Mick Smith - Times Online - WBLG

So What Did it all Achieve - Apart from Making Israel Weaker and Hezbollah Stronger?

Three weeks ago, I posted the following, to much irritation from right-wing Americans. I wonder what answer they have now to justify the failed Israeli campaign against Hezbollah, and the more than 1,200 lives lost, the vast majority of them innocent Lebanese civilians.

Stop the Attacks on Lebanon and Israel Now

After four weeks of Israeli air attacks on Lebanon which are killing far more civilians than they are members of Hezbollah, with around a 1,000 dead on both sides, and with a ceasefire some way off, I have decided to return to this subject briefly to post a statement on the issue from the Israeli Arab human rights organisation Mossawa, which is based in Haifa and offers a strikingly different perspective on the killings. I would like to remind readers that my stated position is that Israel has the right to respond to the Hezbollah attacks, that while I accept others differ, I regard Hezbollah as terrorists and back Israel's desire to see them eliminated as a military force. But I believe that the Israeli air strikes, which are clearly indiscriminate, are not only incapable of achieving this aim but are counter-productive and will only do further damage not just to Lebanon but to the whole of the Middle-East. What follows is a statement from Mossawa: