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Thread #94005   Message #1815434
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
21-Aug-06 - 05:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Israel used cluster bombs
Subject: RE: BS: Israel used cluster bombs
I have no doubt that Hezbollah would come up with claims that they were targetting military targets within the limits of accuracy of their weaponry.

I'd put about as much faith in such claims as I would in regard to claims by Israel that they were doing everything they could to minimise civilian casualties. Precious little in either case.

I still don't think we've had an explanation of how Hezbollah was supposed to be managing to fire rockets at Israel from inside that UN observation post that was precision bombed, and the unarmed observers inside killed.

It's also worth noting that many of the civiians killed by Israeli attacks were nowhere near anywhere from where rockets could possibly have been fired. Beirut is some 60 miles from the Israeli border, and the Katyusha rockets (siege weapons deployed by the Russians back in 1942) have a range of between ten and 20 miles or so.

This was a war between two military machines engaged in terrorism, it just happened one was a very much bigger military machine, and that showed up in the comparative number of civilians killed by both sides. And both would make the same claim that they were acting to defend their country from attack.