U.N. Observation Post Destroyed

So, Israel is now bombing the United Nations personnel in southern Lebanon. An Israeli air strike on a UN observer post killed four unarmed UN personnel, including a Canadian, Major Paeta Derek Hess-von Kruedener. This is absolutely unacceptable. There is no reason for Israel to bomb the U.N. observers, unless they don't want their invasion and bombardment to be observed. The Israeli government is actively denying that they had any role to play in the murder of the observers, claiming that the post was hit by accident. But I prefer to take the word of the Secretary General of the United Nations over that of the Israeli government thank you very much. Kofi Annan stated that numerous calls had been made from the observation post to the Israeli government saying that the bombardment had come much to close, until, at about 7:30 pm local time the U.N. lost contact with the post. I find it very difficult to believe that such a thing could have happened by accident after so many warnings.

Of course, Canada's boot-licker of a Prime Minister has decided that Israel can't have possibly targeted the U.N. post for bombing. All he had to say on the matter when asked about Mr. Annan's statement was "I certainly doubt that to be the case." What a fatuous jackass we have in charge of our country. First, Israel's slaughter of the Lebanese is "measured" and second that Israel could not possibly have deliberately bombed the U.N. post. This is a perfect example of the binary thinking that I mentioned in a previous post. Israel can do no wrong, so obviously it could not have possibly even conceived of deliberately bombing the U.N. observers. How disgusting.

And now the Prime Minister of Israel cries crocodile tears for the people killed, expressing "deep regret" over the deaths of the observers. Oh well, at least its better than the treatment that the dead Lebanese civilians get out of the Israeli government, the line that, well, if they were near a site that we wanted to bomb 'cause we think it might possibly, maybe, have had something to do with Hezbollah so they deserved to be bombed into oblivion. This all makes me so sick.

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