Israel, Lebanon, Palestine

What an enormous clusterfuck this whole middle east war is turning out to be. Our beloved leaders seem to be making the most inane comments. Here in a nutshell is what seems to be happening.
- Hamas militants kidnapped an Israeli soldier.
- Israel started bombing the shit out of the gaza strip
- Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli Soldiers and fired a bunch of rockets into Israel killing a few folks.
- Israel started bombing the shit out of Lebanon.
- Israeli troops and tanks moved across the Lebanese border.
- Western nations begun to pull their citizens out of Lebanon, there are very few western citizens dumb enough to be in the Gaza strip so that wasn't a problem for us.
- Our leaders demanded that Hezbollah stop the rocket attacks and give back the Israeli soliders but curiously did not demand the same from Israel.

I'm not sure i really understand but what the fuck is wrong with Israel? Some nutter with a bomb kills a few Israelis and they level a housing complex. The response is totally disproportionate. The Israelis are war criminals. I say this with no bias, its true. It is what we call a fact. They deliberately target civilians and civilian infrastructure in matters of war. Thats a war crime. Go on, look up the Geneva conventions, there it is, war crime.

And what do we in the west do. Do we reprimand Israel? No. Do we put Israel under sanctions? no. Do we support Israel with Millions in aid and weapons and (in the case of the US) veto any criticsim of them in the UN? yes.

So we have a very young nation, illegally occupying land and committing war crimes against its neighbours, and we are completely backing them, never uttering scorn or concern except at their enemies. And we wonder why the locals hate us.

Seriously, finding someway to bitchslap the Israelis into complying with international law and abandoning their illegally held lands (and returning them back to the Palestinians) would be the single best thing we could do for Middle east peace. And yet there seems to be no such effort under way.

On this most recent issue, Qatar introduced a UN resolution to force a cease fire. A CEASE FIRE. not a settlement or surrender but simply and end (for the time being) to the bombing. And guess what America did. Thats right, they vetoed it. Fuckers.

I now sincerely believe that the US wishes to destabilise thewhole mideast region, they actually see this war as a good thing. Just another reason why those dopey fuckers need to get off their arses and impeach Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield/et al.

Of course, our own Tony Blair, bitch that he is, is firmly towing the American line urging Hezbollah to stop firing rockets and give back the Israelis so that Israel has an excuse to stop bombing them. No excuse is needed. Israel must be made to stop and to pay for its crimes.

Note that i'm no more sympathetic to Hezbollah or Hamas (although Hamas as a majority party need to seize the moral high ground and stop doing this kind of stuff). They opened this particular round of violence. It only remains to be seen who will stop the violence first. If anyone.