Re: Israel purposefully permitting Hezbullah to fire rockets ??

The Israel armed forces are much stronger than the armed forces from Lebano,
they just wanted to get more excuses in order to be able to destroy the
Hezbollah completely, and to destroy the superestructure of that nation,
they are even dropping bombs on bridges not only to stop the transportation
of military equipments, but also people must trvavel to those bridges in
order to be able to go to work, to go to school, or even to buy foods.

On 8/7/06, alan johnstone <ajsc21755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   ".....SHOW: CNN RELIABLE SOURCES
> August 6, 2006 Sunday
> TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT
> Host: Howard Kurtz, media critic, Washington Post
> Guest: Thomas Ricks, Washington Post
>
> KURTZ: And joining us now here Thomas Ricks, Pentagon reporter for "The
> Washington Post" and author of the new book "Fiasco: The American Military
> Adventure in Iraq." Tom Ricks, you've covered a number of military
> conflicts, including Iraq, as I just mentioned. Is civilian casualties
> increasingly going to be a major media issue? In conflicts where you don't
> have two standing armies shooting at each other?!
>
> THOMAS RICKS: I think it will be. But I think civilian casualties are also
> part of the battlefield play for both sides here. One of the things that is
> going on, according to some U.S. military analysts, is that Israel
> purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon, because as long
> as they're being rocketed, they can continue to have a sort of moral
> equivalency in their operations in Lebanon.
>
> KURTZ: Hold on, you're suggesting that Israel has deliberately allowed
> Hezbollah to retain some of it's fire power, essentially for PR purposes,
> because having Israeli civilians killed helps them in the public relations
> war here?
>
> RICKS: Yes, that's what military analysts have told me.
>
> KURTZ: That's an extraordinary testament to the notion that having people
> on your own side killed actually works to your benefit in that nobody wants
> to see your own citizens killed but it works to your benefit in terms of the
> battle of perceptions here.
>
> RICKS: Exactly. It helps you with the moral high ground problem, because
> you know your operations in Lebanon are going to be killing civilians as
> well. ...."
>
> Not sure how much credence can be put on the above report .If it came from
> Al Jazeera i would doubt its reliability but it stems from CNN , scarcely an
> anti- Israeli network and Washington Post journalists , hardly
> pro-Hezbullah.
>
> I was shocked by the cold-hearted and calculated strategy being described
> but it explains the seeming failure of almost a month of constant Israeli
> air-attacks to suppress the continuing ability of Hezbullah to launch
> counter -attacks .
>
> alan johnstone , edinburgh br
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