Bill Clinton on Current Israel-Lebanon Conflict

Leave it to former President Bill Clinton to shed light -- a clear light -- on the Israel-Lebanon conflict, as he does in this video. President Clinton informs us that Hezbollah presents a problem in that they hide within civilian communities as is the case in Lebanon and thus any attack on them will cause innocent people to die.

If that's the case -- and the Israelis know that -- then a sustained invasion is really almost a form of exterminating a whole group of people for the actions of a scant few. It seems like a perfect vessel for Anti-Arab forces to carry out a campaign of race hate. And the US under President Bush is right in support of those people who may very well have a kind of extermination in mind.

Here's President Clinton: