Middle East question.
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curiouswombatI am puzzled. My husband and daughter were equally puzzled when they heard the same thing on TV whilst we ate.
I have seen an Israeli government spokesman who told us that they were having a 48 hour cessation of bombing of the Lebanon 'Except to back up our ground forces and to hit at Hezzbollah fighters'.
But isn't that exactly what they have been telling us is all that they have been doing for the last two or three weeks?
Also 'Israel rejects any idea of a cease-fire until an international force is in place'. But if they keep shooting won't members of any international force be killed whilst it gets into place? Which is presumably why the UN says it cannot put such a force into place before there is a ceasefire.
(My daughter, with that bright logic of the eighteen year old, has concluded that Lebanese children are in fact a legitimate target for the Israeli government - the horrors that they see around them will make them more likely to want to join Hezbollah - and so killing them now prevents them doing Israel any harm in the future. She says, after all, if she was Lebanese she would be joining Hezbollah right now - even though she is a practising Christian, because nobody else seems to be doing anything about the death of the innocents - and if she thinks that way, she reckons it is fairly obvious that Lebanese children and young people will use the same logic.)
I have seen an Israeli government spokesman who told us that they were having a 48 hour cessation of bombing of the Lebanon 'Except to back up our ground forces and to hit at Hezzbollah fighters'.
But isn't that exactly what they have been telling us is all that they have been doing for the last two or three weeks?
Also 'Israel rejects any idea of a cease-fire until an international force is in place'. But if they keep shooting won't members of any international force be killed whilst it gets into place? Which is presumably why the UN says it cannot put such a force into place before there is a ceasefire.
(My daughter, with that bright logic of the eighteen year old, has concluded that Lebanese children are in fact a legitimate target for the Israeli government - the horrors that they see around them will make them more likely to want to join Hezbollah - and so killing them now prevents them doing Israel any harm in the future. She says, after all, if she was Lebanese she would be joining Hezbollah right now - even though she is a practising Christian, because nobody else seems to be doing anything about the death of the innocents - and if she thinks that way, she reckons it is fairly obvious that Lebanese children and young people will use the same logic.)
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Date: 03/08/2006 09:56 pm (UTC)But I agree wholeheartedly with your summing up of the whole thing - and most people that I know on LJ have probably realised now that I find the way that people condemn one side, but cheer on the other because they are a 'recognised government' and GWB likes them, annoys the hell out of me!
That the UK government - or the UK Governor - sides with the country providing weapons to the fighters doing the majority of the killing, whilst condemning the countries supplying much more basic weapons to the fighters doing the lesser amount of damage makes me wonder what personal secret GWB knows about Tony Blair....