Hezbollah

"Mom, is Hezbollah where Jesus used to live?"

From the mouths of babes, eh? My four year old asked this astute question today. He has been catching bits and scraps from Fox News, a station to which I am addicted. (Though perhaps I am less astute than the four year old: Today, one of the guests on Fox said that 'All Fox viewers know that Fox is just an Israeli propaganda machine.') I let the kid watch the war coverage, and we talk about it. Maybe this is mistaken; I don't know. What I do know is that the kid understands that it is a serious situation, where finite decisions (like shooting off a rocket) have infinite, eternal consequences (like death).

The kid, four years old, seems to understand more about the war (and who / what Hezbollah is) than most Americans. The way I see it:

~Hezbollah kidnapped Israeli soldiers in early July
~Hezbollah shot the first rocket
~You see people in the streets of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran dancing and celebrating the death of Jews
~You NEVER see people in the streets of Israel celebrating the death of Arabs and Muslims
~Israel has a right to defend itself
~90% of the civilized world doesn't agree with the previous point

Hezbollah shoots rockets from schools and hospitals. Israel targets the launch point of the rockets in its air strikes. That's after they drop pamphlets warning civilians to evacuate. Whose fault is it that civilians die? Come on, people, Hezbollah puts uses people as human shields; the UN observers admit that.

Hezbollah is another terrorist organization attacking Israel. Watch the footage. How would you feel if your hometown was struck by terrorists the way northern Israel is being destroyed? So far, it's not dissimilar to a 22-day 9/11.