Pro-Hezbollah reader of the day!

From the GOP Vixen mailbag:

"I found myself rooting for Hezbollah. Not Hezbollah, the alleged terrorist group, but for Hezbollah, the militia devoted to keeping Israel out of Lebanon. Hezbollah is viewed as a terrorist group only by Israel and America."

(And Canada and the Netherlands, and the UK and Australia single out Hezbollah's External Security Organization for the designation, and the wussy EU passed a resolution affirming evidence of terrorist activities by Hezbollah.)

"It was not Hezbollah that began the cluster bombing (a war crime) and firing of missiles causing massive numbers of civilian deaths in Lebanon, a struggling Democratic country.

It is too bad that Hezbollah hates Israel so much, but that hatred was earned by 18 years of occupation. Hezbollah doesn't have anywhere near the power it would need to be anything but a tiny thorn in the side of Israel."

Hezbollah began the conflict by invading Israeli lands and killing/kidnapping soldiers. And Hezbollah is mightily armed by Iran and Syria -- I'm sure the Israelis who died from thousands of Katyusha rockets scoring distance records raining on civilian neighborhoods didn't consider the attack a tiny thorn in their side. But the letter's starting to sound like a pity party for Hezbollah.

"I myself hate Israel and supporters of Israel for getting the United States involved in the war with Iraq. It was the neo conservatives in our Pentagon like Wolfowicz, Feith, Perle, Wurmser and Scooter Libby that helped Cheney and Bush justify the war by falsifying  and promoting intelligence that they knew to be false or lacking real proof to justify the war."

Um, how exactly did Israel force us to invade Iraq?

"Take a look at the journalists and politicians who were the chief proponents of the war. Start with Krauthammer, Safire, Cal Thomas, Kristol, and Lieberman, all Jewish and all were close to the Likud government of Sharon."

Ah! It's those Jews!

 

"Now they and you are trying mightily to get us to invade or bomb Iran, who is years away fom a nuclear weapon, by linking Iran and the Hezbollah killing and kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and alleging other improprieties."

You saw it here first, folks: the vast GOP Vixen/Jewish conspiracy to attack Iran! I'm glad he feels comfortable that we have time to kill while Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tinkers with his uranium (he's probably overjoyed that Mahmoud wants to annihilate Israel). Hassan Nasrallah, by the way, was in Tehran kibbitzing with Mahmoud just months ago -- and where do you think Hezbollah got the wads of $12,000 each to hand out on the street to returning Lebanese?

"News flash to you: There is no proof, just as there was no proof Iraq had WMD, links to al-Qaida and nukes. The sooner America cuts the umbellicle cord with Israel the better off America will be.  We don't need Israel's enemies to be our enemies. A Middle East policy predicated on what Israel wants (which is what we have now) is a recipe for the kind of disaster we have now."

Heaven forbid that what those Jews want could be what's good for others too! Perhaps it's because Israel has had terror in its backyard -- and suicide bombers in its discos, restaurants and buses -- for so long that they have a good dose of moral clarity to share with the rest of us: When it comes to terrorism, there is no gray area. There is black and white, wrong and right. Giving the wiggle room is a recipe for disaster.

Comments

[mgraves]

This individual is remarkably ill-informed.

Other than the Iranian Revolutionary Guards troops found with Hezb'Allah dead, there is no proof of Iranian involvement with Hezb'Allah (beyond founding Hezb'Allah to export the Iranian revolution).

Since when are kidnapping and murder an "impropriety"?

Israel invaded Lebanon June 1982. Hezb'Allah was formed in September 1982. That is a quick reaction. Iran sent 1,000 Revolutionary Guards troops to help train the existing Shi'ite militia, Amal, and form Hezb'Allah (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/lebanon/tl02.html).

[yochanan]

Sigh. Another anti-Semite with very bad spelling.

It would be easy to dismiss such idiots as idiots, but there are always those who think that any opinion has validity simply because it is voiced.

As for Lebanon being a "Democratic" country, I'll assume that this moke didn't mean they have Howie Dean as their party leader.

But Lebanon, with its precise sectarian formulas for political spoils and its submission under Syria and Iran, is only a democracy in name.

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

Whoever wrote that is not against the Jews, Israel, the Israelis but just against the government of Israel.

[J-P]

I don't know, the whole "all Jewish and all were close to the Likud government" crack seems to credibly indicate a dislike for Jews in general. Otherwise, the writer might have just named people in this country close to the Likud party, Jewish or otherwise.

And what, just to ask the original letter writer, is so wrong with bombing or invading a country that attacks your embassy; supports terrorism (you know, bombing civillians and such) with money, people and materiel; manipulates neighboring governments in contravention of their democratic will; threatens to wipe an ally "off the face of the map"; jails citizens who express contrary views; jails, tortures and kills journalists, both foreign and domestic; and that threatens your own country directly?

Sorry, I don't think we need Israel's insistence to find a casus belli with Iran.