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Israel has, with the full backing of the US and the silent support of the UK, continued to carry out attacks across Lebanon, targetting civilians, civil infrastructure and the economy of the Lebanese people. This has nothing to do with Hezbollah and everything to do with Israel flexing it's muscles. Nothing has been said about the 2 missing soldiers who are supposed to have been kidnapped, the event which triggered this display of force. Even one of the soldier's father is amazed that his son's capture has been used as an excuse. Kidnappings happen all of the time.

The US drag their feet when it comes to diplomacy but expedite a delivery of bunker busting bombs. They hand out $2m in aid to the Lebanon but continue to sell arms and fund the Israeli offensive.

Thos bombs supplied by the US were no doubt used against UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon who contacted Israeli troops 10 times before an Israeli bomb killed four of them. The post was hit by a precision-guided missile after six hours of shelling. The silence from the West on the issue speaks volumes.

German newspapers on Wednesday aired a number of arguments for and against sending German soldiers to the Middle East, with the "burden of history" looming large.

"History is the past, but the history of the Holocaust belongs to the German present," said the Frankfurter Rundschau.

No German soldier should, even theoretically, "be brought into a situation where he has to aim his weapon at an Israeli", it added.

The Suddeutsche Zeitung said it was "astonishing" that politicians were discussing the idea, while Austria's Der Standard said it was "unthinkable" that the grandchildren of Holocaust perpetrators might find themselves shooting at the grandchildren of victims.

So Israelis are allowed to adopt the tactics of 1930 Nazi Germany but Germany has to be ashamed for wanting to restore some semblence of order in the region? We shouldn't forget the slaughter of countless innocents at the hands of the 3rd Reich's henchmen but let's not allow Israel to continue to use history as an excuse to slaughter civilians in their thousand and reduce a recently rebuilt country to rubble.



posted by kwacky at 6:45 pm