Posted on 08/03/2006 6:51:00 PM PDT by Apolitical
The central piece of evidence leading to this conclusion is the fact, mentioned by IDF officials from the very beginning, that the building collapsed a full seven hours after the Israel Air Force bombing. Why, then, would the residents inside not have been evacuated in the meantime? As Brig.-Gen. Amir Eshel of the Israeli Air Force told reporters Sunday night, "It is difficult for me to believe that they waited eight hours to evacuate it." Without additional evidence, Eshel merely left open the possibility that Hizbullah terrorists, or explosives they left behind, caused the explosion.
"Indeed," writes Robert Spencer for FrontPageMagazine, "it strains credulity that not only did these Lebanese civilians remain in a house that had been bombed for eight hours, but peacefully went to sleep in it after the bombing - since the victims were all apparently sleeping, despite continuing Israeli air bombardment in the area, when the building collapsed."
Gen. Eshel also said that the building was used by Hizbullah to store explosives. This was supported by a letter by Dr. Mounir Herzallah, a southern Lebanese Shiite, who wrote that Hizbullah terrorists came to his town, dug a munitions depot and then built a school and a residence directly over it.............
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"The identity of the victims was not clear, except that they were not the original inhabitants of the building; a National Public Radio correspondent reported that they had left. . . . Who were these people?"
Were they, perhaps, people that Hezbollah was only too happy to get rid of, so they were moved into the building before Hezbollah blew it up? The dead little boy with the deformed foot suggests that the children might have been sick or crippled or orphans, and the women similarly "disposable" in Hezbollah's view. When I first saw the photos I was surprised that the boy's deformed foot had not been exploited, e.g. "Look, the Israelis killed a child who could not run away".
Now I think the child may have been chosen deliberately by H. to die because they viewed him as a useless nuisance and therefore a good candidate for sacrifice.
I give this background because I am certain that this mechanism for turning public opinion against a war effort has become the template by the press since then. The writing of Seymour Hersh continues even today with his story "The Grey Zone" in the New Yorker Magazine which tries to link the behavior at Abu Ghraib Prison to the policy of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. This is all a pattern of operations by the press to put together the exact elements which caused such a monumental policy shift when it broke the My Lai incident.
Before this gets too long and boring, let me summarize: we at the Free Republic must all be saying in a collective disgust, "Oh no! Not this $**t again!"
If this incident were staged, it proves that we are dealing with human beings on the lowest rung of cultural development. These are people so evil that they think life is a day in the spa as they swirl downward in the toilet bowl of history.
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