30 July 2006

When Is the Absence of An Event, An Event In of Itself?

From the Jerusalem Post today

The Haruv Battalion together with Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operatives caught two Palestinian terrorists in the Nablus area on Sunday, who were armed with an explosives belt and apparently on their way to perpetrate a suicide attack inside Israel.

The men were taken for questioning and the belt was detonated.


Has anyone else noted the lack of successful suicide bombers within Israel? To remark on this would be to admit that the 'immoral' wall erected by the Israeli government has worked exceedingly well.

Clearly, the lack of dead Israeli non-combatants on your TV screen these past years hasn't been for lack of trying, lack of desire, or lack of resources on the part of the crazies.

Sometimes it's as important to notice what hasn't happened as what has.

The events in Qana are regrettable, but the conditions that lead to so many children dying in a military strike were purely the doing of Hizbollah.

Hizbollah cheers when civillians are killed, Israelis cry, doesn't matter whether it's Lebanese or Israelis doing the dying. Hizbollah does everything they can to increase civillian deaths on both sides, Israelis work to mitigate that regrettable consequence of warfare.

That, as much as anything else, is reason enough to make the destruction of Hizbollah a long term goal.

Hizbollah's core philosophy is incompatible with civil, democratic governance and respect for individual life. Their hatred is such that it would find a different target (most likely the United States) if they got their wish and Israel ceased to be. They are a bigger danger to the Shi'a themselves, though. Shi'a should murder these thugs in their beds. The women in these communities should all go Lysistrata on their sorry nihilistic asses. Support for, or support from, Hizbollah must become a mark of shame in their community, not a source of pride. Then their children will grow up to be happy citizens in a peaceful Lebanon, instead of murdering monsters in a land of perpetual strife.

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