Sunday Bloody Sunday...

July 30, 2006 11:04 AM

Qana Massacre - SEE FOR YOURSELF You only have to watch Wolf Blitzer cut off the Lebanese advisor's recommendations for a two-state solution, prisoner repatriation, 1968 borders Peace Plan, "We'll have to leave it at that," cut-away to a Sunday Morning-style downtown sunny Tel Aviv little Jewish boy sucking on his slurpy trailing his mama denouement, with no analysis, and definitely no video of today's latest war crime by the Israeli Army, entombing 50 dead Lebanese children in rubble of an entire apartment block. Little boy in Tel Aviv with slurpy. Good. Eye candy. 50 dead children in Lebanon buried in rubble. Que?
posted by Unregistered User (27 comments total)

Oh my god. My fingers are bleeding from hitting the FLAG button so many times.
posted by Justinian at 11:08 AM on July 30, 2006

I guess Haim Ramon spoke the truth
" All those now in south Lebanon are terrorists" - Haim Ramon
posted by Unregistered User at 11:08 AM on July 30, 2006

If it's a white flag Justinian, it wont save you...
posted by Unregistered User at 11:10 AM on July 30, 2006

IDF: Qana building fell hours after strike
posted by Krrrlson at 11:12 AM on July 30, 2006

Drunk on Sunday?! For shame.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 11:12 AM on July 30, 2006

Hey, come on now. Israel has the right to "defend itself", remember? What those pictures show are the results of a nation "defending itself" like hell.
posted by Decani at 11:13 AM on July 30, 2006

And I sort of wondered what was holding up the fpps.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 11:13 AM on July 30, 2006

While I empathize with your position regarding the media's reporting on the situation in Lebanon, FPPs are not for editorializing. GYOB.
posted by justkevin at 11:14 AM on July 30, 2006

What the hell is this "Drunk on Sunday" shit, Balrog?
posted by Decani at 11:14 AM on July 30, 2006

While everyone's here and the post is still around...

This article (Salon) claims that the idea of Hezbollah fighters mixing with civilians apparently is not true.
posted by greatgefilte at 11:16 AM on July 30, 2006

I hate Wolf Blitzer. But he DOES help expose the "only Fox is conservative" lie.
posted by wfc123 at 11:16 AM on July 30, 2006

I was subtly implying that the OP may have been imbibing, on this, the Day of our Lord. Apparently I was too nuanced. I'll try to be more direct in the future, Decani.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 11:17 AM on July 30, 2006

No slurpy tag?
posted by Runkst at 11:17 AM on July 30, 2006

Rice says time for cease-fire after IAF strike kills 50 people in Qana

Ha! After the bomb this morning killed 50 people, the Lebanese prime minister told Rice not come to Lebanon again. Thereby she was out of the game. Now Rice gives in?! The whole plan is in shambles.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking after the Israel Air Force strike bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana, said it was time for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas.

At least 50 Lebanese citizens were killed, 23 of them children, in the IAF strike on a building. Dozens of others were reportedly trapped in the rubble. Several houses collapsed and a three-story building where about 100 civilians were sheltering was destroyed, witnesses and rescue workers said.

Rice said she was saddened by the bombing and confirmed that she had cancelled a planned trip to Beirut, but would stay in Israel to try to work out a deal for ending the 19-day-old conflict.

Rice did not decide to cancel her trip to Beiruit. Lebanon told her NOT to come, and also that only an immediate ceasefire will be acceptable after this bombing run which has now talled up to more 50 dead, more than half children.

even the jackals from the press have sd there were no arms of any kind at qana

it is murder

pure & simple

the IDF sd there were rocket launcher sites
press says there was no such evidence

they are butchers

pure & simple
posted by Unregistered User at 11:20 AM on July 30, 2006

The (gravitating towards eponysterical) Unregistered User suffers from an OD of InsomniaLJ.
posted by peacay at 11:21 AM on July 30, 2006

greatgefilte: The Australian Herald Sun diagrees.
posted by PenDevil at 11:21 AM on July 30, 2006

And with all the eloquence of an angry mob...
posted by koeselitz at 11:22 AM on July 30, 2006

see? raving drunk.

pure & simple.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 11:23 AM on July 30, 2006

Somebody has to say it.

Although its not like it is something new...
posted by pwedza at 11:24 AM on July 30, 2006

I surrender!
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:25 AM on July 30, 2006

any theories on that on Krrrlson?
posted by pwedza at 11:27 AM on July 30, 2006

PenDevil: I don't know who's right in regards to this, but (a) the provenance of those photos is a bit hazy and (b) why would they be manning anti-aircraft guns in residential areas unless there were actually aircraft in said areas?
posted by greatgefilte at 11:28 AM on July 30, 2006

...that is, wouldn't they be using the anti-aircraft weapons a defense measure in this case? Honest, I'm curious...
posted by greatgefilte at 11:31 AM on July 30, 2006

posted by McSly at 11:31 AM on July 30, 2006

posted by ericb at 11:32 AM on July 30, 2006

This may seem like just another intramural squabble over conservative doctrine (should we save the world before we destroy it? Or destroy it and then save it?)
posted by Unregistered User at 11:32 AM on July 30, 2006

C'mon, Unregistered User, Israel just needs some lebensraum.
posted by keswick at 11:33 AM on July 30, 2006