[LCM Articles] What is wrong with you people??

[Elias Muhanna]

Condemning Hezbollah is one thing, and applauding Israeli actions is quite
another. Anyone who imagines that Hezbollah can be "wiped out" by Israel to
usher in a "bright future" for Lebanon, is mistaken, just as his predecessors
were mistaken when they tried to strike a bargain with the Israelis to get rid
of the PLO in 1982. The Lebanese know it, Hezbollah knows it, and I'm sure that
Israel knows it as well.

Whatever you think of Hezbollah, it's hard to imagine that the Israelis actually
believe that they can defeat them with this war, especially as the days plod on
and only civilians are killed.

Thus, it seems that Israel is simply determined to exact some kind of perverse
revenge on the Lebanese, and this is a great tragedy, whatever one thinks of
Hezbollah.


Quoting Jimmy Kassis <kingkassis at hotmail.com>:

> Is there anyone on these "lebanese" lists going to condemn Hezbollah and the
> war, destruction, and civilian deaths that they brought on Lebanon for no
> good reason??  Is there anyone out there that want to acknowledge that
> Hezbollah invaded Israel unprovoked killing and kidnapping their soldiers??
>
> Stop this knee jerk reaction of blaming everything on Israel and starting
> looking at the facts!!!!
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> I, for one, as a patriotic Lebanese, applaud the Israeli actions in Lebanon.
> I envision a bright future for Lebanon when Hezbollah is wiped out.
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> From: Taweelh at aol.comDate: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:56:42 -0400To:
> leb-students at lists.stanford.edu; lebanon-articles at mit.eduSubject: [LCM
> Articles] Fwd: [indictsharon.net] The Need For A Single Set Of Standards
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Elias I. Muhanna
Arabic & Islamic Studies
Harvard University
6 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge MA, 02138
emuhanna at fas.harvard.edu