hezbollah is pure evil to some ...I agree.

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/content/news/feldman0723.html

From Israel, rabbi calls Hezbollah 'pure evil'

By MICHELE DARGAN
Daily News Staff Writer

Sunday, July 23, 2006

As violence along the Israel-Lebanon border continues, a former spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El, who has been studying in Israel for the past three weeks, describes the mood of the country as "unified."

Rabbi Leonid Feldman, now of Temple Beth El on Flagler Drive, says everyone in the country — liberal and conservative — is supporting the Israeli government's military operations against the militant Hezbollah faction for the latter's kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. Feldman said he is inspired by how the people in the Haifa area of Israel are conducting their lives under siege from Lebanon.

"My dear friends have a son who is in a tank near the border with Lebanon," he said Friday by telephone from Israel. "One of our teachers is very worried about his son, who is also there."

Feldman has been safe in Jerusalem, away from the missile attacks in the northern part of the country. He is due back in the United States Thursday and will speak about his experiences during Shabbat services at 6:30 p.m. Friday and 9:15 a.m. Saturday.

"Life has to continue," Feldman said. "Over 1 million civilians (in the north) have been sleeping in bomb shelters for the last week. Kids, who are on school vacation, are sitting in bomb shelters. A wedding took place in a bomb shelter Thursday. It was on every television channel. The bride said she didn't want to postpone the wedding, because postponing is a bad sign. They were originally expecting 700 guests. Only 50 people showed up. She was crying."

Israel launched an intense air and land offensive in Lebanon following the July 12 capture of two Israeli soldiers by guerrillas from the Lebanese-based Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah. Hezbollah's leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, said Israel would have to agree to an exchange of prisoners if it wanted the soldiers back. Israel has demanded its two captured soldiers be released and Hezbollah be disarmed before it would halt its offensive.

Critics have said Israel has used a disproportionate amount of force, resulting in the deaths of innocent Lebanese civilians. Hezbollah also has been blamed for placing its guerrillas and weapons in densely populated civilian areas.

Louise Arbour, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said both sides could bear "personal criminal responsibility" for the air assaults.

But Feldman says Hezbollah and al-Qaida are the same — both are terrorist organizations. He points out that when Hezbollah was formed, its early strikes were made against U.S. military targets, including the October 1983 truck-bomb attack that destroyed U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut.

"For years, people have been saying this was about occupation," Feldman said. "This was not about occupation. We returned every inch of their land, in return for what? Missiles and rockets. This shows the rest of the world it was not about territory. This is pure evil. This is what Hezbollah represents.

"This is not just against Jews," he continued. "The Islamic fanatics simply want us, and the West, dead. It's very important that Americans realize that Hezbollah came into existence killing Americans. Only later did they start killing Jews."


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What would be `in proportion'?

Posted July 19 2006


If Israel's response to Hezbollah's criminal and sneak attack is "disproportionate," what could or should Israel have done that would have been "in proportion" to the criminal Hezbollah butchery? Should it have sent suicide-bombers into southern Lebanon to randomly slaughter and horribly maim untold numbers of civilians? Should it also have entered Lebanon and planted deadly roadside mines along major thoroughfares? Or perhaps it should have made a sudden, stealthy thrust into southern Lebanon to blow up, kill and kidnap an "appropriate" number of soldiers?

It is the most outrageous form of hypocrisy to attempt to discredit Israel for doing what any decent democratic government would and should have done to protect its citizens. Its conduct was especially warranted because of the cowardly, craven and criminal actions of Hezbollah, a savage mob of uncontrolled Arab terrorists.

Its successful obliteration of the evil called Hezbollah will be an enormous embarrassment to Iran and will, unquestionably, redound to the benefit of Lebanon, the United States and the decent folks throughout the world.Perry J. Shertz

Boca Raton

 

This is a very good read, also check the date...

When Kids Blow Themselves Up-forgotten victims of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | June 30, 2005 | Joel Mowbray


When we think of Palestinian terrorism, often forgotten are its other victims. For most, it is an unintentional oversight; for terror’s apologists, it is an absolute necessity. For terror’s avowed supporters, however, the other victims are not considered victims at all; they are thought of as heroes.

Speaking at a conference on Islam and Democracy in April, journalist Anisa Mehdi suggested that the only reason we consider Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah terrorists is because Americans aren’t “pro-Palestinian.” She added that if we were, we would call them “Palestinian partisans,” not terrorists.

After her speech, this columnist asked Mehdi what she would call a 12-year-old strapping on a bomb and killing a dozen civilians in a café. As she sat stunned by the question, the luncheon’s other speaker, Abdullah Schleifer, executive producer of the documentary “Control Room,” leapt to the podium and said, “Of course it is. And in fact, it’s terrorism against the 12-year-old.”

Though 12-year-olds are on the young end of children converted into suicide bombers, the terrorism perpetrated by the likes of Hamas and Islamic Jihad against young Palestinians is real—and growing.

Roughly one month after this luncheon, Israeli soldiers at the Hawara checkpoint in Nablus stopped two teenagers attempting to smuggle explosives under their clothes. One was 15, the other 14.

When interviewed by NBC News’ Martin Fletcher, the 15-year-old, Mohammed Mustafa al-Nadi, said that he was recruited to “kill the Jews” by al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which was formerly under the thumb of Yasser Arafat. The boy said he only agreed to become a suicide bomber after being asked five times.

Young Mohammed is sadly more the rule than the exception. Already this year, more than 50 Palestinians under the age of 18 have been apprehended attempting to smuggle bombs into Israel, and at least six have been under 16.

Additionally, it was announced this week that Israel’s Shin Bet security force arrested a terror cell just outside of Nablus last month, and four of the eight taken into custody were 15 or 16 years old.

Just over a year ago, the entire world witnessed a frightened 15-year-old at the Hawara checkpoint who decided he couldn’t go through with blowing himself up. Israeli soldiers cleared the area, used a robot to remove the bomb strapped to his chest, and then safely detonated it.

Talking to the BBC a few months later from his jail cell, Hussam Abdo said that although he was glad to be alive and wouldn’t tell his friends to become suicide bombers, he nonetheless still viewed the act he failed to commit as a glorious one. He said blowing yourself up in order to kill Jews is “better than being a singer or a footballer. It’s better than everything.” In an earlier interview with an Israeli newspaper, Hussam revealed where his mind had become so twisted: in Palestinian school. The 15-year-old said that “paradise” was “a river of honey, a river of wine and 72 virgins. Since I have been studying Koran I know about the sweet life that waits there.”

As easy as it would be to chalk up the recruitment of children to the evil deeds of terrorists, both Mohammed’s and Hussam’s experiences demonstrate that the terrorists had help. The kids, like many others their age, are primed for jihad long before they have the mental capacity to fully comprehend what they’re being spoon-fed.

The indoctrination that nearly claimed Hussam’s life permeates Palestinian society, from government-controlled media to the culture at large that exalts suicide bombers as “martyrs” or “shahids.”

Because of the invaluable Palestinian Media Watch, we know that glorification of suicide bombing—even to small children—continues to this day on Palestinian television, from talking puppets that extol the virtues of violence to pre-teen girls telling an adult that “martyrdom” is the greatest success one could ever achieve.

Even at a grassroots level, suicide bombings enjoy popular support. Sports teams, schools, and streets are all named after terrorists, and many families of suicide bombers claim that they enjoy immediately increased standing in the community.

Arafat is largely responsible for poisoning the well, but his death alone does not remove the poison. His successor and longtime right-hand man, Mahmoud Abbas, in fact, has yet to take a significant step in that direction. But even once he does, wholesale change can’t happen overnight.

In the meantime, more children will be sent off to kill—and die. Children who lack any rational conception of death, who are coaxed into evil with the false promise of paradise. These are the other victims of Palestinian terrorism, and they should never be forgotten.

 

It's fun to look back and see the danger coming...


The unknown king of terror: Hezbollah military chief has longer resume than bin Laden
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Monday, March 14, 2005


Posted on 03/14/2005 2:47:21 AM PST by JohnHuang2


The unknown king of terror Hezbollah military chief has longer resume than bin Laden Posted: March 12, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern


Though his name is unknown to most, a Middle East terrorists boasting a long resume of attacks and who takes order from Tehran will prevent any sort of peaceful freedom from breaking out in Lebanon, reports geopolitical expert Jack Wheeler.

In a column on his intelligence website, To the Point, Wheeler notes that the Hezbollah's chief of military operations, who has over 20 years in the terror business, is set to start a civil war in Lebanon.

Wheeler ties the situation directly to Iran, Hezbollah's chief sponsor.

"I have a very bad feeling about Lebanon," he writes, "this could turn out really ugly. Dispatch after dispatch, story after story, and all you read about is Syria's getting its troops and spies out of its colony. Congressmen like Darryl Issa, R-Calif., write newspaper op-eds entitled 'Lebanon: Democracy's Next Stop.' All without a word about Hezbollah. All without a word about Iran."

Wheeler goes on to describe the challenge of de-fanging Hezbollah.

"Hezbollah – the Party of God – is a group of 25,000 Shiite terrorists armed to the teeth, and nobody is asking the most important question of all regarding Lebanon's fate: Who gets to take away Hezbollah's guns? You simply cannot have a private terrorist army running around Lebanon and expect to create a peaceful democracy, even if every Syrian soldier and secret policeman leaves for Damascus."

Syria, Wheeler states, is not the chief problem for Lebanon – it's Iran.

Writes the analyst: "Bashar al-Assad is a puppet of the Mullacracy in Tehran. The people who give the orders to the Syrian troops in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the Pasdaran. Hezbollah was founded in 1982 among Lebanon's Shia Muslims with money and weapons from Iran. It is run by the world's worst terrorist, who is most decidedly not Osama bin Laden.

"Osama is a Hollywood terrorist," Wheeler continues. "He's got the memorably euphonious name, the looks of the classic bearded/turbaned Muslim crazy, and staged the most horrifically Hollywood disaster movie attack imaginable. He makes the perfect Hollywood arch-villain. But he too has become a sideshow, a distraction. The most important and dangerous terrorist in the world is a man most everybody has never heard of. His name is Imad Mugniyeh. He is the true King of Terror."

Wheeler then lists Mugniyeh's terror rap sheet, everything from organizing the 1983 killing of 242 U.S. Marines in Lebanon to involvement in the 2000 USS Cole attack. Besides countless acts of terror, Mugniyeh, Wheeler says, was involved in shuttling Saddam's WMDs into Hezbollah's care before the Iraq war.

Predicts Wheeler: "Imad Mugniyeh and the Hezbollah, at the direction of Iran, will ignite another civil war in Lebanon, destroying that country's chances for democracy and freedom from Syrian colonial control – and halting thereby George Bush's Middle East Freedom March right in its tracks."

Wheeler's solution for Bush? "Regime change in Iran."


Israel: Hezbollah Will Never Be the Same
Thursday, July 27, 2006


BEIRUT, Lebanon — In a defiant speech Thursday, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz vowed that Hezbollah will "not return to what it was" and that "anyone who attacks Israel" awaits the same fate.

The Jewish state "will not allow the Hezbollah flag to be flown on the borders of Israel," Peretz said, adding that Israel had no intention of waging war against Syria.

The speech came after the Israeli security cabinet decided not to significantly expand the country's Lebanon offensive but ordered the call up of thousands of additional reserve soldiers to support the current campaign.

Lebanon state radio quoted Health Minister Muhammed Jawad Khalifeh as saying up to 600 civilians in Lebanon were believed to have been killed in the fighting, including as many as 200 still buried in the rubble of destroyed buildings. Another 20 Lebanese soldiers were killed in the fighting and Hezbollah said 35 of its fighters were killed.

A total of 33 Israeli soldiers have died in the fighting and 19 civilians were killed in Hezbollah's unyielding rocket attacks on Israel's northern towns, the army said.

Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes pounded roads and suspected Hezbollah facilities in the south and east, as well as a Lebanese army base in the north, while artillery and aircraft barraged the border region where ground fighting continued.

In a new Al Qaeda video aired Thursday, Usama bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for a holy war against Israel.

Visit FOXNews.com's Mideast Center for more in-depth coverage.

"We cannot just watch these shells as they burn our brothers in Gaza and Lebanon and stand by idly, humiliated," said al-Zawahiri.

"The war with Israel does not depend on cease-fires. ... It is a jihad (holy war) for the sake of God and will last until (our) religion prevails ... from Spain to Iraq," al-Zawahiri said. "We will attack everywhere." (Full story)

Israel launched a military offensive in Gaza after Palestinian Hamas-linked militants there snatched an Israeli soldier on June 25. As that conflict raged, Hezbollah grabbed two soldiers in a July 12 cross-border raid, sparking a massive Israeli assault on the group in Lebanon.

Iranian newspapers reported that Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah met Thursday with an Iranian envoy in Syria to discuss the ongoing conflict between the militant group and Israel. A Hezbollah spokeman denied the report to FOX News. (Full story)

On Wednesday, a high-level conference of key Mideast players in Rome ended in disagreement, with most European leaders urging an immediate cease-fire, but the U.S. willing to give Israel more time to punish Hezbollah and ensure an international force can move into south Lebanon to keep the peace.

With cease-fire efforts stalemated, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that she was prepared to make a second tour of the Middle East to try to hammer out a resolution, but she did not specify when.

"I am more than happy to go back," Rice said, if her efforts can "move toward a sustainable cease-fire that would end the violence." She spoke in Malaysia after attending the Rome conference. Rice held talks in Beirut and Jerusalem earlier in the week. (Full story)

Complete coverage of the Mideast Meltdown is available in FOXNews.com's Mideast Center.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert determined that the goals of the offensive are being met, said cabinet members who attanded the meeting.

The ministers said the call up of three additional reserve divisions, comprising thousands of soldiers, was meant to refresh troops in Lebanon. Still, the huge size of the mobilization raised questions about the military's overall strategy.

Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon, who is close to Olmert, said Israel interpreted the lack of consensus at Rome as a green light to continue its offensive.

"We received yesterday at the Rome conference permission from the world ... to continue the operation, this war, until Hezbollah won't be located in Lebanon and until it is disarmed," he told Israel Army Radio. "Everyone understands that a victory for Hezbollah is a victory for world terror."

Ramon also said the Israeli air force must bomb villages before ground forces enter, suggesting that this would help prevent Israeli casualties in the future.

Asked whether entire villages should be flattened, he said: "These places are not villages. They are military bases in which Hezbollah people are hiding and from which they are operating."

Thousands of civilians are believed to be trapped in villages across the border region in southern Lebanon, according to humanitarian officials who have toured the region.

On Thursday, the Israeli military's radio in south Lebanon warned that the army "will totally destroy any village from which missiles are fired toward Israel." ....GOOD!....

The statement, aired on Al-Mashriq radio, also told Lebanese not to use the road from Qleileh — which is near the Mediterranean coast — to Houlah in eastern Lebanon across the border from Israel's Kiryat Shmona.

Jets carried out more than 30 bombing runs in the highland, apple-growing region of Iqlim al-Tuffah, striking empty houses of alleged Hezbollah activists. The strikes caused a number of casualties, but ambulances and civil defense crews were unable to reach the targeted areas because of intense bombardment, security officials and witnesses said.

Other strikes hit the nearby southern market town of Nabatiyeh, wounding at least three people, officials said. A hit on a road in Rayak, a few miles from the Lebanese-Syrian border, wounded two soldiers and a civilian, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to make statements to the media.

Despite the Israeli offensive, the guerrillas managed to shoot 110 rockets into Israel on Thursday, lightly wounding 20 people and bringing the total of rockets launched to 1,564.

www.foxnews.com

 

Probably, the same reason you never heard about this...
Hezbollah's Strategic Rocket Arsenal
Gary C. Gambill


In the two and a half years since Israel withdrew from south Lebanon, it has fortified outposts to resist mortar attacks, built an electrified fence along the border, installed surveillance cameras and heat sensors to detect infiltration attempts, and employed reconnaissance drones to closely monitor enemy activity on the other side for signs of impending attacks. It remains defenseless, however, against the militant Shi'ite Hezbollah movement's growing arsenal of up to 10,000 short and long-range rockets, including hundreds capable of striking into the civilian and industrial heartland of the Jewish state.

Israeli officials have been complaining about massive Iranian airlifts to Hezbollah since March 2001, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned that Iran, "in full cooperation with Syria," was providing Hezbollah with large numbers of rockets capable of hitting "the center of the country."1 By late January 2002, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was declaring before the Knesset that Iranian airlifts had expanded Hezbollah's arsenal to 10,000 "missiles" (this frequently-used term is technically incorrect, as even the long-range rockets lack in-flight guidance systems).2

Although Tehran issued repeated denials and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah carefully avoided confirming the airlift, other Hezbollah officials were less reserved. In May 2001, a member of the group's political bureau, Nawaf Moussawi, declared during a rally that "2.5 million Israelis are now in range of our missiles," a boast which appeared to confirm Sharon's claim.3 A February 2002 report by the Christian Science Monitor quoted a "well-connected . . . Hezbollah insider" as saying that "truckload after truckload" of military equipment had been arriving in the border district since the Israeli withdrawal in May 2000.4

http://www.meib.org/articles/0211_l2.htm

BTW, the article is from 2002...