"Israel" Upholds Clusterbombing of Civilian Populated Areas of Lebanon

They say the "Israel" "Defense" Force is "the most moral army in the world." Indeed, the IDF exemplifies Talmudic "morality" to a higher degree than any other military. But the Talmud does not constitute the basis for morality in Western culture, or at least, it didn't until recently. I suppose that's how they can now get away with making such a ridiculous claim.

Israel upholds use of cluster bombs

December 24, 2007

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM - The Israeli army on Monday said it will not press charges against officers who ordered the use of cluster bombs during last year's war in Lebanon, brushing off international criticism that the weapons unnecessarily put Lebanese civilians at risk.

Announcing the results of a more than year-long probe, the army said investigators determined Israel's use of cluster bombs was a "concrete military necessity" and did not violate international humanitarian law. Lebanese officials accused the army of covering up war crimes.

Cluster bombs open in flight and scatter dozens of bomblets over wide areas. The United Nations and human rights groups have accused Israel of dropping about 4 million cluster bomblets during its 34-day war against the Hezbollah guerrilla group.

They say as many as 1 million bomblets failed to explode and now endanger civilians, and earlier this year, the U.S. State Department said Israel probably misused American-made cluster bombs in civilian areas. More than 30 people have been killed by cluster bomb and land mine explosions in Lebanon since the 2006 summer [brutality].

full article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071224/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_cluster_bombs

The Israeli Gift that Keeps Giving

11/10/2007

Briton killed while clearing IDF cluster bombs in southern Lebanon

By Reuters

A British man was killed on Thursday while clearing cluster bombs dropped on southern Lebanon by Israel ... last year, a United Nations spokeswoman said.

He was the 13th person to be killed during work to clear unexploded ordinance [dropped by the Israelis] in July and August, 2006, said Dalya Farran of the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre (UNMACC) in Lebanon ...

Cluster bombs had also killed a six-year-old boy and a shepherd in the same area over the last week, the sources said.

Farran said 23 civilians [have] been killed by unexploded ordinance, mostly cluster bombs ...

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/911933.html

Haaretz Admits 2006 Brutality Against Lebanon Was Initiated by "Israel"

"... a war initiated by Israel against a relatively small guerrilla group several kilometers away from home ..." (Brave and forsaken, Haaretz, August 11, 2007)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/891930.html

Also see:

In 2006 Lebanon War, Most Crimes Were Israeli

Olmert Admits 2006 Israeli Destruction of Lebanon Infrastructure was Decided Upon Long in Advance

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Winograd Commission that his decision to respond to the abduction of soldiers with a broad military operation was made as early as March 2006, four months before last summer's Lebanon war broke out ...

... as early as the first day of the war, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with Olmert and asked that Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora not be undermined. Israel understood this to mean that Lebanese infrastructure should not be destroyed, even though the IDF had originally planned otherwise.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/834549.html

The Sound of Money Flowing Out Of Your Pockets Towards "Israel"

EDITOR'S NOTE: Those who followed the Israeli massacre on Lebanon this past summer may recall Miri Eisin as the the very sincere young woman who relayed how regretful the Israelis were that women and children were "accidentally" killed during the Israeli bombing of homes in the civilian populated village of Qana. Mrs. Eisin has now returned to announce that "Israel" is seeking for the US to pick up the tab for their Kabbalistic 33 day-long slaughter of innocent civilians in Lebanon.

"Israel" is also looking for more cash to cover the cost of removing "Jewish settlers" from the West Bank land they illegally occupied. I was under the impression that we already paid for that. Apparently it wasn't enough. The "settlers" must need new swimming pools, automatic weapons or something else much more important than relief for Hurricane Katrina victims, body armor for US troops in Iraq, or food and clothing for the growing poverty class in the U.S.

Israel negotiates new US military aid deal

JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Israeli delegation has left for the United States to negotiate a new aid deal from the Jewish state's main ally and donor, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokeswoman said Monday.

"A delegation headed by Bank of Israel chief Stanley Fischer left Tel Aviv overnight for Washington to negotiate a new deal to fix the amount of annual military aid from the United States for Israel for the next decade," Miri Eisin told AFP.

Israeli officials are also hoping for extra aid to compensate for the cost of last summer's 34-day Lebanon war and the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in August-September 2005, she said.

Israel withdrew troops and settlers from Gaza after a 38-year occupation, but it continues to be an occupying power under international law as it controls borders and de facto daily life in the coastal strip.

The existing military aid accord between Israel and the United States took effect in 1998 and expires this year.

"Military aid granted to Israel by the United States is currently 2.4 billion dollars per year, and is devoted entirely to purchases of equipment and armaments and to research projects in the US," Eisin said.

The Israeli delegation also includes officials from the finance and foreign affairs ministries and the army, she said.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/26022007/323/israel-negotiates-new-military-aid-deal.html