24/07/2006
A disgusting argument
Henry Farrell over at Crooked Timber argues that this is a disgusting claim:
Hezbollah and Hamas militants, on the other hand, are difficult to distinguish from those “civilians” who recruit, finance, harbor and facilitate their terrorism. Nor can women and children always be counted as civilians, as some organizations do. Terrorists increasingly use women and teenagers to play important roles in their attacks. The Israeli army has given well-publicized notice to civilians to leave those areas of southern Lebanon that have been turned into war zones. Those who voluntarily remain behind have become complicit.
Farrell sees a parallel with an argument advanced by the IRA to legitimize their terror campaign:
According to the IRA, civilian bystanders, including women and children, who were killed when bombs blew up police officers or soldiers should have known better than to be associating with the security forces or socializing in places that they were known to frequent. These bystanders were complicit in their own deaths. It was an utterly contemptible argument then. It’s just as contemptible today.
I agree. It’s the same basic argument by the way that Hezbollah uses to kill innocent Israeli’s in Haifa. In their view there are no innocent Israeli’s. And it’s the same basic argument used by the terrorists suicide-bombers in London. Just by being British you were guilty of supporting the war in Iraq and thus you had to be killed.
Gepost door/Posted by: Ivan
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