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Hamas is a Terrorist Group While Iran is Not?

Posted on April 16, 2008, 10:26 pm. Closed

Obama puts forward the “the same incoherent litmus test he mentioned a few days ago.” This is a test that “conveniently allows him to talk to Iran — a sovereign state … but otherwise guilty of the same sins he lists vis-a-vis Hamas — while ignoring Hamas lest it put him on the wrong side of pro-Israel voters.”

My question is how does one not consider Iran to be a terrorist organization? Yes, it has borders, yes it has a hierarchical structure unlike the network-based structure of a terrorist organization. But Iran still wants to DESTROY Israel. Iran is still funding terrorist groups, giving money to the families of suicide bombers, and training forces that are killing U.S. and allied soldiers.

To me, Iran is a terrorist organization dressed up as a state. Obama, Clinton, Carter, or the State Department can talk all they want with Iran. This won’t change Iran’s goals of ruling the middle-east and pushing the Jewish people into the sea. It took millions of lives and a world war to realize that Hitler wasn’t playing around. Will it take that much to force us to realize Iran isn’t playing around?

What’s even scarier nowadays is the realistic possibility that a so-called state can conceivably pass off a nuke to a terrorist organization who would then detonate it wherever it pleases. There would be no smoking gun and it would be nearly impossible to connect officially such an action to a “state.” Just by virtue of having borders and some form of centralized government, Iran can allow “unaffiliated” terrorist organizations do its dirty work while it can bask in one of the benefits of statehood, namely unending diplomacy and talks which further legitimizes an undeserving and dangerous terrorist organization state.

Israelis Seized Nuclear Material in Syrian Raid

Posted on September 25, 2007, 8:07 am. Closed

There’s no doubt in my mind that if the U.S. simply left the Middle East or stopped supporting Israel, as a certain Republican presidential hopeful advocates, the world would be left in a much more precarious and perilous state. I doubt that things like the Israelis seizing North Korean nuclear material from Syria would have been able to occur without our sanction and support.

Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.

The attack was launched with American approval on September 6 after Washington was shown evidence the material was nuclear related, the well-placed sources say.

They confirmed that samples taken from Syria for testing had been identified as North Korean. This raised fears that Syria might have joined North Korea and Iran in seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.

Human Rights Under Assault From U.N.

Posted on July 11, 2007, 7:40 am. Closed

UN Watch reports on the results of the recent June 2007 session of the Human Rights Council. Belarus and Cuba are dropped from the blacklist and Israel was “was singled out for permanent indictment—the sole country targeted by a special agenda item, and the sole country subjected to an investigation that examines only one side, is immune from review, and presumes guilt in advance.”  Continue reading ‘Human Rights Under Assault From U.N.’

Israel to Release Palestinian Prisoners

Posted on July 8, 2007, 3:23 pm. 1 Comment

Is it me, or does it just not make any sense to (1) release murderers into society and then (2) give them money? Well, it seems that Israel is doing just that: Israel Agrees to Release 250 Palestinian Prisoners.  Continue reading ‘Israel to Release Palestinian Prisoners’