape the conversations are taking, where they’re headed.
QUESTION: Is the Secretary considering any travel to the region?
MR. MCCORMACK: Not at the moment. No plans.
Note that the State Dept. has sent David Welch and Elliott Abrams (a rabidly pro-Israel racist who has been in charge of the peace process for years — doesn’t it show) to talk to Mahmoud Abbas. Sounds helpful.
Meanwhile, analysts are predictin
g $100 oil…
US media and intelligentsia generally revolting
I don’t mean they’re taking to the streets, but the punditry going around (in the “MSM” and blogs) on the conflict is on the whole either disgusting or sophomoric.
Obviously the war-mongering, pro-Israel, conservative media is war-mongering (pride of place goes to William Kristol, though, who thinks there’s not enough war around), but that’s expected.
Supposedly centrist CNN, on the other hand, does this:
Later, I went back and checked CNN’s reporting, via TVeyes.com, and discovered that throughout the day CNN repeatedly reported on the lone Israeli civilian causality without making any mention of the more than 50 Lebanese civilian casualties. To be exact, CNN did that at 10:31 a.m., 11:02, 12:09 p.m., 12:19, 1:00, 1:30, 1:52, 2:00, 2:17, 2:30, 2:50, and 4:04.
Read the whole thing.
A lot of the talk from “world leaders” (can they really be called that anymore), the media and Israel is trying to make this about Syria and Iran. Well, obviously they are involved in this and have interests in the crisis. But the insinuation seems to be that they planned the whole thing, whereas they are merely cynically taking advantage of the situation. Show proof of what you’re saying with your grand phrases, Tony Blair (and the the millions of journos, bloggers and politicians who are echoing each other about this.)
Arab government and press reaction
(sorry, I don’t always have links here.)
The Saudi statement issued on Thursday, essentially blaming Hizbullah for the situation, is an interesting development. They said:
“A distinction must be made between legitimate resistance and uncalculated adventures undertaken by elements inside (Lebanon) and those behind them without recourse to the legal authorities and consulting and coordinating with Arab nations,” a statement carried by the official news agency SPA said.
“These elements should bear the responsibility for their irresponsible actions and they alone should end the crisis they have created.”
The statement predictably received praise from the Saudi press, which dominates international Arab media.
That also seems to be the Egyptian position, although less overtly stated. Leading Egyptian government daily Al Ahram said the same day, in its editorial:
The seriousness of the situation demands that we cease talking about determining who started the hostilities. The whole world must know that it is Lebanon, and not a single faction, that is paying the price of this aggression.
The great Al Ahram editorialist Salama Ahmed Salama wrote yesterday:
We must recognize this terrifying fact: Israel launched a fifth war against the Arabs, although without a declaration of war. Israel is ready to launch an offensive on all Arab fronts and nothing will stop it if it believes its interests demand it… The objective is to put an end to all resistance in Lebanon and Palestine. Israel will thus determine the new shape of its relationship with the Arab world… Israel continues to fight without worrying because President Bush had assured his support to exercise its right of self-defense.
The Egyptian government is more coy than Saudi Arabia but essentially seems to think the problem is Hizbullah. Hosni Mubarak is earning is $2b a year:
Egypt persuaded Israel against a planned land attack on the Lebanese capital of Beirut following Hizbullah’s abduction of two Israeli soldiers earlier this week, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Sunday. The Egyptian leader also disclosed an Iranian offer to negotiate a settlement with Hizbullah as part of Arab initiatives to resolve the crisis, but called Tehran’s bid “a trap.”
“Egypt was keen not to let the Israelis into Beirut,” Mubarak told reporters Sunday after talks with the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayid al-Nuhayyan. “If we hadn’t stepped in, Beirut would have been destroyed,” Mubarak said.
Read on for Mubarak’s ideas on how Iran tried to set a trap for him. This is reminiscent of Mubarak’s attitude last week when he accused Iran of sabotaging negotiations with Hamas.
(Side note on Egypt-US relationship: with the recent upgrading of these bilateral relations through a permanent consultation mechanism, and Egypt’s centrality in the region’s various conflicts, consider the Egyptian democratization issue being shelved by Washington till c. 2010.)
We’ll see what comes out in the planned Arab League meeting — not that I think anything positive would ever come out of an Arab League meeting.
Interesting post from Abu Aardvark:
More seriously, the al-Jazeera report about the press conference held by Secretary General Amr Musa and the Emirati Foreign Minister is absolutely fascinating. According to al-Jazeera, the journalists at the press conference laid into the Arab officials, blasting them for their silence and inaction. A range of journalists threw out furious questions about why the Arab League was ignoring the anger of the Arab street (their word, not mine) over Israeli aggression against Lebanon and the Palestinians (ditto). Musa, taken aback, expressed understanding and even agreement with his questioners – saying that the assembled officials had agreed that the peace process had completely collapsed and that “certain world powers” had conspired against the process on Israel’s behalf. How impressed the assembled journalists were by his response is unclear. But it is a telling moment, with Musa and the Arab League confronted by this angry set of journalists claiming to speak for the Arab public… not quite the obsequious questioning to which they prefer to be accustomed. And for Musa himself… a long way from the days when the second half of the refrain to Egyptian singer (and would-be pulse of the Arab street) Shabaan Abd al-Rahim’s hit “I hate Israel” was “I love Amr Musa”.
What can be done
Not much if you don’t live on Pennsylvania Avenue.
I won’t tire of saying it: this is the culmination of six years of total neglect (and sometimes worse) by Washington of the centrality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for regional politics. If you are American, please write to your Congressmen and let them know that the US needs a bold and independent foreign policy in the Middle East — not Israel’s.
(Incidentally, tomorrow I will post a long list of links to articles discussing the “Israel Lobby” article that appeared in the London Review of Books. The debate over that question is crucial to what’s going on now and the failure of American policy in the region, because the lobby has for all intents and purposes paralyzed American statesmanship in Congress and the White House.)
If you are not American, and especially if you are Arab, you are fucked.
Finally, read this great post from Lebanese Political Journal and, if you blog, answer this call:
Dear World Leaders,
This letter is a plea from the Lebanese people, and friends of Lebanon . We urge you to exercise any political influence you may have to guide a cease fire between Israel and Hezbollah. Negotiations must take place. The violence that has escalated in Lebanon has gotten out of control, it is insanity! The people of Lebanon are suffering; the Lebanese economy will suffer deeply for years to come. As I am sure you know anger, resentment, and poverty can only lead to further extremism. For the welfare of Lebanese citizens, Israeli citizens, the stability of the Middle East , and indeed the world, we implore you to take action as soon as possible to prevent further violence, destruction, and casualties.
Sincerely,
Friends and Citizens of Lebanon
Pretty effing depressing.
The NYT has been getting progressively unreadable on foreign affairs in recent years, but this headline today just took the cake:
“Israel strikes back after rockets kill 8 in Haifa.”
And there was a picture next to it of a woman standing amidst the rubble of a bombed out building with the caption “Buildings in Southern Beirut were damaged by airstrikes.” Nothing a little duct tape can’t fix, apparently.
Even on NPR, references to “deaths” – without a qualifier” – referenced Israeli casualties only.
grim grim grim…
incidentally, the BBC website’s two top lebanon stories for practically the whole day were:
1. a news piece about the haifa rocket attacks
2. an analysis of the haifa attacks entitled “haifa changes everything”
while i’ve found plenty of maps telling me how far hizbollah rockets reach into israel i can’t seem to find any showing israeli strikes in lebanon and where the land-based “confrontations between the israeli army and hizbollah soldiers took place (i saw it on al-jazeera but no one else seems to have it). could anyone tell me where to go?
great job issandr
How easy is it to constantly blame Bush, be real the middle east has been nothing but a powder keg my entire life, 40 years. It is all I ever saw on the news, always something always death always destruction. If the middle east really wants to live and really wants to be part of the world and live in peace and solidarity with their brothers and sisters they need to accept responsibility. The USA is not the be all and end all for the worlds problems and when people get that, then they will live a long and happy life.
Well, Erin, the following would be a move in the right direction:
-reduce aid to Israel
– stop selling weaponry to what we know is a third party arms broker
– stop using tactics the Mossad developed in our black ops detention centers
– make it very clear to Perle, Wolfovitz and others that US interests and Israeli interests need some daylight between them and that P.and co need to decide who they serve.
And, if Israel can stand on its own two feet, then maybe everyone else will be willing to talk to them.
After WWI, Armenia asked the US if they could be a protectorate. Wilson said no, because Armenia needed to either be aviable state or fail. After two years, Armenia failed and did not rise again until almost 75 years later.
If Israel is so superior to its neighbors, then it does not need US funding to keep its government afloat.
“Casualties: 10 to 1”
What was the casualty ratio on the day when hezbollah killed 3 israeli soldiers and kidnapped 2?
As usual, the Arabs are the victime of a great comspiration of all the wolrd. Even when many Arab leaders (and Lebanese I know some) support the Israeli position (a first), it’s because the US give them money. Strangely, they never supported the Israeli position before.
The issue is in fact very simple: Lebanon is a sovereign state and a soverreign state cannot accept that the existence of armed militia. In particular when this militia does not care about the interest of Lebanon but only the ones of Iran and Syria.
This militia attacked Israel on its territory with either no reason nor provocation (a fact you prefer to ignore). So Israel is doing the job that the Lebanese government never did: destroying Hizbullah. You should say thank you.
Zazou: regarding the US aid to Israel:
1. It’s a military aid, not an economic one. In fact, it’s mostly a subvention to US military. NATO countries have a huge discount when they buy US weapons. Israel is not a NATO country yet (it should be), but is seen by the US as an ally on the same level, so it’s just a way to get the same discount.
2. This aid is less than 1,7% of the Israeli NGR. When you know that the budget in Israel is in excedent, even if this aid was disappearing suddenly, it would not be felt. Israel is one of the most advanced economy in the world because of its high education and high technologies. The arab countries should try to compete with us on that and not military.
Benjamin,
read the post I linked to towards the end, written by a Lebanese person (not pro-Hizbullah), in which he explains:
Your statement that Lebanon should be grateful that Israel is disarming Hizbullah for them is perverse. They should be grateful they’re getting bombed? Please don’t bother posting here anymore.
Erin,
during previous administrations there was always a kind of moderating influence. No longer. We can see the difference in terms of the number of people being killed.
Stan: the numbers cited above are for civilian casualties, not soldiers.
Since when did one side’s higher casualty figures trump legal and moral justifications for military action by the other? If that were the case, then Germany could have easily claimed the moral and legal high ground for the last two years of WWII.
Your claim that the U.S. abandoned the peace process in 2000 ignores a couple of incontrovertible historical facts: (1) Arafat’s rejection of the Clinton offer and his launching of the 2000 Intifada in response, which essentially continues to this day; (2) Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Southern Lebanon, which Arafat and other terrorist leaders in the region apparently (and, unfortunately, quite predictably) misinterpreted as a sign of Israeli weakness.
You also seem to forget that Bush wasn’t in office in 2000. But after Arafat rejected the Clinton deal and launched the Intifada, what was Bush supposed to do? The Arabs, and especially the Palestinians, have yet to learn that their actions can and must have real consquences, some of which may be quite dire.
Whether Israel is committing a strategic mistake by attacking Lebanon instead of Syria is another question, altogether. I haven’t made up my mind on that one.
Also, the notion that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is central to the entire M-E is only true to the extent that the region’s kleptocracies and Islamists have made it the central issue as a rallying cry and a propaganda means of deflecting attention from their own failings. That conflict will not be resolved until Iran, Syria, and various other Arab nations decide that a resolution (that doesn’t involve the destruction of Israel) is in their interest. And not a day sooner.
Syria reax:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1153087815422&call_pageid=968332188854
America: Damned by others when we act. Damned by others when we don’t act. We got used to it and don’t listen much anymore. We are damned for that too.
Look to someone else to solve the world’s problems. We quit.
Israel is sending a critical message to Lebanon: If you want war and destruction, to live without roads or electricity, continue to permit these Hezbollah characters to run amok in Southern Lebanon. It’s the same message that Iraqi civilians are getting (see Iraq the Model) — in order to move forward, it will be necessary for Middle Eastern democracies to take firm control of their states and squelch their homegrown terrorist movements.
Brendon: do you think it helps the Lebanese govt. to destroy its infrastructure? Will it make it more able to confront Hizbullah?
The US and the Israel have both used the rhetoric of Middle Eastern govts needing to stand up and do something about “their” terrorists in order to deflect attention from the unpleasant fact – in both Palestine and Iraq – that said terrorists are responding to an occupation that the US and Israel are responsible for. The militants and their tactics may still be wrong, but it’s pretty silly to go in and occupy a place, bomb the shit out of its governmental and civil infrastructure and then whine about how those people “won’t stand up and take charge of their own country.” No, it won’t work in Lebanon either. A little reality check.
hey
im rawan from leb,im very thankful to c ppl recongnising what is goin on and supporting leb,we need u alot! with love from lebanon. RAWAN
Hey, im Samira from Norway. I just arrived last night from Syria after coming with bus from Beirut! And i must say… Israel pisses me off! I mean Lebanon has just been risen up and now its falling apart again 🙁 really makes me sad… w lal kel be lebnen, allah ye7mekon… Lebanon will always be in my heart
So Isreal invades lebabnon once again,eh.Me thinks theres is a sinister plot behind this attack.1st,assinate hariri,and remove Syria,making Lebanon defensively “weak”.The axis of $hit,know very well that Hizbollah,is backed by Iran,and Syria,so,by taking on Hizbollah,they r inviting Iran,and Syria into the conflict.Damn,thy r smart!!All for the sake of oil,and more land for immigrant jews:)
I dont understnad the jews.They seem to despise anything progressive..they didn’t kill Yeshua,they just rejected his spritual truth.I saw,a documentary,how those orthodox taliban rabbis,uttered those “power of curse” just before the assination of Rabin.Same thing happend to Leon Trostky:(:(.And thier religion,boy,saw the movie “fiddler on the roof”,and there was this scene,topol desperately trying to pursuade his youn dauther from marrying a gentile,sayin,that jews and gentiles,r like fish and ,eer,some other species.Man,I tell yaa,as long as jews believe in these sort of shit,false sense of superiority,forget about peace.Vivekanada was damn right.Thier religion is primitive,LOL!!!
I think,yankee doodles dandy don’t realise there r 100,000 jews living in Iran,and there is a jewish representitive in the parliment;-)
Now this is interesting.http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/iranianjews.html
‘Not everyone in the jewsih community favour liberalization of iranian societ(lol!!!).Arizel Levihim,20,says…”I believe it’s good to restrict relations between boys and girls..I agree with the ideals of the islamic republic.These are jewish values too.”WOW!!;-)
Equation to solve the World = USZ / NUKE
USA +ISRAEL “United Snakes of Zionists”
USZ can be divided by Nuclear missile
solve the World = USZ / NUKE
solve the World = Broken Country
BrokenCountry = Peoples – Bush – ISreal sharoon;
BrokenCountry = PEaceful Peoples
Peaceful peoples = Answer (Solve the world)
hence we solved the equation easily.
Lebanon- A Next Victim
There are millions of articles over encouraging Muslim to Wakeup, all tries them to get back to the one platform of unity but unfortunately we don’t give a time to think over it.
We feels like why the hell we have to think about other peoples while we have our own problems that we couldn’t solve yet, we don’t need to take the sorrow of some one we don’t know. This is what we all Ummah has adopted, and we are sleeping from the wars which are over our own Faith.
How can our generation will survive from this adopted theory, which gives us loss from both sides, the World and the Judgment day. From time to time, system is changing and so we are adopting the theory of silence rapidly.
Recently we are watching tv channels and listening radio about the new battle field,which is called Lebanon. So time-to-time we are losing every country like Afghanistan, Iraq and now Lebanon under the arms of United Snakes of Zionists. This is all our present, it could be worse in future and we will all regret for what we are doing in terms of sleeping.
“You may fight in the cause of God against those who attack you�:2:190, this is written in our Quran which totally asking you to be a defender for your own self, from broader point of view it asking to All of us as one Muslim, to stand up and fight to those who come against you by attacking you, who may against to your faith as well, who could destroy your homes, your peoples, and your Faith.
Being a one Muslim it is our duty to resist all these injustice by Hands, by Mouth or by Heart.
We all can see this war is just to destroy every civilization of Muslims to get them back to the era of stones. This is also written in Quran that they may never be good to you even if you stand beside them, they will attack you from any point that you cant even imagine. Still American administration didn’t took any mature step against Zionists, instead of that they remark the fighter groups like Hammas and Hazbollah in Terrorists lists. American just claming that Syria , Iran and Hazbollah are the reason of middle east crises, and in this crises age they have sent new technical weapons like Laser bombs to Israel . According to them “Israel has rights to take all these steps because of their own country safety�, but scene is different when we see only civilian like injured children and women.
They are rapidly attacking on all the places of civilian and destroying the whole city of Beruit, this is the 3rd time invasion of Israel over Lebanon.
These all facts are the real examples which our Quran told us from long time ago , that they can never be your friend, they will destroy you from any part they want.
From the beginning they did injustice with Muslims, and still they are doing this, God says in Quran “ They were evicted from their home by in-justice, for no reason other than saying, Our Lord is Allah� (22:40).
Its time for us to change our thinking, to get up and stand together as one cast and that cast is “Muslim�. If we don’t have much power to fight with our brothers and sisters then we should consume our self in different ways to demonstrate that we are against what world is forcing us to become. Our demonstration against this war can also be like a biggest Jihad, which we are not doing, avoid all the sectors and think as one Muslim.
Still we have a time to make Muslim unity because we don’t know which country will become next victim of United Snakes of Zionists. Hazbollah spoke person said “If israel want to do war as man to man then why the they are not fighting us on the country’s border, why they are killing civilian by bombing from jets(like USA),rather than fighting us on the border of Lebanon, he added that no rocket came from the center of Lebanon but they destroyed the buildings and bridges of residential areas�. Hazbolla spirit is so much high and they gave message to Pakistani peoples that we love Pakistani peoples who always help and support us. But in current situation they need more our supports and help, to let them feel that we all are one.
Furious Fire is burning inside a tiny bubble of water, Gazab ke Aag hay pani kay chotay say shararay may: (Dr. Allama Iqbal) .
Arab, Farris, Kurdish, African, Sub Continents, Malays, Chechen, Muslim World ..we all are one, lets wake up.. lets change the world , lets learn new technology, lets do jihad by Pen, by mouth , by media, by emails, by wealth, by help, by thinking, by heart and by hands, Let the new Salah Uddin come from us….. InshaAllah.
Tauhid ke amanat ab bhe dil may hamaray , Asaan nahi naam wa nishan mitana hamra. (Dr.Allama Iqbal)
Muslim Pakistani
This is a very good site. Respect. Keep it “hate” free and try to keep up a honest discussion.
I am Austrian wich is part of the EU and all i can see in the media is a massive political desaster of incompetence.
btw.: an austrian U.N. peace keeper got killed in southern Lebanon yesterday together with 3 of his international comrades. the U.N. and the austrian army claims that the israeli “security”forces had been informed about their position and that they got word from israeli generals that they would make sure they wont get harmed.
lets remember: this war started due to the kidnaping of 3 israeli soldiers. now israel “killed” 4 (!) U.N. peacekeepers.
Israeli shows a lousy aim. So there will be no way to get rid of the Hisbollah fighters. And all that will be left is another great mess – this time on the bill of the innocent Lebanese people.
peace
This is reply to UJU (UK/JEWISH/USA) force. ok. who is bombing who now ??. you have to clarify the subject before speaking like a mad creature. firstly, there was no country called Israel until 1948. When you British decided to put all those bad Jewish people in Palestine and called it Israel. Following this catastrophic event, the world have never seen peace. The Jewish by the support of their biggest allies(USA and Britain)killed millions of innocent Palestinians and abducted their lands unlawfully. the Jewish played their best games and unfortunately won. Exactly like Vampires, they were abused and you know that abused people tend to abuse. Therefore, We WOULD REACH THE CONCLUSION that all the Jewish have psychological disorder. They want to kill more and more. They want to ruin more and more. YOuR so-called lovely country is taking advantage of their disorder and by telling them to exploit more and kill all Arabs. Blair is so discriminative. He hates all Muslims and Arabs in general from the inside and trying to blame them for the so-called terrorist attacks. And its so ironic, that when people die in Iraq or Palestine OR Lebanon, Your country says “SO WHAT
people are breathig safely keep mailtin the peace in the middle East.