Hezbollah Asks: Why Didn’t the West Save Us From Ourselves?

That seems to be the underlying theme of the recent statement by Mahmoud Komati, deputy chief of Hezbollah's political arm, when he told The Associated Press in an interview that his group will not lay down arms.

"The truth is, let me say this clearly, we didn't even expect (this) response.... that (Israel) would exploit this operation for this big war against us," said Komati.

He said Hezbollah had expected "the usual, limited response" from Israel to the July 12 cross-border raid, in which three Israelis were killed.

In the past, he said, Israeli responses to Hezbollah actions included sending commandos into Lebanon to seize Hezbollah officials or briefly targeting specific Hezbollah strongholds.

He said the Shiite group had anticipated there would be negotiations on exchanging
the Israeli soldiers for three Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails, with Germany acting as a mediator as it did before."

So this was all just an attempt by Hezbollah to get a few of its members out of jail. Why would Hezbollah think that Israel wouldn’t respond and their acts would be seem as heroic in the Arab world, it is because the liberal West has for decades chided Israel whenever they responded to an attack on their country in any manner other than to roll over and take it? For that reason alone the international community is the reason the violence in the middle-east, specifically, between Israel and her neighbors who wish to destroy her, continues.

Kim Priestap agrees when she writes at Wizbang:

“Hezbollah's surprise at Israel's response proves once and for all that Israel's use of restraint, which the international community has demanded every time Israel was attacked, has prevented peace from flourishing in the region.

Rather than creating peace, it actually encouraged the terrorists to continue their car bombings, homicide bombings, and rocket attacks because they knew they would not be severely punished.”

This latest stunt by Hezbollah will undoubtedly be its undoing and will lead to its destruction but at what cost to Israel?

Chester of The Adventures of Chester takes a stab at this question when he asks:

“But the "After Hezbollah?" question is more difficult. Allow a guess:

Hezbollah is militarily defeated some weeks hence, but before then, some other event occurs that serves to keep the region in a period of flux. This period of flux will continue until one of two outcomes is sustained: the US and its allies find themselves involved in an overt war with Iran, or Iran becomes a declared nuclear power. The events that contribute to the period of flux could be friendly actions, such as new initiatives in Iraq or diplomatic initiatives in the Levant; or Iranian actions, such as a new intifada-like campaign in Iraq, or the attempted closing of the Straits of Hormuz, or the testing of a ballistic missile.

In other words, Israel has the opportunity to achieve an operational victory over Hezbollah and destory it; but by the time that is accomplished, the overall regional strategic picture will not have changed enough to allow such a victory to congeal long enough to create a status quo that can be characterized as "post-Hezbollah." Something else will happen. The victory, though a real one, and a meaningful one, will not be as meaningful as it otherwise might be until the problem of Iran's nuclear program is settled one way or another.”

I have to agree, I can’t see Syria giving up Lebanon as easily as it did when they were ousted during the Cedar Revolution, in my opinion Syria only left because they knew Hezbollah was still there taking orders from them, and they were now in a position of authority having won a large portion of the Lebanese Government in the recent election.

And yet, many on the side of the left openly support the destruction of Israel and support Hezbollah, people that should by all accounts believe just the opposite. Locally, veteran activist Barry Kissin writes in today’s opinion page:

“I am a Jewish American. Relatives of mine died in the Holocaust. I believe in a justly drawn, two-state solution in the region of Israel-Palestine. And I must say:

Just as we, the U.S., made use of the pretext of 9/11 to carry out the pre-planned invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, so does Israel make use of the kidnapping of three soldiers to carry out the pre-planned invasions of Gaza and Lebanon.

Just as we continue to refer to people resisting the military occupation and economic domination of their homelands as "terrorists," so does Israel, as if conventionally challenging the most advanced militaries in the world is an option.”

But Barry as a Jewish-American fails to understand the real threat and falls back onto his indoctrination of moral relativism; 'one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorists.'

Barry though couldn’t be further from the truth, this meme has been handed down for generation in the liberal crowd and it is still as wrong today as it was then. Freedom fighters do not target innocent civilians to further their cause, and that is exactly what his “freedom fighters” are doing not only in Lebanon and Israel, but also Iran and Afghanistan, Indonesia and the Philippines.

The Left's ‘freedom fighters' are no more interested in his moral beliefs than they are mine, for they have a belief structure that transcends all human thought. They don’t care what you think, they only care that you think like them, and when we realize that line of reasoning its no wonder the Liberal Left sides with the Taliban instead of America. The party of tolerance only accepts free speech when it is speech that is just like theirs, and while they praise dissent as being patriotic, for them dissent is not allowed at all. It’s their way or the highway.

This moral relativism that the left crows about every time the US or Israel defends itself from attack is a line of reasoning that only serves to create more chaos in the world. By following the Left’s reasoning that its all relative we can assume that they believe there is no need for a police forces in this country, for there is no crime, it’s all a matter of relativity and how the acts are perceived by the committer and the victim. And for many of those that fall victim to the lefts line of reasoning it’s comforting to know that no action deserves a reaction, its all relative, not unlike the bread stealer in Les Miserables. It’s okay if you steal or murder as long as its for the betterment of someone or something. But we as a race can not live like that; we are a world of laws, and boundaries.

But that isn’t the only reason we should be supporting Israel, and a free and separate Israel at that. Hugh Hewitt gives us the five best reasons for supporting Israel and defeating Hezbollah, when he writes, why he supports Israel.

There are five reasons:

1. It is a fully-functioning democracy with a representative government and a nearly 60 year unbroken commitment to free and fair elections. When such states come under attack anywhere in the world, the US should support them.

2. Along with Great Britain and Australia, Israel is the most dependable ally the United States has in the world on a host of issues, but most especially the global war on terror. We need always to vigorouslydefend our allies and supply aid and arms as
needed.

3. Since its origins in the Balfour Declaration and then the League of Nations, followed of course by its establishment via the United Nations, Israel represents the best promise of structure of international laws and institutions that help keep the world civilized. Supporters of the UN must realize that if Israel is not defended, the UN cannot be defended. Defenders of the importance of international law and custom must grasp the same point.

4. Israel does deserve the long memory of the world since the world turned its back on the Jews during the early years of the Holocaust. The Jewish people of Europe are not the only people to have suffered genocide, but they are the only people to have suffered genocide in the heart of western civilization.

5. Anti-Semitism is an old and virulent disease. It is long associated with the worst impulses of civilized society. The forces that nurture and feed-of hatred of Jews and their state are never defeated, only contained. Their anti-semitic fevers are also
always accompanied by other hatreds. Keeping Israel strong is a sort of booster shot to the world's immunization system.

In the end, Israel is well within its rights to defend its borders, its people and its way of life. Hezbollah, the bully on the block, just got his nose broken by the new arrival in the play ground. It’s no wonder they are running to the principal’s office demanding that action be taken against the offending newcomer. I just wish the Liberal Left would stop enabling them and their ilk.