[lit-ideas] Re: The Rules of War
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 17:46:33 +0100 (BST)
MY> But at Qana, Hezbollah responded to Israel's
> compassion with more cynical brutality. After
> launching missiles at Israel, the terrorists rushed
> inside a building. When Israel fired a
> precision-guided missile to strike at the
> terrorists, scores of civilians, including children,
> were killed.
Observer>These revelations
(JE -- please read the whole piece)
>raise further serious questions about the airstrike
in Qana last Sunday that left dozens dead, which
continues to arouse international outrage. From the
outset, the Israeli military's version of events has
been shrouded in ambiguity, with the army releasing a
video it claims shows Katyusha rockets being fired
from Qana, even though the video was dated two days
earlier, and claiming that more than 150 rockets had
been fired from the location....
Some IDF officials have continued to refer vaguely to
Katyushas being launched 'near houses' in the village
and to non-specific 'terrorist activity' inside the
targeted building. In a statement on Thursday, the IDF
said it the air force did not know there were
civilians in what they believed was an empty building,
yet paradoxically blamed Hizbollah for using those
killed as 'human shields'.
One Israeli commander from a different squadron called
the Qana bombing a 'mistake' and was unable to explain
the apparent contradiction in the IDF's position,
although he insisted there would have been no
deliberate targeting of civilians. He said he had seen
the video of the attack, and admitted: 'Generally they
[Hizbollah] are using human shields ... That specific
building - I don't know the reason it was chosen as a
target.'<
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1838437,00.html
"rushed inside a building"?
--- Stan Spiegel <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The difference between Israel and the terrorists is
> clear: Israel endangers itself to protect their
> civilians. They endanger their own civilians to
> protect themselves. - SS
>
> The Rules of War
> by Moshe Yaalon
>
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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