it's unreal

i give israel the right to defend itself...but is this the way to do it?

"They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. 'Mehdi Hashem, aged seven Qana' was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy's body lay. 'Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 Qana', 'Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one Qana.' And when the Lebanese soldier went to pick up Abbas's little body, it bounced on his shoulder as the boy might have done on his father's shoulder on Saturday. In all, there were 56 corpses brought to the Tyre government hospital and other surgeries, and 34 of them were children. When they ran out of plastic bags, they wrapped the small corpses in carpets. Their hair was matted with dust, most had blood running from their noses.

Qana...

We've been killing little children in Iraq for 15 years. First our war, then our sanctions, designed and run by the US, and then another war and utterly disgraceful planning for the postwar period. Isreal had been killing Palestinians for as long or longer....but have returned to another pasttime, killing Lebanese children.

israel authorities claim that Hizbollah or however you spell it fighters are hiding amongst civilians. Okay. Who cares? how does that justify killing the civilians? it DOES NOT justify it. I'll tell you one stone cold fact: if they were hiding amongst ISRAELI civilians, they would be safer than babes in the cradle. Since they're allegedly hiding amongst Lebanese civilians, they're meat, and everyone around them. It is disgusting. It's also, without doubt, a war crime, though you will not hear about the proceedings, nor will you hear about the US vetoing any sanctions against Israel, which it doubtless will.

How is it okay to have 56 dead, 34 children? Why do we accept this. and it would stop too, if the United States turned off the money spigot. The people in power won't do it, and it's unlikely the people waiting in the wings will. we need to flush through the cycle rapidly to help create a just world, not just control petroleum. That's what being a liberal is about: the creation of a moral, just nation. We have not done that. We've been carping and chirping about issues, and all the while these animals in charge get worse, with no one to stop them. What do you say to them? Stop, you're being insane?

Aim yourself at a just world and other things fall into place.