Qana Massacre
Posted by N10452On April 18, 1996 IDF artillery hit a UN compound filled with Lebanese civilians, killing 106 and injuring 116 ( most of the killed were children). Four Fijian United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon soldiers were also seriously injured. [...]
The world condemned this barbaric attack (except the US), but that did not stop Israel from continuing its “Grapes of Wrath” Operation, against the terrorit Hezbollah militia.
Following the attack, Lt.-Gen. Amnon Shahak, Israel’s chief of staff, at a press conference in Tel Aviv on April 18 defended the shelling: “I don’t see any mistake in judgment… We fought Hezbollah there [in Qana], and when they fire on us, we will fire at them to defend ourselves… I don’t know any other rules of the game, either for the army or for civilians…”
Regardless of whether Hebzollah was using the compound as a hideout and the civilians as a human shield ( he did that repeatdly during the 2006 July war), the attack was a barbaric one and Israel should have been punished for it. However, there is another side that should be considered and that will never get those killed civilians any justice, is the fact that the same Hezbollah who is condeming such attacks was supporting similar terrorits attacks 13 years earlier, but this time against the Americans.
On the 18th of April 1983, a suicide bombing was conducted against he US embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, among them 32 Lebanese and 17 Americans.
What is the difference between this bombing and the Qana ?? None.
What is certain is that the main reason for all Israeli atrocitis in Lebanon for the past 20 years has been Hezbollah, and if you dont remove it, we have no reason to ask for justice and we have every reason to hide when Israelis strike.
The solution ? Disarm Hezbollah’s militia and sign a peace treaty with Israel and let the UN monitor the borders.
(from wikipedia)
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8 Comments. Add your own...
1. hamilkar | April 20th, 2008 at 12:52 am
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/
this is the other version you will be the juge
2. Abollam | April 20th, 2008 at 2:19 am
The picture is for the US Embassy in 3ein El Maryseeh… mish heek?
3. peace of shit | April 20th, 2008 at 8:06 am
“sign a peace treaty with Israel”
heheee, dream on delusional dude, not even in your wildest dreams …
4. Johnny.B | April 20th, 2008 at 8:43 am
human shields guys … those were just human shields to make israel seem barbaric … it is well-known that were the missle is launched israel will return fire regardless … then why launch a missle from these camps?
5. Amir in Tel Aviv | April 20th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Another aspect of this incident was the victory of B. Netanyahu in the 1996 elections.
Israeli Arabs boycotted those elections as an act of protestation, and by doing so, allowed the rise of the right wing Likud for the next 3 years (’96-’99).
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6. Rodge | April 20th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Hamilkar,
What you’ve posted is very interesting, and i’m among the people who always asked the following question: “why we Lebanese should be ennemies to Israel? why we should take the Palestinians side in this conflict? is that only because they are Arabs and Muslims? I don’t find that as enough reason, and I think we should all listen to both sides of the story to better understand.
But at the same time, I don’t like Israelis, and I feel towards them the same way I feel towards the Syrians, since they both tried to hurt my country, regardless what were the main reasons.
Also I’m open to peace with Israel, because I know they have a civilized political and social system that we can deal with them as peers, as for the Syrians they will always look at us as a state not as a country, eventhough they have the complex of inferiority when they are compared to us as people, as country, as political and social system, as a lifestyle, as a thinking level, as achievements made, and that’s why bthey are trying to dominate us, but they will not be able to do so ever.
7. Ali 1559 | April 21st, 2008 at 7:49 am
The solution ? Wake up and stop defending our enemy. You sound like junblat N!!!
8. lebnan_united | April 21st, 2008 at 8:20 pm
N10452,
why is it you constantly without fail go out of your way to try to find excuses for Israeli acts of terrorism on the Lebanese people? Why is it soo hard for you and your likes to believe that the Israelis are capable of such monstrous, inhumane acts of slaughter? Why? Just tell me why it’s soo hard to believe? What is it that makes the Israelis incapable of deliberately causing a massacre? You quote an Israeli General to prove some sort of point you want to make? What you think the Israelis will come out and say ”Yeh sure we deliberately slaughtered civilians”. It was proven by the UN sources on the ground, human rights investigations that the Qana massacre was a deliberate unprovoked hit. The UN base was well known to the Israelis, it had been in existence for several years previous.
N10452, I urge you to just grow up honestly man.
You want to oppose Hezbollah? Fine that’s your right. But for heavens sake grow some backbone and condemn the Israelis for what they are and stop trying to excuse their barbarism.
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