Editorial

Ce ar face Romania daca ar fi atacata de teroristi din Ungaria? Asta e calul de bataie al apologetilor Israelului. Aceeasi "intrebare simpla" am gasit-o strecurata insistent si pe forumuri straine. Soparla nu a tinut, insa, la englezi, care chiar s-au confruntat cu situatia descrisa in scenariu. Cu IRA in rolul Hezbollahului. Si nu au bombardat Belfastul. Iata replica dosumentata a unui forumist britanic - de pe forumul cotidianului "The Guardian":


To make a fair comparison you have to compare Hezbollah with the IRA and Sinn Fein. The IRA is the military wing of Sinn Fein (or Sinn Fein the political wing of the IRA - whichever nuance you prefer). Hezbollah is both military and political wings under one name. Most attacks on the mainland were bombs but those whose families were disppeared by the IRA, or the soldiers sniped at by IRA members in the roads of South Armagh, or those who limp thanks to a punishment kneecapping would take exception at your description of their abilities as being "mostly bombs". To make the parallel closer, some parts of Northern Ireland were, during the troubles, regarded as No-Go zones by the Army and the RUC and were effectively governed by the IRA. Israel's actions in the Lebanon are rather like the British bombing Belfast in retaliation for the Guildford pub bomb. We didn't - why? Not through any moral squeamishness, I suspect, but because you can't win a guerilla war with airpower. The Israelis seem to have been infected with the same virus as the US, the same squeamishness about troops on the ground. As a consequence a disproportionate number of civilians on the Lebanese are dying. Hezbollah are terrorists all ight, but Israel's reaction is morally and militarily wrong.

Posted by Sclerosis on July 31, 2006 03:41 PM.

La 2006-08-01 04:25:52, Agentura a scris:

> you can't win a guerilla war with airpower.

ASTEAPTA SI VEI VEDEA. Cum ar zice compatriotii Orianei, traindo-sperando-murindo- . . . ando.