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MIDEAST CRISIS ARCHIVE: July 23 - Aug. 23, 2006

Air Strike in Downtown Tyre

An Israeli air strike on a Hezbollah office in downtown Tyre has reduced a city block to rubble and left at least 12 people wounded. Kevin Sites reports from the scene.

By Kevin Sites, Wed Jul 26, 3:49 PM ET

TYRE, Lebanon - An Israeli air strike in downtown Tyre Wednesday targeted a building reportedly housing the offices of Hezbollah's commander for south Lebanon.

The building was empty but the powerful explosions injured 12 people nearby, according to reports, as people covered in dust from the explosion fled the scene.

Kevin Sites was one of the first reporters on the scene and filed this video report. 

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It would be nice if reporters would just shut up and show the pictures since all they ever do is speculate and make assumptions. They should tell us what, where, and when and leave the rest to the viewer to decide. He makes the assumption that these were civilians, yet immediately there are screaming Hezbollah in the background and he makes the assumption that the Israeli bombs destroyed the building and makes no indication of the possiblity of secondary explosions from all of the Hezbollah ordinance and rockets that may have been stashed inside. Typical terrorist sympathetic journalism.
Posted by norforklake on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:14 PM ET
2
The two divisions of Jewish wealth and political power are - first, German Jewish, represented by the Schiffs, the Speyers, the Warburgs, the Kahns, the Lewisohns and the Guggenheims. These play the game with the aid of the financial resources of the non-Jews. The other division is composed of the Russian and Polish Jews who monopolize the lower ranks of trade and industry. Between them their grip and influence is absolute. They may sometimes have internecine quarrels regarding the division of the spoils, and eager publicists may zealously call attention to these quarrels as evidence of the utter lack of unity among the Jews, but in the Kehillah and elsewhere they understand each other quite well, and on the question of Jew vs. "goy" they are indivisibly o
Posted by wisdom_is_reality on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:25 PM ET
3
Hezbollah again hiding behinds their coward dumb citizens...
Posted by santx987 on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:28 PM ET
4
I am a christian and believe that God know what is going on but It is very hard for me to sit back and watch the devistation. I want to help these people so badley. I just can't understand why Israel has to bomb the whole country to prove some point. There could have been other ways to handle this situation. The innocent lives that are being wasted for political reason or religious reasons is rediculous. I am just sick about this situation and wish I could help. It doesn't seem like that Isreal is doing there homework they are just hitting what ever. Somebody needs to stop them.
Posted by ltpannell on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:30 PM ET
5
WILL JEWISH ZIONISM BRING ARMAGEDDON? When the British Army passed into Jerusalem in the memorable capture of the city in 1917, the Protocols went in with it. A symbolic circle was thus closed, though not in the way the Protocolists had hoped. The man who carried the Protocols knew what they signified, and they were carried not in triumph but as the plans of the enemies of world liberty. Zionism is the best advertised of all present Jewish activities and has exerted a greater influence upon world events than the average man realizes. In its more romantic aspects it makes an appeal to Christians as well as to Jews, because there are certain prophecies which are held to concern the return of the Jews to Jerusalem. When this return takes place, certain great events are scheduled to ensue. Because of this admixture of the "religious" sentiment, it is sometimes difficult for a certain class of people to scrutinize modern Political Zionism. They have been too well propagandized into believing that political Zionism and the "return" promised by the prophets are the same thing. Having succumbed to the initial confusion of mistaking Judah for Israel they have entirely mistaken the ancient writings that relate to these two and have made the tribe of Judah (whence comes the name of Jew) the hub around which all history and humanity swing. Judah was the single tribe with which Israel could not live in peace over 2,000 years ago, and which has the baleful gift of stirring up the same kind of dissension today. Yet no one ever thought of charging the Ten Tribes of Israel with "anti-Semitism." Zionism is challenging the attention of the world today because it is creating a situation out of which many believe the next war will come.*
Posted by wisdom_is_reality on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:33 PM ET
6
Maybe these "civilians" should have not supported a terrorist regime?
Posted by santx987 on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:38 PM ET
7
The American Guilt: The Supplier of Deadly WMD to the Racist Zionist Regime. Israel will never be safe, or in peace...untill, it's neighbours are safe from the Communist-Nazi-Zionist-Facist Oppression.
Posted by wisdom_is_reality on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:47 PM ET
8
It is amazing how many males there are around to shout out Hezbollah slogans right after the bombing. Blame Hezbollah for building its office buildings in residential areas so that we and if they are attacked innocent civilians suffer and become the face of the story. Note to 'wisdom is reality' get over yourself and you stupid zionism is going to take over the world rants. The only people who believe such crap is bigots like yourself.
Posted by poeticjohn on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:50 PM ET
9
"Communist-Nazi-Zionist-Facist " WOW you put every code word you could find into that one. Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the communists and facist hate each other and fought two wars against each other? (World War 2 and the Spanish Civil War) And didn't the Nazi's also try to kill all the Jews? But some how in your world view they are all working together like one big happy family? Do some studying and you'll find out that Facism and Communism are at opposite sides of political idealogy, it is impossible to be both of them at the same time.
Posted by poeticjohn on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:54 PM ET
10
The world has facilitated Israel's continuing crime. As always the muted Arab and Muslim response are inconsequential. UN's early murmurings against disproportionate response, were initially ignored. Led by the United States the international community has given Israel a carte blanche to do whatever Israel considers necessary to promote its security. This was conveyed by the mild worded G-8 summit statement. Ironically it is a security-starved nuclear-state. It is not held to any accountability; it is not expected to abide by any international norms laid down for inter-State relations. Washington has emerged as the core accomplice in Israel's devastating and illegal war on Lebanon. It gave Tel Aviv the green light to continue the bombings. Bush has defended Israel's battering of Lebanon. It is Israel's right to act in "self-defense", he says. Washington okays Israel's bid of seeking security by inflicting mayhem on another people. Surely this is disservice to a close friend. Yet it continues. The attempt to discuss the Lebanon situation in the UNSC was vetoed by the US. The US Congress, the House and the Senate both, passed resolutions supporting Israeli action. The US is reportedly rushing precision-guided bombs to Israel. By preventing any concrete action taken at the UN to censure Israel's war on Lebanon, Washington has ensured that Israel can continue the illegal one-sided war unfettered. America's promise of a brave new Middle East is increasingly being reduced to a ghastly joke. The list of blunders is endless. The Iraq invasion, based on untruth has turned Iraq into a death zone. No less than dozens of Iraqis are now dying daily. Yes daily. US has lost 2000 of its own men too. In Afghanistan, the New York Times has finally conceded, all is not well. Its more than Pakistan mischief, there are problems within Afghanistan. Meanwhile all these American operations are costing the US army more than just the lives of America's best men. Its honor is taking a battering. The gruesome stories of some US soldiers torturing prisoners, many of them innocent, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanomobay just don't end.
Posted by wisdom_is_reality on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 4:59 PM ET

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