A cease-fire only benefits Hezbollah

Hat tip to Cox and Forkum for the cartoon. You can read their related commentary and links HERE, including a link to a video clip of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah leading a Lebanese crowd in a chant of "Death to America". It's part of a trailer, for a film comming out this fall. It looks good.

The other links support the argument that Hezbollah doesn't need to "win" against Isreal in order to declare victory; the only have to survive... to enlist even more recruits, and kill again another day.

I like what Neal Boortz said on his blog today:

...We say negotiations, they hear appeasement. We say peace plan, they hear surrender. We say peaceful coexistence, they plot to grow their numbers and their strength while we're wallowing in our own political correctness...

There is only one way to address radical Islam, and that is to completely and absolutely destroy it...

We have to destroy them, or be strong enough, and RESLOVED enough, that they don't attempt to attack us... which they had not done for centuries, because they believed we were too strong. But in the last several decades, with the growth of multiculturism, moral relativism and the strident Western left, they sense weakness and lack of reslove. Strength seems to be the only thing they understand. Everything else they see as weakness and an invitation to attack.


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Hammer and Sickle for Lebanon

Some 8,000 people demonstrated in Brussels on Sunday against the war in Lebanon. There were slogans against the U.S. and Israel and in support of Hamas and Hezbollah. Participating organisations included the maoist Workers Party of Belgium (better known under its Dutch acronym PVDA), the StopUSA platform, Lebanese liberals, a jewish-muslim-christian pacifist organisation from France, and a christian trade union from Belgium. Lebanese flags were flanked by Cuban and Venezuelan flags, a further indication of the left-wing character of the demonstration.

Islamism has a friend and ally in the western left. For more links, and links to more photos, visit the above link.

Worry About the West -- Not Israel

...There is a depressing pattern here. The sources for Western erroneous reports and faked pictures always seem to exaggerate the damage to Lebanon -- but never to Israel.

Likewise, Western news agencies rarely list a precise number of Hezbollah losses, instead lumping them in with civilian fatalities. Does that mean that someone who launches a missile in Levis and sneakers is not a combatant?

In addition, the history and nature of Hezbollah do not matter to many in the West.

Knowingly or not, news outlets continue to spread Hezbollah's propaganda. One wonders if Westerners remember or know that, until Sept. 11, Hezbollah had killed more Americans than had any other terrorist organization...

...Hezbollah, of course, has been enabled in large part thanks to Iranian petro-dollars and intimidation. But the nature of Hezbollah's patrons doesn't seem to matter to many Westerners, either.

Those now calling for "dialogue" with the "major players" ignore that Iran promises to wipe out Israel. The French foreign minister was quick to praise the regional role of theocratic Iran as "stabilizing."

Then there's Hezbollah's other patron, Syria, a country that brutally occupied Lebanon, harbors terrorists and is suspected of being behind the assassination of Lebanese reformist Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

So, what then does matter to so many Westerners about this war?

Our fear, of course. We want to avoid messy complications like stirring up another 9/11 or Madrid bombing, spiking oil prices to over $80 a barrel, or treading on politically incorrect ground by criticizing the "other" of the former Third World.

The Western press -- usually so careful to condemn hate speech -- is utterly silent about Arab racism. But a European paper recently published a cartoon portraying Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a Nazi, secure that no rabbi would issue threats that could cost the editors their heads...