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The United States would be doing itself a great disservice in its war against terrorism by turning its ears to states that want to push their own agendas as part of this war. It could even become especially dangerous if this effort involves Israel by any means.
Israel, which is accused by its own judicial system of using terrorist means against the Palestinians and the rest of its Arab neighbors, must not be allowed to influence the U.S. decision making in this regard. Any wrong step on this road would certainly prove to be the greatest mistake on the short as well as the long run and might jeopardize opening an ugly Pandora box throughout the Islamic World.
Anti-American feelings could very well be contained so far as the American anti-terrorism mission is still focused and the targets are limited to those that most likely involved in the September 11th attack. Widening the scope of this mission, without a real and hard evidence to support its claims, the U.S. is going to lose the battle giving the perpetrators of the crime against the American people their first real victory. Only God knows how the world would face those people after that!
We are saying this because of the recent journalistic reports, coming from Beirut, indicating that amongst those on the UN furbished U.S. black list of terrorists is Hizballah’s Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Mr. Vincent Patel, denied these reports and stated that only those accused of the TWA hijacking in 1985, three Lebanese citizens, are on the list. Despite the FBI claims, those accused in the hijacking are not locally known to be involved with Hizballah and there are no hard evidence of them being in Lebanon for the last 11 years since the end of the Lebanese civil war. However, it has been Israel’s, and its strong lobby in the U.S., main effort since the tragic Tuesday to include its staunchest enemy, the Lebanese party that fought the Israeli occupation of the South for 22 years and drove the IDF out of the country, among the U.S. targets. Fortunately, the State Department was able so far to subdue the Israeli pressure.
We hope that Mr. Anan’s Nobel Peace Prize was not paid for by undoing what his former boss, Secretary Boutros Ghali, did in 1996 when he clearly held Israel responsible for the terrorist attack against the UN base in Qana, which caused the killing of 106 Lebanese civilians and injuring and maiming hundreds
more (Click Here to read the report). The Israeli Knesset Commission confirmed the responsibility of the then Israel’s defense
minister, Ariel Sharon, for that carnage. The former UN Secretary was denied reelection for the post in retaliation of that report. The current Secretary seems to have learned the lesson quite well! Still, we hope that this claimed report is untrue.
Finally, there are no doubts that no nation, let alone the strongest in the world, would let such a heinous crime against its people go unpunished. No one, Muslims included, would question the right of the U.S. to bring those involved in this act to swift justice. However, it would be a double crime against those thousands of innocent people who died on the September 11th if their death becomes a “hanger of death” on which every nation tries to hang its ugly war.
Justice for all.
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