Oops! …we did it again
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So the noble, knightly warriors of the IDF carry out another massacre in Qana, killing at least 40 60 civilians including at least 23 37 children. Israel’s belated answer to Curtis LeMay assures us it was a regrettable accident:
“We did not know of the whereabouts of civilians in the village,” Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz was quoted by the NRG Maariv Web site as telling President Moshe Katsav.
Sure, maybe. Or maybe not:
And why, after all, should reprisals be confined to Beirut, when according to the Israeli government, “[a]ll those now in south Lebanon are terrorists who are related in some way to Hezbollah”?
Time for a brief recap of just a few previous “slips” that come to mind:
1967. IDF conducts sustained air and naval attack at the USS Liberty flying US flag in int’l waters after 8 hours of aireal surveillance, killing 34 — accidental
1982. IDF allows massacre by ally in Lebanon refugee camps, killing 7-800 — accidental
1996. IDF massacre at UNIFIL compound at Qana, killing 106 refugees while two helicopters and drone are present — accidental
2003. IDF kills American activist Rachel Corrie with bulldozer — accidental
2006. IDF shells to death family on the beach in Gaza — accidental
2006. IDF attacks several Red Cross ambulances — accidental
2006. IDF shells UNIFIL compound over six hours, killing four — accidental
2006. IDF shells other UNIFIL compound, wounding two — accidental
2006. IDF attacks several press convoys — accidental
2006. IDF bombs several hospitals — accidental
2006. IDF attacks numerous refugee convoys — accidental
Surely this must be one of the world’s most incompetent militaries. Can it really be entrusted with more than 200 nuclear weapons?
