Saturday, August 26, 2006

US probes Israel cluster bomb use

The US is to probe the charge that Israel used cluster bombs in areas known to be populated by civilians, the BBC reports. Since the Lebanese from the south began to return home there have been several minor explosions of unexploded bombs leading to the wounding of roughly 30 people and lilling perhaps another 8 people. (since the Lebanese have been prone to exaggeration about numbers I am inclined to halve these figures). The complaint against Israel is that it knowingly dropped these bombs in civilian areas, despite giving assurances to the USA that it would not use them in populated areas. However, there is a snag when one is dealing with Hezbollah. The bleeding hearts in the human rights groups are jumping up and down claiming that it is Israel who has breached the Geneva protocols where civilians are concerned. If only they would take off their rose coloured biased bleeding heart liberal glasses and look at the real facts here. How can this situation be avoided if Hezbollah are using civilian areas to fire their rockets? The Hezbollah fighters had hidden their rocket launchers amongst the civilian houses, thus the fine line between what constitutes a military and a civilian target has been blurred. If any blame is to be attached then these people need to have a good look at the tactics being employed by the jihadists. They are the ones who do not care about civilians, because they deliberately use the civilian population in order to kill other civilians in Israel. Either way the Lebanese civilians remain the losers until they summon up the will power to blast Hezbollah back to Iran.

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