Hey Look! They CAN Condemn Terrorists!

J.J. Jackson* | September 14, 2006

In the interest of fairness I have to share with you Amnesty International’s condemnation of Hezbollah.

Hizbollah guilty of war crimes, Amnesty says

LONDON (Reuters) - Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah committed war crimes in its conflict with Israel by targeting civilians with rockets packed with metal ball bearings, rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday.

It said around a quarter of the nearly 4,000 rockets that Hizbollah launched into Israel during the 34-day war were fired directly into urban areas.

“The scale of Hizbollah’s attacks on Israeli cities, towns and villages, the indiscriminate nature of the weapons used and statements from the leadership confirming their intent to target civilians make it all too clear that Hizbollah violated the laws of war,” Amnesty’s Secretary-General Irene Khan said.”

And now for the comedy portion of this post.

“The fact that Israel has also committed serious violations in no way justifies violations by Hizbollah,” she said in a statement. “Civilians must not be made to pay the price for unlawful conduct on either side.”

Hizbollah parliamentarian Hassan Fadlallah said that by criticizing Hizbollah’s actions alongside those of Israel, Amnesty “has tried to equate the executioner with the victim.”

Fadlallah said Hizbollah was exercising “its legitimate right of self-defense.” At the start of the war it had targeted only Israeli military sites, he said, but later fired at Israeli towns in response to Israeli strikes.

“We urge Amnesty International to make a simple comparison between the number of women and child victims in Lebanon … and in Israel,” he said.

Ok, so here we have the terrorist whackjobs of Hezbollah saying that they acted in self-defense? Wait, who spent years tunneling under the Lebanon/Israel border in preparation to attack Israel? Who was it that attacked the Israelis and kidnapped Israeli soldiers? Answer: HEZBOLLAH!

Only in the mind of a sexually repressed, terrorist WHACKJOB could that be considered acting in “self-defense”.

As for the numbers of women and children victims on each side, that is yet another red herring worthy of the “You’re a BLOODY IDIOT Award” and akin to liberal moonbat talking points. Maybe if Hezbollah had not been launching rockets from civilian neighborhoods facilitating those deaths when Israel would retaliate you might have a point. In the end however you are nothing but a 12th Century retread living under the illusion that people don’t know better. Well, there are some that don’t - I’ll admit that. But the tinfoil hat wearing, “no plane at the Pentagon”, Bush plotted 9/11 crowd is really not a group I would be proud of catering too.

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