On the Road to Armageddon? Or Nightmare of Fire and Blood! 
Residents in Southern Lebanon had been advised to flee by Israel. Their villages were slated for demolition to destroy any possible Hezbollah rocket launching sites or arms caches. In the descriptive words of Sabrina Tavernise:
"The cars set off down the narrow mountain road a few hours before sunset. They were trying to leave villages the Israeli Army occupied two days before, moving with what they thought was permission to pass.
"But then the missiles came. Shortly after nightfall Israeli aircraft fired into the convoy, containing more than a thousand Lebanese villagers."
Lebanese military officials insisted they had indeed received permission for the fleeing convoy to have this safe passage to leave Lebanon or they never would have advised the fleeing convoy to take off.
As Israeli planes dropped bombs on the convoy drivers switched off headlights. They frantically turned off the read that was being demolished before their eyes.
A courageous ambulance worker driving with the ill-fated convoy tried desperately to reach the wounded, pleading for help. It took an hour for emergency workers to get in to help the wounded and to pick up the bodies amidst the voice of injured civilians crying and shouting.
Does the U.S. supply Israel with these bombs to bring democracy and freedom to Lebanon? Joel Stein writing in Time on August 14, claims that Jews represent 0.02 percent of the world's population.
We are all too aware of biblical Old Testament accounts of Jehovah demanding ancient Israelites kill every single sinner of the evil enemy. God forbid this ancient strategy of conducting warfare is being employed in 2006.
It appears that virtually the entire infrastructure of Lebanon was demolished. Times change. Now we have nuclear warfare.
Condoleezza Rice's comment on the Lebanon conflict as part of the "birth pangs" of a new Middle East was, in the words of Rami Khouri, an analyst and columnist for Beirut's Daily Star newspaper, "crude, insensitive and cruel."
Khouri further noted, "She was basically seen as saying you have to kill Arabs to remake them and you have to allow Israel to destroy Arab movements to make better nations. If it is a new Mideast, it won't be the one she is expecting."
Did I hear someone say Iran? Nukes don't argue! Time out - for peace to prevail!
KEYWORDS: Hezballoh, George W. Bush, Sabrina Tavernise, Joel Stein, Israeli Bombing, Old Testament, Jehovah, Rami Khouri, Condoleezza Rice
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