Veteran U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, walks past an anti-U.S. banner placed among the rubble of a building that was destroyed following Israeli bombardment during the 34-day long Hezbollah-Israel war, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)Does he mind being used as a prop in anti-American propaganda? I don't think so. Jackson went to Beirut to try and secure the release of Goldwasser and Regev who were taken by Hizbullah in the raid that killed eight other Israeli soldiers and precipitated the 34-day war in South Lebanon.
Note the banner in the background, which prominently seeks to link the destruction of that structure with the US. I'm not shedding tears for the destruction of that building because Hizbullah, the Islamic terror group that turned South Lebanon and indeed much of Lebanon into Hizbullahland, was wholly responsible for the carnage by causing the conflict. Israel would not have fired missiles, rockets, or dropped bombs on Lebanon had Hizbullah not attacked Israel, killed Israelis, and then fired more than 4,000 rockets into Israel. Israel would have stopped firing into Lebanon had Hizbullah simply released the two soldiers, Goldwasser and Regev and stopped firing those rockets. It did neither, and Israel continued to act in its own security interests.
One has to wonder what Jackson thinks of that banner, or whether he'll hold off on commenting until he returns to the safety of the US before commenting. Will any journalists ask him about that? I frankly don't know, but I think it would be one heck of a question to ask.
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