Olmert expresses "deep sorrow" over Qana deaths

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed "deep sorrow" over the bombing of the southern Lebanese village of Qana on Sunday that killed at least 40 civilians, including 23 children, political sources said.

Olmert also ordered that humanitarian aid be allowed to reach the village.

"I would like to express my deep sorrow at the death of innocent civilians," the sources quoted Olmert as telling cabinet ministers.

"Nothing is more alien to our spirit, further from our thoughts, or more contrary to our interests, than hurting innocents."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30850526.htm

Could that statement be any more cynical in nature?

I'm too appalled right now to post in a civil manner but you pretty much said it all.

how many more of these expressions of "deep sorrow" are we supposed to accept from these war criminals. They will reap what they have sown and so the cycle will continue.

on the world's stage of public opinion.

Just as bush and his disastrous "doctrine" have turned most of the world against us, Israel now feels empowered to do the very same thing. And they could care less about public opinion, just as the bushistas could care less. This pervasive "might makes right" attitude is wrong on so many levels it boggles the mind. Does anyone think Israel would have taken this heinous initiative on their own without bush first paving the way by "shocking and awing" Iraq? Not a chance. The "bush doctrine" has given Israel all the cover it needs to escalate the extermination of their "enemies", real or imagined. The chain of events bush and his neo-con buddies have started isn't even close to a resolution. Perpetual war.......it's our and the world's future, get used to it.

Public opinion matters when a country like the US needs to drum up coalitions. Leaders that go against their constituents' wishes get canned. We've seen that happen in Spain, Italy, and soon, the UK.

The US and Israel are their own islands now. They repulse everyone else.

the evidence to the contrary is bleeding on the ground.

The man's a sociopath.

hone directly in on rocket launching sites, yet when asked if that equipment had located such a site at the Qana building, the responding Israeli soldier could not confirm that such a missile launching site had been found there.

It is easier to kill first and apologize later.

The Istaelis said that they were targetting a building 30 meters away from the shelter for women and children, but of course, that did not hage any Hezbolla fighters either. There is no excuse, but Olmert will not stop the bombing. This is an illegal invasion and is full of war crimes.

he'd better get his damned military press rep off CNN International. The statements that guy made three hours ago, to all the world, expressed the opposite of what Olmert is now saying and also presented a fairly good case for prosecuting war crimes in the action taken against the village of Qana.

ya just KNOW he'll firmly plant his foot in his mouth over this.

I see little difference between what Israel is doing in Lebanon and what the US has done to Iraq. They are all crimes against humanity!

I suppose he thinks that makes everything better?

Shocking. On the Qana thread, one wryly states: "They're shooting missiles out of Qana: what did these people think would happen?"

That many of the apologists have little concern for human life is now obvious. That they have less than Olmert himself is quite telling...

as well as Iraq:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=316x885

Nothing like faith-based foreign policy, heh?

used the bible to justify this...to bad the person didn`t read some of the words christ said.

when he talks of innocents dying because of his actions? :grr:

remaining the unchallenged biggest asshat of world leaders

Every day, this evil Nazi turns me more and more against Israel and he makes me ashamed to be a Jew!

I have no desire to jump from a frying pan into a fire.

He had a choice here....the victims Qana did not. I sincerely hope the Israeli people can remove this scum of a human being from their government.

he`s a lieing sack of shit. i can see why our government loves him

And UN workers. And innocents. They don't give a shit.

Israel doesn't give a fuck about innocent Lebanese and Palestinians and Hezbollah and Hamas don't care about innocent Israelis. A pox on all their houses.

I don't think *anybody* should be killing *anybody* over there. Where the heck do you get the idea that I'm enabling slaughter? Both sides kill innocents, or do you dispute that claim?

But that's beside the point. Don't call me out on something like that unless you have a damned good reason for it.

in order to hide your shame.

IDF= Infant Death Forces.

My statements are clear and unequivocable; I want all parties involved to stop killing each other, I want Israel out of the Occupied Territories, I want religious extremists of all stripes and creeds to shut the hell up and let the adults talk for a change, and I want the international community to build Palestine into a stable nation next to a peaceful neighbor.

I enable nothing, sir. Both sides are murderous, and I won't support one over another.

This level of lying is simply insult on top of injury.

"Hurting innocents" (hang on - don't you mean "killing innocents, Mr. Olmert?) is what Israel has been doing for over a month now. The only truth he's said is that it's contrary to Israel's interests.

Why does the media support terrorism?

squandering popular support.

When will it be on the public agenda? When will the public demand the campaigners take their side?

When will we stop being involved in the internal disputes of the perpetually conflicted Abrahmic world?

We we're built on Greek ideals....let these people do as they want..without our lopsided support.

53rd orgasm just thinking of all the bloody death.

Israel had already warned it would do just this a few days ago:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5219360.stm



Also, there was an article that quoted an Israeli soldier as saying that he didn't care about civilians being killed, because they ought to consider where they live next time.

One was even implying that Hezbollah killed those kids to create sympathy, or at least held them prisoner to die in a raid. That was the Israeli ambassador on Timmeh's show (Timmeh was actually doing his fucking job today, not just kissing fascist ass as is his wont). Shimon Peres was sobbing in his beer for the poor orphans, and they quoted a couple of others saying the same thing.

What none of them said was why that neighborhood was attacked. There were no Hezbollah installations there. It was a suburb, still under construction, and the building was unoccupied except the basement, which had been turned into a shelter for refugees.

These guys were all admitting that now the world REALLY hated Israel, but too bad, they'll do whatever they want to do. Revolting.

It almost makes Hezbollah look like good guys. And that's pretty bad.

But these words come with very little action. No desire for a cease-fire, no promise of being more careful, no submission to an investigation. Only a promise that humanitarian aid wold be allowed into that region.

Of course, saying that humanitarian aid would be allowed also imples that other areas are being denied aid. Does it not? Is denying aid consistent with the Geneva Conventions?

Until I see action, I will consider all rhetoric from US and Israel's leaders to be just that, rhetoric.

Talk is cheap. Please do something about it or be held responsible. At this point, no one else is responsible, that is for sure.

but they've already been buried.

what a vile pig

Over what? That he ordered over 20 children murdered? I am so sick of the psychopaths running everything. It is the same the world over. Mainly because these people CRAVE power to try to fill the gaping hole where thier humanity is supposed to be.

Until those of us who are SANE get off our asses and DO something about it we will keep filling mass graves everywhere.

This whole thing makes me literally ill.

Sorry, as a Jew, I am frightened to death of what these people are doing in helping out their paymasters in the West. It has cost Israel any moral high ground. He can express his sorrow at the Hague, where the brain dead one should have been, where Kissinger should have been, where Rummy, Condi, Bush, Cheney, and others should be. Israel has become nothing short of the whore of Babylon (America, speaking in tongues,,, blah blah)...i am sick to death over this.

:D

n/t

what the f*** is wrong with people???