Ehud Olmert: "Everyone in southern Lebanon is a terrorist", page 1
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Topic started on 30-7-2006 @ 05:41 AM by Xeros
After suffering 9 casualties in its ground force offensive in south Lebanon, Israel plans to aerialy bombard the area and regards anyone who doesn't evacuate a "terrorist"

This makes me so mad as alot of people have nowhere to go and many roads are delibarately being targeted by Israel to insure this.
www.telegraph.co.uk...

You're all targets, Israel tells Lebanese in South

Everyone remaining in southern Lebanon will be regarded as a terrorist, Israel's justice minister said yesterday as the military prepared to employ "huge firepower" from the air in its campaign to crush Hizbollah.

Haim Ramon issued the warning as the Israeli government decided against expanding ground operations after the death of nine soldiers in fighting on Wednesday.

"What we should do in southern Lebanon is employ huge firepower before a ground force goes in," Mr Ramon said at a security cabinet meeting headed by Ehud Olmert, the prime minister. "Everyone in southern Lebanon is a terrorist and is connected to Hizbollah. Our great advantage vis-a-vis Hizbollah is our firepower, not in face-to-face combat."

Mr Olmert promised that the army would "continue toward the established goals".

Mr Ramon's comments suggested that civilian casualties in Lebanon, which stand at about 600 after 16 days of bombardment, could rise yet higher.

The government's unrelenting line has the backing of the Israeli media, which are demanding a harsh response to an ambush in the Hizbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil, in which eight soldiers died.

The country's biggest-selling paper, Yedioth Ahronoth, said the army had raised the threshold of response to Katyusha rockets.

"In other words: a village from which rockets are fired at Israel will simply be destroyed by fire," it said.

"This decision should have been made and executed after the first Katyusha. But better late than never."

Three divisions of reserve soldiers, up to 15,000 men, are to be called up.

Almost 50 Hizbollah missiles landed in northern Israel yesterday, wounding four people and bringing the total number of rockets fired into the country to about 1,400.


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reply posted on 30-7-2006 @ 08:11 AM by ThePieMaN



reply posted on 30-7-2006 @ 05:14 PM by Nygdan
and regards anyone who doesn't evacuate a "terrorist

They should consider themselves fortunate that the yehudis are announcing their war plans in the first place. If they don't like it, they could demand that hezbollah surrender. If they won't, and would rather help hezbollah, then who cares about the terrorist label?

this is absurd... the is ethnic cleansing! GENOCIDE!

Completely untrue. This is war. Ethnic Cleansing is what the serbs did to the albanians, kicking them out and executing them en mass. Genocide means rounding everyone of a particular race or ethnicity up and trying to exterminate them. War is not ethnic cleansing merely because the enemy is any particular ethnicity. And lebanon is made up of many ethnicities in the first place.

upon launch an f16 or 15 can be vectored in and attack the vehicle itself not some building housing innocent women and children, I agree this is genocide by a zionist facist regime

Thats insane. THe israelis aren't required to fire weapons that have a 100% chance of not killing any civilians, and they certainly aren't required to wait to be shot at before hitting a target. If the thing destroyed and the people killed end up not being enemies combatants, then thats a tragedy, but hardly a reason to stop the war.

If the lebanese peopel suffer, then they can stop it today by booting out hezbollah, or at any time since the yehudis left, or even if they had just forced hezbollah to not attack israel.


reply posted on 30-7-2006 @ 11:36 PM by Nygdan
Originally posted by marg6043
Originally posted by Nygdan

you make it sound as if they are somehow using a loophole to seize Lebanon.


How do you know that the intention is not that one,

It doesn't matter if they are clasping their hands together and hoping that it happens, once it did, it'd be a perfectly legitimate reason to invade, it'd be Lebanon's government, in total, declaring war on Israel.



Just a moment you are telling me that the Lebanese military is at war with Israel?

No, I was continuing the hypothetical idea of 'what if the lebanese government officially sided with hezbollah and sent its troops to attack israel".

Well remember that the killing of civilians is called collateral damage but not matter how pretty or righteous sound is still Killings

Heck, so is killing enemy soldiers. Killing is killing, I'll agree with you on that. Its not rigtheous or pretty for humans to be killing other humans. But I certainly don't expect Israel to not fight back because of that.




In my opinion Israel got into Lebano to fight Hezbollah . . . but they wanted the bigger fish . . . to come from Syria and so it could be linked to Iran

But you must consider, why would they want that? Its because Syria and Iran want to destroy Israel. Essentially, Israel is fighting a proxy of Iran-Syria right now, similar to the US fighting a proxy of the Soviets in Vietnam, or the Soviets fighting a US proxy in Afghanistan.

So then the full scale war and US involvement could be justified . . . but is not happening

I think that, if there was a secret cabal within the US government that was itching to invade iran and looking for the "proper political conditions' in which to launch that war, then this is a big giant monkey wrench. Before, it'd be the US fighting against rouge states who's nuke programmes are in the news every day, now it'd be the US rushing to help 'the jews', which is simply not good press, especially in the arab world. It makes things more difficult, especially since now the idea of a liberal-democratic lebanon is destroyed.

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