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Coldoleezza Rice hat sich für die Weiterführung der Bombardierung Libanons ausgesprochen. Wir dürften uns nicht von den vielen Toten im Libanon abschrecken lassen. Tatsache sei, dass diese nur die Geburtswehen des zukünftigen Nahen Ostens sind. Viel besser als ein Waffenstillstand wäre ihrer Meinung nach eine Fortführung der militärischen Operationen - um Frieden zu sichern!!

Und wenn der Ekel bei solchen menschenverachtenden Aussagen noch nicht übergeschwappt ist (wer also ein wenig Rassismus sehen will), dann kommt dieser Kommentar vom politischen Bulldozer John R. Bolton¹:

Lebanon civilian deaths morally not same as terror victims — Bolton

“I think it would be a mistake to ascribe moral equivalence to civilians who die as the direct result of malicious terrorist acts,” he added, while defending as “self-defense” Israel’s military action, which has had “the tragic and unfortunate consequence of civilian deaths”.

Und dann wird noch gefragt: “Warum hassen sie uns eigentlich??”

Auf einen Artikel von Robert Fisk möchte ich noch aufmerksam machen: This is not Dunkirk. This is Munich

Of course, there are various kinds of escape, and one of the most adept of political Houdinis is His Excellency Mr Jeffrey Feldman, the US ambassador to Lebanon. In the past few hours, he had to listen - in person - as the Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, desperately appealed for a ceasefire to end the destruction of Lebanon by the Israeli air force. “Is the value of human life in Lebanon less than that of the citizens of other countries?” Mr Siniora asked. “Can the international community stand by while such callous retribution by Israel is inflicted on us?” Answer: yes.

Now all this presented Mr Feldman with a little problem. This was the same Mr Feldman, remember, who was heaping laurels on Mr Siniora and his democratically elected government last year for its “cedar revolution”, for throwing the Syrian army out. But if he were to praise Mr Siniora’s speech condemning Israel, Mr Feldman would, no doubt, be summoned back to the State Department in Washington and dispatched to the US embassy in Ulan Bator. So what was he to say when asked for a comment on Mr Siniora’s speech? It was, Mr Feldman said, “articulate and touching”. Articulate - as in “he-knows-how-to-string-the-words-together” - and touching, as in “sad”.

Now to the Department of Home Truths. Mr Siniora did not mention the Hizbollah. He did not say he had been powerless to stop its reckless attack on Israel last week. He didn’t want to criticise this powerful guerrilla army in his midst which had proved that Syria still controls events in this beautiful, damaged country. And he did not dare criticise Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah’s leader, whom Israel tried to assassinate a few hours later by dropping a massive bomb on what it called a “bunker” in Beirut’s southern suburbs, an explosion which physically shook the entire city. Untrue, cried the Hizbollah. It was the building site for a new mosque.

Ho hum. One has to say that it was indeed a building site that was hit and a few of the unfinished walls appeared to be of Islamic design. But on closer inspection, it did also have a very big basement. A very big basement indeed. “Well,” as one colleague put it to me, “I suppose even mosques have basements, but…”

Quite so. For no one takes anything at face value these days. And that applied to President Bush’s promise to ask Israel to stop destroying any more of Lebanon’s infrastructure. It was an eloquent gesture. And no doubt touching. But there isn’t much of Lebanon’s infrastructure left to destroy.

1. US-Botschafter bei den Vereinten Nationen [↩]