Posted on 08/21/2006 6:04:55 PM PDT by blam
The Arab world's silence has left the last word to those we call extremists
While Israel receives unanimous western support, this crisis is dragging the region ever faster into the abyss
Alain Gresh
Tuesday August 22, 2006
The Guardian (UK)
Killers slaughter dozens of civilians in Iraq every day just because they are Sunni Muslims. Suicide attacks are increasingly common in Afghanistan, where they used to be unknown. On the Gaza Strip, 1.5 million Palestinians are caught in a trap, hemmed in by the Israeli offensive and the decision by the US and the EU to freeze all direct aid. The sudden escalation of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon may drag Syria and Iran into a regional conflict. And the Iran nuclear crisis remains unresolved.
Not since 1967 has the Middle East suffered so many simultaneous high-intensity crises. They are all linked by many threads, making partial solutions more difficult and dragging the region ever faster into the abyss. For many western observers there is no doubt about the culprit: Hizbullah, which aims to destroy Israel and unsettle the western camp. The analysis, predominant among politicians and the media, is close to that of the US neoconservatives: a new world war has started.
One leading US neocon ideologue, William Kristol, proudly proclaims that "it's our war," since he believes that in the face of an across-the-board attempt to destabilise the west, the Israeli government, led by Ehud Olmert, is undoubtedly "on the right side". Even as Lebanon was being bombed, the G8 issued a statement from its meeting in St Petersburg, signed by France, proclaiming Israel's "right to defend itself."
True, the initial Hizbullah attack on July 12 on an Israeli patrol led to six deaths and the capture of two soldiers. This was hardly an. . . .
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the question should be "is a muslim life worth less that an Israeli life.
YES!
Gee, a supposed scholarly article by a distinguised diplomat that once again, fails to mention that the Hama and Hezbollah charters call for the destruction of Israel.
What an ignorant POS.
There was also this teensy-weensy little five year campaign of suicide bombings and hundreds of Israeli dead from it, that may have had something to do with it. Just saying.
The title of the article makes sense, in light of the article's contents, only if you consider Israel and other stridently pro-Western survival forces to be the "extremists".
Actually it proves being a muslim makes you a "time bomb"...
The proper Immam or Mullah can light the fuse..
On the otherhand some muslims are duds.. A Mosque is an ammo dump..
The ammo are muslims(that can acquire explosives) not explosives themselves...
Quite simple when you look at the Qu'ran and hadiths(source of the Qu'ran)..
Muslims are "time bombs"...
Who read this garbage? The answer lies in the comments printed with the article.
I am so tired of this kind of legalism. The terrorists hide behind legalisms, just like they hide behind women and children. If the terrorists are firing rockets from Lebanon, THAT IS THE WAR CRIME, IDIOT.
Catholics used to call the most extreme among them Saints.
"On May 26, Israel had a leader of the Islamic Jihad assassinated. Lebanese militants are still held in Israeli prisons."
... Er, terrorist criminal killers of women and children in terrorist attacks - 'militants' my foot.
"how do we regard the systematic destruction of Lebanon?"
We call that a legitimate response.
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