Wednesday, July 12, 2006

call a spade a spade, please

Hezbollah's attack on Israel ought to be pretty easy to describe:

Terrorists affiliated with Hezbollah (which is recognized as a terrorist organization by the U.S.) infiltrated Israel's sovereign territory to launch an unprovoked attack on Israeli military forces and captured two Israeli soldiers.

Here's how ABC describes the attackers: "militants from the Islamic resistance movement Hezbollah struck from across Israel's border with Lebanon."

What is Hezbollah resisting? The Israeli occupation of Lebanon that ended six years ago? Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. When they launch attacks inside Israel they are either guilty of terrorism or they are launching an offensive war as a proxy for Lebanon, Syria or Iran. In either case Hezbollah doesn't deserve to be labeled as a resistance movement.

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