Jewish Voice Calls on France & England to Ban Hezbollah

On May 8th, the free world will tearfully commemorate and celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the Victory in Europe event. That day saw the defeat of hatred, terrorism and totalitarianism, that freed tens of millions of Europe’s people from the jaws of their Nazi occupiers. Sadly, many of those same nations have short memories nor gratitude for our nation’s sacrifice of over 300,000 military to remove the yoke of racism, terror, slaughter and racism from their necks.  Opposing our nation’s efforts, they now support, do business with and finance the new face of terror in the form of Iran and its surrogate, Hezbollah. Shame on them!

Richard Grenell, our Ambassador to Germany who functions, as well, as acting Director of National Intelligence, is pressing, France, of all nations, to outlaw the entire Lebanese terrorist movement, Hezbollah, and for an entire EU-wide ban on every facet of the Iranian proxy terror group. Although the French have been hit with dozens of deadly Islamist attacks, have many of their communities closed to all but Muslims, with no government law enforcement permitted, they still bow down to Iran, the leading supporter of Iran and its terror surrogates, Hezbollah, its leading one. France does much business with Iran a major supplier of petroleum to that country and is the major block to President Trump’s plan to squeeze that terror state to comply with its nuclear deal and to cease and desist from funding terror groups such as Hezbollah. How do their leaders sleep at night?

Germany, to its credit, totally banned that terror group’s entire movement from doing business within its borders. Prior to this week’s actions, Germany, like most of the European Union, foolishly outlawed only Hezbollah’s military wing, while closing its eyes to the operations of its diplomatic wing. We ask, “What’s the difference between the two?” In a show of forcefulness and hopefully, as an example to the rest of Europe, the Berlin government planned and executed raids on mosques, warehouses and offices of the Hezbollah terror group. This indicates their intelligence services had knowledge of activities within these venues that endangered German citizens. Good for them. Just a thought: What do our own federal agencies know of American mosques being used as planning centers for nefarious terror activities? Are we still in the politically correct mode of our previous administrations?

The United States and Israel have been major leaders in the move to designate all of Hezbollah as a terrorist group. Grenell welcomed Germany’s move to confront Iranian terror by calling on “all European Union member states to take similar action.”Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz extolled what he called “a significant step in the global fight against terrorism” and urged the rest of the EU “to do the same.” It’s sad that France, whose wartime Vichy government played footsie with the Nazis should hesitate to recognize and condemn other fascist, hate filled, terror exponents, Hezbollah and Iran as the Germans have done. Will they eve learn?