The contortions you are getting into, to try and rescue your argument !
We weren't counting, but seeing as you are, the mismatch in number of deaths reveals that the Israeli defence forces are rather more effective then the terrorist Hezbollah.
Maybe I have them all on ignore but I don't recall any Israeli apologists or Hezbollah apologists.
Yep. Stepping back from my default position (that it is all very sad, and what can be done, oh dear, if only the Diaspora had never happened, and if only the Brits had relinquished Palestine in a more thoughtful manner, and if only the Israelis had not been so belligerent over the west bank, and if only the hitherto peaceful religion of Islam had not felt the need to invent the concept of a fatwa in an outpouring of desperation and anger during the last century, and if only the US had not backed all and every Israeli act whether legitimate defense or flagrantly illegal tomfoolery with unequivocal support, and so on), the wheeze with the pagers was quite..... elegant. There, I said it.
This is normal in war. There were loads of civilians killed in WW2 because they happened to be in the wrong place when the bomb dropped, but that didn't mean the UK was a Nazi country.Israel is now officially expanding its military action into Lebanon. Telling civilians to move away from Hezbollah linked locations. Firstly, maybe not all people know where these are, and secondly there will be many who cannot move. This could be lack of accomodation or because of illness/relatives etc.. But Israel no doubt does not care about this.
Israel and Netanyahu’s government are beginning to look like the Fourth Reich.
Lebanon strikes are preparation for ground incursion, Israel army chief tells troops
Lt Gen Herzi Halevi says the Israeli military is preparing for a "manoeuvre", after a week of escalating cross-border fighting.www.bbc.com
