Hezbollah members attempt to take over houses in a southern Lebanese village and use them to store weapons. The locals fight back and kick the intruders out. The worrisome aspect of this is that incidents like this are taking place under the nose of UNIFIL and the tacit protection and approval of the Lebanese Army.
An altercation took place this week in the southern Lebanese village of Marwahin - one kilometer away from the Lebanese-Israeli border - between local residents and Hezbollah gunmen. The gunmen arrived at the village and attempted to forcibly take over residents' houses and store weapons and rockets in them. However, the village residents refused and forcefully resisted the attempt. At some point the Hezbollah gunmen fired their guns in the air, and the locals did the same in response.
After hours of clashes, Lebanese Army forces arrived in the village in a bid to prevent a violent clash from erupting into an all-out war. Two days later, the members of the fundamentalist Muslim Shiite organization finally left the mostly village under Lebanese Army protection.
This incident illustrates Hezbollah's continued violation of UN resolution 1701 by building up its arsenal in the Lebanese south, south of the Litani River, an area from which it was banned under that resolution. It moreover illustrates that the Lebanese people are not behind Hezbollah's warmongering in the south on behalf of Iran, and do not wish to be associated with the disasters that Hezbollah keeps inviting onto the country. The use of arms to stand up to Hezbollah shows that the Lebanese people are fed up with the Iranian terror organization and its efforts to drag Lebanon into further wars and destruction.
Hezbollah's effort to maintain its presence, hide weapons and fighters among the Lebanese population in southern Lebanon after it was evicted from it by UN Resolution 1701 is a violation of the latter. Moreover, to hide and store weapons behind the civilian population is a violation of international law and shows Hezbollah's disregard for the population it claims to defend against the "enemy".
The explosion of an ammunition cache in Khirbit Slim in the same area a couple of months ago proved that Hezbollah continues to prepare for a possible confrontation with Israel. A UN investigation castigated Hezbollah for that flagrant violation of UN resolution 1701, after members of UNIFIL who arrived on the scene to investigate were attacked and injured by Hezbollah terrorists.
We truly hope that the citizens of Lebanon, many of whom have been brainwashed by Hezbollah, will begin to understand that Iran and Hezbollah want the Lebanese to be the only Arabs – the only idiots really – to fight Israel, while the rest of the Arabs have made, or are making peace, with Israel. Unless all the fucking Muslims and Arabs join in the war against Israel, tiny and devastated Lebanon should not be fighting Israel. It should make peace with Israel and get on with life.
Hanibaal
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Lebanon's "Professional" Government: It Warns Toursists of its Incomptence
Lebanon's government is indeed making strides to get Lebanon out of the cesspool of underdevelopment it is so good at keeping it in.
For example, the Tourism Minister (as the Naharnet newspiece below shows) warned tourism operators that his Ministry issued warnings to hotels and restaurants following complaints by tourists about traffic problems, power shortages, lack of clean water and high prices.
Note the double wammy: Not only did the highly incompetent Lebanese government feel it was necessary to warn tourists of its own incompetence at providing the basic necessities (it actually never warns the Lebanese themselves about any of those chronic problems that have plagued the country for the past 40 years or so...), but it did issue the warning FOLLOWING (i.e. after, post-fact, من بعد, تعقيباً على, إثر) the complaints. Not before the complaints. After the complaints.
Welcome to the putrid incompetence of Lebanese - and in this case the so-called "Maronite" - genius that seems to flourish only after the individual Lebanese moves out of the country and to a place where basic necessities are made available, because then that genius is free to reach its heights unhampered by the daily foraging for basic needs. Indeed, those Lebanese who stay in the country have to constantly be eking out a living to secure water, electricity, clean air, a sliver of beach, bribe money for government officials and bureaucrats, etc. and that is why their genius never develops to its full potential, except a la Hassan Nasrallah, Michel Aoun, Samir Geagea and Walid Jumblatt, who all exhibit a kind of noir eccentric genius that is evil, mischievous, yet understated and utterly humble.
So I think the Lebanese government will issue a warning in 2012 to the Lebanese people that they are in mortal danger of being eradicated from the surface of the earth, FOLLOWING the planned 2011 attacks of Hezbollah against Israel. You will be forewarned after the fact. So don't complain because we will tell you.
Hanibaal
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Marouni says his ministry warned tourist operators after complaints
August 23, 2009
Tourism Minister Elie Marouni told LBC television on Sunday that the ministry issued warnings to a number of hotels and restaurants following complaints by tourists regarding traffic issues, power shortages, a lack of clean water and high prices.
Marouni reiterated the importance of tourism and the service industry for Lebanon’s “revival.”
For example, the Tourism Minister (as the Naharnet newspiece below shows) warned tourism operators that his Ministry issued warnings to hotels and restaurants following complaints by tourists about traffic problems, power shortages, lack of clean water and high prices.
Note the double wammy: Not only did the highly incompetent Lebanese government feel it was necessary to warn tourists of its own incompetence at providing the basic necessities (it actually never warns the Lebanese themselves about any of those chronic problems that have plagued the country for the past 40 years or so...), but it did issue the warning FOLLOWING (i.e. after, post-fact, من بعد, تعقيباً على, إثر) the complaints. Not before the complaints. After the complaints.
Welcome to the putrid incompetence of Lebanese - and in this case the so-called "Maronite" - genius that seems to flourish only after the individual Lebanese moves out of the country and to a place where basic necessities are made available, because then that genius is free to reach its heights unhampered by the daily foraging for basic needs. Indeed, those Lebanese who stay in the country have to constantly be eking out a living to secure water, electricity, clean air, a sliver of beach, bribe money for government officials and bureaucrats, etc. and that is why their genius never develops to its full potential, except a la Hassan Nasrallah, Michel Aoun, Samir Geagea and Walid Jumblatt, who all exhibit a kind of noir eccentric genius that is evil, mischievous, yet understated and utterly humble.
So I think the Lebanese government will issue a warning in 2012 to the Lebanese people that they are in mortal danger of being eradicated from the surface of the earth, FOLLOWING the planned 2011 attacks of Hezbollah against Israel. You will be forewarned after the fact. So don't complain because we will tell you.
Hanibaal
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Marouni says his ministry warned tourist operators after complaints
August 23, 2009
Tourism Minister Elie Marouni told LBC television on Sunday that the ministry issued warnings to a number of hotels and restaurants following complaints by tourists regarding traffic issues, power shortages, a lack of clean water and high prices.
Marouni reiterated the importance of tourism and the service industry for Lebanon’s “revival.”
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Workings of Lebanese "Democracy"
Without trying to define what democracy is and whether the utterly dysfunctional Lebanese political system fits the definition of what a democracy is or ought to be, it is enough to observe the political process in Lebanon over the past couple years to realize what an anomaly the whole country is.
It took 9 months for Parliament to elect a President, who then appointed a Prime Minister who could only clobber together a government after several months of wrangling ending in the Doha Agreement. Then that government sat paralyzed for the entire duration of its term because governments that are formed by consensus (meaning haggling and bartering across 18 different religious sects, with the clergy domestically getting involved, and then regional and international powers interfering) end up completely unable to pass a law or manage the affairs of the country. They are like a house of cards painstakingly built with all sorts of patch-ups, but which are so delicate that no one dares to make a move lest the whole construct collapses.
And that is exactly what happened because then came time for parliamentary elections. Those elections - because of the sheer stupidity of the Lebanese people - brought the exact same set of characters back to where we were before the elections. So nothing has changed. And now, the haggling and bartering over ministerial portfolios has delayed the formation of a new government for almost three months.
Which makes one wonder how does Lebanon function as a state, when most of the time the people in charge are not actually doing real government work (i.e. passing laws and budgets, fixing things, taking care of the country, the economy, security, etc...). Instead, they are haggling over who will have more power to scuttle more of the governance business by paralyzing the executive and the legislative branches. The Lebanese Parliament actually rarely meets to debate and pass laws; it's irrelevant, really. All it does is represent the religious sects. That is the function of Parliament in Lebanon: A decorative, rather than a functional entity. Apparently the Lebanese enjoy knowing that there are so many Maronites, Druze, Shiites, etc. standing like dummies in Parliament "representing" them. It matters not at all that these dummies do not pass laws like they do in normal legislative bodies.
Meanwhile, life goes on. Decades go by in Lebanon without any sense of improvement in the outlook of the country: Twenty years after the official end of the Lebanese War (1990, although I personally believe that the war has not ended yet,) there is still rationing of electricity, there is no running potable water, there is tremendous insecurity with Palestinian armed gangs still roaming and bombing at leisure and occasionally erupting into a war with the Lebanese army (as in 2007), a heavily armed Hezbollah terrorist militia that occasionally takes to the street to harass, kill, and intimidate and whose missiles stockpile keeps piling up in the south right under the nose of an incompetent Lebanese army and an even more incompetent United Nations force (UNIFIL); everyone waiting for the next war between ISrael and Hezbollah (like it happened in 2006).
How can any sane person call Lebanon a worthy country? Of course, you get the weekly reports from idiotic wide-eyed foreign reporters who tell us that Beirut is the "sin city" of the Middle East, or that the tourists season has been great so far, as if those sporadic flashy and superficial positives can compensate for the endemic pestilence of Lebanon's political life. No country can survive the abject failure of a a government to manage it. No money coming from the Diaspora, no money that is begged periodically by the Lebanese Government from donor countries (there has been three PAris donor conferences over the past 5 years to rescue Lebanon from insolvency, not to mention all the money that wealthy Arab countries pay into the Lebanese economy) can keep a country afloat forever.
The Lebanese government can't even levy taxes from its citizens. Hezbollah for instance occupies large swaths of land called "security zones" where it operates outside Lebanese sovereignty. Hezbollah and its followers in the southern suburbs for example do not pay electricity bills.
Lebanon spends most of its time without governments and parliaments. It spends the majority of its time between governments and parliaments. It just doesn't work. Time to let it collapse, implode, explode, partition, rearrange, get annexed, occupied by a benign occupying power... Anything but this charade of a country.
Hanibaal
It took 9 months for Parliament to elect a President, who then appointed a Prime Minister who could only clobber together a government after several months of wrangling ending in the Doha Agreement. Then that government sat paralyzed for the entire duration of its term because governments that are formed by consensus (meaning haggling and bartering across 18 different religious sects, with the clergy domestically getting involved, and then regional and international powers interfering) end up completely unable to pass a law or manage the affairs of the country. They are like a house of cards painstakingly built with all sorts of patch-ups, but which are so delicate that no one dares to make a move lest the whole construct collapses.
And that is exactly what happened because then came time for parliamentary elections. Those elections - because of the sheer stupidity of the Lebanese people - brought the exact same set of characters back to where we were before the elections. So nothing has changed. And now, the haggling and bartering over ministerial portfolios has delayed the formation of a new government for almost three months.
Which makes one wonder how does Lebanon function as a state, when most of the time the people in charge are not actually doing real government work (i.e. passing laws and budgets, fixing things, taking care of the country, the economy, security, etc...). Instead, they are haggling over who will have more power to scuttle more of the governance business by paralyzing the executive and the legislative branches. The Lebanese Parliament actually rarely meets to debate and pass laws; it's irrelevant, really. All it does is represent the religious sects. That is the function of Parliament in Lebanon: A decorative, rather than a functional entity. Apparently the Lebanese enjoy knowing that there are so many Maronites, Druze, Shiites, etc. standing like dummies in Parliament "representing" them. It matters not at all that these dummies do not pass laws like they do in normal legislative bodies.
Meanwhile, life goes on. Decades go by in Lebanon without any sense of improvement in the outlook of the country: Twenty years after the official end of the Lebanese War (1990, although I personally believe that the war has not ended yet,) there is still rationing of electricity, there is no running potable water, there is tremendous insecurity with Palestinian armed gangs still roaming and bombing at leisure and occasionally erupting into a war with the Lebanese army (as in 2007), a heavily armed Hezbollah terrorist militia that occasionally takes to the street to harass, kill, and intimidate and whose missiles stockpile keeps piling up in the south right under the nose of an incompetent Lebanese army and an even more incompetent United Nations force (UNIFIL); everyone waiting for the next war between ISrael and Hezbollah (like it happened in 2006).
How can any sane person call Lebanon a worthy country? Of course, you get the weekly reports from idiotic wide-eyed foreign reporters who tell us that Beirut is the "sin city" of the Middle East, or that the tourists season has been great so far, as if those sporadic flashy and superficial positives can compensate for the endemic pestilence of Lebanon's political life. No country can survive the abject failure of a a government to manage it. No money coming from the Diaspora, no money that is begged periodically by the Lebanese Government from donor countries (there has been three PAris donor conferences over the past 5 years to rescue Lebanon from insolvency, not to mention all the money that wealthy Arab countries pay into the Lebanese economy) can keep a country afloat forever.
The Lebanese government can't even levy taxes from its citizens. Hezbollah for instance occupies large swaths of land called "security zones" where it operates outside Lebanese sovereignty. Hezbollah and its followers in the southern suburbs for example do not pay electricity bills.
Lebanon spends most of its time without governments and parliaments. It spends the majority of its time between governments and parliaments. It just doesn't work. Time to let it collapse, implode, explode, partition, rearrange, get annexed, occupied by a benign occupying power... Anything but this charade of a country.
Hanibaal
Monday, August 17, 2009
Thank God for Walid Jumblatt's Testicles: We now have Taymour to Continue the Line of Liars
Not only has Walid Jumblatt changed camps and is now a Hezbollah lover, but he is using this umpteenth molting to introduce the product of his testicular integrity to Lebanese politics, so as to ensure the continuity of the Jumblatt line of traitors, liars and turncoat warlord criminal feudal politicians.
Lucky are the Lebanese to have leaders like Jumblatt who transmit political power to their progeny like they take a dump in a bathroom: In one flop, and there you go, Druze of Lebanon, I present you with your new (to be elected in the future) leader for the next 30 years or so who will make sure to keep you like a herd of goats, and massacre more Christians in his Shouf mountains at the next civil war that inevitably will break out in this cursed country.
We now have the complete set of characters in the monstrous play called Lebanon's "consensual democracy" that will actually climax in that next civil war: Nadim and Sami Gemayel, Basil Berri, Taymour Jumblatt, Saad Hariri, Michel Moawwad, some hairy creep from the neanderthal Murr clan who still live in caves in Bteghrine, and the list is long. And for those politicians whose testicles were not fortunate to produce a son, what the heck a daughter (Tueni) or a son-in-law (Jebran Bassil of Michel Aoun vintage) will do. It does not matter what the IQ is, what the experience is, or even whether Taymour really wants to go into politics. He has no choice. The Mafia family decides your future for you. No wonder, then, that Lebanese politicians turn to crime and abnormal behavior: They are not happy dudes. Their fathers forced them into a career path they hated...So they turn their anger into erratic political behavior and criminal warlord hallucinations that, ultimately, only Lebanon suffers from.
So my fellow Lebanese, between the new generation of politicians now lined up to kill your own children, burn the homes you are now building for them, and demolish your villages that you have barely rebuilt from the massacres and pogroms of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, you are all set to transmit this fine country to your children. You can die in peace, knowing that Taymour Jumblatt is in charge of 40 more years of wavering, lying, cheating, betraying, and camouflaging.
Hanibaal
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Taymour Jumblat at Hizbullah Rally to Strengthen Roots in Confronting Israel
Druze leader Walid Jumblat said he the objective behind dispatching his son, Taymour, to attend Friday's Hizbullah rally was aimed at consolidating his roots in confronting Israel.
"I grew up (listening) to the voice of (the late Egyptian President Gamal) Abdel Nasser and (seeing) his image," Jumblat said in remarks published by the daily As-Safir on Monday.
"I deliberately sent Taymour to the southern suburbs because it's a symbol of struggle against Israel," Jumblat added.
Jumblat said he hopes his son's presence at the Hizbullah rally which marked the occasion of the third anniversary of the July war "will be the beginning of a cultural and political road for him to strengthen the roots of his grandfather Kamal Jumblat in confronting Israel."
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Lebanese Army & Lebanese: Casual Racists to the Core
Here is the story of a young Canadian who went to Lebanon on an summer internship with the UN. He ends up in the dungeons of the Lebanese Defense Ministry in a high security prison. Why? Because he is dark and originally from Pakistan.
So "ethnic profiling" is not unique to the US. It also happens in filthy backward racist Lebanon, the so-called "Switzerland of the Middle East".
To all foreigners: Do not go to Lebanon. Lebanon belongs to Hezbollah. Lebanon is Afghanistan-under-the-Taliban with a shiny veneer. Lebanon is polluted and dirty. Lebanon is a cesspool of corruption. And Lebanon is a very dangerous place.
Read the story of Faraz Siddiqui, the young Canadian who is now saying that even the Canadian embassy could not convince the Lebanese Army - a poodle of Hezbollah - to get him to talk to a lawyer.
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(From the Toronto Star)
The panic set in as Faraz Siddiqui sat among the dejected prisoners in the Lebanese army prison in the basement of the Ministry of Defense in May, wondering if he would ever get out. Some of his fellow inmates had been there for months, others for years. Some of the inmates are tortured and forced to sign confessions. Many of those detained there are innocent of the crimes attributed to them, or are there for political reasons, in sub human conditions for decades before justice was served.
My own interpretation of what happened to Siddiqui is a reprisals by Hezbollaha against the Canadian government which has kept Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations, despite attempts by Canadian leftwingers to remove Hezbollah from that list.
The 24-year-old Canadian citizen was arrested for overstaying his work visa by a few days. It took more than a week of detention in the maximum-security jail to get him out, mostly through "connections" and not by Canadian diplomacy or the proper functioning of a non-existent and flagrantly corrupt Lebanese justice system. That is why Lebanon has become such a dangerous place for westerners and non-Muslims.
His friends and family pleaded with the Canadian embassy in Beirut to intervene, to ensure he had access to a lawyer, was interrogated in a language he understood and to simply verify that Siddiqui was in fact a Canadian. "All they had to do was vouch for me, to say, `Yes, he is a Canadian,'" said Siddiqui, who had been in Lebanon for an internship with the United Nations.
"And I would have been out of there that day. Instead, they [the Canadian embassy] said there was nothing they could do." Fortunately for Siddiqui, his friends were able to hire a lawyer based in Lebanon who knew the system, and convinced the embassy to get involved. "I was lucky I had people in Lebanon who could help me, " said Siddiqui, who arrived back in Canada at the end of May. "Otherwise, I would still be there . ... "
In Siddiqui's case, it was his Pakistani background that set off Lebanese alarm bells. The Lebanese army accused him of having a fake passport and being part of Al Qaeda: why else would a young man of Pakistani background work for free and choose to live near Palestinian refugee camps, they wondered in their primitive, backward mentality? Human Rights, volunteerism, serving human causes that are not your own...these are all foreign concepts to the underdeveloped Lebanese who, like Afghanistan, after 40 years of war, have no running water, no electricity, very high pollution of their air and beaches, and one of the most heavily armed places on earth. Not a year goes by without security breaks down, war erupts or inter-factional fighting occurs.
In fact, the country has been without a government since last June when so-called "parliamentary elections" were held. Lebanese politicians - mostly Mafia-like families backed by powerful religious institutions - have been bickering over which ministries get allocated to whom. They mostly bicker over what they consider "important" ministries (finance, defense, communications...) and "unimportant" ministries (environment, education, etc.), because you get the most profitable kickbacks and bribes in the former, but not the latter.
"He was naïve, in a very Canadian way," said Ahmed Alameddine, his lawyer. "He was just here to do good. And this whole visa thing was a mistake." "I guess I'm just not as Canadian to them," Siddiqui whispers. "In the [Canadian Government's] eyes, I'm not Canadian enough." And in the Lebanese Government's eyes, he was a dark Pakistani spy or terrorist pretending to doing good deeds in Lebanon.
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Hanibaal
So "ethnic profiling" is not unique to the US. It also happens in filthy backward racist Lebanon, the so-called "Switzerland of the Middle East".
To all foreigners: Do not go to Lebanon. Lebanon belongs to Hezbollah. Lebanon is Afghanistan-under-the-Taliban with a shiny veneer. Lebanon is polluted and dirty. Lebanon is a cesspool of corruption. And Lebanon is a very dangerous place.
Read the story of Faraz Siddiqui, the young Canadian who is now saying that even the Canadian embassy could not convince the Lebanese Army - a poodle of Hezbollah - to get him to talk to a lawyer.
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(From the Toronto Star)
The panic set in as Faraz Siddiqui sat among the dejected prisoners in the Lebanese army prison in the basement of the Ministry of Defense in May, wondering if he would ever get out. Some of his fellow inmates had been there for months, others for years. Some of the inmates are tortured and forced to sign confessions. Many of those detained there are innocent of the crimes attributed to them, or are there for political reasons, in sub human conditions for decades before justice was served.
My own interpretation of what happened to Siddiqui is a reprisals by Hezbollaha against the Canadian government which has kept Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations, despite attempts by Canadian leftwingers to remove Hezbollah from that list.
The 24-year-old Canadian citizen was arrested for overstaying his work visa by a few days. It took more than a week of detention in the maximum-security jail to get him out, mostly through "connections" and not by Canadian diplomacy or the proper functioning of a non-existent and flagrantly corrupt Lebanese justice system. That is why Lebanon has become such a dangerous place for westerners and non-Muslims.
His friends and family pleaded with the Canadian embassy in Beirut to intervene, to ensure he had access to a lawyer, was interrogated in a language he understood and to simply verify that Siddiqui was in fact a Canadian. "All they had to do was vouch for me, to say, `Yes, he is a Canadian,'" said Siddiqui, who had been in Lebanon for an internship with the United Nations.
"And I would have been out of there that day. Instead, they [the Canadian embassy] said there was nothing they could do." Fortunately for Siddiqui, his friends were able to hire a lawyer based in Lebanon who knew the system, and convinced the embassy to get involved. "I was lucky I had people in Lebanon who could help me, " said Siddiqui, who arrived back in Canada at the end of May. "Otherwise, I would still be there . ... "
In Siddiqui's case, it was his Pakistani background that set off Lebanese alarm bells. The Lebanese army accused him of having a fake passport and being part of Al Qaeda: why else would a young man of Pakistani background work for free and choose to live near Palestinian refugee camps, they wondered in their primitive, backward mentality? Human Rights, volunteerism, serving human causes that are not your own...these are all foreign concepts to the underdeveloped Lebanese who, like Afghanistan, after 40 years of war, have no running water, no electricity, very high pollution of their air and beaches, and one of the most heavily armed places on earth. Not a year goes by without security breaks down, war erupts or inter-factional fighting occurs.
In fact, the country has been without a government since last June when so-called "parliamentary elections" were held. Lebanese politicians - mostly Mafia-like families backed by powerful religious institutions - have been bickering over which ministries get allocated to whom. They mostly bicker over what they consider "important" ministries (finance, defense, communications...) and "unimportant" ministries (environment, education, etc.), because you get the most profitable kickbacks and bribes in the former, but not the latter.
"He was naïve, in a very Canadian way," said Ahmed Alameddine, his lawyer. "He was just here to do good. And this whole visa thing was a mistake." "I guess I'm just not as Canadian to them," Siddiqui whispers. "In the [Canadian Government's] eyes, I'm not Canadian enough." And in the Lebanese Government's eyes, he was a dark Pakistani spy or terrorist pretending to doing good deeds in Lebanon.
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Hanibaal
Friday, August 14, 2009
The "Enemy" Speaks the Truth
Exactly, Mr. Peres. This is what the vast majority of Lebanese believe, but are afraid of saying.
Hanibaal
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Peres: Hizbullah is Destroying Lebanon
Hizbullah's Ideology is Based on War
Israeli President Shimon Peres said Hizbullah is destroying Lebanon through its subservience to Iran adding that there is no reason for enmity between Lebanon and the Jewish state.
"We wish to see Lebanon again as the Switzerland of the Middle East - Switzerland, and not Iran," Peres said during a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on Thursday.
"The situation in Lebanon has changed. We have not changed. We never were and never will be enemies of Lebanon," Israeli media quoted him as saying.
He said there is no reason for enmity between Lebanon and the Jewish state. "We wish the Lebanese people success in rebuilding their country and hope that an alliance of peace and good neighborly relations will emerge between us," Peres added.
Calling Hizbullah a "curse," he accused it of "destroying" Lebanon and "bringing calamity" on the country and its people through its subservience to Iran. He added, however, that "Israeli deterrence has been restored."
Peres told the ceremony that the alleged Hizbullah arms depots pose a greater threat to Lebanon than Israel. The Israeli president further went as saying that the Shiite group's entire ideology is based war and destruction.
"Hizbullah established a state within a state, and army within an army; an organization thirsty for blood in a land yearning for peace. It is not Israel which is a danger to Lebanon. The land of the cedars is cursed by Hizbullah," Peres added.
Hanibaal
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Peres: Hizbullah is Destroying Lebanon
Hizbullah's Ideology is Based on War
Israeli President Shimon Peres said Hizbullah is destroying Lebanon through its subservience to Iran adding that there is no reason for enmity between Lebanon and the Jewish state.
"We wish to see Lebanon again as the Switzerland of the Middle East - Switzerland, and not Iran," Peres said during a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on Thursday.
"The situation in Lebanon has changed. We have not changed. We never were and never will be enemies of Lebanon," Israeli media quoted him as saying.
He said there is no reason for enmity between Lebanon and the Jewish state. "We wish the Lebanese people success in rebuilding their country and hope that an alliance of peace and good neighborly relations will emerge between us," Peres added.
Calling Hizbullah a "curse," he accused it of "destroying" Lebanon and "bringing calamity" on the country and its people through its subservience to Iran. He added, however, that "Israeli deterrence has been restored."
Peres told the ceremony that the alleged Hizbullah arms depots pose a greater threat to Lebanon than Israel. The Israeli president further went as saying that the Shiite group's entire ideology is based war and destruction.
"Hizbullah established a state within a state, and army within an army; an organization thirsty for blood in a land yearning for peace. It is not Israel which is a danger to Lebanon. The land of the cedars is cursed by Hizbullah," Peres added.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Druse here Arab nationalists ... Druse there Zionists ... Sort of like Walid Jumblatt
Not only is Walid Jumblatt the perennial chameleon who changes political ideology like he changes his underwear, but his whole Druse sect shares that same phenotype.
While in Lebanon, the Druse are Arab nationalists and "Progressive Socialists" (sometimes), then turn to Lebanese nationalism and anti-Arab positions, the Israeli Druse do the same thing by alternating between being hardline Zionists and supporters of Israel against their own "Arab brethren" and occasional expressions of Arab nationalist identity. The Druse indeed are political and ideological whores.
You see, the ISraeli army that Hassan Nasrallah loves to hate, especially those brigades that bomb and invade Lebanon, is full of Druse, the same Druse that Walid Jumblatt keep wagging around his ever changing geopolitical positions. Below is the story of one Imad Faris, a highly ranking Druse in the Israeli Army, who - just like Walid Jumblatt - lies.
I am amazed at how the Druse, straddling the Lebanon-Syria-Israel border areas, are Baathists in Syria, Lebanese-Arab nationalists in Lebanon, and ardent Zionists in ISrael. Yet, no one ever attacks the Druse for being the ideological prostitutes of this region of the Middle East, in contrast to the Maronites of Lebanon who collaborated for a few years with Israel to avoid being ethnically cleansed out of Lebanon by Walid Jumblatt's Druse themselves. The whole Arab world erupted against the "Zionist, isolationist, crusader, imperialist, neo-colonialist" MAronites who were simply trying to survive the Palestinian-Islamic-Druse onslaught in the 1970s and 1980s. Even today, there are 5,000 Lebanese civilians (Christians, Shiites and Druse) who are refugees in Israel because they escaped from Hezbollah's fascist rule in the south of the country. Whenever one of them tries to come back home, they are arrested, tortured, humiliated as "Zionist" traitors.
I wonder how does Jumblatt do it? How does he - and his Druse chameleon community of barbaric primitive people - manage to maintain their dignity even as they betray themselves every day? It must be the tribal mindset that makes people so stupid, irrational and brainwashed to do whatever their leader tells them to do. They just put their brains in their asses and stop thinking for themselves.
Hanibaal
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Israeli Druse General Imad Faris
Brig.-Gen. Imad Faris resigned from the IDF on Monday after admitting to lying in a car accident report.
Faris, one of the Israeli army's highest-ranking Druse officers, was commander of the Galilee Division, which is deployed along the border with Lebanon, for the past two years. His term ended Sunday. Previously, Faris served as commander of the Givati Brigade and of Division 80, which is stationed along the Egyptian border.
The car accident occurred on July 28, when Faris's wife was driving his IDF-issued car and was involved in an accident. No one was injured. When Faris informed the rental company of the accident, he wrote in the report that he had been in the car at the time.
On Saturday night, after the IDF learned of the accident, Faris spoke with OC Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot and told him he had been in the car during the accident. Faris said the same thing to Eizenkot's deputy, Brig.-Gen. Alon Friedman.
On Sunday, though, following the ceremony at Northern Command headquarters outside Safed in which he was replaced by Brig.-Gen. Yoel Strick, Faris approached Eizenkot and admitted to having lied to him the previous night. Faris told Eizenkot he "could not live" with the lie and asked to be dismissed from military service. Eizenkot and Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi obliged.
Faris was to have been appointed the next head of the IDF's company and battalion commanders course.
He is the second division commander to get into trouble for lying about vehicle accidents. In June, a military court demoted former Gaza Division commander Brig.-Gen Moshe "Chico" Tamir to the rank of colonel for permitting his underage son to drive an IDF dune buggy and attempting to cover up a subsequent accident.
Tamir came under investigation last year after he allowed his 14-year-old son to use the dune buggy during a social meeting of division officers and their families.
The boy crashed into a civilian vehicle and caused damage to the car. Tamir then attempted to keep the case quiet and, like Faris, even claimed to have been the driver.
While in Lebanon, the Druse are Arab nationalists and "Progressive Socialists" (sometimes), then turn to Lebanese nationalism and anti-Arab positions, the Israeli Druse do the same thing by alternating between being hardline Zionists and supporters of Israel against their own "Arab brethren" and occasional expressions of Arab nationalist identity. The Druse indeed are political and ideological whores.
You see, the ISraeli army that Hassan Nasrallah loves to hate, especially those brigades that bomb and invade Lebanon, is full of Druse, the same Druse that Walid Jumblatt keep wagging around his ever changing geopolitical positions. Below is the story of one Imad Faris, a highly ranking Druse in the Israeli Army, who - just like Walid Jumblatt - lies.
I am amazed at how the Druse, straddling the Lebanon-Syria-Israel border areas, are Baathists in Syria, Lebanese-Arab nationalists in Lebanon, and ardent Zionists in ISrael. Yet, no one ever attacks the Druse for being the ideological prostitutes of this region of the Middle East, in contrast to the Maronites of Lebanon who collaborated for a few years with Israel to avoid being ethnically cleansed out of Lebanon by Walid Jumblatt's Druse themselves. The whole Arab world erupted against the "Zionist, isolationist, crusader, imperialist, neo-colonialist" MAronites who were simply trying to survive the Palestinian-Islamic-Druse onslaught in the 1970s and 1980s. Even today, there are 5,000 Lebanese civilians (Christians, Shiites and Druse) who are refugees in Israel because they escaped from Hezbollah's fascist rule in the south of the country. Whenever one of them tries to come back home, they are arrested, tortured, humiliated as "Zionist" traitors.
I wonder how does Jumblatt do it? How does he - and his Druse chameleon community of barbaric primitive people - manage to maintain their dignity even as they betray themselves every day? It must be the tribal mindset that makes people so stupid, irrational and brainwashed to do whatever their leader tells them to do. They just put their brains in their asses and stop thinking for themselves.
Hanibaal
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Israeli Druse General Imad Faris
Brig.-Gen. Imad Faris resigned from the IDF on Monday after admitting to lying in a car accident report.
Faris, one of the Israeli army's highest-ranking Druse officers, was commander of the Galilee Division, which is deployed along the border with Lebanon, for the past two years. His term ended Sunday. Previously, Faris served as commander of the Givati Brigade and of Division 80, which is stationed along the Egyptian border.
The car accident occurred on July 28, when Faris's wife was driving his IDF-issued car and was involved in an accident. No one was injured. When Faris informed the rental company of the accident, he wrote in the report that he had been in the car at the time.
On Saturday night, after the IDF learned of the accident, Faris spoke with OC Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot and told him he had been in the car during the accident. Faris said the same thing to Eizenkot's deputy, Brig.-Gen. Alon Friedman.
On Sunday, though, following the ceremony at Northern Command headquarters outside Safed in which he was replaced by Brig.-Gen. Yoel Strick, Faris approached Eizenkot and admitted to having lied to him the previous night. Faris told Eizenkot he "could not live" with the lie and asked to be dismissed from military service. Eizenkot and Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi obliged.
Faris was to have been appointed the next head of the IDF's company and battalion commanders course.
He is the second division commander to get into trouble for lying about vehicle accidents. In June, a military court demoted former Gaza Division commander Brig.-Gen Moshe "Chico" Tamir to the rank of colonel for permitting his underage son to drive an IDF dune buggy and attempting to cover up a subsequent accident.
Tamir came under investigation last year after he allowed his 14-year-old son to use the dune buggy during a social meeting of division officers and their families.
The boy crashed into a civilian vehicle and caused damage to the car. Tamir then attempted to keep the case quiet and, like Faris, even claimed to have been the driver.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Meanwhile, in Palestine, the Ethnic Cleansing Continues...Gently, with Ivory Soap
Israel Evicts Palestinian Families from East Jerusalem Homes
Israeli police kicked out two Palestinian families from their homes in an up-market Arab district of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday after a court rejected an appeal against their eviction.
Large numbers of police moved in at dawn into the homes in Sheikh Jarrah, one of the most sensitive neighborhoods closest to the so-called Green Line which separates east and west Jerusalem.
The Palestinians are being expelled to allow Israeli families to set up home in the neighborhood, despite increasing international calls for Israel to halt all settlement activity on occupied Palestinian land.
The evictions come after Jerusalem city authorities gave permission for the building of about 20 housing units on the site in Sheikh Jarrah, triggering an international outcry.
The British consulate, which is located in Sheikh Jarrah along with other foreign missions, said it was "appalled" by the Israeli action.
"The Israelis' claim that the imposition of extremist Jewish settlers into this ancient Arab neighborhood is a matter for the courts or the municipality is unacceptable," it said in a statement.
"These actions are incompatible with the Israeli professed desire for peace. We urge Israel not to allow the extremists to set the agenda."
The Sheikh Jarrah housing project is on a site known to Palestinians as Karm al-Mufti, which had once belonged to the grand mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini, and in 1985 was bought by American millionaire Irving Moskowitz.
Moskowitz has previously financed settlement projects in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Israel's ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, was summoned to the State Department last month to be told the project should be halted.(AFP)
Israeli police kicked out two Palestinian families from their homes in an up-market Arab district of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday after a court rejected an appeal against their eviction.
Large numbers of police moved in at dawn into the homes in Sheikh Jarrah, one of the most sensitive neighborhoods closest to the so-called Green Line which separates east and west Jerusalem.
The Palestinians are being expelled to allow Israeli families to set up home in the neighborhood, despite increasing international calls for Israel to halt all settlement activity on occupied Palestinian land.
The evictions come after Jerusalem city authorities gave permission for the building of about 20 housing units on the site in Sheikh Jarrah, triggering an international outcry.
The British consulate, which is located in Sheikh Jarrah along with other foreign missions, said it was "appalled" by the Israeli action.
"The Israelis' claim that the imposition of extremist Jewish settlers into this ancient Arab neighborhood is a matter for the courts or the municipality is unacceptable," it said in a statement.
"These actions are incompatible with the Israeli professed desire for peace. We urge Israel not to allow the extremists to set the agenda."
The Sheikh Jarrah housing project is on a site known to Palestinians as Karm al-Mufti, which had once belonged to the grand mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini, and in 1985 was bought by American millionaire Irving Moskowitz.
Moskowitz has previously financed settlement projects in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Israel's ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, was summoned to the State Department last month to be told the project should be halted.(AFP)
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Boom-Boom: Hezbollah Blowing up Everywhere
It seems that Hezbollah's weapons are deteriorating due to long storage without use. And weapons like this end up in disastrous explosions. So if Hassan the Dog Nasrallah is barking very loud these days, it is because he really is running out of options: He is hemmed in in the south, like a dog in his cage. He can;t shoot a bird over Israel lest he incurs the warth of the Israelis, the UN and the Lebanese people. Syria is breaking up with Iran, which is having serious problems at home from pro-democracy Iranians. Oil prices have tumbled so there is not a lot of money coming in from Tehran.
So Hassan wags his tail and plays submissive: He gave up his "veto" power in the new government; he is having bad blood with his Christian ally, Michel Aoun, and the Christians in Lebanon are coming together gradually, which - along with Jumblatt's defection from the March 14 group - indicates major realignments inside Lebanese politics, that may augur baldy for Hezbollah's future.
Meanwhile, one Hezbollah ammunition depot blew up in the South, exposing the Dog Hassan for the hyprocrite liar that he is. So he send his goons to attack the only friend Lebanon really has: The UN Forces in south Lebanon, UNIFIL. Now we learn that an Iranian planeload of weapons (destined for HEzbollah) en route to Lebanon from Tehran by way of Armenia, Turkey and Syria (See report below) also blew up in flight killing 168 passengers, another reason for people not to fly on Iranian Mullah Airlines - the Flying Carpet, holes and all. OMG! Hassan without weapons is like Hassan without testicles, and worst, Hassan without Divine attributes , because for the Macho Arab neanderthal that he is, Weapons = Testicles = Divine Victory!!!!
So Hassan's leash is getting shorter and shorter, and he may try for another Divine Victory in his suicidal inclinations. That's the danger: If you corner a rabid dog like Hassan Nasrallah too much, he bites, he gets mad and enraged, and he may bring the house down by tugging too much on his leash. But if that is the price for the Lebanese to pay to get this dinosaur out of their lives for good, then I think they should pay that price: Let the Dog Hassan bark one last time from his foxhole and try to bite more than he can chew, and let someone put him to sleep for good so he no longer is a threat to the country of Lebanon.
I, for one, am sick of his turban and his beard, like I am sick of the senile ramblings (and headgear and beard too) of Patriarch Sfeir - Patriarch of Antioch and All of the East" (imagine the gall of this gargantuan claim for this old clergyman who has barely 1 million Maronites remaining in Lebanon), and also Patriarch Lahham (Roman Catholic) who was demanding seats in the new government last week. This Lebanese democracy is truly out of this world!!
Hanibaal
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Hizbullah Ammunition Blast Downed Iranian Jet Last Month
A deadly Iranian plane crash on July 15 was caused by the explosion of ammunition destined for Hizbullah, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported.
According to the report, the pilot of the Tupolev plane, which was making its way from Tehran to the Armenian capital of Yerevan, sent an emergency warning 16 minutes after takeoff.
Shortly afterwards, the Caspian Airlines plane crashed near the city of Qazvin, northwest of Tehran, killing all 168 on board.
According to sources in the Middle East, the plane was meant to transfer the arms from Iran to Armenia, and from there to Syria through Turkey, and finally to Lebanon.
So Hassan wags his tail and plays submissive: He gave up his "veto" power in the new government; he is having bad blood with his Christian ally, Michel Aoun, and the Christians in Lebanon are coming together gradually, which - along with Jumblatt's defection from the March 14 group - indicates major realignments inside Lebanese politics, that may augur baldy for Hezbollah's future.
Meanwhile, one Hezbollah ammunition depot blew up in the South, exposing the Dog Hassan for the hyprocrite liar that he is. So he send his goons to attack the only friend Lebanon really has: The UN Forces in south Lebanon, UNIFIL. Now we learn that an Iranian planeload of weapons (destined for HEzbollah) en route to Lebanon from Tehran by way of Armenia, Turkey and Syria (See report below) also blew up in flight killing 168 passengers, another reason for people not to fly on Iranian Mullah Airlines - the Flying Carpet, holes and all. OMG! Hassan without weapons is like Hassan without testicles, and worst, Hassan without Divine attributes , because for the Macho Arab neanderthal that he is, Weapons = Testicles = Divine Victory!!!!
So Hassan's leash is getting shorter and shorter, and he may try for another Divine Victory in his suicidal inclinations. That's the danger: If you corner a rabid dog like Hassan Nasrallah too much, he bites, he gets mad and enraged, and he may bring the house down by tugging too much on his leash. But if that is the price for the Lebanese to pay to get this dinosaur out of their lives for good, then I think they should pay that price: Let the Dog Hassan bark one last time from his foxhole and try to bite more than he can chew, and let someone put him to sleep for good so he no longer is a threat to the country of Lebanon.
I, for one, am sick of his turban and his beard, like I am sick of the senile ramblings (and headgear and beard too) of Patriarch Sfeir - Patriarch of Antioch and All of the East" (imagine the gall of this gargantuan claim for this old clergyman who has barely 1 million Maronites remaining in Lebanon), and also Patriarch Lahham (Roman Catholic) who was demanding seats in the new government last week. This Lebanese democracy is truly out of this world!!
Hanibaal
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Hizbullah Ammunition Blast Downed Iranian Jet Last Month
A deadly Iranian plane crash on July 15 was caused by the explosion of ammunition destined for Hizbullah, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported.
According to the report, the pilot of the Tupolev plane, which was making its way from Tehran to the Armenian capital of Yerevan, sent an emergency warning 16 minutes after takeoff.
Shortly afterwards, the Caspian Airlines plane crashed near the city of Qazvin, northwest of Tehran, killing all 168 on board.
According to sources in the Middle East, the plane was meant to transfer the arms from Iran to Armenia, and from there to Syria through Turkey, and finally to Lebanon.
Jumblatt Dumps March 14 - Alliance of Feudal Warlords and Traditionalists Dead
As Lebanon Iznogood expected (See http://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2009/07/here-we-go-again-chameleon-jumblatt-is.html), the colors of chameleon Jumblatt have changed. In his own words (See below), Jumblatt says he is now back to his "principles and the the Left." An admission of sorts that his presence in the March 14 alliance was unprincipled and based on opportunism. In fact, his whole "Progressive Socialist Party" is one big fallacy, since he is neither Socialist nor a progressive. Jumblatt is a literally a feudal lord, straight from the Middle Ages (in which Lebanon,unfortunately, still is).
Jumblatt lives in a castle on the hills of the Shouf Mountains, lording it over a herd of Druze peasants. He inherited his "leadership" at the death of his father Kamal by a tribal pledge of allegiance by turbaned sheikhs and other dinosaurs. He has the title of "Bek", which is of Ottoman vintage, when the Ottoman Turkish Sultan in Istanbul used to bestow these titles on those who collaborated with the occupation at the expense of their own people.
I, for one, am not surprised. All the "leaders" of the March 14 alliance (Cedars Revolution crap) are wither feudal lords (Gemayel, Jumblatt), warlords (Geagea, Jumblatt), or big new money families mutating into feudal lords (Hariri). These people represent their own interests first, their partisans second, their religious sect third, their region fourth, and their country last.
For example, Jumblatt first represents himself and his big business empire (factories and huge land ownership in the Shouf).
He then represents his party members in the Progressive Socialist Party (which is progressive and socialist only in name) who are his armed gunmen who massacred, burned, raped, looted, pillaged and plundered for most of the 30 years of the Lebanese war, and who are 99% Druze. Why is it that all the "socialists" in Lebanon are virtually entirely of the Druze religion tells you much about the "principles" to which these people adhere.
Third, Jumblatt represents the Druze sect (the religious tribal leaders, sheikhs and so on) and takes his share of power in government, the public administration or parliament on that basis.
Fourth, Jumblatt is the uncontested leader in the Shouf District, just south and southeast of Beirut. He lords it by having absolute power over what projects get done, by whom, and for what price. During the Lebanese War, for example, Jumblatt's militias massacred and ethnically cleansed the Shouf of all the Christian villagers of the District. Entire villages were erased from the map, and when Jumblatt was given the reins of the "Fund for the Displaced" (an ironic way by which the Lebanese government gives money to the killer so he, in turn, pays reparations to his victims), he never doled out any money to the Christian villagers so they can return to the Shouf. Instead, he stole the money, and the Christians are still waiting to return to their homes and villages, 20 years after the "official" end of the war in 1990.
Fifth, and only to keep the appearance of Lebanon's so-called "democracy", Jumblatt represents his country, Lebanon. It really is the last thing on his mind, but how else can we justify to the credulous and naive West (especially the idiotic liberals) that people like Jumblatt are worth making a deal with? So when Jumblatt is invited to speak at the European Socialist COnference, I wonder how they vet him? What do they talk to him about? What sort of "progressive" and "socialist" principles do they discuss? And whether they ask him how is he implementing those principles in Lebanon?
Well, they don't. They are just happy to pretend to bring under the fold someone who claims to be of their own political brand, but from exotic places like Lebanon. It adds a nice "eco" touch to be a socialist in this day and age, and it does not matter if the man is a criminal butcher...
I can run the exact same five levels of representation I did for Jumblatt above (himself, his party, his sect, his region and then his country) to Amin Gemayel on the Christian side, and you'll find the exact same disgusting feudal, tribal, regional, religious coalescence in him. But I'll spare you. You, in fact, can do it yourself. Just change the name, then the name of the party (LEbanese Phalanges or Kataeb), the name of the religious sect (MAronites), the name of the region (Metn-Bickfaya), and you get the picture that THE PROBLEM IN LEBANON IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ARCHAIC POLITICAL STRUCTRUE THAT HAS YET TO EVOLVE INTO THE MODERN WORLD. And the blame rests first and foremost with the religious stupidity, the tribal degeneracy and the political immaturity of the Lebanese people. They love their "leaders", they die for them, they let their children be killed, their homes be burned and their villages massacred just for their beloved "Zaiims", they keep pledging allegiance to them and electing them in fake elections, then they complain that there is no running water, no electricity, no jobs, that there is too much corruption, pollution, that people are emigrating in droves....The only thing that seems to be present in abundance in Lebanon are God, saints, miracles, mullahs and patriarchs asking for seats in governments.... All signs of a retarded, backward country that has yet to evolve from the cesspool of the primordial soup of human social and political evolution.
Where is Jumblatt headed now that he dumped March 14? Probably to fall in love, all over again, with the Syrian dictatorship and the terrorist Hezbollah and all the beautiful "Left" in Lebanon. Again, I remind the idiots Walid Phares and Tom ATEF Harb, as they bake in the Florida sun, that their love for the March 14 alliance was just "a crush" and they were bound to be disappointed. They just did not see behind the masks, behind the moment in 2005, and like the naive wide-eyed idiots that they are, they thought that the alliance of feudal dinosaurs could really serve the cause of freedom and democracy in Lebanon.
Hanibaal
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Jumblat Reevaluates March 14 Alliance: It Was driven by Necessity and Must Not Continue
MP Walid Jumblat announced Sunday that his alliance with March 14 forces was driven by "necessity" and must not continue in the same form.
He was addressing the opening of the Progressive Socialist Party's extraordinary general assembly.
"Our alliance with March 14 forces was driven by necessity and must not continue," Jumblat said, stressing the need "to rethink a new formation that would provide a way out of bias and prevent being pulled toward the (political) right."
He said he believed that March 14's battle "did not enjoy political context."
"Our battle was built on the rejection of the other from a sectarian, tribal and political perspective," he said, calling for a return to "our principles and to the left."
Jumblatt lives in a castle on the hills of the Shouf Mountains, lording it over a herd of Druze peasants. He inherited his "leadership" at the death of his father Kamal by a tribal pledge of allegiance by turbaned sheikhs and other dinosaurs. He has the title of "Bek", which is of Ottoman vintage, when the Ottoman Turkish Sultan in Istanbul used to bestow these titles on those who collaborated with the occupation at the expense of their own people.
I, for one, am not surprised. All the "leaders" of the March 14 alliance (Cedars Revolution crap) are wither feudal lords (Gemayel, Jumblatt), warlords (Geagea, Jumblatt), or big new money families mutating into feudal lords (Hariri). These people represent their own interests first, their partisans second, their religious sect third, their region fourth, and their country last.
For example, Jumblatt first represents himself and his big business empire (factories and huge land ownership in the Shouf).
He then represents his party members in the Progressive Socialist Party (which is progressive and socialist only in name) who are his armed gunmen who massacred, burned, raped, looted, pillaged and plundered for most of the 30 years of the Lebanese war, and who are 99% Druze. Why is it that all the "socialists" in Lebanon are virtually entirely of the Druze religion tells you much about the "principles" to which these people adhere.
Third, Jumblatt represents the Druze sect (the religious tribal leaders, sheikhs and so on) and takes his share of power in government, the public administration or parliament on that basis.
Fourth, Jumblatt is the uncontested leader in the Shouf District, just south and southeast of Beirut. He lords it by having absolute power over what projects get done, by whom, and for what price. During the Lebanese War, for example, Jumblatt's militias massacred and ethnically cleansed the Shouf of all the Christian villagers of the District. Entire villages were erased from the map, and when Jumblatt was given the reins of the "Fund for the Displaced" (an ironic way by which the Lebanese government gives money to the killer so he, in turn, pays reparations to his victims), he never doled out any money to the Christian villagers so they can return to the Shouf. Instead, he stole the money, and the Christians are still waiting to return to their homes and villages, 20 years after the "official" end of the war in 1990.
Fifth, and only to keep the appearance of Lebanon's so-called "democracy", Jumblatt represents his country, Lebanon. It really is the last thing on his mind, but how else can we justify to the credulous and naive West (especially the idiotic liberals) that people like Jumblatt are worth making a deal with? So when Jumblatt is invited to speak at the European Socialist COnference, I wonder how they vet him? What do they talk to him about? What sort of "progressive" and "socialist" principles do they discuss? And whether they ask him how is he implementing those principles in Lebanon?
Well, they don't. They are just happy to pretend to bring under the fold someone who claims to be of their own political brand, but from exotic places like Lebanon. It adds a nice "eco" touch to be a socialist in this day and age, and it does not matter if the man is a criminal butcher...
I can run the exact same five levels of representation I did for Jumblatt above (himself, his party, his sect, his region and then his country) to Amin Gemayel on the Christian side, and you'll find the exact same disgusting feudal, tribal, regional, religious coalescence in him. But I'll spare you. You, in fact, can do it yourself. Just change the name, then the name of the party (LEbanese Phalanges or Kataeb), the name of the religious sect (MAronites), the name of the region (Metn-Bickfaya), and you get the picture that THE PROBLEM IN LEBANON IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ARCHAIC POLITICAL STRUCTRUE THAT HAS YET TO EVOLVE INTO THE MODERN WORLD. And the blame rests first and foremost with the religious stupidity, the tribal degeneracy and the political immaturity of the Lebanese people. They love their "leaders", they die for them, they let their children be killed, their homes be burned and their villages massacred just for their beloved "Zaiims", they keep pledging allegiance to them and electing them in fake elections, then they complain that there is no running water, no electricity, no jobs, that there is too much corruption, pollution, that people are emigrating in droves....The only thing that seems to be present in abundance in Lebanon are God, saints, miracles, mullahs and patriarchs asking for seats in governments.... All signs of a retarded, backward country that has yet to evolve from the cesspool of the primordial soup of human social and political evolution.
Where is Jumblatt headed now that he dumped March 14? Probably to fall in love, all over again, with the Syrian dictatorship and the terrorist Hezbollah and all the beautiful "Left" in Lebanon. Again, I remind the idiots Walid Phares and Tom ATEF Harb, as they bake in the Florida sun, that their love for the March 14 alliance was just "a crush" and they were bound to be disappointed. They just did not see behind the masks, behind the moment in 2005, and like the naive wide-eyed idiots that they are, they thought that the alliance of feudal dinosaurs could really serve the cause of freedom and democracy in Lebanon.
Hanibaal
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Jumblat Reevaluates March 14 Alliance: It Was driven by Necessity and Must Not Continue
MP Walid Jumblat announced Sunday that his alliance with March 14 forces was driven by "necessity" and must not continue in the same form.
He was addressing the opening of the Progressive Socialist Party's extraordinary general assembly.
"Our alliance with March 14 forces was driven by necessity and must not continue," Jumblat said, stressing the need "to rethink a new formation that would provide a way out of bias and prevent being pulled toward the (political) right."
He said he believed that March 14's battle "did not enjoy political context."
"Our battle was built on the rejection of the other from a sectarian, tribal and political perspective," he said, calling for a return to "our principles and to the left."
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