Friday, July 21, 2006

FISK SAYS ISRAEL TARGETING CIVILIANS

Predictably, Robert Fisk claims Israel is deliberately targeting Lebanese civilians:
The Israelis constantly boast of their "pin-point" or "surgical" precision in air attacks. If this is true, then there are far too many civilians being killed in the Lebanese bloodbath to make every one of them an accident. And since Israel's target list now includes obviously civilian targets - deliberately bombed to punish the civilian population - the evidence is mounting that these air raids are intended to kill the innocent as well as the Hizbollah guerrillas whom Israel claims to be fighting.
Rather than deliberately target civilians, Israelis have taken the difficult decision to kill enemies hiding amongst civilians. Regardless, Fisk thinks it very unfair that Hezbollah is forced to use less than accurate weaponry:
True, the Hizbollah are killing civilians in Israel, but their missiles are inaccurate and the West, which has done no more than mildly disapprove of Israel's retaliatory onslaught, must surely expect higher standards of the Israeli armed forces than of the men whom both Israel and President George Bush describe as "terrorists".
The West hasn't condemned Israeli because every civilized person on the planet wants Hezbollah exterminated.

1 Comments:

Anonymous RebeccaH said...

Please forgive the one, mean-spirited little demon who lives in the deepest part of me who is clamoring for R. Fisk to wander into a target zone along with his Hez pals.

1:49 AM  

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