liars

ok, so israel bombed an apartment building in qana in southern lebanon, killing at least 55 innocent people, including 37 children and 12 women, and at least 15 of the children were physically or mentally handicapped. then after international outrage, israel promised secretary of state condoleezza rice that they would stop all air attacks on southern lebanon for 48 hours unless they had explicit knowledge that a rocket was about to be launched. so then hezbollah stopped attacking israel with rockets, trying to show a little goodwill, that they would be able to hold to a cease-fire, right? and then what does israel do? just a few hours later, the liars in israel go back on their promise, and start the bombing campaign in southern lebanon again, pretending that they never made a promise to stop. and even the promise they made had too many caveats; it was just ridiculous. it was only for 48 hours, only in southern lebanon and not all of lebanon, and only covered air bombings, and even with all those caveats, they also had to say that if they received intelligence of a rocket about to be launched, they would bomb the rocket launcher. i have been trying hard to give israel the benefit of the doubt and not think of them as having moral equivalency with the terrorists. but, i am afraid it is no longer possible to consider anything the israeli government says to be true. they have proven themselves to be boldfaced liars. and they have not only undermined lebanon’s peaceful, democratically elected government, but also undermined u.s. secretary of state condoleezza rice, who already has very serious credibility problems. we in the united states supply israel with all of their weaponry, and our government gives ridiculous amounts of foreign aid to israel, much more than to palestine or lebanon. we gave them precision laser-guided bombs, and the most advanced military technology in the world, and what do they do with it? they use it to kill innocent people! you can say all you want to try to justify what the israelis have done, but they should have verified the target was a military target and not a civilian one prior to attacking. period. the israelis keep making the dishonest claim that they do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties. bullshit. i don’t think we should listen to the israelis or anything they have to say, until they stop being such remorseless liars. i mean, i tried to give them the benefit of the doubt after they killed all those civilians yesterday. but now that they have shown themselves to be complete and utter liars, i do not think there is any more doubt about whether the statements of the israeli government can be trusted to be honest anymore. announcing this half-assed 48-hour ceasefire was just their way of giving condi rice at least something she accomplished when she was there, and then they pulled that rug out from under her less than a day later. it is making the united states look bad too, for taking israel’s side in this, and for handling the crisis so incompetently. and this war in lebanon is creating more terrorism, not less. president bush needs to tell israel to stop doing this shit.