The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94005   Message #1815539
Posted By: GUEST,Nick
21-Aug-06 - 07:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Israel used cluster bombs
Subject: RE: BS: Israel used cluster bombs
"Although most of the world prefers to change the subject, Israel will continue to ask why these nations sold all these weapons to a terrorist organization"

DON'T get me started!!

1) ALL nations that manafacture arms will flog them to whoever they can get away with. The British sold fighter / bomber jets to an Indonesian regime that was already know to be conducting slaughter against its own people. these jets were later used to great effect against the practically defenceless people of East Timor.
The Americans funded the Taliban to the tune of billions, and trained them - to fight the Russians. At the time, the Taliban were not considered to be a terrorist organisation by the USA - even though were no different in ideology etc., than they are today, because they were on the side of the 'goodies' (i.e the US). The Russians and Chinese supplied weapons to the VC, etc., and the Americans capped it all by supplying weapons to BOTH sides of one war (Iran-Iraq, 1980s, in which 1 million people were killed). The leader of one side was a man now regarded as a monster and dictator and terrorist simply because he bit the hand that fed him. The US funds Israel to the tune of about 1 billion US dollars a year - the biggest recipient of US foreign 'aid', and much of it spent on wepaons. They were even fast-freighting them more bombs just a few weeks ago, because the Israelis had somehow managed to miss a few Lebanese children on their sorties.
Britain, France, Italy, you name it - they have all made the weapons that have been used to kill over 100 million in almost a hundred small wars since 1945. Large parts of countries like Cambodia etc., are practically unusable thanks to the millions of landmines and butterfly bombs dropped there years ago. Then the Big Five (Britain, France, China, Russia and the US) sit on the permanent security council with grave faces and talk (managing not to laugh all the while) about how they are going to ttry and 'police' the world's 'troubled spots'. It would be a big help if they stopped trying to get rich by supplying weapons to the very 'trouble' spots they'll later be trying to 'police'. But that would put their governments at loggerheads with the big military manafacturing corporations. So much for the logo of the UN 'and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares' (by the way, that last quote might not have been so much a message of hope as a message of Apocalpyse from the Bible, depending on how you interpret it).

2) It depends on what you call a terrorist organisation. Is Hezbollah a terrorist organisation? Perhaps so, in that they target civilians (though all Israeli civilans over a certain age are also automatically soldiers and members of the IDF) by firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. But then, what does Israel do that's so different? And don't talk to me about Israel taking care to avoid civilian casualties!! Hezbollah's rockets are bascially like big fireworks - light the fuse and stand back - they could end up anywhere. Israel has some of the most advanced weaponry in the world, courtesy of its sponsor, the US. There is no excuse for them to manage to kill hundreds of women and children and civilian men, with all that guided technology. Israel is described by many as a 'rogue state' - a polite word for a terrorist state. It directs terror in the form of overwhelming force against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza - those it doesn't kill on its forays into refugee camps and 'targeted assasinations' it radicalises, ensuring a constant supply of new recruits ot Hamas and Hizbullah.