This article is something you will never ever read in the Grope and Fail or The Toronto Fiberal Star or Ottawa Citizen etal.
This one is from the Ottawa Sun!
Earl McRaeFri, July 21, 2006
Tell Hezbollah to apologize, not Israel or Harper
By EARL McRAE
A Lebanese-Canadian friend of mine is disgusted and perplexed at the criticism of Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his statements and actions in the latest Middle East crisis.
"The Hezbollah started it and it's getting what it deserves," says my friend, who still has family in the land of his birth, yet supports Israel's severe military attacks on Lebanon even though they have destroyed parts of the re-built city of Beirut where he grew up, and loves for its beauty.
He gets Arab television on his satellite dish and sees the destruction.
"They show things they don't show here on TV. Dead people. The body parts of people. Children. Women."
They're upsetting sights to him. Civilians are being killed and it's always possible that one or more could be from his family. And yet what upsets him most is the constant criticism by certain Canadian journalists, Canadian politicians, and Lebanese and non-Lebanese citizens in Canada of Harper for supporting Israel in the crisis and its method of retaliation.
"When President Bush took action right after 9/11 at the site in New York of the bombings and gave his great speeches to the Americans, he was praised for his leadership not only by Republicans, but Democrats. The Democrats were big enough to praise the president. But what's happening now in this country? They make me want to throw up."
I told him they make me want to throw up, too.
Hezbollah, a terrorist organization bent on the destruction of tiny Israel and supported in its mission by Iran and Syria -- (Has an Israeli leader ever publicly declared his country's goal is to annihilate Iran and Syria as the Syrian leader said is his country's goal for Israel?) --has been waging unprovoked missile attacks from southern Lebanon on Israel for years.
What is Israel to do? Stand back, take the pasting? What would you do if a bully next door kept lobbing weapons of destruction into your back yard, threatening and/or killing members of your family? Say "tsk tsk, don't do that, if you throw a rock at me, I'll throw a rock at you, if you throw two at me, I'll throw two at you?"
No. Israel decided enough's enough Hezbollah, you're not going to take us for patsies; try this on for size, let's see if you'll learn something. If somebody's continually slapping you in the face, kneeing you in the crotch, the right message is to erupt back with double, triple, the ferocity -- that is the "measured" response, a long and effective "measure," not the pitty-patty, tit-for-tat "measure" the quaking anti-Harper jackasses wanted.
Some Lebanese-Canadians demanded Harper "apologize" for the Lebanese-Canadian family killed in the Israeli bombing. Tragic? Of course.
Harper apologize? No bloody way. Why should he apologize? Get real, for God's sake.
If anyone should apologize, it should be the Hezbollah. It's a sorrowful fact of war that innocent civilians get killed. War is messy and often unprecise. Is Israel deliberately targeting civilians? No. But don't think for one second that the Hezbollah -- knowing the soft mind-set of the west --isn't delighted that civilians are being killed; don't be surprised if this group that places such a low value on human life doesn't engineer the placement of civilians in harm's way.
How sick and shameful it is that -- instead of rising above politics and winning human respect by praising the Harper government for doing the best it can logistically in this moment that caught everyone off guard and that could have dire consequences for us all -- small, sad minds like Liberals Scott Brison and Dan McTeague and NDPer Alexa McDonough are flaunting their terrifying lack of leadership quality and brains by saying the Harper government didn't respond fast and effectively enough to the evacuation of Canadians from Lebanon, that it's unacceptably chaotic.
Has anyone informed these dunces that this isn't a fictional TV drama where problems are identified, addressed, sanitized, and fixed in less than an hour -- that this is the complexities and bureaucracies and frustrations and confusions of real life?
The bindlestiffs are attacking Harper for showing true compassion by diverting his plane to Cyprus to help evacuate Canadians. Publicity stunt, they're calling it. What pathetic sickos.
Good on you, Stephen Harper -- at last we have a prime minister with Churchillian guts, strength, resolve, and leadership and not the dithering, stammering, wusses who, sadly, fostered a national culture of withering, acquiescent, shilly-shallying weakness when confronted by major crises.
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Great article Earl. Truth, Facts and Reality !
This one is from the Ottawa Sun!
Earl McRaeFri, July 21, 2006
Tell Hezbollah to apologize, not Israel or Harper
By EARL McRAE
A Lebanese-Canadian friend of mine is disgusted and perplexed at the criticism of Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his statements and actions in the latest Middle East crisis.
"The Hezbollah started it and it's getting what it deserves," says my friend, who still has family in the land of his birth, yet supports Israel's severe military attacks on Lebanon even though they have destroyed parts of the re-built city of Beirut where he grew up, and loves for its beauty.
He gets Arab television on his satellite dish and sees the destruction.
"They show things they don't show here on TV. Dead people. The body parts of people. Children. Women."
They're upsetting sights to him. Civilians are being killed and it's always possible that one or more could be from his family. And yet what upsets him most is the constant criticism by certain Canadian journalists, Canadian politicians, and Lebanese and non-Lebanese citizens in Canada of Harper for supporting Israel in the crisis and its method of retaliation.
"When President Bush took action right after 9/11 at the site in New York of the bombings and gave his great speeches to the Americans, he was praised for his leadership not only by Republicans, but Democrats. The Democrats were big enough to praise the president. But what's happening now in this country? They make me want to throw up."
I told him they make me want to throw up, too.
Hezbollah, a terrorist organization bent on the destruction of tiny Israel and supported in its mission by Iran and Syria -- (Has an Israeli leader ever publicly declared his country's goal is to annihilate Iran and Syria as the Syrian leader said is his country's goal for Israel?) --has been waging unprovoked missile attacks from southern Lebanon on Israel for years.
What is Israel to do? Stand back, take the pasting? What would you do if a bully next door kept lobbing weapons of destruction into your back yard, threatening and/or killing members of your family? Say "tsk tsk, don't do that, if you throw a rock at me, I'll throw a rock at you, if you throw two at me, I'll throw two at you?"
No. Israel decided enough's enough Hezbollah, you're not going to take us for patsies; try this on for size, let's see if you'll learn something. If somebody's continually slapping you in the face, kneeing you in the crotch, the right message is to erupt back with double, triple, the ferocity -- that is the "measured" response, a long and effective "measure," not the pitty-patty, tit-for-tat "measure" the quaking anti-Harper jackasses wanted.
Some Lebanese-Canadians demanded Harper "apologize" for the Lebanese-Canadian family killed in the Israeli bombing. Tragic? Of course.
Harper apologize? No bloody way. Why should he apologize? Get real, for God's sake.
If anyone should apologize, it should be the Hezbollah. It's a sorrowful fact of war that innocent civilians get killed. War is messy and often unprecise. Is Israel deliberately targeting civilians? No. But don't think for one second that the Hezbollah -- knowing the soft mind-set of the west --isn't delighted that civilians are being killed; don't be surprised if this group that places such a low value on human life doesn't engineer the placement of civilians in harm's way.
How sick and shameful it is that -- instead of rising above politics and winning human respect by praising the Harper government for doing the best it can logistically in this moment that caught everyone off guard and that could have dire consequences for us all -- small, sad minds like Liberals Scott Brison and Dan McTeague and NDPer Alexa McDonough are flaunting their terrifying lack of leadership quality and brains by saying the Harper government didn't respond fast and effectively enough to the evacuation of Canadians from Lebanon, that it's unacceptably chaotic.
Has anyone informed these dunces that this isn't a fictional TV drama where problems are identified, addressed, sanitized, and fixed in less than an hour -- that this is the complexities and bureaucracies and frustrations and confusions of real life?
The bindlestiffs are attacking Harper for showing true compassion by diverting his plane to Cyprus to help evacuate Canadians. Publicity stunt, they're calling it. What pathetic sickos.
Good on you, Stephen Harper -- at last we have a prime minister with Churchillian guts, strength, resolve, and leadership and not the dithering, stammering, wusses who, sadly, fostered a national culture of withering, acquiescent, shilly-shallying weakness when confronted by major crises.
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Great article Earl. Truth, Facts and Reality !
