Hizbullah's genocidal threat

The Jerusalem Post ^ | Feb 17, 2008 | Alan Dershowitz

[ricks_place]

The leader of Hizbullah Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has now called for revenge against Israelis and Jews around the world, for the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh, which he claims was done by Israel. It does not matter, of course, who actually pulled off the assassination. Israel and the Jews would be blamed by Hizbullah even if Syria had been responsible. Blame Israel and the Jews for everything is what Hizbullah always does. In the past, Hizbullah has taken revenge against what it claimed to be Israeli actions by murdering Jewish schoolchildren in Argentina. Once again it is threatening to attack innocent Jews around the world.

Yet some in the media describe this as a cycle of violence, thus suggesting moral equivalence between the targeting of a terrorist combatant responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians, and the random murder of innocent men, women and children who had absolutely nothing to do with the targeted killing of Imad Mughniyeh, but just happen to be Jewish.

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's call for the killing of Jews around the world is nothing short of an incitement to genocide, or at least to mass murder. There is no moral equivalent between military action that targeted a terrorist combatant and the targeting of innocent civilians around the world, based on their religion. Until the media understands this crucial, moral and legal distinction, we will all be vulnerable to the genocidal revenge tactics of Hizbullah and other terrorist organizations.

[bronxboy]

But remember, we must understands their anger. We must get to the root cause of their hurt.

[2banana]

I hope when Obama is elected - he has many long conversations with these people so that he can talk some sense into them (/s)

[Ukiapah Heep]

We must get to the root cause of their hurt.

And then drill in.

[AlaskaErik]

The leader of Hizbullah Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has now called for revenge against Israelis and Jews around the world, for the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh, which he claims was done by Israel.

Legitimate leaders are assassinated. This scumbag criminal was exterminated.

[redpoll]

So the same people who want to kill the Jews are threatening to... kill the Jews! The sheer lack of originality is enough to make anyone pause.

By the way, just to make it clear to whomever is lurking out there, there are some American Jews who have enormous respect for the second amendment to the Constitution. We learned from the last time you bastards tried to exterminate us. Just show up on my doorstep and I’ll be happy to let you see if your version of the afterlife is as accurate as you have been led to believe.

[Westbrook]

So the same people who want to kill the Jews are threatening to... kill the Jews! The sheer lack of originality is enough to make anyone pause.

Yes, as Laura Ingraham wryly put it, "We should not anger people who hate us and want to kill us, because they might hate us and want to kill us."

By the way, just to make it clear to whomever is lurking out there, there are some American Jews who have enormous respect for the second amendment to the Constitution. We learned from the last time you bastards tried to exterminate us. Just show up on my doorstep and I’ll be happy to let you see if your version of the afterlife is as accurate as you have been led to believe.

Bears repeating.

Often.