UN thinks war crimes are taking place in Mid-East
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has warned that war crimes may have been committed in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, and the BBC looks at whether that could be the case.
My view is that the EU countries should have been saying the same thing loudly a week ago. Shame on you, Blair, Merkel, Prodi and most of the other EU leaders. Neither Hezbollah’s taking hostage of Israeli soldiers, nor the utterly disproportionate response from Israel (causing 500 000 people to be displaced in the first week of retaliations against Lebanon) is acceptable under the Geneva conventions. Whereby Israel, in my opinion, is far and away the greater offender and it is high time that the American government ceased to blindly support them. (However, given the US policies regarding Iraq and 9/11, that looks unlikely to happen on Bush’s watch.)