And so the next stage of this horrible plan progressesThis is shaping up just like Lebanon back in '06. Israel responds to a bunch of poorly aimed and largely unsuccessful rocket attacks with brutal force, lobbing highly accurate, US-supplied weapons at areas with large civilian populations. After a short time they invade, cutting of the injured ( Read more... )

Tell me again how this isn't about collective punishmentIf the Israelis were concerned about weapons or some other sort of dangerous material being transported aboard the ship, they could have boarded it rather than ramming it with the obvious intention of causing it to sink. I can't imagine that trained naval officers would have allowed the ships ( Read more... )

Collective punishment is not, and never will be, a legitimate tool for civilized nationsIf Israel wants to punish the people who are launching these attacks, it should either arrest them or else engage in limited strikes rather than launching these large-scale attacks that serve no purpose but to increase the suffering of innocent people and ( Read more... )

May God bless the innocent Lebanese civilians, who are suffering the most in this slaughterThere is little pretense left in this conflict, it is quite clear what the Israelis want here. Nothing less than total capitulation will do, and obviously terrorism is a weapon that they're willing to use to this end. Apparently this village might be Cana, ( Read more... )