Hitchens on genocide

[Peter K.]

great War on Terror, who's to say anymore? I'm waiting for this
battered shoe to drop, when Hitch goes all out and supports
Sharon's violence (because, after all, Hamas is theocratic,
probably fascist; and since Israel helped it along to offset PLO
accommodation, don't they have a moral duty to now rectify that
mistake?).

    DP

    You may be waiting a long time.

    He wrote about it in a piece in yesterday's Guardian:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,612114,00.html

    "Simple truth

    The new mantra in rightwing circles in Washington has it that
Hamas and Hizbullah are the exact equivalents of al-Qaida. A
brief thought-experiment shows how and why this is not so. If it
were so, then we would expect to see British and American ground
forces going right into Gaza behind General Sharon, and right
into southern Lebanon to help restore Israel's once-proud
"security zone". But this is not occurring. Ask yourself why not,
and you will see that certain questions quite simply answer
themselves."

    There's an interesting News Analysis overview of the
Palestinians growing, but soft, support for Hamas in today's New
York Times. Hamas does advocate

    driving Israelis out of the Middle East although most
Palestinians don't

    (according to polls). Many Palestinians feel that Hezbullah
guerrilas drove

    the Israelis out of southern Lebanon by a war of attrition.