July 20, 2006
If the reports coming out of Lebanon can be believed, the Israelis are only sometimes striking known Hizbullah safe houses or facilities or missile emplacements. A lot of their bombardment appears aimed at punishing civilian populations and forcing them north to Beirut. Such an approach would help explain the high number of civilian casualties. That is, there may be an element of ethnic cleansing in Israeli tactics.Israel is dropping ordnance on Lebanon like it was going out of style. Bomb after bomb after bomb. Day after day after day. There have been approximately 3,000 bombing sorties carried out in the last eight days. Each sortie likely carried multiple bombs. That's easily 10,000 bombs dropped on Lebanon. Those
Cole doesn't give the Lebanese a pass. He admits that the Lebanese have some responsibility here. They should've known, after all, that this would happen when they got too big for their britches and kicked out their Syrian protectors:
So, basically, the Palestinians and the Lebanese are screwed. The Lebanese might not have been in such a vulnerable situation if they had not kicked out the Syrians, though the Syrians were there in 1982 the last time Israel invaded.Some have asked why I even pay attention to dissemblers like Prof. Juan Cole and crazy freaks like Prof. Deb Frisch. On the one hand, I'm offended that thousands of people like this are hired to teach our young people. On the other hand, it's important that a guy who would accuse Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' be seen for exactly what he is.
Thanks to Goldstein and TigerHawk for the heads ups.
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That's the extent of Lefty's analysis of world events.
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