Signs Editorial:

Hizballah The Terrorist Professor Sattar Kassem July 17,2006 The war in Lebanon is due to the terrorist behavior and actions of Hizballah. One can imagine the terrorist bluntness of Hizballah that captured a couple of Israeli soldiers in purpose of freeing Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails. Why are these in Israeli jails? Because they attacked Israeli targets. Why did they do so? Because the Israelis are angels descending from heavens to spread love, peace and fraternity in the world. There is so much that Westerners need to learn about the situation in the Middle East. Does any body in the West tell the people that there are more than five million Palestinian refugees who have been living under difficult conditions for around sixty years, and Israel doesn't allow them back to their homes and property? Does any body tell them that Israel has been occupying Arab land for around forty years, and, for any withdrawal to take place, it insists that its terms must be accepted by the Arabs? Palestinians and Lebanese have been captured by the Israelis because they insist on their rights and have the will to resist. If Israel has the right to defend itself, the Arabs have the right to defend themselves; and if Israel has the justification to hold Arabs captives, the Arabs have the justification to hold Israelis captives. Who on earth can tell that Israel has the right to hold 9,000 Arabs as prisoners, while Hizballah is breaching all human values in holding two Israelis? What makes it right for Israel to fight for the freedom of its soldiers? And what makes it wrong for hizballah to fight for the freedom of Arab resistance men and women? Hizballah which has been in a state of war with Israel attacked a military target killing a number of soldiers and capturing two. What is wrong in this pure military action? Since then, Israel has been destroying the Lebanese infrastructure and killing civilians. I know that I am asking questions of an ethical nature that hardly can find answers in a world that believes in power. Israel argues that Hizballah violated its sovereignty, but it gives no explanations for how it captures Palestinians and Lebanese, or kill them or destroy their houses over their heads. It certainly does that in no man's land.

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