Olmert allows Humanitarian corridor in Lebanon

[sabra]

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1153291960695&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Olmert allows Humanitarian corridor in Lebanon

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, along with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz decided Thursday to allow for the creation of a humanitarian corridor between Lebanese citizens, wishing to flee Lebanon, and Cyprus.

[whistle]

1. Flee Cyprus? Is Cyprus also being attacked?

[Kagemusha]

3. Misreading. To allow people to go Lebanon -> Cyprus

If that can be believed, it wouldn't be so bad...

[chimpymustgo]

2. How f*cking KIND of them.

Just promise not to bomb them as they're fleeing.

[Kagemusha]

4. That'd be too easy. (/sarcasm)

nt

[MrPrax]

6. Would you trust the IDF?

I sure as hell wouldn't...they will bomb a humanitarian convoy just as easily as anything else...and after the massacre claim it was militants anyway...if the massacre is really bad (IE no good excuse), then they investigate and release a report, saying the IDF followed procedures...

Same shit year in, year out -- hell they shot the head of the UN in cold blood and he was holding a white flag!

The only way peace will happen is if the international community starts to accept responsibility for Israel and starts by subjecting them to international law -- if not, none of the players in the ME alligned against Israel have any incentive whatsoever to bother to negotiate...they have been there and done that.

Israel's illegal occupation is the real source of the problem -- not the hopelessness of Arab tactics that fall back to violence and revenge. Until Israel is confronted on the key issue -- there is not peace.

"And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission. All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress."
--Dov Weisglass (old Dov when it was Arafat failing to reign in the PLO)

That was the policy change right there and funny no one in the West took this as seriously as any of the Arabs, whom they want to criticize for not wanting to go along with a sham peace process. Western governments were on board with the 'two-state solution' and spend years promoting it, only to have the current Israeli government toss it back into their faces.

If the western governments aren't going to start taking Israel to task, then how can their be peace? Moreover, why wouldn't arab nations see the west as an enemy, if the west won't even promote it's own lofty international laws against one of it's own?

There is a lot of 'peace' talk -- but no one really wants to point out that it has been the actions of Israel that has made it impossible...they don't want to negotiate a single thing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. So they get to leave their own country?

That's mighty generous. Is Israel offering to get them accommodation in Cyprus too? Jobs? To look after their homes while they're gone? Or just bomb the shit out of them?

[leesa]

7. That POS doesn't know the meaning of humanitarianism