Alert the presses! Annan makes an actual demand of Hezbollah!
Oh, wait, I shoulda known...The Israelis have to do something too. Got to be all fair-zee-ware-zee after all (retch, puke, gag):
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday called on Hezbollah to turn over two captured Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross.He also urged Israel to lift the air and sea blockade of Lebanon that it established as part of the military campaign against Hezbollah after the soldiers were seized.
The blockade has to do with preventing Hezbollah from RE-ARMING, it's not "punishment" of some kind for the Lebanese people! I'm quite sure (despite it not being reported) that the Israelis--if they could--would happily board each and every ship and only halt those carrying weapons, but hey, they don't have that kind of manpower or time. Hezbollah, on the other hand, would happily stash weapons in amongst bags of rice, baby formula and women's undergarments if they thought they'd get through!
By tying the release of the soldiers to the lifting of the blockade, Annan once again proves he's the personification of the moral bankruptcy that has so completely overtaken the UN.
OH, and you'll love THIS part:
After meeting with Siniora, Annan also conferred with parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri, a key negotiator with Hezbollah, and Lebanese Energy Minister Mohammad Fneish -- one of the two Hezbollah Cabinet ministers.Fneish said the U.N. chief relayed his proposal to hand over the Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross.
"I told him that I am not authorized to discuss this with him," Fneish told CNN. "This is a matter that would have to be discussed within Hezbollah and can only be part of a prisoner exchange process and the final decision would ultimately be made by [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah."
Oh yeah, I forgot, two soldiers captured at gunpoint during a battle of invasion of a sovereign democratic nation, who are probably gagged and bound and suffering horribly at the hands of their merciless tortureres, far from the prying gaze of anyone who might help them--that is if they are still alive-- are exactly the SAME as who-knows-how-many pieces of worthless scum terrorist ASS, currently enjoying warm comfortable jail cells and three squares a day under the watchful eye of the Red Cross and the world!
Yup, they're "equivalent," definitely. No, wait, the Hezbollah are worth MORE, that's what we'll hear next. That's because it will take dozens, maybe hundreds of their pieces of shit to trade for one Israeli. In a way, I agree with this. I mean, it would take hundreds of Hezbollah just to amount to the worth of one Israeli's toenail clippings, but you know that's not what Nasrallah means when he demands so many of his breed for so few of the Israelis. And (not surprisingly) Annan will surely agree with him!
Those soldiers should have been released as part of the cease-fire agreement. To have not demanded it then was like handing Hezbollah the keys to the kingdom, and a large part of why they can legitimately claim victory in this conflict.
Koffi, I wish you large festering boils, preferably in your mouth so you'll be unable to act as a mouthpiece for tyrants anymore.
Posted by insomnomaniac at August 28, 2006 3:11 PM | TrackBack