actually this is the article i read last week and
could not find it when i was looking for it again and
in my google i found the blog referring to this, i
appreciate you finding it again for me. i wanted to
put it out to restore some kind of balance. 
   i actually do not believe isreal tries to kill
civilians, but, it does appear that hezbolah and hamas
does target civilians. 
--- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Ken,
> 
> Since I tend to not trust blog sites very much, I
> did a little deeper "digg"ing on the use of ball
> bearings in Katyusha rockets by Hezbollah, and came
> up with this, from Human Rights Watch.
> 
>
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/18/lebano13760.htm
> 
> I wasn't appalled only with Israel, but also with
> Hamas and Hezbollah.  I'm sure that articles similar
> to the one written about the impact on the Lebanese
> family could be written about Israeli families. 
> War, or terrorist acts, tend to injure people on all
> sides, either initially, or when retaliated against.
> 
> Here's a little more background on Hamas and
> Hezbollah (both from the Council on Foreign
> Relations), for background:
> 
> http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/#1
> 
> http://www.cfr.org/publication/9155/
> 
> This has been an enlightening discussion.  
> 
> To "pull your chain" a little, here are a couple of
> sites on Isreal (sic).
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isreal
> 
> http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/Isreal.html
> 
> and one from The Weekly Standard:
> 
>
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/161yaihr.asp
> 
> (hope you can turn off the Albertson's flash ad!)
> 
> 
> Kendall 
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
> world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on
> the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:09 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] Disability Rights (now
> mideast crisis?)
> 
> since everyone is so appalled with Isreal, here is
> an
> article you all need to read:
> 
>
http://digg.com/world_news/Hezbollah_s_Dangerous_Ball_Bearings
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > This is an article about a student in my town, and
> > the impact the Israel/Lebanon situation has had on
> > him and his family.
> > 
> > Kendall 
> > 
> > An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> > redundant!)
> > 
> > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
> the
> > unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
> > world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
> on
> > the unreasonable man.
> > 
> > -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> > 
> > 
> > Violence hits close for UW student
> > By JARED MILLER
> > Star-Tribune staff writer Thursday, July 27, 2006
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Richard Semaan, a Lebanese man studying at the
> > University of Wyoming in Laramie, is struggling to
> > keep tabs on family and friends displaced by the
> > bombinig in his home country. Photo by Jaren
> Miller,
> > Casper Star-Tribune.
> >  
> >  
> > LARAMIE -- Richard Semaan is a busy University of
> > Wyoming doctoral student, but these days he spends
> > most of his time watching TV and surfing the Web.
> > 
> > The 26-year-old Lebanese man carefully monitors
> > 24-hour news channels and scours Arabic and
> English
> > Web sites for any scraps of information about his
> > embattled country.
> > 
> > "If you have somebody in the line of fire, how
> > productive can you be?" said Semaan, who studies a
> > specialized engineering field called experimental
> > turbulence.
> > 
> > Semaan's parents and his older brother last week
> > fled the Beirut suburbs for the mountains after
> food
> > and water became scarce and a bomb exploded
> nearby.
> > They're betting Israel won't target the rural,
> > Christian area, he said.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "Something must go terribly, terribly wrong to be
> > hit there," Semaan said.
> > 
> > Contact with his mother, a retired teacher, and
> his
> > father, a retired accountant, has been spotty
> since
> > the move. He said Israeli forces have attacked
> > communication towers, and the family's rented
> > apartment has no telephone service.
> > 
> > However, Semaan regularly discusses the war with
> > friends in Lebanon who say they feel helpless
> > against the bombardment. Semaan struggles with
> > conflicting emotions as he watches coverage of
> > Israeli warplanes pummeling his country.
> > 
> > "I can't tell you I wish I was there -- I'll be in
> > the line of danger," Semaan said. "But at the same
> > time, for some reason I'm wishing I was there."
> > 
> > Semaan is no stranger to war. He's too young to
> > remember the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, but
> > his family suffered major losses in the subsequent
> > civil wars that made Beirut a poster child for
> > Middle East violence in the 1990s.
> > 
> > "Our house got totally destroyed in that war,"
> > Semaan said. "It was burned to the ground, and we
> > virtually lost everything there, and we had to
> > rebuild.
> > 
> > "From that experience, I can relate to what's
> > happening now. It's a big tragedy."
> > 
> > Semaan was vacationing in Lebanon a day before
> > Hezbollah guerillas kidnapped two Israeli
> soldiers.
> > Within hours, Israeli forces unleashed a nearly
> > relentless assault on Lebanon that has killed
> > roughly 400 Lebanese, most of them civilians, and
> > displaced more than 500,000, according to wire
> > reports. Hezbollah continues to shell parts of
> > northern Israel in retaliation.
> > 
> > Semaan said Hezbollah made a strategic mistake by
> > snatching the soldiers, and now the Lebanese
> people
> > are being "collectively punished" for its actions.
> > The proof, he said, is the targets Israel is
> > choosing.
> > 
> > "Some of the targets are unexplainable," he said.
> > "They're hitting lighthouses, wheat silos, farms,
> > factories. What does that have to do with
> > Hezbollah?"
> > 
> > Israel, meanwhile, says Hezbollah fighters use
> > civilian areas to conceal their arsenal of
> missiles
> > and take human shields.
> > 
> > What's more demoralizing, Semaan said, is that
> > Lebanon had been undergoing massive rebuilding
> since
> > the end of the civil war in 2000 and was expecting
> a
> > strong tourist season.
> > 
> > "We just want to be in peace, and Lebanon has paid
> a
> > really, really heavy price for the conflicts in
> the
> 
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