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« Blogs and the Kelo Decision | Main | Are Tennessee's Corporate Giveaways Constitutional? » July 19, 2006Rockets and RealityI've been sitting here in a hospital waiting room since early this morning, and CNN is on, and the big story is, naturally, Israel's ongoing military attacks on the Hezbollah terrorist organization. I find myself feeling sorry for the vast majority of the people of Lebanon who aren't Hezbollah supporters and whose land they thought was their country has been appropriated by Syria and Iran as a battleground from which to wage war against Israel. I also find myself saddened by the constant drumbeat of the Western media's questions being posed to various public officials and their spokespeople, both American and Israeli. The subtext of every question is, "What will make Israel stop attacking Hezbollah?" rather than, "What will make Hezbollah stop attacking Israel." It's disgusting. Hezbollah is a Syrian- and Iranian-backed Islamist terror organization dedicated to the goal of eradicating Israel and killing Jews. Period. It has no other raison d'etre. That's it. And recently it began raining rockets down on Israel from bases in southern Lebanon. Yet all the Western media can do is plead for someone to make Israel stop attacking poor old Hezbollah. Newsflash: We don't need yet another negotiated ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. All that will do is allow Hezbollah to regroup from the beating it is currently taking, and to recruit more terrorists and smuggle more arms into southern Lebanon from Iran and Syria. War is bad. But stopping a war before the bad guys are completely and utterly defeated is worse as it merely delays the conflict until another time. If Hezbollah is not crushed now, it will have to be crushed later - at a time when it may be better armed and more difficult and costly in civilian lives and property damage to defeat. A weed is easier to kill and remove by the roots when it is small than when it has been given more time to grow larger. Too many future negotiated ceasefires and the world may wake up to find Hezbollah armed with a nuke provided to it by its patrons in Tehran. Then what? Then the world will be regretting that time back in 2006 that it pressured Israel to negotiate another useless and ultimately utterly pointless ceasefire with Hezbollah. Posted in War on Terror
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Instead of assuming you know the answers to these questions, you should seek out some real life Palestinians and ask them these questions? Israel holds MANY Palestinians prisoner, and does whatever they want with them. But, Palestine takes a couple Israel soldiers captive and moves them to a secure location, and Isreal starts a war over it? And where not this Israeli soldiers in a settlement? You know settlements don't you, the illegal occupation of Palestinian land by Jews? Isreal is thick with hypocricy. Posted by: Kevin Barbieux at July 19, 2006 5:29 PMHezbollah is not a palestinian militant faction in the "occupied territories," it is an Iranian-backed Islamist terror organization based in Lebanon, in which Israel did not have troops. And of course Israel holds "many" Palestinians prisonor. Many Palestinians have committed or attempted terrorist acts against Israel. And as for the occupation of Palestinian land, I seem to recall Israel has of late been withdrawing from virtually all of the occupied territories and vacating many, many settlements.
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