Lewis in this piece makes it exquisitely clear that what Hezbollah and other terrorists are doing is murder. It drives me nuts when the liberal media, particularly the New York Times ignores the reality of what Hezbollah is doing in Lebanon. The 'innocents' may or may not be willingly complicit in Hezbollah's tactics.
Israel has little choice but to do what's necessary to kill Hezbollah fighters even if they mingle among innocents. We cannot be hamstrung by a double standard of morality when fighting the RATs. War is hell and innocents will be killed. Western moral outrage is best directed at the RATs.
"The UN’s difficulty in even defining terrorism is symptomatic. It is a lie that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” In the Western tradition, freedom fighters did not target innocents. Terrorism is nothing but murder – the killing of innocents for political gain. The fact that the United Nations has been unable to understand that elementary point for twenty years is a measure of its moral corruption.
Today, Hezbollah warriors have not changed from those of Mohammed’s time. If anything they are more willing to sacrifice innocents, and the art of media manipulation has been perfected. The Western moral distinctions are treated with contempt."
...There is a solution: It is for the media and the United Nations to rediscover the elementary moral distinctions of the original Geneva Conventions. Killing innocents is murder. Drawing enemy fire on children is evil. It’s not hard."
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