Israeli Warplanes Pound Lebanon

[Purveyor]

Israeli warplanes pound Lebanon
Thu Aug 3, 2006 9:18 PM ET



By Tom Perry

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes pounded Lebanon on Friday and the army prepared for a possible push further into Lebanese territory to drive out Hizbollah which threatened to launch rockets further into Israel if central Beirut were hit.

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Israeli warplanes replied with airstrikes on Hizbollah strongholds in southern Beirut, already pounded earlier in the war. Leaflets dropped over the suburbs had warned residents to leave parts of the area on Thursday. Air strikes also hit targets across southern Lebanon and near Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, witnesses said.

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Nasrallah offered to stop the rocket barrage if Israel ended attacks on civilian areas in Lebanon.

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Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said on Thursday the war had killed 900 people in Lebanon and wounded 3,000. He said a million Lebanese, a quarter of the population, had been displaced. The Reuters tally of deaths is 687.

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[Purveyor]

1. From the video being played on Faux, israel is dropping

some heavy bombs.

[mom cat]

4. They must have loaded up the US bunker busters!

[goforit]

2. So much for mother Earth! May God embrace only the innocent!

[PCIntern]

6. Yes, including those at

Kiryat Shmona in Israel who have had to endure years of mortar shells and rockets dropped on then, as well as all the innocents in Lebanon who are not harboring Hezbollah or theri arms in their basements. May God have mercy on them all.

[bluedog]

3. when this out on Paula Zahn

the reporter said it was a small village that backed up to the Beirut airport Paula asked if the fliers were dropped hear to warn the people and he said NO FLIERS were dropped in this area........

[Robbien]

5. There is that word again, "Pound"

As if that is a good thing. For weeks on end we kept hearing reports of how the US was Pounding Afghanistan and then for weeks on end the US was Pounding Iraq.

Now they are dusting off that old "Pound" again.

It is not "Pounding". It is raining death and destruction on the people of Lebanon.

I hate the media.

[PCIntern]

7. I agree with the semantic issue,,,

here's some more...

“Civilians” in Lebanon have munitions in their basements and deliberately wish to draw fire; in Israel they are in bunkers to avoid it. Israel uses precision weapons to avoid hitting them; Hezbollah sends random missiles into Israel to ensure that civilians are struck.

“Collateral damage” refers mostly to casualties among Hezbollah’s human shields; it can never be used to describe civilian deaths inside Israel, because everything there is by intent a target.

“Cycle of Violence” is used to denigrate those who are attacked, but are not supposed to win.

“Deliberate” reflects the accuracy of Israeli bombs hitting their targets; it never refers to Hezbollah rockets that are meant to destroy anything they can.

“Deplore” is usually evoked against Israel by those who themselves have slaughtered noncombatants or allowed them to perish — such as the Russians in Grozny , the Syrians in Hama , or the U.N. in Rwanda and Dafur.

“Disproportionate” means that the Hezbollah aggressors whose primitive rockets can’t kill very many Israeli civilians are losing, while the Israelis’ sophisticated response is deadly against the combatants themselves. See “excessive.”

Anytime you hear the adjective “excessive,” Hezbollah is losing. Anytime you don’t, it isn’t.

“Eyewitnesses” usually aren’t, and their testimony is cited only against Israel .

“Grave concern” is used by Europeans and Arabs who privately concede there is no future for Lebanon unless Hezbollah is destroyed — and it should preferably be done by the “Zionists” who can then be easily blamed for doing it.

“Innocent” often refers to Lebanese who aid the stockpiling of rockets or live next to those who do. It rarely refers to Israelis under attack.

The “militants” of Hezbollah don’t wear uniforms, and their prime targets are not those Israelis who do.

“Multinational,” as in “multinational force,” usually means “third-world mercenaries who sympathize with Hezbollah.” See “peacekeepers.”

“Peacekeepers” keep no peace, but always side with the less Western of the belligerents.

“Quarter-ton” is used to describe what in other, non-Israeli militaries are known as “500-pound” bombs.

“Shocked” is used, first, by diplomats who really are not; and, second, only evoked against the response of Israel , never the attack of Hezbollah.

“United Nations Action” refers to an action that Russia or China would not veto. The organization’s operatives usually watch terrorists arm before their eyes. They are almost always guilty of what they accuse others of.