Posted on 07/30/2006 6:57:36 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
QANA, Lebanon - Israeli missiles hit several buildings in a southern Lebanon village as people slept Sunday, killing at least 56, most of them children, in the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed "great sorrow" for the airstrikes but blamed Hezbollah guerrillas for using the area to launch rockets at Israel. Olmert told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza that he needed 10 days to two weeks to finish offensive in Lebanon, according to a senior Israeli government official.
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I hate terrorists - of all stripes. My sympathies are not with Hezbollah, but the Lebanese civilians, whose only crime was to live in a country unable to compete with the terrorist militia, who are now bearing the brunt of the sins of the real terrorists.
Very possible. I just heard on FOX that the reports of the dead didn't come in for 7 HOURS!!!! after the missile strike. Really smells bad now. The Israeli's are questioning if it was their missile that did it, but they haven't released the video yet.
Perhaps there was ancient wisdom in not giving mothers a say in policies of war
Yes he is my Pope, and the Vatican recognizes Israel, its right to exist, and its pre 67 borders. What the Vatican is looking after is the very fragile existance of the almost 40% of Lebanon that is Catholic.(the area that is Lebanon at one time before the emmigration and refugees was at one time more than 75% Christian).
So what is the choice, do I choose Limbaugh and Beck, and their "wisdom" or do I choose to listen to Pope Benidict XVI? To me, the Pope wins hands down.
The Vatican is looking after the Welfare of the more than one million Catholics that still live in Lebanon. The Maronite and Melkite Catholics in the last few decades have gotten the worst of the conflicts in the Middle East, and almost no support from any of the so called powers.
<< 34 youths among 56 dead in Israeli strike >>
What a shame.
Only thirty four!
The Pope wants Israel to stop...Right now...Which would be suicide for the Jews...
The Popes have always sided with the Palestinians...
The 'wise thing is to put an end to Hizbolla so the Catholics in Lebanon and the Jews in Israel can both live in peace, in spite of what the Pope says...
Lebanon in reality has not been a country since Syria invaded in tghe late 70s, and they only recently evacuated. The Christians position in Lebanon has been serverly compromised, and no one has looked out for their welfare except for the Vatican.
Is Israel hitting Catholics?
The situation in Lebanon is putting Catholics in a far more tenuous position, regaurdless of who is being hit. The truth of the matter is everytime there is a conflict in the Middle East, it allways seems to be the Christians who get the worst end of it. Want to know about opression, then look no more at how there are twice as many Lebanese in the rest of the world than in Lebanon itself, and the vast majority of them are Christians. Except for the brief period between WWII and 1970, the story of Christians in Lebanon has a story of both opression and almost no support from the outside, except for the Vatican.
Yes I do, there diaspora is one of the great tragedies in the middle east.
Actually we used fire bombs, not napalm. Same as the Brits used on Dresden, basically. Oh, and it was the United States Army Air Force, specifically XVI Bomber Command, headed by "Bomb 'em back into the stone age",Curtiss LeMay. LeMay said that in the context of Vietnam, BTW, not WW-II. It caused the same sort of hand-wringing that we hear about this precision strike on a military target by the IDF.
Be sure to mention that to the next SEAL, Green Beret, or other "sneak and peek" type you come across. :)
If only Israel taken measures years ago, it never would have escalated to where we are now.
Just as not taking measures to wipe out Hezbollah will results in many deaths for future generations.
The Muslims have been use the PR game against Israel for YEARS! I can just see this is a major media set-up. Israel bombs the building and then they place dead bodies of children in there. That does take some time. They're interviewing people right now who were in and near the building saying they were making tea, the children were sleeping, etc., etc. Well... if Israel warned the civilians that they were going to attack this site, why did the grown-ups put the children to sleep in the building?!!!!! Unbelievable!!!
Apparently, in Lebanon, you remain a child well into your 30s and 40s.
Actually Fire bombs is a more modern term for napalm. That is what the Ordinance Shop web site says. Note the last paragraph.
And just for the record there was no such thing as the Army Air Force. Their was the United States Army Air Corp.
The terms United States Air Force and United States Air Forces were used along with the Army Air Corp. to refer to air power possessed by the United States.
It was quite common back then to refer to British Air Forces as well as American Air forces or United States Air Forces.
It was also used to describe Japanese air power as in "Planes from the Japanese Air Force attacked Pearl Harbor."
I had to chuckle at your comment, but it's very true. I'm amazed that with all the "tragic" reporting about this incident, more questions are not being asked outright about the presence of so many children in a Hezbollah hot spot and one where the people had been warned ahead of time of the attack. I guess these Israeli warnings are giving the Hez plenty of time to gather the kids into the target area to "watch" the fireworks. It's all so disgusting and so obvious it makes me sick to my stomach.
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