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Topic: 'No justification'
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Tiff
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posted 13 September 2006 10:05 PM
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The group said Hezbollah deliberately targeted civilians with rockets in the 34-day war - a "serious violation of international humanitarian law". An earlier Amnesty report accused Israel of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Lebanon.
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Amnesty said Israel's violations could in no way justify Hezbollah's actions.
This is what I have been saying all along...
Hezbollah accused of war crimes
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a lonely worker
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posted 13 September 2006 10:26 PM
So Tiff are you saying that Hezbollah and Israel should both be charged with war crimes?Or are you saying that Israel's crimes are lesser than Hezbollah's? I don't get the intent of your post.
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venus_man
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posted 14 September 2006 07:18 AM
I am glad to hear finally that such organization as Amnesty dared to acknowledge Hiz-h’s war crimes. Everyone is so caught up in blaming Israel and accusing it in all crimes that poor, “innocent”, idea fighters of Hiz-h got neglected. However they are caused most of damage and ignited the war in a first pace that was even confirmed by their leadership. Then they would use civilians as bomb shelters. And then, without any notice to civilians (unlike Israel that would tell people to leave before bombing), would drop over 4000 rockets on Israel towns. The Hiz-h war crimes therefore are great in number and it is good that someone had guts to accuse them in that. The crimes include those against the population of Lebanon where many were fooled to believe in Hiz-h good intentions. That is not to deny Israel’s crimes, but they were exposed and talked about so much, so far.
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N.Beltov
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posted 14 September 2006 07:53 AM
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venus_man: I am glad to hear finally that such organization as Amnesty dared to acknowledge Hiz-h’s war crimes.
AI "dared" to point out the Israeli war crimes of "indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks and the intentional destruction of civilian infrastructure" - which is something that AI has NOT accused Hezbollah of. quote:
The UN children's fund, UNICEF, estimates that some 1,183 people died in Lebanon, mostly civilians and about a third of them children.
It's pretty clear that Hezbollah did a much better job of focussing their lethal attacks on military targets. Israel, and its apologists, were not able to substantiate the claim that Hezbollah was using civilians as human shields but there is plenty of evidence, for those willing to look, that Israel did just that, including using Arab-Israeli neighbourhoods as bases of operations. quote:
venusian: Everyone is so caught up in blaming Israel and accusing it in all crimes that poor, “innocent”, idea fighters of Hiz-h got neglected. However they are caused most of damage ...
Bullshit. See the numbers below - I'm just using the numbers of those killed. It's patently obvious that Israel caused billions of dollars of damage to Lebanon's infrastructure. Apples and oranges.
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venusian: Then they (Hezbollah) would use civilians as bomb shelters.
More bullshit. What is true, and AI confirmed this, is that Israel deliberately targetted the civilian infrastructure in Lebanon, just as Israel destroyed the power/water supply in Gaza, etc., etc., etc., .... AI - Aug 23/06 - Israeli atrocities AI on Hezbollah atrocities quote:
During the conflict, 159 Israelis died, including 116 soldiers and 43 civilians.
Thats about ... what? 20 to 1? 20 Lebanese civilians killed for every Israeli civilian?
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