Lebanon civilian deaths morally not same as "terror victims" -- Bolton
By Agence France Presse
NO ONE SHOULD BE SURPRISED BY THIS. THIS IS THE SAME GUY THAT SAID THAT HE WOULD NOT MIND IF THE FIRST 6TH FLOOR OF UN WAS BLOWN UP. THIS IS THE MINDSET OF A TERRORIST PUT IN POSITION BECUASE HE WILL PROTECT THE NEO-CON AGENDA AND PROTECT ISREAL AT ALL COST REGUARDLESS HOW MANY CIVILLIANS THEY KILL BECUASE AS BOLTON STATES IT DOES NOT MATTER. THEY BOMB RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS WHICH IS CLEARLY A VIOLATION OF INTL LAW .
07/17/06 -- - UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in Israel from "malicious terrorist acts".
Asked to comment on the deaths in an Israeli air strike of eight Canadian citizens in southern Lebanon Sunday, he said: "it is a matter of great concern to us ...that these civilian deaths are occurring. It's a tragedy."
"I think it would be a mistake to ascribe moral equivalence to civilians who die as the direct result of malicious terrorist acts," he added, while defending as "self-defense" Israel's military action, which has had "the tragic and unfortunate consequence of civilian deaths".
The eight dead Canadians were a Lebanese-Canadian couple, their four children, his mother and an uncle, said relatives in Montreal.
The Montreal pharmacist and his family had arrived in Lebanon 10 days earlier for a vacation in his parents' home village and to introduce his children to relatives, they said.
Three of his Lebanese relatives died too, a family member told AFP.
"It's simply not the same thing to say that it's the same act to deliberately target innocent civilians, to desire their deaths, to fire rockets and use explosive devices or kidnapping versus the sad and highly unfortunate consequences of self-defense," Bolton noted.
The overall civilian death toll from the Israeli onslaught in Lebanon since last Wednesday reached 195, in addition to 12 soldiers, officials said. Twenty-four Israelis have also been killed since fighting began last Wednesday, including 12 civilians in a barrage of Hezbollah rocket fire across the border.
Copyright © 2006 Agence France Presse
NO ONE SHOULD BE SURPRISED BY THIS. THIS IS THE SAME GUY THAT SAID THAT HE WOULD NOT MIND IF THE FIRST 6TH FLOOR OF UN WAS BLOWN UP. THIS IS THE MINDSET OF A TERRORIST PUT IN POSITION BECUASE HE WILL PROTECT THE NEO-CON AGENDA AND PROTECT ISREAL AT ALL COST REGUARDLESS HOW MANY CIVILLIANS THEY KILL BECUASE AS BOLTON STATES IT DOES NOT MATTER. THEY BOMB RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS WHICH IS CLEARLY A VIOLATION OF INTL LAW .
07/17/06 -- - UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in Israel from "malicious terrorist acts".
Asked to comment on the deaths in an Israeli air strike of eight Canadian citizens in southern Lebanon Sunday, he said: "it is a matter of great concern to us ...that these civilian deaths are occurring. It's a tragedy."
"I think it would be a mistake to ascribe moral equivalence to civilians who die as the direct result of malicious terrorist acts," he added, while defending as "self-defense" Israel's military action, which has had "the tragic and unfortunate consequence of civilian deaths".
The eight dead Canadians were a Lebanese-Canadian couple, their four children, his mother and an uncle, said relatives in Montreal.
The Montreal pharmacist and his family had arrived in Lebanon 10 days earlier for a vacation in his parents' home village and to introduce his children to relatives, they said.
Three of his Lebanese relatives died too, a family member told AFP.
"It's simply not the same thing to say that it's the same act to deliberately target innocent civilians, to desire their deaths, to fire rockets and use explosive devices or kidnapping versus the sad and highly unfortunate consequences of self-defense," Bolton noted.
The overall civilian death toll from the Israeli onslaught in Lebanon since last Wednesday reached 195, in addition to 12 soldiers, officials said. Twenty-four Israelis have also been killed since fighting began last Wednesday, including 12 civilians in a barrage of Hezbollah rocket fire across the border.
Copyright © 2006 Agence France Presse
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