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Quote by: dsanthony Sinn Fein and the IRA ended their terrorist tactics BEFORE the US "cozied up to them." If Hezbollah/Hamas were to end their terrorits tactics, both Isreal and the US would negotiate with them. Trotsky would not like you using his name. | Sinn Fein/IRA are still at their acts of terrorism, intelligence gathering, money laundering, assassinations, robberies, punishment beatings and lets not forget bank robberies. And the US "cozied" up to Sinn Fein/IRA long before the first ceasefire and continued to deal with them even after the Canary Warf bombings, the murder of Gda Jerry McCabe and the attempted murder of Gda Ben O'Sullivan, the Warrington "Mothers day" bombing and so forth. Couple that with the murder of british intelligence officer Denis Donaldson this year and several armed robberies in the Irish republic this year, I don't think the "terror tactics" have gone away. |
We also "dealt" with the PLO. Again, not the same as recognizing them (which we did eventually with both Sinn Fein and the PLO)...
Regardless, the point here is Lebanon and Hezbollah. Hezbollah is our enemy. Hamas is our enemy. Islamic terrorism is our enemy. Israel has a right to defend itself in Lebanon, just as we did in Afghanistan.
As for the Foreign Minister's comments... Foreign diplomacy is complex. Good cop, bad cop is not a new tactic. I don't know what was behind his comments. Britain is not as strong an ally of Israel as the US is, but they experienced Islamic terrorism in a very personal way recently. They may admonish Israel to try to stop "collateral" damage (as Bush himself did).