do u think that Hizbullah is a terrorist group?

Answer 1

Some history:

Hezbollah....

* kidnapped and tortured to death U.S. Marine Colonel William R. Higgins and the CIA station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley

* kidnapped around 30 other Westerners between 1982 and 1992, including U.S. journalist Terry Anderson, British journalist John McCarthy, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy Terry Waite and Irish citizen Brian Keenan

* executed the April 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that killed 63

* was behind the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, a suicide truck bombing that killed 241 U.S. servicemen in their barracks in Beirut in October 1983

* was behind the bombing of the replacement U.S. Embassy in East Beirut on September 20, 1984, killing 20 Lebanese and two U.S. soldiers

* was responsible for carrying out the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome

* was responsible for carrying out the April 18, 1983: U.S. embassy bombing in Beirut

* was responsible for carrying out the October 23, 1983: Beirut barracks bombing, targeting French soldiers and U.S. Marines

* was behind the 1992 Israeli embassy bombing in Buenos Aires, killing 29 people

* was behind the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing 85


These are attacks OUTSIDE of Israel; the ones WITHIN Israel are numerous (including the recent kidnapping of soldiers FROM inside Israeli territory, after killing several more).

Hezbollah sought to trade these soldiers for several of their members or allies in Israeli prisons, including Samir Kuntar, who committed the following (sourced from various accounts):

On April 22, 1979, Samir Kuntar led a group of four who entered Israel from Lebanon by boat. The group members were Abdel Majeed Asslan born in 1955, Mhanna Salim Al-Muayed born in 1960 and Ahmed AlAbras born in 1949. They belonged to the Palestine Liberation Front under the leadership of Abu Abbas.

The group departed from the seashore of Tyre in South Lebanon using a 55 horse-powered motorized rubber boat with an 88 km/hr speed. The goal of the operation was to attack Nahariya, 10 kms away from the Lebanese border and 8 kms north of the city of Akko. The group called their operation the Nasser Operation.

Around midnight they arrived at the coastal town of Nahariya. The four killed a policeman who came across them. The group then entered a high building, 61 Jabotinski Street, where they parted into two groups. One group broke into the apartment of the Haran family before police reinforcements had arrived. The unit took twenty-eight-year old Danny Haran hostage along with his four-year-old daughter, Einat. The mother, Smadar Haran, was able to hide in a crawl space above the bedroom with her two-year-old daughter Yael, and a neighbour.

According to Smadar, "I will never forget the joy and the hatred in [Kuntar's group's] voices as they swaggered about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenades. I knew that if Yael cried out, the terrorists would toss a grenade into the crawl space and we would be killed. So I kept my hand over her mouth, hoping she could breathe. As I lay there, I remembered my mother telling me how she had hidden from the Nazis during the Holocaust. "This is just like what happened to my mother," I thought."

After taking the hostages, Kuntar's group took Danny and Einat down to the beach, where a shootout with Israeli policemen and soldiers erupted. Samir Kuntar shot the father, Danny, at close range in front of his daughter in the back and drowned him in the sea to ensure he was dead. Next, he smashed the four year old girl's head, Einat, on beach rocks and crushed her skull with the butt of his rifle.

Back in the crawl space, Yael Haran was accidentally suffocated to death by her mother's attempts to quiet her whimpering from revealing their hideout, so that they would not be found by Kuntar's group.

A policeman and two of Samir Kuntar's unit were also killed in the shootout on the beach; Kuntar and the fourth participant were captured. The latter, Ahmed AlAbrass, was freed by Israel in the infamous Ahmed Jibril prisoner exchange deal of May 1985 (1,150 Arab political prisoners were exchanged for three Israeli prisoners-of-war held in Lebanon), but Kuntar was not included in the deal.

Several months later, the PLF seized the Achille Lauro, an Italian cruise ship, demanding that Israel release Kuntar, along with other Palestinian prisoners. The hijackers killed a wheelchair-bound American Jewish passenger, Leon Klinghoffer. (He was rolled off the deck into the sea)

The existence of Israel is an abomination and insult to Hezbollah and Hamas. They do not regard Israelis as people (as evidenced by the story above).

There is dissent, resistance and bloodlust. When Israel agrees to cede 97% of 'occupied lands' (the Jewish purchase of 70% of the territory from Arabs and Christians in the 50 years prior to the 1948 creation of Israel is NEVER mentioned, and hardly 'occupation') to Palestinians and his rebuffed, what is Israel to do? It has a right to exist as a state, as it operates in peaceful and productive relationships with almost all non-Muslim nations, and EVEN Turkey. It has diplomatic relations with Egypt and Jordan, former sworn enemies. It even has diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority, and has worked with this organ to develop mutual understanding on a two-state solution. But the response from the Arab street is to kill Jews and attack Israel indefinitely. That is not diplomatic, reasonable or effective resistance, because it alienates and punishes the Palestinian more than it harms the Israeli.

There is bloodlust, within Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Al Aqsa, Islamic Jihad, Jamaat I Islamiyah and a host of other paramilitary organizations who fancy themselves as patriotic defenders of Palestine against the 'animal' Jews and their occupation. There is no reason within this element, and therefore without reason, how much humanity is left in them? And if they are devoid of humanity, then how are they NOT terrorists? That is their currency in trade, DEATH.

Answer 2

It's not a matter of what we think. The fact is that they ARE a terrorist group. Hezbollah blew up our Marines in Lebanon in 1983, hijacked TWA 847, and most recently hid behind human shields in Lebanon while targeting Israeli civilians with missiles.

Hope that answers your question.

Answer 3

not at all.
Israel is a terrorist state "Israel has its foundations in terrorism"
the 50+ year illegal Israeli occupation of PALESTINE
the butcher Ariel Sharon thinks he's God or something... the massacres in Qibya, Jenin refugee camps, Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. The seven Palestinian CHILDREN killed on Gaza beach (i really dont think an 18month old child could do anything to provoke these killings!!!) and the thousands of Palestinian civilians killed ...........................................

http://compuserb.com/israel/
^^ who has the right to do that?????? NO ONE