Who are the real terrorists

Recently we have seen the Australian Muslim Advisory Committee recomend to the Australian government that Hezbollah should be taken off the terrorist list, a request that John Howard claims he won't be swayed on. The media also continue to include terrorist as a prefix whenever it talks about Hezbollah. But are they terrorists? and what actually is a terrorist?

Most people would argue that terrorists are people who use terror to achieve political aims. That is, they create terror by deliberatly targetting enemy civillians. So does that describe Hezbollah? Zionists argue that it does, that unlike the Israel Defence Force Hezbollah targets civillians.

So lets now look at the facts. Lets compare the casualty figures between Israeli's and Lebanese and look at the proportion of civillians who have been killed.

Israel claims that 68 Israelis have been killed in the conflict which includes 41 military personnel. That leaves a civillian death toll of 27. That is 39.7% of casualties have been civillians.

Lebanon claims that 900 Lebanese have been killed. With figures of Hezbollah and military deaths ranging from 106 (from the UK Guardian) to 300 (from Israel) leaving a civillian death toll of between 794 and 600. That puts the percentage of civillian deaths at between 88.22% and 66.66% of all Lebanese casualities.

Those figures beggar the question 'Who are the real terrorists?'

I knew Irony was lost on Americans

Watching TV the other day i realized that underneath the public persona of a talking baboon George Bush is really a very intellegent person.

why? you ask. Well we all know from his public speeches that big W appears a bit short of that important matter which resides between your ears. But the catch is that is just a ruse. Catch him off guard and he is really a quite intellegent person giving insightful analysis in the current situation in the Middle East.

See whilst you may think that a sensible analysis would look at the effects of Isreals occupation of Palestine, the denial of political rights to Muslims, the brutal treatment of Arabs in Palestine and previously and recently in Lebanon, as part of the reason why most other people in the region despise the Zionist state and the US for providing the military and economic assistance that allows it to laud over the region. Thus, why most people support the resistance movement who are fighting back with such disparate means ranging from children throwing stones who a few thousand small calibre rockets.

But no. Big W knows that this is wrong all you need to do which is 'ironic' is to get Syria to make Hezbollah stop this shit and it would be all over. No need to worry about who is responsible for rebuilding Lebanons infrastructure, no need to worry about the millions of Palestinians who have been kicked of their land, no need to worry about the thousands of Palestinians and other Arabs locked up without charge in Isreali jails.

See he really is is intellegent. Now that is ironic, or is it?