Duncan pointed me to a George Galloway interview on Sky News (the UK edition of Fox News).
The video is here.
Oh, and Chomsky has some
good background
as well. This bit is interesting:
Do you agree with the argument that Israel's military
offensive in Lebanon is "legally and morally justified?"
Noam Chomsky: The invasion itself is a serious breach of
international law, and major war crimes are being committed as
it proceeds. There is no legal justification.
The "moral justification" is supposed to be that capturing
soldiers in a cross-border raid, and killing others, is an
outrageous crime. We know, for certain, that Israel, the
United States and other Western governments, as well as the
mainstream of articulate Western opinion, do not believe a
word of that. Sufficient evidence is their tolerance for many
years of US-backed Israeli crimes in Lebanon, including four
invasions before this one, occupation in violation of Security
Council orders for 22 years, and regular killings and
abductions. To mention just one question that every journal
should be answering: When did Nasrallah assume a leadership
role? Answer: When the Rabin government escalated its crimes
in Lebanon, murdering Sheikh Abbas Mussawi and his wife and
child with missiles fired from a US helicopter. Nasrallah was
chosen as his successor. Only one of innumerable
cases. There is, after all, a good reason why last February,
70% of Lebanese called for the capture of Israeli soldiers for
prisoner exchange.
Emphasis added.
Posted on 12 Aug 2006