"Our whole military operation is a function of the fact that 1559 hasn't been implemented," Israeli Foreign Minister Mark Regev said. "What is Europe willing to do to implement 1559?"
What indeed.
The Finnish Foreign Minister, Erkki Tuomioja, accused
"The Americans still believe the use of military power will deliver results against Hizbollah and they support Israel," he said in an interview with the Finnish weekly magazine Suomen Kuvalehti. "They (the Americans) are not as worried about Lebanese civilians as Europeans," Tuomioja added.
Fighting between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas has killed 458 people in Lebanon and 51 Israelis in 17 days.
The first thing that irks me about this, as well as the media coverage, is that how do these people know how many Lebanese civilians are being killed? Take away a dead Hizballah fighters gun and he serves a second purpose after he's expired: He magically becomes a dead civilian.
The fact is, you can not tell how many civilians vs Hizballah bodies lay in the street because Hizballah doesn't wear uniforms...a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions the last time I checked.
On the other hand, we know exactly how many Israeli civilians vs IDF are killed, yet the Finnish Foreign Minister apparently doesn't care one bit about Israeli civilians.
The fact that the IDF wears uniforms doesn't matter much because it has been proved over and over again that Islamists and Hizballah in particular will kill a civilian as easily as a soldier. In fact these cowards would rather face a civilian than a soldier.
And could these Europeans really be so arrogant as to believe that they are more sensitive to civilian casualties than Americans or Israelis? Does Hizallah send rockets with leaflets telling civilians to evacuate before they send missiles with ball bearings? Does Hizballah tell their own civilians to evacuate before they start a war? Does Hizballah put on uniforms so that civilians will be less likely to be injured after they picked a fight with the most accomplished military machine in the Middle East? And while I'm asking rhetorical questions, I might as well ask this one: Is Erkki Tuomioja a fucking moron and if so, is the Finnish Government in the habit of appointing fucking morons to high government positions?
And you know what else? I am very tired of the self-absorbed European leadership thinking that they are morally superior to the US and Israel because they want peace at all costs while we insist on peace only when it does not involve suicide.
The fact is Europe in general has not been friendly to Jews. Ever in history. And the fact that they now feign sensitivity to Lebanese civilians and disregard Jewish civilians is just one more indicator that not much has changed among the "civilized".
Finland, and Europe can take their affected sensitivity and shove it up their collective asses unless and until they are willing to put guns on the ground in Southern Lebanon and be willing to shoot and kill people to assure that both Jewish and Lebanese civilians are safe.
