By John Burtis
Sunday, august 27, 2006
While Kofi annan is toiling night and day over his diver's scallops and imported aromatic coffees served in those small, meaningful and romantic cups with the little saucers, as he wallows around in his internecine struggle to field a meaningful contingent of good looking troops who'll pass the time of day with Hezbollah but not block their way, the New York Times is hot on the scent of Israeli bombs.
and Pinch Sulzberger is not content to simply cast a trained nose over the bombs, he's immersed in the determination of the bombs qualitt und prdikat, just as he would in savoring any good German wine from the Rheingau region.
Thus the New York Times, in their august 25th article, is very concerned that the doggoned Israelis may have used those dreaded cluster bombs again, as they have in the past to defend themselves, which, they explain, are very effective against ground troops or rocket launchers and similar units.
and the Times explains that the UN Mine action Coordination Center, apparently the one element of the tottering and abysmally dysfunctional international gang which seems to generate reams of paper and little else except scandals and immense rake-offs, has identified bomblets,"including american types," in exactly"249" locations south of the Litani River in Lebanon.
So, somewhere out there in the midst of the destruction, dodging Israeli special forces, the occasional IDF air strike, Hezbollah re-supply activities, to say nothing of the vast fauxtography operations of Reuters, aP, and the NY Times itself, and the hundreds of shills, actors and make-up artists involved in this huge pro-Hezbollah operation, this little known UN outfit has been scampering around with enough trained personnel to find some 249 places where cluster bombs are now resting comfortably. Not a mention, is made, however, whether these infernal devices were flagged, defused or removed by this vaunted and highly touted team of blue caps.
With all of this in mind, the New York Times and their fearless and sartorially magnificent leader, Pinch Sulzberger, are intent on getting to the bottom of why Israel is again using american submunitions, many of which they claim, have been used in contravention to US understandings and the arms Export Control act, which states that such arms must be used in legitimate self-defense, that they cannot be just slung around for the sheer hell of it or for mere sport, and they cannot be used against civilians.
Of course Israel, the Times explains, is solely responsible for the civilian casualties, setting the stage for the pillorying of Israel for daring to use these weapons in civilian areas--forgetting of course, the fact that Hezbollah purposefully placed their missile launchers and fighters in the midst of civilians and civilian neighborhoods, while dressing their minions in mufti for the quick vamoose.
The Times, also conveniently forgets that Israel dropped leaflets and called ahead via telephone before their air strikes. Still, courtesy of the Times, it is Israel's fault for the use of submunitions, the causation of civilian casualties, and for the violation of the arms Export Control act, and thanks to the only functional UN agency recently located in time, the evidence is available for all to see, which damns Israel and the US alike and alone.
Now that Israel has again been called to task by this reputable, honest, historically accurate, trustworthy, and decidedly left wing and progressive newspaper, the New York Times, it is interesting to note that their one sided stake in the war remains unblemished and that thus far they have yet to call Hezbollah to task for any of their own myriad war crimes.
Moving beyond their involvement in the open manufacture of photographs, which also embroiled the aP and Reuters in the scurrilous use of local stringers who, it appears, routinely used Photo Shop in every photograph they took, the Times has been strangely silent in Hezbollah's open and direct use of Iranian weapons in their unprecedented assault on Israel.
Hezbollah used the C-802 anti-ship missile against the Israeli ship Hanit, which was nearly sunk in the engagement. This missile is said to be an Iranian knock-off of a Chinese missile, which is said to be a top of the line munition in the same league with the US Harpoon.
The Times has been completely silent about the use of such advanced weaponry by a terrorist organization--Hezbollah--which was supplied and controlled by Iran.
Hezbollah also utilized a large number of improved Fajr-5 missiles, supplied by Iran and most likely launched by Iranian Republican Guards, which had an improved warhead and a longer range than the simpler Katysuhas and were aimed at Haifa.
The Times has made no mention of these missiles supplied to a terrorist organization by another rogue nation state which probably had its own troops on the ground in Lebanon.
Syria has also supplied hundreds of off the shelf Katyusha rockets and mobile launchers placed on trucks. The Times makes no mention of these connections, saving all their vitriol only for the Israeli-american angle.
again, as they have before and will do so in the future, until they fail in the market place or are bought out, the New York Times are showing themselves to be hard working masons, building the wall of appeasement with brick after brick of Israeli slurs and anti-american sentiment.
as expected, however, not a word of reproach from the Times is reserved for the actual activities of the true terrorists, kidnappers, and murderers in the mix -- Hezbollah and Hamas, and their sponsors--Iran and Syria - whose people, unlike the citizens in Israel, do not live in anything resembling a democracy.
and somewhere in a beautifully appointed home, Pinch Sulzberger, sitting cross legged under a bejeweled turban, is pleased with the latest expose on Israel's bombs, and he smiles when he thinks of the great social projects envisioned by Hezbollah and the mountains of cash they are dolling out for those delightful mullahs similarly lounging in Iran.
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