Interesting:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21801_Hizballah_Attacked_UNIFIL_Twice_This_Week&only
Assuming this to be true, it does make all the focus on Isreal for the same thing somewhat questionable.
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Let's compare the two events as reported:
>From the UN statement (according to the LGF poster):
One unarmed UN military observer, a member of the Observer Group Lebanon (OGL), was seriously wounded by small arms fire in the patrol base in the Marun Al Ras area yesterday afternoon. According to preliminary reports, the fire originated from the Hezbollah side during an exchange with the IDF. He was evacuated by the UN to the Israeli side, from where he was taken by an IDF ambulance helicopter to a hospital in Haifa. He was operated on, and his condition is now reported as stable.
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And this, from The Globe and Mail:
Israelis were warned to cease fire, UN says Olmert tells Annan of his 'deep sorrow' over fatal assault on peacekeepers
SHAWN MCCARTHY
With a report from Carolynne Wheeler, special to The Globe and Mail, and Reuters
UNITED NATIONS -- The Israel Defense Forces received repeated and increasingly urgent warnings, both in the field and from New York, that they were targeting a United Nations monitoring post before they delivered a bomb that killed four peacekeepers, including a Canadian, UN officials said yesterday.
The bombardment lasted for six hours before the fatal strike and continued as peacekeepers mounted a rescue operation at the Khiyam observation post, officials said.
The four unarmed soldiers were part of a UN truce-monitoring operation that has been deployed in southern Lebanon for decades, and has been documenting Israeli and Hezbollah military activity since the crisis began.
On Tuesday, the four were relaying their observations by radio to the local UN headquarters, before seeking refuge in an above-ground shelter. Then the bombing began.
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In one case, small arms fire gravely injures a UN observer. No doubt this story, if true, suggests that Hezbollah is cavalier in its attitude towards the neutrality of UN personnel.
Let's turn to the Israeli case.
Israel is a member nation of the UN. It's government is in regular communication with UN officials. It enjoys all the privileges of being a member state.
UN observers were subjected to devastating artillery fire and then killed via bombing, despite entreaties from the UN for the IDF to cease fire.
You don't have to be an apologist for Hezbollah's actions to understand these two cases are not, as you suggest, the "same thing."
Are you implying that anti-semitism is at work here?
And if if not that, precisely what are you implying?
.d.
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