July 15, 2006 Zionists pushing region to brink of total chaos
By our staff writer Israel is taking the same course in Lebanon that it has taken toward the Gazans: killing civilians, including women and children, and destroying the infrastructure. After Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers on Wednesday with the intention of exchanging them for Lebanese nationals held in Israeli prisons, the Zionists overreacted by attacking the sovereign state of Lebanon and imposing an air and sea blockade on Beirut. The actions of the Zionists are pushing the Middle East to the brink of total chaos, a situation we are already witnessing in Iraq with the daily terrorist attacks, a muddle created by Israels master the United States, which has been sitting idly by while things spin out of control in the Land of the Two Rivers. The disproportionate use of force has revived painful memories of the United States disastrous full-scale invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Can seeking the release of three captured soldiers justify the massacre of all these civilians in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip? Even Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday, We are not seeking escalation; we dont want to lead the region into war, adding that what Hezbollah had done was the only feasible path to freeing detainees in Israeli jails, and our natural right. Israel thinks that by destroying Lebanons infrastructure it will cause a decline in the popularity that Hezbollah has enjoyed in Lebanon and the region since it succeeded in ending the Israeli occupation of part of southern Lebanon in the year 2000 after 22 years. Moreover, Israel may bombard or invade Lebanon, but it cannot afford a long war in the face of resistance. Even the U.S. was forced to withdraw from Beirut in the early 1980s after scores of its Marines were killed in a suicide attack. Israels crimes against civilians in Lebanon and Palestine cannot be hidden from the eyes of the world. The repercussions of such brutality have already been reflected in opinion polls in the Western world, in which citizens have cited Israel as the main threat to world peace. However, the blind, unjustified, and illegal support for Israel in the West over the years, especially by the U.S., has been the main factor behind the occupation of territories and untold misery in the Middle East. The most recent concrete example of this is the U.S. veto on Thursday of a UN Security Council resolution that demanded that Israel halt its military offensive in the Gaza Strip and stop its "disproportionate use of force" endangering Palestinian civilians. Regrettably, Denmark, which was expected to loudly protest about the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, abstained from voting against Israel. On Wednesday, Israel tried to justify its attack on Lebanon, calling it self defense. The great powers and the entire international community must realize that any leniency toward the Zionist incursions will harm the whole world, from exacerbating the global security situation to undermining the world economy, as the attack on Lebanon has already sent oil prices skyrocketing to an unprecedented high of $78 per barrel. If they really care about the security situation in the Middle East, the leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, which begin their summit meeting today in Saint Petersburg, should send a strong message to Israel to halt its mad rush to Armageddon. http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=7/15/2006&Cat=14&Num=1 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/uTGrlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
