Posted on 07/30/2006 10:00:00 AM PDT by hope
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Omega Letter Christian Intelligence Digest |
Special Report: The Qana Incident
Hezbollah Scores Major Victory Against Israel
Terror - Islam
Sunday, July 30, 2006
- Omega Letter Editor
Americans awoke Sunday to images of angry Muslims storming the United Nations compound in Beirut in response to a devastating Israeli attack against the Lebanese village of Qana.
The carnage was horrible; at least sixty people died in the attack, forty of them children.
Global response was immediate, emphatic, and predictable. Demands for an 'immediate, unconditional ceasefire' reverberated from the hallowed halls of European government to the United Nations and beyond.
Condi Rice cancelled her scheduled visit to meet with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Senioria in Lebanon by 'mutual agreement' -- a diplomatic way of saving face for the US.
But on further examination, the carnage reveals a cold, calculating and ruthless strategy on behalf of Hezbollah. There was not a single male of fighting age among the victims. Where were all the males?
And, suppose that Israel had not dropped warning leaflets all over Qana. Let's just suppose that nobody evacuated the city.
What are the odds in such a situation that EIGHTY PERCENT of the casualties would be children? Or that the remaining twenty percent would be exclusively women and old men?
Adding things up, does anybody else get the same sum that I do? I almost hope I am wrong, but it doesn't seem likely.
What seems likely is that the women and children were herded into those shelters in an effort to sway public opinion over to their side.
In other words, they were deliberately put into harm's way. The horrifying casualties were part of a deliberate Hezbollah plan.
It is hard to imagine Hezbollah fighters putting their parents and children in Israel's gunsights in order to gain a propaganda victory, which is one reason why it is working out so well for them.
Israel has video of the very buildings in Qana struck by the missiles. It plainly shows rockets being launched from those buildings.
Hezbollah has launched thousands of rockets into Israel. It knows from experience that Israel is capable of detecting every launch, and it also knows that every launch predicates an Israeli counterstrike.
Hezbollah knew that launching those rockets from Qana would result in Israeli destruction of the buildings from which they were launched.
How could they not? I am six thousand miles away, and I knew it. Didn't you? Every single rocket launch so far has resulted in an Israeli counterstrike. There is no reason why Qana should be any different. And that is without even considering the Israeli warning leaflets that were dropped prior to the attack warning civilians to flee.
But instead, the Qana casualties were all in the basement of the very building Hezbollah used as a launch point.
It is the only explanation that makes any logical sense. They put their own children there in the express hope that Israel would then kill them. In Allah's name.
It is unthinkable. And it is working. Just read the headlines.
Additional Resources:
Diplomacy stalls as Lebanon tells Rice not to come
Rice says time to reach truce after Qana bombing
UN condemns Israel's deadly raid on Qana
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"It's by no means clear that Israeli forces actually did kill them. It seems that the Israeli attack that dropped bombs near this building occurred at about 2AM, and the explosion that brought the building down was about 7AM."
I read that, too. I also wonder if these children were Lebanese muslims or Christians. Or foreigners that were trapped.
I have to be skeptical of this, if only because many Muslims/Arabs accused the U.S of the same thing with respect to 9/11.
Launch mortars or rockets and then run.
Only if you were jihading; being a human shield "doesn't count."
A nursery maybe, but they're not calling it one.
God would not want you to duck the glory, Golda, if indeed it was a godly action.
What outrage, putting children in harms way like that.
I have to be skeptical of this, if only because many Muslims/Arabs accused the U.S of the same thing with respect to 9/11.
The MO is entirely consistent. They suspected that the U.S. would do what they would have done in similar circumstances. It is just (in)human nature.
Most likely it was simply a delayed collapse.
But, there is still the issue of Hizbollah launching rockets from a building housing civilian refugees. I am unwilling to believe that Hezbollah did not know that the refugees were sheltering there, and indeed, considering that Hizbollah controlled the area, I have to believe that Hizbollah was directing the sheltering efforts themselves.
The conclusion is there to see: Hizbollah wanted these innocents to die as martyrs.
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