Israel digging its own hole
400 Lebanese people have been killed in acts of Israeli war. Mostly civilians. I heard a commentator make an interesting poing: Yes, Israel has the right to defend itself in the way it has... but has it stopped to think if it should?
Hezbollah is organising hundreds of shelters for those lebanese who have had their homes flattened in indiscriminate bombing - it seems Israel knocks out a whole neighbourhood if they think one building might be housing one "enemy". If thats not terrorism, I don't know what is. Further, they have killed and maimed whole families drivin between villages, by bombing their car. Hezbollah have positioned themselves to offer humanitarian aid to the lebanese. They have set up mass shelters in schools. And the people now feel a debt to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah will rise to a new strength though Israels actions - they now have hundreds of willing supporters and sympathisers who would have otherwise stayed away from such terrorist groups. I saw a 10 year old sitting next to his wounded cousin - who was 12... and saying that 1000's of Israeli's must die. That Hezbollah would save them. What look like middle-class women are fronting the camera saying Hezbollah has and will protect them.
When with Israel (and the US - who gave them a blank cheque and continue to arm them) realise that they have succeeded in breeding a new generation of people who will believe that Israel has no right to exist. Israel creates enemies, then wonders why it is attacked. The American (and to a less extend, Australian) press use sanitised military terms when describing Israel's actions such as "campaign" and "operation" and "enemy targets" to mask to indiscriminate killing they are wreaking - yet when the Terrorists kill indiscriminately, it is an attack on out "way of life".
ANother good point raised by a commentator (i can't remember who) - was that in falling in lockstep with everything Bush has doesn, Australia has devalued our standing in the international community. Rather than being able to negotiate on our own terms, and put forward our own views (eg, to Israel about their conduct), we are now treated as insignificant, since our position is invariably the same as America's. Howard has suceeded in destroying this countries voice and respect in the global community, by failing to uphold and enhance our own identity: rather providing a faint echo to the moronic tones of Dubya.
Hezbollah is organising hundreds of shelters for those lebanese who have had their homes flattened in indiscriminate bombing - it seems Israel knocks out a whole neighbourhood if they think one building might be housing one "enemy". If thats not terrorism, I don't know what is. Further, they have killed and maimed whole families drivin between villages, by bombing their car. Hezbollah have positioned themselves to offer humanitarian aid to the lebanese. They have set up mass shelters in schools. And the people now feel a debt to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah will rise to a new strength though Israels actions - they now have hundreds of willing supporters and sympathisers who would have otherwise stayed away from such terrorist groups. I saw a 10 year old sitting next to his wounded cousin - who was 12... and saying that 1000's of Israeli's must die. That Hezbollah would save them. What look like middle-class women are fronting the camera saying Hezbollah has and will protect them.
When with Israel (and the US - who gave them a blank cheque and continue to arm them) realise that they have succeeded in breeding a new generation of people who will believe that Israel has no right to exist. Israel creates enemies, then wonders why it is attacked. The American (and to a less extend, Australian) press use sanitised military terms when describing Israel's actions such as "campaign" and "operation" and "enemy targets" to mask to indiscriminate killing they are wreaking - yet when the Terrorists kill indiscriminately, it is an attack on out "way of life".
ANother good point raised by a commentator (i can't remember who) - was that in falling in lockstep with everything Bush has doesn, Australia has devalued our standing in the international community. Rather than being able to negotiate on our own terms, and put forward our own views (eg, to Israel about their conduct), we are now treated as insignificant, since our position is invariably the same as America's. Howard has suceeded in destroying this countries voice and respect in the global community, by failing to uphold and enhance our own identity: rather providing a faint echo to the moronic tones of Dubya.
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