Did I Miss A Memo?
Check out this lede from CNN about Hezbollah's latest brilliant idea:
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Cross-border fighting broke out early Friday between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militia in the disputed Shebaa Farms region along the border with Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah said...
Shebaa Farms is an area near the poorly defined borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria that Israel captured during the 1967 Six-Day War.
Syria says Shebaa is part of Lebanon. Lebanon agrees Shebaa is its territory, but Israel says Shebaa farms are part of the Golan Heights.
Now, listen closely. This part's important. One of Israel's claims is that land-for-peace never does them any good, because even when the international community promises to guarantee that Israel has fulfilled all of its obligations, the Arabs always come up with more land that is "rightfully theirs," and which Israel has to give back "in the name of peace." Then they raise hell and attack Israel over the newly "disputed" land, and the cycle begins all over again.
When the hell did the Shaba Farms become "disputed"?!?! The northern border isn't "poorly defined"!! It's quite well defined - so much so that when Israel withdrew in 1999 UN officials literally walked over it inch by inch to certify that Israel met 425. The way the article reads, you'd think that this is some legitimate dispute instead of a transparent ploy to give Hezbollah a pretext to continue fighting - after Israel withdrew, Syria literally gave Lebanon the area so that Hezbollah wouldn't have to disband and could keep on killing Jews (and, incidentally, aiming over 10,000 rockets at Israel).
CNN, of course, will say that this is "even-handedness." When did it become even-handed to treat the lies and deception of one side with the same consideration given to the true arguments presented by the other side? This isn't a he-said she-said kind of thing - Syria and Lebanon are clearly in the wrong here. They're not even bashful about it. And they don't have to be, because if they make enough noise, kill enough Israelis, and take enough hostages then suddenly they go from just being terrorists to "having a grievance". The problem is that Israel's enemies always manage to find another grievance, no matter how hard Israel tries to make peace.
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Cross-border fighting broke out early Friday between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militia in the disputed Shebaa Farms region along the border with Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah said...
Shebaa Farms is an area near the poorly defined borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria that Israel captured during the 1967 Six-Day War.
Syria says Shebaa is part of Lebanon. Lebanon agrees Shebaa is its territory, but Israel says Shebaa farms are part of the Golan Heights.
Now, listen closely. This part's important. One of Israel's claims is that land-for-peace never does them any good, because even when the international community promises to guarantee that Israel has fulfilled all of its obligations, the Arabs always come up with more land that is "rightfully theirs," and which Israel has to give back "in the name of peace." Then they raise hell and attack Israel over the newly "disputed" land, and the cycle begins all over again.
When the hell did the Shaba Farms become "disputed"?!?! The northern border isn't "poorly defined"!! It's quite well defined - so much so that when Israel withdrew in 1999 UN officials literally walked over it inch by inch to certify that Israel met 425. The way the article reads, you'd think that this is some legitimate dispute instead of a transparent ploy to give Hezbollah a pretext to continue fighting - after Israel withdrew, Syria literally gave Lebanon the area so that Hezbollah wouldn't have to disband and could keep on killing Jews (and, incidentally, aiming over 10,000 rockets at Israel).
CNN, of course, will say that this is "even-handedness." When did it become even-handed to treat the lies and deception of one side with the same consideration given to the true arguments presented by the other side? This isn't a he-said she-said kind of thing - Syria and Lebanon are clearly in the wrong here. They're not even bashful about it. And they don't have to be, because if they make enough noise, kill enough Israelis, and take enough hostages then suddenly they go from just being terrorists to "having a grievance". The problem is that Israel's enemies always manage to find another grievance, no matter how hard Israel tries to make peace.
