Lebanon: "Free hand" for US proxy Israel
Bloomberg
The U.S. is banking on Israel achieving in Lebanon what years of diplomacy and conflict have so far failed to do: limit the ability of Syria and Iran to use Islamic radicals to undermine regional stability.
President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have signaled that Israel largely has a free hand in attacking the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. They have declined to set limits on Israeli action, and Rice says she won't engage in personal diplomacy until there is a clear path toward ending the extremist threat.
"We have a full understanding with the U.S. about the need to restore calm and stability in the region, and the only way to do it is to neutralize Hezbollah's capabilities," Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., said yesterday in a telephone interview. Read more
db: Attacking the civilians and infrastructure of Lebanon to 'limit' the power of 'Islamic radicals' is a breach of international law. Geneva Convention Article 33 [fourth Geneva Convention] specifically forbids collective punishment.
How would the US have reacted if the UK had destroyed the civilian infrastructure of Ireland after one of the many terrorist outrages committed in London by Irish nationalists justified on the inability of Dublin to control PIRA members and sympathizers based within its borders? That analogy is obviously flawed .... Irish folk are mostly white, Christian, and of course the PIRA were significantly funded by US dollars.
The U.S. is banking on Israel achieving in Lebanon what years of diplomacy and conflict have so far failed to do: limit the ability of Syria and Iran to use Islamic radicals to undermine regional stability.
President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have signaled that Israel largely has a free hand in attacking the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. They have declined to set limits on Israeli action, and Rice says she won't engage in personal diplomacy until there is a clear path toward ending the extremist threat.
"We have a full understanding with the U.S. about the need to restore calm and stability in the region, and the only way to do it is to neutralize Hezbollah's capabilities," Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., said yesterday in a telephone interview. Read more
db: Attacking the civilians and infrastructure of Lebanon to 'limit' the power of 'Islamic radicals' is a breach of international law. Geneva Convention Article 33 [fourth Geneva Convention] specifically forbids collective punishment.
How would the US have reacted if the UK had destroyed the civilian infrastructure of Ireland after one of the many terrorist outrages committed in London by Irish nationalists justified on the inability of Dublin to control PIRA members and sympathizers based within its borders? That analogy is obviously flawed .... Irish folk are mostly white, Christian, and of course the PIRA were significantly funded by US dollars.
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