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Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah,ri
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08/08/2006 09:14:08
Metin Emre
Ozcom Bilgisayar Ltd.
Istanbul, Turkey
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Metin,

Your credibility and the credibility of your sources is NIL. I very well remember how you said here that there were only 400 people killed on September 11.

>Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah, right? Wrong
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>The assault on Lebanon was premeditated - the soldiers' capture simply provided the excuse. It was also unnecessary
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>George Monbiot
>Tuesday August 8, 2006
>The Guardian
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>Whatever we think of Israel's assault on Lebanon, all of us seem to agree about one fact: that it was a response, however disproportionate, to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah. I repeated this "fact" in my last column, when I wrote that "Hizbullah fired the first shots". This being so, the Israeli government's supporters ask peaceniks like me, what would you have done? It's an important question. But its premise, I have now discovered, is flawed.
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>Since Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, there have been hundreds of violations of the "blue line" between the two countries. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) reports that Israeli aircraft crossed the line "on an almost daily basis" between 2001 and 2003, and "persistently" until 2006. These incursions "caused great concern to the civilian population, particularly low-altitude flights that break the sound barrier over populated areas". On some occasions, Hizbullah tried to shoot them down with anti-aircraft guns...
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>complete article:
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1839280,00.html
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