I’ve been browsing the latest edition of the academic journal, Palestine Internationalist: a journal which is run by the Khomenist Islamist grouping, the Islamic Human Rights Commission.
Much of its content is pedestrian and plodding: consisting as it does of articles by, and about, the tenured Israeli professor and self-publicist, Ilan Pappe
However, I would recommend this article by Rima Fakhry, the only woman member of Hizbullah’s Political Council.
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Rima explains why Israel took military action against Hizbullah. It was not, she explains, the product of the kidnapping from Israel of two soldiers, or a response to Hizbollah’s Katyusha strikes into Northern Israel.
Rather, explains Rima, a series complicated political and military factors influenced the decision of Israel to go to war, including:
Limiting the spread of the Islamic religion and the abolishment of all its symbols and the curtailment of its sacred places for the sake of Masonry and Christian-Zionism.
You and I might think that this sort of talk indicates the level of conspiracism and foolishness which passes for political theory amongst Islamists. But have no fear. I leave the last word to Rima Fakhry:
[L]et everyone be confident that this Resistance is strong, full of courage, advanced, and knows very well its way, and will never be defeated.
Gene adds: Wait a minute. Is she blaming Israel’s military action on these guys?
Gene adds: Ms. Fakhry participated in an IHRC International Conference (“Towards a New Liberation Theology – Reflections on Palestine”) at the SOAS in London last year.