What's happening in Lebanon is not just a war...
It's Guernica. Every single day.
Israeli warplanes blasted bridges and demolished houses, killing seven people, including a woman and her five children.
The woman and her children were crushed in their home by a strike outside the market town of Nabatiyeh, which also killed a man in a nearby house, Lebanese security officials said. In another southern town, six bodies were dug from the rubble of a house destroyed by a strike Friday.
Maybe not
quantitatively. But definitely qualitatively.
And the U.N., where Picasso's famous picture hangs, does nothing. On one of the trails I run, a house which backs up to the trail has for years had a banner on the fence facing the trail: "U.S. out of the U.N." It's an old (and still current, I suppose) right-wing demand. I'm beginning to come around to that way of thinking. Maybe the U.N. could actually accomplish something if the U.S. (and their junior partners, a.k.a. "Yo Blair") weren't part of it.
Destroying the village in order to save it
It's more than a cliche. It's official U.S. and British policy:
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday rejected calls for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon, saying that today's violence will lead to a better future for the Middle East.
I love the headline on the article:
Bush, Blair stand behind Israel
Yeah, just like they stand behind the troops in Iraq.
Way behind.
Reprinted from Left I on the News