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In message op.tc6u8iu1q4en03@home1, Arthur
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:45:49 +0100, Humble Scribe
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In message , Guy Fawkes
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Are Israeli attacks against the people of Lebanon and Gaza in accord
with
the requirements of international law, and if not, how are these
attacks any
different to Hitler invading Poland?


Poland wasn't firing rockets into Germany........


Just to be clear, are you saying that the current Israeli actions are
justified?

No- just pointing out the difference between Hitler's action and
Israel's action as requested.

That said and although I am Israel's Zionist policies, I suspect that
if
the IRA were regularly firing rockets into Liverpool and had a
fundamental objective of wiping the UK off the map (as Hizbollah does
with Israel) then would we not support the UK army seeking to wipe them
out even if they were in the Irish Republic and the Irish Government
were doing nothing to stop them?

But then we get back to why are Hizbollah firing the rockets. They
will
claim in retaliation for Israel's military actions over the last 50
years;

NO THEY WOULDN'T! You are yet another victim of Israeli propaganda.
The rockets were not fired from Lebanon until AFTER Israel had struck
civilian targets, bombing bridges, airfields etc, killing civilians
over half of whom were women and children.

Check out this timeline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...Lebanon_crisis

Either you're a liar, stupid or you just want the "Truth" to fit your
perception. Why is everybody trying to make Hezbollah look like Angels?
When Hezbollah admits that it's stated aim is the destruction of Isael?

Why do you say that *everybody* is trying to make Hezbollah look like
angels? Most of us are expressing concern about the innocent civilians
killed by the Israelis and speaking for myself, I don't much care if every
Hezbollah fighter gets burned to death. The IDF is the moral equivalent of
Hizbollah. They are both thoroughly contemptible.

If you want to argue "who started it" you could start at any point and
arrive at a different answer. I am not convinced that 12th July is the right
date to start the chronology. I suspect that the Wikipedia account largely
mirrors the official Israeli account which is given at
http://www.israel.org/MFA/Terrorism-...06.htm#summary
or
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/mal...llah_upd1e.pdf

The BBC reports suggest that on 28th May, Hezbollah fired some rockets onto
Israeli military targets on Israeli soil (Mount Miron) which at that time
triggered an Israeli response consisting of warplane attacks on militant
bases in Lebanon. If the Israeli account is accurate, Hezbollah were mainly
targeting military sites up to 12th July but some of their rockets fell on
Israeli civilians, whether by accident or not.