Hezbollah was using UN post as 'shield'

[Cathedral]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
Yup.

And they were ferried via a Scottish airport so everyone here is getting fucking pissed.

Not that it will make a cunt of difference.

I have to belive it's a Jewish money thing otherwise why would the US take all this shit and misery for a pisssy country of 5 million that repeatedly act illlegally?

It pisses me off too, they don't need our weapons in my opinion.
The whole Foreign Aide thing gets under my skin because we still have hungry and homeless people here at home.

Priorities are so fucked up, how about we solve our own problems FIRST?

That's just my opinion though.

[Nickdfresh]

Israel troops 'ignored' UN plea
The UN deaths have provoked an international outcry

The UN post
UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon contacted Israeli troops 10 times before an Israeli bomb killed four of them, an initial UN report says.

The post was hit by a precision-guided missile after six hours of shelling, diplomats familiar with the probe say.

UN-led crisis talks in Rome ended with no agreement to urge an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Eight Israeli soldiers have died in ongoing clashes - the biggest loss in one incident since the conflict began.

Twenty-two soldiers were injured as Israeli troops tried to gain control of the town of Bint Jbeil, a strategically located Hezbollah stronghold.

An Israeli officer died in a separate clash later.

And a massive explosion destroyed a several-storey building in the centre of Tyre housing the offices of a top Hezbollah commander.

He was not there at the time.

A senior Israel army general said he expected the fighting would continue for "several more weeks".

More than 400 Lebanese and 42 Israelis have died in two weeks of conflict, which began after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on 12 July.

In other developments:

* Hezbollah fired more than 100 rockets into Israel, injuring 31 people, security and medical sources say

* A Jordanian military plane arrived in Beirut to evacuate some of the most seriously wounded Lebanese civilians

* Ten lorries loaded with food and medical supplies arrived in the southern town of Tyre from the capital, Beirut

* Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah warned on TV that his organisation would begin firing rockets further south into Israel than Haifa

* More than 300 people - mainly US and Australian citizens - who had been caught in the fighting in southern Lebanon are due to leave from Tyre on a Canadian ferry on Wednesday evening

Israeli regrets

The four unarmed UN observers from Austria, Canada, China and Finland, died after their UN post in the town of Khiam was hit by an Israeli air strike on Tuesday.

I cannot believe the level of force with which Israel has decided to retaliate in Lebanon Glen, Edinburgh
The UN report says each time the UN contacted Israeli forces, they were assured the firing would stop.

A senior Irish soldier working for the UN forces had warned the Israelis six times that their bombardment was endangering the lives of UN staff, Ireland's foreign ministry said.

Had Israel responded to the requests, "rather than deliberately ignoring them", the observers would still be alive, a diplomat familiar with the report said.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has expressed "deep regrets" over the deaths.

Israel is conducting an investigation into the incident.

It has rejected accusations made by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that the targeting of the UN position was "apparently deliberate".

White House spokesman Tony Snow said "something went really wrong" to cause the deaths, but also said there was no reason to suggest the bombing was deliberate.

The UN Security Council is meeting to discuss the incident.

'Utmost urgency'

The Rome summit, called by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, brought together EU and Arab nations plus the US and Russia, but not Israel, Iran or Syria.

The conference released a declaration expressing "determination to work immediately to reach with utmost urgency a ceasefire to put an end to the current hostilities".

It also said a ceasefire "must be lasting, permanent and sustainable".

The statement called for an international force with a UN mandate for south Lebanon, and the full implementation of existing UN Security Council resolutions calling for the disarming of militias and deployment of Lebanese troops in the border region.

Mr Annan said it was important to work with the countries of the region, including Syria and Iran, to find a solution to the crisis.

But Condoleezza Rice was critical of the role of both countries.

"It's not a question of talking to Syria, it's whether Syria's prepared to act," she said.

In an impassioned speech, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora warned that more people would die if the ceasefire was delayed, and called for a Lebanese-Israeli prisoner exchange as part of plan to end the fighting.

Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/5217176.stm

Published: 2006/07/26 21:34:20 GMT

[ULTRAMAN VH]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
Both.

The U.S. also gives Israel $3billion a year in aid...

Israel also has a healthy indigenous weapons industry...

Lets not forget the 30 million in aid that was delivered to Lebanon by Condi Rice just a few days ago.

[Nickdfresh]

Ooooooh! Would you like to have $3B with interest? Or $30M?

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by ULTRAMAN VH
Lets not forget the 30 million in aid that was delivered to Lebanon by Condi Rice just a few days ago.

You do understand the difference bewteen humanitarian aid, and missles, right?

You do understand a billion is a thousand millions, right?

I only ask because you seem to be stumped by the easiest things in here.

UterusMan.

Big in Japan.

[WACF]

Annan needs to go.

He should of been aware of what was going on with the post being used as a sheild.

The UN "should" of mandated the use of weapons by it' forces to repell such bullshit.

Another thing is that the soldiers should of been pulled from the area if this was going on during hostilities.

Personally...I think Israel got sick of this going on and said fuck it...level it.
Do not forget...a few years back some East Indian UN troops took bribes and allowed a kidnapping attempt that killed Israelis...I doubt they really forgot that.

[ULTRAMAN VH]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
You do understand the difference bewteen humanitarian aid, and missles, right?

You do understand a billion is a thousand millions, right?

I only ask because you seem to be stumped by the easiest things in here.

UterusMan.

Big in Japan.

Yes ma'am, I do understand the difference.

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
It's interesting you consider the Israeli army 'our military'.

Well, it couldn't be considered Britain's Army.

The Israelis actually know what they are doing.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Well, it couldn't be considered Britain's Army.

The Israelis actually know what they are doing.

Yeah, they kill women and children with the best of 'em...

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
Yeah, they kill women and children with the best of 'em...

It's rather odd how you place the blame on Israel rather than the Islamofascists who hide in schools and hospitals and use women and children as shields.

Interesting.

[Cathedral]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
It's rather odd how you place the blame on Israel rather than the Islamofascists who hide in schools and hospitals and use women and children as shields.

Interesting.

I find it odd that they stand on a soap box bitching about killing children at all while supporting legalized abortion here at home.

I call that, hypocracy.

Especially since they are on record as saying life may begin at a cellular level.

Their logic makes sense, until it becomes a political football and then they apply a double standard and hide behind an un-just law.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
It's rather odd how you place the blame on Israel rather than the Islamofascists who hide in schools and hospitals and use women and children as shields.

Interesting.

There's no proof of that. Of course, you'll beLIEve whatever self-serving propeganda is being spouted, and even self-perpetuate it. But try to point out any of the story where there were weapons nearby...

BTW, Hezbollah can say the same thing. Israel has weapons if Haifa, so the're intentionally hiding weapons behind women and children instead of evacuating the city...

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Cathedral
I find it odd that they stand on a soap box bitching about killing children at all while supporting legalized abortion here at home.

I call that, hypocracy.

Really, I call it hypocrasy when people allow living, self-aware children to starve in this country, go abroad to adopt foreign children because they're white, and punish the innocent by stripping welfare benefits from them...

Especially since they are on record as saying life may begin at a cellular level.

Don't scratch your arm of jerk-off, you've murdered a bunch of cells then...

Their logic makes sense, until it becomes a political football and then they apply a double standard and hide behind an un-just law.

Yeah, whatever dude, you're the one that was living in Ohio, a state that was intentionally withholding welfare benefits while collecting billions from the Federal gov't and stashing it in what amounts to a giant tax-payer funded escrow account. I wonder how many of those Ohio poor children are suffering, so the state gov't can collect interest?

[BITEYOASS]

Haven't the Republicans always been screwing working people over? Fuck, they've been doing that since the late 1800's. Back in the days when beating up and shooting workers threatening to unionize was a OK. And let's not forget that other great republican disaster called the Great Depression.

[Cathedral]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
Really, I call it hypocrasy when people allow living, self-aware children to starve in this country, go abroad to adopt foreign children because they're white, and punish the innocent by stripping welfare benefits from them...



Don't scratch your arm of jerk-off, you've murdered a bunch of cells then...



Yeah, whatever dude, you're the one that was living in Ohio, a state that was intentionally withholding welfare benefits while collecting billions from the Federal gov't and stashing it in what amounts to a giant tax-payer funded escrow account. I wonder how many of those Ohio poor children are suffering, so the state gov't can collect interest?

I think you just helped me make my point, lol.
The governments priorities are completely screwed up, that's pretty much what i've been saying for awhile now.

YOU were the one who submitted the idea that life begins on the cellular level, so don't go rolling your eyes on that comment, Nick.

And i'm so responsible for what my state government did?
Whatever, i am one vote that was seriously out numbered.
What you fail to understand here Nick is that Ken Blackwell was the Mayor of Cincinnati when i lived there...I know he's a Republican slimeball and I didn't vote for him as Governor.

Oh, and until tomorrow, I still live in Ohio, lol.