Posted on 07/31/2006 8:05:26 AM PDT by standingfirm
The New York Times has announced that the entire world is outraged at Israel’s behavior in bombing Qana. So it must be true. Or is it?
Nothing is more heartrending than the suffering of children. Emotionally we all want to put the blame on the bombs, the bombers, and those who ordered the bombing. And yet that is obviously a twisted perversion of reality. Because it is the explicit policy of Islamist terror groups to hide behind children, shooting missiles at Israeli civilians all the time. The gains to the terrorists are enormous. Israelis inevitably feel guilty about the unwanted casualties, but they don’t know what else to do in the face of constant attacks on their own children at home. The Muslim masses are predictably outraged because they only hear one side of the story. And the Leftist media continue to lie—- there is no other word for it—- about who is choosing to expose children to danger.
So the seeds are planted from the beginning. The BBC and the New York Times have labeled the black hats and the white hats for years and years. We are seeing just another replay of Leftist propaganda since Stalin—- who was the innocent victim of Western aggression until decades after his death, when a few old Lefties sheepishly admitted his crimes. Communism killed some 100 million innocents in the 20th century, according to the authoritative Black Book of Communism (Livre Noire du Communism in the original French).
And yet, the most famous intellectuals of the 20th century served this murderous ideology. We are simply seeing a repeat today, with the usual suspects on the Left siding with Islamic fascism just as they took sides with the Leftist fascism of Stalin and Mao.
The Qana story is just a replay of Abu Ghraib, the myth that Saddam had no WMDs, the Wilson-Plame bedroom farce, and on and on. It has just become a kind of reflex of the Left: Israel and the United States are always wrong. Everything is set up for the same mendacious narrative.
Hezbollah killed the children of Qana, just as it killed the children of Haifa. Hezbollah is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his fellow criminals of the mullahcracy in Tehran, who created the Hezbo monster with malice aforethought to “wipe Israel off the map.” There’s no mystery here. They are dead serious about a second genocide against the Jews of Israel. There has never been any effort to lie about it on the part of the Khomeini cult in Tehran. So we know who is responsible.
And yet, the “liberal” media always blame the good guys. There is something twisted and perverse about the media narrative, some sense of delight in enabling the overt malice of the Islamofascists. Because the media know. They know what’s going on. They are just playing dumb, trying to turn their easily-led audiences against those they hate the most. The media take an almost sexual delight in facilitating the murderous malice of Nasrallah and Ahmadinejad. In the calculus of moral responsibility, the New York Times and its ilk must therefore be held to blame in equal measure with the aggressor. “If it bleeds, it leads,” is their working slogan, and it is hard to evade the thought that the biggest “journalists” and editors have learned to enjoy that game, that sense of importance, that arrogation of power. They are co-conspirators in the slaughter of innocents.
The Leftist media will now tell us who won in Lebanon. They know, because they make the rules. When they announce that Israel lost, a frisson of delight will shiver the Left around the world. Muslims will hand out candy in the streets. And the world will become much more dangerous.
Yet our permanent Ruling Class will cling to its power, sneering at time-serving politicians with undisguised contempt. When George Bush and Condi Rice are history, Pinch Sulzberger and the BBC think they will still be there, exercising their monopoly on permissible thinking in the world.
Yet everybody knows that if Hezbollah did not exist there would be a solid peace between Israel and Lebanon, just as there is between Israel and Jordan. Both countries would thrive on peace, just as both are suffering today.
There are only two obstacles to a true and lasting peace: Tehran and the worldwide Left. Both must be defeated, if children on all sides are to live and thrive, and enjoy normal lives in the Middle East.
/sarc
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Liberals are perpetually frightened. They do not have the will to defend themselves. They are those smarmy characters that you see in movies that do whatever the bad guy says just to protect their own behinds.
"Hezbollah killed the children of Qana...."
Indeed.
ScaniaBoy and caspera linked to this blog post earlier this morning. Very interesting points - somewhat graphic - warning!
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html
The correct spelling of the terror group should be "Hizb'allah", thereby identifying it as solidly based in islam. The news agencies should be spelling it correctly.
North Vietam did the same thing, using civilians as shields for offensive military operations. So did Saddam Hussein. This "Qana" incident is very much like the al Firdos bunker attack during DESERT STORM (300 Iraqi civilians killed in Coaltion bombing after being lured or herded by Saddam's troops into an air raid shelter that had been converetd in to a military command and control facility).
The press as usual abdicates its responsibility to report accurately and fairly. Shame.
The "Geneva Convention" has now become every liberal and every 30-something journalist's new ideal of protecting humanity from warfare. Well, Lebanon is IN VIOLATION of the Geneva Convention here, NOT ISRAEL.
It is a Genevra Convention violation for a government for knowingly fail to evacuate its civilians from a combat zone. It is a Geneva Convention violation to put civilians at risk by intentionally conducting military operations from civilian facilities and areas, intentionally putting civilians at risk of becoming casualties from retaliation.
Time to widely publicize the fact that Hezbollah was intentionally using civilians in Qana to hide behind while shooting offensive rockets at Israeli civilian targets.
IT IS TIME TO PUT THE ONUS OF NONHUMANITARIAN PRACTICES at the feet of the nations that employ those practices as part of their military culture.
Time to blame LEBANON, not just hezbollah.
Not an exaggeration. The glee from some talking heads is near orgasmic.
Who cares? They had it coming. Just like the Germans had the Dresden bombing coming when they elected Hitler chancellor and didn't try to throw him out. They brought this upon themselves. Maybe now that civilians are dying because of their actions they'll wise up.
To view actual videos, taken by the IDR, showing Hezbullah rocket launchers being driven and hidden in civilian homes and public buildings, in suburban neighborhoods, go to You Tube. Do a search on "Qana" and there are plenty of videos with the evidence.
You Tube is FREE. You have to register.
There is also a video showing the outgoing rockets being launched from behind the high-rise building, which the IDF bombed in the middle of the night--knocking out the rocket launcher. The building was damaged but was left standing. 8 hours later, the building collapsed, probably brought down by the Hezbullah, themselves, in an attempt to garner symphathy. With these photos as proof, it isn't going to work.
ping to note proper spelling
Thank you.
But no mention of the mysterious eight-hour delay between the Israeli attack, and the building's collapse.
I wondered when I first saw this that Hisballa did this themselves or at least orchestrated it to garner int'l sympathy for themselves and resulting hate for Israel. It worked, at least in the immediate aftermath. The media (including Fox which I was watching) was foaming at the mouth about how horrible a mistake this was, and how Israel really "blew it".
I hope Rush addresses this on his show today, because the MSM is not bringing this up.
I had read the same thing about the damaged building standing for nearly eight hours before it collapsed. How did that come about? Another question begs to be asked; why are the victims covered with dust but there is no blood? Even if they had been killed by concussion, you would expect to see some bleeding from nose and ears. These children look more like victims of a gas attack.
Regards,
GtG
It wouldn't suprise me a bit if they "martyred" their own children and blamed Israel.
The "Little Mohammad's" (who will not grow up to be suicide bombers) were killed because of Islam's fairy tale about God's desire for humankind. Their parents were warned ahead in plenty of time that Israel would protect itself from the terror rockets being launched from the place of death...and, don't hand me the B.S. line about 'poor not having access to transporation from the camp' because I'll just come back and point out they had "shoe leather"!
"Yet everybody knows that if Hezbollah did not exist there would be a solid peace between Israel and Lebanon, just as there is between Israel and Jordan. Both countries would thrive on peace, just as both are suffering today."
Well indeed - but Israel is not fighting to defeat Hizollah if I got it correctly. How could they without attacking Syria and Iran ?
The killing of so many innocent civilians is not helping Israel - Dresden didn't help the allies. It's a sign of hastiness and bad control over the situation.
Hizbollah will retread into their usual safe havens and crawl back out later.
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