Krauthammer: Watch Lebanon

Town Hall ^ | 4/10/2002 | Charles Krauthammer

[Interloper]

WASHINGTON--Watch Lebanon. If you want to know where the Israeli-Palestinian war is going, watch Lebanon. If the war goes--literally--ballistic, the fuse will have been lit by the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrillas now firing rockets into Israel from Lebanon. But did Israel not withdraw from Lebanon almost two years ago? Why is there still a problem with Lebanon?

Indeed, Israel had been in Lebanon for about 20 years. It was a classic (BEG ITAL) defensive occupation. Israel laid claim to not an inch of Lebanese soil. It diverted not a drop of water. It had no interest in staying. It was in there for one reason. To protect Israel's northern frontier from various guerrillas--first Yasser Arafat's PLO, then the Lebanese Shiite Party of God (Hezbollah)--using south Lebanon to attack Israel.

Yet for two decades, Israel was hectored to comply with U.N. resolutions demanding Israel's withdrawal. In May 2000, it complied. To ensure that there could be no possible residual territorial dispute, Israel asked the United Nations to draw the line demarcating the true Israeli-Lebanese border--the so-called Blue Line--then pulled back behind it.

Israel's reward?

Hezbollah was not mollified. While its ostensible mission was the liberation of Lebanese territory, it did not disband. On the contrary. It occupied south Lebanon, imported huge new supplies of weapons from Iran, and began sporadic cross-border attacks on Israel.

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[Interloper]

I don't think this has been posted yet. Interseting parallels between current Arab 'Peace Plan' and what happened in Lebanon.

[CHQmacer]

The Arabs will never give Ireal peace no matter what it does. Giving up the West Bank would be suicide. Arabs can't be trusted.

[dennisw]

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[CHQmacer]

Isreal will always be blamed for Arab atrocities. The Arab world knows that only we could pressure Isreal to cave in to terrorists. Their press loves to blame the US for anything Isreal does.

We should just say that it's not our fault and it's not our responsability. The Arab countries can give the Palestinians a home land if they're so concerned about the Palestinians.

They kick Palestinians out of their countries. There are more Palestinians in California than Saudi Arabia. Maybe the Saudis would like to police the West Bank and take responsability for any terrorists that get through ? You can be sure that there would be thousands of Palestinian dead if and no Palestinians left in Saudi Arabia if this was happening in Saudi Arabia.

The Palestinians tried to take over Jordan in a war that resulted in over 100,000 deaths. Where's the outcry in the Arab world over that ?

I heared that we only gave the Irrealis 2 billion last year. I thought that it was more like 4 billion. In any case , it's not much. We give Egypt 4 billion a year too. Does that mean that we are responsible for anything Eqypt does ? We give that Palestinians 250 million a year. Does that mean that we are responsible for the bombings ?

The Palestinians can't govern themselves. If they do get an independent home land it would be chaos like it is now. The only way to keep the peace in Palestinian populated areas is for another force to control them like in Jordan.

[beowolf]

I read this article this morning....a damned good one!!!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Krauthammer is the best writer out there and I think he's 100% correct. The Hezbollah thungs in Lebanon want to wipe Israel off the map and takeover the region.

[Lent]

The Internationalist hypocrites consisting of EUrotrash and various other governments brow-beated Israel into withdrawal from South Lebanon. Barak, the whipped puppy and Clinton wannabe he was, withdrew a couple of years ago. In the meantime Syria has been occupying all of Lebanon for a number of years with no forseable end. Do we hear as much as a peep from the hypocrites? Of course not.

[My Identity]

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[Pokey78]

Ping for the CKPL.

[CHQmacer]

I think that they worship the same God that Christians do but they don't beleive in Christ as the Son of God. He was only a prophet to them. There are plenty of so-called Christians that think that Crist was only a prophet also.

What is truly disturbing is that so many Muslim's think that murder gets them into Heaven. The Koran teaches that these suicide bombers are going to Hell.

[Howlin]

I agree. Besides, he wiped the floor with James Zogby on some show not long ago; made MY day.

[mil-vet]

Like I've been saying, as unpopular as it is and as unwilling EVERYONE else is to admit it, islam is the cause of the entire violence thing, and only by wiping islam off the face of the earth will there EVER be peace the way the liberals and politically correct envision it!

Ok, so the statement above is a tad extreme(!), but show me where I am wrong. Is ANYONE other than islamics blowing themselves up to kill non-islamics? Wasn't it islamics who piloted airplanes into the WTC and Pentagon? Isn't it islamics who are refusing to accept every offer to negotiate or try for peace made (myriad times) by Israel? The answer, obvious to the most casual observer is, yes, islamics are doing all these things. The problem, therefore, is clearly islam, n'est pas?

[dennisw]

I agree. Besides, he wiped the floor with James Zogby on some show not long ago; made MY day.

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Would have loved to have seen that. Zogby mows down those who are dilletants on the MidEast. Such as Bill O'Reilly........ Krauth has all the MidEast facts at his command!

[CHQmacer]

I think that it's Arabs. They can't govern themselves. They must be governed by someone else. The Koran teaches that killing woman and children even in a legitimate war is murder.

[mushroom]

I keep thinking that the fastest most satisfying route to Baghdad lies through Syria and Jordan. A coordinated attack by Israel and the US would overwhelm the opposing forces and have us in Baghdad within a few days. If Syria, Iraq or Iran want to make the mistake of using WMD then we could certainly go around the radioactive areas on the way to our objectives.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

What I'm dissappointed in, is that Israel was afraid to address the problem with the Iranian wussfighters, er Hezbollah. But I'm sure Bubba the Ignorant pressured Barak from doing this. Israel needs to call out Syria on this problem. The supplies are coming through Syria, the armaments, everything. Israel needs to clean out the rats nest one more time, then tell Syria that for every round of ammunition they send into Lebanon, Israel will take out one company of their military. Syria will run out of troops, long before Hezbollah will every have a military impact on a war against Israel.

Also, Israel should take the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the U.N. This would eliminate their having to tolerate this organ as the voice of communism and the anti-Semitic nations it represents. This would enable them to declare that they do not recognize "imposed" U.N. peacekeepers and to demand that they withdraw within a reasonable time frame in a region where military retaliation against the terrs is pending. The U.N. peacekeepers are simply cannon fodder and traffic cops for the illegal arms being shipped into the region by Iran and Syria. It's time for Israel to implement the cure for this problem, once and for all. And time for the U.N. to be put into it's proper place; humiliated as the socialist utopians whine while the Israeli citizens finally can live in peace and quiet. Israel does not have to worry about the U.N. taking any action against them militarily, as long as France is a permanent member because cowards never risk their own people in the name of freedom.

[monkeyshine]

Excellent point! Netanyahu and Sharon should be speaking about this more often. Israel complied with UN resolutions regarding Lebanon, and is still being attacked from this land.

So why should they comply with any further UN resolutions? They should demand an international force of 10,000 armed troops be deployed to South Lebanon immediately, and an end to hostilities from the north, before anybody even talks about "pulling out" of PA cities on the west bank since it's become clear that "pulling out" does not offer them any more security than occupying it.

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