The Huffington Post, to their credit, posted a news story about one of the documents, a document that stated Iran armed Hezbollah during the 2003 Lebanon War using Red Crescent ambulances. This is, of course, not the first time we've heard about this kind of thing from the Israelis, but maybe now that it's authenticated with State Department documents, it might have some impact with the world at large.
The HPers, of course, love Hezbollah and Iran, so they leaped to their defense. Click below to see their responses.
Now, there weren't that many defenders of Hezbollah on the thread, but it's still new. There were two kinds of posts, those that said it wasn't a big deal, and those who attacked Wikileaks as a source. We'll start with the attacking the source posts first.
Ah, suddenly now that Hezbollah is the one accused of a crime, the standard for evidence becomes much higher. If it were Israel accused, though, the HPers would already consider it tried and convicted.
Wikileaks is an Israeli operation, of course...
Now it's a Mossad operation! And al-Qaeda is in quotes. Next we've got the justification posts:
Notice how when it's Hezbollah breaking the rules, suddenly international law isn't as important a thing to follow.
Glad to see the "liberal" "concerned" "human rights advocates" are so unbothered by the idea that Iran used ambulances to transport weapons. They are not hypocritical at all. Really.
The same left concerned about Israel following international law has no such scruples when Hezbollah doesn't follow it.
ReplyDeleteJust don't call it a double standard!