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Friday, August 18, 2006

Despicable



That's a plaque placed on the King David Hotel in Jerusalem last month during a 60th anniversary celebration (yes, really) of the bombing of that hotel by Jewish terrorists led by then-future Israeli prime minister Menachim Begin. Another former (and possibly future) Israeli PM, Benjamin NetanYAHU, attended the celebration and defended the bombing. From the Times Online:
"It’s very important to make the distinction between terror groups and freedom fighters, and between terror action and legitimate military action," [Netanyahu] said. "Imagine that Hamas or Hezbollah would call the military headquarters in Tel Aviv and say, 'We have placed a bomb and we are asking you to evacuate the area'."
Unfortunately, either Netanyahu didn't conclude that analogy, or the Times didn't bother to report it. I assume NetanYAHU expects everyone to just accept that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations (heck, even the US State Dept. says so, so it must be true!), whereas Begin's Irgun people were "freedom fighters." I'm still not clear whether he thinks the Israeli military HQ would be evacuated when it received a bomb threat. Is he implying that the only reason he calls H & H terrorist organizations is because they don't call first?

Israel likes to do warnings. They warn homeowners in Gaza, sometimes, that their homes are about to be bombed. (And I read somewhere recently, can't find it now, that they make many more calls than they actually follow up with bombs.) In Lebanon, they dropped leaflets warning people to flee before demolishing their neighborhoods, or used loudspeakers ordering them out, only to then bomb them on the road.

NetanYAHU is suggesting that warnings should be sufficient to accomplish ethnic cleansing. And while condemning some terrorist attacks, he glorifies others. Like our own "leaders," NetanYAHU is a flaming hypocrite. They can't define what they mean by "terrorists," because any possible definition clearly includes the US and Israeli governments.