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Titolo: (MO) un'altra testimonianza del terrorismo israeliano e sulla GUERRA

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1174289.ece
The Independent
July 14, 2006
From my home, I saw what the 'war on terror' meant
By Robert Fisk
All night I heard the jets, whispering high above the
Mediterranean. It lasted for hours, little fireflies
that were watching Beirut, waiting for dawn perhaps,
because it was then that they descended.
They came first to the little village of Dweir near
Nabatiya in southern Lebanon where an Israeli plane
dropped a bomb on to the home of a Shia Muslim cleric.
He was killed. So was his wife. So were eight of his
children. One was decapitated. All they could find of a
baby was its head and torso which a young villager
brandished in fury in front of the cameras. Then the
planes visited another home in Dweir and disposed of a
family of seven.
It was a brisk start to Day Two of Israel's latest "war
on terror", a conflict that uses some of the same
language - and a few of the same lies - as George
Bush's larger "war on terror". For just as we
"degraded" Iraq - in 1991 as well as 2003 - so
yesterday it was Lebanon's turn to be "degraded".
That means not only physical death but economic death
and it arrived at Beirut's gleaming new £300m
international airport just before 6am as passengers
prepared to board flights to London and Paris.
From my home, I heard the F-16 which suddenly appeared
over the newest runway and fired a spread of rockets
into it, ripping up 20 metres of tarmac and blasting
tons of concrete into the air in a massive explosion
before a Hetz-class Israeli gunboat fired on to the
other runways.
Two of Middle East Airlines' new Airbuses were left
untouched but, within minutes, the airport was deserted
as passengers fled back to their homes and hotels.
The flight indicators told the whole story: Paris no
flight, London, no flight, Cairo, no flight, Dubai, no
flight, Baghdad - from the cauldron into the fire if
anyone had chosen to take it - no flight. Someone was
playing "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" over the public
address system.
Then the Israelis went for the Hizbollah television
station, Al-Manar, clipping off its antenna with a
missile but failing to put the station off air. That
might be a more understandable target - "Manar", after
all, broadcasts Hizbollah propaganda. But was it really
designed to find or recover the two Israeli soldiers
captured on Wednesday? Or to take revenge for the nine
Israelis killed in the same incident, one of the
blackest days in recent Israeli Army history although
not as black as it was for the 36 Lebanese civilians
killed in the previous 24 hours.
An Israeli woman was also killed by a Hizbollah rocket
fired into Israel. So, in the grim exchange rate of
these wretched conflicts, one Israeli death equals just
over three Lebanese; it's a fair bet the exchange rate
will grow more murderous.
And by afternoon, the threats had grown worse. Israel
would not "sit idly by". It ordered the entire
population of the southern suburbs - home to
Hizbollah's headquarters - to flee their homes by 3pm.
Save for a few hundred families, they stubbornly
refused to leave. Everywhere in Lebanon could now be a
target, the Israelis announced. If Israel bombed the
suburbs, the Hizbollah roared, it would fire its long-
range Katyushas at the Israeli city of Haifa. One of
them had apparently already damaged an Israeli air base
at Miron, a fact concealed at the time by Israeli
censors.
It certainly frightened Lebanon's Gulf tourists who
packed the roads from Bhamdoun in their 4x4s, fleeing
for the safety of Syria and flights home from Damascus.
Another little economic death for Lebanon.
But what did all this mean, this ranting and
threatening? I sat at home in the early afternoon,
going through my files of Israeli statements. It turned
out that Israel had threatened not to "sit idly by" (or
occasionally "stand idly by") in Lebanon on at least
six occasions in the past 26 years, most famously when
the late Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin promised
that he would not "stand idly by" while Christians were
threatened here in 1980 - only to withdraw his soldiers
and leave the Christians to their bloody fate three
years later.
The Lebanese are always left to their fate. Israel's
Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, says he holds the Lebanese
government responsible for the attacks on the border
that breached the international frontier on Wednesday.
But Mr Olmert and everyone knows that the weak and
fractious government of the Lebanese Prime Minister
Fouad Siniora isn't capable of controlling a single
militiaman, let alone the Hizbollah.
Yet wasn't this the same set of Lebanese political
leaders congratulated by the United States last year
for its democratic elections and its freedom from
Syria? Indeed, a man who sees Bush as a friend -
perhaps "saw" is a better word - is Saad Hariri, son of
the ex-Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri who built
much of the infrastructure that Israel is now
destroying and whose murder last year - by Syrian
agents? - supposedly outraged Mr Bush.
Yesterday morning, Saad Hariri, the son, was flying
into Beirut when America's Israeli allies arrived to
bomb the airport. He had to turn round as his aircraft
skulked off to Cyprus for refuge.
But it was the undercurrent of terror-speak that was
particularly frightening yesterday.
Lebanon was an "axis of terror", Israel was "fighting
terror on all fronts". During the morning, I had to cut
across an interview with an Australian radio station
when an Israeli reporter stated - totally untruthfully
- that there were Iranian Revolutionary Guards in
Lebanon and that not all Syria's troops had left.
And the reason why the Israelis had attacked Beirut's
infinitely secure and carefully monitored airport, used
by diplomats and European leaders, a facility as safe
as any in Europe? Because, so said the Israelis, it was
"a central hub for the transfer of weapons and supplies
to the Hizbollah terrorist organisation." If the
Israelis really want to know where that hub is, they
should be looking at Damascus airport. But they do know
that, don't they?
And so it is terror, terror, terror again and Lebanon
is once more to be depicted as the mythic terror centre
of the Middle East along, I suppose with Gaza. And the
West Bank. And Syria. And, of course, Iraq. And Iran.
And Afghanistan. And who knows where next?
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 From my home, I saw what the 'war on terror' meant
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