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Hizbollah er "en kræft", - nu bliver Canada da vist smidt ud af det gode
selskab i hele verden? Og her er det en minister som siger sådan noget, det
er jo rystende?


JEFF SALLOT

OTTAWA -- Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay blamed Hezbollah yesterday
for starting the current Middle East war, describing the Lebanese group as a
"cancer destroying democracy in Lebanon."

The Conservative government believes "it is not a difficult choice between a
democratic state [Israel] that was attacked by terrorists and cold-blooded
killers," he said.

As the civilian death toll mounted, Mr. MacKay used some of the harshest
language against Hezbollah to date by a Tory minister.

"Lebanon's being held hostage by Hezbollah," Mr. MacKay told a House of
Commons foreign-affairs committee special session that was called by the
opposition parties to deal with the Middle East crisis.

"They started it," he said, describing Hezbollah's daylight attack across
the border into Israel on July 12. He said Hezbollah is a "terrorist army"
that "has shown no interest in a ceasefire" and is using civilians as human
shields.

Mr. MacKay said Canada is joining the European Union and others in a call
for a ceasefire and mobilization of a strong international peacekeeping
force to police it. But it is unclear whether Hezbollah would even honour a
truce, he said.

The minister and other Conservatives portrayed the conflict as "terrorism
versus democracy" during yesterday's session, but the three opposition
parties, which form a majority on the committee, called the government's
shift toward the Israeli position unwise. The committee later adopted a Bloc
Québécois motion calling for an immediate ceasefire, after stripping it of a
preamble suggesting that Israel is using excessive force.

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Knud Larsen <larsensknud@yahoo.dk> wrote:

> Hizbollah er "en kræft", - nu bliver Canada da vist smidt ud af det gode
> selskab i hele verden? Og her er det en minister som siger sådan noget, det
> er jo rystende?

Ja, Hizbollah er en kræft. Men det er ikke en udtømmende konstatering.

Det er mere korrekt at sige at Hizbollah, og andre terroristiske
organisationer, er de metastaser, som skabes og spredes når kræften
først er opstået, og har eksisteret igennem nogen tid. Og kræften i
dette tilfælde er Islam.

--
regards, Peter B. Perlsø - liberterran.org, siad.dk
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