Lebanon: Israel wages war of starvation

[Tyrant]

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel is waging a "war of starvation" on Lebanon's civilians in an effort to force the government to agree to Israel's demands, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said in a statement issued Friday.

His comments came after Israeli warplanes bombed bridges and roads in Christian neighborhoods north of Beirut, killing five civilians and making travel between suburbs increasingly difficult. Missiles struck the country's main north-south highway - its primary artery to the outside world, through Syria in the north.

"The Israeli enemy's bombing of bridges and roads is aimed at tightening the blockade on the Lebanese, cutting communications between them and starving them," Lahoud said.

He linked the new raids to Israel's failure to win quick victory in the south, where Israeli soldiers have been mired in ground battles with Hezbollah guerrillas for several days.

"Today's air raids confirm that Israel is trying to compensate for the losses of its army in the south ... by cutting off the only coastal highway remaining to transport aid to displaced people and refugees and supply the country with oil products, foodstuffs and aid," Lahoud said.

He said new airstrikes showed Israel was trying to pressure Lebanon to accept its conditions for a cease-fire, which include Hezbollah's disarmament and ouster from a swath of south Lebanon.

Israel's bombardment aims to "impose conditions that have been rejected by Lebanon, which insists on an immediate cease-fire before any other step," Lahoud said.

"It is a war of starvation launched by Israel against Lebanon," he said. "It is an aggression that has exceeded Israel's declared objectives. Israel has now decided to destroy Lebanon."

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[Paladin]

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/15198153.htm

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Upon reviewing some threads I have noticed your penchant for posting 'sources'. Where do you find the time so spend all day and all night searching for such sources? Oh yes, you are a do-nothing bum living with mommy and daddy who spends his entire life in front of your computer doing just that. There is NO ONE I can think of who would ever have the time to do such searching. I even recall the day you scanned the entire internet looking for me. *ROTFLMAO* Now you were the FIRST person to do that. No one else has ever done the same. Rather pathetic little shit you are.

 

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[eloisel]

If Mexico or Canada positioned several thousand missiles near the American border, I think we'd feel justified in bombing the hell out of their infrastructure too. Poor freaking crybabies. As usual, the asshats have a ton of weapons but no food. How stupid is that?