Addendum: Since a decision was made to disable comments, I got a lot of emails supporting me and some against it. I have consulted with my fellow blogger Raja and decided to bring back the comment section when cooler heads start prevailing (which is very soon). We both believe in open debate, but also responsible debate, especially that we are going through tough times right now.
Update: A whole neighborhood in Tyre was hit. The death toll has increased to 16 and might be even higher. On another front, 7 have died, 5 of whom hold the Canadian citizenship, in a southern village, Aitroun, by Israeli rockets.
Update 2: 20 dead now in the Tyre massacre. EU envoy Javier Solana will very soon be making a public address. He has met with PM Seniora, Parliament Speaker Berri and MP Walid Jumblatt. Shimon Perez, former Israeli Prime Minister, said that the IDF is only hitting Hizbullah fighters. Is the picture below a depiction of a fighter?:
"Nobody knows how many rebellions, besides political rebellions, ferment in the masses of life which people earth."
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i hope you will be safe, all of you, and that those gloating and cynical comments will cease.
it is sad to see lebanon being used as a proxy war playground, with iran/syria on one side and israel/usa on the other, while the lebanese people are on the receiving end. it is illusionary that the hezb'allah will be stopped by the means currently used by israel, and it is as illusionary that by pressuring the lebanese govt via targetting civilians to disarm the HA will bear any fruit. this is a vicious cyle of violence, and both the israelis backed by the us and the HA backed by syria/iran are playing into each other's hands.
all this chillingly reminds me of the cold war, when proxy war games were the way to go for some governments.
i urge the fellow readers and bloggers not to start again fueling hate and incitement with ignorant and/or hateful posts.
take care over there, there are many people on your side even outside the region.
Sorry for asking - how to distinguish a hizballah militia from a civilian ?
Thank you for answering this question.
No, this is an innocent child caught in the middle of a war. The Israelis have their own of the young and old who have been killed by Hezbollah and other terrorists. This child, and all the other Lebanese and Israeli children, deserve the chance the grow up in freedom and with peace. I hope such happens for both sides and that this ends soon.
@ youseef
I would probably agree, but still it does not answer my question.
Still every civilian non-hizballah person who dies is a terrible tragedy and loss.
Now, that is not the picture of a Hezbollah fighter. And neither was the 4 year old boy who was the 2nd to die of a katyusha attack on day 1.
What a profoundly meaningful rhetorical question, says I sarcastically.
War sucks. Children die in it. When "brave" warriors hide behind children, even more children die in it.
Tyre, whence Hizballah fired the 15 rockets that killed 8 civilians in Haifa, was targeted Sunday. Eight Canadian dual citizens were killed. Later 5 Hizballah rocket crews were taken out. Nine Lebanese troops are reported killed in raids to knock out their coastal radar stations which assisted the Hizballah attack an Israeli warship last Friday.
http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2006/07/israeli-military-estimates-up-to-25-of.html
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