Monday, October 2, 2006

Israel Continues to Steal Water And Soil From Lebanon


By Kurt Nimmo

"Of course, all of this is nonsense. Israel will stay in Lebanon forever, or until they are forced to leave.

As usual, the corporate media is only telling part of the story. For a more accurate version of events, one must look to the Arab press.

“Israeli occupation forces have completed the separation of the once-Syrian town of al-Ghajar on Saturday from the rest of the Lebanese occupied territory of Sheba’a Farms, changing the town into a military station, surrounded with barbed wires, trenches and piles of soil,” reports al-Jazeera. “The objective seems to place the town under absolute Israeli control. This was undertaken with the monitoring of the Indian UN peacekeeping brigade personnel, who limited themselves to just observing and recording the event.” It makes perfect sense for the Indian UN detachment to simply watch from afar, lest they find themselves on the receiving end of a laser-guided bomb or two, as their colleagues did on July 25.

“According to witnesses in the South, Israel also continues to steal Lebanon’s water, and is altering the Blue Line and shoveling earth to transport to the Israeli side of the border,” the Daily Star reported on September 25. In addition, Israel is adjusting the Blue Line in its favor. “Lebanon has filed a complaint with the UN and UNIFIL about Israeli alterations of the Blue Line in which hundreds of square meters of Lebanese territory were ‘added’ to the Israeli side. UNIFIL ‘is looking into the matter,’ a Lebanese Army source said.”

Indeed, UNIFIL is “looking into the matter” from 500 meters away, through field glasses, and likely nervous about in-coming.

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