Recently Hezbollah, CiF’s favorite Fascist terrorist group (sorry, “resistance force”) lost one of its “spiritual” leaders. Hussein Fadhallah entered the gates of hell on July 4th 2010. His “Guardians” were promptly at those gates attempting to assure his passage to progressive heaven.
Ian Williams, writing in The Guardian, even made a snide remark about the date of the passing of this creep, being the 4th of July.
“Some might even see significance in his death, at 75, on July 4th, which will doubtless bring up his support for the attack on the American marine barracks in Beirut. But then they might also think about the joint Saudi/alleged CIA operation that tried to kill the Ayatollah with a massive bomb but ended up killing 80 men and women worshippers at his Mosque.”
Ian should have known better. The 1983 bombing was not just an attack on Americans. It was an attack on the UN. The same day a similar attack killed dozens of French peace keepers also sporting the Blue Berets. The reason Ian should know better is because he used to work for the UN .
In fact Hezbollah hung an American UN officer, video taped the murder, and presented it to the world. Nice progressive “resisters” they are. Those Hezbollah attacks ended US participation in UN peace keeping.
Of course nobody has figured out what Hezbollah is currently “resisting”, after Israel withdrew its forces from every last inch of Lebanese territory in 2000. Aside from the existence of Jews as a people, there is little left to resist.
He also should have known that this Mullah, who has supported the right of women to wear lipstick and nail polish – indicating his strong feminist credentials – denied the Holocaust and expressed genocidal intent toward Jews a number of times.
Merely entering his name into Google will yield this wiki quote:
“The Hebrew state is preparing to celebrate its 60th anniversary – 60 years since it plundered Palestine – in a festival, which will be attended by the countries of the world, most of which still support the Jewish state and consider the resistance movement to be terrorism. This is what led German Chancellor Merkel to visit that plundering country, which extorted and continues to extort Germany, using as a pretext the German Hitlerist-Nazi past, and the placing of the Jews in a holocaust. Zionism has inflated the number of victims in this holocaust beyond imagination. They say there were six million Jews – not six million, not three million, or anything like that… But the world accepted this [figure], and it does not allow anyone to discuss this.”
These are basically a repeat of the words of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the leading official Holocaust denier and President of Iran – patron of Hezbollah, its proxy terrorist force. Was Ian Williams lacking internet access when he was writing this piece?
No, likely he just took a page out of The Guardian’s “progressive” manifesto – an ideology which influences otherwise sharp minds to minimize the relevance of ideas such as Holocaust Denial and Fascism by insisting on putting such messy hatred in its proper political “context”.






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July 18, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Geary
‘Of course nobody has figured out what Hezbollah is currently “resisting”’
It is resisting the modern post-Enlightenment world.
That is , universal human rights (freedom of confession, of expression, of intellectual inquiry, of sexuality, rights of women and minorities), the rule of rational human and humane law, rather than God given medieval barbaric law.
July 18, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Yvetta Bagel
It baffles me why any western woman would support that women-repressing lot.
Yet they do, from ambassadors down.
July 18, 2010 at 4:41 pm
terry malloy
Geary- It’s worse than that. For years now, Hezbollah has talked of “resistance” against Israel. This, after Israel completely withdrew from South Lebanon. And nobody in the media, nobody, has ever stopped to ask Hezbollah what they mean by resistance when Israel no longer is in Lebanon. There are several possibilities for this. One, they’re a bunch of dumb bunnies and forgot that Israel is no longer in Lebanon. Two, they view the word “resistance” in a larger context, i.e., resistance against forces oppressing Lebanon, wherever Hezbollah happens to find it. Three, they realize that the word resistance doesn’t really apply, but because it’s the hated Zionist entity that’s involved, they won’t say anything, and will continue along with the “progressive” world view.
July 18, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Mitnaged
Geary and terry malloy, this is classic Islamist paranoid projection – where they are the real aggressors but accuse others of aggression against them – cranked up many fold by the conspiracy theory, “Hidden Hand” Muslim mindset in which Jews and only Jews are solely to blame for Muslim calamitous failures again and again. Not being capable of critical thinking and actively discouraged from childhood from the sort of healthy reflection which would mean that they would be able to realise why they fail again and again, luckily for the rest of the world they never, ever learn.
The picture is a superb counter to such Islamist grandiosity. Islamists being the literal thinkers they are will either apprehend, albeit vaguely, that they are being made fun of and that will upset them mightily or it’ll fail to register at all.
Did you design the picture yourself, Alchemist? If not where does it come from and can you post a link to it?
July 18, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Ariadne
A worthy recipient of a eulogy: Pete Morgan, a lovely poet and a lovely man:
http://teifidancer-teifidancer.blogspot.com/2010/07/pete-morgan-poet-rip-7639-5710.html
A bit of escapism and a poke in the whotsit to Fadlallalala.
July 18, 2010 at 7:59 pm
The Alchemist
The cartoon is from ThePeoplesCube.com, from 2006 Summer.
http://thepeoplescube.com/current-truth/hezbo-laa-laa-cute-little-terrortubby-t806.html
July 18, 2010 at 10:24 pm
AKUS
Geary – Hizbollah’s “resistance” is in oart simply to justify their existence in the eyes of their supporters. But for them”resistance” is also good coverage to delude Western useful idiots by disguising their aggressive intent to destroy Israel.
July 19, 2010 at 7:28 am
Derek Pasquill
Hezbo-la-la acts as a classic rage bank – a collection institute where clients deposit their rage against Israel, and this in turn is re-invested or circulated in capital investments such as material and symbolic actions targeting the interests of Israel.
For more on managing the rage economy see Sloterdijk’s recent Rage and Time.
July 19, 2010 at 7:37 am
pretzelberg
Hezbollah was originally set up within the context of the Israeli invasion of the Lebanon. OK, there is at least some logic/reason to that.
But I’ve never worked out exactly what they’re “resisting” today. And I’ve certainly never go a viable answer to that from the anti-Israel posters on CiF.
July 19, 2010 at 10:46 am
Derek Pasquill
Some aspects of Hezbo-la-la’s Leninism:
- cult of militancy as a form of life
- ascetic collectivism
- hatred of liberal manners
- monological conception of the relationship between leader and followers
- transference of the military habitus to economic production
- rigorous centralism of executive staff
- compulsive enthusiasm for the sake of the revolutionary cause
- monopolization of public space through party propaganda
- total rejection of a culture of civility
- disdain for pacifist ideals
- mistrust of individualism, cosmopolitanism, pluralism
- constant spying on one’s followers
- excessively-voluptuous willingness to kill
- excessive, idealistic and exaggerated sanctification of violence
In that rare haven of sophistry, it should come as no surprise then that an FCO ambassador, displaying an acrobatic feat her Master of Ceremonies would surely have applauded, is able to ignore all this and praise its spiritual guide as a decent man.
No surprise at all, only disgust.
July 19, 2010 at 10:47 am
Oy Va Goy
Why do people like Williams get off on spinning a beast like Fadhallah as a nice person?
July 19, 2010 at 5:14 pm
armaros
OyVaGoy
Fadlhallah was praised by half of the world.
In HuffingtonPost, Cif, and even CNNs Octavia Nasr.
Ian Williams is a West hating Leftist.
Used to be a Maoist, then “human rights activist”, UN worker and PR rep and all around ignorant commentator missing dates, mixing up facts and forgetting history when it suits him.
He also defended Hamas and mocked the fear of Ahmadinegad,
He claimed that the American Revolution was about saving slavery and that AIPAC controls Washington.
A Cif star in other words.
Not the hating bigot type but the naive leftard who believes every propaganda from the haters and bigots by only using his leftist logic.