"Although there was brief fighting between Irgun and Haganah over the Altalena, including three KIA, the fighting quickly stopped because both Begin and ben-Gurion ultimately sought the same goal - a free state of Israel.
But Lebanon's government and Hezbollah share no such uniting bonds. Hezbollah is devoted to the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state. Moreover, Hezbollah is a Lebanese political party as well as a militia. Its members are mostly Lebanese.
If Lebanon's government does choose to take on Hezbollah (which I doubt) it surely realizes the result will truly be civil war."
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Altalena update: