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إسرائيل يقصف منظّمة الأمم المتّحدة [أبسرفأيشن بوست] يكون يستعمل كإرهابية درع
27 يوليو-تمّوز 2006 -- أضفت هذا موقعة إلى [دل.يسو.وس]بما أنّ كثير الناس قد سمعوا, قد دمّر إسرائيل منظّمة الأمم المتّحدة [أبسرفأيشن بوست] في لبنان جنوبيّة ويقتل أربعة منظّمة الأمم المتّحدة ملاحظات. يضع المنظّمة الأمم المتّحدة اللون ل هذا موت تربيعا على إسرائيل, أيّ قد اعتذر [بروفوسلي] لغلطتهم, ويفسّر أنّ [هزبولّه] [غريلّس] كانوا [كلوسبي], وكان استعمل المنظّمة الأمم المتّحدة ملاحظات كدروع إنسانيّة, عاديّة إرهابية تكتيك. نحن نميل أن يصدّ الحكاية إسرائيليّة, والصورة تحت أعراض لما - نعم, أنّ اثنان صخر لوحيّ الصخر لوحيّ من المنظّمة الأمم المتّحدة و [هزبولّه], يطير في الواقع [سد بي سد].
![يشارك الأمم المتّحدة و [هزبولّه] [كمّند بوست]](http://www.middleeastfacts.com/images/united_nations_post_with_hezbollah.jpg "يشارك الأمم المتّحدة و [هزبولّه] [كمّند بوست]")
[رغردلسّ وف] الآنفة, قد أحضر هذا إصدار إلى ضوء الحماقة من المنظّمة الأمم المتّحدة, مهما. In 2004, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1559, with regards to Lebanon. According to Wikipedia, this resolution:
called upon Lebanon to establish its sovereignty over all of its land and It called upon Syria to end their military presence in Lebanon by withdrawing its forces and to cease intervening in internal Lebanese politics. The resolution also called on all Lebanese militias to disband.
“Lebanese militias” is referring to Hezbollah as other militias in Lebanon are insignificant. So, if the United Nations passed a resolution basically outlawing Hezbollah, why are they letting Hezbollah operate near their positions? One explanation is that they are helping Israel and the other explanation is that they are helping Hezbollah, with the latter being more likely, given UN’s history with regards to Israel. So, what were the UN staff doing there, in the middle of a war zone? What were they observing?
The stupidity doesn’t end there. The high-level UN staff could have left well enough alone, but they couldn’t help condeming Israel. However, they really are beginning to not only stick their feet in their mouth, but way down their throats. The Jerusalem Post quotes the UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland, as saying:
“We did repeatedly in recent days say (to Israel) that this was an exposed position, that Hezbollah militants were 500 meters (yards) away shielding themselves near UN workers and civilians…That’s why it is so inexplicable that what happened happened.”
So, this is the logic accoring to the UN’s high-level staff:
- A terrorist organization operating close by to UN positions and using them as human shields is okay.
- Having staff in the middle of a war zone, within sight of one party of combatants, is okay.
- Calling the other side and letting them know not to shoot at them, is the right thing to do.
- Shock and dismay is the appropriate reaction when your staff gets hit, even though you know that they are being used as human shields for an extended period of time.
Who is running the UN and how has the organization not fallen apart? Why are they allowing their staff to be used as human shields? Why do they stay in the middle of a war zone observing? Surely they’re not observing Hezbollah. Why do they find it “inexplicable” that their staff was killed in the middle of a warzone, while being used as human shields?
So, what SHOULD the UN be doing in situations like this? They should immediately vacate the area and explain that they cannot remain in a conflict area if their staff are going to be used as human shields. The UN is preventing Israel from implementing their own resolution, by disbanding the most brutal “militia” in Lebanon. Surely, Israel made a mistake in this scenario, but there are likely hundreds of opportunities that they missed at causing damage to Hezbollah because they knew UN personell or other human shields were being used.
This begs the question, why does it appear that the UN is making it as hard as possible for Israel to destroy Hezbollah quickly? We aren’t surprised - this is just one more example of the UN’s bias against the tiny state of Israel.
Hat tip: Anti-Mullah
Tags:hezbollah , resolution 1559 , southern lebanon , united nations , un security council
July 27th, 2006 at 6:24 am
I would like that this type of information is brought to the attention of the media. This would lend clarity to the situation. Whilst I fully support Israel and do not think they need to constantly justify their position, I do think the UN needs to be exposed. Their is far to much bias against Israel and perhaps it is worth considering that the public need a more balanced reporting of the situation.
July 27th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Well, If I see a UN flag in a warzone, I will believe someone is trying to solve this issue.
In which part of your head you think that 4 observers would be use as human-shield for a country????
The fact is UN reached Israel armies and reported their geographic situation, in the other hand Israel doesn’t like the fact that the UN is getting involve, so they bombed the place.
July 28th, 2006 at 1:51 am
I am a recent law school graduate who has had to debate with intellectual individuals whom I respect in order to expose them to some truth for a change. My family is Israeli, and I have an enormous amount of family in Haifa and Tel Aviv. I just wanted to thank you guys so much. I feel like I could break into tears of joy, when I read clippings from you guys in magazines. I know the truth, I’ve seen the hate. Please let me know what I can do to help. Even though I cannot help my brothers fight over there, I want to help any way I can. If I have to fight the muslim/nazi-like propaganda with my key board and mouse, than so be it! Thank you so much for what you do. I will spread your site to all that I can. Americans deserve the truth, and need to know Israel wants peace. Americans also need to be aware of the threat we are facing. I have pasted an article I found of an interview that might interest you all. Hope to hear back from you, and keep up the good fight.
Editor: The article submitted by Danny Rosenberg has been posted here: Islam’s Torture of Lebanon.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Jose,
The UN post was in the middle of a war zone, and it’s staff knew they were being used as human shields. The UN should have had the sense to withdraw it’s staff, regardless of what they were doing.
What was the UN doing to “try to solve the issue”? Help Hezbollah? When I see an international organization allying itself with a terrorist entity, I don’t think of it as “solving the issue”.
What has Israel gained by bombing the UN base, Jose? If your answer is “nothing”, then why do you think they would they do it? Since the UN post bombing, they’ve been attacked in the media and have given themselves a bad name. If it comes out that the UN was using their position to report the geographic locations and to protect Hezbollah, then we believe that they were acting as an enemy and should be considered an enemy. The UN already has a long history of bias against Israel - we wouldn’t be surprised if this is merely another case of bias.
July 28th, 2006 at 9:37 am
Well, you just answered the question
“What has Israel gained by bombing the UN base, Jose?”
The UN already has a long history of bias against Israel
Israel doesn’t want to involve UN, because nobody around there want peace, I’m not against Israel, but the actions to destroy Libanese facilities dissapointed me a lot.
My sister still trapped in Beirut as a tourist and decided to stay there for a while by her own risk. She doesn’t know the thruth but she is living and eventually will share it.
This is the first time that this region keep my attention and it did when more than 100 infants die by the consecuenses of selfish interests. Where is these people humanity?
Peace for you guys, peace with my heart…
PD> Is this a PRO-Israel website?
July 28th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Hi Jose,
The UN does have a long history of bias against Israel, but Israel has always been pragmatic and wouldn’t intentionally do something that would endanger themselves on the world stage unless they had to. If, in fact, the UN was assisting Hezbollah, then Israel may have bombed them intentionally, and they would have every right to do so. If that is the case, the UN has a lot of questions to answer, as they would be an active participant in a war and deserve to bear the consequences for their actions.
Israel’s goal in destroying Lebanese facilities was to prevent Hezbollah from getting more weapons to their fighters, and the strategy has worked. I agree, it is regrettable, but Israel’s goal is not to cripple Lebanon, but to prevent them from firing missiles. Unfortunately, Hezbollah does not play by rules that are accepted by most of the world - according to the New York Times, Hezbollah is using Christian towns to fire their missiles from, and are doing so between Christian houses. Their hope, of course, is to prevent Israel from destroying the launchers, because they’re in the middle of civilian areas. As we know, Israel does often target these areas, because they can’t afford to have rockets being fired into their country.
I wish your sister a very safe trip home, when she gets a chance to leave. I hope for her sake that she is staying in a safe area. Of course, she is not Israel’s target - no innocent people are. Unfortunately though, Hezbollah makes a point of being around innocent civilians, so I hope she stays away from them.
Unfortunately, everybody sees the region as a flashpoint, and the constant attention around the world only makes things worse. There’s no media attention on other, much worse, atrocities, like the massacre of blacks by Arabs in Sudan, the treatment of women in the Muslim world and the apparent upcoming war between Somalia and Ethopia. Israel doesn’t want to be in war, and was best said by the great Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir: ���If the Arabs would put down their arms today, tommorow there would be no war. And if we put our arms down today, tomorrow there would be no Israel.���
Thanks for the peace offering.
As for whether this is a pro-Israel website, it’s not necessarily intended to be. We’d like to bring forth the brutal truth about the war between Israel and the Arabs. Unfortunately, there are people that try to put terrorists and a state fighting terrorists on a level playing field, which is unfair. Israel does not intentionally harm civilians, although some are regrettably killed as they are used as human shields by Hezbollah. Hezbollah has every intention of killing as many civilians as possible. Therein lies the difference, as Golda Meir said best!
July 31st, 2006 at 9:27 am
Steve, this will be my last comment at this website. I’m very sorry for Israel and their attitude with Libanese civilians.
I do not need to remind you how many kids died yesterday and how many has die in the last 20 days. Israel mentioned again it was an accident.
I’m against the war, but what will happen if tomorrow somebody around middle east nuke Israel by “accident” and feel sorry next day…..well no more troublemakers in the area ah?
July 31st, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Hi Jose,
I can understand your frustration with Israel - I am frustrated with them too. However, you have to keep in mind that Hezbollah intentionally fires their missiles from crowded areas, so that if Israel retaliates and misses, they will kill scores of people. The Hezbollah tactic is an ugly one and they should be condemned in the strongest possible terms.
I don’t know if you can compare a nuclear bomb to Israel’s typical surgical strikes on Hezbollah rocket launchers. Yes, Israel has missed their targets, apparently, a number of times and it is truly unfortunate that it happened.
However, please also note the difference between the Israeli tactic and the Hezbollah tactic. Hezbollah is intentionally firing rockets into civilian areas. Their intention is to cause as much damage to civilians as possible. You know as well as I know, that Israel isn’t trying to kill kids - they are trying to destroy rocket launchers and destroy Hezbollah’s ability to strike into Israel with their missiles. Doesn’t that count for something? Israel knows they screwed up and they have apologized many times and myself and other Jews are hoping and praying that it doesn’t happen again. I can guarantee that the average Muslim is cursing Israel right now and is hoping and praying that Hezbollah bombs will kill as many Israelis as possible.
Therein lies the difference - Jews want peace and feel that destroying Hezbollah is the only way it’s going to happen. Most Muslims in the Middle East don’t want peace - this is not only evident in Israel, but virtually everywhere Muslims live in the world, from Iraq (where they’re killing far more of their own than Americans are), to Sudan, to Chechnya, to Iran, to Pakistan. Peace can only come from within Islam. Until they give up their desire for global jihad, we all will lose.
August 9th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Your argument would be solid only if the lebanese civilians being bombed and strafed were only the ones being used as human shields by the Hezbollah. The truth is that Israel is bombing other targets than the rocket launchers including infrastructure: roads, bridges, power stations, huge oil spill killing ocean life, ect. But what is most troubling is they are shooting ambulances and escaping civilians in vehicles. Also intelligence for targets are not 100% ACCURATE and many civilians are killed this way too, like a civilian house up on a hill. Basically it seems today anything that moves gets shot. This isn’t surgical striking as you claim and furthermore I think sometimes these hits may even be intentional.
I think the UN killing was really just poor intelligence, the communication never got through and something moved on that hill and got shot.
There are a group of Israeli pilots who refuse to bomb unsure targets for fear a 2 year old girl may live there.
My advice to you is get some more facts. democracynow.org has some info you may not want or believe to understand but i hope you check it out..
Peace
August 12th, 2006 at 8:46 am
You can see other arabs’ lies on:
http://www.seconddraft.org
http://www.mideast-archive.co.nr
I’m sure you won’t see it on BBC, CNN etc..
August 12th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Re: Bachus
Israel has bombed other targets including roads, bridges and power stations, because they enable Hezbollah to do what they do. At the beginning of this war, Hezbollah had 10,000-12,000 rockets aimed at Israel. Israel knew that Hezbollah would eventually be ineffective if it couldn’t get more rockets, hence the bombing of roads and bridges from Syria. Causing the oil spill is truly regrettable.
As for your assertions that they are shooting ambulances and escaping civilians, please provide more proof on that. How do you know that Hezbollah isn’t using the ambulances for their own purposes, like Palestinian terror groups do? How do you know the “civilians” killed are not Hezbollah members? You’re absolutely right, intelligence is never 100%, but the claims made by Lebanese people to the press are much less accurate than Israeli intelligence.
The problem with the website that you quote is that they support people like Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein, who have a history of supporting terror groups and who use their Jewish heritage to smear Israel. I’m sure the website you quote makes some valid points, but likely ignores anything positive that Israel does and anything negative that the Arabs do.
August 14th, 2006 at 2:28 am
please, spare all the intelligent people this damage controll by israel, doesn’t matter what you say, how can it be an accident when israel has the best bombs which are totaly accurate, this leads me to believe that the arrogance of israel wants to say to everyone anywhere ” hey we can do what we want, where we want and how we want and no one can stop us” as said by a politician.well the world will be less forgiving in the future.israel doesn’t deserve to be where it is, so it whould get out if it wants peace.
August 14th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
It’s obvious that you have made your mind up, however all the evidence can easily be found, but if you don’t believe them then what is the point? I don’t support either side because I don’t believe in using war as a means to settle disputes, unless there is absolutley no other alternative( ie. Hitler).
The problems with Israel and Lebanon are now being addressed by the UN with
a cease fire but why couldn’t this have been done prior to the killing of 1000 civilians, 90% of which are Lebanese?
I just thought you were really being duped believing that Israel is the innocent party here; you have been mislead by propaganda. If you really open up your mind, if you look into all the facts you will see that both sides are wrong. Noam Chomsky does not support terror nor does he smear Israel, he simply is another ‘human being’ against aggression towards innocent defenseless people.
peace.
August 14th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
one more thing…Israel announced on the mainstream media that it will stop shooting any vehicles that move south of the Litani river.
“Israel said it would continue its blockade of Lebanese ports but was no longer threatening to shoot any car that moved on the roads south of the Litani.”
-YAHOO NEWS
Not from DemocracyNOW! but from the mainstream media.
IE. they shot anything whether it be hezbollah or lebanese citizen including fleeing citizens as well as ambulances………..
Is that proof enough for you?
-peace