[lit-ideas] Re: Hezbollah (cont'd)

Ursula writes:
"As for your constant repetition about Hezbollah hiding among villagers,
isn't that what reseistance forces always do?  Isn't it what they have
to do?   The French Resistance and the Polish Resistance used exactly
the same tactics -- attacking when they could and melting back into the
population.  When the population was then collectively punished, did
anyone think that the suffering of the innocent pleased the resistance
because the reprisals made the Germans look bad?"

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Suddenly Hezbollah has become a resistance force? You're comparing Hezbollah to The French Resistance who fought the Nazis? Ursula, you're saying that Hezbollah in attacking Israel (at the behest of Iran) is fighting an evil force?

And you find it acceptable for Hezbollah to shoot at Israel while hiding behind the skirts of women and children? That's acceptable to you?

A bank robber who takes a teller hostage and fires at police from behind his human shield is guilty of murder if they, in an effort to stop the robber from shooting, accidentally kill the hostage. The same should be true of terrorists who use civilians as shields from behind whom they fire their rockets.

Let's be clear who's responsible for the death of Lebanese villagers.

Stan Spiegel
Portland, ME


----- Original Message ----- From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 2:29 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Hezbollah (cont'd)


Stan Spiegel wrote:

Charles Schumer, Sen. from NY, recounted an anecdote this morning to Wolf Blitzer on CNN about an Hezbollah member who barged into the backyard of his neighbor to shoot off his arm-held rocket. Then he went back to his own home next door. That put his neighbor's family and home in danger, not his own.

Excuse me, Stan, but this is absurd -- both on the face of it and in relation to your other comments. This is so obviously a usefully fabricated little story. If it had been the next town he'd fired from, I might not have noticed it -- but his neighbour's yard? And his yard was safe? If the IDF were that careful about where their bombs landed the four UN peacekeepers would be alive and the 60+ people (including at least 37 children asleep in their beds) killed this morning would be alive now.
As for your constant repetition about Hezbollah hiding among villagers, isn't that what reseistance forces always do? Isn't it what they have to do? The French Resistance and the Polish Resistance used exactly the same tactics -- attacking when they could and melting back into the population. When the population was then collectively punished, did anyone think that the suffering of the innocent pleased the resistance because the reprisals made the Germans look bad?

This war leaves us all heartsick. I'm just additionally saddened that a people who have suffered as much as the Jews could so blithely discount the suffering of other innocents.
Ursula in North Bay

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