Comments on: Hudna For Hizbullah http://toddwiley.com/2006/08/12/hudna-for-hizbullah/ Authoritarian rants in my spare time Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:05:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Williams http://toddwiley.com/2006/08/12/hudna-for-hizbullah/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Paul Williams Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:39:12 +0000 http://toddwiley.com/all/the-war/hudna-for-hizbullah/#comment-572 It's a highly fascinating situation, absolutely. Interesting to consider Hezbollah as a criminal organisation - by what definition? They do things we don't like, sure, but they have plenty of support and stood for elections and got themselves elected, just like Sinn Fein IRA (an organisation mainly funded by Americans) did in Ireland, whilst bombing England for decades. Hezbollah, just like the PLO before them, want lands occupied by Israel to be given back, and will fight to achieve this. Similar situation to Ireland. Just because we can detect the hand of Iran and Syria as well as the hand of America in this proxy war, is there no case to be answered by Israel concerning their continuing occupation? Will we always ignore the significant points of this conflict because we are too afraid to address the core issue of the problems that arose when an entire nation was parachuted in on top of another? I wonder how long it will be befoe we write history books condemning the criminal organisation and actions of the French Resistance? Or will that group of terrorists attacking the occupying government of the day, forever be free from censure and reproach? If the situation ever reverses itself, and we pray it doesn't, will we have the same attitude to Israeli terrorists firing American rockets? Won't there be a certain degree of irony if exiled Israelis cry out to the rest of the world for the restoration of their occupied lands, and then resort to violence? I guess my point is simply: there are two sets of bloodthirsty murderers, and we are being asked to judge which one we prefer. But in the end, whatever the choice, we end up choosing bloodthirsty murderers who justify their actions by citing their religious right to live in the same place as the other guys. It’s a highly fascinating situation, absolutely. Interesting to consider Hezbollah as a criminal organisation – by what definition? They do things we don’t like, sure, but they have plenty of support and stood for elections and got themselves elected, just like Sinn Fein IRA (an organisation mainly funded by Americans) did in Ireland, whilst bombing England for decades. Hezbollah, just like the PLO before them, want lands occupied by Israel to be given back, and will fight to achieve this. Similar situation to Ireland. Just because we can detect the hand of Iran and Syria as well as the hand of America in this proxy war, is there no case to be answered by Israel concerning their continuing occupation? Will we always ignore the significant points of this conflict because we are too afraid to address the core issue of the problems that arose when an entire nation was parachuted in on top of another? I wonder how long it will be befoe we write history books condemning the criminal organisation and actions of the French Resistance? Or will that group of terrorists attacking the occupying government of the day, forever be free from censure and reproach?

If the situation ever reverses itself, and we pray it doesn’t, will we have the same attitude to Israeli terrorists firing American rockets? Won’t there be a certain degree of irony if exiled Israelis cry out to the rest of the world for the restoration of their occupied lands, and then resort to violence?

I guess my point is simply: there are two sets of bloodthirsty murderers, and we are being asked to judge which one we prefer. But in the end, whatever the choice, we end up choosing bloodthirsty murderers who justify their actions by citing their religious right to live in the same place as the other guys.

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