Quote:That's like saying a country is breaking apart when 51 of 308 seats of its government belong to a separatist party - interestingly enough, 51 of 308 seats of Canada's government belong to a separtist party, but the country's holding together just fine...
When 14 of 128 seats of a nation's government belong to the group that is bombing another nation you are at war with that nation.
Hezbollah is a minority group in Lebanese politics. It's not like Palestine and the PLO...
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012