Comments on: Israeli Leaders Admit Lebanon War Was a ‘Failure in Judgement’ http://distortedsoul.com/2007/04/israeli-leaders-admit-lebanon-war-was-a-failure-in-judgement Some say that innovation is dead, but that ain't so. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:54:25 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Paul Hue http://distortedsoul.com/2007/04/israeli-leaders-admit-lebanon-war-was-a-failure-in-judgement/comment-page-1#comment-245 Paul Hue Tue, 01 May 2007 16:08:00 +0000 http://distortedsoul.com/2007/04/30/israeli-leaders-admit-lebanon-war-was-a-failure-in-judgement/#comment-245 This is a complicated issue for me. Nadir opposed this action and knew with 100% certainty that it was wrong 5 nano seconds after it began, before any facts of the action emerged; in Nadir's view, Israel is wrong to fire or cross into Lebanon, any resulting military action constitutes a human rights violation, and any official rationale from Israel's government constitutes a falsehood. Furthermore, Nadir believes that Hezbollah's attacks on Israel's military and civilians represents a just struggle to oust a foreign colonial, racist occupying power whose actions resemble those of the Nazi's attempts to conquer an entire region and exterminate members of specified racial groups.<br/><br/>My view is the opposite: Israel's existence is no less "legitimate" than that of any government that has ever existed in the history of humankind, from the tyrannical brutes who created ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Inca, Aztec, and Rome, to any government you can name today. But more than any of those ancient governments, and more so than any nation within a thousand miles of Israel's borders today, Israel's government derives of its residents, who enjoy personal freedoms and rights and own their own bodies and ideas. <br/><br/>Until the people who devote themselves to, and successfully create, such a government for themselves, I oppose any violent action from such people against Israel, and in general I support violent counter-attacks from Israel against such people. <br/><br/>Do I support the way that Israel conducted this particular counter-attack? I am not sure. This is a complicated issue for me. Nadir opposed this action and knew with 100% certainty that it was wrong 5 nano seconds after it began, before any facts of the action emerged; in Nadir’s view, Israel is wrong to fire or cross into Lebanon, any resulting military action constitutes a human rights violation, and any official rationale from Israel’s government constitutes a falsehood. Furthermore, Nadir believes that Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel’s military and civilians represents a just struggle to oust a foreign colonial, racist occupying power whose actions resemble those of the Nazi’s attempts to conquer an entire region and exterminate members of specified racial groups.

My view is the opposite: Israel’s existence is no less “legitimate” than that of any government that has ever existed in the history of humankind, from the tyrannical brutes who created ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Inca, Aztec, and Rome, to any government you can name today. But more than any of those ancient governments, and more so than any nation within a thousand miles of Israel’s borders today, Israel’s government derives of its residents, who enjoy personal freedoms and rights and own their own bodies and ideas.

Until the people who devote themselves to, and successfully create, such a government for themselves, I oppose any violent action from such people against Israel, and in general I support violent counter-attacks from Israel against such people.

Do I support the way that Israel conducted this particular counter-attack? I am not sure.

]]>