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July 30, 2006

What do Children Want?

"Lebanese Children want to be Martyrs" is the surprising headline in Friday's Gazeta Wyborcza. The subhead: "Thousands of children are the victims of Hezbollah's war with Israel [not Israel's war on the Lebanon]. In photographs from the Lebanon one sees mostly the dead or those injured after the explosion of bombs. But most of them are those with sick souls." I don't recall such sickly moralising accompanying the same newspaper's publication of a photograph of Israeli children writing messages on the bombs used to kill their Lebanese neighbours.

An article below this one opens with uncritical acceptance of Israel's stated motivation: "Israeli aeroplanes continue to bomb the Lebanon searching for Hezbollah bases." Maybe they are indeed using bombs to look for something - I normally look for things with my eyes but that's just me - but how does GW know that that is actually why Israel is destroying the country's infrastructure, blowing up children, killing UN observers?

Posted by hgrodsk at July 30, 2006 06:38 PM

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It's true. Gazeta has a hole in its head when it comes to Israel. Which is stange. I would guess that most of its readers (the few that I know anyway) seem revolted by Israeli bombings.

Posted by: beatroot at July 31, 2006 08:45 AM

The paper is always and admirably tolerant of Jews and uncomfortable (to say the least) with Polish anti-Semitism, seemingly unaware that criticising the actions of Israel does not make one an anti-Semite.

Posted by: Henry Grodsk at July 31, 2006 10:21 AM

Exactly. It's the same with those who confuse anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism (ignoring the fact that many Jews are also (or used to be) anti-Zionist.

Posted by: beatroot at August 1, 2006 11:22 AM

Hi,
"Hezbollah's war with Israel" is very correct expression. It's Israel which was attacked. You leftist morons.
See the "USA Close Away" and the "USA Close Away Special Section" blogs of mine on
http://warpman.kv.net.pl
And read others' views as well from time to time.
Cheers,
warpman

Posted by: warpman at August 2, 2006 09:18 AM

When you refer to Israel being attacked, do you mean the attack after Israel abducted two civilians from their homes in Gaza (June 24th) or an attack before they kidnapped civilians?

Warman, you disgust me with your fake bonhomie ("cheers") and your verbal aggression ("morons"). You got your URL published now go and troll somewhere else.

Posted by: Henry Grodsk at August 2, 2006 01:58 PM

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