 24 Aug 2006 @ 18:14, by Bruce Kodish
At Mere Rhetoric, Omri Ceren writes about Amnesty International's condemnation of Israel ("war crimes") for its bombing of Hezbollah installations in Lebanon:
"In a world where demonizing Israel was anything less than a badge of Leftist authenticity, groups like Amnesty International might be a little more circumspect in becoming pathetic and predictable caricatures of themselves."
"... while Israel's bombs are designed to take out installations (and while Israel drops leaflets instructing civilians to evacuate those installations), Hezbollah's rockets are designed specifically to commit the war crime of intentionally targeting - and hitting - civilians. They are in this sense weapons of terror in the most precise sense - they are designed to kill and maim civilians. Like the belts of suicide bombers, they are loaded with shrapnel set [to] explode [when] they detonate. That shrapnel, of course, won't do much damage to concrete structures - that's not what it's supposed to do. It's supposed to rip through flesh."
"As Opposed to Israel, Hezbollah Actually Did Commit War Crimes"
[The picture on the right is an Israeli Road Sign in Northern Israel which has been penetrated with shrapnel from a Hezbollah Ketushya rocket. The Hebrew reads "Yeladim B'derech" (Children On The Road).]
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