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The Times - Why Hezbollah should be condemned
When Israel attacked Lebanon in 2006 the world was outraged. What about Hezbollah now? By Dean Godson (research director of the Policy Exchange think-tank)

After all, Hezbollah is one of the world’s most ruthless clerical fascist organisations - complete with ersatz Nazi salutes and Iranian-style Holocaust denial. When the legitimate, democratic Government of Lebanon dared to challenge it, Hezbollah went on a sectarian rampage, murdering scores of opponents and destroying much of the country’s free media.

Yet there has been not a peep from the concerned humanitarians of the Stop the War Coalition, which boasted of putting 100,000 people on to the streets to protest against Israeli assaults. …

The other great myth about Hezbollah - peddled by too many of its Western apologists - is that it is an entirely indigenous “resistance” movement: if so, why have pictures gone up of the Iranian leader, Ali Khamenei, and the Syrian President, Bashar Assad, for the first time in Beirut since the Cedar Revolution of 2005? And, given the violent oppression of Sunnis by Hezbollah, why has so little been heard from the Muslim Council of Britain and the British Muslim Initiative, two predominantly Sunni organisations? Don’t Lebanese Sunnis deserve a little solidarity from their brethren?

So why does Hezbollah’s putsch of 2008 not excite stern criticism - as did Israel’s invasion of 2006? It’s simple: many “progressives” hate Israeli and Western policy far more than they love Lebanon.

I haven’t heard a single peep about this business since it started, whenever that was. I saw some headlines in a couple blogs but didn’t read them because I didn’t have any background and I’m not yet in the habit of relying on blogs for my news content (say what you like about the MSM but at least in some countries they still know how to manage an inverted pyramid).