Posted by
haystack on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:10:21 PM
Hezbollah, like any other Islamic group, joins the political democratic process and once they get what they want, they are the first to open fire on democracy.
I came across
THIS Blog the other day, through the
MILBlogging website, and have been absolutely fascinated by it. I cannot speak for the accuracy of it, nor can I assure anyone of it's legitimacy, but I can tell you that its contents are quite compelling and draw me to write today about their 25 July 2006 post "This blog can't be correct, I don't believe you!".
The "About" section describes their blog this way:
A live blog from an Israeli bunker via laptop and wifi. Provides a unique and unprecedented insight into the rapidly escalating situation in the middle east. Experience the events thru the eyes of the people who live them, and perhaps get an idea of how it's really like over here. This is much more human and accurate then the major news channels.
In that context, today's piece talks quite openly about the effects of the war on the every-day people. He suggests, for example:
"Hezbollah didn’t only take 2 Israeli soldiers hostages, but he took Lebanon hostage and gave it to its masters (Iran & Syria) as a bargaining chip. Do we Lebanese have a saying in all this? Did Hassan Nasrallah ask us, the Lebanese, if we agreed on such operation? He doesn’t care. He thinks he is untouchable and any decision he makes, we the Lebanese, must obey it. After all he is a Muslim religious leader and Allah path is the right one. He threatened every single Lebanese, right after kidnapping the Israeli soldiers, he asked all Lebanese to stand by his resistance or else. Or else, what? You will pull your Imam Ali sward and cut our heads?
[...]
But if we really look into it, we noticed, even after September 11 and even of what is going in Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, India, London, Madrid… The west still doesn’t get it. The west still thinks with reason they will win over radicalism. They still do not get it. Neither money, reason, houses, infrastructure … Will change a single thing. They will take your money, they will talk to you, they will let you build their towns and infrastructure but when you blink, they will stick a dagger in your back. What is more important of all this for them is simply … Islam."[from ouwet.com - a blog by members of the Lebanese forces]
This is a must read, and if you follow the links inside today's post, you'll be taken to blogs from both the Lebanese AND the Israelis, trying to sort through all the chaos and understand just what the heck is going on and what needs to be done to get to a peaceful coexistence. His final passage:
This morning we had 5 sirens, they kept missing until the last one. 24 injured, about 16 rockets hit Haifa and over 40 more in the north. At least I know who is and isn't shooting.