Lebanese PM pleads for cease-fire

[cal04]

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has pleaded for the international community to organise an immediate cease-fire, accusing Israel of massacres and wanting to blast his country "back 50 years".

In a statement, he "implored the international community and Arab countries to work towards installing an immediate cease-fire" to end Israel's week-old offensive against Lebanon.

Israel, he said, was "committing massacres against Lebanese civilians and working to destroy everything that allows Lebanon to stay alive.

"The intensifying aggression in this barbaric way proves that Israel has decided to push Lebanon back 50 years."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1690092.htm

[confludemocrat]

1. I don't get it

Israel makes a big deal out of having the Lebanese get control of Hezbollah and then as today--and before--bombs the Lebanese army. WTF?!!
Of course we know what is really going on here: to reduce Lebanon, as the Leb. PM kinda says, to a wrecked Somalia-like place. Not gonna work you sick fucks who run that morally-depraved place they call Israel. Not gonna work.

[cal04]

2. the lebanese are also questioning that

Many Lebanese, bitter if not surprised at the havoc Israel is wreaking on their country, find it hard to understand why the Israelis are bombing the Lebanese army -- the same army Israel says it wants to replace Hizbollah guerrillas in the south.

[mom cat]

4. Th Empireists will always think they can win. Look at the US.

The colonizers broke the resistance on the native inhabitants, herded them foo to squalid camps and then proceeded to break treaties whenever they wanted to. Isreal has a good teacher in the art of oppression.
Once we too were "a people without a land" going to "a land without a people". It is called colonization. It was wrong when our ancestors did it. It is wrong today.

[bemildred]

5. It's bullshit, it's supposed to be confusing. nt

[The Stranger]

3. More interesting use of quotations in the Western media.

Instead of simply stating what the Prime Minister of Lebanon is saying, and what is going on, the Western media uses unnecessary quotations in such a way as to destroy the context of what is being said.

To paraphrase the article: "Lebanon's PM asked the world to get Israel to stop bombing Lebanon." Instead of stating what happened, however, this press piece goes into unnecessary and bizarre language acrobatics.

Also, Israel "responds to attacks," while Lebanon "accuses" Israel. The language used for Lebanon contains a negative connotation.

[Roy]

6. Does all fledgling democracies go through this initiation?

Come on Lebanon... suck it up and quit whining
HEAVY HEAVY :sarcasm: cuz....

Didn't Bush say that democracies don't attack each other (another rational for Iraq regime change)