Friday, July 21, 2006
Over a century ago, a man named Karl Lueger was elected (repeatedly) as Mayor of Vienna on an anti-Semitic platform. Not incapable of showing kindness to individual Jews, he responded to criticism by remarking, "I deicde who's a Jew."
That's what sprang to mind when I read this story of Hassan Nasrallah deciding that the Israeli Arab kids killed by his missiles were now "martyrs."
Nasrallah: Nazereth kids are martyrs
The Hizbullah leader offered his condolences to the family of the two brothers in an interview with Al-Jazeera television...
The family must feel so much better.
[h/t: David Boxenhorn who remarks: "Hizballah proves that it is racist, not just nationalist."]
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Some of the family blamed Israel and backed Hezbollah, can you fing imagine?
Hezbollah murdered their kids and they blame Israel.
Quite disingenuous, and the bit about them being martyrs is crass. At the same time, I also don't tend to think it's too genuine when I hear Israeli officials say that they regret civilian deaths in Lebanon either.