1701 Says Nothing About Hezbollah's Terrorism

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Tuesday, September 12. 2006

1701 Says Nothing About Hezbollah's Terrorism

Containing Hezbollah's Terrorist Wing, by Barak Ben-Zur and Christopher Hamilton:

Throughout the recent military conflict with Israel, Hezbollah used terror operations to augment its military effort. Between July 17 and August 9, Israeli security forces prevented nine terrorist attacks sponsored by Hezbollah. All of these attacks, which would have been carried out by local Palestinian terrorist groups with Hezbollah funding and operational support, were directed at targets within Israel's 1967 ceasefire lines. All three major Palestinian terrorist groups - Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - were beneficiaries of Hezbollah support and guidance in the failed attacks.

Given the important role of Hezbollah's terrorist wing in its overall strategy, Hezbollah will retain a potent offensive capability so long as its terror apparatus remains intact. Resolution 1701 focused on Hezbollah's military, not its terrorist, capability, and says nothing about Hezbollah's terrorist training camps in Lebanon. These camps have been among the most important sources of terrorist violence in the region. If not dismantled, they will be a continuing source of trained terrorists in the future.

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This item and any discussion of Resolution 1701 is un-IRIS-worthy. Here's why;

While 1701 is an unfortunate reality, it marks the world stepping into the void left by Israel's ineffectuality
and failure to assert it's right, as a sovereign nation, to properly defend itself. Basically, it represents a cowardly effort by a cowardly, ineffectual, corrupt government to project it's own national, moral responsibility onto another entity. It is a historic axiom dating back to the British mandate: whenever Israel has abrogated it's own defense, it's own security and entrusted it to others, those others have acted prejudicially toward the Jews, permitting Arab attacks and abuses and the resultant flow of Jewish blood , loss of Jewish life and diminishment of Jewish Sovereignty in Jewish land. Of this there are numerous citings; British Mandate where British by non-application of law permitted Arab attrocities against Jews while denying Jews their right of immigration to Israel, 1947-48 UN partition, 1956 UN peacekeepers which enabled Nasser's Suez Canal blockade of 1967, the prejudicial abuses of UN peacekeepers formerly in Gaza and those in Chevron to this very day and much, much more.

It is useless to discuss semantics, i.e. military capability, terrorist capability of a detrimental, useless instrument. 1701 is a worthless, disfunctional piece of "expletive deleted" (Nixonian). IMHO, IRIS should not be a party to representing 1701 as credible. To do so is to not give sufficient credit to it's readers for intelligence. It cheapens IRIS standards.

#1 Moshe on 2006-09-13 08:31 (Reply)

One more thing about this article. Secular Israelis crave to be "normal." No normal nation abrogates it's national defense and security to others. Resolution 1701 is the most blatant case of Israel doing just that!

#2 Moshe on 2006-09-13 08:35 (Reply)

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