Man, you are a hard-core cold-hearted person. Can't even be bothered to stop for a second to mourn for the innocent dead, the kids. Regardless who is right who is wrong, regardless whether you are pro- or anti-Israel, it is truly horrid to see those gastly pictures from Qana. Please be a human and take a moment to really SEE the carnage. Yes, I mourn for the dead Israeli civilians too.

human rights watch? where have they been all these years as israeli women, children, and elders have been killed and maimed by these wicked terrorists? and calls for a cease-fire from morally corrupt scum like chirac? he has to mind or courage. and how the heck does one have a "cease-fire" with terrorists who are willing to strap a bomb to a babies body? the real outrage is that the world body, in its infinite anti-semitism, has the gall to criticize israel defending itself against these vicious murderers. too bad for those people in qana but that is the complete responsibility of hezbollah and the citizens that allow them to attack israel from behind their homes. what cowards are these terrorists who use human shields, yet the world body points a finger at israel, even claiming these people could not leave qana. yet all these reporters who are merely tools of hezbollah made it from tyre to qana easily. maybe there is another reason these people were still there and the terrorists were firing rockets from this position. look at those who encourage such tragedy, not at those who seek to avoid it,

kg

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9-11

REMEMBER "NINE ELEVEN"

I am your uniter, your protector,

I promise NOT to sleep 'on the job' again, not like Septembet 10, 2001.

I will choose my Vacation Time accordingly,pick up a shovel when needed as I have been known to do, and I will stop ROVEing On. I will work "for the People". I think I spelled WORK correctly, but a uncertain to the meaning.

WE MUST

How do you spell America?

WE MUST

"Stay the Course"; because to the Victor goes the decision of WAR CRIMINALS and who they are.

Warsaw Ghetto: American spelling FALLIGUA.

to the Victor go the Museum Treasures.

Abu Ghrib: American spelling GUANTANAMO BAY.

PEACE ON EARTH: American spelling PIECE OF EARTH.

I WAS PROUD TO BE AMERICAN: then I realized that I could Not spell America.

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More or less exactly the kind of proportionality that you all have been yammering for? I mean where did you think 'appropriate' would lead? The Big Rock Candy Mountain?

Remember the UN had responsiblity for protecting Israel once the land in southern Lebanon was vacated by Israel. Remember over 1,000 rockets have been fired by Hezbollah at civilian targets in Israel, containing warheads with ball bearings inside to intentionaly kill civilians.

Where is the moral outrage against Hesbollah for intentionally trying to kill civilians? Where is the outrage against the UN for not doing the job of protecting Israel and honoring the withdrawal agreement?

Israel has no choice but to fight for self defense and the saftey of civilians. No one else is has stepped up on thier behalf, even afer they gave up the territory in southern Lebanaon in good faith.

Fact is, there is only party to this incident that stands to gain anything from it -- not Israel, but Hezballah.

Everyone should keep their eye on the facts and not react prematurely.

Context:

In 1996 the Israelis struck Qana, killing over 100 civilians. Then, as now, Israel claimed it was an accident and that there were Hizbullah fighters in Qana whom they were after.

Although not reported in US media, the subsequent investigation suggested--to put it mildly--that this strike was not an accident.

Quoted from the BBC News' "Qana makes grim history again"

31 July 2006

"However, a UN investigation reported in May 1996 that the deaths at the Qana base were unlikely to have been the result of an accident, as claimed by the Israelis.

The UN report, by Maj-Gen Franklin van Kappen of the Netherlands, cited a shift in the fire patterns and the repeated use of shells with so-called proximity fuses over the small UN compound as evidence of an intent to kill people there.

The report also noted the presence of two Israeli helicopters and a drone in the skies over Qana, "contrary to repeated [Israeli] denials", which must have witnessed the bloodbath.

The pattern of impacts is inconsistent with a normal overshooting of the declared target (the mortar site) by a few rounds, as suggested by the Israeli forces," Gen van Kappen's report said.

"While the possibility cannot be ruled out completely, it is unlikely that the shelling of the United Nations compound was the result of gross technical and/or procedural errors," the report concluded."

We always hear: The Israelis are investigating. We rarely hear or probe the results of such investigations.

Yeah, it's all Hezbollah's fault.

The IDF is sadly doing what it is being forced, against its will, to do. They don't want to knock Lebanon backwards 20 years. They don't want to create a situation that only increases the liklihood of continued aggression. They must do it, whether they want to or not.

Ah, those poor Israelis.

...the Salon article is a classic example of how prejudice is hidden in "objective reporting".

Jobson was great in providing the context.

To all Israeli supporters who are partners in their crimes against humanity:

Hezbollah conducted a limited military operation along the border in order to get the Lebanese prisoners who've been in Israeli jails for decades without trial.

In response, Israel launches an obviously long-term plan of war against Lebanon awaiting any justification.

Hezbollah so far has acted very rationally: As Nassrallah said "we don't want to kill Israelis, we just want them to stay in their shelters so that they feel some of the pain of the Lebanese people"

Hezbollah never launched rockets on civilians before the Israelis started bombing Lebanon.

Israel has lied and lied throughout this war to create 'paper victories' when none existed on the ground.

In the end, Israeli terrorism will fail and the Lebanese resistance will prevail.