[goldstategop]

In this war, Lebanon is misleadingly called "an innocent bystander." This is a lie. Critics of Israel who raise it, as David Horowitz, points out, aid and abet Hezbollah's aggression against the Jewish State. In the first place, Lebanon is host to Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy that is sworn to fulfil Teheran's vow to wipe Israel off the map. The Lebanese government ignored this and allowed Hezbollah to built a "state within a state" in the country and to accumulate a massive arsenal of weapons with which to attack Israel, which even now rains down upon Israel's cities, killing civilians there and destroying oroperty. What did Israel it might be asked, do to provoke that? Nothing. And the Lebanese are not helpless; they could resist Hezbollah, however futile it might be, if they wanted to save the country. Resistance movements in Europe did it in the face of a superior, well armed Wehrmacht. Even Lebanon's own "Cedar Revolution" a couple of months ago showed it is possible for an unarmed people to rise up against occupiers, so their is no excuse for the Lebanese not resisting Hezbollah and evicting them from their country. The Lebanese should be hating the terrorists who are destroying their country. Instead, they hate the Jews and moreover, they know well what Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's true agenda is: over the years he has spelt it out for every one to hear and the Lebanese are in no position to pretend ignorance. They know full well what that would mean for them. So from Western sycophants of Hezbollah who make excuses for Lebanese succor for the terrorists we do not even get moral equivalence; to the contrary we hear an enlistment of moral support for the devil. In the final analysis then, the situation in Lebanon is a tragedy but they are not innocent in what is going on; they are a part of the theater of war against Israel.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)

[BlueSky194]

Brilliant article by Horowitz.
I would also say, If Hizbollah continues to use civilians as human shields.
Civilians will die.

[Anti-Bubba182]

The Lebanese government does not tolerate Hezbollah, Hezbollah tolerates the Lebanese government. Hezbollah is the dominant power. It is infuriating how the UN and even our own goverment maintains the fiction there is an independent Lebanon.

For example it has been said that if the Lebanese army joined forces with Hexbollah in open conflict the US would take that opportunity to sieze and freeze assets they can get to. It is stupid to maintain this fiction that they are not effectually together.

[gotribe]

And let's remember: the Cedar revolution was against Syrian occupation. No "revolution" against Hezbollah has occurred in Lebanon.

[familyop]

Yep. Nearly the whole population is comprised of religious identity members who hate Israel.

CIA World Factbook - Lebanon

"Religions:
Muslim 59.7% (Shi'a, Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite or Nusayri), Christian 39% (Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, Copt, Protestant), other 1.3%"

[familyop]

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/le.html

[familyop]

Lebanon says army ready to fight [The truth about Lebanon.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670344/posts

Lebanese leaders call for unity [All of them support the terrorists. ...always have.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668991/posts

[hershey]

Should be required reading for everyone in the MSM and the American public.

[hershey]

Dirty little secret: we're at war with Islam, which means Muslims. As long as we avoid naming the enemy, we're fighting with one hand behind our back.

[larryjohnson]

But CNN shows victims.

[Irishguy]

good article...the thing that amazed most people yesterday was the katushyas firing from Tyre...finally i think some people saw what Israels has been saying..they are firing from suburbs ...this image and a few more has done a lot to damage the Hizziefit's claims of innocence....

[American in Singapore]

This is not even moral equivalence; it is sympathy for the devil.

Wow, this sentence and the last paragraph makes this a very powerful article.

[samtheman]

Israel is doing the right thing going in on the ground. Those bunkers can't be destroyed from the air. The Israeli airforce doesn't have the bunker-busting-power of the US airforce and the hezbullies have built their bunkers in civilian neighborhoods.

Israeli soldiers have to go in and clear out the nests of vermin, and obliterate those bunkers. I recommend that they also obliterate the neighborhoods that host the bunkers, and all the government buildings in any town or city that hosts bunkers (after moving people out of the way, of course).

That way, any future bunker-building projects might be considered "lacking in civic-mindedness" by the local government and population.

[Tax-chick]

ping

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bump for later

[TalBlack]

“Israel has pushed the button of its own destruction. The Zionists made their worst decision and triggered their extinction by attacking Lebanon."

Wow, he has described his own fate and he doesn't know it.

[Valin]

Hezbollah's Iranian War in Iraq
By Dr. Walid Phares
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 24, 2006
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23503

(Snip)
The Jihadi Syro-Iranian offensive started simultaneously in early 2005, with the Hariri assassination in Lebanon and the selecting of Mahmoud Ahmedinijad as head of the Islamic Republic in Tehran. In Lebanon and as the pro-Syrian Government collapsed, new elections were held and an anti-Syria majority was established, Hezbollah executed a sophisticated one year plan in preparation for the war launched in July 2006.
It began with Nasrallah imposing on the Seniora Government a strange offer: taking three members of the Party into his cabinet, while Hezbollah maintains a strategic relation with Syria’s regime. That success brought other moves forward. For six months, political leaders and journalists of the Cedars Revolution were assassinated with car bombs: Samir Qassir, George Hawi and Gebran Tueni.
This sufficed to convince the anti-Syrian politicians that any serious obstruction of the Iranian-Syrian axis and opposition to Hezbollah will be “punished.” The terror treatment seemed to have worked, as the Government was forced to abandon the implementation of UNSCR 1559 and have its components sit down with Hezbollah to “discuss” the future of its weapons.
In short, it took Nasrallah and his allies less than a year to contain and weaken the Cedars Revolution and the Government it has produced."
(snip)

[Gritty]

Horowitz is right.

The Left, as usual, is on the wrong side of truth and justice.

[PerConPat]

Ping!... As always, great points from Horowitz...Thanks for the article.

[Convert from ECUSA]

David Horowitz nails it good with a great big hammer ping!

[upcountryhorseman]

Lebanon is an Innocent bystander and a powerless bystander.
However, the root cause of the problem is the U. S. refusal
to support Lebanon's democracy when Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon. We could have been the sponsor of aid,
rebuilding, etc. in southern Lebanon instead of Hezbollah.