War Crimes - the lie that Israel is committing war crimes

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War Crimes

By Ben-Dror Yemini
Maariv
August 5, 2006

So what exactly is the deal with the bombs and the civilian casualties? Are we the most evil element in the world, as the Evil and Stupidity Front claims, from Professor Noam Chomsky and Jose Saramago, through Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah, and up to some of the moviemakers and authors, among us too, that agree that Israel commits crimes against humanity?

A short historical reminder. This time we won’t say a word about Muslims butchering Muslims. We got used to it. The Muslims, especially in the eyes of the Left, are the retarded kids of the world. From them there is no need to demand responsibility, morality, adherence to international law. They are permitted to ignore all of these.

This time we will deal with the West. We won’t venture as far as the bombing of Dresden. We’ll head to recent history. It happened in 1999. Just 7 years ago. Milosevic irritated the Free World when he tried to take control of Kosovo. NATO started bombing. Following is an incomplete list of the injuries; just the civilian ones.

On April 12th – 12 killed in a bombing of a civilian train; on April 14th – 70 refugees are killed in a “hunt for warriors”. NATO forces admit that they find it hard to estimate the number of casualties; April 27th – 16 civilians are killed when two missiles are diverted from their course; April 28th – A stray missile lands in a peaceful neighborhood in Sophia, capital of Bulgaria. May 1st – 27 killed in a bombing of a bus on a bridge in Belgrade. According to other claims 47 were killed. All of them civilians; May 6th – 15 civilians are killed in the town of Nis in Yugoslavia; on May 7th – the Chinese embassy in Belgrade is erroneously bombed. 3 civilians were killed; May 13th – at least 100 civilians are killed in the village of Korisa. Burned bodies of kids are presented in the media worldwide. NATO’s spokesman announces that the bombings were against “legitimate military targets”; May 19th – NATO airplanes are bombing the Belgrade hospital. At least 3 patients end their lives; May 30th – 11 civilians are killed in the bombing of a bridge. They were on their way to the local market. On the same day the NATO bombers manage to bomb an old age home, causing the death of 20 of its residents; on May 31st another 11 civilians are killed in a bombing.

NATO, by the way, had spread leaflets telling the civilians that bridges are about to be bombed, but obviously that didn’t help. Sounds familiar? There was a general expression of sorrow for hurting innocents, but nobody even imagined a cease fire. The bombings continued. It took months, not days or weeks. The determination finally proved itself. Milosovic was forced to accept the international terms.

We’ve been in this situation before

Let’s continue to November 2004. The Ivory Coast Air Force attacked rebel concentrations. Since when does anybody care about black people? Well, to the bombers’ misfortune 9 French were also killed by accident. Soldiers. Not civilians. The French were angry. So angry that they wiped out the entire Ivory Coast Air Force and took control of the country’s airport. And that was only the beginning. When it was the natives’ turn to get angry, the French were sure to enforce order in a very aggressive way, killing 27 protesters in the process.

Now let’s go back and discuss the proportions. Milosovic didn’t announce that he intends to destroy all of Europe. The Ivory Coast wasn't intent on destroying France. And yet, the reactions of NATO and France were harsh and hard. The Security Council did not call for a cease fire. Au contraire. It was obvious that it’s necessary to get rid of the bad guy in the story. It took a lot of time. In the end he was subdued.

We should be sorry for every innocent life lost. The question is whether anybody has invented a formula in which it’s possible to battle evil without hurting the innocents. In NATO they haven't found that formula. Neither have they in France. When we get to Israel the rules are always altered. Israel is required to restrain itself. Why? After all Nasrallah is much more dangerous than Milosovic. The Hezbollah is not a guerilla organization. It’s an organization that possesses long-range missiles. In normal countries the state has an army. In the case of Lebanon, Hezbollah has a state. The Hezbollah controls Lebanon and Iran, in turn, controls the Hezbollah. It also develops nuclear weapons, and announces that it wants to wipe Israel off the map.

These are just declarations, the members of the Evil Front will tell us, those signed on various petitions with their stupidity and reconciliation. If we would just turn the other cheek, Ahmandinejad and Nasrallah will surely be nice and kind to us.

We’ve been in this situation before. We have the right to prevent the worst from happening again.

Translated to English by Oren Douek