What’s going on in Lebanon—south of Beirut and in other Shia areas—is simply the standard Israeli ethnic cleansing. Israel knows that, if it has failed to root out Hamas, it certainly can’t invade and root out Hezbollah from southern Lebanon. What’s going on is an extension to Lebanon of what’s been going on in Gaza and the West Bank—brutal ethnic cleansing under the theory that at some point the forced expulsion of the population will collapse military resistance. In other words, it’s direct war on civilian populations. Michael Young is a long time journalist in Beirut:
Note on the map to the right the Shiite areas are in green:
And here’s a more detailed map of the US/Israeli bombing campaign:
Since September 20 Israel has done the following to Lebanon:
- Destroyed or damaged 3,100 buildings
- Killed at least 1,336 people
- Displaced more than 1 million from their homes
- Bombed 4,600 “targets” (sometimes more than 1,000 in a single day)
Source: Financial Times
Further proof of the Dahiya doctrine. Israel is a terrorist state according to international law and is not ashamed of that in the least. Of course the U.S. is also a terrorist state, now. It's just that most of our population has been so indoctrinated by the media as to not realize it yet. In fact we are even worse, when our government not only is willing to kill its own citizens but actually enjoys terrorizing them in the process (see NC for the latest).
Your tax dollars at work.