Fighting for survival, not hatred of Jews

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/15112810.htm


<snip>The propaganda machine is working overnight to promote the conspiracy theory that people in Lebanon are just being manipulated to fight by Iran and Syria. Hezbollah and Hamas are terrorist organizations and must be dismantled.

Destroying Hamas and Hezbollah is a fruitless exercise — as long as the conditions that spawned them exist — Arabs will form new groups and re-emerge with a new resistance strategy to fight Israeli aggression and occupation.

Everyone is stooping to the childish argument of reasoning: "He started it."

True, Hezbollah started it and captured two soldiers in combat and in uniform.

However, Arik Diamant, an IDF soldier, writes in an article "Look who's been kidnapped!":

"Over the 40 years of occupation we have kidnapped thousands of people, exactly like Gilad Shalit was captured: threatened by a gun, beaten mercilessly, with no judge or jury, or witnesses, and without providing the family with any information about the captive. When the Palestinians do this, we call it 'terror.' When we do it, we work overtime to whitewash the atrocity."

[liberalhistorian]

1. Amen! Very

well put, thanks for posting.

[stray cat]

2. Iran and the rest of the Arabs would be glad to let Israel be?

Not hardly.

[Ms. Clio]

3. the Saudis put forward a peace plan in 2002 n/t

[atreides1]

4. We know about Iran, because of their own words

As for the Arab world, by the way the Iranians are not Arabs, we can't say nor do we know what they have planned. Unless you have inside information that you would like to share with the rest of us?

[KurtNYC]

5. Iran is NOT an arab country

I don't mean to pick on your post because this is a common mistake. They don't speak arabic, they never were part of Saudi Arabia (although part of modern day SA was part of the Persian empire). The word "Iran" is based on Aryan. Iran is now the seat of Shiite power while SA is the Sunni base and those two factions of Islam don't get along too well (see Iraq).

[Dhalgren]

6. Iran is not "Arab". The point is that a "Peace" plan is what is

needed. It is a starting point. The Saudis have offered one, the Egyptians have - even Bush had a demented sort of third-grade "road-map" - but there has to be a start. The wanton slaughter of the Lebanese for no damn good reason is not the place to start...

[gula]

7. This from AsiaTimes

"It all started on July 12 when Israeli troops were ambushed on Lebanon's side of the border with Israel. Hezbollah, which commands the Lebanese south, immediately seized on their crossing. They arrested two Israeli soldiers, killed eight Israelis and wounded over 20 in attacks inside Israeli territory."

I have read elsewhere that the Israeli soldiers were captured inside Lebanon.

Given the frequent incursion of Lebanon's air space be the IAF, they even buzzed the Syrian presidents palace, an Israeli land incursion sounds quite believable.

Can someone back this up?