July 24, 2006 6:54 AM

Can we lose the hypocrisy and face reality?

Here’s a question: If a well-organized group of terrorists, who just happen to get a significant portion of their funding from a foreign government, had a history of carrying out attacks on American soil, what do you think the response would be? And what if this terrorist group was just across the Canadian border, and the Canadian government could do nothing to rein them in? Again, what do you think the response would be? Or should be?

If you said that we should be rolling into Winnipeg by nightfall, you’d fall within a decided majority of Americans. We SHOULD have the right to protect ourselves from random, senseless attacks, and if a foreign government like Canada is powerless to stop them, then we absolutely have the right to do so.

Why, then, is so much of the world perfectly willing to deny that right to Israel? Why are so many governments crying about Israeli aggression when Hezbollah, sworn to destroy Israel, is sitting right on their northern border? No one wants to see civilians caught in the crossfire, but the Israelis are not to blame here. The government what SHOULD be shouldering the blame is Lebanon itself. They have sat idly by while Hezbollah effectively occupied the southern third of Lebanon, turning it into Hezbollahland, a place within Lebanon where the Lebanese government has no influence or control.

And you’re blaming Israel for this war? How about pulling your anterior out of your posterior so you can WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CAT LITTER??

I’m no fan of war. A wise man once said that war proves neither who is right nor who is wrong. It proves only who is left. If the Lebanese government had taken care of business before it allowed Hezbollahland to become an aggressive, horrible reality, perhaps this bloody war could have been prevented. But can we lose the high and mighty rhetoric about Israeli aggression and focus on the real reason for this war? With Hezbollahland on their northern border, any reasonable person should have been able to recognize that this war was inevitable. Israel is merely taking what it sees as the necessary steps to protect itself in response to brutal and unprovoked attacks against civilians, much as the US did in Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9.11.

A sovereign nation deserves to be able to live in peace and security. Israel is no different. Those who are criticizing Israel should be focusing their energy and attention on trying to prevent Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip from their continued senseless attacks on Israeli civilians. Until and unless this happens, Israel has the absolute right to protect itself. If the US were surrounded by hostile countries that harbored groups sworm to destroy us, we would be doing the same thing.

No, Israel is not the guilty party, but there sure are a lot of folks out there willing to treat them like they are. They’ll excuse anything and everything Hezbollah (and Hamas) are guilty of out of hatred for Israel. And they’ll use the United Nations as a diplomatic club with which they’ll attempt to bludgeon the Israelis into submission. Hpocrisy- it’s more than just a good idea. It’s the law.

What if it were your innocent civilians dying in senseless, random terrorist attacks?

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