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Ayoon wa Azan (Thinking Clearly is More Important than Showing Bravery)
Published in AL HAYAT on 13 - 07 - 2009

I ask Hezbollah and Hamas, which are resistance and national liberation factions confronting Israeli terror, to be completely careful in what they say and do, to undercut the Israeli, Likudist and American fascists who are continuing a campaign against Iran over its nuclear program. Since they will not convince the Obama administration to attack Iran on behalf of Israel, they are seeking Israeli air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, which will spark a confrontation in the Middle East, into which the US will be drawn.
The campaign against Iran means that the spillover will hit its allies, such as Hezbollah and Hamas. I saved a strange news item published by The Daily Telegraph, from 26 June, entitled “Iran Election: Tehran backs Hezbollah operations around world.” At the beginning of this month, I read an article on antiwar.com by Philip Giraldi, a fair and moderate expert, who cited items from newspapers reports and refuted them.
The newspaper cited the fear by intelligence experts that a new wave of terror around the world will take place due to the world's reaction to the recent Iranian presidential election, and the Iranian regime's support for expanding the network run by the anti-terror deputy commissioner in New York (from the Bush-Cheney days) and the claim that Hezbollah could hit America with something stronger than al-Qaida did, but expected that this would take place if the US were to hit Iran, or Hezbollah itself.
Of course, anyone who is attacked will respond to the attacker; I do not know why Hezbollah is being singled out for something that everyone does. However, the most important thing is the argument that Hezbollah is planning foreign operations, along with the addition of Hamas to this scenario.
Perhaps some of the people cited believe this talk, but I will say, as clearly as I can, that Hezbollah has not planned strikes outside the country, and is not planning them. If it does so, I will personally attack them in this column and drop all of my support for the party. However, it will not do this – the Likudists are channeling their hopes, and relaying actual information. Hezbollah is a national resistance movement whose activity takes place on the battlefield with Israel, and enjoys big support from the outside world. I have written about its supporters returning from the Igazu Falls region of Brazil, after I saw them on a return flight to Sao Paolo.
The same goes for Hamas. This faction, as I understand it, from its leadership on down, limits its activity to the battleground with Israel. It is impossible for it to conduct external operations, as the Likudists wish. If it did so, I would drop my support for it against Israel, and it would lose all of those like me.
Khaled Meshaal was interviewed by The New York Times on 5 May, when he said that Hamas had stopped firing rockets and that it would accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, under a ten-year truce.
Meshaal was not saying anything new; his earlier stances were known, and relayed through the media. However, Charles Krauthammer, in the Washington Post, wildly attacked Hamas and all Palestinians on 8 May, and I can refute every line in his article. The importance of the article is that Krauthammer is an Israeli Likudist before he is an American; thus, he expresses the views of Israeli fascism.
This Krauthammer said that Israel is weakening itself by housing Arab refugees. In fact, the Israelis are refugees in Palestine and they stole the land from its owners. He argued that Ehud Barak had accepted a two-state solution, but that the Palestinians rejected it. It is correct to say that the Israeli fascists who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin elected the war criminal Ariel Sharon as prime minister, and he ended the peace process. Israel is the only country in the world whose government is headed by terrorists and war criminals, time and time again.
Hezbollah and Hamas are being asked to not make any mistakes; the campaigns against them are an extension of the campaign against Iran, and thinking clearly is more important than showing bravery.


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