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15. Jul 2006

Israel og Libanon: Hvad medierne ikke fortæller

 
Det er for varmt og for godt vejr til at blogge i dag - i stedet sidder jeg ude i solen og læser Stanislaw Lem: Solaris, som jeg pinligt nok aldrig har fået læst før.

I mellemtiden har FadiKABOBfest en opsummering af nogle basale fakta om Israel/Libanon-konflikten, som vi nok ikke kommer til at høre meget til i den danske mediedækning heller: Israel and Lebanon: What You Wont Hear on CNN:
1. Israel has occupied a number of Arab territories since 1967, pursuing an illegal colonial project thereon comprising, but not limited to, expropriating land, building settlements, and transferring its civilian population. These lands include the Palestinian West Bank, the Syrian Golan Heights, and the Lebanese Shebaa Farms.

2. Israel occupied Lebanon for 22 years (excluding the occupation of Shebaa Farms, which continues to this day). During this period, Israel massacred civilian populations, such as the 1996 bombardment of the United Nations compound in Qana; targetted Lebanon's infrastructure, including power plants and highways; and raised a proxy army, the South Lebanese Army, helping it administer the notorious Khiam prison where hundreds of Lebanese were tortured and imprisoned for years without charge.

3. During its occupation of Lebanon, Israel detained hundreds of Lebanese, often times by crossing over the border and abducting them. To this day, Israel continues to detain a number of Lebanese.

4. Israel regularly invades Lebanon by flying over its airspace, coupled with sonic boom attacks over civilian populations.

5. Though Israel departed from southern Lebanon in 2000, they left over 130,000 land mines which have killed and injured countless children. Israel refuses to disclose the location of all of these mines.

6. Israel hosts one of Lebanon's most wanted fugitives, the ceritified war criminal Antoine Lahad. Lahad led Israel's proxy army in southern Lebanon, the South Lebanese Army. Lahad currently resides in Tel Aviv, where he runs a restaurant and complains of poor treatment by Israel.

7. The Lebanese government has done nothing of substance to secure the release of Lebanese prisoners, the liberation of Shebaa Farms, a halt to the Israeli Air Force's frequent incursions, and a map of Israel's land mines.
Hizbollah har muligvis båret sig forbryderisk og tåbeligt ad, men der er nogle ting, der bør huskes midt i al forståelsen for Israels ret til at bombe sine naboer ...

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