Walter Hinteler wrote:Heard an live interview with Joseph Kallas, archbishop of Beirut and Byb-Los of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church this noon.
He asked the rhetorical question, why the Christian areas have been bombed this morning, if the Israelian didn't know that such would drive even more towards Hizbollah although they actually didn't support them.
But Christians liked their homecountry Lebanon as well as others, he said.
He noted that the destroyed bridges had stopped some couples of aid convoys, two litterally in eyeside. (One with supplies by German Catholic and Evangelical charities.[Inner Mission and Charity Work of the Evangelical Church in Germany and German Caritas])
And he is no doubt reading the same propaganda pieces that everybody else is reading.
OE asks me what evidence? What evidence do any of us have other than what we read or are told? But those who refuse to read or accept any information that does not fit what they wish to believe are either idiots or intellectualy dishonest or ideologically blind.
The overwhelming preponderance of evidence shows:
1) Hezbollah started the fight by kidnapping Israel's soldiers
2) When Israel gave chase, Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israeli residential neighborhoods. Even the UN acknowledges that Hezbollah freely admits it is targeting Israeli civilians.
3) Hezbollah launches those rockets from residential neighborhoods and, when Israel attacks the launch sites, Hezbollah invites journalists to come see what Israel has done. From all indications, Hezbollah is seeking out neighborhoods where civilians are rather than neighborhoods where civilians have evacuated. Hezbollah DELIBERATELY puts civilians at risk.
4) The the majority of the mainstream media obliges by using pictures and headlines to make Israel look as bad as possible.
5) Anti-Israel armchair quarterbacks back home are more than willing to accept the version supplied by the anti-Israel MSM.
If you aren't an idiot or intellectually honest or ideologically blind, however, you also acknowledge and factor in:
6) Israel does not use its civilians as human shields or intentionally put its civilians at risk. And it does what it can to protect its civilian populations.
7) Israel is targeting Hezbollah rocket launchers and supply routes and not civilians in Lebanon as evidenced by the relatively small number of civilians who have been hit. If Israel had been targeting the civilians, many thousands would now be head.
8) Whether you believe the response is proportional or not, Israel has a consistent track record of retaliation against unprovoked attacks from terrorists within its midst or from outside its borders. Israel does not initiate attacks, however, and otherwise leaves its neighbors alone.
Looking at ALL the evidence thus far presented by media sources, I think there is no question that Israel are the good guys in this fight.
But even if you think there are no good guys in this fight, and that could be a reasonable conclusion, I think those who are condemning Israel while offering 'justification' or 'understanding' of Hezbollah or who are not pronouncing even more condemnation on Hezbollah, all qualify as idiots or intellectually dishonest or ideologically blind.