Samir Amin on Islam

[Bradford DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>>As for Israel and the Middle East, here's what
>>>Hitchens - whom Yoshie compares to
>>>Thomas Friedman - recently had to say:
>>>
>>>"I hate and despise Hezbollah and Palestinian
>suicide-murderers, as
>>>they ought to be called, but
>>>they'd have to work day and night for years to equal
>the total of
>>>civilians killed in Lebanon alone,
>>>or by Sharon alone. Lebanese and Palestinian
>irregulars are, by the
>>>way, entitled by international
>>>law to resist foreign occupation that has been
>internationally
>>>condemned. Fact..."
>>
>>By killing nurses? If one is going to talk about
>international law,
>>one should also talk about jus in bello...
>
>Brad, are you talking about Bonnie Penner? If so, is
>there some indication that she was killed by
>Hezbollah?
>
>In any case, I don't understand the point you're
>making. Do you mean that the killing of Bonnie Penner
>was an equivalent violation of international law to
>Israel's occupation of Lebanon and killing of 20,000
>civilians? Would you have said the same thing if a
>nurse from Iraq's closest ally had been killed in
>Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation? "If one is going
>to talk about international law regarding the Iraqi
>invasion, one should also talk about jus in bello..."

Your argument seems to have the structure, "X killed Y, so it is OK 
for Z to kill W."

One *can* condemn both the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the 
killing of Bonnie Penner. I have. And I do.