PrintJuly 22, 2008
Breeding Evil: Hezb'allah's Children
In 1979, Samir Kantar was 16 years old when he pulled Danny Haran and his young daughter from their apartment in the Israeli town of Nahariya. He shot to death the father and smashed the little girl's skull against a rock with an AK-47. After 29 years in prison, he was welcomed back to Lebanon as a hero last week.
In an UN-brokered and decidedly unbalanced trade, Israel turned over the remains of 199 terrorists, the living Kantar and four others in exchange for the mutilated bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. Captured by Hezb'allah inside Israel in 2006, the young Israelis did not long survive capture by Hezb'allah, certainly not long enough to be exchanged. Kantar, however, was healthy, even portly as he received a red carpet welcome, with speeches and songs of victory. A large photo of a weeping Israeli woman was featured on the stage; there are no innocents in the ideology of Hezb'allah. All Jews must die, even four-year-old little girls. Katyusha rockets are gleefully aimed at Israeli schools, hospitals and apartment buildings.
Kantar was embraced and applauded; afterwards he gave a stiff-armed Nazi salute. It is the common salute of Hezb'allah. Mein Kampf is a best seller in the Muslim world.
We have all seen the pictures of children dressed as suicide bombers, the toddlers holding Kalashnikovs, the grade school students happily reciting poems glorifying genocide. The masked gunmen strutting for the cameras are teenagers, the fighters who launch rockets are in their early twenties. Whole generations have come of age without education, indoctrinated in an ideology of Islamic fanaticism and blind hatred, kept destitute and embittered, the most efficient way to breed terrorists. With the help of Syria and Iran, funding from Islamic nations and charities, and aid from the ever-gullible West, the perpetual "refugees" never build schools and hospitals, but arsenals that become ever more sophisticated.
Common Western perception does not match the evidence, however; we have been the victims of years of disinformation, staged atrocities, altered news and photos, all the propaganda of brutal terrorists carried by a credulous and complicit press. The truth has been denied us.
The malignancy of Hezb'allah has finally destroyed any hope for a Lebanese democracy; its death was achieved piecemeal, over decades, with intimidation and assassination, stealing Lebanese national identity, playing the UN for the fools they are, and the US for time. Each negotiation was a tool, every cease-fire, all the feigned diplomacy mere opportunity to maneuver, to cajole and influence, to lull those who wanted to believe in sincerity and good will and peace. The result was failure, always failure, as it always will be.
The region is condemned to endless violence. Hezb'allah exists only to destroy Israel and the untold tons of weaponry it accrues will soon begin the conflict anew. The thousands who are trained as fighters are not Lebanese, and care nothing for Lebanon, Hezb'allah is a foreign army nurtured by the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, and left there to destroy what little sovereignty the Lebanese people held as it pursues the Israeli genocide. The Cedar Revolution is dead. Lebanon has been sacrificed to the altar of Western stupidity and arrogance.
Even the U.S. has swallowed the lie of a coalition democracy in Lebanon. There is no elected government. The Associated Press misrepresents Hezb'allah as a "militia and political force," unable to label them the terrorist organization they are, and as they steal the legitimacy their crimes should deny them, the AP codifies it and millions in the West are duped.
"This was an agreement that I think served the interests of the Lebanese people, and since it served the interests of the Lebanese people, it served the interests of the United States. We support the democratically elected government of Lebanon."
So said Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State.
Caught in the moral relativism that is the scourge of the West, we no longer see the evil that confronts us; we obfuscate, we negotiate, we posture and we pander and we pretend. Forever losing ground, innocent lives and our vital moral strength, evil is rewarded and the whirlwind howls at our door. Yet Israel compromises with those who wish only to murder her children, those who will murder them in the years to come. There is no more obvious a treachery than Hezb'allah mouthing the words of peace with Israel.
There can never be peace with Hezb'allah, to believe so is beyond folly; it is willful and dangerous blindness. There can never be peace when the children of Hezb'allah and Hamas and Muslim children all over the world learn:
"The hour of resurrection will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and kill them. And the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, this is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!
The Hadith of the Prophet, Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177.
UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon said he was encouraged by the "prisoner swap" and hoped it was the first of many more. As only the Hezb'allah prisoners happened to be alive, I'm sure he does. UN troops saluted the terrorist remains as they passed into Southern Lebanon; it was a minor appeasement in all that the UN does to undermine lasting peace, but a horrible foretelling.
