[lit-ideas] Re: Jihad Against Hezbollah

  • From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:39:31 -0400

It's well known that you can defeat the truth by repeating the lie often enough.
Look how easy it was to muddle up Iraq with 9/11 in the lazy American mind. 
U.

That's an interesting point: how nicely Bush muddled up Iraq with 9/11 -- then denied it. But your repeated jabs at the idea that Hezbollah hides behind Lebanese civilians in their fight with Israel makes me think that you see Israel as the aggressor here. Israel as the problem. You continuously say: of course, they hide behind civilians. Isn't that what all combatants do?

No. That's not what all combatants do. Hezbollah does it.

Israel doesn't.

In this week's New Yorker, in "The Battle for Lebanon," a businessman said that "he wondered why, with all the resources Hez had at its disposal -- it receives an estimated 100 million dollars a year from Iran -- it hadn't done more to protect its civilian population. "Why didn't Hez prepare for this?" he said. "Where is the food, the medicine, ? Where are the shelters for the people? Maybe, out of this, people will begin to question why they had to suffer because of the will of one man" He meant Nasrallah."

How do you answer that?

For Hezbollah this was a war of choice. They started it. They could have prepared for that with shelters, medicine, food. They didn't because the death of vcivilians was part of their strategy. It made Israel look bad.

You're getting increasingly more strident. What gives? Make it clear, would you? I'd like to know who I'm dealing with, after all.

Stan Spiegel


----- Original Message ----- From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 1:10 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Jihad Against Hezbollah


It's well known that you can defeat the truth by repeating the lie often enough.
Look how easy it was to muddle up Iraq with 9/11 in the lazy American mind.
U.

Omar Kusturica wrote:

The Bush administration and an overwhelming bipartisan
majority of Congress have gone on record defending
Israel's assault on Lebanon's civilian infrastructure
as a means of attacking Hezbollah “terrorists.” Unlike
the major Palestinian Islamist groups, Hamas and
Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah forces haven't killed any
Israeli civilians for more than a decade. Indeed, a
2002 Congressional Research Service report noted, in
its analysis of Hezbollah, that “no major terrorist
attacks have been attributed to it since 1994.” The
most recent State Department report on international
terrorism also fails to note any acts of terrorism by
Hezbollah since that time except for unsubstantiated
claims that a Hezbollah member was a participant in a
June 1996 attack on the U.S. Air Force dormitory at
Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3412

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