There you go. Another example of the ideological kinship between Islam and Naziism.

Posted by: seville844 at July 30, 2006 5:14 PM

The media says 82% of the Lebanese are behind hezbollah is it more so out of fear. Will hezbollah no target this Druze Leader Mr.Jumblatt

Posted by: AMartinez at July 30, 2006 5:37 PM

Neither the Christians nor the Druze, who were on opposite sides of the civil war (and in the 19th century there were Druze massacres of Christians), support either Hezbollah or Syria. Whatever silences are maintained (would you, hating Hezbollah, if you lived in Lebnanon right now, dare to say it aloud? Some will, but very few), or whatever pretend-support is offered in the phony, transient, whipped-up hysteria of the moment, a hysteria no different from, say, the hysteria that led to attacks in Pakistan on the American Embassy back in 1979 when one group of Muslims opposed to the Saudis seized the Mosque in Mecca, or the hysteria that led to the burning down (again in Pakistan) of the British Council building because someone somewhere had somehow insulted Muhammad. Oh, it is here today, and was here yesterday, and will be here tomorrow -- Muslim mobs, Muslim outrage, Muslim this and Muslim that. It is the job of Infidel leaders not to be influenced, not to be swayed in the slightest, not to think that anything they do to meet those demands in order to "quell Muslim outrage" will have any effect at all except to be taken as a sign of weakness, weakness that will then whet Muslim appetites to demand still more and more. Islam is Islam; any yielding at all, at this point, either by Israel or by the United States deciding to pressure Israel in the slightest (it should be supplying weapons, satellite intelligence, whatever it can to make sure that Hezbollah is permanently not merely dimidiated but reduced to dimensions that will allow the Lebanese whose loyalty is to Lebanon -- those Christians, those Druze, those Sunni merchant classes of the coast -- can deal, as they then will, taking quite a different tone from that which melodramatic and nearly-hysterical Siniora has taken (there was not a wet eye in this house at any of his speeches), and then facing up, or facing down, the Shi'a. Jumblatt, like his father, has one virtue: he says what he believes to be true. Very few people in Lebanon allow themselves that luxury.

Posted by: Hugh at July 30, 2006 6:21 PM

Jumblatt, like his father, has one virtue: he says what he believes to be true. Very few people in Lebanon allow themselves that luxury...

Ssssshhh. Don't wanna deeply offend any Moslems.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at July 30, 2006 7:08 PM

"He [Bashir al-Assad] sent a messenger to Saudi Arabia, four days before going there himself. This messenger, a high-ranking officer, said to one of the princes, in charge of internal security in Saudi Arabia: "We fear that you will suffer terrorist attacks. If you want, we can help you." That is regarding Al-Qaeda... In other words, he threatened them indirectly..."

Bashir al-Assad, the Alawite son of an Alawite father, keeping the Mary-worshipping Alawites lording it over the true Muslims, the trueest bluest of them all, the Guardians of the Two Noble Sanctuaries, the Al-Saud, dares to threaten them? Didn't they arrange for the Alawites to receive all kinds of subventions from them over the years? Didn't the Saudis beamingly preside over the surrender of the Maronites and other Christians at Taif, while David Satterfield of the State Department looked on, and wasn't it the Saudis who forced the Maronites to declare Lebanon to be an "Arab" country, something they had always resisted? Bashir al-Assad dares to threaten Saudi Arabia?

Start the anti-Alawite campaign now. Give them a sample, and tell Bashir al-Assad that there are other Alawite military men, waiting in the wings, who get the message and are ready to replace him, unless he decides he can no longer do Iran's bidding, and the Shi'a Imam who claimed that the Alawites were full-fledged Muslims cuts little ice in Mecca, or for that matter at Al-Azhar. This is a theme that no one has adumbrated. Start adumbrating.

Posted by: Hugh at July 30, 2006 7:43 PM

Hugh is at his best again today....time to get out my dictionary and thesaurus.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 30, 2006 11:02 PM

Walid Jumblatt is the only voice of reason I have heard in that confussed basket case, terrorist harboring section of the world known as Lebanon.

Today the Prime Minister of Lebanon praised Hezbollahs " sacrifices ". In effect, the government has been co-opted into providing political cover for a terrorist venture to destroy as much of Israel as possible and kill as many Jews as possible by saturating the land with missiles. And the government in Lebanon further prostitutes it's self to this diabolical scheme by calling on the international community to pressure Israel into halting all efforts to stop the missile onslaught.

To hell with the government in Lebanon , the same government praised by the Under Secretary of State, it is time to whip out the " either you are for us or the terrorist " choice to those guys.

Time to topple that terrorist corrupted government and put Jumblatt in power. He is the only real revolutionary in that land that has decended into a swamp of reactionary Islamic hatered.

------Nossy

Posted by: Nostrodamus at July 31, 2006 12:03 AM

let's see

Lebonese PM praises Hezbollah.
Lebonese people attack UN
Lebonese people protest against Israel, America and the UN.
Lebonese people seem to support Hezbollah
Lebonese people demand money from US, Israeland the the UN.
Lebonese threaten to sue Israel to pay for damaged buildings, but not ask a cent from Hezabollah, Syria or Iran.
Lebonese complain about US, Israel and the UN not acting fast enough to deliver food, water and medical supplies but say nothing to Hezbollah (who is much to blame for the Lebanese suffering).
Lebonese riot in front of western news cameras claiming Israel and US to be at fault.
Lebonese riot in from of Al-Jezeera TV to show support to the Islamic Religion of Peace and that they are for Jihad.

Either Lebanon is simply a pawn in control of the Islamic masters, or Lebanon is truly operating under the guise of an embattled nation while secretly participating in the death of Israel.

I say to Lebanon, show us some positive response to elimating the Hezbollah from your land (as in using your military and political powers to do so), shop your street violence using "your" military and police or we disavow you as "people in need".

We should remove all aid, money, or other material support. We should remove all embassy personell, evacuate all citizens who qualify for removal to be removed. I would not put US or colition forces in the "buffer zone" simply to be targets.

The Lebonese people have shown me that they are no better that the Iranian, Syrian, Yemani, or Somali Islamic vermin deadset to die.

Posted by: exsgtbrown at July 31, 2006 7:25 AM

Face it. Lebanon is dead. It was created back in the aftermath of World War I as a haven for Middle Eastern Christians, with a slight majority of Christians (mostly Maronite Catholic and Eastern Orthodox). Demography,which made the impoverished southern Lebanese Shi'ite community the fastest growing of all of Lebanon's gorups the plurality if not majority of the population contributed. The Islamic neighborhood of the Arab Middle East, steeped in Islam's ideology of dominance, saw to it that the loss of a Christian majority would plunge Lebanon into civil war. Hizbullah has simply decided, according to the darkness which passes for light in Ithna'ashariyya Shi'ism that a Muslim majority in Lebanon meant that the strongest Muslim party was allowed to do whatever it wished.

Perhaps there is a ghost of a chance that a coalition of Christians, Druze, and moderate Sunnis in Lebanon can unite and check Hezbollah influeencce, but this is unlikely. Moderates, by nature, do not stick their necks out; and the response engendered by some peculiar form of radicalism is to inflame another kind of radicalism. In Lebanon's case, however, the radicalism of the Maronite Falange was defeated, leaving that of Hezbollah the main one standing.

Posted by: Kepha at July 31, 2006 7:49 AM

The media says 82% of the Lebanese are behind hezbollah is it more so out of fear. Will hezbollah no target this Druze Leader Mr.Jumblatt

Posted by: AMartinez at July 30, 2006 05:37 PM

AMartinez:

I would question any poll showing quite this much support for Hezbollah among the general Lebanese population, although it's always much easier for Arabs in particular and the world in general to blame Israel for everything, no matter what the facts actually indicate.

As for Hezbollah targetting Jumblatt, I believe his late father was assassinated during the "civil war" of the 1980s by Muslim opponents (and not Christian Phalangists).

Posted by: waterdragon52 at July 31, 2006 8:52 AM