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LIBREVILLE, August 9 (Infosplusgabon) - Israel has 168.000 soldiers of credits (186 500 according to the Jaffee Center of the university of Such Aviv) and of. 408.000 reservists. Lebanon counts only 72.000 soldiers. On all the plans, one attends the same imbalance.
This considerable imbalance, it should be added that Lebanon does not have anti-aircraft weapons able to stop the fighters and the bombers of Israel. In other words, on a defensive level, Lebanon cannot even prevent Israel crossing its border and from bombarding its territory.
It is necessary to speak about the average soldiers of Hezbollah. One estimates them at 3 to 5000 men and 10.000 reservists. They have a stock of rockets and missiles of thousands of ammunition and light weapons. They do not have either anti-aircraft weapons able to stop the Israeli planes.
Are the shootings of Israel justified by those of Hezbollah?
It is necessary to judge well to take guard with the sequence of the events.
1 On July 12, the two Israeli soldiers are removed around nine hours of the morning by Hezbollah. Eight others are killed in the engagements. Notable: The Lebanese government repudiates the operation of Hezbollah. In addition, Hezbollah proposes to exchange its prisoners against Lebanese prisoners for some since years in Israel.
2 In the night of the 12 at July 13, the Israelis start to destroy the bridges of the South. The morning of the 13, Israeli aviation bombards the airport of Beirut and the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. Hezbollah retorts while drawing from the rockets against Israeli military positions and the agglomerations in the north of Israel. One counts 46 civil Libanais killed by the Israeli shootings for the day of the 13.
Curiously, Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of Hezbollah, affirms that it “does not seek the climbing nor does not want to involve Lebanon and the area in the war. ” It prevents nevertheless that in the event of aggressions of Israel, the responses will be “pitiless. ” (“Le Monde” of July 14). The Israeli attacks continue.
In the evening, for the first time, two rockets touch the Israeli city of Haïfa located at about thirty kilometers of the border.
3 In the night of the 13 at July 14, the fuel tanks of the airport of Beirut are destroyed. The civil infrastructures are taken for targets the ones after the others. An Israeli naval blockade positioned since the day before and the warships draw against Lebanon.
In this offensive, one sees initially the capture of soldiers by the men of Hezbollah. In answer, Israeli attacks concerning immediately the civil infrastructures and the population. Hezbollah answers first of all by striking the border areas of Galileo. Then it prevents. The Israeli attacks continue and Hezbollah answers while drawing from the ammunition of longer range against the town of Haïfa.
The sequence of the events pleads in discredit of Israel. That does not give a patent of virtue to Hezbollah. We already said it, this last could cause an extremely violent response of Israel.
Nevertheless, if Hezbollah is only one party political, provocative and/or unconscious, Israel is a State, sitting at the United Nations and for this reason, from a legal point of view, much more responsible. Moreover, Israelis, which maintains the memory persecutions Nazis whose the Jews were victims, would have better than whoever to express dislike for the collective punishments and cruelty counters stripped populations.
Preceding those by Hezbollah counters inhabited zones, the intensive shootings of Israel touching of the civil populations and the economic infrastructures of anything are not justified by those of Hezbollah. Moreover, the responsibility for the Jewish State being higher than that of Hezbollah in legal terms, its culpability is multiplied by ten by it.
Which is the degree of responsibility for the great powers in this conflict?
The United States takes the responsibility more crushing. On July 13, they opposed a veto to a Council Resolution of safety of the United Nations inviting Israel “to put an end to its military operations and their disproportionate use” in the Gaza Strip. In the corridors, the American diplomats said without hesitating that a resolution on Lebanon would undergo the same fate.
As allies, guard of Israel and a greater world power, for their active complicity, the United States is thus guilty from what occurs to Lebanon as well as Israel.
When with the rest of the world, it shines by its cowardice. The Arabs palaver and take care well not to act. Europe, France the first, evacuate their nationals indicating Lebanon implicitly as a battle field open to Israel. In this context, the civil Lebanese one which does not enjoy that of a passport are hardly more than cattle.
Which is the particular responsibility for France?
“Eh! Sirs! They are the Christians of Lebanon! Christians of Lebanon, but they are your brothers since centuries...”
Adolphe Crémieux challenged the deputies with the Room thus. It was in 1860, when the Christians of Lebanon fell per thousands massacred by the Moslems and the Druses. Napoleon III dispatched a force under the orders of the general of Beaufort which planted her tents in the Forest of the Pines, then beside Beirut.
Jew militant, he is the inspirer of the decree which will bear his name and will give, since 1870, French nationality with the indigenous Jews of Algeria.
Yesterday the Christians, today all the Lebanese one call France. We fear it, it will not have there Crémieux to call using Lebanon.
It is true, heritage of the crusades obliges, the French were interested initially in the Christians of Lebanon. With time, they however tied increasingly close relations with the Moslems. Not to see but one people until today, more.
In this context, taking into account the attachment of Lebanese in France and our common history, our country has a particular duty with regard to Lebanon. We all feel it.
Jacques Chirac knows it. At the second day of the Israeli attack, under the shock, spoke about “will to destroy Lebanon. ”
But the reason of State and that of its interests carried it quickly. It is expensive to be opposed to the United States. Moreover, in France, at one year hardly of the presidential elections, all the candidates court Israel to obtain his support. In our country, this research of Israeli oiling betrays better than a speech the power of the networks related to the Zionism.
Then Chirac calmed himself, being satisfied to send its Prime Minister and her Foreign Minister on the ground to play the whining ones.
by Alain Chevalérias
FIN/IPG/PML/2006
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