Wednesday 24 July 2013

Iran Doesn't Like Her Terrorist Friends to Be Called Terrorists.

It's not terrorism, you see, when the religion of peace does it. It's Allah's command. Never mind that Lebanon was a prosperous nation before Hezbollah & their ilk slithered into the country. Now, the EU has committed the cardinal sin of acknowledging – in some small way – Islamic terrorism & that was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, you hear? This, from the AhlulBayt News Agency yesterday:

Iran Slams EU for Blacklisting Hezbollah's Armed Wing

"Hezbollah is part of Lebanon's political structure which is present in the country's political and social arenas and is respected and accepted by the Lebanese, regional and the Muslim world people," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi said in his weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.

"Putting the name of the group in the list of terrorist groups was a completely undigested and highly surprising measure by the EU," he added.

"We denounce this act and (stress that) it will not make any change in Hezbollah's right-seeking nature and struggle," Araqchi said, adding that the EU measure was taken in line with the interests of the Zionist regime and will further complicate the crisis in the Middle-East.

EU governments on Monday agreed to list the armed wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist group but the EU ignored pressure from the US and Israel to ban the Lebanese organization outright, allowing contacts with its political representatives.

The decision by EU foreign ministers came after months of wrangling among member states, who needed to agree the ban unanimously.

But there was condemnation from Beirut, where the government had described Hezbollah as "an essential component of the Lebanese society". Leading politicians warned the move would play into the hands of Israel. The Lebanese al-Manar TV channel, reported, "Israel has imposed its will on Europe."

This report is book-ended by hilarity: 'Hezbollah… is accepted by the Lebanese…' Please demonstrate by what mechanism the Lebanese are able to reject Hezbollah.

There follows a sorrowful description of EU bickering & some rhetoric which, frankly, would not look out of place coming from the Politburo in the 1970s, but they end with a laugh with: 'Israel has imposed its will on Europe.' When times are tough, blame the Jews.

Of late, it has come to seem to me that there is a gentle shift in Western thinking, a quiet, growing awareness.

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