Blood Money

Ok, this is my first post on the blog and I'm already speechless...

Roni Lifshitz from YNet reports:
Israelis who have lost their dear ones or were injured during the Second Lebanon War have filed a lawsuit in the US against Lebanese banks who they claim had aided Hizbullah during the conflict. The amount of the claim is estimated at $100 million.

Wow... Why didn't Hezbollah think of that before? Imagine how much money they could have made by suing Israeli Banks along with Israeli taxpayers and the US Congress for knowingly providing financial support to the IDF in their killing of over 1000 Lebanese civilians and their intentional destruction of Lebanon's civilian infrastructure during the exact same time period.

I guess when people look at a world larger than their own through their extremely narrow perspective they end up behaving like idiots.

The scary thing though is that US courts aren’t famous for their sane decisions when it comes to these things. Not too long ago a US court “ordered Iran to pay 2.6 Billion Dollars in damages” to families of the 241 US marines killed in Beirut in 1983 in an attack commonly attributed to Hezbollah (AFP).

Ok, turns out I wasn't as speechless as I thought I was.

Update: According to Naharnet the a spokesperson from one of Lebanese banks involved denied being sued and said his bank hadn't received any notification of legal action... Hmmm... If that's true, it makes my first rant kind of pointless...