Galloway again

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Remember the King David Hotel
George Galloway

July 21, 2006 05:25 PM

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/george_galloway/2006/07/sixty_years_since_the_king_dav.html

I'll be marching this Saturday, along with many thousands of others.
By a striking coincidence tomorrow also marks the 60th anniversary of
the bombing of the King David Hotel by the Irgun acting under the
umbrella of the overall Zionist force, the Haganah. The attack killed
92 people, most of them civilians, some 17 of whom were Jewish.

It was organised by Irgun leader, Menachem Begin, who went on to be
twice prime minister of Israel. His second period of office saw
Israel's "limited" 1982 invasion of southern Lebanon, which quickly
become an assault on the whole country and claimed many thousands of
lives.

I recalled all this when I read that Binyamin Netanyahu, former
Israeli prime minister and darling of CNN, attended a commemoration
this week of the Irgun's actions, saying, "It's very important to make
the distinction between terror groups and freedom fighters, and
between terror action and legitimate military action." Well, quite.

[isn't a successful terrorist someone who runs a state? that is, what
is a "state" but a terrorist organization that successfully destroys
all opposition within a geographical area?]

There was no Hizbullah in 1946 or in 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians
were driven from their homes to make way for the state of Israel.
There was no Hizbullah in 1982; the organisation emerged after the
Israeli invasion, after the massacres at Sabra and Shatilla refugee
camps. It established a base in Lebanese society and its prestige grew
enormously when it forced the Israelis out of most of southern Lebanon
in 2000. ....

--
Jim Devine / "You need a busload of faith to get by." -- Lou Reed.