My View on Isreal/Lebanon Conflict

I don't profess to be an expert in Middle East relations. I rarely, if ever, blog about the topic.

Nevertheless, opening up today's Herald and reading a series of articles really frustrated me and has driven me to post briefly on the Isreal/Lebanon conflict.

We get this report from the United Nations humanitarian chief in which he condemns the Israeli bombing of civilian areas.

No statement from the chief on the killing of Isreali civilians, of course.

The report goes on to describe the feelings of Lebanese Christians who were once sympathetic to Israel now favoring Hezbollah as a result of the Israeli attacks.

This report highlights the increasing anger towards the United States in the Arab world (nothing new there, right?).

Is there any doubt about the intentions of the Islamofascists to destroy Israel?

Hezbollah's representative in Iran struck a defiant tone Monday, warning that his Islamic militant group plans to widen its attacks on Israel until "no place" is safe for Israelis.

Hossein Safiadeen also reinforced earlier threats by Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah to widen the scope of attacks, which have included unprecedented missile strikes deep into northern Israel.

"We are going to make Israel not safe for Israelis. There will be no place they are safe," Safiadeen told a conference that included the Tehran-based representative of the Palestinian group Hamas and the ambassadors from Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian Authority.

This has been going on for decades, not days. Israel has a right to defend itself. War is definitely not a quick and clean affair. But when you are fighting the Islamofascists, you are fighting people who are not only hell-bent on destroying western civilization, but even those who sympathize with them.

Here's a quote from Israeli reserve officer Brig. Gen. Avigdor Kahalani who spoke at the Bet Shira Congregation in South Dade yesterday:

Israeli's attempts to destroy Hezbollah's weapons caches have been hampered by the group's tendency to store weapons among civilians, the key reason behind the number of civilian casualties, Kahalani said. But he also portrayed some Lebanese civilians as accomplices to Hezbollah, rather than as the victims of an occupying terrorist group.

This quote brought to mind something that has been known for a long time, and that is the Islamofascist terrorists' knack for putting civilians in the way of danger in order to draw sympathy from the moderate Arabs and the rest of the world. It also brought to mind the following picture which I received a long time ago and have been hesitant to post because of its strong nature, but which I feel reflects what's going on now, and what's been happening for years.



Am I biased? Yes. Do I support Israel? You bet.

If you support democracy and the superiority of Western civilization over the culture that Islamofascists want to impose on Israel and eventually the rest of the West, then you should support Israel as well.