"Israel and Lebanon both agree that Lebanese troops fired first."

Your 'absolutely objective' linked source of documentation for this sweeping statement please? The record you have already established here means that I can't just blindly take your statement as 'gospel fact'...


Of course one would expect one side to fire at armed enemy soldiers dicking around with machinery in a 'free fire zone' border fence area (the IDF have 'set the rules' by regularly shooting at anybody walking around on the opposite side of their fences - made their bed, one might say) ... only openly arrogant lunatics would walk up to a border fence in such a contentious area, and one is tempted to think that the poor guys hit were either set up by their superiors who gave the orders, or 'were stupid enough to ask for it' by standing around in the open in the circumstances (I'm reminded of WWI trench stories of stupid young British Officers who insisted on 'just taking a quick peek over the top' and getting taken out by snipers) ... and it seems to me that the IDF were 'testing the waters' by even approaching the fence line - what with all that high powered IDF hardware able to fire back so rapidly... the fact that an IDF tank was taken out proves that they were definitely there... and any tank is always seen as a 'threat' by opposing military forces.

I saw the footage of an IDF manned backhoe with its bucket over the fence line, poking at a tree growing on the fence line...

I have heard that 'it was a Lebanese ambush' - right, they planted that tree 20 years ago and have been staking it out ever since... hahahahaha! oh boy! talk about 'gullible' ...


Just how much hassle is gone thru in Korea when either side wants to play around 'trimming trees' in THEIR 'free fire' "No Man's Land"?


"Re the WP smoke deployment."

Ah the broken record replays.... nothing new said - again ...