The Lebanon Crisis... A Broader Perspective


Another refugee camp… a child stands alone and cries .. the sounds of bursting shells breaks the monotony of this hapless existence... ash.. plumes of smoke... the smell of fresh human blood… hunger...pain… misery… the tears… they are all real... yea this is reality as we face it today… more people would be dead by the time I finish writing this and God only knows how many more will be widowed and orphaned by the time you’ll finish reading this.
The cries of ‘never again’ said aloud at the end of the 2nd World War seem as empty as my pockets… millions have been killed since… Why?... all in the name of greed… land… money… oil.. What is wrong with us… why are we as humans on this self destructive trip…?

Lebanon is burning…Beirut is being bombed… ambulances are being targeted, homes are being burned... and no one is going to do anything to stop this till the greed of the Americans and Israelis are fulfilled. Unfortunately most of my friends believe that the current Israeli action is bonafide and I don’t blame them, but at the same time I cannot subscribe to their point of view. They are just victims of their own ignorance and a biased media, which portrays the Israelis and the Americans as the victims of international violence, but will someone please open their eyes and see the truth behind these barbaric killings.

The recent developments in Lebanon are all an outcome of the ongoing Iran nuclear project which obviously threatens the American interests. Now Hezbollah is an Iran Sponsored organization( and most would refer to it as a terrorist organization… but I would abstain to term it as one just for now) Don’t get me wrong here, I am not an avid supporter of terrorists or their activities, but have you ever wondered what the word terrorism denotes and who brands these people in the middle east as terrorists. For years people in the middle east have been oppressed by the actions of the west and someday some one is going to stand up to this tyranny and this never ending oppression.

Now I do agree that two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped by the Hezbollah and this action cannot be justified or supported, but does that give Israel a right to use disproportionate force against Lebanon? I am sure most would say hell yeah.. bomb those bastards, but even from a legal stand point the force which has been used can be termed as disproportionate. Now under international law the UN Security Council has the sole authority for authorizing the use of force, except in the case of self defense, which in the present case can be used by Israel as a ground for using force without Security Council authorization against Lebanon, but the established opinio juris is that such use of force has to be proportionate, now think logically does the kidnapping of 2 soldiers entail that force of the magnitude which includes the use of missiles against civilian targets, bombing of refugee camps and ambulances and destruction of airports as proportionate ? Doesn’t this then entail that war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed by Israel and the US? International Humanitarian law is clear on the supreme obligations to protect civilians, but who cares about International law especially when it comes to the Americans.

Ever wondered why countries like the US and Israel have not ratified the Rome charter which would have forced the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court on to them. Well the answer is right in front of you, killing of civilians and bombing ambulances amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity which the US and the Israelis seem to commit at their own free will( Iraq and Afghanistan are 2 blatant examples) and they definitely don’t want to be tried for it.

Coming back to the larger picture which we seem to be avoiding is the Iran issue, now if through the current events US can prove to the world that the Hezbollah which as everyone knows is supported by Iran is a threat to International peace and security, then the use of force to the extent of the use of nuclear weapons (as considered by the US and its allies in May please refer to the article Nuclear war against Iran availabe at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20CH20060103&articleId=1714 ) against Iran can be justified just like their actions in Iraq and Afghanistan

Did the US find any WMD’s in Iraq? Did they catch Osama in Afghanistan? Hell yeah they did not… but who suffered... the common Iraqi man and the children in Afghanistan. The civil war post US invasion in Iraq is still killing people everyday, it’s not a country any more, it’s a battlefield where children are the targets, and the common men the soldiers. All the sanctions of establishing no fly zones in Afghanistan, I am sure is protecting the US interests but at the same time killing the children of that nation. Medical and food aid cannot be delivered to the far fetched areas inaccessible by road, no one ever thinks about that. It seems like human rights and a right to life can only be bestowed upon the Americans and its allies.

And I am sure the Americans have learnt from their previous mistakes, that it cannot win an out right war in such countries and its far too expensive and the losses are great, thus the only plausible solution to the same is the use of nuclear weapons which might annihilate a nation and kill millions (remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki?) but at the same time serve the US interests in terms of costs and human losses.

I am sure after reading this most including my friends and the right wing conservatives would think I am a pot smoking hippie and I am talking utter rubbish, but what the fuck.. I don’t care, this is my point of view, and I am not going to be a part of this genocide which those who subscribe to the actions of the US and Israel encourage.

PS. Wake up smell the coffee… STOP THIS WAR…. DON’T ENCOURAGE IT… SOMEDAY ITS GONNA STAND UP AND BITE YA IN YA ARSE…