5th August 2006, 08:34 PM
As on Britarch... at first I thought... ah... while real people in both Israel and Lebanon die we are fussing over old sites... then I thought.. no I understand.
Rescue are a group that is designed to safeguard heritage and thereby the only thing that Rescue can make an active statement on is that issue. As people, as groups we can abhor the loss of life on both 'sides' of this conflict. One can't justify israels airstrikes on areas where ordinary people live and in many cases cower... but then, who can justify rockets landing in areas where other ordinary people live and cower in fear... both are wrong if they think this will create a stable society. Terror has two heads and it is the ordinary people who suffer and die.
Rescue are not here to argue or put forward that view.. they are here to highlight the heritage issue.. To destroy heritage is to destroy a people.. whether jew or muslim, to target places due to their percieved importance to one side or tuther is to shake the foundations of who we are and what we stand for... do we ever learn? Lebanon depended on tourism so attacks on locations that represnt the cultural heritage are attacks on the foundations of the ecomomy, and likewise to site rockets in these locations is to invite attack.. I know only too well from Iraq, wher I saw with my own eyes the siting of Scuds in Ninivah, in the hope that the USA would not target such a site (sadly wrong) the losers as ever are the people. Rescue is right to highlight this as an issue, as Rescue.... as people as individuals we can stand up and say the whole is wrong.. on so many levels... Both 'sides' cause damage and death - and I for one cannot bear the horror that both jew and muslim must suffer so that boys can fight a holy war that kills the innocent.
Another day another WSI?
Rescue are a group that is designed to safeguard heritage and thereby the only thing that Rescue can make an active statement on is that issue. As people, as groups we can abhor the loss of life on both 'sides' of this conflict. One can't justify israels airstrikes on areas where ordinary people live and in many cases cower... but then, who can justify rockets landing in areas where other ordinary people live and cower in fear... both are wrong if they think this will create a stable society. Terror has two heads and it is the ordinary people who suffer and die.
Rescue are not here to argue or put forward that view.. they are here to highlight the heritage issue.. To destroy heritage is to destroy a people.. whether jew or muslim, to target places due to their percieved importance to one side or tuther is to shake the foundations of who we are and what we stand for... do we ever learn? Lebanon depended on tourism so attacks on locations that represnt the cultural heritage are attacks on the foundations of the ecomomy, and likewise to site rockets in these locations is to invite attack.. I know only too well from Iraq, wher I saw with my own eyes the siting of Scuds in Ninivah, in the hope that the USA would not target such a site (sadly wrong) the losers as ever are the people. Rescue is right to highlight this as an issue, as Rescue.... as people as individuals we can stand up and say the whole is wrong.. on so many levels... Both 'sides' cause damage and death - and I for one cannot bear the horror that both jew and muslim must suffer so that boys can fight a holy war that kills the innocent.
Another day another WSI?