Monday, July 31, 2006

Arab Lives cheap to Arabs

The Toronto Star editor for excusing jihad, Haroon Siddiqui, is always amusing in how he can explain away and excuse muslim violence. Since Hizbollah is losing Isreal must stop fighting, a ceasefire is demanded for humanitarian reasons. His latest column is grab bag of observations about the recent Isreal-Hizbollah war. In his list he includes one item:
Arab lives are cheap."Is the value of human life less in Lebanon than that of citizens elsewhere?" asked a distraught Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. "Are we children of a lesser God? Is an Israeli teardrop worth more than a drop of Lebanese blood?" Yes.
The problem is that arab and muslim lives are precious to everybody but arab muslims. Isreal has conducted a tactical bombing like no other in history. Before hiting a military target the IDF has been dropping warning leaflets before coming back a couple of days later. Hizbollah for their part are trying to get people killed. They are firing their rockets next to UN posts. They are firing their rockets within civilian buildings with human shields. They want some their surporters dead. For the publicity value.

Update: A blogger has complied a curious series of photographs. A dead child is rescued multiple times over 4 hours. Then a not dead child is also rescued multiple times. The Blogger, EU Referendum, has another page showing how the same rescuer and dead toddler on different front pages.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's funny you say Hizbollah is firing rockets next to UN posts, and in the same paragraph praise how careful Israel has been in its tactical bombing. You forgot to mention that Israel bombed a UN protected building -school- with hundreds of refugees, in this war.

Even Israeli government said, publicly, that they would make this campaign very very bloody. A high rank officer even said, at the beggining of the conflict, that there would be no distinction between civilians and terrorists. It has proven right.

Anyone that kills is a killer. Now do numbers and see who is more of a murderer. Islamic integrism is not good, but not worse than zionism.