Full marks to the Independent

Makes you proud doesn't it?

It's good to see that when the whole world - including such beacons of democracy as Afghanistan, Albania and Iraq - are calling for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon that Bush and Bliar are plunging to such new depths of moral destitution that they can continue to support the Israeli reign of terror in Lebanon and Palestine.

This post from ngarluma2 does a pretty good job of reporting events so far. It includes this picture of a young Lebanese girl who was killed when the car she was travelling in - on Israeli instructions - was blown up by an F-16 fighter. The Israeli's ordered her village to evacuate and then blew up the convoy of cars they were leaving in. The evacuee's had tried to claim refuge in the nearby UN base at Qana but since the Israeli's bombed the base in 1996 killing 106 Lebanese civillians, the UN has banned civillians from taking refuge there. As the convoy left the vicinity of the base, an Israeli F-16 fighter plane blew them up.

I'm not sure what the recruitment criteria are for Hezbollah but my guess is that she wasn't a Hezbollah terrorist.

Like I said, there are three countries involved in this war but only one army. The Israeli's are deliberately targetting civillians and then claiming that they are only after terrorists. The Americans refuse to speak out against Israel's actions which are in clear, undisputable and unexcusable breach of international law. The Israeli government and military leaders should all be brought before a war crimes tribunal at the Hague.

Hat-tip: BloggerHeads