[lit-ideas] Re: What the Hizbullah says
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:33:06 +0100
"We know that Hezbollah invaded Israel to kidnap two soldiers. We also know
that they fired rockets into Israel before it responded, but the
brain-scrambling analysis is that Israel's response is far worse than the
Hezbollah attack."
I love the play with words here. Hezbollah 'invaded' Israel. What with a squad.
Meanwhile, Israel is making surgical raids into Lebanon. What with a division
or two.
And the thought that Israel's response is either on a par with, or less than,
Hezbollah's is stunning. On current figures, Israel has suffered around 40
fatalities from Hezbollah's rockets. Meanwhile Lebanon (the country not
Hezbollah forces) have recored fatalities in excess of 400, not to mention the
loss in infrastructure.
Tell me Lawrence, is one Lebanese worth less than a tenth of one Israeli?
Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Helm
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:01 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: What the Hizbullah says
David Selbourne in The Losing Battle with Islam, 2005, describes the sort of
thing Ali Fayyad does in his article below as brain scrambling. We know that
Hezbollah invaded Israel to kidnap two soldiers. We also know that they fired
rockets into Israel before it responded, but the brain-scrambling analysis is
that Israel's response is far worse than the Hezbollah attack.
On page 152 Selbourne writes, "Similarly brain-scrambling was the response in
November 2002 by a Jordanian analyst, Labib Kamhawi, to the bomb-attack already
referred to, on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa. He suggested that Israel
would now 'join the war on terror' -- as if they had not been part of such war
for years -- but if they did join it, declared Kamhawi, it would 'confirm all
the suspicions that Israel and the US are in cahoots and that the war on terror
is a war on Arabs and Muslims'. That is, it was again the nature of the
response and not the attack itself to which Muslims should attach the greater
moral significance. For this response would disclose the essential ill-intent
of non-Muslims toward them."
Lawrence
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