Israel accuses others of terrorism, yet it resorts to terrorism in its harshest forms. It creates problems that it then keeps in a state of open wounds and uses them as a means of pressure. I am referring to the Lebanese in its prisons, of the mines, which it planted in southern Lebanon and for which it refuses to give us the charts, whereas tens of people are being killed, and tens of others disfigured over the years by the explosion of those contraptions.
Israel systematically violates our airspace and our territorial waters, continues to occupy the Sheba'a Farms, a Lebanese territory of 45 square kilometres and it is well aware that it belongs to Lebanon. How to explain such a behavior if not by its will to maintain a state of tension and to apply pressure on Lebanon? The absence of a definitive solution to those endemic problems leads to extremism. Quick fix and superficial solutions only worsen the situation.
We said repeatedly that we were not informed beforehand of the capture of the two Israeli soldiers, that we do not assume the responsibility for this act nor do we endorse it. Are the slaughters and the destruction to which Israel is resorting for the two captured soldiers acceptable?
Today, there was a massacre in the village of Aïtaroun and in the town of Tyr. Yesterday it was in the localities of Bayada and Mirouahine. Are the Lebanese lives worth so little?
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[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on July 19, 2006]
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