Israel has stopped to the level of the common terrorist 
The Universe
(August 06, 2006)
The wanton destruction by Israeli military of the village of Qana in Lebanon where as many as 50 civilians, mostly little children, must be condemned and labelled as a war crime. The horrific images of 31 little children dug out of the rubble is heartbreaking.
They were sheltering from the Israeli air raids in the basement of a building that was destroyed by two Israeli missiles. The credibility of Israel as a righteous nation under the God of Abraham fulfilling its destiny is severely strained.
The justification made at the United Nations failed to convince me and millions of others around the world. They call it an accident and say Hezbollah killed the women and children, but in fact it was Israeli missiles. There is no evidence Hezbollah missiles were being fired from this building. Are the Israelis any better than the terrorists?
The Israelis say the people were warned and should have fled. But how could they with out cars or buses? Dozens of refugee families fleeing the fighting were obliterated in their cars by missiles fired from jets as they drove north to escape the blitz. Burnt and decaying bodies are left unburied as the Israelis blast anything that moves. Escape was impossible and now a 48-hour day halt to aerial bombing has been agreed to by the Israelis. Too late for the dead.
It's not the first time either. A hundred civilians were killed in this same village in April 1996 while sheltering at a UN post during an Israeli bombing campaign that year. Even their full scale invasion of Lebanon when Ariel Sharon unleashed the Druze militia to massacre the Palestinians in the refugee camps of Beirut did not wipeout Hezbollah. And they will fail again. In fact that atrocity inflamed and instigated even more attacks and is one of the roots of this present war.
Going after Hezbollah does not justify the destruction of the infrastructure of Lebanon and the killing women and children. Lebanon's health minister says about 750 people - mainly civilians - have been killed by Israeli action, while the number of Israelis dead is 51, 18 of them civilians. It’s clear that Hezbollah missile attacks are not as destructive and the Israeli satellite guided missiles. The response of Israel is grossly disproportionate.
No doubt Hezbollah are using inhabited buildings as cover for their rocket launchers that fire and move on. It is mechanized guerrilla warfare. They must be roundly condemned as cowards and war criminals themselves for using helpless civilians as human shields.
But Israel has to answer for crimes against humanity too. It should never stoop to the same level of mindless killing that they deplore in their enemies. It only dehumanizes Israel itself and all it says it stands for. [End]
