Terror attack by Lebanese army thwarts "Israeli" landscaping effort
Pulse Media, 4-8-2010
Belen Fernandez
In the latest "Israeli" inversion of cause and effect relationships, the clash near the Lebanese border village of Adaisseh yesterday between "Israeli" and Lebanese soldiers-which resulted in the deaths of one of the former nationality and three of the latter-was characterized by "Israeli" "Defense" Minister Ehud Barak as a "planned provocation", by Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz as a "planned terror attack", and by "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as something for which the Lebanese government was "directly responsible".
It is not clear how anyone in Lebanon is responsible for the "Israeli" decision to have its army uproot a tree lying outside the confines of "Israel's" border fence in order to obtain a more unobstructed view of the area, especially given "Israeli" possession of numerous unmanned aerial vehicles for which single trees do not constitute an obstacle.
According to the "Israeli" Haaretz website, the tree uprooting was categorized by "Israel" as merely a "scheduled vegetation clearing activity". The notion that "Israeli" soldier-gardeners should not be permitted to engage in heavily-armed tree-pruning wherever they see fit is thus presumably an extremist principle spawned by Iran and smuggled via Syria into Lebanon, where Hizbullah has used it to brainwash the Lebanese army-who were originally deemed less of a threat to "Israeli" vegetation clearing and whose debut south of the Litani River was insisted upon in UN Security Council Resolution 1701 which ended the July War of 2006.
Past "Israeli" landscaping projects have meanwhile included separating Palestinians from their yards with concrete walls, erecting forests atop destroyed Palestinian villages, saturating Lebanese olive fields with cluster bombs, and diverting regional water supplies. It has not yet been established whether the latest deadly air raid on Gaza also qualifies as routine vegetation clearing.
In response to "Israel's" allegation that the Lebanese army violated Resolution 1701 by opposing the uprooting of the tree yesterday, Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah declared that the "Israelis" had violated the same resolution 14,000 times since the end of the 2006 war but did not address how many times they had violated other Security Council resolutions.
Additional "Israeli" difficulties with mathematics can be observed in today's Haaretz article according to which ""Israel" will launch a diplomatic campaign calling on the United States and France to stop their military assistance to Lebanon following Tuesday's exchange of fire on the northern border".
The article specifies that the U.S. "has given Lebanon approximately $400 million over the past year to purchase arms"; it fails to mention that there are restrictions as to what sort of arms Lebanon can acquire and that night vision goggles do not pose an existential threat to the state of "Israel".
As for the recent authorization by the U.S. Congress of a $205 million grant to "Israel" for the purchase of Iron Dome missile defense system batteries, such commitments not only prolong the shelf life of "Israeli" double standards but may also provide future excuses for the clearing of vegetation that interferes with missile interceptors.
Belen Fernandez
In the latest "Israeli" inversion of cause and effect relationships, the clash near the Lebanese border village of Adaisseh yesterday between "Israeli" and Lebanese soldiers-which resulted in the deaths of one of the former nationality and three of the latter-was characterized by "Israeli" "Defense" Minister Ehud Barak as a "planned provocation", by Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz as a "planned terror attack", and by "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as something for which the Lebanese government was "directly responsible".
It is not clear how anyone in Lebanon is responsible for the "Israeli" decision to have its army uproot a tree lying outside the confines of "Israel's" border fence in order to obtain a more unobstructed view of the area, especially given "Israeli" possession of numerous unmanned aerial vehicles for which single trees do not constitute an obstacle.
According to the "Israeli" Haaretz website, the tree uprooting was categorized by "Israel" as merely a "scheduled vegetation clearing activity". The notion that "Israeli" soldier-gardeners should not be permitted to engage in heavily-armed tree-pruning wherever they see fit is thus presumably an extremist principle spawned by Iran and smuggled via Syria into Lebanon, where Hizbullah has used it to brainwash the Lebanese army-who were originally deemed less of a threat to "Israeli" vegetation clearing and whose debut south of the Litani River was insisted upon in UN Security Council Resolution 1701 which ended the July War of 2006.
Past "Israeli" landscaping projects have meanwhile included separating Palestinians from their yards with concrete walls, erecting forests atop destroyed Palestinian villages, saturating Lebanese olive fields with cluster bombs, and diverting regional water supplies. It has not yet been established whether the latest deadly air raid on Gaza also qualifies as routine vegetation clearing.
In response to "Israel's" allegation that the Lebanese army violated Resolution 1701 by opposing the uprooting of the tree yesterday, Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah declared that the "Israelis" had violated the same resolution 14,000 times since the end of the 2006 war but did not address how many times they had violated other Security Council resolutions.
Additional "Israeli" difficulties with mathematics can be observed in today's Haaretz article according to which ""Israel" will launch a diplomatic campaign calling on the United States and France to stop their military assistance to Lebanon following Tuesday's exchange of fire on the northern border".
The article specifies that the U.S. "has given Lebanon approximately $400 million over the past year to purchase arms"; it fails to mention that there are restrictions as to what sort of arms Lebanon can acquire and that night vision goggles do not pose an existential threat to the state of "Israel".
As for the recent authorization by the U.S. Congress of a $205 million grant to "Israel" for the purchase of Iron Dome missile defense system batteries, such commitments not only prolong the shelf life of "Israeli" double standards but may also provide future excuses for the clearing of vegetation that interferes with missile interceptors.
