[lbo-talk] Amnesty Report: Hezbollah War Crimes

[Carl Remick]

>From: Bryan Atinsky <bryan at alt-info.org>
>
>There is the one statement of the Lebanese police from the day of the
>capture. That is the statement repeated throughout the articles you
>mention and there are many blogs in english that mention that. There
>definitely was fighting going on near Aïta al-Chaab...that is where the
>Israelis moved in towards about an hour after the initial capture and
>where most of the casualties took place. I think that is what is
>confusing to people. There was a conflation of two more or less distinct
>events (the original capture and the delayed attempt at retrieval).

All the chitchat about "who started" this war misses the point.  It was 
Israel alone that escalated the conflict out of all proportion, carpeting 
Lebanon with cluster bombs and using internationally proscribed phosphorous 
shells. -- e.g.:

<http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb09142006.html>
<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761910.html>

When Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman boasted of Israel's attack on 
Lebanon, "You're damned right this is disproportionate!" -- there was no 
doubt who the war criminals are.

Carl