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Old 04-06-2007, 10:21   #17
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Re: BBC's concern at Gaza man's fate

You'll notice at the moment the Lebanese army are killing civilians in refugee camps trying to get to Islamic militants (which as far as I know are just attacking the Lebanese army, not sending hundreds of rockets a day into Lebanese civilian areas), but there is no thread condemning this, very little reporting on it, and it does make one wonder what if Israel were killing Lebanese civilians to get a militants who were actually attacking Israeli civilians with hundreds of steel ball bearing filled exploding rockets a day, how people would react? Oh wait, we already know.
Don't you just love double standards?
Makes me wonder what's the cause of it?
Is it the numbers? Are the Lebanese army not killing enough civilians to make it condemnable? If Israel had killed fewer, would people have not condemned them? I seem to recall condemnation from the start though, so it doesn't seem to be numbers.
It can't be out of concern for Lebanese civilians, after all, the Lebanese army are killing a few right now.
Maybe it's fashionable to be anti-Israeli but not anti-Lebanese?
Does seem a bit shallow, if you're going to condemn nation A for killing people of nation B, then surely you should also condemn nation B killing people of nation B?
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