Qana
Massacre...
By Baghdad Burning
31 July, 2006
Riverbend Blog
Although
the sun is blinding this time of year in our part of the world, the
Middle East is seeing some of its darkest days…
I woke up this morning to
scenes of carnage and destruction on the television and for the briefest
of moments, I thought it was footage of Iraq. It took me a few seconds
to realize it was actually Qana in Lebanon. The latest village to see
Israeli air strikes. The images were beyond gruesome- body parts and
corpses being hauled out from under tons of debris. Wailing relatives
and friends, searching for loved ones… So far, according to humanitarian
organizations, 34 were children. They killed them while they were sleeping
inside their bomb shelters- much like the Amriya Shelter massacre in
1991.
We saw the corpses of the
children on television, lifeless and twisted grotesquely, what remained
of their faces frozen in expressions of pain and shock. I just sat there
and cried in front of the television. I didn’t know I could still
feel that sort of sorrow towards what has become a daily reality for
Iraqis. It’s not Iraq but it might as well be: It’s civilians
under lethal attack; it’s a country fighting occupation.
I’m so frustrated I
can’t think straight. I’m full of rage against Israel, the
US, Britain, Iran and most of Europe. The world is going to go to hell
for standing by and allowing the massacre of innocents. For God’s
sake, 34 children??? The UN is beyond useless. They’ve gone from
a union of nations working for the good of the world (if they ever were
even that), to a bunch of gravediggers. They’re only good for
digging mangled bodies out of the ruins of buildings and helping to
identify and put them into mass graves. They won’t stop a massacre-
they won’t even speak out against it- they’ll just come
by and help clean up the mess. Are the lives of Arabs worth so little?
If this had happened in the US or UK or France or China, somebody would
already have dropped a nuclear bomb… How is this happening?
Where is the Security Council???
Why haven’t they stopped Israel? Ehud Olmert recently told Condi
that he needs 10 to 14 more days of bloodshed- and nothing is being
done about it! Where are the useless Arab leaders? Can’t the pro-American,
spineless emirs crawl out of their gold palaces long enough to condemn
this taking of lives? Our presidents/leaders are only as influential
as their oil barrels are deep.
And the world wonders how
‘terrorists’ are created! A 15-year-old Lebanese girl lost
five of her siblings and her parents and home in the Qana bombing…
Ehud Olmert might as well kill her now because if he thinks she’s
going to grow up with anything but hate in her heart towards him and
everything he represents, then he’s delusional.
Is this whole debacle the
fine line between terrorism and protecting ones nation? If it’s
a militia, insurgent or military resistance- then it’s terrorism
(unless of course the militia, insurgent(s) and/or resistance are being
funded exclusively by the CIA). If it’s the Israeli, American
or British army, then it’s a pre-emptive strike, or a ‘war
on terror’. No matter the loss of hundreds of innocent lives.
No matter the children who died last night- they’re only Arabs,
after all, right?
Right?