Too Little, Too Late

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Well, finally. Nearly a month after the conflict between Israel and Hezbullah has ended, the news wires finally give us some glimpses of some of the distruction caused by Hezbullah's unguided, ball-brearing-filled rockets. Too little, too late, guys. If you genuinely wanted to be fair, you would've sent these photos over the wires a month ago. We're also learning from these captions that Amnesty International has suggested that Hezbullah may have committed war crimes by targeting civilians deliberately. Hello? Any mention of their hiding behind civilians would be nice. This report, of course, makes no mention of anything of the sort, even though Amnesty has previously said they would investigate the use of the population of South Lebanon as human shields.

"The scale of Hizbullah's attacks on Israeli cities, towns and villages, the indiscriminate nature of the weapons used, and statements from the leadership confirming their intent to target civilians, make it all too clear that Hizbullah violated the laws of war," said Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan.

That's funny. Hezbullah admits to deliberately targeting civilians, yet they're still received as the de-facto spokesmen for Lebanon, while the press continues to bray about Israeli "abuses." Check the article out if you want to see some photos of fairly extensive damage in Israel that the press hasn't seen fit to publish so far. The running tally is currently something like this: "Damage and Destruction" in Lebanon: 5,000 photographs. In Israel? 5 photographs. Great objectivity, guys.