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This new titbit from the Associated Press. The Israeli government claims, amazingly, that it knew nothing of the military's illegal use of literally millions of cluster bombs on Lebanon in its 2006 invasion of the country.
The government claims the military never mentioned the humdrum fact that they dropped millions of such bombs illegally on civilian population centres in Lebanon, so the government remained blissfully unaware.
Did they not read the papers? Did they not watch the news?
Every TV and news organisation in Israel and the rest of the world more than casually, and more than once, announced that Israel was dropping thousands of cluster bombs per hour on Lebanon. One Israeli military official even bragged that they were deliberately pointed at civilians and had no military use whatsoever.
Surprisingly, American newspapers widely reported Israel's use of cluster bombs in Lebanon at the time. My hometown paper in the U.S. even published an article I wrote which mentioned briefly the illegal use of cluster bombs. (The paper's op-ed editor didn't deny that Israel had used cluster bombs but initially disputed my claim that said usage was illegal, till I proved it with several sources; to her credit, she relented and printed my article in full in the Sunday edition of an admittedly small-time paper.)
Even by Israeli standards of propaganda and lying, this new claim is breathtaking.
"Israel didn't know of cluster bomb use"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071900729.html
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