[The 2006 Israel-Lebanon war ended more than a year ago but I want to bring your attention to the ongoing and disturbing issue of Israel’s absurd and appalling use of cluster bombs.]
Israel dropped over 1 million cluster bombs in Lebanon in the 2006 war. 90% of those bombs were dropped in the last 72 hours of the war when both sides knew that a ceasefire was imminent. Many remain unexploded. UN Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland said, “Every day, people are maimed, wounded and are killed by these ordnances.”
Cluster Bomb’s Overall Track Record: “98% of 13,306 recorded cluster munitions casualties that are registered with Handicap International are civilians. Cluster munitions are opposed by many individuals and hundreds of groups, such as the Red Cross, the Cluster Munition Coalition and the United Nations, because of the high proportion of civilians that have fallen victim to the weapon. Since February 2005, Handicap International called for cluster munitions to be prohibited and collected hundreds of thousands of signatures to support its call.”
Israeli Admission: Ha’aretz: “What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war. Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the IDF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets. [Unfortunately, Israel still refuses to give details about the precise locations of the cluster bomb delivery targets.]
Israel never targets civilians. And they werent trying to prevent the people of the South from returning to their towns. The sky isn’t blue. And Arash the occupation soldier is not overweight.
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By the way, the fat one noticed how ugly he is and took down his main facebook pic when he was wearing some ugly Blue suit with his gut hanging out. His main pic now is of someone far better looking than he is…Mr. Bean.
“Dr. Ahmadinejad called anybody who criticizes Iranian Nuclear Ambition, a trader. What does that mean? Why is it a significant move? The answer is very simple. He is paving the way to have them killed or jailed for crimes of treason.” – Light at the end of the tunnel man
So they’re “traders” huh. I wonder what people who criticize Iran’s nuclear program trade. Do they trade rugs or pistachios? Maybe they trade in a little bit of this or a little bit of that. When I was a kid, I traded a lot of baseball cards. 🙂
… Another glorious piece by a one-track mind, meet Arash, the-Occupation-Soldier-Who-Got-Kicked-Out-of-the-Army. He talks about freedom for Iran while justifying the occupation of Palestine. He opposes the Iranian gov’t only bc they oppose Israel’s ethnic cleansing. In other words, he views Iran with Israel in mind. If Iran was a gov’t just like it is now but was friendly to Israel, the Occupation Soldier Flunk-Out would be giving it nothing but praise… left and right.
Talk about credibility huh… I see none when he posts on anything related to Iran.
As for Ahmadinejad, he’s a one-term president and we don’t need to tune into a Zionist hate-speecher who knows nothing about the world (he thought the people of Darfur were non-Muslims and although he goes to law school, he hasn’t learned much, i.e. he got so badly clowned about copyright law that he went back and erased his own comments which were badly refuted!!!)
Bang bang.
“Dr. Ahmadinejad called anybody who criticizes Iranian Nuclear Ambition, a traitor. What does that mean? Why is it a significant move? The answer is very simple.”
HE WENT BACK AND CHANGED IT! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Were slowly teaching him. Now, Pouya, if only we could tell him about you know what…. 😉
And you see how sophisticated Arash is. If people are called traitors in a country, then that country must be headed towards Fascism, LOL!! I mean, does this overweight moron with a low LSAT score have ANY ability to put together sophisticated arguments?
Why does he have a banner that says “I stand with Israel. I will not register my site”????
What does that have to do with Israel? His entire identity is Israel and that seems pretty dangerous to me, considering he is Iranian and is a US citizen. Get a grip man!
Hey Beyonce, try to find out when, at the top of his blog where he said “victorcrat” what that means. I googled it and got 1 hit!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dont even think its a word!!!
I suppose you don’t consider thousands of Hezbollah rockets, launched at Israeli civilian targets and loaded with ball bearings to cause maximum death, cluster bombs? Well, most humanitarian organizations do consider them cluster bombs, and guess who supplied them to Hezbollah? Hmm… check your double standards.
Double standards? I see none when Israel riddled Lebanon with the cluster bombs right when it knew the conflict was ending… very cowardly indeed. How do you rationalize that? And if you want to change the topic of discussion between what actually happened during the war, we can do that, but the post was Israel did when it knew the war was coming to a close.
Check your misinformation.
I see. So you deny that Hezbollah launched thousands of rockets against Israel during the war? Why don’t you check the human rights reports that accused both sides of using cluster munitions? Or are you so committed to hating Israel that you can’t accept criticism even when it applies to both sides?
If I couldn’t accept criticism, I’d erase your comments. Relax.
And no, I never said they didn’t do anything foul in the war. Stop jumping to conclusions.
But since you so need it, we can discuss the chronology of the war: Hezbollah orchestrated a cross border raid attacking a MILITARY PATROL, the resulting clash led to the deaths of 8 Israeli SOLDIERS and the capture of 2. Israel responded by bombing civilian infrastructure, perceived Hezbollah bases, and it maybe targeted civilians (as it has in the past) but either way, scores of civilians died.
As a response, Hezbollah launched missiles into civilian inhabited areas of N. Israel.
And then there was much of the same for 34 days.
The post highlighted the fact that when the war was known to be winding down, Israel riddled the south of Lebanon with cluster bombs, which is a shameful and cowardly act.
No doubt.
Are you so in love w Israel that you can’t condemn this horrible act, which has led to the deaths of dozens of civilians since the end of the war (thus, in effect, continuing the war)?
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