Posted on 07/13/2006 4:24:49 PM PDT by SJackson
As the TV screen fills our living rooms with frightening scenes of rocket strikes throughout northern Israel, it is hard not to shake the feeling that we have seen all this before.
Once again, Hizbullah terrorists in southern Lebanon have been launching indiscriminate attacks against Israeli towns and villages, injuring dozens of innocent civilians and killing at least two people.
And once again, Israel now finds itself being drawn back into military action across its northern frontier.
To its credit, the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has taken the offensive, holding the regime in Beirut responsible for allowing Hizbullah to turn southern Lebanon into a launching pad against the Jewish state.
Thus far, strategic military and infrastructure sites in Lebanon have been hit, as have Hizbullah offices located in Beirut.
Media reports have also shown plumes of smoke and fire rising from the fuel storage containers at Beirut's international airport.
Watching those scenes immediately brought to mind the following photo, which shows a cloud of smoke rising over the US Marine barracks in Beirut after it was blown up by Hizbullah terrorists back in October 1983.
A total of 241 US servicemen were killed in that gruesome attack, which was one of the first suicide bombings to take place in the Middle East.
As international criticism of Israel's actions in Lebanon is sure to mount in the coming days, it is worth recalling the photo above – if only to remind ourselves, and public opinion, that Hizbullah is not just an enemy of the Jewish people, but of the entire Western world, too.
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I know a lot of people on FR remember, the bombing of the Beirut Embassy a few months before as well.
I remember it well and plenty more too. The muslims have been engaged in a holy war against anybody who doesn't believe the way they do but mosly against Jews and Christians.
Wipe them from the face of the earth. We should be backing Israel against them 100%.
We should be backing Israel against them 100%.
100% agree!!! and we should not listen to the Powder Puff United Nations....
and the barracks and HQ at the Beirut airport
Long overdue to make the bastards accountable.
Kinda hard to believe there was a time before suicide bombings these days.
Right on the money. Muslims do not tolerate other religions - period. Every major conflict in the world for the last 30 years has involved Muslims. Where are the so-called "moderate" muslims? They don't exist.
Pay back time has come. No measured response.
measured response = suicide.
"Remember who killed 241 servicemen in Lebanon?"
Militant Mormons? Disaffected Amish? Hardline Confucians? Radical Quakers?
Bloody Vikings.
The Beirut bombing is the single event that probably did more to improve the relationship of the city of Jacksonville and Camp Lejeune than any other event since the base was established in 1941. Suddenly, the entire community realized that those who had been so brutally murdered while they slept were "our Marines" - our neighbors, Little League coaches, church members, and friends. On Highway 24 (AKA Lejeune Boulevard), which is the main road that connects the city of Jacksonville and Camp Lejeune, there are 241 Bradford pear trees whose beauty every April serves as a reminder of how precious was the life of each one of those Marines and how grateful that we should be to have men such as these fighting for our freedom even today.
Let us not forget the piece of steel that rests beside this memorial, delivered from the 9/11 WTC Ground Zero to the United States Marine Corps by the FDNY, in solidarity.
Your point is good, but you overstate your case: you've forgotten that going back thirty years takes in the tail of the Cold War including the campaigns in Nicaragua 'the Contra War', El Salvador, and Angola, plus the Sino-Vietnamese War, and the Falklands War.
Moderate Muslims do exist--the Aga Khan and the rest of the Shi'ite 'Seveners' or Ismaelis (most of whom are well-educated professionals in Pakistan). The trouble is, the way the got that way, was the started out as super-militant, including the Assassins, and only got peaceful after a horrific defeat. I fear the Bush policy of separating the Salafists and fighting against them, while mouthing the optomistic mantra "Religion of Peace" in hope of encouraging moderation may not work, and civilization may be saved only by dealing a horrific defeat to the entire Islamic umma. I fear it, in part because the prospect is horrible, and in part because the West may not be up to the task if it comes to it.
SEPTEMBER 6, 1970 : (UK : FOURTH ATTEMPTED HIJACKING OF AN ISRAELI EL AL AIRLINER FAILS : ONE HIJACKER, NICARAGUAN SANDINISTA PATRICK ARGUELLO RYAN KILLED, THE OTHER, PALESTINIAN TERRORIST LEILA KHALED, IS CAPTURED WHEN PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING IN LONDON) On September 6, 1970, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked three airplanes to free captured members and bring attention to their cause. The hostage crisis on an abandoned airstrip in Jordan captured world attention. That same day, a fourth attempted hijack of an Israeli El Al flight failed. The male hijacker was killed, and the female hijacker was taken into custody by British authorities when the Israeli plane made an emergency landing in London. She was identified as Leila Khaled, a Palestinian guerrilla famous for a previous hijacking in 1969.
The slain hijacker was later identified as Patrick Arguello Ryan, a 27-year-old man of Nicaraguan-American background.
Questions abounded: Who was he and how did he come to be involved with the Palestinians? Many assumed he was merely a radical embracing a revolutionary cause, a leftist student like so many of that era. Some called him an internationalist hero like Che Guevara, while others called him a cold-blooded terrorist like Carlos the Jackal. The truth about Patrick Arguello is far more complex. Patrick was a member of Nicaragua's Sandinista National Liberation Front. He died in an obscure chapter of Sandinista history: their 1970 collaboration with Palestinian guerrillas. - http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/1544.html
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