Middle East Tensions Exploding

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You hear that Hamas and Hezbollah ! YOU PISSED OFF MOTHERF*CKING RAMBO, NASH BRIDGES AND JOHN MCCLANE!

It's ON now bitches!

 

We've got a dream team ready to go fight terror now.

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Hollywood is supporting Israel, what a shock.

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Yeah, about time the Liberal Jew-Run Media did something right.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1858758,00.html

 

 

US investigates whether Israel violated deal on cluster bombs

 

Julian Borger in Washington

Saturday August 26, 2006

The Guardian

 

 

The US is investigating whether Israel's use of American-made cluster bombs in Lebanon violated an agreement that the weapons not be used in populated areas, officials said yesterday.

 

Unexploded "bomblets" from cluster munitions have emerged as the most lethal obstacle to the return of refugees to southern Lebanon after the month-long war between Israel and Hizbullah. The UN said the fist-sized bombs had been found in nearly 300 locations and about two-thirds were American-made.

 

"We've heard the allegations that these munitions were used in Lebanon and we're looking into it," a state department spokesman said yesterday.

 

Another official confirmed that the sale of cluster bombs was conditional on Israel using them only against military targets in the open, away from civilian areas.

 

Details of that undertaking - dating back to the first sales of cluster munitions in the 1970s - are classified, but they are reported to include a pledge only to use them against organised armies and clearly defined military targets.

 

During the Israeli-Hizbullah conflict, the state department was reported to have sought to suspend delivery of M-26 anti-personnel cluster rockets because of fears about how they would be used. It was unclear yesterday whether they were delivered over its objections. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has previously bought M-26 rockets and US-made cluster artillery shells, and CBU-26 aerial bombs. Bomblets from all three have been found by UN investigators in southern Lebanon.

 

A spokesman for the Israeli embassy was not available for comment yesterday. He told the New York Times that the embassy had not been told of the enquiry but would be "happy to respond". Israel has maintained it avoided using cluster bombs against populated areas and argued that Hizbullah bears primary responsibility for civilian deaths by triggering the war with a cross-border raid on July 12 and launching rockets from inside Lebanese villages.

 

Cluster bombs are highly controversial because they spray large numbers of smaller bombs over a wide area, many of which fail to explode and pose a serious danger to civilians returning to an area once fighting has stopped. Bombs of this kind dropped during the Vietnam war are still killing and maiming people today.

 

Israel's use of cluster bombs in its 1982 invasion of Lebanon provoked a congressional enquiry, which concluded Israel had broken the conditions on their sale. Ronald Reagan's administration then imposed a six-year ban on deliveries of the munitions to Israel.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060826/ap_on_...iran_nuclear_76

 

Well, you know what they say: if Iran wants a nuke...

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And the world's going to respond by doing...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTHING! (given the past track record of the UN)

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so what exactly are we going to do about it? Being that we're one of the primary (or secondary) enemies of said country (Iran)?

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Yeah, about time the Liberal Jew-Run Media did something right.

I can't beleive you have the nerve to complain that other people are predictable.