Riverbend checks in re Lebanon

[medeak]

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[EFerrari]

1. "They are only Arabs after all."

[peacebird]

2. oh dear god... River rips my heart out yet again....

:cry:

[Don Claybrook]

3. I can hardly wait to see this

This will be a first: Riverbend will be turned into an anti-semitic villain within a few posts. I can't wrap my mind around how on earth that will be accomplished, but just read below this post in the next little while and we'll find out together.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I am seething with outrage at what is happening here.

I am undoubtedly snapping like a demented pit bull at people who are posting with good intentions, trying to bring peace to DU. My outrage-ometer broke, it busted as it went from level 10 to 11.

I have wasted an entire Sunday battling with cyber-morons.

[Don Claybrook]

6. wasted Sunday....same thought

I haven't posted much in a long, long time. You get to a point where you feel like it's all been said before. Most of my posts the last several months have been deleted before I ever submitted them.

Well, now we have something different to talk about, that's for sure. But I've wasted pretty much an entire day railing against what I feel to be murder, and what good is it going to do anyone, really. No question mark at the end of the sentence; it was rhetorical.

Anyway, quit talking about demented pit bulls! Don't you know that (for some bizarre reason) those are also fighting words around here? :)

[QuestionAll...]

11. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have 'wasted' some

time worrying about what is going on, instead of picking up body parts of my family and friends and living in threatening phsyical terror every minute.

I don't mean to insult at all as I can understand burn out on this... but I feel this is the least I can do - is lose some sleep over all the madness and watch these atrocities unfold instead of playing golf or going on a picnic.

[malaise]

19. We are all seething with rage n/t

[Ms. Clio]

7. maybe Steve Gilliard will use it to prove that "all Iraqis hate the Jews"

certainly one of his less than stellar recent comments.

[LibertyorDeath]

17. They won't show because like the rest of the World they know

using one of the Worlds best financed and equipped military's ( IDF )to bomb Women & Children is a supreme act of cruelty & cowardice.

[UndertheOcean]

5. Unimaginable horror ... maybe they are "only Arabs" , thats why

the world doesn't really care ...

[Divernan]

8. "And the world wonders how terrorists are created."

Baghdad Burning


... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend...

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Qana Massacre...

Although the sun is blinding this time of year in our part of the world, the Middle East is seeing some of its darkest days…I woke up this morning to scenes of carnage and destruction on the television and for the briefest of moments, I thought it was footage of Iraq. It took me a few seconds to realize it was actually Qana in Lebanon. The latest village to see Israeli air strikes. The images were beyond gruesome- body parts and corpses being hauled out from under tons of debris. Wailing relatives and friends, searching for loved ones… So far, according to humanitarian organizations, 34 were children. They killed them while they were sleeping inside their bomb shelters- much like the Amriya Shelter massacre in 1991.

We saw the corpses of the children on television, lifeless and twisted grotesquely, what remained of their faces frozen in expressions of pain and shock. I just sat there and cried in front of the television. I didn’t know I could still feel that sort of sorrow towards what has become a daily reality for Iraqis. It’s not Iraq but it might as well be: It’s civilians under lethal attack; it’s a country fighting occupation.

I’m so frustrated I can’t think straight. I’m full of rage against Israel, the US, Britain, Iran and most of Europe. The world is going to go to hell for standing by and allowing the massacre of innocents. For God’s sake, 34 children??? The UN is beyond useless. They’ve gone from a union of nations working for the good of the world (if they ever were even that), to a bunch of gravediggers. They’re only good for digging mangled bodies out of the ruins of buildings and helping to identify and put them into mass graves. They won’t stop a massacre- they won’t even speak out against it- they’ll just come by and help clean up the mess. Are the lives of Arabs worth so little? If this had happened in the US or UK or France or China, somebody would already have dropped a nuclear bomb… How is this happening?

Where is the Security Council??? Why haven’t they stopped Israel? Ehud Olmert recently told Condi that he needs 10 to 14 more days of bloodshed- and nothing is being done about it! Where are the useless Arab leaders? Can’t the pro-American, spineless emirs crawl out of their gold palaces long enough to condemn this taking of lives? Our presidents/leaders are only as influential as their oil barrels are deep.

And the world wonders how ‘terrorists’ are created! A 15-year-old Lebanese girl lost five of her siblings and her parents and home in the Qana bombing… Ehud Olmert might as well kill her now because if he thinks she’s going to grow up with anything but hate in her heart towards him and everything he represents, then he’s delusional.

Is this whole debacle the fine line between terrorism and protecting ones nation? If it’s a militia, insurgent or military resistance- then it’s terrorism (unless of course the militia, insurgent(s) and/or resistance are being funded exclusively by the CIA). If it’s the Israeli, American or British army, then it’s a pre-emptive strike, or a ‘war on terror’. No matter the loss of hundreds of innocent lives. No matter the children who died last night- they’re only Arabs, after all, right?

Right?

[bvar22]

9. K&R

It takes a cold, cold heart to justify these atrocities.

[K8-EEE]

10. K&R

The US and Israel have totally lost any moral credibility in the world. They are just state-funded terrorists, in charge of powerful governments.

These are war crimes!!

[ananda]

21. yep

"The US and Israel have totally lost any moral credibility in the world. They are just state-funded terrorists, in charge of powerful governments.

These are war crimes!!"

Worth repeating.

[warrens]

12. As usual, hits the nail on the head

If someone had done this to, say, downtown Houston to root out the fascist scum who cheerfully finance our war and profit so greatly from it, they would be terrorists slaughtering innocent civilians. If it's us or Israel, it's a preemptive strike against terrorists and sorry about the collateral damage (insert crocodile tears here). You know, every child is precious (Shimon Peres actually said that this morning) but not so precious we should spend any time making sure our bombs and missiles won't land on refugee shelters for women and children, or UN headquarters or highways full of refugees, or weather stations at military camps of an army that is supposedly an ally of sorts.

This is indiscriminant slaughter, but who cares, it's just a bunch of Arabs who already hate Israel (the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. said basically that on TV this morning, either to Bob Scheifer or to Timmeh...I forget which show he was on).

[UndertheOcean]

14. Well said!

n/t

[truth2power]

20. I saw that (Israeli ambassador)...

I think he was on George StepOnAllOfUs. He sounded like he was deranged.

[enough]

13. k&r

[Coexist]

15. knr

:cry:

[laundry_queen]

16. Another K&R

:cry:

[magellan]

18. K&R

I'm so sorry, River.... :cry:

[pberq]

22. K&R - Thank you Riverbend