Blind Hypocrisy: Why Muslims Should Pray for Israel?

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By Ali Sina
In an Israeli air strike in Qana 54 civilians including 30 children were killed. This brought Arab condemnation and according to BBC, a Human Rights Watch accused the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) of treating southern Lebanon as a "free-fire zone" calling this strike a "war crime". It said the failure to distinguish between civilians and combatants could be judged as a war crime. “The Israeli military seems to consider anyone left in the area a combatant who is fair game for attack," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.

If Israel had targeted these civilians deliberately, Israel would be guilty as charged. But no sane person can believe that this attack has been deliberate. What Israel had to gain in this carnage? Nothing! Targeting women and children deliberately brings only anger and condemnation upon Israel and this is the last thing Israel needs.

Not surprisingly the winner in this incident is Hezbollah. Arabs, who are as the norm more emotional than rational, have sided with the terrorist organization and even Foad Siniora, the Lebanese leader who has the support of the USA and received assurance of aid from America by its Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has publicly thanked, and praised Hezbollah for “its stance against Israel”. Siniora described the Sunday's “massacre” at Qana, “terrorism at its worst” and said any retaliation by Hezbollah would be “justified.”

Terrorism is the premeditated and deliberate act of violence against civilians. When innocent people are caught in crossfire and as the result killed, this is not terrorism. This is an unfortunate calamity. Those who use women and children as human shield are criminals. Although the casualties among civilians in Lebanon are higher than in Israel, it is clear that all the civilians killed in Lebanon have been killed unintentionally. If Hezbollah militia were not using cities as their launching pads and were not hiding among residential buildings, perhaps not a single Lebanese civilian would have been killed by Israeli fire. It is clear that Israel gains nothing by killing civilians while Hezbollah gains everything. The blood of these innocent women and children is on the hands of Hezbollah, not IDF.

On the other hand Hezbollah is intentionally targeting cities in Israel. For them any Israeli, even the children are legitimate target and fair game. While Israel has never said to want to kill the civilians, and has dropped leaflets urging the civilians to leave the cities where Hezbollah operates before resuming the bombing, and as the result they tip off their enemies of their plans, putting in danger the lives of their own soldiers, Hezbollah is not secretive about its desire to kill every Israeli.

Hezbollah, founded in 1982, and funded by the terrorist state of Iran has claimed credit or been linked to scores of attacks on Israelis and Americans, including rocket attacks on Israeli towns, the 1983 unprovoked bombing that killed 241 U.S. soldiers in Beirut and the 1994 attack that killed 95 at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. These acts were terrorism. It is despicable to praise such a vicious terrorist organization.

For Israel this is a war of survival. Israelis do not have the luxury to let a terrorist organization like Hezbollah that is armed to its teeth and wants total anihilation of the state of Israel to operate across their Northern border. Israel is implementing the UN Security Council Resolution 1559 passed in September, 2004 that was abandoned by the government of Lebanon. No one cared or dared to enforce that resolution and disarm the Hezbollah terrorists. Israel was left with no other choice.

Although the loss of so many lives is regrettable, Israel cannot be blamed for it because the killing of civilians has not been intentional. Israel is very much aware that the only beneficiary of civilian casualties in Lebanon is Hezbollah. Unless you believe that Israeli government is plotting against its own interest, accusing Israel of deliberately targeting civilians is absurd.

The hypocrisy is however in the fact that Muslims all over the world are targeting civilians all the time. They are bombing and killing innocent people in India, in Nigeria, in Indonesia, in Egypt, in Jordan, in Turkey, in Russia, in Spain, in UK, in USA and in tens of other countries on daily bases where the main targets are the civilians. In Iraq alone every day tens civilians are massacred by fellow Muslims. Where is the Muslim outcry? On July 29th, a U.S citizen of Pakistani descent walked into a Jewish organization in downtown Seattle, killed an employee and wounded five others including a pregnant woman. He did this for the sole reason that these ladies were Jews. This is terrorism. The difference between a terrorist act and an accident is intention. The killing of civilians in Qana was not intentional. IDF had no idea that in that house children were hiding. The shooting in Seattle, along with all the killing of civilians and children perpetrated by Muslims are intentional.

Hezbollah has lunched over 1500 rockets into Israel targeting mainly the civilians. Most of these bombs have fallen in uninhabited areas. Also Israelis have safe bomb shelters. That is why the civilian casualties in Israel are relatively low. Otherwise Hezbollah’s intent is to kill as many civilians as it can. If Hezbollah was able to wipe Israel off the map by killing millions of people, it would not hesitate one minute to do it. Israel with its nuclear capability can incinerate hundreds of cities in Muslim countries in a few hours. Despite that Muslims know that they are safe because Israel has no intention of killing people. But if a Muslim country such as Iran gets hold of nuclear bombs, it would certainly use it to wipe Israel off the map. This is the difference between a terrorist state and one that is not.

Killing civilians deliberately is terrorism. Muslim militants and Jihadists are terrorists. They are the only people who go after civilians. It is utmost hypocrisy not to see this fact and side with a terrorist organization and raising it. If Siniora had any sense, he would have known that the main culprit is his own government that has failed to implement the UN Resolution 1559 that calls for the disarmament of Hezbollah. If he could not have done it alone, he should have asked for help from the UN. Now that things have gone out of hand, mostly because of his own inability to deal with the problem, instead of condemning Hezbollah for dragging Lebanon into war he is praising this terrorist group. Is this blindness, hypocrisy or both?

Hezbollah must be defeated at all costs. This is not for Israel’s security alone but for the entire world. The problems caused by Islamic terrorism will not go away with kindness and love. Those who advocate this childish thesis are fools and have no understanding of Islam and the Muslim mind. Muslims interpret kindness as weakness; they become emboldened and increase their aggression. America committed a grave mistake not to retaliate the bombing of 1983 in Lebanon. This was a clear message to the Jihadists that America is weak, that it will cut and run when attacked, and that the Americans have no guts to fight. This brought more attacks on U.S. Had the U.S. destroyed Hezbollah at that time, killing hundreds of them then, we would not be facing this problem today and certainly Osama Bin Laden would not have dared to attack America in September 11, 2001.

Islamic terrorism will only be stopped if defeated. Killing the terrorists is kindness to masses of Muslims. Muslim mind works in a peculiar way. They go where the power is. If we let the terrorists win, the masses of Muslims will side with them. Jihad is an obligation for every Muslim. But Jihad can be postponed until Muslims are strong enough to win it. If we let the terrorists win, we are sending the message to the masses of Muslims that we are weak and the time of jihad has come. So rise and kill us. The Muslim terrorists know that. That is why they are bombing and killing so indiscriminately. They have to prove to the masses of Muslims that they are winning. They know that if they can show that they are winning, they will have millions of Muslims joining them and Jihad will be unleashed.

The only thing that can contain Jihad is defeat. The only country that knows Islam and the Muslim mind is Israel. Israel is not fighting for its own survival alone; it is fighting for mankind. If “moderate” Muslims knew better, they would pray for the success of Israel to defeat Hezbollah because the success of this terrorist organization means the success of Iran and this means world war III and death of many millions of innocent Muslims.

Muslims will not win this global war that they have launched on mankind. They may eventually win through procreation and immigration, but not through war. By letting the terrorists win, we only make the world unsafe and increase the probability of destruction of billions of people, mostly Muslims, in a nuclear holocaust. Letting this cancer to grow and spread is irresponsible and foolish.

Those who think this war will make Hezbollah more popular have it all wrong. If Hezbollah is defeated completely and if its source of income (Iran) is drained, Muslims will turn their back on it and will blame it for the suffering that it has inflicted on them. If you leave Hezbollah wounded but alive and let it come back, then it will become stronger. To deal with Hezbollah effectively, we have to deal with the problem of Iran. Iran is the root of all these problems. It all started with Iran; it will only end with Iran. Once Iran is dealth with, Jihad will also end.