I’m fairly comfortable labeling Hezbollah as a worhtless cancer that’s destroying the middle east. It’s a fair label for militant islam in general but in this case we’re talking about Hezbollah specifically.
Below is a translated letter from a Lebanese Shia who describes Hezbollah’s tactics after Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon:
I lived until 2002 in a small southern village near Mardshajun that is inhabited by a majority of Shias like me. After Israel left Lebanon, it did not take long for Hezbollah to have the say in our town and all other towns. Received as successful resistance fighters, they appeared armed to the teeth and dug rocket depots in bunkers in our town as well. The social work of the Party of God consisted in building a school and a residence over these bunkers! A local sheikh explained to me laughing that the Jews would lose in any event because the rockets would either be fired at them or if they attacked the rocket depots, they would be condemned by world opinion on account of the dead civilians. These people do not care about the Lebanese population, they use them as shields, and, once dead, as propaganda. As long as they continue existing there, there will be no tranquility and peace.
Dr. Mounir Herzallah
Berlin-Wedding
Case and point: Qana. As Boortz points out today it was a great day for islamic jihad. Civilians were tragically killed just like Hezbollah had planned and now the entire world is playing right into their hands.