U.S. President Bush unveiled last night a list of 22 most-wanted terrorists - including three members of Hizbullah. The list, which of course includes Osama bin Laden and his deputies, also features Hizbullah member Imad Mugniyah, a suspect in the bombings of the Israeli Embassy and a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that left 119 dead in the early 1990s, as well as Hizbullah terrorists Hassan Izz-al-Din and Ali Atwa, who, together with Mugniyah, were implicated in the hijacking of a TWA airliner in the mid-80\'s. Hizbullah is a Lebanese-based terrorist organization that has made destruction of Israel its goal; it is backed by both Syria and Iran.
An official in the Prime Minister\'s Office told the Jerusalem Post that the inclusion of the Hizbullah terrorists on the list \"shows that terrorism is indivisible, and that any attempt to make a distinction between terrorism against occupation and terrorism against the Twin Towers is not possible. The Palestinians are trying to draw distinctions, but it doesn\'t work. You can\'t exonerate one organization, because then the whole war on terror will crumble... The U.S. is in no moral position to rebuke Israel for taking self-defense action, when it is invoking its own moral and legal right of self-defense for what it is doing in Afghanistan, and even received a UN Security Council resolution confirming that right. What is good for the U.S. is good for us as well.\"
An official in the Prime Minister\'s Office told the Jerusalem Post that the inclusion of the Hizbullah terrorists on the list \"shows that terrorism is indivisible, and that any attempt to make a distinction between terrorism against occupation and terrorism against the Twin Towers is not possible. The Palestinians are trying to draw distinctions, but it doesn\'t work. You can\'t exonerate one organization, because then the whole war on terror will crumble... The U.S. is in no moral position to rebuke Israel for taking self-defense action, when it is invoking its own moral and legal right of self-defense for what it is doing in Afghanistan, and even received a UN Security Council resolution confirming that right. What is good for the U.S. is good for us as well.\"