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a summary would be supeyb..
Quote from: Don Rizzle on May 10, 2006, 03:16:12 AMiraq would just get annexed by iranThat would be a great solution. If Iran and the majority of Iraqi's are pleased with it, then why shouldn't they do it?
iraq would just get annexed by iran
trouble is half our reporters in the british media are jewish
But the Tory frontbencher(william hague shadow foreign sec.) said Israel's "disproportionate" response was delaying efforts to bring about a ceasefire. "I think we can say that elements of the Israeli response are disproportionate, including attacks on Lebanese army units, the loss of civilian life and essential infrastructure and such enormous damage to the capacity of the Lebanese government, [which] does damage the Israeli cause in the long term," he told MPs. That was still the case even if military units in the Lebanon were "callously" stationed in civilian areas. But Labour former Cabinet minister Clare Short accused ministers of "inflaming" the situation by pursuing an "unbalanced and morally wrong" policy. 'Further violence' Ms Short told the Commons "massive killing of innocent Lebanese civilians and destruction of infrastructure" was so disproportionate that it amounted to a war crime. More Lebanese people were being killed than Israelis, argued Ms Short, but "the way we talk it sounds as though we are saying an Arab life is not as important as an Israeli life and that is profoundly wrong". She warned: "We are, I'm afraid, heading for further violence and catastrophe and I'm sad to say that our government is following President Bush's errors and pouring petrol on the flames." Liberal Democrat spokesman Michael Moore said an urgent ceasefire was needed to stop the crisis spiralling around the world. Even the perception that the US was willing to give the green light to Israeli military action for a few more days was deeply damaging, added Mr Moore. The debate came as the evacuation of UK citizens from Lebanon was stepped up. Mrs Beckett said the government had urged all parties to act "proportionately and that they should do everything possible to avoid civilian violence". And she stressed that she regretted deaths on all sides. 'Proportionate' Ex-Labour Foreign Office Minister Chris Mullin asked Mrs Beckett if it wasn't "a tiny bit shameful that we can find nothing stronger than the word regret to describe the slaughter and misery and mayhem that Israel has unleashed on a fragile country like Lebanon". The foreign secretary said that while she had "stringently condemned" Hezbollah, she had also tried to be "relatively proportionate" in what she said about all other players in the crisis. "I can assure him that I am striving in every way that I can to act in a way that will be effective to bring about the situation that he desires," she said. But the most effective action would not always be the same as what people wanted her to do.
Correct me if im wrong Don but I have not read one single scathing attack on what Israel is doing, in fact the two scathing articles I have read from Haaretz and from the LA Times. There is a complete reluctance to speak out by anyone over here, its all very sanitised.
the Palestinians have a right under international law to use violence.... Israel, meanwhile, is employing violence on a daily basis against the general population of Gaza, harming civilians and militants alike, even though under international law it has a responsibility to look after the occupied population no different from its duties towards its own citizens.