Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization?

Vivek, lets not confuse hezbollah with other organistions.

 The launching of rockets was retalition for the bombings, they offered to stop if isreal stopped. Isreal decided that it wanted to fight it out, we need to understand that it should be treated as it treats others. The allies seeked out similar retailion agaist the german/japanese cities of WW2, so i cant understand how this gets the 'terrorist' label while others dont. this is completelty subjective

Even though we can moralise about the civilian deaths, all hezbollah did is act as equals, even if its equals in terror. For hezbollah to accept those terrible bombings and take the moral high ground and not retailiate would mean that they also have to act as the weaker of the two. It didnt and i think they answered the isreali well.

Why shouldnt isreal just talk to them and give back the 2,000 or so hostages it kidnaped?




Edited by Leonidas - 02-Nov-2006 at 07:26

Originally posted by Ponce de Leon Hezbollah on the other hand have killed innocents on purpose

if hezbollah wanted to kill lots of isrealis, a few well placed human/car bombs would of killed allot more people than those pissy rockets. It also would of been cheaper and is well within their capability. The use of those rockets was more of 'we can' and 'we will' when the fight was on, pyschological more than deadly.

Originally posted by Ponce de Leon   You say that Israel and the US may have killed innocent civilians but only because it was a mistake.

When you target an area/building (with questionable intellignece) that is populated with civilians you make the choice to kill them. No one makes Isreal do this, they choose to wage war and pull the trigger. There are choices in how they can handle this and they chose that path by; not talking, not returning lebanese hostages and simply treating lebanon/lebanese with disdain. 

Originally posted by Ponce de Leon You also have to admit that each time an innocent Lebanese dies a smile goes on a hezbo's face because that will make the israeli's look worse, but of course wen an israeli dies it doesnt get too much sympathy from the media.

you have admit you have demonised them in your mind beyond anything close reality. No one cheers for their own dead. these guys are lebanese

Edit:

Originally posted by Vivek Sharma It would be ready f they gave up the terrorist ways. everything was going well with the PLO, but Hizbolla wanted to be the true leader.

what is their terrorist ways?

how are they connected to the PLO?

isreal is negotioting the release of the lebanese hostages, do you know why? becasue it easier  and well, more civilised to talk rather than to fight. dont you agree?


Edited by Leonidas - 02-Nov-2006 at 08:00

Please read again the opening article.

What the conservative author is saying is that the West makes a mistake by using good vs. evil labels like terrorism.

By calling Hezbollah a terrorist organization, we in the West fail to understand them. And by failing to understand them, the West will either fail in war against them or fail to reach any agreements.

It is very easy to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization that should be bombed. Well, Israel did just that, and failed at destroying it.

Hezbollah's role, if the description of the author is to be believed, is so complex that we don't even have a word to describe such organizations in English. It is a political party, a militia, a charity, and a terrorist organization, at the very least.

like many of you say, it is all in the eye of the beholder of who is a terrorist and who is not. I for one do not see Israeli policies as acts of terrorism. I see them as acts of self-defense

Originally posted by Ponce de Leon like many of you say, it is all in the eye of the beholder of who is a terrorist and who is not. I for one do not see Israeli policies as acts of terrorism. I see them as acts of self-defense

Edited by Northman - 02-Nov-2006 at 17:58

In a conflict both parties that are involved, have "bad guys".

Originally posted by Ponce de Leon like many of you say, it is all in the eye of the beholder of who is a terrorist and who is not. I for one do not see Israeli policies as acts of terrorism. I see them as acts of self-defense

Originally posted by Spartakus To whom?To Israeli Army ,of course.   Let me clear out for you,   war:army vs army terrorism:army vs unarmed civilians   And that's it.The rest are simply details.

Armed civilians hiding behind unarmed civilians vs the army

= Propaganda.
Usually you don't try to isolate your support base. If this happened, Hezbullah wouldn't have half the support it does.

Originally posted by Vivek Sharma One of the main reasons behind hizbolla being labelled as terrorists is that they are muslims.

OMG your right

BTW this thread  is not about india


Edited by Leonidas - 04-Nov-2006 at 07:07