The above picture offers some valuable insight into the intellectual collusion of the far left and anti-Western movements. In contrast, here's some insight into the conflict in Lebanon during July of last year from Michael Totten:http://michaeltotten.com/
I turned on my voice recorder. Alan translated.
“So you stayed in Ain Ebel through the whole war?”
I said. “Yes,”
Jad said. “At what point did Hezbollah come to the village and fire their missiles?”
I said. “During the war they took some uninhabited houses at the edge of our village and stayed there.”
“Uninhabited?” I said.
“Yes, uninhabited. Nobody was there, so they took them. They were eating in there, sleeping in there, and maybe doing some reconnaissance.”
“Did they ever go into houses where people were still living?” I said.
“No,” he said.
“Okay,” I said.
I wondered if Hezbollah deserved credit for not encroaching on people’s personal space, but Jad answered that question before I could ask it.
“They chose specific houses because nobody was living there and nobody would know.”
“Did they choose to come to this town for strategic or tactical reasons?” Noah said. “Or was it because it’s a Christian town?”
“Strategically, of course,” Jad said. “It’s a high peak. It is very good strategically. But they could have chosen these parts, these lands...”
He gestured with his arm toward the valley below, the place Alan promised to take us next.
“It would have been more protection for them than this village. So why did they come here? I think it’s because it’s a Christian village. They do this.”
“Did anybody who lives here try to get Hezbollah to leave the village?” I said.
“We don’t have any arms,” Jad said. “Hezbollah has arms. But there was this incident that happened. Next to a guy’s place they were firing Katyushas – you know, missiles. They were firing from the house. This guy went out and said Please, do not fire from our home, from in front of our house. My father is very ill and there are some children in the house. They came to him and said Shut up, go in your house, this is none of your business.”
2 comments:
Parameters? Sure, from the pure perspective of strategy and tactics.
But Hezbollah is an entity that has sworn the eradication of Israel, targets civilian populations with rockets armed with ballbearings, and uses the Lebanese people as human shields. Why therefore are they given MORAL legitimacy by anyone (might these be the same people that hate the US??) and Israel made the villain instead for defending itself against such a horror show?
It is notable that the European Union refuses to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, and is popularly seen outside of Palestine or Lebanon as a legitimate resistance organization that has defended its land against the Israeli occupying force.
"I think Nasrallah has a reasoned argument and persuasive argument that they should be in the hands of Hezbollah as a deterrent to potential aggression, and there is plenty of background reasons for that. So until, I think his position reporting it correctly and it seems to me reasonable position, is that until there is a general political settlement in the region, the threat of aggression and violence is reduced or eliminated there has to be a deterrent, and the Lebanese army can't be a deterrent."
--Noam Chomsky, visiting with representatives of Hezbollah in Lebanon 2006
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