[New York Daily News] Mortimer B. Zuckerman - Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the boss of Hizballah (and Iran's puppet), has already said he won't disarm. To no one's surprise, the Lebanese defense minister vows not to order his army to confiscate Hizballah's rockets, mainly because his army couldn't defeat the New York City Police Department. As for the UN, its record in Somalia, Bosnia, and Lebanon offers little cause for hope. So nobody will do it, which means, of course, the prospect of more rockets and missiles raining on Israeli civilians. How should civilized countries deal with terrorists who hide among women and children. A country under attack must defend its citizens. Period. How can the civilized world establish and enforce the principle that civilians are never to be used as human shields? We must have a process for irrefutable international condemnation of terrorists who employ such measures. Failing to do so would mean the terrorists win either on the field of war or in the field of public opinion - while the defenders lose either on the field of war or in the field of international opinion - a lose-lose for the civilized world.
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