Lebanese flotilla organizers found to have Hezbollah ties

[Demon of Light]

Understood, you support the war crime of placing rocket batteries and weapons caches in and near civilian structures.

It's not a war crime if said structures are abandoned.

So then everyone left within these areas was a legitimate target and Israel didn't kill any civilians. Good to know.

That was the soldier's claim, though I think it is just as likely some stayed for other reason, like not wanting to leave their home.

If they chose to "stay and help Hezbollah," then they were not civilians they were unlawful combatants and legitimate military targets.

Do you notice what the first six letters of combatant say?

LMFAO, that picture I provided showing Hezbollah stationed in a civilian sector wearing civilians clothes was in Wadi Chahrour a Christian suburb of southern Beiruit.

Well, that puts things in an entirely different perspective. It brings in an ethnic hate question. There is now very little reason to trust this source. Indeed, looking further there are very clear reason to question the individual's credibility. The story claims the area was then bombed and two civilians died yet not even the Israeli Foreign Ministry mentions this in their little propaganda page against Hezbollah.

On a side note, that was an anti-aircraft gun so the only attacks it would be launching are against Israeli aircraft bombing Beirut. So one could say that rather than using civilians as shields they are shielding those civilians.

If that target is a city, a town, or a village.

They are not pinpoint, but they can be targeted much more accurately than that.

The two are not even comparable, Artillery is exponentially more accurate than Katusha's, moreoever, it is your assertion that there were no civilians in Southern Lebanon where the artillery was used.

It was not my assertion but the assertion of an Israeli soldier, which was more a guess. Also, artillery is not precision-guided. There has been some development of precision-guided artillery shells, but they are not in wide use today and were certainly not being used then. Usually the artillery has a computer to calculate how to hit a certain target, but it has no control after the shell is fired.

No what I am saying is that targeting cities, towns, and villages is a war crime.

There are always strategic targets in cities, towns, and villages and the fact Hezbollah cannot afford or develop precision-guided munitions or their delivery vehicles should not prevent them from striking such targets, even if their weapons will miss more often than Israel's.

Wow you are ridiculous, "civilian objects...under their control" are civilian objects under the control of combatants, "their" is combatants, learn some reading comprehension.

Do you realize that makes absolutely no sense? How could they possibly remove civilian objects under combatant control from the vicinity of a military objective? The very fact they are under combatant control means they are a military objective!

lol, o.k. so now not specifically avoiding the things that you said they were targeting somehow = targeting those things. :roll: Wow.

It is appropriate to look at what Israel did beyond bombing as blockades are a means of war as well and their blockade targeted all of Lebanon.

Here's an idea how about you prove that they targeted Lebanese agriculture to begin with.

That's easy enough and it actually seems I have proved more:

We've been the victim of an Israeli assault. Yesterday at exactly 3am our dairy factory was hit by five to six missiles and the plant was completely destroyed.

The target was a Lebanese industrial institution. We are a dairy processing plant that distributes milk to the whole of the region.

We have no idea why we were targeted.

Source: BBC News

Holy **** they engaged in a limited war and even avoided legitimate targets; such as, power plants and they did not mobilize all of their resources, that is the exact opposite of total war.

Dude, the exact opposite of any type of war is no war.

 

[Khayembii Communique]

If true, who cares?

 

[Gardener]

If true, who cares?

Those who are decent human beings who reject the political philosophy and methods of Hizb'Allah.