The kidnappings/killing of Israeli soldiers were but pretexts for war in Lebanon, as everyone with a critical mind already knew. They were the pretext for unleashing a plan previously agreed upon by the US and Israel--something I suspect that those with a critical mind also already suspected.
Seymour Hersh fills in the details of how the US and Israel had agreed on the bombing of Lebanon well before the kidnappings/killings of Israeli soldiers here. Or see this interview with him by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
Also see Hersh's piece on US preparations for a possible attack on Iran here.
Seymour Hersh, btw, is an American parallel to the British journalist Robert Fisk, about whom I have written on this blog here and here--but about whom I got something wrong. I wrote that Fisk broke the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1969. Wrong. It was Hersh. Hersh also broke the story of Abu Ghraib, which you can read here.
And one other thing: a succinct letter of protest against this most recent bombing of Lebanon on Tariq Ali's website, with other signatures. (I wrote about Tariq Ali in the same two posts linked to above about Fisk).
And oh: Democracy Now! has been doing a great job of covering this most recent bombing of Lebanon, for anyone looking for one place to do a bit of reading on it.
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