I’m grateful to Jeff Weintraub for linking here a couple of times in recent days. In one post he quoted my critique of Lara Deeb’s primer on Hezbollah, and he termed Juan Cole’s analysis an “academic whitewash” as well. Leaving that Cole post aside for the moment, I’d like to recall my post of July 20, in which I cited Cole’s strong condemnation of Hezbollah:
Hizbullah’s attacks on Israeli civilians are war crimes. The killing of the civilians in Haifa at the train station was a war crime. And threatening to release chemicals from factories on civilian populations is probably a war crime in itself, much less the doing of it.
In view of Hezbollah’s continued firing, deeper and deeper into Israel, Cole’s words remain important and morally worthy.
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