Jihadist Bombast
There's that brave and courageous leader of his people at it again. Extolling his own virtues and successes, larding his compatriots' bravery with praise and pounding his chest with promise for the enemy, should they dare once again to respond to provocations calculated to do just that. Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah, brother under God with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and to the indivisible Shia brotherhood exhorts his people to celebrate their victory over the enemy.To be more precise, Hezbollah's "divine victory" over Israel. For the Lord their God led them to certain victory. Their high-minded, moral-laden instinct to battle a hated enemy, secure in the knowledge that Allah had foreordained their victory led them to exemplary battlefield conduct. Of which they and their trusting followers need be truly proud. Murdering border soldiers of the enemy, kidnapping and refusing to release others. Feigning surprise when the provoked responded.
Then cleverly utilizing a much-celebrated battlefield technique to entice the enemy to follow and respond. Sacrificing in the process the lives of many of their followers, since the vaunted technique, simple enough in its execution, more troubling in its intent, was to have jihadist militias operating from within the midst of dense settlements of Shia Lebanese civilians. And, surprise! when the enemy detected the geographic origin of the assaults they responded with pinpoint accuracy.
Alas, responding artillery and bombs hit where the jihadists once were, but had vacated with the alacrity given only to those sincerely devoted to saving their own skins. Then with great crocodile tears and loud lament groomed for the international news media, pointing the finger of blame at the enemy for destroying the lives of innocent civilians, randomly and without reason.
Using ambulances to convey armed militias. Waving the white flag of surrender to halt fire when transporting militia members. Manipulating scenes of carnage to make them appear worse than reality. Transporting corpses to take their places elsewhere than where they died to bolster claims of brutality from the enemy. Clumsily doctoring up film footage, creating scenes of destruction far from reality. Spinning stories for the eager media; claiming fairness and bravery in action against all odds for themselves.
Leaving little option for the defensive actions of the enemy but to believe that all ambulances and all wavers of white flags henceforth were no longer indicative of civilian or rescue movement, but rather that of the jihadists. Outstanding indices of bravery and courage on the field of battle. Now Sheik Nasrallah, having been re-armed by Syria and Iran boasts yet again of the mettle of Hezbollah.
"If you, the Zionists, are considering attacking Lebanon, I am reserving a surprise for you that will change the fate of the war and the region," he promised expansively during a televised rally in Beirut. "By saying this, I and the resistance realize the responsibility we are taking on", he claimed during the anniversary rally of the Israel-Hezbollah war of last summer. Exactly what members of the Arab League accused Hezbollah of last year; lack of responsibility toward Lebanon for provoking Israel into responding to its assaults.
A mindless mass hysteria of honour to this man whose devotion to jihad and the suborning of the legally-constituted government of Lebanon is guaranteed from the hearts and mouths of his Shia supporters in the south.
Labels: Conflict, Heroes and Villains, Middle East
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, August 16, 2007
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