Thursday, August 03, 2006

environmental consequences of Israel's aggression

I have been shocked to discover the environmental impact of Isreal's aggression in Lebanon. This is typical of numerous reports I have encountered of the oil spill caused Isreal's attack on a power plant in Lebanon:

' "Up until now 10,000-15,000 tonnes of heavy fuel have spilled out into the sea," after Israel's bombing of the power station in Jiyeh two weeks ago, Lebanese Environment Minister Yacub Sarraf told AFP Saturday.

"It's without doubt the biggest environmental catastrophe that the Mediterranean has known and it risks having terrible consequences not only for our country but for all the countries of the eastern Mediterranean."

Israeli forces bombed the tanks at the power station on July 14 and July 15, just days into their offensive on Lebanon which has seen blistering air strikes across the country and a bloody ground incursion in the south.' www.breitbart.com

Increasingly as we review the impact on people, infrastructure, culture, and environment of Isreal's gross overreaction to the kidnapping of two soldiers (as opposed to the hundreds or indeed thousands of Palestinians 'abducted' by Israel, including elected politicians), it becomes clear that Israel has catastrophically blundered. It is fighting a war that it cannot hope to win, terrorism being what it is. The real casualty is humanity itself, not just in Lebanon and Palestine, but in Israel itself, because the torturer corrupts his own soul, not his victims'.

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