Another log for the fire

[paul_valaru]

Hey, you itake issue with me posting from the media, UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc articles. Call them all anti-semites. And then the response you have is from blatantly pro-israel/Jewish sites.

Seems your sources are a bit more biased than mine. You can agree with that right?

the first link IS human rights watch.

the second is about IDF's stance

the 3rd, I said I don't necessary agree with.

and mine are JUST as biased as yours.

 

[paul_valaru]

REUTERS

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli inquiry into the bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana said on Thursday the army would not have bombed a building if it had known civilians were inside, but accused Hizbollah of using human shields.
The strike on Qana last Saturday drew international outrage and intensified calls for a ceasefire. Lebanon says at least 54 people were killed, many of them children. A Human Rights Watch investigation said the toll appeared lower.

An army statement said the probe was completed on Wednesday. It said the building was attacked with two missiles, one of which did not explode, because it was believed to be a "hiding place for terrorists".

"Had the information indicated that civilians were present in the building the attack would not have been carried out," the statement said, adding that residents of Qana and surrounding villages had been warned several times to leave their homes.



Amnesty International, in a statement issued in London, described the Israeli military investigation as "clearly inadequate" and called for the urgent dispatch of an international fact-finding commission.

The group said survivors of the Qana attack told its researchers they had been in the building for some two weeks "and that their presence must have been known to Israeli forces whose surveillance drones frequently flew over the village".

In its statement on the inquiry, the Israeli military said Lieutenant General Dan Halutz, the chief of staff, again expressed sorrow for the deaths.

"The Hizbollah organization places Lebanese civilians as a defensive shield between itself and us while the army places itself as a defensive shield between the citizens of Israel and Hizbollah's terror," he said.

"That is the main difference between us."

The U.S.-based watchdog Human Rights Watch said late on Wednesday that the bodies of 28 people killed in Qana had been recovered and 13 people were missing. The official Lebanese toll is 54

 

[spike]

"An Israeli inquiry"

Well that's going to be pretty biased right?

Amnesty International, in a statement issued in London, described the Israeli military investigation as "clearly inadequate" and called for the urgent dispatch of an international fact-finding commission.

 

[paul_valaru]

"An Israeli inquiry"

Well that's going to be pretty biased right?

Amnesty International, in a statement issued in London, described the Israeli military investigation as "clearly inadequate" and called for the urgent dispatch of an international fact-finding commission.

then let then do it, and we have to wait for reports.

but when stuff like this happens

Are Media Assisting The Exaggeration of Casualties in Lebanon?
Posted by Noel Sheppard on August 7, 2006 - 13:50.
This one is pretty amazing (hat tip to Drudge). At 8:29AM ET Monday, Reuters reported that 40 people were killed in a Lebanese village by Israeli air strikes. Less than three hours later, the Associated Press reported that the number of casualties had been dropped to one. Here’s the first report:

"An hour ago, a horrific massacre took place in Houla village as a result of the intentional Israeli bombardment that resulted in more than 40 martyrs," Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told an emergency Arab foreign ministers meeting in Beirut.

Residents of Houla said they feared up to 60 people, including many children, had been killed. They said most of the people were shepherds who had refused to flee the fighting.

Here’s the second: “The Lebanese prime minister says only one person died in an Israeli air raid on the southern village of Houla, lowering the death toll from 40.”

I will not jump to believe these reports that it was intentional

 

[spike]

and what's the source of that last blurb? Pretty nuetral aren't they.

 

[paul_valaru]

and what's the source of that last blurb?

click the THIS in green.

 

[spike]

My edit was late: "Pretty nuetral aren't they."

 

[paul_valaru]

My edit was late: "Pretty nuetral aren't they."

I am not using them as opnion, they are presenting facts, 40 reported dead, then changed to 1.

with links in the article.

 

[spike]

and your assuming that if somethng lucky happened in Houla then all the other dead in other areas will rise?

 

[Gato_Solo]

I am not using them as opnion, they are presenting facts, 40 reported dead, then changed to 1.

with links in the article.

Just put flav jr. on ignore. I did.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

No sense trying to defend your heritage on here paul. Trust me.

 

[Sawhney89]

Rock On, SNP

 

[Professur]

Oh Gawd, he's a fucking cheerleader.