Collective Punishment part deux



Lebanon under siege from Israel

Israel imposed a land, sea and air closure of Lebanon today after it bombed dozens of targets including Beirut airport, a television station and villages in the south of the country.

It warned Lebanon to evacuate all residents from a neighbourhood in southern Beirut where it believes the Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah lives.

"We have passed on a warning to Lebanon to evacuate all civilians from the [southern] neighbourhood of Beirut, which is a Hizbullah stronghold and where Nasrallah lives, and where the organisation's headquarters and weapons stockpiles are," the Maariv NRG news website quoted a senior army official as saying.

The attacks were launched after Israel said it held the Lebanese government responsible for a raid by the Hizbullah guerrilla group on Yesterday, in which eight Israeli soldiers were killed and two captured.

While Bush is busy stuffing himself with roast pig, the near east is periously close to war. Israel in its cynicism has blamed the entire Lebanese government for the actions of Hezbollah, how is isloating the Lebanese government going to help reign them in? Israel now has a war on two fronts to deal with. I worry that this could esclate into something much worse. Israel has still found time to bomb the foreign ministry in Gaza.

I'd sure like to ask Bush how democracy is doing in the Middle East, because from here it looks a complete bloody disaster.