Red Cross Worker Killed By Israeli Strike on Convoy. Please Rate it Up!

[leftchick]

this is heartbreaking.... :(



A Red Cross volunteer cries, in the town of Zahle, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, next to a poster of his colleague Mickael Jbeili who was killed late Friday, while his Red Cross team was escorting a convoy of refugees, which was hit by an Israeli drone near the Bekaa Valley town of Chtaura, about 30 miles north of the Litani River, after they fled southern Lebanon Friday night, killing at least seven people and wounding 22, an Associated Press photographer said. The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident. (AP photo/Samer Husseini)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/080601mideast/im:/060812/481/a473377864cf407c9254743a10213eb8

Please go to the Yahoo link and give it a five. All of the photos from Lebanon need some help!

[Lerkfish]

1. "The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident"

now, why does that give me no confidence?

and OJ is still hunting for the real killer, too.

[Tom Joad]

24. All too familiar refrain. That's what they did for Rachel Corrie.

What happened with that is they produced a report absolving the IDf of responsibility (surprise!), but this was not even acceptable to the US State Dept. Despite that, no further investigation was launched.

[leesa]

27. Yup. And it was her fault that tank drove over her head too. Amazing

how the result of the investigation is ALWAYS the same.

[LostinVA]

33. Some posters were blaming her in a thread a week or so ago

Crazy. RIP, Rachel.

[Lerkfish]

35. lemme guess, would these same people be claiming Israel is just

defending herself?

[LostinVA]

37. Hmmmm.... yes

Why, how did you know, Lerks?

[Lerkfish]

38. color me clairvoyant.

[patdem]

2. and a Jesus fish no less..K&R...

[MissWaverly]

3. There has to be a stop to this

Israel needs to know that this will not be tolerated

[mom cat]

22. The sane countries in the world need to put economic sanctions on the

aggressor nations: the US and Israel. I hope the Muslim nations and OPEC can figure out how to do it. The oligarchs only understand economic threat, and if it comes from most of the nations in the world at once, there is a chance of success. The alternative is to sit by and get picked off one by one.

[malaise]

4. One more war crime

but UN resolutions and international law does not apply to Israel.

[muryan]

6. I was unaware that one civilian death

was a war crime.

[MountainLaurel]

17. I would guess

That the issue isn't the one civilian death but the deliberate targeting of civilians attempting to flee.

[Marie26]

5. So what else is new?

This has happened so often now that I'm not even shocked anymore. The war crimes are continuous & blatant - and it needs to end now.

[leftchick]

7. here is another to rate up

Injured Lebanese woman Abir Abla is seen after receiving medical treatment at the Farahat hospital, in Jobb Jannine, southern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, after her family's car was attacked during an Israeli air raid near the town of Chtaura in the western Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. An Israeli drone fired at a convoy of refugees fleeing southern Lebanon town of Marjayoun on Friday night, killing at least seven people and wounding 22, an Associated Press photographer said. The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/080601mideast/im:/060812/481/7f1c2e64923347aca14cbd5a1d046428

[AlamoDemoc]

8. K&R

[AlamoDemoc]

10. Kick

:kick:

[leftchick]

9. 90% of the photos at that Yahoo link are of the IDF

damn! I just went through all 382 photos and there is clearly a pro-israel slant to them

:(

[WiseButAngrySara]

13. The media is pro-Israeli. ....n/t

[leftchick]

15. yes it is obvious

and despicable.

[Tom Joad]

26. They are, after all, "just like us". The US should not be a role model

but it is. or was Israel a role model for us in Iraq? Or is it the way of militarism and occupation? I take the latter.

[Name removed]

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[leftchick]

39. Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers

This certainly explains a lot...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-2289232-3,00.html

In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.

Jonny Cline, of the international student group, said that Jewish students and youth groups with their understanding of the web environment were ideally placed to present another side to the debate.

“We’re saying to these people that if Israel is being bashed, don’t ignore it, change it,” Mr Cline said. “A poll like CNN’s takes just a few seconds to vote in, but if thousands take part the outcome will be changed. What’s vital is that the international face of the conflict is balanced.”

Doron Barkat, 29, in Jerusalem, spends long nights trawling the web to try to swing the debate Israel’s way. “When I see internet polls for or against Israel I send out a mailing list to vote for Israel,” he said. “It can be that after 15 minutes there will be 400 votes for Israel.

“It’s very satisfying. There are also forums where Lebanese and Israelis talk.”

[DesertRat]

11. These photos are heartbreaking

I voted them each a 5.

[Name removed]

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[leftchick]

20. I saw it

what a shock! NOT! Thank you WBAS!

[AlamoDemoc]

14. .

[katinmn]

16. 3 CodePink women may have been with the car caravan

http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=1166

From Medea Benjamin's blog entry:
Posted by on August 11th, 2006
Day Two: The UN, the Displaced and the Lebanese Activists


"They are hoping to get 100 cars to come on the convoy, but with the increasing shortages of gasoline, they may have to scale back. Most of the groups represented were not doing anything even remotely related just one month ago. Some, like Green Line, are environmental groups; some, like the Arab Women’s Cultural Center, are artists and intellectuals; others, like the International Solidarity Movement, have been trying to protect the rights of Palestinians on the West Bank, but came to Lebanon after the fighting broke out here. What unites them is their outrage at the destruction of their country, their determination to do something to help those under attack, and their refusal to ask permission from the Israelis to help their own people. We have been planning to join the convoy as well, but with the new Israeli offensive, it’s not clear if the road will even be passable."

[malaise]

18. Kick n/t

[Tom Joad]

25. That was a different convoy, and it had problems of its own, but .

but everyone made it safely.

It was a convoy of civil resistance to the Israeli occupation.
See this thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1883374

[katinmn]

31. Whew! That's good. I've been worried about them.

[Beelzebud]

19. Another facet of the Measured Response.

[Nimrod2005]

21. FYI...The dead Lebanese young man is a Christian, not a moslim, not

Hizbollah...

[leftchick]

23. obviously

at least to us. Not to the keyboard kommandos.

[BeHereNow]

28. "Under investigation" UH-HUH!

What needs to be investigated is the
Israeli, Fundie and corporate lobbyist influence in
our government and ME foreign policy making.

I do not pay my taxes so that a handful of
lunatics and greedy bastards can kill civilians
who just happen to get in the way of their
hegemonic agenda.

God, I am so angy right now.

BHN

[entanglement]

29. self delete

[leftchick]

32. "Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers"

this certainly would explain what is happening in the yahoo ratings...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-2289232-3,00.html

WHILE Israel fights Hezbollah with tanks and aircraft, its supporters are campaigning on the internet.

Israel’s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.

In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.

<snip>

“We’re saying to these people that if Israel is being bashed, don’t ignore it, change it,” Mr Cline said. “A poll like CNN’s takes just a few seconds to vote in, but if thousands take part the outcome will be changed. What’s vital is that the international face of the conflict is balanced.”

[leftchick]

34. Photos from his funeral today

please rate these up as well. Some freeper is rating them down....





Lebanese woman Elham Jbeili, sister of Red Cross worker Michael Jbeili, 35, mourns during his funeral procession at the city of Zahle in the Eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006. Michael Jbeili was killed when an Israeli drone was fired at a convoy of refugees fleeing southern Lebanon on Friday night, killing at least seven people and wounding 22, an Associated Press photographer said. The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident. Lutfallah Daher, the photographer, was with the convoy when it was hit near the Bekaa Valley town of Chtaura, about 30 miles north of the Litani River. (AP Photo / Nasser Nasser)



Lebanese man George Khuli reacts while carrying the coffin of his cousin, Red Cross worker Michael Jbeili, 35, during his funeral procession at the city of Zahle in the Eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006. Michael Jbeili was killed when an Israeli drone was fired at a convoy of refugees fleeing southern Lebanon on Friday night, killing at least seven people and wounding 22, an Associated Press photographer said. The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident. Lutfallah Daher, the photographer, was with the convoy when it was hit near the Bekaa Valley town of Chtaura, about 30 miles north of the Litani River. (AP Photo / Nasser Nasser)



Relatives of a member of the Lebanese Red Cross, Mikaeil Georges Jbaili, who was killed during an Israeli air raid in Kefraya, mourn during a funeral ceremony in the city of Zahle, north of Beirut August 13, 2006. REUTERS/Jihad Haddad (LEBANON)



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http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/080601mideast

[Poll_Blind]

36. K&R! n/t

PB

[breakaleg]

40. Israel should be held accountable for this. There is no excuse.