Israel bombs Beiruit, misses Rice
Freaky, huh? Actually the bombing seems to have mysteriously let up while Condi was in Lebanon, though heaven knows why. It’s not like the U.S. and Israel are in bed together on this thing:
Lebanese officials have pleaded with the United States to pressure Israel for an immediate cease-fire, but U.S. officials said conditions are not yet ripe for such a move, and they expect Israeli military operations to continue for another week or even longer.
Not yet ripe:
Still not ripe:
20 Responses to “Israel bombs Beiruit, misses Rice”
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Timothy Shortell says:
Bush and Co are pushing hard the “lasting peace, not temporary peace” line. More of the neo-con logic that peace is won through indiscriminate killing. We’re not far from War is Peace.
I think that Retardo (at S,N!) has it right when he says that the Right loves a slaughter. Rather like a serial killer.
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Infidel says:
When will Rice represent United States interests in the region? Never. The Middle East is so screwed up in Bush’s estimate that only a cleansing genocide will do. Little Lebanon with it’s fledgling democracy- so fragile and helpless. BIG BAD HEZBOLLA WITH ROCKETS AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION like a cancerous tumor amid the fragile tissue. There is going to be some damage to surrounding innocents. I’ll tell you what. If United States Marines go into Beirut in force again, they had better be willing, able, and ready to stop Israeli tanks, because this cluster fuck is getting to be that
fucked up.I’m just in a quandary what to do about the Kurds. I mean if sectarian violence ends and an Iraqi government arises, do we quell the inevitable Kurdish uprising in the north? or give them a separate state? That will be Iraq’s problem right? It would be, but we are looking for more permanent solutions, and we won’t “cut and run” until all is right with the Middle East, and we won’t side with terrorists. What would Turkey do?
BRUSSELS, Belgium — In a statement handed out to reporters in Brussels Friday (19 August), the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced a one-month halt to its campaign of violence in Turkey. “Apart from legitimate self defence against annihilation, it is extremely important that there should be no armed clashes in order for the development of a conflict-free environment,” the group said, adding that it was calling on its armed wing to cease attacks.
What does a cease fire mean to a terrorist?
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richard cherry says:
may have missed the point and I do appreciate it’s a question to be asked, but a ceasefire to a terrorist means about the same as to anyone else…err ceasing to fire and be fired at. the difficulty is keeping rather than defining them, but states – even allegedly democratic ones – find that hard too, so we can’t sensibly be too surprised when others do.
Ohh! forgot that to an Ulster Protestant of the deepest orange, a ceasefire means when those catholic bastards have destroyed: all the weapons they actually have; all the weapons people who have pretty much nothing to do with them have; all the weapons you may once have dreamed, feared or heard from a bloke in the pub they might have somewhere; and a few more that they clearly could never have had just in case (cf Iraq).
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John Smith says:
A ceasefire at this point would mean a win for the militants, or shall I call them terrorists, as Hezbollah is well known for? Hamas, the same. After all, both the groups and al Qaeda are well known for using U.N. and Red Cross Ambulances for cover after fighting, then cover. It’s been a fact since the ’50s.
Check it out if you don’t believe me:Kofi in Swahili, means ‘pointless.’ That’s why whatever he says means damn well little, if anything at all. He’s lied about the Oil for Food Program, and he’s lied about the terrorists using ambulances for cover, then running. What makes him any different now? Nothing.
As far as Condi is concerned, the only thing I see of her is a smile. She’s smiling because she gets to go on a meaningless trip to a wartorn countries. Whoopee for Rice!
I hope Israel blows the crap out of Lebanon and the Hezbollah militants and Hamas. Where is Hassan Nasarrallah hiding at? Ah yes, he’s hiding out in the Iranian Embassy in Beirut! The coward doesn’t have the balls to get out and fight with the rest of the terrorists Hezbollah/Hizbollah people. he has to hide and squeal like a little pig!Well, what did you expect, I guess.
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richard cherry says:
‘a win for the militants’ – ah yes mr smith (that couldn’t be a pseudonym could it?) this is precisely the thinking we need to perpetuate the death cycle. Surely with the latest murder of civilians in Qana, Israel is clearly ahead. Could we now perhaps get people to stop this if the world community get together to admit that Hamas and Hezbolah are ‘good’ at pointless butchery but Israel is ‘better’?
The sooner we stop worrying about whether someone has ‘the balls’ to go and die (it also takes balls to go and blow yourself up – but it does no good to anyone) or merely ‘has to hide and squeal like a little pig’ (I’m with the little pigs on this one – if anyone comes huffing and puffing at me I’ll be behind the chimney in the brick house with any luck)the sooner we can escape fairytale land and stop people killing INNOCENT CIVILIANS – on BOTH sides. It’s not complex and even the dullest of heads could get the concept if they stop chanting their pathetic penis-waving rhetoric. Shut your mouths, open your fucking eyes and realise what’s actually going on. -
richard cherry says:
have just clicked on the delightful Michelle Malkin (link above), who seems to think she can bring an end to this conflict by rubbishing Betty Williams and her thirty odd years working for peace (what a waste of time that was, eh Michelle?)and at that very moment the bodies of two boys of 8 and 9 are carried out of the rubble in Qana. Had to pause and give my son a hug.
I wonder what Michelle will be saying about all that over coffee with Ann Coulter tomorrow?
Quite a grandiloquent title ‘Jewish World Review’, isn’t it? Oddly it doesn’t seem to reflect the views of any of the jews I know. -
John Smith says:
Well, mr. cherry, we do agree on one thing. The senseless killing of civilians on both sides, regardless of who started it. But, stop and think a minute. Who started this with Afghanistan and Iraq? Who started with us in Pearl Harbor?
Now ask yourself, who started this truly between Israel and Gaza and Lebanon? As far as Hassan is concerned, he’s a coward, period. Whenever the militants are chanting in the streets, waving their flags and banners next to their leaders, he’s right there, but when war breaks out, where does he disappear to? The nearest hiding receptacle that is not considered Lebanese land. Smart move yes, but he has to come out sometime, and Israel will know when.
There’s a difference between Gaza and Lebanon fighting, and Israel fighting. Gaza and Lebanon is mostly terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah fighters fighting with the countries of Iran and Syria backing them morally. But, they are fighting for the wrong reasons, and that’s to take out anyone who doesn’t believe in their religion. In 1972 when I was in the USMC, I predicted a Holy War. I didn’t know when, but knew it would happen. We are in the middle of it now.
Now, Israel fights for their very existence, which I do admire for their short 58 year time span they have been a sovereign nation. 19 years after they became a nation, they defeated several countries in just a matter of 6 days, due to their training they had received during WWII some had as U.K. dual citizens. Ariel Sharon was one of those field commanders who took charge in the field.BTW, I heard Michelle Malkin do an interview with Ann Coulter, and she called Coulter on a lot of things she double talked on from before. Ann Coulter is nothing more than a two-faced person in it just for a buck or two.
A ceasefire at this point would mean a win for the militants, or shall I call them terrorists, as Hezbollah is well known for? Hamas, the same.
I wrote that for a reason. It means Iran and Syria would win also, Mr. Cherry. Syria would want to get the Golan heights back that Israel took in 1982-3, Syria would want all investigations by the U.N. into the assassinations on the Lebanese Presidents (two of them) dropped, and stopped immediately. The U..N. is a joke. They been helping out terrorists for years now, and paying them. Why didn’t they enforce the U.N. Mandate 1559- which calls for NO militia to be a part of any government anywhere in the world. Yet, Hamas went against it, Hezbollah holds seats(forcibly, probably) in the Lebanese government. Yet, the U.N. doesn’t do anything to enforce it.
I don’t know what I’m talking about? I had a cousin who died in the barracks explosion when a truckful of explosives drove into it in 1982 in Lebanon border. Leveled it like a pancake, his friend said. -
Violet says:
John Smith, I deleted your stupid link to Michelle Malkin; it was screwing up the page, and besides, I don’t welcome warmongering batshit crazy wingnuttery here.
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richard cherry says:
and here was me thinking michelle (is it too out of order to call her sugar tits? it seems a friendly enough nickname and if a god-fearing man can use it…) was a good ole liberal. I even sent her an email so will now be on a real death-list (not to denigrate your own, dearest Violet, but hey I’m still posting) I suppose the fact that the link came from someone who deals in solid old-fashioned good sense like: ‘I hope Israel blows the crap out of Lebanon and the Hezbollah militants and Hamas.’ might have given me just the teeniest clue, but everything is much clearer in retrospect; it would be easier if these people could just get branded prominently – maybe a red letter ‘f’. You could write a book about that sort of thing if you were clever and litrit.
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John Smith says:
Actually Violet, that wasn’t warmongering I was showing. I was showing how the terrorists and the U.N. were and still are working in conjunction together. They use ambulances to run after they commit a war-like act, then the U.N. blasts the U.S. and Israel for their “acts of atrocities.” That is basically the only point I’m trying to get across.
Yes, sometimes, I do get into that combat mode at times, but my being a former Marine, what did you expect? Peace, love, Hare Kirshna, and all that? Sorry, Violet, with all due respect to you and everyone else on this blog, that’s just a fantasy
about peace throughout the world. It’ll never happen. As a matter of fact, I don’t like telling you this, but it’s only going to get worse. That’s reality. People don’t like being told about reality, because they don’t like hearing it. It’s the same about truth, sometimes. That’s all that was about that michelle malkin link, showing what was going behind the lines for real.As for the civilians in Qana, I hate the facts that civilians on either side are being killed, and it is wrong. But, Mr. Cherry, look at it for a second. Qana people were warned to leave, as were people in other small villages where Hezbollah fighters ‘hang.’ I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Hezbollah fighters told them to stay, just as they surrounded the U.N. Observers post as was told by a U.N. observer to the U.N. officials and to the different countries stating it wasn’t Israel’s fault because they(the U.N. post) was surrounded by Hezbollah fighters all around the post. They are that fanatical to do things to draw attention to themselves and others, as you have seen in the past and in the present.
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Infidel says:
Israel fights to exist, the others fight to rid the Mideast of the Israelites.
.and someone builds a better bomb. Nukes that leave buildings stand and only kill the people. Bombs that leave no vegetation in their wake. The kind of bomb we need here is not a cease to exist bomb but a we’ve got to live together bomb. A bomb that blows up the hatred, the envy, that blows up coveting, and ownership, mine, mine, mines! What we need is a bomb to destroy attatchment to things of this earth, a bomb to promote the love of poverty- not starvation, but a release from “stuff”, and a bomb that explodes former myths about serving a God so radically that we kill each other to prove our righteousness. A bomb to explode that God, so we might serve each other with charity towards all our neighbors. -
richard cherry says:
John, you are dreaming if you think the civilians in Qana can just pop down the petrol station, fill up the Hummer with gas and potter off err somewhere over the rainbow perhaps. And did you see the ones who did manage to hit the road?
Their car got blown up. OOOPS I did it again!
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John Smith says:
Richard, what in the world are you rambling on about? I was talking about the bombs that hit the civilians in the basement of the apartment. But, as I said before any civilians killed in any war is wrong, but there are going to be casualties as such like that, regardless of what kind of war, where the war is, who is fighting the war, whether you like the side your ‘rooting for’ or not, it happens. You can’t just up and fight a war and say, “I’m not going to bomb there because even though there are literally thousands of Hezbollah fighters there, there are a a few dozen civilians that we warned to leave by leaflets a couple of days ago” So, in my opinion I would say that Hezbollah didn’t want to be alone when Israeli fire came in, so they convinced a few families to stay in their basements. Also, about the civilians on the road. If they got hit, they didn’t get out like they were warned. Oh well, they had fair warning. They were taking a chance on Hezbollah too, by staying in the area. Just like the UN observer post.
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John Smith says:
Infidel says:
Israel fights to exist, the others fight to rid the Mideast of the Israelites.
.and someone builds a better bomb. Nukes that leave buildings stand and only kill the people. Bombs that leave no vegetation in their wake. The kind of bomb we need here is not a cease to exist bomb but a we’ve got to live together bomb. A bomb that blows up the hatred, the envy, that blows up coveting, and ownership, mine, mine, mines! What we need is a bomb to destroy attatchment to things of this earth, a bomb to promote the love of poverty- not starvation, but a release from “stuff”, and a bomb that explodes former myths about serving a God so radically that we kill each other to prove our righteousness. A bomb to explode that God, so we might serve each other with charity towards all our neighbors.
August 1st, 2006 at 8:40 am ESTInfidel, I do believe you are talking about the “Anti-Matter Bomb,” which is the most powerful bomb to date, but not yet perfected. It probably won’t be perfected in our lifetime either. You have to suspend anti-matter away from matter…you get the meaning. No terrorist groups will ever perfect that bomb either, I have reason to believe. They don’t have the technology to do so. No, not even Iran.
No bomb will be made to rid Mankind of God…LOL On the other hand, he will rid Himself of a lot of us, because he is very displeased with what he sees. That’s why he gave us Freedom of Choice or as we call it, “Free Will.” -
Infidel says:
Our children, God forbid, should have free will, otherwise they would drink the draino and ride the tricycle down the back stairs. On the other hand it is never a child like an adult who shames.
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Violet says:
Why is my blog being invaded by nutcases?
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Infidel says:
John,
How did you make my name so big?Violet,
I apologize and will impose a cease blogging of one month during which time I will actually research a topic before commenting and even compose a post worthy of your reading because I really do value your blog and want to continue posting here.No Infidel blogs for the entire, remaining month of August. So let it be written, so let it be done.
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Violet says:
John,
How did you make my name so big?He used the anti-matter bomb.
Actually it was a # followed by a space. I deleted it.
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John Smith says:
Thank you Violet. Sorry about making his name so big. Didn’t mean to do it on purpose.
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richard cherry says:
Well at least we now know that even if you don’t have to be totally raving to support the Israeli action in Lebanon, available evidence would suggest it certainly helps.
