JUST NU: Israel anfaller Libanon [2006]

Den libanesiska infrastruktur som Israel bombat sönder på tre veckor kommer att ta år att bygga upp och kosta minst 14 miljarder kronor.

"One suffers shock after Katyushas fall in North"

Kiryat Shemona, where entire fields have been reduced to heaps of ash and countless animals killed .

Volunteers Bring Joy to Northern Bomb Shelters. Musician Aaron Razel accompanied the group, performing in the underground parking garage of one of Haifa's shopping malls

"---Israel’s amen corner in the U.S. is constantly screaming about "moral equivalence," supposedly the prime sin of the antiwar crowd. How, they ask, can you equate the Israelis, who are always careful to avoid civilian casualties, with the "terrorist" Palestinians-Lebanese-and-Arabs-in-general, who don’t give a fig whom they kill as long as the victim is Jewish?

That is utter hogwash. The Israelis, as we have seen from the first days of this bloody war, are no different than Hezbollah in their tactics or their intentions: they’re both bloody murderers, the only difference being that the Israelis are better-armed – and receive much more aid from their Western allies than Hezbollah could ever dream of getting from Syria or Iran.

Another myth exploded by Israel’s summertime slaughter: the idea that this is the only democracy in the region, and therefore must be supported by the West. As Nehemia Shtrasler, a columnist for Ha’aretz, put it:

"The Olmert-Peretz plan was to shell and demolish south Lebanon and south Beirut until the Lebanese public demanded that its government vomit Hezbollah out from its midst."

The goal of the invasion: regime change – in a country once touted by the president of the United States as a beacon of liberty and proof that his "global democratic revolution" is succeeding. Another myth blown to pieces by Israeli bombs: the neocon notion that democracies don’t make war on each other. The democratically elected government of Lebanon is being systematically destroyed by the Israeli blitz – and that, it turns out, is the whole point of this exercise in death and destruction.---"

"---In closing, everything is fine, folks. We've got the most powerful military in the world stretched to the breaking point over the rack of incompetence, and to those of you who've ever played RISK – you know that that's the way to win a war. Not that there's a war going on. Nope. "Mission Accomplished" and all that pish-posh. I've got it all under control. We anticipated all of this. This isn't big, stupid, arrogant America thinking brute force is a substitute for pussy-assed brainiac "strategy". We are not on the brink of a world war that will put an end to the Great Post-911TM Party and force us all to sober up and own our fuck-ups. Nope. Nuh-uh.

Look into my eyes America. Deep, deep into my eyes. Think of something happy. A surfboard you want to purchase. A double cheeseburger. Perhaps re-watching TiVO'd episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Stare into my eyes, crank up FOX News and sleep. Sleep."