In a world where demonizing Israel was anything less than a badge of Leftist authenticity, groups like Amnesty International might be a little more circumspect in becoming pathetic and predictable caricatures of themselves. As international activists and Arab countries everywhere continue their campaign to demonize Israel for precision weapons that went awry, Hezbollah's use of Iranian-supplied Katyushas seems to have escaped the notice of our much-vaunted global humanitarian organizations. This energy can't be so one-sided because Hezbollah is not a state actor - it was Iran that supplied the missiles to their proxy army. So that's a bad excuse. And what hat makes the obvious bias more infuriating is that, while Israel's bombs are designed to take out installations (and while Israel drops leaflets instructing civilians to evacuate those installations), Hezbollah's rockets are designed specifically to commit the war crime of intentionally targeting - and hitting - civilians. They are in this sense weapons of terror in the most precise sense - they are designed to kill and maim civilians. Like the belts of suicide bombers, they are loaded with shrapnel set explode they detonate. That shrapnel, of course, won't do much damage to concrete structures - that's not what it's supposed to do. It's supposed to rip through flesh.

A while ago, we were emailed a PowerPoint presentation by blogger Smooth Stone, who in turn got it from his reader Lenny M. We've extracted some pictures out of the presentation (which, in its original form, is much more extensive) to demonstrate the utter depravity of Hezbollah's arsenal. This is an arsenal designed for the sole purpose of destroying the lives of Israeli civilians. Shrapnel from a Katyusha ripping through a metal sign...


... and steel and concrete...




... and trees. Hundreds of these rockets were sent raining the playgrounds of Israel, and there were Israeli kids playing in streets who were torn to shreds by this shrapnel:


So if Iranian-supplied and Hezbollah-launched rockets were designed to kill and maim civilians in the most grotesque ways possible - and they were in fact aimed at civilians... and if Israel's bombs were designed to take out military installations in the most bloodless ways possible - and they were in fact aimed at military installations... What could be driving the obsessive, entirely one-sided international condemnations of Israel?

Actually, don't think about this too long. It will just make you angry.