The classic example of chutzpah is the person who murders his parents, then pleads for mercy because he’s an orphan. But how about a government leader that puts a terrorist organization in his cabinet; gives the organization free reign over the southern part of his country from which the organization every so often attacks a neighboring country; and defends the organization as “liberators;”* and then demands reparations from the neighboring country when the terrorist organization starts a war?
[UPDATE: Ha’aretz reports that Israel plans to provide Lebanon with humanitarian aid.]
*Hezbollah allegedly “liberated” Lebanon by driving Israeli forces out of the South. But once the PLO was forced out by Israel in 1983, the only reason Israeli forces had to stay in Lebanon was to protect Israel (and to some extent, Lebanon itself, since Israel could do without a militantly hostile government on its borders) from its only remaining armed enemy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, set up with help from the Iranian secret service in 1982 and later aided by Syria to create a proxy army against Israel. Praising Hezbollah for “liberating” Lebanon is a bit like praising Iran for “liberating” the American hostages it released in 1981–after kidnapping them in 1979.
Comments are closed.