UN:"Hezbollah must stop cowardly blending among women,children".

[Little-Acorn]

You know the tide is turning when even the U.N., which normally supports Islamic terrorists over Israel at every opportunity, finally starts noticing that the terrorists themselves are responsible for the deaths of their own civilians.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205349,00.html

U.N. Chief Accuses Hezbollah of 'Cowardly Blending' Among Refugees

Monday, July 24, 2006

LARNACA, Cyprus — The U.N. humanitarian chief accused Hezbollah on Monday of "cowardly blending" among Lebanese civilians and causing the deaths of hundreds during two weeks of cross-border violence with Israel.

The militant group has built bunkers and tunnels near the Israeli border to shelter weapons and fighters, and its members easily blend in among civilians.

On Monday he had strong words for Hezbollah, which crossed into Israel and captured two Israeli soldiers on July 12, triggering fierce fighting from both sides.

"Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," he said. "I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men."


(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)

 

[KidRocks]

LOL...we now know what side the media is on this war, don't we?

It's all about poor Israel and how they were the "victims" in this conflict!

 

[taxedout]

LOL...we now know what side the media is on this war, don't we?

It's all about poor Israel and how they were the "victims" in this conflict!

I think the post said the UN , not "the media".

 

[Iriemon]

Maybe we should even up the odds and give Hezbollah a few squadrons of F-15s, a couple hundred M-1 Abrahams tanks, and other hardware, then they will be able to fight the Israelis without relying on guerilla tactics, according to the British.

When it was the Isrealis who did not have the military superiority, it was they who resorted to terrorist tactics.

 

[MSgt]

The UN said this? I'll be damned. There is a slight moral compass with some back bone somewhere in that organization. Amazing what being backed into a corner will produce.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Perhaps this was just the U.N.'s time to get lucky.

 

[Calm2Chaos]

LOL...we now know what side the media is on this war, don't we?

It's all about poor Israel and how they were the "victims" in this conflict!

Your poor terrorist buddies are being shown for what they are .. Does that anoy you there kid? It's all true and you know it. You just hate people showing your side in a bad light

 

[MSgt]

Maybe we should even up the odds and give Hezbollah a few squadrons of F-15s, a couple hundred M-1 Abrahams tanks, and other hardware, then they will be able to fight the Israelis without relying on guerilla tactics, according to the British.

When it was the Isrealis who did not have the military superiority, it was they who resorted to terrorist tactics.

Sure. Maybe we should even up the odds and give Iran a few nuclear submarines and give Al-Queda a few Aircraft Carriers and a part of our arsenol while we're at it. Let's arm all out enemies so that we can play fair and kill each other more efficiently and thus endangering even more civilians as we send our troops off to die in a "fair" fight.

Using a human body as a shield as you fire from that location is not "guerilla" tactics. It's called a cowardly act. One that lacks integrity or decency. Launching rockets in such a manner that they completely bypass the enemy military amassed at your border to expressly kill civilians in a city miles away have nothing to do with "guerilla" tactics. It is terrorism. Embedding your militia inside civilian homes and neighborhoods simply to take advantage of your enemy's morality or to gain global sympathy at the expense of your people is also an act that lacks integrity and decency and is not "guerilla" warfare.

For a visual instruction on guerilla warfare, watch Red Dawn. A militia that hides and attacks an enemy military when the opportunity presents itself. How exactly does unprovoked kidnappings and targetting civilians (whigle avoiding attacking the military) a "guerilla" tactic to you?

 

[Kandahar]

Sure. Maybe we should even up the odds and give Iran a few nuclear submarines and give Al-Queda a few Aircraft Carriers and a part of our arsenol while we're at it. Let's arm all out enemies so that we can play fair and kill each other more efficiently and thus endangering even more civilians as we send our troops off to die in a "fair" fight.

Well said!

And I'm sure that Iran, al-Qaeda, and Hezbollah would be willing to fight fair if only we gave them some nukes too. After all, they aren't TOTALLY without honor. :lol:

 

[Iriemon]

Sure. Maybe we should even up the odds and give Iran a few nuclear submarines and give Al-Queda a few Aircraft Carriers and a part of our arsenol while we're at it. Let's arm all out enemies so that we can play fair and kill each other more efficiently and thus endangering even more civilians as we send our troops off to die in a "fair" fight.

Using a human body as a shield as you fire from that location is not "guerilla" tactics. It's called a cowardly act. One that lacks integrity or decency. Launching rockets in such a manner that they completely bypass the enemy military amassed at your border to expressly kill civilians in a city miles away have nothing to do with "guerilla" tactics. It is terrorism. Embedding your militia inside civilian homes and neighborhoods simply to take advantage of your enemy's morality or to gain global sympathy at the expense of your people is also an act that lacks integrity and decency and is not "guerilla" warfare.

For a visual instruction on guerilla warfare, watch Red Dawn. A militia that hides and attacks an enemy military when the opportunity presents itself. How exactly does unprovoked kidnappings and targetting civilians (whigle avoiding attacking the military) a "guerilla" tactic to you?

Exactly, it's not the well armed stronger forces that engage in terrorist or guerrilla activities. When the jews in Palestine were under stronger British control before WWII, and confronted with superior military force, they were the terrorists, according to the British.

 

[Iriemon]

Well said!

And I'm sure that Iran, al-Qaeda, and Hezbollah would be willing to fight fair if only we gave them some nukes too. After all, they aren't TOTALLY without honor. :lol:

And if bin Laden had a couple B-1 bombers, he probably wouldn't have used commercial jets. He would have just bombed us, kind of like we bombed Iraq. But then if he had actual armed forces we'd have a target.

 

[ProudAmerican]

And if bin Laden had a couple B-1 bombers, he probably wouldn't have used commercial jets.

the "method" of attack he used isnt relevant. its WHAT he attacked.

if Islamic terrorists had smart weapons, they would still be aiming them at civilians intentionally.

 

[Calm2Chaos]

the "method" of attack he used isnt relevant. its WHAT he attacked.

if Islamic terrorists had smart weapons, they would still be aiming them at civilians intentionally.

Stop making sense.... It makes defending terrorists harder for these guys...NO making sense anymore... Got it.!!!

 

[ProudAmerican]

Stop making sense.... It makes defending terrorists harder for these guys...NO making sense anymore... Got it.!!!

I know , I know.

Its amazing that some people are silly enough to think that if it had been a B 1 bomber, he would have dropped bombs on a military target rather than flying it into the WTC.

After all, Hezbollah is firing rockets.....and the last time I checked, they were firing them into civilian homes, and NOT AT MILITARY BASES.

the terrorists love sympathizers that give them the bennifit of the doubt.

"the poor down trodden terrorists. after all, its because of a lack of weapons that they attack civilians instead of the military"

LMAO.

 

[Goobieman]

"the poor down trodden terrorists. after all, its because of a lack of weapons that they attack civilians instead of the military"
LMAO.

Sadly, there are people that believe that.

Hopefully, the aliens will someday give them back their brains.

 

[MSgt]

Exactly, it's not the well armed stronger forces that engage in terrorist or guerrilla activities. When the jews in Palestine were under stronger British control before WWII, and confronted with superior military force, they were the terrorists, according to the British.

And what exactly does it have to do with attacking civilians as a suitable alternative to attacking military units?

 

[jamesrage]

You know the tide is turning when even the U.N., which normally supports Islamic terrorists over Israel at every opportunity, finally starts noticing that the terrorists themselves are responsible for the deaths of their own civilians.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205349,00.html

U.N. Chief Accuses Hezbollah of 'Cowardly Blending' Among Refugees

Monday, July 24, 2006

LARNACA, Cyprus — The U.N. humanitarian chief accused Hezbollah on Monday of "cowardly blending" among Lebanese civilians and causing the deaths of hundreds during two weeks of cross-border violence with Israel.

The militant group has built bunkers and tunnels near the Israeli border to shelter weapons and fighters, and its members easily blend in among civilians.

On Monday he had strong words for Hezbollah, which crossed into Israel and captured two Israeli soldiers on July 12, triggering fierce fighting from both sides.

"Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," he said. "I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men."


(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)

The UN noticing cowardly terrorist tactics such as using civilians as human shields.Are you sure this article isn't from the onion.com?

 

[Kandahar]

And if bin Laden had a couple B-1 bombers, he probably wouldn't have used commercial jets. He would have just bombed us, kind of like we bombed Iraq. But then if he had actual armed forces we'd have a target.

What makes you think that they'd be less likely to hide their weapons and fighters behind civilians if they had battlefield parity with us? Iran is doing exactly that with its nuclear facilities.

 

[MSgt]

What makes you think that they'd be less likely to hide their weapons and fighters behind civilians if they had battlefield parity with us? Iran is doing exactly that with its nuclear facilities.

Culture is fate.

 

[Gardener]

What makes you think that they'd be less likely to hide their weapons and fighters behind civilians if they had battlefield parity with us? Iran is doing exactly that with its nuclear facilities.

Yep.

It's all part of the same pattern, though, isn't it? By the looks of all those who lack the intelligence necessary for even the most rudimentary degree of moral reasoning, it's quite the successful tactic, too, so from the perspecive of Islamist propaganda, why should they ever change? I mean, it works so well to do all within their power to maximise civilian death so as to extract maximum propaganda value from such death, and since so much of their propaganda effort is built upon false moral equivelncies and the blurring of the distinction between intentional and unintentional, then their success from the standpoint of gaining world sympathy increases in accordance with how many of their own people die.

It's like the old adage about losing the battle but winning the war, if people would just take a little time to understand what war the Islamists are fighting and recognize their greater goals, and a little less time in simple knee jerk reaction, these tactics would be clear. The Islamist are focused on the big picture and that big picture is the success of their ideology. That any westerner could support such is absolutely beyond me.

 

[Iriemon]

And what exactly does it have to do with attacking civilians as a suitable alternative to attacking military units?

Are you talking about Hezbollah or Isreal?

But the same reason the jews used terrorist tactics against the British, I suppose. Because they don't have the military power or capability to confront Israel's vastly superior armed forces directly. If their fighters lined up in the open they'd be slaughtered.

 

[cherokee]

Are you talking about Hezbollah or Isreal?

But the same reason the jews used terrorist tactics against the British, I suppose. Because they don't have the military power or capability to confront Israel's vastly superior armed forces directly. If their fighters lined up in the open they'd be slaughtered.

And that gives you the justification to target civilians?.........

Whatever is wrong with you it isn’t small……

 

[Iriemon]

And that gives you the justification to target civilians?.........

Whatever is wrong with you it isn’t small……

Killing citizens is always wrong. That consideration hasn't stopped Hezbollah, or Isreal, or the US, or the allies or anyone in modern warfare. Someone in this very thread said about the civilians Isreal kills -- hey, this is war, civilians die. When US and Israel kills civilians, it is called necessary "collateral damage." When the other side kills civilians, it is called "terrorism".

My post is not to excuse the killing of civilians at all. Just to explain why a group facing a far superior military force, like the Palestinian Jews in 1946 or Hezbollah in 2005, uses guerrilla/terrorists tactics to achieve its goals as opposed to a direct military confrontation with the superior military force.

 

[Goobieman]

And that gives you the justification to target civilians?.........
Whatever is wrong with you it isn’t small……

There's no reason to expect that if these groups had the same weapons as Israel, they'd go after the Israeli military, and only a complete idiot, or a complete ignoramus, would suggest that they would.

 

[ProudAmerican]

every one of those jets hijacked on 9-11 could have just as easily been flown into an airforce base, or a navy base.

the terrorists dont attack civilians because of a lack of firepower. they do it because it is their chosen method of fighting a cowards war.