I was away from the internet for 4 days -- was visiting a city in central Java, Jogjakarta, which is beautiful. It has suffered from an earthquake in may and is still recovering -- it was quite phenomenal to see. I'll try to post a couple of photos.
Until then... Day 16 (17? 20? I stopped counting..) against Lebanon.
From Human Rights Watch:
"Today’s strike on Qana, killing at least 54 civilians, more than half of them children, suggests that the Israeli military is treating southern Lebanon as a free-fire zone,” said Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. “The Israeli military seems to consider anyone left in the area a combatant who is fair game for attack."
Damn right they do. And they're not even hiding it. Also from the same HRW article:
"On July 27, Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon said that Israel had given civilians ample time to leave southern Lebanon, and that anyone remaining could be considered a supporter of Hezbollah. “All those now in south Lebanon are terrorists who are related in some way to Hezbollah,” he said, according to the BBC."
Oh please.
You are talking about telling people to evacuate their homes -- their lives.
And many - since the south is mainly poor - simply have nowhere to go to.
Seriously. I've been reading israeli media and blogs, and interestingly enough, the justification is "we told them to leave but they didn't". Apart from that being an implicit admission that the Ramon comment is plain crap, it also means (proves, i should say) that Israelis have REALLY no respect for human life, and clearly all their comments about 'collateral damage' was for newspaper consumption.
Not that we didnt know, but it's interesting to see the real face of the Occupation - which is, sadly, that of the citizens.
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