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Killed if you do; condemned if you don't

The readers of Angry Arab have translated one of those flyers that Israel is dropping on the Lebanese. The Arabic is pretty bad, they report, but here is their best effort:

To the Lebanese citizens (or settlers?) who are found south of the Litani River:

Read this decree with scrutiny and do according to its directives.

The IDF will escalate its operations and will hit with overstated (or sexually mature?) force the terroristic elements that use you as a human shield and fire rockets from inside your homes in the direction of the state of Israel.

Every car and of whatever kind that it was moving south of the Litani River will be shelled because it is suspected of carrying the rockets and the military materiel and the terrorists.

It behooves you to know that anyone who moves in any car that be is exposing his life to danger.

The State of Israel.

You will have noticed in the media the common claim that since Israel told Lebanese citizens to leave, that it is their own fault if they now get bombed. Aside from the absurdity that one nation can have the authority to order the citizens of another nation to leave their homes and then transfer all moral responsibility to them for failing to obey, note carefully here the statement that all moving vehicles are considered fair game to shoot at. So – how are people supposed to get out? Walk? Take a camel? But can’t the hump of a camel be used to transport terroristic water, a known resource of the enemies of Israel?

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