If you open the PDF and scroll down to the satellite photo of the village, you will see that weapons caches have been placed beside mosques and hospitals, underneath schools, and in residential areas. El-Khiam -- which was already the site of serious hostilities with the Israelis in 2006 -- has thus been wired as a village-sized suicide bomb. If Hezbollah launches attacks from El-Khiam and the IDF retaliates, civilian casualties are all but guaranteed.
Judith feels the release is a three-pronged offensive: A warning to Hezbollah ("We know where you are..."), and to the Lebanese people (did they know their womenfolk and children were penciled in as human shields?), and to the international community at large, so that the world understands that any civilians killed in an upcoming conflict were placed in harm's way by radical Islamists.
A fascinating play. There will be war in the Middle East sooner rather than later, as various factions try to coalesce a fractured population around them by attacking Israel. And while Hezbollah may or may not start the war (it may be Egypt, Hamas, or Syria, they will undoubtedly go for glory once the shooting starts.
But will this release have any affect on "world opinion" at all?
In theory, this should be big news. If it is not treated that way, if it is dismissed or ignored, well...then the ending to the story has already been written, no matter ho hard Israel tries to avoid civilian causalities, and regardless of how many innocents are killed by propaganda-seeking, Jew-hating terrorists...
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Seriously? You think you're convincing anyone?
Thanks for helping make my case, anonymous asshat...
It's standard procedure for zionists to attack people with different views from theirs, and to make others out to be aggressors when in fact israel has always been based on criminal aggression, theft of land, and deceitful lies to hide their crimes. I have a proposal that would instanly solve the Palestinian-israeli crisis and bring peace—a one state solution based on universally acknowleged principles of democracy. One state in Palestine-israel for palestinians and jews, arabs and isralis, with equal rights and equal laws and equal opportunities for all. No special rights and privileges for anybody, but equality for all. Forget the notion of a zionist state with special rights for jews, but rather equal rights for all. Then Hezbollah could put away its weapons, for it came into being and exists today in order to resist zionist criminal aggresion.
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