The huge mystery of the current Israeli adventures is why Israel is sacrificing so much international goodwill in murdering innocent Lebanese civilians, when its stated goal is ‘self-defense’ against Hezbollah. In fact, Israel is spending an inordinate amount of time destroying Lebanese infrastructure and making direct attacks against the Lebanese army, the latter particularly odd if Israel really wants the Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah. Israel’s actions are actually strengthening the position of Hezbollah, which isn’t so odd when you consider the fact that Israel has long helped to create its own enemies in order to have an excuse for colonialist attacks against them. In this case, attacks against the central Lebanese government and army appear to be leading to an argument that Lebanon – newly destroyed Lebanon – is incapable of living up to its international obligations to disarm Hezbollah, leading directly to the necessity of Israel entering Lebanon to do the job itself.
The Gazan Theory: What if the onslaught on Lebanon is merely a smoke-screen to deflect the World's attention from the fact that the real target of Israel in this round of conflicts is The Gaza Strip? How original of me! I thought so ... until I read this column. One of the writers is an anthropologist. Wow! A scholar!
Veiled by the fuss over Lebanon, Israel concurrently continues to plan and execute the socio-cide of both public and intimate spheres of the West Bank and Gaza. The present results: reaping the temporary unity of the Jewish victim-turned-warrior nation-state.
A new concept to remember (for me at least): Socio-cide.
[Cross-blogged at The Cylinder]
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on July 26, 2006]
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But as soon as they left someone (your heroes?) moved in and started shooting missles at them. Well that makes a lie of your old standard, land for peace. Smoke some more of that stuff your on. It's good for a laugh.
For you to disregard the recorded history of the Zionist agenda as has been presented here for your edification is to show a bias you claim the so called left has.<br />
Left/right dichotomies were expressly set as a trap to catch those who lack critical thought. <br />
I encourage you to continue posting in the manner you do so we can use your words and thoughts as an example of sloppy thinking or worse yet, non thinking. <br />
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<a href="http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2006/07/where-exactly-were-those-israeli.html">http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2006/07/where-exactly-were-those-israeli.html</a> <br />
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Where exactly were those Israeli soldiers when Hezbollah captured them?<br />
On July 12th, the Associated Press reported "The militant group Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes Wednesday across the border in southern Lebanon, prompting a swift reaction from Israel, which sent ground forces into its neighbor to look for them." This is from the article Hezbollah Captures 2 Israeli Soldiers By JOSEPH PANOSSIAN , 07.12.2006, 05:41 AM<br />
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This AP news article was run by several news outlets on July 12th like ABC, CBS Forbes, The Boston Herald etc. Here are more examples of articles which mention that the Israeli soldiers were captured on the Lebanese side of the boarder and a map that shows the Lebanese town refereed to in the articles: The two Israeli soldiers were captured in Lebanon Here are two examples from those at that page:<br />
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<a href="http://www.wciv.com/showstory2.hrb?f=n&s=343816&f1=loc">http://www.wciv.com/showstory2.hrb?f=n&s=343816&f1=loc</a> <br />
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Pogo<br />
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.<br />
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great links
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch