On Jul 24, 2006, at 7:07 AM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote:
> No one is idealising Hezbollah. Hezbollah is an Islamist movement
> with a strong history of repelling Israeli aggression. Israel is
> now destroying Lebanon on the pretext of hunting down Hezbollah.
> In this context, it makes perfect sense to say "We are all
> Hezbollah" as the Lebanese civilian shortly to perish under Israeli
> fire said. This does not entail support for Hezbollah's broader
> goals or ideological imperatives.
Shouldn't a slogan 1) make sense, and 2) bear some positive relation to your principles? On 1), I'm not Hezbollah, because Israel isn't trying to attack me, or any Americans (though Israel's actions, paid for by the US, make it more likely that some ally of Hezbollah will try to attack me, a resident of a very Jewish neighborhood in a large American city) and 2) by saying you are Hezbollah, you are, however temporarily or expediently, performing an identification with the organization's broader goals or ideological imperatives. If you're not performing that identification, then you're not Hezbollah. Are we supposed to make some forced choice between Hez and the Irgun?
Doug