There is also another important point to consider. Did the Hezbollah start this? Are they really evil? This is not balck and white, good against evil here. This is an assumption everyone is making but this is not the whole story. I am not defending Hizbollah. I have my issues with them too but from my own experience as a Lebanese and also from UN reports:
Since its withdrawal of occupation forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Israel has violated the United Nations monitored "blue line" on an almost daily basis.
Hizbullah's attempts to back them off is to threaten the launch of Katyusha rockets into Israel only in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians or Hizbullah's leadership and yet Israel contnues to provoke them by firing on Lebanese citizens on their own side of the border.
Israeli soldiers have terrorized the general population, destroyed private property, and killed numerous civilians. This past February, 15-year-old shepherd Yusuf Rahil was killed by Israeli cross-border fire as he tended his flock in southern Lebanon. Israel continues to occupy Lebanon's Shebaa Farms area, while refusing to hand over the maps of mine fields that continue to kill and cripple civilians in southern Lebanon more than six years after the war supposedly ended. For this reason, many lebanese children are killed and this land is useless to us.
What peace did Hizbullah shatter? It goes even deeper than this but we would have to drag Palestine in and then we know how that goes. So Israel is not only unjustified in how it handles this situation, it is not honest about even the excuse for doing this in the first place. So Hizbollah who just happen to be the only people who give any defense to Palestinians and southern Lebanese peasants are labeled a dangerous terrorist group that must be disarmed at all cost? How convenient is that?
Please be careful of throwing the terrorist label out just because US pro-Israel media says it is so. These groups do not come out of nowhere. They are not evil. They are responding to apartheid oppression which is always how such groups are created and sustained. People are all falling for this magic word "terrorist" which is becoming too often an excuse to wipe out all dissenters.
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Date: 2006-08-03 10:40 pm (UTC)Since its withdrawal of occupation forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Israel has violated the United Nations monitored "blue line" on an almost daily basis.
Hizbullah's attempts to back them off is to threaten the launch of Katyusha rockets into Israel only in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians or Hizbullah's leadership and yet Israel contnues to provoke them by firing on Lebanese citizens on their own side of the border.
Israeli soldiers have terrorized the general population, destroyed private property, and killed numerous civilians. This past February, 15-year-old shepherd Yusuf Rahil was killed by Israeli cross-border fire as he tended his flock in southern Lebanon. Israel continues to occupy Lebanon's Shebaa Farms area, while refusing to hand over the maps of mine fields that continue to kill and cripple civilians in southern Lebanon more than six years after the war supposedly ended. For this reason, many lebanese children are killed and this land is useless to us.
What peace did Hizbullah shatter? It goes even deeper than this but we would have to drag Palestine in and then we know how that goes. So Israel is not only unjustified in how it handles this situation, it is not honest about even the excuse for doing this in the first place. So Hizbollah who just happen to be the only people who give any defense to Palestinians and southern Lebanese peasants are labeled a dangerous terrorist group that must be disarmed at all cost? How convenient is that?
Please be careful of throwing the terrorist label out just because US pro-Israel media says it is so. These groups do not come out of nowhere. They are not evil. They are responding to apartheid oppression which is always how such groups are created and sustained. People are all falling for this magic word "terrorist" which is becoming too often an excuse to wipe out all dissenters.