Monday, August 07, 2006

Together we will win

It was very interesting watching Lebanese Prime Minister Seniora sobbing and wiping his tears over the 'massacre of 40 Shahids' that Israel committed. It wasn't until hours later that Seniora admitted that only one person died in the attack.
The damage was clearly already done; the BBC headlines didn't change for hours reporting about 40 dead even when it was obvious that only one person died and there was definitely no massacre.

12 Israeli reserve soldiers died from a Katyusha attack, rockets were shelled from 4 different directions at the same time. 13 got injured. I wonder what kind of intelligence Hezbollah has to be able to launch such an accurate attack.
3 Israeli civilians were killed and 165 civilians were injured at a missile attack on Haifa yesterday at 8pm. I wonder what the minimum number of civilian causalities is where Israel can start using the term 'massacre'. Or that 'privilege' only saved for Arabs?

It never stops to amaze me that even though Israeli Arabs get killed in this were by katyusha missiles, most of them still won't speak up against Hezbollah and against terrorism. If their loyalty is for Israel's enemy, who's agenda is to destroy it, why are they still here?... I don't think that an American openly supporting Al Qaeda and the destruction of the US would be enjoying his freedom of speech for long. I do know that an Arab openly supporting Israel in the Palestinian Authority or Iran would not get to live for long.

Reuters admits for the second time in two days that one of her photographers, Adnan Hajj, has fabricated yet another picture using Photoshop. Of course it makes us all wonder how much of Hajj's work was 'edited' during this war and throughout his career. He was also one of the photographers that took pictures in Qana village.

If there is one thing that Nassrallah succeeded doing in this war is uniting Israel. There seems to be a consensus that this is a war of necessity, a war for our existence against fundamentalist Islam that is out to destroy anything non-Muslim out there. Apart from for some radical-leftists who seem to be completely detached from reality, everybody here, including the two million residents of the north, who are living as refugees or in bomb shelters for 27 days now support the government and the army.

The sticker of this war which is all over the place says "Yachad Ne'natze'ach" which means "together we will win". I think it summarizes our spirit well.

2 Comments:

At 8/8/06 00:20, Blogger Urban Docent said...

Best of luck to you all, and may you have safe travels to and from your homeland.

 
At 8/8/06 03:41, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting that you would mentione loyalties. It seems that Israel is one of the only (if not the only) country where a parliment member can actually preach for the destruction of the state and remain in public service.
Stay well and keep posting.
Dikla

 

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