Desecrating the dead

 A disturbing  practice has been vaunted on Arab TV networks , Arab newspapers , arab tabloids and most recently on the internet : Pictures and newsreel footages of  dead children whose bodies riddled with shrapnel’s , bullets and rubble are held up from  the feet by bearded fellows telling the world viewers  : In your face.

The corpses were brandished in front of reporters and re-transmitted in real time by Al Jazeera TV , Hizbolla’s al Manar TV and other Lebanese and Arab networks . The same pictures were shown again and again to the millions of viewers around the world with no respect whatsoever for any ethical standard or the sanctity  of the innocent children  who perished in the  33 days Israeli/Hizbolla  war . Have there ever been  a clean war ?  Are we to expect a bed of roses after wars , any war ?  Hizbolla’s “jihadists” were caught red handed in some villages of south Lebanon lobbying missiles at Israel’s cities from Lebanese civilian areas then running to take cover in tunnels dug underground .The civilian population, families with their children , were caught in the crossfire and innocent lives were lost in the shelling .In other words Hizbolla fighters were cowardly using mothers , children and their fleeing car convoys as human shields . Israel’s

>  tanks , airplanes and firepower may have bombed indiscriminately , war is a dirty business : you kill before you’re killed , and when your enemy is lobbying missiles at your cities  from atop a house or from the basement of an apartment block you bomb the hell out that house or basement . In the military lexicon  it is as simple as that .There is no doubt that Israel have committed mistakes but the Arab media and Hizbolla’s propaganda machine made sure that those young and innocent lives were slaughtered twice .

The same ignominous pictures are circulating now on the net in the form of pps. and wmv. files. My e-mail box has been flooded on a daily basis with nauseating images courtesy of Hizbolla & co’s propaganda network . By not letting those young souls rest in peace,  Hizbolla and other internet naïve pundits want to make sure the world buys this cheap and appalling  propaganda . This must stop . The international community should come up with harsh measures preventing the media and internet users from disseminating such disgraceful and despicable material .

>                           The dead deserve not only a sheet to cover them up respectfully but also harsh measures to be enforced against whoever desecrates them after they die. Zarqawi’s throat slitting videos were banned from the internet , why can’t we impose strict measures on the Arab media to exercise some self discipline or at least to warn the viewers that such pictures and /or film footages might be disturbing . As for the internet users , strict monitoring should be applied and whoever is caught originating , propagating and /or circulating such material desecrating the dead  should be prosecuted and brought to justice .

>                             Knowing that sooner or later Israel would open the gates of hell on Lebanon if provoked, Mullah Hassan Nassrallah should have been keeping busy building fortified underground shelters to protect the population of south Lebanon with part of the hundred of millions of dollars he received for years from Iran.

Instead, he was busy digging underground tunnels and holes to protect like rats his “mujahiddin” . Mullah Nassralla built his State within the State of Lebanon, he failed in one important aspect though: protecting the families and children of south Lebanon. He should get quickly on the job of building those shelters before he triggers the next round of devastation and destruction.