Tuesday, July 18, 2006
End the Bombast. There is nothing that really angers me about Arab political rhetoric--and this is not genetic, rest assured--than bombast. I just watched Ibrahim Al-Amin on Al-Jazeera from Saturday's Hiwar Maftuh. Amin made many good points, but towards the end he said something to the effect that Hizbullah can and will visit as much destruction on Israel as Israel has visited on Lebanon. Firstly, no, Hizbullah does not have those capabilities to do to Israelis what Israel has done to the Lebanese people. Secondly, I DON'T want Israeli children to be incinerated the way Israeli bombing has incinerated Lebanese children. In the historical perspective, Israeli war methods will be considered to be on the same level of the terrorism of Al-Qa`idah. We should never be at that level of warfare.