Aid groups are expressing alarm at the latest comments from Israeli military officials, who say they intend to deliberately target Shi’ite villages across southern Lebanon during the next war.
Israeli military officials are claiming some 100,000 Hezbollah missiles are hidden in southern Lebanon, and say that this had made every village in the area a “military compound” and therefore a legitimate target.
Rights groups strongly disagree, with a Human Rights Watch official warning it would be a “violation of the laws of war to treat entire villages or the entire south Lebanon as a legitimate military target,” adding that Israel has an obligation to distinguish between military and civilian targets.
Israeli officials used similar claims, with similar lack of evidence, to justify deliberate attacks on civilians during the most recent Gaza war, and Israeli leaders routinely talk up the idea that the “next Lebanon war,” and they never doubt there will be a next one, will include dramatically higher civilian death tolls among Lebanese.
During the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, they killed roughly 1,500 people, with 1,191 of them confirmed civilians. All indications from Israeli leadership are that this is to be considered far less than what they will do at the next opportunity.
It's that time of the year again–the slaughter of the defenseless. It's been some long months since they've butchered innocents for no reason.
Summer tis the killing season (sorry Sinatra):
The summer wind, came blowin' in from across the Galilee
It lingered there to touch your hair and die with me
All summer long we sang a song and then we strolled that blood soaked sand
(Refrain)
And the Empire will cheer them on….”Israel has a right to defend themselves.”
We should also bear in mind that between 1968 and mid-1982–WELL BEFORE THE CREATION OF HEZBOLLAH–there were 28 UN Security Council Resolutions denouncing Israeli hostilities against Lebanon and 143 Complaints to the UN detailing Israeli aggressions and lethal land, air and naval attacks on Lebanon. The Lebanese tried to resolve this belligerence through diplomacy. When those efforts proved futile, resistance was the only option.
Well of course the Lebanese must be killed. Periodic bombings and endless suffering haven't convinced them to commit mass suicide.
The planet would instantly become a better place to live the (moment)
the illegal apartheid thiefdom occupying Palestine (disappears).
Why are you all being so negative towards Israel ? Don't you know that they have the right to threaten and kill anyone they want, for whatever pretense they put forth, and that none of their neighbors should be allowed to have a defensive capability to respond? (sarcasm)
Why isn't this IDFGeneral Moni Katz designated a war criminal, for crimes past, present, and future, and a warrant made out for his arrest with all due prejudice?