Monday, September 01, 2008

"Mohamed Balhas was on his tractor clearing a patch of land near his home in southern Lebanon last week when a cluster bomb exploded, shooting shrapnel into his chest and left leg. "I didn't know what hit me. Suddenly blood was pouring from my chest," said the 36-year-old Balhas...The demining teams have been working all-out to clear the more than one million cluster bombs Israel dropped throughout south Lebanon during the last days of its devastating 34-day war with Hezbollah in the summer of 2006." Notice that Western news agencies used to refer to Israeli massive bombings of Lebanon in the 1960s and 1970s and early 1980s as "Israel's war with the PLO". Now they refer to Israeli bombing of Lebanon as "Israel's war with Hizbullah". Sometimes I wonder why many Western reporters and foreign editors don't receive monthly checks from Israeli embassies. (thanks Sellam)