The Enemy of my enemy if not my friend…

Well I don’t like defending religious nuts. So I find it hard to defend Hezbollah in the face of the Israel on slot. Because of many of my previous posts I thought it necessary to make it clear that the enemy (Hezbollah) of my enemy (Religious fascists) are NOT my friends. Nothing would make be happier to have the Israelis wipe from the face of the earth the Islamic fundamentalist. I also think that although the Israeli government is acting in like a thug to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, they have cause to have fear. It is understandable why the Israelis distrust and fear the Arabs in their midst, because of the Suicide bombing. No matter how you justify the rational for such attacks, they are violent attacks and should be deplored.

I do not deplore the Israelis because of their attacks on Hezbollah, I applaud them. At the present moment (and it was not a simple path here) Hezbollah’s continued rocket attacks against northern Israel (as opposed to attacking the Israeli solders in Lebanon, that would be defendable and moral) only justifies the Israeli attack. No I fear the Israeli attack because of the innocent or semi-innocent (I would classify myself as semi-innocent because of my defence of Palestinian rights and condemnation of Israeli oppression in the soon to be mostly annexed West Bank) people who are being killed, injured, displaced and harmed by their grouping and clumsy attempt to punish Hezbollah. What Israel is doing is laying the seeds for further conflict. It is created more enemies in Lebanon. It has single handedly strengthened Hezbollah beyond anything it could ever have hopped for. It is hard to believe that anyone living in Lebanon now would think the Israelis the innocents and will find themselves more open to the propaganda of the religious fundamentalists. In the next couple of years the ranks of the true terrorist organizations (of which an arm of Hezbollah is) will swell with the orphans and grieving left behind by the Israelis.

There is a movement afoot by the international community to finally but in a UN force with strength to ensure Israelis northern border is peaceful. I would hope it would equally ensure that the influence of Israel, the US, Iran and Syria is also minimized to ensure a peaceful southern boarder for Lebanon. But why stop there. This force should also be deployed to the other killing zone, Gaza, to protect the innocents there, and the West Bank. Israeli is quick to mention that the UN should enforce UN Resolution 1559 and 1583, charged with the disarming of Hezbollah (something I totally agree with). But when it comes to implementing UN Resolution 181, 446, 452, or 478 which would repatriate land back to the Palestinians. I also thing my plan (“ How to bring peace the lands of Abram...”) would also bring peace to the Middle East, for again although NOW Israel is the primary aggressor and most powerful nation, it was not always and the neighbours of Israel and Palestine must take there own responsibility for the turmoil created.

(Coming soon - West Bank deception http://www.gush-shalom.org/thewall/index.html)