Re: Israel purposefully permitting Hezbullah to fire rockets ??

On exactly what kind of killing machines the "party of god" might be 
packing, there is some interesting technical stuff for people who 
like that kind of thing below.


http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/060715_hezbollah.pdf

below is another article, from the establishment right perspective 
probably but I think from a journal that the capitalist class 
technocrats tend to read to keep themselves informed so perhaps it 
might be of interest just for that; 


http://www.cfr.org/publication/11241/



--- In WSM_Forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "alan johnstone" <ajsc21755@...> 
wrote:
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> ".....SHOW: CNN RELIABLE SOURCES 
> August 6, 2006 Sunday
> TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT 
> Host: Howard Kurtz, media critic, Washington Post
> Guest: Thomas Ricks, Washington Post 
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> 
> 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. 
> 
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> 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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