Continuing Education

Some Chicago area Muslims "speak out". Where have they been? Did they "speak out" about "the violence" on September 11th? Do they "speak out" when women in Iran are stoned alive for the "crime" of being raped? And this student at DePaul, a member of CAIR, does she think one human life is less valuable than the many?

Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese government (23 out of 128 seats in parliament, 2-3 cabinet ministers) and so Lebanon is responsible for hostile acts against a neighbor. Hezbollah deliberately targets innocents, Israel targets Hezbollah terrorists, who hide behind civilians, including children. Medical supply trucks are regularly commandeered to transport terrorists.

A disinterested observer might suggest that this woman's outrage should be directed at Hezbollah and its sponsors Iran and Syria, who are destroying her country.

A useful tenet in life is to put yourself in someone else's shoes before you make a judgement and open your mouth. And perhaps this "student" might benefit from continuing her education in Iran and Syria.

UPDATE: Victor Davis Hanson in the Trib:

Finally, the world is accepting that the Middle East problem was never about so-called occupied land--but only about the existence of Israel itself. Hezbollah and Hamas, and those in their midst who tolerate them (or vote for them), didn't so much want Israel out of Lebanon and Gaza as pushed into the Mediterranean altogether.

There you are. Israel is fighting for its life, and we are running out of patience with the terror states.

UPDATE II: Prescient Steve Huntley, Chicago Sun Times. Read the whole thing, but here is this:

Israeli and Lebanese civilians are being killed. The difference is that Hezbollah is deliberately aiming to kill Israeli civilians -- women, children, the elderly. Israel targets Hezbollah strongholds and inadvertently kills civilians because the Hezbollah terrorists hide behind the people for whom they claim to fight.

Using noncombatants as shields is a violation of the Geneva Conventions. By any measure, authorities at the international criminal court in the Hague should be issuing an arrest warrant for war crimes against Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader. But who would arrest him? This tribunal is no more effective than the U.N. in coping with the deadly terrorist threat the world faces.