The Association for Civil Rights (ACR) - your typical liberal everything-is-Israel’s-fault human rights organization - got all worked up Monday after IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said every Hizb’allah missile barrage on Haifa would be met with a similar IDF bombing of southern Beirut.
I thought the international community wanted Israel to react in a “proportionate” manner? What could be more proportionate than doing to your enemy exactly what he has done to you? Continue reading »
United Nations chief Kofi Annan, who consequently has a dismal record of conflict resolution, announced Thursday his plan for ending the fighting between Israel and Hizb’allah.
An immediate and simultaneous cessation of hostilities by both sides, the transfer of Israel’s abducted soldiers to the Lebanese army, and the creation of yet another toothless international committee tasked with overseeing the disarmament of Hizb’allah - and everything should be right as rain.
Just one problem: those terms are inconsistent with Hizb’allah’s present objectives and strategic goals. Continue reading »
The spirit of Hitler, or rather the evil that worked through the Fuhrer, is alive and well in the person of Iranian demagogue Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and is calling out to the German people rejoin its cause.
There is a very important lesson regarding the “land-for-peace” process that Israel must learn from the current battle with Hizb’allah.
Hizb’allah’s raison d’etre - at least as far as the world was concerned - was Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon. But six years ago, Israel withdrew from every square inch of Lebanon, as demanded by the international community.
And yet, Hizb’allah remains, and is causing more trouble today than ever before.
That is because Hizb’allah’s true raison d’etre, according to its own covenant and statements, is the annihilation of the Jewish state.
The same is true not only for more “radical” groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but also for Fatah and the entire PLO, which were established for the “liberation of Palestine.”
It is telling to watch the reaction of the Palestinian Arabs as Hizb’allah assaults their Israeli “peace” partners. While the entire Arab world outside of Syria is criticizing Hizb’allah, the “Palestinians” are cheering on the Lebanese terrorists.
They are not, as one would expect of participants in their own land-for-peace process, urging Hizb’allah to halt its aggression now that it has achieved its initial territorial demands. No, the “Palestinians” are actually hollering for Hizb’allah to hurry up and start lobbing missiles into Tel Aviv.
The “Palestinians” are demonstrating that even if they are given 100% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza - including eastern Jerusalem - they are as likely as not to follow the lead of their Hizb’allah role models and find a reason (the very existence of Israel) to fight on.
The international community bears no small degree of responsibility for the current fighting between Israel and Hizb’allah.
Israeli academic and sometimes government advisor Gerald Steinberg wrote this week about how in early 2000 he had participated in a meeting with European Union officials at the forefront of international pressure to get Israel out of southern Lebanon.
“In detailed talks that took place at the French ambassador’s residence in Jaffa…the Europeans assured us that once Israel retreated, Hezbollah would lose its raison d’etre as a ‘militia’ and transform itself into a political party. France and its partners would send peacekeepers to prevent terror and missile attacks against Israel, help the Lebanese army take control of the border, and disarm Hezbollah.”
When the IDF withdrew a few months later, Europe and the rest of the world heralded Israel’s capitulation as a real chance for peace, and did absolutely nothing as Hizb’allah, drunk with victory, turned it into anything but.
It took only five months for an emboldened Hizb’allah to launch its first cross-border raid, which resulted in the abduction and slaying of three IDF soldiers.
Had Europe and the world fulfilled their promises to Israel back then, the region would not be in “crisis” today.
Islam’s rejection of Israel may be the root cause of the violence, but the international community - in particular Europe and the UN - is its primary facilitator.
If the world really wants to see peace and stability in the Middle East, it needs to learn from its mistakes, shut its mouth, and let Israel take care of business.
If the West is, as it says, engaged in a global war on terror, it must view the current fighting between Israel and Hizb’allah as a golden opportunity to take out one of the world’s most powerful terrorist organizations. Continue reading »
Displaying a hateful disregard for Israeli life, the United Nations Tuesday completely ignored the mounting humanitarian crisis in northern Israel and instead whined about Lebanese civilians displaced by a war started by their Hizb’allah brethren. Continue reading »
Much is said about the US pro-Israel lobby, but little is reported on the pro-Islamic terrorism lobby that is equally trying to influence America’s position vis-a-vis the Israeli-Arab conflict and global war on terror.
That probably has a lot to do the Islamic groups not calling themselves a “terrorist lobby,” since they view the terrorists on whose behalf they are lobbying as “freedom fighters.” As we all know, the mainstream media is only too happy to accept and disseminate that canard.
Whether purposeful cover-up or blissful ignorance on the part of the media, the fact remains that there are groups in the United States aligned with “Palestinian” and other terrorist organizations pumping money into the campaigns of Democratic hopefuls in an effort to relieve Israel of its top ally, among other sinister motives. Continue reading »
Every wonder why, despite Israel’s insistance that it goes to tremendous effort to avoid harming civilians in its war on terror, so many more Arabs than Jews end up dying in this conflict?
This is why:
Those are children packed in close around Hamas gunmen as they engage Israeli forces. Children being used as human shields. You want to try someone for war crimes? There are your defendants.
The international community, no doubt strong armed to a certain degree by the Bush Administration, actually showed a great deal of clarity in its statement Sunday regarding the escalating situation along the Israel-Lebanon border.
Beirut has been screaming for a ceasefire for days, urging the world to impose a cessation of hostilities not on Hizb’allah, but on Israel.
But leaders of the world’s top industrialized nations (G-8) meeting in St. Petersburg told Lebanon it will have calm only AFTER aggression against the Jewish state ceases. Continue reading »
