[lbo-talk] A Case for Hizbollah?

[Brad DeLong]

>http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/webcast/63846.html
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>A Case for Hizbollah?
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>by Ran HaCohen
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>So here we go again, it seems. Blood-thirsty Arabs -- Lebanese
>fundamentalists of the Hizbollah, "the Party of God" -- bombed the Israeli
>town of Shlomi (10.8), killing a 15-year-old boy and injuring several
>others. Terrorist attack on civilians, three years after Israel has
>withdrawn its very last soldier from Lebanese soil. Isn't it the ultimate
>proof for the inherent terrorism of the Arabs, the decisive evidence that no
>peace can be made with Muslims? If you follow the media, it probably is. If
>you take a closer look at the facts... the aim of Israeli 
>propaganda: to portray the Hizbollah as
>a terrorist group that violates the rules of the game. The facts, however,
>are that the Hizbollah pretty much follows the rules of good
>neighbourliness; it is Israel that breaches them.... The Israeli boy killed
>this week was hit by an anti-aircraft bomb that failed to detonate in
>mid-air and exploded on the ground. "Collateral damage", if you 
>like... Hizbollah's anti-aircraft fire has a clear target: Israeli 
>fighter jets that
>regularly enter Lebanon's airspace.... The intrusion flights started in
>October 2000... following
>Hizbollah's kidnap of three Israeli soldiers at the Shaba Farms

He's not helping...

Brad DeLong