Posted on 08/26/2006 10:52:40 AM PDT by rhema
You may have missed the march in downtown L.A. on Aug. 12, but I was there. I expected the Palestinian flags, the jaunty kaffiyehs, the drum-beating and brow-beating. But I nearly dropped my pen in the gutter when I heard cries of "Long live Hezbollah!" from the marchers.
It's one thing to protest the Israel-U.S. alliance, to think Israel's a big bully, etc. I don't agree, but a free country is open to varied political discourse. Call everyone with whom you disagree a Nazi if it makes you feel better.
But it's quite another to cheer on a terrorist organization. And if you think it isn't happening in the United States, you may have missed some recent far-left rallies where that anti-Israel stance crossed the line to anti- Semitism, where the traditional anti-Bush chants were supplemented with support for guerrilla militias armed by Iran.
When I saw the signs saying "Hezbollah forever" and "Hezbollah, Hamas --- People's Resistance," among others, I knew I wasn't hearing things. And the Anti- Defamation League reports similar occurrences at that day's other rallies, including "Long live Hezbollah" cries in San Francisco and San Diego, and a chant of "Nasrallah, Nasrallah, the martyr is the beloved of Allah, the Zionists are the enemy of Allah" in Washington, D.C.
Since when did Hassan Nasrallah become a man of the people, a pied piper to lead the oppressed masses? Since when did Americans find his draconian theological warfare to be a symbol of liberation? "The most honorable death is death by killing," Nasrallah told his followers last year.
"Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is 'Death to America,"' he also said.
Would people get miffed if marchers were screaming "Long live al-Qaeda!" through downtown? Or if Osama bin Laden became the sexy new poster boy for anti-war demonstrations? How vile will these protesters become simply to spite the current administration?
Because it wasn't just about bashing Bush and Tony Blair, or demanding redrawn boundaries in the Middle East. It was about supporting terrorists. And that's just reprehensible. On the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations, Hezbollah was responsible for the deadliest terrorist attack on Americans before Sept. 11, 2001, when Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed in 1983, killing 241. The "Party of God" is believed responsible for nearly 200 terrorist attacks -- including kidnappings and a 1985 TWA hijacking -- resulting in more than 800 deaths.
"Hezbollah is the main weapon outside of Iran for Iran," said Christopher Hamilton, a senior fellow in counterterrorism studies at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Iran, our fair protesters may be pleased to remember, is controlled by a nuke-coveting mad regime that denies the Holocaust and wants to annihilate the Jewish state in their hat tip to Adolf Hitler.
How does Hezbollah win its support among the American far left? By focusing its virulent hatred on Israel and the U.S. By accusing the Bush administration of interference in the Middle East. By painting itself in a glorious revolutionary light so attractive to the fans of Che.
Nasrallah once referred to the American people as "most of whom are distant and ignorant of what is going on in the world." I look at the terrorist-supporting protesters with a heavy heart and agree, but the Hezbollah leader surely would call this rabble bloody geniuses.
Interesting photos from a SF rally. I don't remember who posted them originally.
http://www.zombietime.com/stop_the_us_israeli_war_8_12_2006/
And so it begins.
I am telling you, the only SAFE Muslim is dead or disarmed.
"Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is 'Death to America,"' he also said.
Nasrallah deserves death by killing.
How close is this nation to a civil war? Differences of opinion and ideology are one thing, but when a significant segment of our country actually cheers on evil, it's evidence of a serious and irreversible cancer within our society. We've been a polarized society for many years, but the gap between both sides is widening.
Call everyone with whom you disagree a Nazi if it makes you feel better.Okay.
But it's quite another to cheer on a terrorist organization.Why? The Nazis would have killed you just as dead. Are we now to compartmentalize hatred and sanitize the 'gentler' strains? The only reason the Japs didn't say, "Death to America," is because they were too busy dive-bombing it. The absence of Muslims on Main street protesting Al Queda is the same as cheering it on. Where's the condemnation of that in media?
I cant understand why this reporter shows such amazement.
When Hezbalahcrat politicians in the House and Senate have been on the side of terrorists since George Bush got elected.
Are they un-American? Yes. They hide under the guise of Patriotism whlie spouting their hatred and instilling that hatred into thousands of stupid Constitutents dumb enough to believe them. George Bush hadnt been elected a week before they were attempting to find means to impeach him.
Instead of sucking up their loss and falling in behind the country ,they have tried in every means available to them to destroy the Administration and in turn the country.
Now they have this crazy fringe movement who would rather join the beheaders than "suffer" under a republican administration.Women, who have fought for the right to free abortions who would rather be stoned to death wearing burka's than be free under George Bush as President.
There is no doubt --liberalism is a mental disease.
Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Elohaynu Adonai Echad.
And they Washington Post is held out to be one of THE best papers?
Where they wearing fur coats, driving Model T's and drinking from hip flasks when they chantted ""Rah, Rah..."?
Guess they missed them chanting "Twenty Three Skiddo, Kill a Jew."
My favorite photo from that site is the guy with the sign claiming Israel can't shoot if there are human shields. He needs to read the Geneva convention rules a little more closely. They clearly state that the use of human shields DOES NOT render a target immune from attack.
Rah, Rah....Sis Boom Bah....Let's All Join.....Hezbollah.
It'd be a lot easier That's a Man!, baby
Hey you HATE AMERICA Crowd..... Just Leave, go away, Hasta la Vista Baby. One way ticket out of here...dead or alive just fine. GO... be with your jihadists in the distant sand lands. Bye.....take all your liberal leftist friends too.
Do Pali guys wear mascara?
Go just a little bit deeper beyond the wrapping paper next time dude.
I looked at the pictures. How can so many people be so wrong? These people disgust me.
May God bless Israel, protect her and guide her.
HEAR HEAR
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