When George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13224 on Sept. 23, 2001, presenting a protocol to combat al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations of “global reach,” Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia organization, was not on the list, despite the fact that in 1997 the State Department had designated it a “foreign terrorist organization.” Two weeks later, under congressional and external pressure, the administration… return to article
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Reader Comments (8)Page 1 of 1 pagesTerrorists who provide ” important social services such as health care, schools and financial services, that defends its country from occupation in the south, and that plays by the rules in official Lebanese national politics (and thereby exercises democratic principles in a region with a less than stellar democratic record)?”
Are terrorists. Without Hezbollah “occupation in the south” would not be neccessary. Defense is a legitimate action of a state not a group of bearded theocratic freaks. Kill them all.
Posted by texasindependent on Apr 24, 2007 at 8:48 PM Israel is the leading terrorist state in the
Middle East and Arab terrorism is in reaction
to theirs. Israel occupied the south of Lebanon
repeatedly BEFORE Hezbollah was created in
the 80s AS A REACTION TO ISRAELI OCCUPATION.
At the time they were not even particularly pro-Palestinian
but became very anti-Israel solely in reaction to
Israel’s Occupation. Texas Independent is a racist
and has posted under Natalie, Wicky Woo, Scorp,
Wolf and Aunty Fascist as well as Aunty Rightty.
Ignore him.
Posted by bostonblackie on Apr 24, 2007 at 9:20 PM W’s definiton of terrorist is anyone who doesn’t
follow US orders. Chomsky has demonstrated
that Bush is a serial psychopath. Why are so many
Texans that way ?
Posted by bostonblackie on Apr 24, 2007 at 9:30 PM Ask a silly question…
“How do you classify and develop policy toward an organization that has committed acts of terrorism in the past, that currently provides important social services such as health care, schools and financial services, that defends its country from occupation in the south, and that plays by the rules in official Lebanese national politics (and thereby exercises democratic principles in a region with a less than stellar democratic record)?”
Funny, this description would have fit Nazi Germany, but we didn’t wonder how it should be dealt with.
Next question.
Posted by whattheheck on Apr 25, 2007 at 12:18 PM Suggestion:
In case there is still any question…
For details on how to deal with Hezbollah, contact the widows, children and parents of the 241 Marines.
Posted by whattheheck on Apr 25, 2007 at 12:22 PM Actually that description would fit both the
US and Israel to the core. It was Reagan’s
idiot idea to send troops into a civil war in
Lebanon to begin with. Killing occupying
troops is not terrorism. It was precisely
Israel following the type of advice given above
that created Hezbollah in the first place.
WW2 “victory”—half the globe under Red control
and the UK Empire collapsed paving the way
for Marxist cannibals to take over the third world.
But there are always dumb fucks who believe
all the problems would be solved if we just klled
more people.
Posted by bostonblackie on Apr 25, 2007 at 5:56 PM Blackie,
Would you have felt the same way if they had been U.N. “peacekeeping” troops sent to Lebanon to put down a civil war?
Posted by whattheheck on Apr 27, 2007 at 1:25 PM The US embassy and barracks bombings were in 1983 and Hezb’llah was formed in 1985. Anyone see a problem here besids me?
Israeli maps show the Litani as being their northern border and they’ve had designs on the water therefrom since zionism was first dreamed up by European marxists at the close of the 19th century.
Israeli territorial designs are the reason for Hezb’llah’s existence, without them a million or so Shia in the south would be refugees somewhere else.
Just because AIPAC demands that they be proscribed as terrorists doesn’t make them so. US based zionism and global military ambition is a much greater threat to global security than anything else right now, and until that is defeated there will be no peace.
US based zionism is a bigger threat to Israel itself than Hezb’llah.
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