Disproportional Doesn't Even Begin to Describe the Carnage in Lebanon

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 00:19

To the American's who want to genuinely offer help and relief to the people of Lebanon: It's quite simple really, if Condoleeza Rice wants to do anything for Lebanon in representing the Americans on her visit to Beirut today then she should assure Lebanon that she will not permit the US to supply the Israeli military with any forms of special weaponry of war that the Israel government might have purchased from the US in the past (or received gratis).

The United States need send no other relief supplies to Lebanon except this promise - No more weapons of war for the Israelis supplied from the Americans.

Let other friendlier more admirable nations of the world send blood and medicine supplies as well as food, water and sanitation relief to Lebanon.

Do I need to add as well - no half hearted Haliburton contracts for the friends of Bush to rebuild Lebanon for whenever Israel stops trying to expand into Lebanon.

Last I heard the levies of New Orleans still needed rebuilding along with some of the basic infrastructure for that old forgotten American city/dirty little domestic secret of the Bush II era.

Until the US stops giving military financial aid and the machines of war to the Israeli government then the rest of the world cannot expect Iran to do likewise (for what it's worth I am not convinced Iran is even doing the things the Anglophone media - CNN or BBC - are accusing them of anyway).

Lebanon was a European class country. Beirut was a European class city. Certainly the European Union and in particular France of all places should be rushing to the rescue and relief for the people of Lebanon.

Is anyone rushing to rescue let alone help defend Lebanon?

There hasn't been a decade since the founding of the Israeli government that Israel didn't want to claim Lebanese terrorities and homes in their history of aggression with their neighbors.

It just doesn't work anymore to call ones neighbors and enemies terrorists. Most people of the world aren't buying the fear and terrorism game - for we all see it as state sanctioned scapegoat for acts of war without justifiable reason.

If we in the states could persuade Condoleezza Rice and the Bush II regime that their job is to represent the US properly and thus to behave ethically and in humanitarian ways - if we could just promise that American made hardware of war will not be used against the people and state of Lebanon then I think we American's could at least not be ashamed of ourselves regarding the humiliation, suffering and fall of Lebanon. ...To say nothing of the war on Lebanon by Israeli state sanctioned terrorism.

How many Lebanese equal one Israeli? The racial statistics today seem to be 100 Lebanese human beings equal one Israeli consumer.

The death and destruction by an offshore earthquake near Indonesia - perhaps an act of God is one thing - unavoidable.

The death and destruction of Lebanon by a neighboring government and people was absolutely unneccessary.

If the Israelis are so afraid of Iran and neighboring militant organizations (no more or less guilty than the Israeli or American government/military) then perhaps the Israelis should stop perpetuating crimes against Palestinians trapped in zones of control and cultural and racial extermination.

Perhaps if the Israelis had a better conscience regarding their own brothers and cousins and people of a different faith then they wouldn't have to wage paranoid wars and desperately feel so acutely the need for more land.

Lebanon is the land under a beautiful red and white flag with a green cypress tree on a planet suffering from decades of devastating deforestation - a nation like Lebanon revering a symbol of ecological health like a growing tree deserves better from the rest of us around the world standing by quietly watching Lebanon fall to her knees.