A Peek into a Mind

Before anything else, I must state this clearly: I was very sad myself for the lost of lives in Kfar Kanaa yesterday. In fact, I’m sad for all the innocent lives lost in Lebanon. Our fight is not with all the people in Lebanon, but only with Hezbollah and their supporters. There is no “but” or “whatever” or anything. The lost of lives on both sides is not right and should be avoided.
I’ve seen myself the pictures of the kids taken out of the building yesterday and as a medic myself I can tell you I was very sad and very touched.

But such an incident was unavoidable. Be it Qanaa or any other place. When civilians are caught in a battle zone, they get hurt. Innocent or not. The Hezbollah is using civilians as human shields through out this war everywhere and this thing was expected to happen. They WANTED it to happen. Hey, don’t take it from me, I’m an Israeli after all, right? Take it from the UN - Jan Egeland, UN under secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, clearly blamed Hezbollah for blending with the civilians on purpose:

“When I was in Lebanon, in the Hezbollah heartland, I said Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children,” Jan Egeland, UN under secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, was quoted as saying in a report on Washington Jewish Week online.

“I heard they were making statements that they were proud of losing fewer armed men than civilians. It’s hard to see how they could be proud of such a situation.”

Now on the Kfar Qanaa case - Kfar Qanaa was used by Hezbollah to fire hundreds of rockets on Israeli cities. Mind you they target civilians on purpose, while Israel’s army target Hizb. targets. Israel had warned civilians several times to leave the village, either by radio and air-dropped pamphlets. Almost everybody really left. The Hizb. terrorists were seen firing few katushas from near that building and then running to hide inside that same building.

Given the Israeli proof of Hizb. terrorists using that building, among other buildings in the village, as a shelter for firing rockets on our cities, and given the assumption that almost all civilians had already left the village, there were no second thoughts before marking that building as a target. The tragic truth was that hizb. terrorists were using a building populated with civilians, mostly kids, as a shelter.

But that’s the regular type of action for the Hezbollah. They took families to sit in their camps. They use civilian houses all over south of Lebanon to store weapons and as missile shooting sites. Then they run away and those civilians are left to deal with the bombing of our Air Force. Some of the civilians allow it because they have a gun pointed at their head. Many also do that out of support of hizbollah.

And let me be clear on another thing - Hezbollah target our civilians on purpose. It is only luck and the presence of shelters that prevented such a tragedy on the Israeli side as well.

Hezbollah had fired more then 1500 missiles on Israeli cities so far. Most of the people from the north of Israel are now refugees in the center and south of the country. The people left in shelters (and because Israel was attacked so many times by Arab armies over the years, we have shelters in every building) are mostly poor people that could not afford or have no means to leave their homes.

So with all due respect, and the sadness I feel for the innocent civilians in Lebanon - and I do! - I do not think this incident should have ANY effect on the Israeli fight. If anything, it should make Hizb. a more hated group.

That would have happen in a sane, truth loving, world.

Now for the real world.

Nasralla is currently jumping with joy on this incident in Kfar Qanaa. This will help him look even more like he cares about Lebanon. It will make all the angry citizens in Lebanon support him.

Who remembers that it was Hezbollah that started this war? That they had attacked Israeli cities (like Metula) with rockets while kidnapping 2 soldiers and killing 4 others? That they did this unprovoked, while Lebanon was the last thing on Israel’s mind? While it was 6 years already that Israel had retreated to an international border set by the UN ?

Who remember that the actual order to carry out this attack actually came from Iran, on the purpose of destructing world attention from the answers they were suppose to give regarding their nuclear program?

No one.

Lebanon civilians and Israeli civilians are becoming refugees, are killed and wounded. And all that cause Iran got a military arm sitting in Lebanon, with a $300 million budget a year from Iran and Syria, and takes 2 countries hostages. Lebanon and Israel. Lebanon couldn’t fight as their army is weak and they are terrified from another civil war, it was left to us, Israelis, to fight for ourselves and for them.

When civilians stay in a battle zone - by their will, or forced to do so - they suffer. Both on our side and Lebanon’s. That’s why War is hell.

And about the Lebanese Prime Minister seniora whining like a little girl now, well - You had your chance. You couldn’t control your country. The attacks on Israel over the past 6 years were all done from inside the Sovereign country of Lebanon. If forces inside Germany would have attacked France, and the German government not only do nothing, but have these forces seats in the government, well, you wouldn’t be able to blame France for attacking all of Germany.

Same game here.

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P.S. - Want to stop the war? It’s still the same way.

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Update:
The Australian newspaper Herald Sun managed to smuggle out of Lebanon some exclusive pictures showing Hezbollah terrorists dressed as civilians (even though they have a uniform) and hide inside urban areas with missiles and cannons. Check it out.

Also check out this video that shows how a Hezbollah fired rockets on Israeli cities from kfar Qana, and later on drove the launcher truck inside a civilian house to hide.

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Seems I’m no the only one going against Hezbollah abusing civilians - even Lebanese are:
Ouwet: Hezbollah Launched Missiles from QANA !!, active debate on the issue at Rampurple.

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A group of Christians-Lebanese, identifies with the March-14 movement (that threw Syria out of Lebanon after it had assassinated PM Hariri) had published even a harder statement then Israel on the Qana incident, accusing Hezbollah in brining these kids to the building on purpose. (It is in french. If you do not read French well, try google translation)

I don’t know how much this theory can be trusted, though. Either way I don’t think it matters, as for most Lebanese and Israelis, it was an Israeli missile that brought down the building, regardless of that true or why the kids were there.

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Interesting. Seems some US and UK based bloggers checked the timedate stamp on the AP pictures taken from the Qana incedent. Apperantly, some of them were taked hours after the kids were really evacuated. check the report here.