"It's like this: If you are Lebanese, Israel will kill you."

[leftchick]

Beirut residents believe anyplace might be bombed





http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15076526.htm

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel claimed Wednesday that it had wiped out half of Hezbollah's arsenal, but many of the targets Israeli warplanes have hit in their week-long bombardment of the Lebanese capital have no obvious military value.

Among them: a tissue factory, a dairy, and a pair of construction vehicles.

Those targets offer few clues about how much success Israel has had in crippling the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is holding two captured Israeli soldiers and firing rockets into Israel.

But traveling the streets of Beirut leaves one clear impression: Lebanese believe that not a single inch of their country is beyond the whir of Israeli warplanes, the hiss of a falling bomb or the devastating explosion when one hits.

Fear has left the once-bustling capital deserted and shuttered, its few remaining residents bracing for the next boom.

"They're hitting everything, not just Hezbollah," wailed Leila Chahrour, 30, whose home was destroyed, forcing her family to live with 15 other people in a cramped motel room. "It's like this: If you are Lebanese, Israel will kill you."

[WindRavenX]

1. and my friend is there

:(

[leftchick]

2. I am so sorry.

A classmate of my sons was going this summer. I am not sure if she is there now or not. I hope not. :(

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Correction:

If you are in Lebanon, the Israelis will kill you.

Ask Canada.

[Spazito]

4. It turns out that the "Hezbollah leaders' bunker" they bombed the

crap out of with 23 tons of explosives was a religious institution being built and the Hezbollah leadership was nowhere near. Both Hezbollah and the Lebanon government were mentioned as providing this info. I heard this on Paula Zahn so I don't have a link. If it is true, which I suspect it is, it is another example of indiscriminate bombing, imo.

[leftchick]

5. I knew the second wolfie was crowing about this

it would be a fiasco and killing field much like Fallujah. :cry:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Think of all the missiles and bombs that will have to be

replaced.... I can just hear the MIC crowing goody goody goody. Sick F*cks.

[DELUSIONAL]

7. Why does that NOT surprise me??

yesterday the arms/weapon shipment turned out to be humanitarian aid --


That's o.k. -- because dumb Americans will believe anything.

[leftchick]

8. no shit!

like the "Israel needs to defend herself" bullshit!

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[Bluerthanblue]

9. this quote won't leave me ....

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster....when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you..."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

the Torah says-
"Love your neighbor as yourself" Lev 19:18;
"Thou shalt not kill" Ex 20:13

[leftchick]

10. :(

so sad they have no one to defend them. :(