Once beautiful Lebanon got infected with the PLO/Hezbollah/Syria virus and went from what some called the Switzerland of the Middle East into a carbon copy of the PLO/Hezbollah/Syria, as illustrated below:
Posted on 08/01/2006 10:36:30 AM PDT by Alouette
Lebanese minister of justice states that Israel's attacks constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and wonders how pictures of Qana did not bring about ceasefire. Red Cross publishes that 28 corpses evacuated from Qana, contrary to Lebanese reports that 57 people were killed
Lebanon is planning to file a lawsuit against Israel in the International Criminal Court. Tuesday, Lebanese Minister of Justice Charles Rizk made a written petition to the Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, asking him to bring up the issue in the next meeting of the Lebanese cabinet, so that the prime minister will be able to collect witnesses in preparation before filing of the complaint.
The minister wrote to the prime minister: "The repeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon, on its infrastructure, its citizens, women and children, since July 12 are a grave breech of international law and international agreements. As such, they clearly constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity."
"In preparation for the pursuit of the Israeli enemy in the relevant international courts, and in a bid to punish these crimes and to bring them to justice, the Lebanese government must prepare a comprehensive case that will include and detail all the attacks and crimes committed. This is with the intent that Israel pay restitution on all the physical and moral damages that she caused Lebanon and her citizens," he wrote.
"Accordingly, I request of you to present the issue in the cabinet meeting so that the decision can be made to assign the mission of performing a comprehensive survey of damage caused and of gathering proof of crimes committed to the Defense Ministry or the Ministry of the Interior. This will be done with legal oversight so that it may be passed on at the right moment in order to go after the perpetrators of these crimes," he added.
In addition, Minister Rizk expressed his regret that the "Qana massacre did not horrify the conscience and did not bring about a UN decision for a ceasefire.
The Red Cross published that 28 corpses were evacuated from Qana, 19 of which were children. The report clashes with the Lebanese report that 57 people were killed.
Any Muslim who thinks he can win against an army of Jewish lawyers is, well, you know . . . .
The dirty hands rule should apply.
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Me either!
The pictures - that's what it's all about. 'Why didn't our propaganda work, d****t?'
Every moronic ignorant leftist on earth is convinced otherwise.
They keep repeating it: "International Law". So it must exist, right?
Right?
LOL!
"We're suing the police because they shot at us, while we were driving the bank robbers from the scene of the crime."
Oh yes, hide behind the world's pseudo courts.
Lebanon was a beautiful playground, but that was a long time ago. Used to live in Montreal and the owner of a restaurant I frequented kept postcards of Beirut in its heyday - gorgeous. All they have now is memories, and with this thinking, they won't even have those in a generation.
SUING - hah.
They have million times better chance at fighting in battle field.
How is it that this 'daycare centre' had only 2 adult chaperones?
Lebanon didn't exist for all those years as a political entity...it being occupied by Syria. Lebanon only partially exists now, and only on paper in the south...which is what this thing is about.
By "international law" Lebanon is responsible for stopping the attacks across its borders, or is itself responsible for the attacks (clear acts of war). It is clear to everyone that even if "Lebanon" chose to stop Hezballah, it could not even field an army capable of penetrating anywhere near the Isreali border, much less stopping the attacks...thus it is not a sovereign nation. Clearing Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon is a prerequisite for Lebanon becoming a nation.
"Lebanese minister of justice states that Israel's attacks constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and wonders how pictures of Qana did not bring about ceasefire."
Initiate crap pants sequence. Their ploy didn't work. I guess bloggers pointing out how they displayed the casualties like trophy fish might have given people pause to consider that this was a SETUP.
What happened to raising their army to fight alongside Hezbollah?
Big talk, no real incentive from them behind it to stop Israel from getting rid of a shared enemy.
Challenging the Jewish state in a law court is as comically foolish as challenging a tribe of Watusis on a basketball court.
Do these people have the intestinal fortitude for democracy? Seems like they work under the "hang on and maybe the crocodile will save you for last" system of governance.
Beirut used to be the "Paris of the Mideast."
Now Paris is the "Beirut of Europe."
How many megatons do you reckon that counter suit will be?
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