To the moral relativists who have equated Israel’s lawful self defense with overt crimminal war crimes-acts of Islamic Terrorism by Hezbollah in the recent Lebannnon conflict we have this from today’s Wall St. Journal:
Now their videotaped interviews form part of a remarkable report by retired Lieutenant Colonel Reuven Erlich of Israel’s Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. Relying heavily on captured Hezbollah documents, onsite and aerial photography and other first-hand evidence, the report shows how the Shiite group put innocent civilians at risk by deliberately deploying its forces in cities, towns and often private homes.
As for the leftist Human Right’s Watch claims of Israel’s military engaging in acts of “indiscriminate warfare” and “a disturbing disregard for the lives of Lebanese civilians.” :
Mr. Erlich demolishes that claim, and in the process shows the asymmetric strategy of Islamist radicals. The most persuasive evidence here is photographic, so we urge readers to access the report itself on the Web site of the American Jewish Congress (ajcongress.org). Hezbollah’s headquarters in Aita al-Shaab, for instance, sits in the heart of the village. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s office and home are in a densely built neighborhood of Beirut. In the town of Qana–site of an Israeli bombing on July 30 that killed 28 and that Hezbollah’s apologists were quick to label a “massacre”–an arms warehouse can be seen adjacent to a mosque. There are photographs of rockets in the back seats of cars, missile launchers adjacent to farm houses, storage bunkers hidden beneath homes. There is also a trove of before-and-after photography demonstrating the precision of most Israeli bombing.
I concur 100% with the Journal’s editorial board when they say today,
…it is Hezbollah, not Israel, that is guilty of war crimes here.