JUST NU: Israel anfaller Libanon [2006]

"---Estimates of dead Lebanese civilians surpassed 900, while the Israeli civilian death toll is at 27. Although thirty three Lebanese civilians die for every one Israeli, the US media deems it necessary to give the Israeli agenda ten minutes of airtime for every minute allotted to the Lebanese voice. The war crimes being carried out against the Lebanese and the Palestinian people by Israel should be newsworthy enough to receive proper coverage. As the conflict drags on, thanks to the US administration's "green light," the coverage is becoming ever more skewed, compounded with additional justifications for Israel's actions, the further villainizing of Hezbollah and now that the Lebanese-American community has been evacuated, the silence of the Lebanese voice. One civilian is one death too many; yet it looks as though thousands more will perish at the hands of Israeli forces, and once again, the US media will be out to lunch.---"

"---The term "Islamic-Fascism" itself, has been created and put into play by right-wing talking heads such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the rest of the Fox News crew---unacceptable, but expected verbiage coming from these guys. But when you hear CNN's "golden," or should I say "Platinum-boy" Anderson Cooper using the term loosely, you know the term is getting out of control. During a recent interview with Israel's U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman, Cooper refers to the speech given by Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah as "something that Hitler very well could've said." Cooper then utters "it sounds like Islamic-fascism to me." Gillerman just smiles and nods in agreement, thinking to himself "that's my boy." Even though CNN has shown degradation in quality and an increase in editorialization of is reporting, this display is a clear example of the desperation to keep up with the Fox News crowd.---"

Konflikten mellan Israel och Libanon,
som utbröt den 12 juli, har enligt
nyhetsbyrån Reuters hittills krävt
minst 736 libanesiska och 78 israel-
iska liv.

Den utbröt sedan Hizbollah gått in på
israelisk mark, dödat nio israeliska
soldater och kidnappat två.

Under konfliktens gång har Hizbollah
dagligen skjutit ett hundratal rake-
ter in på israelisk mark, medan
israeliska bombplan och marksoldater
försökt få grepp om gerillans sedan
länge etablerade nätverk av tunnlar,
vapenlager och baser.

Hizbollah har vägrat ge efter för
Israels krav att de två bortrövade
israelerna ska släppas.

I stället har rörelsen försökt utverka
frigivning av fångar i utbyte mot
israelerna, vilket Israel vägrat gå
med på.