I am disappointed. When this conflict started on July 13, I thought there would be more support for Israel. They are fighting against a terrorist enemy, Hezbollah. Terrorists attacked us on 9/11, and killed 3,000 of our people. I thought we had resolve against people like that. But no, terrorists are praised in protests in cities across America and the Western World. The MSM are doing their best to make Hezbollah look like a poor little innocent child that the big bad bully, Israel, turned on for no reason. They are trying so hard to give this impression, that they pass through photographs that are clearly hampered.
Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Practically the entire civilized world recognizes that. This war started when Hezbollah and Hamas kidnapped several Israeli troops. Then Hezbollah started launching rockets into northern Israeli cities. Israel decided that they were not going to be pushed around and give back the hundreds of prisoners that Hezbollah was asking for, and start another kidnapping binge. So they launched a bombing, artillery firing, naval and air blockading assault on southern Lebanon.
Israel is not fighting against Lebanon. They are fighting against Hezbollah, which the Lebanese government has allowed to control the southern part of the country. Israel has asked the Lebanese government over and over again to get rid of Hezbollah in their country, but to no avail. So, Lebanon has paid the price: their airports have been destroyed, ports blockaded, and civilians killed.
It would be helpful to point out that Israel had to destroy the Beirut airport, various roads, and port areas to stop Hezbollah from being re-supplied by Iran and other sources. When Israel bombs cities and villages, it’s because Hezbollah troops intentionally mix in with the population. Hezbollah troops are rarely in uniform, and launch rockets, patrol in tanks, etc. in areas where many other people are. In the now-infamous bombing of Qana, it was reported that Hezbollah troops were around everywhere just before the bombing. Hezbollah kept the civilians from leaving in the villages it controlled. They needed them for the body shields.
So while Israel can hardly help killing civilians with enemy tactics such as these, and tries to bomb areas where there are no civilians as much as possible, Hezbollah launches rockets into Israeli cities without warning, without a particular target, and with no particular purpose besides that of murdering civilians. I think the moral balance is clear.
I thought I wouldn’t even have to say all the above. I thought it would be obvious to Americans who is in the right and who is in the wrong in this conflict, but I was wrong. Protests in Boston, New York City, and other areas are praising Hezbollah, waving the yellow and green flags, and chanting terrorist slogans. Apparently people don’t care about brutal terror anymore. Apparently people have forgotten what terrorists did to us on 9/11. Apparently people have forgotten that Hezbollah killed hundreds of our troops in the suicide attack on Marine barracks. I cannot believe the amount of support Bostonians and New Yorkers are giving a terrorist organization. It’s just sick.
Meanwhile the media are hard at work. They show dozens of photos of the same dead people held up by the same Hezbollah workers in different situations, and made to look like separate incidents. They rarely show the damage that is being dealt on Israeli cities by unguided rockets, but eat up shots and stories of Israeli bombings. The way the headlines go, you would think it was Israel who just invaded Lebanon for the fun of it.
Now we have the smoke-plume scandal. Adnan Hajj, a local free-lance photographer, took shots of a burning building. Then he cloned certain parts of the picture in Photoshop to make the smoke plume look larger. He also cloned one flare fired by an Israeli F-16 to look like 4 missiles coming down on a residential area. The same photographer was taking shots at Qana. Who knows if those were largely staged, now too? Reuters passed the photos through; apparently eager to get anything that made the conflict (and specifically the Israelis) look more horrible. Charles Johnson, a former graphic designer and writer of Little Green Footballs, caught the error and fully exposed it. I passed up his post when I first read it on Saturday, shaking my head and thinking it was just another bad old thing the media had done. I didn’t realize that it would turn into a big controversy, and Reuters would eventually withdraw the photo. Whatever.
I just hope it’s abundantly clear which side America should be on, and why protesters should be ashamed of themselves.
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