For all the Lebanese lackeys and collaborators of Syria who are calling for voiding UN Security Council Resolution 1559, it is obvious that many of the provisions (Articles 1 through 4) of the resolution have NOT been implemented yet, and they all call on Syria to take certain actions, which Syria continues to refuse to undertake:
- Both Syria and Israel continue to occupy Lebanese territory.
- Syria has yet to publicly and officially declare the Shebaa Farms as Lebanese territory, thus rendering the current Israeli occupation illegal.
- There are still many armed organizations and militias operating outside the sovereignty of the Lebanese State, namely the Palestinian and Islamic radical organizations hiding in the Palestinian refugee camps supported and armed by Syria, as well as the terrorist enterprise called Hezbollah which is backed and armed by Syria and Iran.
- The Government of Lebanon does not yet have sole and exclusive control of all Lebanese territory.
Hanibaal
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Below is the full text of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559:
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United Nations
S/RES/1559 (2004)
Security Council
Distr.: General
2 September 2004
Resolution 1559 (2004)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 5028th meeting, on
2 September 2004
The Security Council,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on Lebanon, in particular resolutions 425 (1978) and 426 (1978) of 19 March 1978, resolution 520 (1982) of 17 September 1982, and resolution 1553 (2004) of 29 July 2004 as well as the statements of its President on the situation in Lebanon, in particular the statement of 18 June 2000 (S/PRST/2000/21),
Reiterating its strong support for the territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence of Lebanon within its internationally recognized borders,
Noting the determination of Lebanon to ensure the withdrawal of all non-Lebanese forces from Lebanon,
Gravely concerned at the continued presence of armed militias in Lebanon, which prevent the Lebanese Government from exercising its full sovereignty over all Lebanese territory,
Reaffirming the importance of the extension of the control of the Government of Lebanon over all Lebanese territory,
Mindful of the upcoming Lebanese presidential elections and underlining the importance of free and fair elections according to Lebanese constitutional rules devised without foreign interference or influence,
1. Reaffirms its call for the strict respect of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity, and political independence of Lebanon under the sole and exclusive authority of the Government of Lebanon throughout Lebanon;
2. Calls upon all remaining foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon;
3. Calls for the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias;
4. Supports the extension of the control of the Government of Lebanon over all Lebanese territory;
5. Declares its support for a free and fair electoral process in Lebanon’s upcoming presidential election conducted according to Lebanese constitutional rules devised without foreign interference or influence;
6. Calls upon all parties concerned to cooperate fully and urgently with the Security Council for the full implementation of this and all relevant resolutions concerning the restoration of the territorial integrity, full sovereignty, and political independence of Lebanon;
7. Requests that the Secretary-General report to the Security Council within thirty days on the implementation by the parties of this resolution and decides to remain actively seized of the matter.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
In the Bazaar of the New Syria-Lebanon Relations
Barely a couple of weeks after Bellemare made what may be considered the last rounds in Beirut before the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) on the Hariri assassination makes its indictments finally public, and we can already see where the STL is going.
First, there were voices in Lebanon calling to annul resolution 1559 which was the first in a sequence of events leading to the Hariri assassination in February 2005. To remind people of the facts, in September 2004, as the term of the Syrian puppet President Emile Lahoud was coming to an end, then Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon was dragged like a naughty boy to Damascus by Syrian dictator Bashar Assad who threatened him with his life if he did not convene his Lebanese puppet cabinet, call Parliament to amend the constitution, and extend the term of Lahoud for another 3 years. Like a dog, Hariri who never showed an ounce of courage in his entire life - other than what he could buy or extort with money - returned to Beirut that Friday night, convened his cabinet on Saturday, and before Parliament voted the following Monday to extend the term of Lahoud, an outraged international community had voted on Security Council resolution 1559 proclaiming such an election null and void.
Fast forward to February 2005, Rafik Hariri was blown up to shreds by the Syrians in downtown Beirut because. like all coward collaborators who make their fame and fortune on the coattails of their masters, also end their careers under the guns of those same masters. The Syrians had used Hariri like a rag for 15 years, and he happily obliged, believing in his idiocy that he could rebuild a few buildings in downtown Beirut and attract a few investments with the Syrian occupation alive and well. He was used to the corrupt Saudis who made his fortune for him, and he figured that he could do the same with the corrupt Syrians. But it did not go that way, and when he realized how deep was the Syrian barrel of shit in which he had placed himself, it was too late. He was no politician, after all, like he was no businessman either. He became rich because he went into construction in Saudi Arabia at the right time, and he became a politician because of his money and his Saudi connection. So, learning as he went, Hariri became suddenly dispensable for the Syrians; the rag was beginning to have too many holes, and off to the trashbin of history did the Syrians send him on Valentine's Day 2005, red blood, gore and all.
Fast forward again to 2009. Bush has left the White House, Obama is in, and he wants to talk to the Syrians and the Iranians. The Brits want to talk to Hezbollah and Hamas, and lo and behold, Bashar Assad is now the darling dictator whom every leftwinging administration wants to talk to. Forget the HAriri assassination, the hundreds, if not thousands, of Lebanese political prisoners rotting in Syrian jails. Forget the imprisoned Syrian political dissidents, and forget the lack of progress of any negotiation between Syria and Israel since 1973. Forget the nuclear deals between Syria and North Korea, forget the thousands of jihadists that Syria keeps sending across the border into Iraq... Everyone wants to talk, and the Syrians have been doing nothing but talking since 1973...
Bellemare therefore made the rounds in Beirut a couple of weeks ago to let everyone know that the STL will not - repeat NOT - be indicting the higher ups in the Syrian regime in the Hariri assassination. A deal has been made with Assad to the effect that if he establishes diplomatic relations with Lebanon and perhaps engage Israel in indirect talks and maybe distance himself a little from Iran and Hezbollah (concessions that are really crumbs, but which liberal Westerners lap up like poodles) then he and his high ranking Baathists in the Syrian regime will not be indicted by the STL.
When Western politicians, mostly Americans, tell Lebanese politicians that there will be no deal with Syria "at the expense of Lebanon", the stupid Lebanese think that this means the Syrians will not be re-occupying Lebanon. Traumatized by decades of Syrian occupation, the Lebanese have lowered their standards so much that they would accept any deal between the West and Syria as long as it does not involve a return to pre-2005 conditions. But a deal has been made, and the deal is that the Syrian regime will not be indicted, despite its direct involvement. Lower ranking Syrian intelligence agents will be charged with the assassination, and Bashar Assad, Buthaina Shaaban, and others in the regime will be off the hook, in exchange for crumbs (diplomatic relations, promises of Syrian-Israeli negotiations...), and the real Hariri killers will never be known.
This is why, after years of attacking the Syrian regime and Bashar Assad for killing his father, Saad Hariri went to Damascus this past week, like the coward poodle that his father was, to beg the Syrian dictator for forgiveness and to start new relations between the two countries. Why? Because Bellemare told him that there is no way under the current political climate to directly charge the Syrian regime with the Hariri assassination, and that he, Saad HAriri, had better mend relations with the Syrian dictatorship. Like a house of cards, the "March 14" edifice collapsed, with Jumblatt literally dying to go to Damascus and ask forgiveness in his turn, and Amine Gemayel yelling from the rooftops that the HAriri visit to Damascus was actually his idea.... Go figure how the "anti-Syrians" have metamorphosed overnight into Syria lovers and apologists.
Something is fishy in all of this, and many Lebanese smell a rat. Then again, for those of us who remember the old souks, or bazaars, of Beirut before the war, deals in the bazaar always smell foul. And in this bazaar of new "special" Syrian-Lebanese relations, the stench of a deal with Syria over Lebanon is unavoidable.
Hanibaal
First, there were voices in Lebanon calling to annul resolution 1559 which was the first in a sequence of events leading to the Hariri assassination in February 2005. To remind people of the facts, in September 2004, as the term of the Syrian puppet President Emile Lahoud was coming to an end, then Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon was dragged like a naughty boy to Damascus by Syrian dictator Bashar Assad who threatened him with his life if he did not convene his Lebanese puppet cabinet, call Parliament to amend the constitution, and extend the term of Lahoud for another 3 years. Like a dog, Hariri who never showed an ounce of courage in his entire life - other than what he could buy or extort with money - returned to Beirut that Friday night, convened his cabinet on Saturday, and before Parliament voted the following Monday to extend the term of Lahoud, an outraged international community had voted on Security Council resolution 1559 proclaiming such an election null and void.
Fast forward to February 2005, Rafik Hariri was blown up to shreds by the Syrians in downtown Beirut because. like all coward collaborators who make their fame and fortune on the coattails of their masters, also end their careers under the guns of those same masters. The Syrians had used Hariri like a rag for 15 years, and he happily obliged, believing in his idiocy that he could rebuild a few buildings in downtown Beirut and attract a few investments with the Syrian occupation alive and well. He was used to the corrupt Saudis who made his fortune for him, and he figured that he could do the same with the corrupt Syrians. But it did not go that way, and when he realized how deep was the Syrian barrel of shit in which he had placed himself, it was too late. He was no politician, after all, like he was no businessman either. He became rich because he went into construction in Saudi Arabia at the right time, and he became a politician because of his money and his Saudi connection. So, learning as he went, Hariri became suddenly dispensable for the Syrians; the rag was beginning to have too many holes, and off to the trashbin of history did the Syrians send him on Valentine's Day 2005, red blood, gore and all.
Fast forward again to 2009. Bush has left the White House, Obama is in, and he wants to talk to the Syrians and the Iranians. The Brits want to talk to Hezbollah and Hamas, and lo and behold, Bashar Assad is now the darling dictator whom every leftwinging administration wants to talk to. Forget the HAriri assassination, the hundreds, if not thousands, of Lebanese political prisoners rotting in Syrian jails. Forget the imprisoned Syrian political dissidents, and forget the lack of progress of any negotiation between Syria and Israel since 1973. Forget the nuclear deals between Syria and North Korea, forget the thousands of jihadists that Syria keeps sending across the border into Iraq... Everyone wants to talk, and the Syrians have been doing nothing but talking since 1973...
Bellemare therefore made the rounds in Beirut a couple of weeks ago to let everyone know that the STL will not - repeat NOT - be indicting the higher ups in the Syrian regime in the Hariri assassination. A deal has been made with Assad to the effect that if he establishes diplomatic relations with Lebanon and perhaps engage Israel in indirect talks and maybe distance himself a little from Iran and Hezbollah (concessions that are really crumbs, but which liberal Westerners lap up like poodles) then he and his high ranking Baathists in the Syrian regime will not be indicted by the STL.
When Western politicians, mostly Americans, tell Lebanese politicians that there will be no deal with Syria "at the expense of Lebanon", the stupid Lebanese think that this means the Syrians will not be re-occupying Lebanon. Traumatized by decades of Syrian occupation, the Lebanese have lowered their standards so much that they would accept any deal between the West and Syria as long as it does not involve a return to pre-2005 conditions. But a deal has been made, and the deal is that the Syrian regime will not be indicted, despite its direct involvement. Lower ranking Syrian intelligence agents will be charged with the assassination, and Bashar Assad, Buthaina Shaaban, and others in the regime will be off the hook, in exchange for crumbs (diplomatic relations, promises of Syrian-Israeli negotiations...), and the real Hariri killers will never be known.
This is why, after years of attacking the Syrian regime and Bashar Assad for killing his father, Saad Hariri went to Damascus this past week, like the coward poodle that his father was, to beg the Syrian dictator for forgiveness and to start new relations between the two countries. Why? Because Bellemare told him that there is no way under the current political climate to directly charge the Syrian regime with the Hariri assassination, and that he, Saad HAriri, had better mend relations with the Syrian dictatorship. Like a house of cards, the "March 14" edifice collapsed, with Jumblatt literally dying to go to Damascus and ask forgiveness in his turn, and Amine Gemayel yelling from the rooftops that the HAriri visit to Damascus was actually his idea.... Go figure how the "anti-Syrians" have metamorphosed overnight into Syria lovers and apologists.
Something is fishy in all of this, and many Lebanese smell a rat. Then again, for those of us who remember the old souks, or bazaars, of Beirut before the war, deals in the bazaar always smell foul. And in this bazaar of new "special" Syrian-Lebanese relations, the stench of a deal with Syria over Lebanon is unavoidable.
Hanibaal
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The English at Naharnet.com
Sometimes, reading news from Lebanon on Internet sites with poorly-written English can be a tricky business. You can't tell if the news itself is anomalous or if the translator of Naharnet or NowLebanon etc. just doesn't know what the heck he or she is doing.
Here are samples from Naharnet:
A- 8:30am MP Simon Abi Ramia to VDL: The president has the right to visit any country he wants. Anything said about Lebanon in any world capital brings benefits to the country.
---> So if I go to Vienna and say something like "Lebanon is a country of dogs, idiots and religious fundamentalists", then that would be good for Lebanon? Or I can go to Tehran and say "Hassan Nasrallah of Lebanon is a son of a bitch and the Lebanese Shiites are a bunch of morons who still eat dung from their donkeys' asses," that would bring benefits to Lebanon?
Either Simon Abi Ramia is a total idiot or the Naharnet translator butchered his message real bad....
B- 7:30am MP Antoine Zahra to VDL: It is urgent to start solving the people’s every day problems after the holidays.
----> There is a dissonance between the "urgency" of solving the people's problems, and "waiting until after the holidays" to actually do it.
Now Antoine Zahra is a bona fide idiot - no question about it - and so I am not surprised that an "MP" like Zahra would utter such nonsense. It is typical of the lazy and corrupt Lebanese politicians to never take care of the people's business and problems; so why should Antoine Zahra ruin what looks like perfectly pleasant holidays by working on solving the people's problems? In fact, Lebanese parliamentarians and politicians have themselves caused the problems in the first place, and they have no incentive to solve these problems, especially not during holidays. Who, in their right mind, would work during holidays?
I mean, look at the US COngress: They are working day and night and weekends trying to come up with a complicated health care reform bill. Lebanese MPs, on the other hand, have much more complicated issues to solve for the Lebanese people: running water, electricity, traffic jams, ... these are problems that are so difficult to address in a country of 3 million people, much more difficult than the healthcare problems of 350 million people. So, instead of rushing to address the largely inexistent running water and electricity services in Lebanon, MP Antoine Zahra is counseling deliberation and careful consideration of these ultracomplex issues of water and electricity. Just compare Lebanon and Bangladesh, and you'll see that Lebanon is a very advanced country when it does not have cows roaming the streets and provides electricity to its people 8 hours - I repeat 8 full hours - every day. That is something to be proud of in Lebanon, a country that is a beacon of "democracy and human rights", not to mention religious fundamentalism, archaic beliefs, primitive tribal behavior, honor killing, maid abuse, corrupt judiciary, sectarian politics...etc...
Hanibaal
Here are samples from Naharnet:
A- 8:30am MP Simon Abi Ramia to VDL: The president has the right to visit any country he wants. Anything said about Lebanon in any world capital brings benefits to the country.
---> So if I go to Vienna and say something like "Lebanon is a country of dogs, idiots and religious fundamentalists", then that would be good for Lebanon? Or I can go to Tehran and say "Hassan Nasrallah of Lebanon is a son of a bitch and the Lebanese Shiites are a bunch of morons who still eat dung from their donkeys' asses," that would bring benefits to Lebanon?
Either Simon Abi Ramia is a total idiot or the Naharnet translator butchered his message real bad....
B- 7:30am MP Antoine Zahra to VDL: It is urgent to start solving the people’s every day problems after the holidays.
----> There is a dissonance between the "urgency" of solving the people's problems, and "waiting until after the holidays" to actually do it.
Now Antoine Zahra is a bona fide idiot - no question about it - and so I am not surprised that an "MP" like Zahra would utter such nonsense. It is typical of the lazy and corrupt Lebanese politicians to never take care of the people's business and problems; so why should Antoine Zahra ruin what looks like perfectly pleasant holidays by working on solving the people's problems? In fact, Lebanese parliamentarians and politicians have themselves caused the problems in the first place, and they have no incentive to solve these problems, especially not during holidays. Who, in their right mind, would work during holidays?
I mean, look at the US COngress: They are working day and night and weekends trying to come up with a complicated health care reform bill. Lebanese MPs, on the other hand, have much more complicated issues to solve for the Lebanese people: running water, electricity, traffic jams, ... these are problems that are so difficult to address in a country of 3 million people, much more difficult than the healthcare problems of 350 million people. So, instead of rushing to address the largely inexistent running water and electricity services in Lebanon, MP Antoine Zahra is counseling deliberation and careful consideration of these ultracomplex issues of water and electricity. Just compare Lebanon and Bangladesh, and you'll see that Lebanon is a very advanced country when it does not have cows roaming the streets and provides electricity to its people 8 hours - I repeat 8 full hours - every day. That is something to be proud of in Lebanon, a country that is a beacon of "democracy and human rights", not to mention religious fundamentalism, archaic beliefs, primitive tribal behavior, honor killing, maid abuse, corrupt judiciary, sectarian politics...etc...
Hanibaal
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
President Suleiman: Lebanon's Beggar-Traitor in Chief
Here is a sampler of President Michel Suleiman's discussions with President Obama yesterday in Wahshington:
[Suleiman]:
"We believe we have many common denominators with the United States. The first one are Americans of Lebanese descent which play a great role in the United States..."
---> Bullshit. The Lebanese government has never paid but lip service to its emigrants. The emigrants are the only source of serious GDP for the incompetent Lebanese state, which has through its policies impoverished the Lebanese people who survive on money that the emigrants send home. Yet, try to get a visa or a passport or try to ship your own stuff to Lebanon by using the consular services and the Lebanese embassy in Washington DC, and all you get is the runaround, incompetence, Ottoman empire-vintage bureaucracy. The Lebanese government won't even let its emigrants vote, and since they are Christians in their vast majority displaced by decades of Sunni and Shiite Muslim terrorism and warfare, the result has been that the Muslims run the country - to the ground - with "resistance" and "sisterhood with Arab causes..." and this what this Syrian lackey "President Suleiman" was promoting yesterday.
[Suleiman]:
, and also the shared values we have with the United States and its people, namely the value of democracy, respect of human rights, public freedom, rejection of extremism and fundamentalism, and confronting terrorism," Suleiman said.
---> Yet, Suleiman supports Hezbollah; his government includes Hezbollah ministers, and has recently endorsed Hezbollah's right to "resistance" which means the right for Hezbollah to wage war, terrorize the Lebanese people, stand a parallel army that is more powerful than the Lebanese Army...The same Hezbollah that spent the 1980s and 1990s killing, kidnapping and bombing Americans, Europeans and other friends of Lebanon.
[Suleiman]:
"And Lebanon has paid a very heavy price to preserve these values -- a heavy price because of the cost of its soul of its people, its infrastructure, and also it had a heavy economical price, especially regards this part of the Lebanese views we're obliged to indicate," he went on to say.
----> The ENglish here is so poor that I don;t even know what the "President" means. The bottom line is that the Lebanese paid a heavy price because they are the idiots of the Arab world. Of all the Arab countries, Lebanon is the only country which insists on liberating Palestine for the Palestinians, those same Palestinians who worked for decades with the Syrians to destroy the country and kill upwards of 200,000 Lebanese in the 1970s and 1980s. The Lebanese are suicidal retarded idiots to continue a war on behalf of another people (the Palestinians) even if this has caused your own country to be brought down to its knees. President Suleiman is the supreme idiot of Lebanon.
[Suleiman]:
Suleiman said Lebanon has asked for U.S. support on various levels, mainly military "because a strong army and strong armed forces could defend Lebanon against hostility of the enemy. Also it could allow the country to confront terrorism which poses dangers not only on Lebanon but on humanity as a whole.
----> As if his demands to Obama to put pressure on ISrael (note: the inept incompetent Arabs have been asking the US to pressure Israel for close to 60 years, and have gotten nothing out of that policy except losing Palestine almost entirely), President Suleiman - as the Lebanese always do - came begging the Americans for weapons...for the Lebanese Army...even thought those weapons will certainly end up in Hezbollah's hands (Hezbollah controls the Lebanese Army and treats the Lebanese Army like scum). Where does Suleiman get the nerve to beg the Americans for assistance, when in return to the Americans' demands that the Lebanese army controls the border with Syria and prevents arms shipments to Hezbollah, Suleiman tells the Americans that Hezbollah is a "resistance" and an "an internal matter" that is none of the Americans' business.
What the Obama Administration should do is cease ALL support to the Lebanese government - financial, development aid, military, etc. - until the Lebanese government cleans its act with respect to Hezbollah and Syria, and until the Lebanese begin negotiations with ISrael towards a peace treaty (like Jordan and Egypt) to settle the Lebanese crisis once and for all. Only then will Lebanon develop economically and prosper.
The Lebanese think they can maintain their pitiful "resistance" and a state of war, while at the same time develop and grow economically. Rafiq Hariri, the dead dinosaur Prime Minister of Lebanon made the same mistake: For 20 years, he thought he could develop Lebanon economically while Lebanon was under the Syrian occupation. He realized his mistake 15 years too late, and when he tried to change course, the Syrians killed him. This is exactly what is happening now: The Lebanese idiots think they can live happily with the "resistance" monstrosity of Hezbollah in their midst, AND develop economically, not realizing that an untenable formula like this is bound to backfire on them. One day, they will pay a heavy price since they will have to either confront Hezbollah or split the country in two, or worse, sink in the ocean as a result of Hezbollah using nuclear weapons given to it by Iran.
[Suleiman]:
The second level, according to the Lebanese president, is economic "in order to promote new, more economic growth and social justice, because injustice is sometimes taken as a pretext by terrorist and fundamentalist organizations to recruit people and invite them to terrorism."
---> Here is Suleiman, a Christian Lebanese, a Dhimmi par excellence, defending and justifying the terrorism of Islamic fundamentalism under the stale pretext of economic deprivation. Oh, the poor Lebanese, they have 300,000 maids (1 maid for every 10 Lebanese) and they all drive Mercedes, Hummers, and the like... and yet they are economically so deprived, that they just flip out and become Muslim terrorists as a result of the pain.
Please, Mr. Obama, why don't you then give the Lebanese numskulls more zillions of dollars from the American taxpayers' own money and more zillions of dollars of military assistance to an incompetent Lebanese Army, so that Lebanon continues to promote anti-American policies, Hezbollah's Iranian fundamentalism, waging "resistance" against Israel.... Does this make sense to anyone out there? Suleiman either has nerves of steel and is a professional beggar the likes of which Lebanon has never seen in Baabda, or he is a total idiot and the Americans must be rolling their eyes in disbelief as Suleiman's car drives off....
To President Obama:
Please hold the Lebanese beggars to a higher standard. Stop the cajoling and ther fake expressions of shared values. There are no shared values between America and Lebanon:
- The Americans are a principled people. The Lebanese are merchants of principles.
- Lebanon is not a democracy. Lebanon's political system is based on narrow, archaic sectarian and religious political grabs by feudal and religious elites that treat their own people like cattle.
- Lebanon is a dysfunctional country that survives on begging from other countries and bilking its emigres of every penny they earn.
- Lebanon is these days entirely beholden to Hezbollah and Syria. You should not give a penny of assistance to the Lebanese. Let them grow up; let them solve their own problems; let them understand the price it takes to have a country; let the Lebanese people pay taxes, and let the Lebanese government levy taxes; let the Lebanese fight the endemic corruption that has always plagued them. Do this for the sake of the people of Lebanon, and not the politicians. Every penny you give Lebanon will go to the pockets of the corrupt politicians. Lebanon has survived on its path of putrefaction and decomposition because the EU, the US, the UN, and wealthy Arab donors keep pumping blood into this prostitute that has every STD conceivable because she keeps sleeping with anyone and everyone. Let her either wake up or die. That would be the humane thing to do.
Hanibaal
[Suleiman]:
"We believe we have many common denominators with the United States. The first one are Americans of Lebanese descent which play a great role in the United States..."
---> Bullshit. The Lebanese government has never paid but lip service to its emigrants. The emigrants are the only source of serious GDP for the incompetent Lebanese state, which has through its policies impoverished the Lebanese people who survive on money that the emigrants send home. Yet, try to get a visa or a passport or try to ship your own stuff to Lebanon by using the consular services and the Lebanese embassy in Washington DC, and all you get is the runaround, incompetence, Ottoman empire-vintage bureaucracy. The Lebanese government won't even let its emigrants vote, and since they are Christians in their vast majority displaced by decades of Sunni and Shiite Muslim terrorism and warfare, the result has been that the Muslims run the country - to the ground - with "resistance" and "sisterhood with Arab causes..." and this what this Syrian lackey "President Suleiman" was promoting yesterday.
[Suleiman]:
, and also the shared values we have with the United States and its people, namely the value of democracy, respect of human rights, public freedom, rejection of extremism and fundamentalism, and confronting terrorism," Suleiman said.
---> Yet, Suleiman supports Hezbollah; his government includes Hezbollah ministers, and has recently endorsed Hezbollah's right to "resistance" which means the right for Hezbollah to wage war, terrorize the Lebanese people, stand a parallel army that is more powerful than the Lebanese Army...The same Hezbollah that spent the 1980s and 1990s killing, kidnapping and bombing Americans, Europeans and other friends of Lebanon.
[Suleiman]:
"And Lebanon has paid a very heavy price to preserve these values -- a heavy price because of the cost of its soul of its people, its infrastructure, and also it had a heavy economical price, especially regards this part of the Lebanese views we're obliged to indicate," he went on to say.
----> The ENglish here is so poor that I don;t even know what the "President" means. The bottom line is that the Lebanese paid a heavy price because they are the idiots of the Arab world. Of all the Arab countries, Lebanon is the only country which insists on liberating Palestine for the Palestinians, those same Palestinians who worked for decades with the Syrians to destroy the country and kill upwards of 200,000 Lebanese in the 1970s and 1980s. The Lebanese are suicidal retarded idiots to continue a war on behalf of another people (the Palestinians) even if this has caused your own country to be brought down to its knees. President Suleiman is the supreme idiot of Lebanon.
[Suleiman]:
Suleiman said Lebanon has asked for U.S. support on various levels, mainly military "because a strong army and strong armed forces could defend Lebanon against hostility of the enemy. Also it could allow the country to confront terrorism which poses dangers not only on Lebanon but on humanity as a whole.
----> As if his demands to Obama to put pressure on ISrael (note: the inept incompetent Arabs have been asking the US to pressure Israel for close to 60 years, and have gotten nothing out of that policy except losing Palestine almost entirely), President Suleiman - as the Lebanese always do - came begging the Americans for weapons...for the Lebanese Army...even thought those weapons will certainly end up in Hezbollah's hands (Hezbollah controls the Lebanese Army and treats the Lebanese Army like scum). Where does Suleiman get the nerve to beg the Americans for assistance, when in return to the Americans' demands that the Lebanese army controls the border with Syria and prevents arms shipments to Hezbollah, Suleiman tells the Americans that Hezbollah is a "resistance" and an "an internal matter" that is none of the Americans' business.
What the Obama Administration should do is cease ALL support to the Lebanese government - financial, development aid, military, etc. - until the Lebanese government cleans its act with respect to Hezbollah and Syria, and until the Lebanese begin negotiations with ISrael towards a peace treaty (like Jordan and Egypt) to settle the Lebanese crisis once and for all. Only then will Lebanon develop economically and prosper.
The Lebanese think they can maintain their pitiful "resistance" and a state of war, while at the same time develop and grow economically. Rafiq Hariri, the dead dinosaur Prime Minister of Lebanon made the same mistake: For 20 years, he thought he could develop Lebanon economically while Lebanon was under the Syrian occupation. He realized his mistake 15 years too late, and when he tried to change course, the Syrians killed him. This is exactly what is happening now: The Lebanese idiots think they can live happily with the "resistance" monstrosity of Hezbollah in their midst, AND develop economically, not realizing that an untenable formula like this is bound to backfire on them. One day, they will pay a heavy price since they will have to either confront Hezbollah or split the country in two, or worse, sink in the ocean as a result of Hezbollah using nuclear weapons given to it by Iran.
[Suleiman]:
The second level, according to the Lebanese president, is economic "in order to promote new, more economic growth and social justice, because injustice is sometimes taken as a pretext by terrorist and fundamentalist organizations to recruit people and invite them to terrorism."
---> Here is Suleiman, a Christian Lebanese, a Dhimmi par excellence, defending and justifying the terrorism of Islamic fundamentalism under the stale pretext of economic deprivation. Oh, the poor Lebanese, they have 300,000 maids (1 maid for every 10 Lebanese) and they all drive Mercedes, Hummers, and the like... and yet they are economically so deprived, that they just flip out and become Muslim terrorists as a result of the pain.
Please, Mr. Obama, why don't you then give the Lebanese numskulls more zillions of dollars from the American taxpayers' own money and more zillions of dollars of military assistance to an incompetent Lebanese Army, so that Lebanon continues to promote anti-American policies, Hezbollah's Iranian fundamentalism, waging "resistance" against Israel.... Does this make sense to anyone out there? Suleiman either has nerves of steel and is a professional beggar the likes of which Lebanon has never seen in Baabda, or he is a total idiot and the Americans must be rolling their eyes in disbelief as Suleiman's car drives off....
To President Obama:
Please hold the Lebanese beggars to a higher standard. Stop the cajoling and ther fake expressions of shared values. There are no shared values between America and Lebanon:
- The Americans are a principled people. The Lebanese are merchants of principles.
- Lebanon is not a democracy. Lebanon's political system is based on narrow, archaic sectarian and religious political grabs by feudal and religious elites that treat their own people like cattle.
- Lebanon is a dysfunctional country that survives on begging from other countries and bilking its emigres of every penny they earn.
- Lebanon is these days entirely beholden to Hezbollah and Syria. You should not give a penny of assistance to the Lebanese. Let them grow up; let them solve their own problems; let them understand the price it takes to have a country; let the Lebanese people pay taxes, and let the Lebanese government levy taxes; let the Lebanese fight the endemic corruption that has always plagued them. Do this for the sake of the people of Lebanon, and not the politicians. Every penny you give Lebanon will go to the pockets of the corrupt politicians. Lebanon has survived on its path of putrefaction and decomposition because the EU, the US, the UN, and wealthy Arab donors keep pumping blood into this prostitute that has every STD conceivable because she keeps sleeping with anyone and everyone. Let her either wake up or die. That would be the humane thing to do.
Hanibaal
Sunday, December 13, 2009
March 14 Dogs on the Road to Damascus
Now that the winds have changed, that Obama has replaced Bush in the White House, that the emphasis in international politics is on openness and dialogue and not pre-emptive strikes; now that the pendulum has swung (for better or for worse, no one really knows)... the dogs and jackals of Lebanese politics, unprincipled, whorish and mercantile to the bone, are rearranging their chairs in the grand political charade of the country that calls itself Lebanon.
Here are the pillars of the March 14 coalition, who for years have been attacking Syria, now crawling on their knees and drooling at the mouth to go kiss the ass of Bashar al-Asad and ask for his forgiveness. They want to apologize and make up with the Syrian dictator for having accused him of the genocide he carried out by his Baathist (quite the clone of Saddam Hussein's regime) regime and that of his father against the people of Lebanon.
The corrupt, feudal, and sectarian leaders of the March 14 band used - back when Bush was in the White House - to bark ad infinitum, hiding behind the threats of their American masters. Now that Obama has changed the tune, the March 14 merchants of death are again scared for their lives and their power, and they are elbowing each other on the road to Damascus, seeking to mend their way with the Syrian dictator. That was exactly the point I was trying to warn the pseudo-intellectuals of the Lebanese Diaspora to be wary about back in 2005: You cannot trust these people; they will go back to Syria as soon as they can, and they will sell Lebanon and their own mothers if they have to, to make sure that Syria protects their political turf in Lebanon.
In my opinion, the principled thing to do for the traitors like Hariri, Jumblatt, the Lebanese Forces criminals, the Kataeb idiots, etc., would be to refuse to engage Syria as long as Syria continues to treat Lebanon like a Syrian province, as long as Syria refuses to cede the Shebaa Farms back to Lebanon, as long as Syria continues to hold in its notorious prisons scores of innocent Lebanese it snatched during its 30-year occupation of Lebanon, as long as Syria barely recognizes Lebanon's right to exist as a distinct nation, etc. etc.. the list of crimes by the Syrian regime against the Lebanese people is too long.
The mercenary March 14 politicians Hariri, Gemayel, Geagea, Jumblatt, and all their appendages like Tueni, Hamadeh, and their sons, daughters, and in-laws to whom they bestowed their political power like lords from the Middle Ages - all MPs and ministers - ought to be asking the Syrian regime to apologize to the Lebanese people, to release the prisoners it still holds, to recognize Shebaa as Lebanese, to stop smuggling weapons to the terrorist Hezbollah and Palestinian organizations operating outside Lebanese sovereignty... But that would be the "principled" thing to do, and these "leaders" are prostitutes, unprincipled merchants of politics and death, whose palaces and political power are more important than the famished, impoverished, utterly desperate Lebanese people.
To Elias Bejjani: You abandoned Aoun when Aoun betrayed the Lebanese Cause. Will you abandon the traitors of March 14 now that they, in turn, are betraying the Lebanese Cause and falling again in the hands of Syria? Will you stand by your own principles?
Hanibaal
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Jumblat to Make On-Air Apology to Assad
Druze leader Walid Jumblat will reportedly make an on-air apology to Syrian President Bashar Assad after his harsh criticism against him.
The daily Ad-Diyar on Sunday said Jumblat has decided to offer a personal and clear apology as a "last-ditch shot" to mend relations with Syria.
It said Jumblat has chosen pan-Arab TV news network al-Jazeera to issue his apology.
Jumblat had admitted that no Lebanese political leader had gone too far in attacks against Assad, stressing that dialogue with Syria is inevitable.
"No one has gone way beyond the limits to assault Assad as much I did," Jumblat said in a June interview.
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Lebanese Forces MP George Adwan said that the LF wants Lebanon and Syria to have a “normal relationship.”
“If there is a unanimous request for Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar to accompany Prime Minister Saad Hariri on his expected visit to Syria, Najjar would certainly go as a justice minster.”
In Lebanon, Adwan said there is an opportunity for the majority and minority to work jointly to ensure a good life for the Lebanese people, adding that he hopes those efforts will lead to stability in the country.
The MP also said he wants talk of abolishing political sectarianism to be “over.”
“Eradicating political sectarianism contradicts the structure of the country because Lebanon is built on diversity,” he said.
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Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s visit to Syria will happen very soon.
Hariri is visiting Damascus in an effort to normalize relations.
“We are dealing positively with Syria, we wish to see trust renewed between the two countries and we want to have special relations, based on mutual respect,” Qaderi said.
He also said that Hariri’s visit to Saudi Arabia this weekend is meant to show gratitude for the country’s efforts to protect Lebanon’s stability.
The MP said that the extradition notices issued by the Syrian judiciary to Lebanese public figures for perjury against former General Security Director Jamil As-Sayyed will not affect Hariri’s visit.
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Adwan: Lebanese Forces Willing to Visit Syria as Part of Hariri Delegation
MP George Adwan said Sunday that the Lebanese Forces was willing to visit Syria as part of the delegation headed by Prime Minister Saad Hariri.
"The Lebanese Forces are willing to be part of the delegation that will accompany PM Hariri to Syria," Adwan told reporters after visiting Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir in Bkirki.
"Relations with Syria should take into account past experiences that we hope would not recur," he said, pointing to sticking points between the two countries – border demarcation, missing persons and Palestinian arms outside the camps.
Here are the pillars of the March 14 coalition, who for years have been attacking Syria, now crawling on their knees and drooling at the mouth to go kiss the ass of Bashar al-Asad and ask for his forgiveness. They want to apologize and make up with the Syrian dictator for having accused him of the genocide he carried out by his Baathist (quite the clone of Saddam Hussein's regime) regime and that of his father against the people of Lebanon.
The corrupt, feudal, and sectarian leaders of the March 14 band used - back when Bush was in the White House - to bark ad infinitum, hiding behind the threats of their American masters. Now that Obama has changed the tune, the March 14 merchants of death are again scared for their lives and their power, and they are elbowing each other on the road to Damascus, seeking to mend their way with the Syrian dictator. That was exactly the point I was trying to warn the pseudo-intellectuals of the Lebanese Diaspora to be wary about back in 2005: You cannot trust these people; they will go back to Syria as soon as they can, and they will sell Lebanon and their own mothers if they have to, to make sure that Syria protects their political turf in Lebanon.
In my opinion, the principled thing to do for the traitors like Hariri, Jumblatt, the Lebanese Forces criminals, the Kataeb idiots, etc., would be to refuse to engage Syria as long as Syria continues to treat Lebanon like a Syrian province, as long as Syria refuses to cede the Shebaa Farms back to Lebanon, as long as Syria continues to hold in its notorious prisons scores of innocent Lebanese it snatched during its 30-year occupation of Lebanon, as long as Syria barely recognizes Lebanon's right to exist as a distinct nation, etc. etc.. the list of crimes by the Syrian regime against the Lebanese people is too long.
The mercenary March 14 politicians Hariri, Gemayel, Geagea, Jumblatt, and all their appendages like Tueni, Hamadeh, and their sons, daughters, and in-laws to whom they bestowed their political power like lords from the Middle Ages - all MPs and ministers - ought to be asking the Syrian regime to apologize to the Lebanese people, to release the prisoners it still holds, to recognize Shebaa as Lebanese, to stop smuggling weapons to the terrorist Hezbollah and Palestinian organizations operating outside Lebanese sovereignty... But that would be the "principled" thing to do, and these "leaders" are prostitutes, unprincipled merchants of politics and death, whose palaces and political power are more important than the famished, impoverished, utterly desperate Lebanese people.
To Elias Bejjani: You abandoned Aoun when Aoun betrayed the Lebanese Cause. Will you abandon the traitors of March 14 now that they, in turn, are betraying the Lebanese Cause and falling again in the hands of Syria? Will you stand by your own principles?
Hanibaal
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Jumblat to Make On-Air Apology to Assad
Druze leader Walid Jumblat will reportedly make an on-air apology to Syrian President Bashar Assad after his harsh criticism against him.
The daily Ad-Diyar on Sunday said Jumblat has decided to offer a personal and clear apology as a "last-ditch shot" to mend relations with Syria.
It said Jumblat has chosen pan-Arab TV news network al-Jazeera to issue his apology.
Jumblat had admitted that no Lebanese political leader had gone too far in attacks against Assad, stressing that dialogue with Syria is inevitable.
"No one has gone way beyond the limits to assault Assad as much I did," Jumblat said in a June interview.
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Lebanese Forces MP George Adwan said that the LF wants Lebanon and Syria to have a “normal relationship.”
“If there is a unanimous request for Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar to accompany Prime Minister Saad Hariri on his expected visit to Syria, Najjar would certainly go as a justice minster.”
In Lebanon, Adwan said there is an opportunity for the majority and minority to work jointly to ensure a good life for the Lebanese people, adding that he hopes those efforts will lead to stability in the country.
The MP also said he wants talk of abolishing political sectarianism to be “over.”
“Eradicating political sectarianism contradicts the structure of the country because Lebanon is built on diversity,” he said.
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Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s visit to Syria will happen very soon.
Hariri is visiting Damascus in an effort to normalize relations.
“We are dealing positively with Syria, we wish to see trust renewed between the two countries and we want to have special relations, based on mutual respect,” Qaderi said.
He also said that Hariri’s visit to Saudi Arabia this weekend is meant to show gratitude for the country’s efforts to protect Lebanon’s stability.
The MP said that the extradition notices issued by the Syrian judiciary to Lebanese public figures for perjury against former General Security Director Jamil As-Sayyed will not affect Hariri’s visit.
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Adwan: Lebanese Forces Willing to Visit Syria as Part of Hariri Delegation
MP George Adwan said Sunday that the Lebanese Forces was willing to visit Syria as part of the delegation headed by Prime Minister Saad Hariri.
"The Lebanese Forces are willing to be part of the delegation that will accompany PM Hariri to Syria," Adwan told reporters after visiting Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir in Bkirki.
"Relations with Syria should take into account past experiences that we hope would not recur," he said, pointing to sticking points between the two countries – border demarcation, missing persons and Palestinian arms outside the camps.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
"Merciful and Compassionate?":When the Filth of Islam Plays Sectarian Politics
"Sunni" Saudi Arabia is to behead a Lebanese "Shiite" on Thursday on charges of sorcery because he gave psychological-psychic advice to depressed and troubled people on a television program. The charges evidently are leveled under Islamic law, and are an obvious prostitution of Islam to sectarian politics. Why? Because the Sunni Saudis are playing politics with Shiite Iran through a poor Lebanese Shiite villager who went to Saudi Arabia on his Hajj Pilgrimage.
There is not much to say on this, other than it's another instance of the filth of religion in general, with the filthiest of all religions being Islam under whose pretense this barbaric conduct is allowed.
Hanibaal
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Family pleads for return of father sentenced to death for witchcraft
Lebanese pilgrim, arrested and convicted in Saudi Arabia on sorcery charges for his role in a TV show, due to be executed on Thursday.
By Robert Fisk in Al-Ain, Eastern Lebanon
The Independent
Sunday, 6 December 2009
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Some stories from the Middle East make you want to weep. But this one is truly heart-breaking.
The moment came when little Jamal walked back from school and climbed on the sofa beside me in her plaited hair and said – unprompted by any of her family – "Are you going to bring my Daddy home?" Alas, I could not tell a four-year-old of the powerlessness of journalists, nor that her father, a pious, poor Shia Muslim, may be executed in Saudi Arabia on Thursday – for witchcraft.
The story is almost too awful to relate because it should be untrue. But it is a fact that Ali Sbatt set off with members of his family two years ago to join the haj in Mecca. After 15 days, the morality police broke into his hotel room and charged him with sorcery. And the reason turns out to be that Ali, a truck driver, once worked for a now-defunct Lebanese television channel called Sheherezade and predicted happy news or gave encouragement to callers with personal problems.
How the Saudi police should have decided on his arrest when Mr Sbatt was making the haj – his eldest son Hussein was with him and showed me his father's portrait in his white pilgrimage robes, taken just before his imprisonment – is unclear. Shias in largely Sunni Saudi Arabia have been treated with suspicion since the Iranian revolution, and Mr Sbatt had an Iranian visa in his passport. Yet millions of Iranians make the pilgrimage to Mecca without being arrested.
He was condemned to death last month, and the religious court may confirm the sentence as soon as Thursday. The family's lawyer, May Khansa, has tried desperately to persuade Lebanese politicians to intervene to save Mr Sbatt's life – the Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, and President Michel Sleiman are aware of his case and so is the Sunni Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan – but so far without success. Sheikh Qabalan did, however, say that what Mr Sbatt did on television was merely psychological help for people who have lost hope and did not involve black magic.
The family wisely appealed to Sunni prelates for help rather than dignitaries from their own Shia background. Their local member of parliament has been asked to assist – uselessly, it appears – and Ibrahim Najjar, the Minister for Justice, has said he has done "the necessary", whatever that is.
The family fears that Mr Sbatt was tortured after his arrest – he had no lawyers when he was sentenced – and Saudi courts, which routinely sentence alleged drug-dealers to beheadings, according to Amnesty International, do not meet international standards of fairness.
In the real world, of course, Lebanon does not cut much weight, but an act of mercy by King Abdullah might go a long way to ease Sunni-Shia relations and demonstrate that the monarch cares as much about Lebanese individuals as he clearly does about Syrian-Lebanese relations. Prime Minister Hariri is a Saudi citizen – his assassinated father Rafiq was also given Saudi nationality – so Mr Sbatt may still be spared.
Unfortunately, Saudi executioners may not feel much like mercy, and Hussein Sbatt told me yesterday that Saudi lawyers had asked for $1m to make a legal appeal, money which is unavailable in this tiny, poor village, some of whose houses still have mud walls and wooden rafters.
Mr Sbatt's mother, Samira, put her hands to her eyes and made a more impassioned appeal for her son's life. "Oh God, help me, bring our boy safely home." But only King Abdullah can decide whether or not to break young Jamal's heart.
There is not much to say on this, other than it's another instance of the filth of religion in general, with the filthiest of all religions being Islam under whose pretense this barbaric conduct is allowed.
Hanibaal
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Family pleads for return of father sentenced to death for witchcraft
Lebanese pilgrim, arrested and convicted in Saudi Arabia on sorcery charges for his role in a TV show, due to be executed on Thursday.
By Robert Fisk in Al-Ain, Eastern Lebanon
The Independent
Sunday, 6 December 2009
____________________________________
Some stories from the Middle East make you want to weep. But this one is truly heart-breaking.
The moment came when little Jamal walked back from school and climbed on the sofa beside me in her plaited hair and said – unprompted by any of her family – "Are you going to bring my Daddy home?" Alas, I could not tell a four-year-old of the powerlessness of journalists, nor that her father, a pious, poor Shia Muslim, may be executed in Saudi Arabia on Thursday – for witchcraft.
The story is almost too awful to relate because it should be untrue. But it is a fact that Ali Sbatt set off with members of his family two years ago to join the haj in Mecca. After 15 days, the morality police broke into his hotel room and charged him with sorcery. And the reason turns out to be that Ali, a truck driver, once worked for a now-defunct Lebanese television channel called Sheherezade and predicted happy news or gave encouragement to callers with personal problems.
How the Saudi police should have decided on his arrest when Mr Sbatt was making the haj – his eldest son Hussein was with him and showed me his father's portrait in his white pilgrimage robes, taken just before his imprisonment – is unclear. Shias in largely Sunni Saudi Arabia have been treated with suspicion since the Iranian revolution, and Mr Sbatt had an Iranian visa in his passport. Yet millions of Iranians make the pilgrimage to Mecca without being arrested.
He was condemned to death last month, and the religious court may confirm the sentence as soon as Thursday. The family's lawyer, May Khansa, has tried desperately to persuade Lebanese politicians to intervene to save Mr Sbatt's life – the Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, and President Michel Sleiman are aware of his case and so is the Sunni Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan – but so far without success. Sheikh Qabalan did, however, say that what Mr Sbatt did on television was merely psychological help for people who have lost hope and did not involve black magic.
The family wisely appealed to Sunni prelates for help rather than dignitaries from their own Shia background. Their local member of parliament has been asked to assist – uselessly, it appears – and Ibrahim Najjar, the Minister for Justice, has said he has done "the necessary", whatever that is.
The family fears that Mr Sbatt was tortured after his arrest – he had no lawyers when he was sentenced – and Saudi courts, which routinely sentence alleged drug-dealers to beheadings, according to Amnesty International, do not meet international standards of fairness.
In the real world, of course, Lebanon does not cut much weight, but an act of mercy by King Abdullah might go a long way to ease Sunni-Shia relations and demonstrate that the monarch cares as much about Lebanese individuals as he clearly does about Syrian-Lebanese relations. Prime Minister Hariri is a Saudi citizen – his assassinated father Rafiq was also given Saudi nationality – so Mr Sbatt may still be spared.
Unfortunately, Saudi executioners may not feel much like mercy, and Hussein Sbatt told me yesterday that Saudi lawyers had asked for $1m to make a legal appeal, money which is unavailable in this tiny, poor village, some of whose houses still have mud walls and wooden rafters.
Mr Sbatt's mother, Samira, put her hands to her eyes and made a more impassioned appeal for her son's life. "Oh God, help me, bring our boy safely home." But only King Abdullah can decide whether or not to break young Jamal's heart.
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