Lebanon’s Expendable People

Mike Whitney

The most shocking thing about Israel’s assault on Lebanon is the dispassionate precision with which the bombardment has been carried out. From bridge to granary, from granary to power plant, from power plant to factory, from factory to mosque, from mosque to hospital, from hospital to apartment building; each decimated with the calm disdain of a surgeon removing a cancerous tumor. We get no sense of rage in Israel’s behavior, just the calculated savagery of men who see their duty as systematically decapitating an entire civilization and leaving it in ruins. The destruction of Lebanon is the work of robots not men; unfeeling, remorseless bundles of skin and bone. No one could have done what these men did in just seven days and be a part of the same human family as you and I. So far, there is no indication that the captured Israeli soldiers have been hurt or mistreated...

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