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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
By Henry Lowi
Redress, July 19, 2006
Henry Lowi asks searching questions, the answers to which would debunk
Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah. He says that misery, death and
destruction will continue until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews,
rise up to overthrow the Zionist pyromaniacs and poisoners of wells.
In the current Israel-Lebanon conflict (in which my relatives' home in
Carmiel has been destroyed, and visiting Lebanese Canadians have been
incinerated in South Lebanon), the propaganda war is key. Here are some
quick points to remember in the propaganda war:
1. Israel says that the Lebanese government is in violation of UN
resolutions that require the Lebanese government to exercise state
sovereignty in southern Lebanon, and disarm the militias.
We ask:
* Since when does Israel comply with UN resolutions?
* Since when does Israel respect state sovereignty?
2. Hizbullah is denounced as a "terrorist" organization by the army that it
defeated.
We ask:
* Since its founding in 1982, how many non-combatant Israeli civilians
has Hizbullah killed?
* In that same period, how many non-combatant Lebanese civilians have
the Israeli forces killed?
3. Hizbullah is accused of having raided into sovereign Israeli territory
and attacked and killed and captured Israeli soldiers on border patrol.
We ask:
* Since its founding, how many Israeli soldiers has Hizbullah killed
inside Israel?
* How many Israeli soldiers has Hizbullah killed inside Lebanon?
* How many Lebanese, captured by Israel inside Lebanon, is Israel
holding?
4. Hizbullah has weapons that go beyond the traditional guerrilla arsenal,
obviously supplied to it by Syria or Iran or both. At the same time, the
Lebanese state has no air defences to speak of, and its armed forces play
no role in defending the people of Lebanon.
We ask:
* Why shouldn't a guerrilla organization, operating in southern
Lebanon, have weapons, including longer-range rockets? Is Lebanon not
threatened by its southern "neighbour"?
* Aren't the Israeli forces fully armed, in fact, better armed?
5. The idea that, alongside Israel there should be a "demilitarized
Palestinian state" (Geneva Agreement) or a Lebanon armed only with rifles,
is an idea that goes hand-in-hand with domination and subjugation. In any
war, each side seeks to disarm, dominate and subjugate the other, and each
side seeks the weapons that are appropriate for that purpose.
We ask:
* So, what is Israel's complaint?
* Which states are the suppliers of Israel's arsenal? Who supplies what?
Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said that Israel is "changing the rules
of the game" in Lebanon, and warned that "nothing is safe in Lebanon, as
simple as that". But, everyone knows that what goes around comes around.
That is why people are fleeing Haifa southward or taking cover in fortified
rooms. The lives of Israeli non-combatant civilians are of no concern to
Halutz. Nor are the lives of Israeli soldiers captured in battle. All are
victims of Israeli militarism.
The familiar dance of death, orchestrated by the Israeli militarists and
ethnic cleansers, will continue, with ebbs and flows, with ceasefires and
"peace processes" and open conflagrations, with unimaginable misery, death
and destruction, UNTIL the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to
"change the rules of the game", to overthrow the Zionist pyromaniacs and
poisoners of wells, and to rebuild the country on a new basis, on a basis
that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
All anti-war efforts in Israel, and all solidarity efforts abroad, should
be directed to this goal.
<http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/hlowi9.htm>http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/hlowi9.htm
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%20Editorials/July/19%20o/Countering%20Zionist%20propaganda%20about%20Hizbullah%20and%20Lebanon%20By%20Henry%20Lowi.htm
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