Video Of The Week - What Is Hezbollah? - https://tinyurl.com/ycf3hhzf
By Bret Stephens -
For full article go to - https://tinyurl.com/ydfd9otk
In 2002, Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, was
said to have given a speech noting that the creation of the state of Israel had
spared his followers the trouble of hunting down Jews at “the ends of the
world.” The Lebanese terrorist group has prominentapologists in the West, and some of them rushed to claim that Nasrallah
had uttered no such thing.
Except he had. Tony Badran of the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies tracked down the original recording of the speech, in which Nasrallah
carries on about “occupied Palestine” as the place appointed by Allah for the
“final and decisive battle” with the Jews. By “occupied Palestine,” he wasn’t
talking about the West Bank.
Sometimes anti-Zionists are — surprise! —
homicidal anti-Semites, too.
That’s a thought that can’t be far from the
mind of anyone living in northern Israel, where in recent days the Israeli Army
has discovered at least three tunnels dug by Hezbollah and intended to
infiltrate commandos under the border in the (increasingly likely) event of
war. Given the breadth of Hezbollah’s capabilities, the depth of its
fanaticism, and the experience of Hamas’s excavation projects in Gaza, it’s
fair to assume other tunnels will be found.
What would Hezbollah
do if it got its fighters across? In 1974, three Palestinian terrorists crossed
the border from Lebanon and took 115 hostages at an elementary school in the
town of Ma’alot. They murdered 25 of them, including 22 children.
Another infiltration from Lebanon in 1978 left 38 Israelis dead.
Given Hezbollah’s long record of perpetrating massacres from Buenos Airesto Beirut to towns and cities across Syria, it’s a playbook it
wouldn’t scruple to follow in a war for the Galilee.
Note: Anti-Zionists are not advocating the reform of a state, as
Japan was reformed after 1945. Nor are they calling for the adjustment of a
state’s borders, as Canada’s border with the United States was periodically
adjusted in the 19th century. They’re not talking about the birth of a separate
state, either, as South Sudan was born out of Sudan in 2011. And they’re
certainly not championing the partition of a multiethnic state into ethnically
homogenous components, as Yugoslavia was partitioned after 1991.
Anti-Zionism is
ideologically unique in insisting that one state, and one state only, doesn’t
just have to change. It has to go. By a coincidence that its adherents insist
is entirely innocent, this happens to be the Jewish state, making anti-Zionists
either the most disingenuous of ideologues or the most obtuse. When then-CNN
contributor Marc Lamont Hill called last month for a “free Palestine from the
river to the sea” and later claimed to be ignorant of what the slogan really
meant, it was hard to tell in which category he fell.
The good news is that the conversation about
anti-Zionism remains mostly academic because Israelis haven’t succumbed to the
fatal illusion that, if only they behaved better, their enemies would hate them
less. To the extent that Israeli parents ever sleep soundly, it’s because they
know what they are up against. And, to borrow Kipling’s line, they never make
mock of uniforms that guard them while they sleep.
The same can’t be said for that class of scolds
who excel in making excuses for the wicked and finding fault with the good.
When you find yourself on the same side as Hassan Nasrallah, Louis Farrakhan
and David Duke on the question of a country’s right to exist, it’s time to
re-examine every opinion you hold.
No comments:
Post a Comment