{"id":158,"date":"2006-07-27T08:47:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T13:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/israeli-justice-minister-idf-entitled-to-kill-everyone-in-south-lebanon\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T08:47:27","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T13:47:27","slug":"israeli-justice-minister-idf-entitled-to-kill-everyone-in-south-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/israeli-justice-minister-idf-entitled-to-kill-everyone-in-south-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Justice Minister: IDF entitled to Kill Everyone in South Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/5219360.stm\">BBC today<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon &#8220;said that in order to prevent casualties among Israeli soldiers battling Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon, villages should be flattened by the Israeli air force before ground troops moved in.<br \/>\nHe added that Israel had given the civilians of southern Lebanon ample time to quit the area and therefore anyone still remaining there could be considered a Hezbollah supporter. &#8220;<strong>All those now in south Lebanon are terrorists who are related in some way to Hezbollah,&#8221;<\/strong> Mr Ramon said.<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>Ramon made these comments on Israeli Army radio.\u00a0 He was apparently not asked about the IDF&#8217;s practice of blowing up the cars full of civilians fleeing south Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Ramon has made stark the standards that the Israelis are using, and there is no excuse for any American politician\u00a0or citizen to\u00a0continue denying that the Israelis are not intentionally targeting civilians <em>en masse<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC today: Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon &#8220;said that in order to prevent casualties among Israeli soldiers battling Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon, villages should be flattened by the Israeli air force before ground troops moved in. 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