tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post115476072164220641..comments2023-07-17T13:06:09.934+03:00Comments on Conflicts in the Middle East: Israel's War against HezbollahShimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-1154785680603968362006-08-05T16:48:00.000+03:002006-08-05T16:48:00.000+03:00The God Given WarExodus 15:3 magnificently intones...The God Given War<BR/><BR/>Exodus 15:3 magnificently intones, “Yahweh is a Man of War, the Lord is His name.” Yahweh reveals himself to the embattled legions of Joshua, Moses’ general, as a man in order to sanctify and to strengthen an Israel embattled then, through the ages, right now, and doubtless forever to come, since all the road maps are illusory traps that offer only suicide to the state of Israel. One reflects that even such suicide would not appease the rapaciousness of French and other European anti-Semitism, which contrives to survive even the ebbing-away of European Christianity. (H.Bloom, Jesus And Yahweh. The Names Divine. Harold Bloom. Riverhead Books. New York 2005p. 196)<BR/><BR/>“This was God’s gift to Israel,” said Nasser Hadian, a political science professor at Teheran University and an expert in Iranian foreign policy. “Hezbollah gave them the golden opportunity to attack.” (Michael Slackman, Iran Hangs in Suspense as War OffersNew Strength, and Sudden Weakness, NYT, Jukly 20, 2006) (See also attached comment from The Arutz Sheva)<BR/><BR/>President Ahmadinejad, said in a speech that was broadcast on Iranian television in Mashad that Iran's joining the group of nations with nuclear technology derives from the Iranian nation's struggle, which is making a step forward towards the coming of the awaited Mahdi (Al-Watan magazine, May 5, 2006). So Iran needs to manufacture a nuclear bomb before that time, in order to help the Mahdi eliminate the infidels and the polytheists...<BR/><BR/>"[Ahmadinejad] found people who believe him in the Hamas movement, and especially Khaled Mash'al... The awaited Mahdi is coming, so why then defile the struggle with negotiations with Israel or with recognition of it? It may be that Mr. Mash'al hasn't noticed that he [himself] will be among those doomed to perdition, since he isn't a Shi'ite.<BR/><BR/>"It appears that Hassan Nasrallah [also] believed this prophecy, since he says that there is nothing called Israel on the world map, that he does not recognize the international community, and that he attributes no importance to the U.N. The awaited Mahdi is about to come. He will wipe out Israel and the Sunnis, the Christians, and the Druze of Lebanon, and he [i.e. Nasrallah] will be the Imam's viceroy in all of Greater Syria...<BR/><BR/>"These dreams and prophecies are madness, that bring nothing but massacres and unbalanced wars with foreign [forces]... If it were only these leaders who became possessed with this madness, then things would not be as bad as they are. But the majority of the public have been swept after them. <BR/><BR/>"The large public that supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and believed that he would redistribute the Arab wealth to all of the Arabs was surprised at the reality on the day that Saddam was defeated, although they did not admit it. This is a public that believed, relying on the analysis of the Al-Jazeera channel's experts, that Saddam Hussein would deliver a humiliating defeat to the United States. When Baghdad fell, this public came up against the bitter reality, but to this day it has not owned up to the truth. It pins all its hopes on the defeat of Israel, and seriously believes that Mr. Nasrallah will defeat it... (Excerpts from the articles by Dr. Muhammad Al-Huni, a Libyan intellectual and author who resides in Italy. To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD122706<BR/><BR/>Peace Process or Land for Peace<BR/><BR/>These two slogans are equivalent and both mean slicing Israel out of existence, until nothing is left to be sliced out. They kill softly with their gentle, Kofi Annan's -like words. Leave peace for peaceniks. Adonay is a Man of War, the Lord is His name. Let them try to slice Him out of existence. They tried it once from the top of the Tower of Babel...<BR/><BR/>A visitor from the distant days of 1993 to the political landscape of the Middle East today might scratch his head and wonder: whatever happened to the New Middle East - that glorious vision of economic and cultural integration in which decades old enmities would be buried, borders eliminated and prosperity, a palliative, gurgled down the throats of the belligerents like warm milk? <BR/><BR/>Surveying the same landscape several years further into the past, he might ponder the fate of the Zinni mission, the Tenet Plan, the Mitchell Report and myriad other European and United Nations efforts to ostensibly bridge the gulf between Arabs and Jews. He might consider the Road Map, a document still brandished as the canonical solution to the problems of the Middle East, yet producing nothing of enduring value. <BR/><BR/>Rarely would he find anyone declaring that all of these efforts were based on a false assumption of Arab and Palestinian peaceful intent or acknowledging that "peace" is simply a chimera offered by Palestinian spokesmen to bamboozle an all-too-gullible international audience.<BR/><BR/>Far too often over the past thirteen years, these would-be peacemakers have ignorantly glossed over the essential differences between Israel and its adversaries: that the former is a vibrant, if fractured democracy, responsive to peaceful proposals to end conflict, while the latter are, in the main, backward dictatorships, governed by ruthless men for whom perpetuation of conflict is the sin qua non for their own grasp on power. They have placed their faith in the intentions of terrorists for whom an agreement is nothing more than a moment to bide time before the next assault and whose quest, at least since the late 1960s, has been to obtain international sanction for the killing of Jews. (…)<BR/><BR/>But why then such astonishment and surprise about political developments among the Palestinians? The only real difference between the Fatah and its counterpart in Hamas is that the former hid its agenda behind words of peace while the latter honestly propounds it. Fatah, after all, founded and still funds the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the third most significant perpetrator of terrorist atrocities against Israeli citizens. Under Yasser Arafat, it spent eleven years instituting an educational system that primarily promoted jihad against Israel and enjoyed years of siphoning off the West's largess - funneling most of it back into secret European bank accounts controlled by its top brass. (…)<BR/><BR/>The tragic folly of Oslo was an incapacity to understand the fundamental recidivism of the terrorist mentality. French and German statesmen may well have worked out their historical differences 60 years ago and together forged a new Europe. But terrorists don't think like statesmen. Representing nothing but their own twisted world view, their jackets and ties at state dinners only dress up hearts that are full of malevolence and minds that lust for power, conquest and the spoils of war. The ready manipulation of naive peacemakers, coupled with the stumbles and mistakes of the Israeli leaders themselves, advances their cause; while dreamers continue to fantasize about a future that has no connection to reality. (Excerpts from Avi Davis’ The New Middle East, www.israelnationalnews.com <BR/><BR/>Kill ‘em all, alive and dead ones<BR/><BR/>Anti-Semitic coverage and cartoons are spreading across the globe. Norway’s third largest paper, the Oslo Dagbladet, ran a cartoon compari9ng Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to the infamous nazi commander SS Major Amon Goeth who indiscriminately murdered Jews by firing at them from his balcony and was depicted by Ralph Fiennes in S. Spielberg’s film Schildler’s List (A month earlier Dagbladet published an article, “The Third Tower,” which questioned whether Muslims were really responsible for the September 11 attacks.)<BR/><BR/>Antonio Neri Licon of Mexico’s El Economista drew what appeared to be a Nazi soldier with stars of David on his uniform. The “soldier” was surrounded by eyes that he had apparently gouged out.<BR/><BR/>Finland's Swedish-language daily Helsinki Hufvudstadsbladet made absurd accusations bordering on anti-Semitic against Israel's offensive, claiming "Jewish life is worth more than Muslim (life). An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is not enough; it is meted out as eyes for an eye and teeth for a tooth."<BR/>A cartoon in the South African Sunday Times depicted Ehud Olmert with a butchers knife covered in blood. In the leading Australian daily The Age, a cartoon showed a wine glass full of blood being drunk in a scene reminiscent of medieval blood libel. In New Zealand, veteran cartoonist Tom Stott came up with a drawing which equated Israel with Al-Qaida.<BR/><BR/>At least one leading European politician has also vented his prejudice through visual symbolism. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero wore an Arab scarf during an event at which he condemned Israel, but not Hezbollah, who he presumably thinks should not be stopped from killing Israeli.<BR/><BR/>Hen live Jews can’t be found, dead ones are targeted. In Belgium last week, the urn that contained ashes from Auschwitz was desecrated at the Brussels memorial to the 25,411 Belgian Jews deported to Nazi death camps. It was smashed and excrement smeared over it. The silence from Belgian leaders following this desecration was deafening.<BR/><BR/>Some international journalists seem to find it amusing or exciting to bait the Jews. They don’t understand yet that Hezbollah is part of a worldwide radical Islamist movement that has plans, and not pleasant ones, for all those – Muslim, Christian, Hindu and Jew – who don’t abide by its wishes.<BR/><BR/>Consider a series of recent photos of Islamic demonstrators in London. Their placards read “Butcher those who mock Islam,” “Islam will dominate the world,” “Europe you will pay – your 9/11 is on the way,” “Be prepared for the real Holocaust,” and other barbarous threats. Anyone who doubts that we are at war with radical Islam – or that this enemy wants anything other than a fascistic world order and murderous brutality visited on “infidels,” especially Jews – lives in a fantasy.<BR/><BR/>Maccabi Moscow supports Israel<BR/><BR/>Team, which has several Jewish players, arrives in order to express support for residents of north. Head of delegation: Russians, too, love Israel<BR/>Roee Nahmias<BR/><BR/>From Russia with love: Sixteen members of the Maccabi Moscow sports club arrived in Israel Wednesday afternoon in order to express their support for Israel and, in particular, the residents of the north. The delegation is headed by Israeli ambassador to Moscow, Arkady Milman, and also contains senior officials in the sports club.<BR/>'Not only in US people love Israel'<BR/> "We all support Israel and we decided that this is the appropriate time to come and show that we love and encourage this country. We want to show that we don't come only when it's convenient, but also in war time. We want to show that not only in the United States, but also in Russia, there are people who love Israel," team manager Pavel Feldblum told Ynet. <BR/>The team is comprised of both Jewish and non-Jewish members. They asked to emphasize that they chose to come to Israel in order to demonstrate that international media coverage of Israel is not necessarily accurate, and that there are many Russians who believe that Israel is fighting a just war. (Ynetnews Aug. 2, 2006)<BR/>Heil Hezbolla!<BR/><BR/>Every once in a while, a photographic image emerges which captures the very essence of a major international issue. It doesn’t happen every day, but when it does, the power of the underlying problem suddenly becomes eminently clear.<BR/><BR/>One such photo (see attached) now appears on the website of Time magazine where young kids in a Hezbolla scouting troop are shown pledging to die for the cause while raising their hands in the air in a chillingly-familiar salute.<BR/><BR/>Coincidence? I doubt it. Hezbollah leaders are knowledgeable enough to understand the meaning of that pose, which was burned into the memory of the Jewish people, and that of the entire world, some six decades ago in the heart of Europe.<BR/><BR/>Hezbollah is not just “an Islamic militant group that operates in southern Lebanon” with Iranian sponsorship. Combining Islamic fanaticism with a modern anti-Semitic ideology derived from the Catholic Church and Nazism, with a media which spreads that ideology worldwide, and with a mass base and virtual state control of Lebanon, Hezbollah stands for the destruction of world Jewry and the creation of a world Islamofascist state, modeled on Iran.<BR/><BR/>Media reports focusing on civilian suffering – real, exaggerated and sometimes invented – and statements by Western leaders, all push for an armed multinational force for southern Lebanon. Such a force would likely be comprised of troops under the command of states that portray Israel’s conflict with Palestinian Arabs as the cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict (rather than the other way around), and that do not consider Hezbollah a violently anti-Semitic political army. Such a multinational force would have much in common with William Walker’s Kosovo Verification Mission. It too had the stated purpose of separating belligerents in Kosovo in 1998. And its member states were hostile to Yugoslavia. According to Kosovo historian Cedomir Prlincevic, that multinational force was used as a cover for upgrading and training the Kosovo Liberation Army (for which substitute “Hezbollah”) terrorists. Once a powerful multinatio0nal force was ensconced in southern Lebanon, it would be in position to intervene directly in Israel and the disputed territories. That would be disastrous for Israel.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Libyan Reformist Author in Essays Critical of Hizbullah<BR/><BR/>To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD122706 .<BR/>Dr. Muhammad Al-Huni, a Libyan intellectual and author who resides in Italy (and who is close to Sayf Al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Mu'ammar Al-Qaddafi), recently wrote a series of articles, dated July 16, July 22, and July 26, 2006, for the liberal website Elaph.com. In them, he criticized Hizbullah and Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, and accused them of serving Iran and Syria's interests.<BR/><BR/>The following are excerpts from his articles:<BR/><BR/>"Nasrallah and his militia threaten the media and freedom of thought in Lebanon. He pulled out of his robe thousands of people to demonstrate and cause damage, just because a satellite station treated him with a certain degree of ridicule, as it had done with other leaders in Lebanon. This is because Nasrallah is above all criticism, as he enjoys the stature of the holy men and prophets... He does not recognize the Lebanese government, and thus competes with it over the most important element in a modern country – the monopoly on power, and its employment in accordance with the law and in accordance with the country's foreign treaties...<BR/><BR/>"Thanks to Nasrallah and his militia, Lebanon today is a country that does not enjoy full sovereignty, since part of its land, and its most dangerous border, are under Nasrallah's rule. One could say that Nasrallah liberated southern Lebanon in order to conquer all of Lebanon...<BR/><BR/>"So what now, Mr. Nasrallah? You kidnapped two Israeli soldiers in order to free some prisoners [held by Israel]. Have you asked yourself what the price of this adventure will be? Did you ask the Lebanese their opinion, as they see tourism completely collapse and leave behind it crowds of unemployed and a horrifying number of bankrupt businesses? Did you ask the government in which you are a member, and which you belittle, how it can show its face in international circles after your attack?... Did you ask the Lebanese taxpayers if they agree to see the money that they paid over the years evaporate within minutes in an attack on Lebanese infrastructure? Finally, did you ask the prisoners if they want to get out of prison at such a high price in blood?..."<BR/><BR/>"Hassan Nasrallah promises the [Muslim] nation victory, and he promises surprises in the field that will bring about this victory... Among those of my generation, few believe these promises, since our generation has had experience with similar legends, like Nasser's Al-Tafir and Al-Qahir missiles and Saddam's cardboard missiles. All of these Arab leaders achieved victory only over their own people, and brought nothing but more defeat and downfall to these [Arab] masses – who are psychologically, economically, and morally ruined by the never-ending mill of oppression, dictatorship, and corruption...<BR/><BR/>"First of all, we need to admit that Israel withdrew, in 2000, from all of the Lebanese lands recognized by the international community. The issue of the Shab'a farms is nothing but the trap that the Syrian regime set for Lebanon in order to embroil it in a conflict in the Middle East and in order to give Hizbullah the task of fighting, in its [i.e. Lebanon's] name, for its own interests and for the interests of Iran, which wants to be a global and regional power...<BR/><BR/>"It is likely that Iran... whose president, Ahmadinejad, says that the destruction of Israel and wiping it off the map are its supreme goal – has supplied Hizbullah with non-conventional weapons and with missiles [capable of] carrying these weapons to the major cities in Israel. If this scenario is correct... then it will be a tragedy for the entire region, and the dead will be counted in the millions, not in the thousands..."<BR/>"In southern Libya... there was a dervish by the name of 'Abdallah bin Mas'ud, who had disciples and students. One morning Sheikh bin Mas'ud gathered together his disciples and said to them: 'I dreamt that the infidels' weapons have "gone cold" – meaning they are no longer deadly – and thus I have decided that we will attack the French Army's fortress with cold arms.' Many of the dervishes who were his students went after him, armed with knives, scythes, and swords, and attacked the French fortress in Sabha, the capital of the south. The French destroyed them all, to the last man... The French can do that, unlike Israelis they are white Christians. They have a civilizing mission to fulfill -- in the name of their Holy Spirit from Diocese of Arras…<BR/><BR/>Is the Hezbollah on the verge of Defeat?<BR/><BR/>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday Aug. 3, the solution to the Middle East crisis is to destroy Israel. In a speech during a meeting of Muslim leaders, he said “Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented. Is he hoping for a Christian crusade against Israel?<BR/><BR/><BR/> Poles for Israel Friday, August 04, 2006Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com