History is repeating itself in Israel and South Lebanon.
Reader comment on item: Hizbullah Rearms in South Lebanon

Submitted by James Vesce (United States), Dec 14, 2006 at 15:17

UNIFIL, which I believe is the UN's contribution to the MNF you mention above, is doing the same thing in South Lebanon today that it did in 1982-84: it protects and encourages Hezbullah, and caters to all the other Islamist forces sent there by Iran and Syria and Egypt and whomever else has an Islamofascist agenda, and it bristles menacingly at any Israeli attempt to protect herself from attacks launched from South Lebanon into Israel.

Following the centuries-old recipe for jihad, the cessation of hostilities was only agreed to by Hezbullah for Hezbullah to re-arm and recover its fighting capabilities.

If Americans had any grasp of Middle East history, this pattern would be so blatantly obvious that everybody would be screaming for sanctions against the UN, and withdrawal of almost all financial and diplomatic support for the UN presence in the Middle East. All support for the Palestinian (Hamas) agenda would be withdrawn, in recognition that Israel has given land for peace, educated for peace, and supported the PA, following the Oslo Accords, and that increased Palestinian/Islamist violence has been the only reply to Israel's show of good faith.

Our blatantly "arabist" State Department section for Middle East affairs needs re-tooling, which Condi Rice is probably seeing to this very minute, but there will be much intertia and resistance to change.

Read as few as two books to get up to speed about this: "Because They Hate" by Brigitte Gabriel, and "War Footing" by Gaffney et al. The books are thin, lean, and get right to the point. It should only take you a week to plow through both books if you have a full-time job and a family.

I agree with Gaffney: we need to recognize that this is a War for the Free World; and we need a new international diplomatic forum for Free Nations of the World, instead of the pro-Islamist UN, that would include the USA, Israel, Britain, and Taiwan, and would exclude countries like Iran, China, Russia, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, and, of course, Jim Baker's law firm's client Saudi Arabia.

If history continues to repeat itself, Israel will respond with restraint and wisdom, and the "MNF" will function as an Islamic jihad instrument overtly and repeatedly. The anti-Israeli agenda will repeat itself so many times that the whole free world will have to acknowledge how awful Israel is being treated. Maybe mainstream American media will take notice, in spite of a Democratic majority in Congress. Israel will protect herself, with admirable restraint but ultimate success. The grand finale will be that an Islamist nuclear weapons resource will be destroyed by Israel. Last time it was in Iraq. This time it will be in Iran and/or North Korea.

This time, we should help Israel, and acknowledge that we're in a War for the Free World, a little more than we did last time. We may not get another chance to figure out what's going on before we run out of time to save ourselves. If Israel falls, the US and Britain won't be far behind.

We quite simply don't have time for the Democrats to sort this out, wasting time with inconsequential "feel-good" legislative digressions that ignore foreign policy imperatives, in the incompetent Clintonian tradition.

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