[quote]eic wrote:
The thing that is easily forgotten is that in the UN, aside from those few with the veto power, every country gets an equal vote no matter how small or insignificant. There are several western countries with a spine (United States, UK, Australia, etc.) and lots of “western” countries somewhere in the middle (Germany, Italy, France, etc.). But a significant number of countries in the UN are Islamic (and many of those are Arab Islamic countries). The point is that there are a lot of tiny pro-Islamic nations that have absolutely no real impact on the world other than to vote in favor of Islamic nations at the UN.
How else can you explain why the UN would waste even a moment to comdemn Israel when the UN never did a damn thing about Rawanda and hasn’t done shit about Darfur? You get hundreds of thousands of people literally being slaughtered with machetes and gang raped and the UN doesn’t do a fucking thing. Israel tries to protect its northern border by attacking the positions of terrorists and kill some civilians* in the process and the UN is up in arms. It makes no sense unless your believe the UN itself is NOT neutral and instead reflects the politics of its member nations, many of which are Islamic.
*By the way, since this is not a conventional conflict, many of the casualties reported as “civilians” are no doubt members of Hezbollah. Remember that Israel is not attacking people who have enough decency to wear uniforms. Israel is attacking terrorists who are virutally indistinguishable–intetionally so–from the true civilian population. We know this because 19 “civilians” boarded our planes on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. So when Israel kills “civilians,” you might wonder how many of those are terrorist thugs and how many are truly–and unfortunately–innocent men, women, and children. [/quote]
eic, you make some good points.
Why should the world worry about Darfur? The Janjaweed killers are Muslims. They slaughter black African tribespeople. The victims are not Muslim.
There are countless thousands of victims but no one cares. The international media and United Nations turn a blind eye and allow ethnic cleansing … genocide even … because the money and power lies in Muslim hands.
The fact that there have been fewer Israeli civilian casualties is not because of any purity of intention from Hizballah’s side, but because Iran and Syria have not yet supplied Hizballah with more deadly weapons, or have not yet permitted Hizballah to use the most deadly weapons. Israeli casualties are also fewer because ever since the first Gulf War, when skuds were fired into Israel, Israeli buildings have, by law, to be built with bomb shelters. So far Hizballah has fired more than 2000 rockets into Israel, all of them aimed at civilian centres of population, and designed to intimidate and terrorise. As it is, Hizballah has been packing its missiles with ball bearings - useless against military targets, but designed to maximise civilian casualties, in the same way that Palestininan suicide bombers regularly stuff their explosives with nuts and bolts to achieve the same effect. It is horrible … terrible … that children are being killed and we should, rightly, be upset about it. We should not see the one side as villains and the other as innocents. Yes, the kids caught up in it are innocents. Their caregivers, who should know better, are not necessarily equally innocent. They, after all, let them sleep with rockets. We shouldn’t forget that Hizballah deliberately places its rocket launchers, and its ordnance, in civilian areas knowing that civilian deaths are a political disaster for Israel.
This is a disaster for the vast majority of innocent Lebanese who watch mainly the southern bit of their country (from the Litani river south to the Israeli border) being torn up in a fight between Hizballah and Israel. Is was Hizballah which launched a raid into Israel, kidnapped 2 soldiers and killed others. In other words “they started it.” One suspects that their timing was orchestrated by Iran in order to deflect attention from its nuclear weapons programme. Israel’s reaction may have been ‘disproportionate,’ but what were they meant to do? Sit back and watch rockets rain on the northern bit of their country? How do you root out terrorists who shoot at you from the protective embrace of women’s skirts and and the shield of little children? Or do you sit and do nothing as your innocent women and children are being killed in their homes?
I believe that our children will not be afforded the luxury of neutrality in this issue and that Islamic imperialism is a huge, and growing, global problem. The clerics sitting in the mosques of Damascus, Tehran and Mecca still speak of the ‘tragedy’ of their loss of Spain and seek to regain the Iberian Peninsula (at the very least). A mere 500 years has passed! (Ironically 1492 saw the fall of Granada AND the expulsion of the Jews from Spain). The Wahhabi nutters fund, and build mosques and madrassas across the world. Unfortunately they aren’t propagating the ‘world-view’ of Islam subscribed to - and contributed to - by, inter alia, Averroes (Ibn Rushd), Avicenna, (Ibn Sina), Al-Khayyam, Abulcasis (among many others).