Re: Hizbollah rockets put Israel’s Arabs under fire
On Jul 24, 2006, at 2:17 PM, ravi wrote:
This stuff about Israeli Arabs being harmed by Hezbollah rockets seems at best a fruitless diversion. This is not to whitewash Hezbollah as entirely legitimate freedom-fighters. Rather, attempts to examine the details of Hezbollah action is a distraction from the real atrocities committed and being committed by Israel.
I’m not sure your second sentence follows from the first; it does
look like a bit of a whitewash. There’s no question that Israel is
doing far more damage, human and infrastructural. Almost all of the
stuff I’ve posted to this list has been critical of Israel, and
there’s not much danger of a Fox-ish “balance” taking hold. But what
I wrote was specifically in response to “We’re all Hezbollah now,”
which strikes me as an ugly, false, and alienating slogan.
Doug