Hezbollah/Hamas Bear Blame for Current Violence

Bush Blames Hezbollah for Mideast Violence

By TOM RAUM
The Associated Press
Saturday, July 15, 2006; 7:16 AM

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- President Bush on Saturday blamed the Islamic militant group Hezbollah and a compliant Syria for the escalating violence in the Middle East, taking a sharper stance than Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Bush held Israel blameless while Putin was also critical of Israel's military response.

"The best way to stop the violence is for Hezbollah to lay down its arms and to stop attacking. And therefore I call upon Syria to exert influence over Hezbollah," Bush said about the flare-up that could overshadow this weekend's meeting of world powers.

Bush blamed Hezbollah's rocket attacks at Israel from its base in southern Lebanon, and the militant group's capture of two Israeli soldiers for triggering the fierce fighting. Putin agreed it was unacceptable for Hezbollah to try to achieve its goal by using force and abductions.

Mr. Raum, you say this like is is some sort of surprising conclusion. We need to remember here that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, as is Hamas. The problem with having terrorists in controll of your government is theat they are...well...terrorists. Israel is pursuing the only reasonable course in dealing with this situation. What those on the Left seem incapable of comprehending, no matter how often it is proven true, is that the enemies of freedom see compromise as weakness. When dealing with people like Hamas or Hezbollah, one must deal from a position of strength and a show of force is the only strength they seem capable of understanding.

Unless those Muslims who continue to claim Islam as a religion of peace stand up to these monsters who have (according to them) co-opted their religion, we are rapidly approaching the point at which the rest of the world, for their own protection, will have to declare Islamists as an enemy of freedom just as we did Nazism 60 years ago.

Cowering in your basement and complaining that the U.S. or Israel is blowing your nation to bits in response to these continued attacks by terrorists is not going to cut it. If the "Peace-loving" Muslims don't like what Israel is currently doing, let them stand up and make the forces of evil like Hezbollah and Hamas to stand down. If they are to be believed, they far outnumber the terrorists. So let them demonstrate some courage.

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