The British government is now talking to Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a terrorist military force funded, trained by and answerable to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hezbollah?s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah leads an Iranian jihadi army that exports terror round the world. Until September 11, 2001, Hezbollah was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization. It is known or suspected to have been involved in the suicide truck bombings of the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut in 1983, the bombing of the U.S. Embassy annexe in Beirut in 1984 and the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome. And it is said by various intelligence agencies to have kidnapped over 30 Westerners between 1982 and 1992.
Its principal targets, however, are Jews. In 1992 a Hezbollah human bomb attack destroyed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. In 1994 in the same city, a Hezbollah car bomb attack on a Jewish community building was the largest single incident of terrorism against Jews since World War II. Eight days later, the Israeli Embassy in London was car-bombed by two Palestinians linked to Hezbollah. Now the Jerusalem Post reports:
Bill Rammell, the Foreign Office minister for the Middle East, told the British Parliament on Wednesday that his government would hold discussions with Hizbullah?s political wing. Rammell said the decision was made ?in the light of more positive developments in Lebanon, and the formation of the national unity government in which Hizbullah is participating. Our over-riding objective is to press Hizbullah to play a more constructive role and move away from violence,? he said.
What in heaven?s name is he talking about? As a former leader of Hezbollah, Hussein Massawi, has said:
?We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you.?
This is what Hezbollah?s Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, has said:
?If they [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide; ?it is an open war until the elimination of Israel and until the death of the last Jew on earth,? and ?there is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel. ...If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice I do not say the Israeli.?
So which part of their ?political? agenda are the British talking to them about? Rammell says the government won?t talk to Hezbollah?s military wing. But the distinction between military and political is as arbitrary as was Sinn Fein/IRA in Northern Ireland.
How can the fact that Hezbollah is now part of the government of Lebanon be ?a positive development? when Hezbollah has muscled its way into that government as part of Iran?s manoeuvres to take over Lebanon, thus stifling that country?s democracy?
Why should talking to Hezbollah encourage it to ?play a more constructive role and move away from violence? when it is now to be rewarded for its violence by being brought in from the cold while it is still committed to violence ? and indeed, with Hezbollah sleeper cells in Britain and in Europe waiting for the signal from Iran to strike should the west start to get serious about stopping it from getting the bomb?
The government says this does not alter its refusal to talk to Hamas. But what?s the difference? Why not talk to al Qaeda?
This decision is the outcome of the intensive lobbying by two groups in particular, Conflicts Forum and Forward Thinking. These groups, which I have written about here, here, here, and here promote the cause of Hamas and Hezbollah under the guise of ?conflict resolution?. They should thus properly be considered enemies of our society, fifth columnists in the service of those who are working to bring our civilisation down. Instead, their cynical, disingenuous and mendacious arguments ? in particular their egregious misuse of the example of Northern Ireland, where peace only arrived after the IRA was defeated by the British Army ? has found an all too receptive audience amongst the instinctive appeasers of the British diplomatic and intelligence establishment. And of course this finds equivalent echoes in Washington, where ?smart power? ? aka crawling to the enemy ? is now in the ascendancy.
The result of this lethally misguided initiative is to abandon the Lebanese, undermine democrats and relatively moderate leaders throughout the Middle East, embolden not just Hezbollah but Hamas and the Taleban and all terrorist networks which can smell the weakness of the west, imperil Israel, strengthen Iran and increase the threat to the free world.
It is hard to believe politicians can be quite so stupid and craven and to have learned absolutely nothing from history. Alas, on both sides of the Atlantic the stupid and craven tendency now rules.
Bolding made by me.
Well, so much for we are against Zionism, not Jews.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3414536/we-are-all-hezbollah-now-in-the-fco.thtml
Topic: We are all Hezbollah now in the FCO by Melanie Phillips