Hezbollah has never carried out a single "terror" attack anywhere in the world - they have always fought foreign military forces IN LEBANON. Attacking military targets is not terrorism (even as defined by the UN). According to "western" press the current "war" in Lebanon is because Hezbollah committed the "terrorist" act of kidnapping Israeli soldiers. But Israel regularly kidnaps Lebanese citizens - and HAS exchanged prisoners before (as recent as 2004). Hezbollah did not fire a single rocket into Israel before Israel started bombing. For Indians to react in such a manner in support of a coloniser such as Israel and applaud the bombing of innocent citizens (that is terrorism) by a state is surprising - it must be because we confuse Hezbollah or Hamas with Lashkar or Jaish. We have also fallen into the trap of demonising Muslims and Arabs. In Lebanon and in Palestine, native people are being oppressed by colonisers who are basically racists - we have to stop defending them.The columnist says Hezbollah wants to make Labanon a Muslim nation - as if that is horrible; but Israel is already a Jewish nation - how is that better?
