Most of the Arabic and English newspapers published in UAE
on Friday discussed the Winograd Commission
report on Israeli war on Lebanon.
The Dubai-based Gulf News said that although
the report corrects
the Western and Arab beliefs about some
fundamental facts about the war,
it still fails to highlight the war crimes
perpetrated by Israel.
Gulf News wrote: 'The Winograd Commission report,
issued on Wednesday, 18 months after the end of the
Israeli war on Lebanon, has confirmed what many had been saying.
Israel indeed initiated the 34-day war on Lebanon
and was defeated.
But the important element the report failed to touch upon
is the morality of the gruesome actions carried out by
the Israeli army, including what international
organizations described as war crimes committed intentionally
against Lebanese civilians.
'Too many people, including world and regional governments,
accused Hezbollah of initiating the war. The Lebanese party had
captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid the day
before the war began.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert launched the war to
release the soldiers, who are still in the custody of Hezbollah.
Israel failed, of course, and later lost interest in their fate.
'Reading into the Winograd report, it has become clear that Israel,
supported and quite possibly pushed into it by the United States,
started the war and not Hezbollah contrary to popularised
Western and Arab beliefs.
Over 1,000 Lebanese were massacred across the country.
'The gruesome images of toddlers, their bodies soaked in blood,
being pulled from the rubble of Beirut and southern Lebanon
were obviously not worthy of mention in the 621-page report.
The report also failed to question the indiscriminate bombing
of the South by Israel including the dropping of more than
one million cluster bombs on the eve of the UN Security Council
ceasefire resolution on August 14.
'Two days after the release of the report, the international community
has yet to react to its findings although it offers the UN the
chance to reprimand the Israelis for their conduct during that
bloody summer of 2006. However, judging by Israel's
ongoing slaughtering of Palestinians and the starvation
of Gaza, this is unlikely'.
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