Thus Spake Zarathustra - نطق زكريّا

On the same day that the Great Idiot Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent was announcing to the world in Moscow that "Lebanon is a sovereign State", his protégé Hassan Nasrallah, the Shiite Iranian Whorelord of the terrorist organization Hezbollah, was meeting in Damascus with Bashar al-Asad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Yes, like Yasser Arafat used to do in Beirut - meeting foreign dignitaries at Beirut Airport without even telling the Lebanese authorities - Hassan Nasrallah has replaced the Lebanese Head of State by meeting foreign heads of state and conducting State-level diplomacy without the consent of the Lebanese head of state or government or people.

I told you that Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent Idiot has no balls: Hassan has chopped them off.

Yalla, may God help the poor people of Lebanon for the leaders they have...

Hanibaal

The Great Idiot: General President Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent

الهبل الكبير: الجنرال الرئيس ميشال الثاني سليمان العظيم

Suleiman the Magnificent of Lebanon was pontificating yesterday, in Moscow no less, about how Lebanon is a sovereign state. That is news for most Lebanese, who know that they are back under Syria's tutelage and who live under the boot of the Iranian terrorist organization Hezbollah. The Lebanese also know that Suleiman the Magnificent in Baabda is a man with no balls who continues to sell his country and his principles to Iran and Syria because he is afraid of them.

The interesting thing about Suleiman the Magnificent is that he is everything to everyone. A few weeks back he was in Washington singing the similarity of Lebanon and the United States, and begging for weapons from the American friends of Suleiman's "enemy" Israel ...to give to Hezbollah and fight the Israelis.... The man is a genius in his own way. Sometimes the extremes meet: The more Suleiman proves his stupidity, the more people think he is onto something grand...

Between his Maronite peasant background, his military training, his serving the Syrians as Army Chief appointed by the Syrian occupation, and then his "ascent" to the presidential throne as a "consensus" President (i.e. he is at the same time a ball-less nothing, AND, he is everything to everyone), the man is at the zenith of his splendor. General De Gaulle's comment about Gamal Abdel Nasser: He wants to fart higher than his asshole - seems very pertinent to Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent. He is a president, he is a maronite, he is pro-sunni, pro-Shiite, pro-resistance, pro-dialogue, pro-collaborating with foreign countries at the expense of his own country, pro-American, pro-French, pro-prostituting his principles to go nowhere, etc.... The only thing he is against: Israel. Like all Arab dictators and leaders, they starve their people of real governance and real services, but feed them anti-Zionist and anti-Israel rhetoric. Anti-Zionist and anti-Israel rhetoric is cheap and easy: The only people to blame you for it are the ISraelis themselves. And you gain the favors of the other Arab dictators and mercenaries who run like their countries like their own private farms....

One other thing that is a mystery in Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent is the whereabouts of his sperm. We know he has no balls, but whether he fathered a sperm candidate for future glories in the Lebanese political pantheon is not known. Is he grooming a successor a la libanaise, namely to lay an egg and out comes the next generation of Suleimans the Magnificents? Everybody hopes so, except of course the "Enemy" Israel. The Israelis are so terrified at Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent that they pray there is no Michel III Suleiman to follow in his father's footsteps.
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Here are some facts about this Syrian President of Lebanon:

- Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent was appointed by the Syrians as commander of the Lebanese Army in 1998.

- Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent was the head of the army when many Lebanese were tortured by the Army to “confess” to whatever his Syrian bosses wanted them to confess.

- Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent is directly and intimately connected to the Syrian regime: He is married to Wafaa Kuriyyeh, a Syrian national, and his brother in law, Gebran Kuriyyeh was the official spokesman of the dictator Hafez Assad, father of the current Syrian president Basher Assad.

- Finally, Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent defended Syrian connection with Fatah al Islam , claiming that the terrorist organization was part of Al Qaida, this is despite the confessions of the jailed Fatah al Islam terrorists about their links to Syria.

Come to think of it:
- Lebanon's President Michel II Suleiman the Magnificent is SYRIAN
- Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri is SAUDI
- Lebanon's Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri is half-IRANIAN, half-AMERICAN
And the Lebanese wonder why their country is manipulated all the time by outsiders. WHY CAN'T THE COUNTRY HAVE LEBANESE RULERS?

Hanibaal
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Suleiman: Lebanon a Sovereign State … Not an Arena

President Michel Suleiman on Friday stressed that Lebanon has become a sovereign state rather than an arena for regional conflicts, adding that the national dialogue table will convene soon to discuss the pending issues.
In an interview with Russia Today TV network, Suleiman said Israeli threats aim at avoiding international pressure to resume the peace process.

"It is trying to blow out of proportion the alleged threats coming from Lebanon, Syria, Iran, or any place in the world so that it says it cannot pursue the peace process and give the Palestinians their rights in land and nationality."

Answering a question about the phone call he received from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Suleiman said: "This is a normal thing, and it took place after the intense Israeli threats against Lebanon … Israel threatened the government and its public administrations, the thing that prompted Ahmadinejad to phone the president of Lebanon to tell him: We're ready to help you and stand by you in case you were attacked."

On the other hand, Suleiman noted that "the national dialogue table will convene soon to discuss the national defensive strategy," stressing that "everything the Lebanese yearn for can be solved at the dialogue table and within the Lebanese interior, because gone is the time when things used to be solved outside Lebanon."

Suleiman returned Friday afternoon to Beirut concluding a 2-day official visit to Moscow, the first ever visit by a Lebanese head of state to Russia.


Beirut, 26 Feb 10, 22:36

The Priorities of the Lebanese Government

In a country that cannot provide more than 8 hours of electricity a day to its people; in a country the size of a finch's asshole pretending to liberate Palestine on behalf of 200 million Arab coward jerks; in a country run by a religious-feudal-money Mafia; in a country whose people slaughtered each other and other people by the hundreds of thousands, and half of whose population was displaced; in a country whose people are bent on destroying the very environment that sustains their lives; in a country whose 3 million lazy people employ 300,000 maids; in a country which, year in and year out, does everything it can to plunge head-first into wars it cannot fight.....

The Lebanese government's priority is to decide that national unity - the real one this time, after all the religious massacres and the sectarian divisions that plague the country - is best sealed by declaring the so-called "Annunciation of the Virgin Mary" a national holiday, as if the country did not have enough religious holidays for the lazy Lebanese to grow their fat bellies and abuse their maids and drive their diesel-driven gas guzzlers. We are urged to marvel at the fact that the Muslims - in their extreme tolerance of other religious stupidity - also believe in the "Immaculate Conception", and hence, this newly discovered "common bond" between Christians and Muslims is now coming to save this sectarian-dislocated dysfunctional country from its own religious demise.

Yes, national unity in the 21st century is best defined by a 2,000-year old fantastic story whereby a Jewish teenager by the name of Mary got impregnated out of wedlock by a carpenter, then went around telling people that an angel actually deposited God's sperm in her by some mysterious act of copulation that humans cannot fathom. Yes, in the modern age, this is the best that the Lebanese could come up with as a symbol of Lebanese national unity between Christians and Muslims in the country of Lebanon. I remind you that, at the height of similar religious expressions of unity and brotherhood during the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and beyond, Lebanese Christian and Muslim militiamen used to pull down the pants of innocent men they stop at their checkpoints and kill them on the spot if they, respectively, were or were not circumcised. Variations on this brotherly religious love included asking the poor passerby to say a prayer in one or the other religion, and you get the idea....

You know, the Greeks used to believe that Aphrodite was born from Zeus's thigh. Christians, Jews and Muslims still believe that Eve was molded from Adam's liver or from some mud (depending on which translation you are willing to believe). Polynesian islanders believe that their islands were born out of the copulation of a sea god with some fish. American Indians believe that the Great Spirit impregnated the earth and that is how they came to be.... Stories, or myths, as Joseph Campbell called them, all made up in the naive minds of humans trying to explain their existence outside the realm of reason.

Onward to progress, my fellow Lebanese, for you think you have discovered the antidote to religious fanaticism: To sink even more in the marshes of religious idiocy. Instead of walking away from your own excrement, you are drowning in it. Good luck.

Hanibaal
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March 25 National Holiday
Cabinet decided to make March 25 a national holiday to celebrate the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The decision was taken during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday held under Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the Grand Serail.

"Virgin Mary concerns both Muslims as Christians in the Qoran and the Bible, and this day must be on a joint holiday," Hariri told Cabinet ministers, who promptly agreed.
Feb 19, 2010

كول خرى يا كلب

Rebuttal to Hezbollah's Nasrallah Talking Points

Hassan, the Lebanese Shiite Don Quixote who works as an ass-wiper for the Iranian regime's Mullahs and other strange bearded fellows, was barking today from his rat hole (where the Israelis put him in 2006) in the southern suburb of Beirut. Incidentally, the entire area along the Beirut airport boulevard, today known as the Dahiyeh or "suburb", was illegally taken by Hassan and his smelly Shiite followers from its rightful owners.

Be that as it may, Hassan's occasion for barking today was, as is usual for blood-thirsty Shiites, to commemorate Hezbollah's "Leader martyrs", a.k.a. top terrorists like Imad Mughniyah. Blood, martyrs, death, sacrifice, suicide, killing etc...are all in fact intrinsic to Shiite folklore and tradition.

The following are some of Hassan's "talking points" in his barkspeech" as well as my own rebuttals to this puppet of the Iranian Islamic theocracy.

1- Nasrallah: We had a lot of exposed targets before us to assassinate one of the Israelis, but we didn't make use of that because we want a revenge that is at the same level of Imad Mughniyeh's martyrdom.
----> Of course, Hassan thinks that he is "scaring" the Israelis by maintaining the threat of his revenge. Fact is, he has been hiding like a dog in his rat hole since 2006 and is afraid of appearing in public... The whole world knows he is trying to assassinate Israelis anywhere he can in around the world, and all his attempts have been thwarted and defeated. Not much he can do other than bark, like the good Iranian poodle that he is. If he could bash the skull of an Israeli girl with his own hands, he'd do it, like his friend and fellow "resistor" Samir Kuntar did... But he can't and he knows it. The whole world recognizes that Hassan runs a terrorist organization that has killed and assassinated innocent people, including Lebanese, Palestinians, Israelis, Argentinians, Americans, Britons, Egyptians, French, etc... for no reason at all other than hatred and jealousy: His brand of Islam is old, archaic, primitive... and does not fit anymore with the modern world.

2 - Nasrallah: Today, I declare this challenge and we accept this challenge because the people, army, and resistance of Lebanon are capable of protecting the country without needing anyone else.
----> We'll see. Not Hassan, not his "resistance", and not the Lebanese army are able to prevent Israeli jet fighters from flying over Lebanon every day and violating Lebanese sovereignty. How can then Hassan claim that he is "protecting" the country???? The only thing he is protecting is his power, the money Iran pays him, and his mental hijacking of the entire Lebanese Shiite community.

3 - Nasrallah to Israelis: If you bombard Rafik Hariri Beirut International Airport, we will bombard Ben Gurion International Airport.
----> Boy, I am so scared for the Israelis. But wait, what would bombarding Ben Gurion Airport achieve? Nothing.

4 - Nasrallah: If Israel strikes Dahiyeh, we will strike Tel Aviv. They think that they can demolish Dahiyeh's buildings as we barely "puncture their walls." But I tell them today: You destroy a Dahiyeh building and we will destroy buildings in Tel Aviv.
----> Again, what does that achieve? To me, the whole thing sounds like a little bully boy (Hassan) threatening a classmate (Israel) to prove he is tougher. Is this what Hassan's "liberation" enterprise is all about? Who has the biggest balls in the school yard? Does shelling an airport and a few buildings "liberate" Shebaa? or "Palestine"? Hassan (and the stupid Lebanese who follow him like Michel Aoun and his idiots) don't want the Lebanese people to see the futility of this whole "liberation" enterprise. It is exact equivalent of Don Quixote's madness of fighting windmills to prove his chivalry.

5 - Nasrallah: Israeli threats tend to be a psychological warfare to frighten the Lebanese people and government and to thwart the resistance from boosting its strength. They are also an attempt at convincing Israeli citizens that Israel is strong.
----> The same is true of Hezbollah's threats to Israel. Does Hassan really think he can score "realistic" gains by threatening the Israelis? He is really so childish, so lame and so stupid.

6 - Nasrallah: We are strong to an extent that forbids Israel from waging a war against us unless it was confident of its victory because any other downfall will make its demise closer.
---> But Israel is also strong to the extent that Hassan dares not show his nose in public, and no longer dares to shoot his stupid Katyushas at northern Israel because he knows how terrible would be the consequence. If Hassan is arguing that he has scared Israel, it is also true that Israel has also scared him. So at best, Hassan has managed to create mutual deterrence with Israel, except that he ignores a simple fact: Israel has nothing to liberate in South Lebanon and just is not interested in wars with fucking pitiful Lebanon. Israel would very much like to end this charade. But Hassan wants to "liberate" Shebaa (which is really occupied by Hassan's friends in Syria, not by Israel), and he also wants to liberate ALL OF PALESTINE at the cost of Lebanese blood and sovereignty, while all the filthy Muslims and Arabs have given up. So the burden is on him, not on Israel, to stop his divinely inspired hallucinations, let Lebanon finally out of the vortex of violence he has shoved the country in for 40 years, and get on with life.

7 - Nasrallah: Will the State overlook those who are giving a complete justification to the side that wants to attack our land?
----> Ya Hassan, the Lebanese State can barely provide 8 hours of daily electricity and running water to its people? The Lebanese State can't even challenge your own hijacking of Lebanese sovereignty, land, and decision-making. You think the State is going to go after Amine Gemayel and Samir Geagea because they are standing up to you? The State will stop overlooking challenges like this the day you - Hassan - Lay down your weapons and surrender your big balls to the State, so the State can now go after puny Gemayel and Geagea....

8 - Nasrallah: Do some consider that their plans, which diminished in the recent period, can only be achieved through a new Israeli war? And what is the responsibility of the Lebanese government in this regard? Is this "transition to statehood"?
----> You are the only one who hopes to achieve anything with warmongering against Israel and your fellow Lebanese. Not one Lebanese, except you, wants a war with Israel. On the other hand, the little bit of notoriety you have these days was achieved by desiring and causing war with Israel. Causing wars with Israel is your only gate to fame and to "divine" victories. If wars stop, you will be a nothing. You will be a bearded fellow sitting in a basement somewhere, afraid for his life, like you are living these days. Your only hope out of the rat hole is another war with Israel, which is why you keep piling up Katyushas and other weapons across all of Lebanon. War is the air you breathe and the water you drink. Without war, you are nothing.

9 - Nasrallah: The dangerous thing about the alibis theory is that it contains an attempt to justify Israeli's acts and to make the resistance bear the responsibility through its mere existence in Lebanon. "Is this an invitation to wage the war?"
---> Precisely the point. You are the best alibi for Israel to attack Lebanon. Your stupid "resistance" and "liberation" are the only alibis ISrael has to attack Lebanon. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was Yasser Arafat's (Allah Y-ghamme'lo) PLO that gave Israel the alibis to destroy Lebanon. Now it is you. All you are doing is continuning what Yasser Arafat started. And one day you will negotiate with the ISraelis, like Arafat did, after hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians and Lebanese were slaughtered. Your strategy is old and stupid....It won't work.

10 - Nasrallah: The formula saying "Lebanon is strong through its army, people, and resistance" is our formula until someone convinces us with another reasonable formula at the national dialogue table. If Lebanon adopts the choice of neutralism, will it be able to regain its land in the future?
----> Yes. Strength is not just big balls and rockets. Strength comes from a civilized choice of peace. Switzerland is a neutral country, and not even Nazi Germany dared attack it or invade it during World War II. Yes, neutrality for Lebanon will give it back its land (from Syria) because the whole world will stand with Lebanon. But as long as you hijack Lebanon and transform it into a hostile, vengeful, aggressive, murderous, terrorist country, no one will help us. Look at us, for 60 years we have been losing one battle after another because we chose war. On the other hand, Egypt chose peace and it got all the Sinai back. Even your Syrian bosses say that they will make peace with Israel if Israel returns the Golan Heights. Why can't the Lebanese, on an equal footing as the other Arabs, say we will make peace with Israel if Israel resolves its borders dispute with Lebanon? Why should Lebanon be the only idiot among the Arabs? Well, it has so far been the only idiot because of people like you, Hassan.

11 - Nasrallah started his speech by extending condolences to the "brothers" in Al-Mustaqbal Movement (of Saad Hariri) and ex-PM Rafik Hariri's family on the 5th anniversary of his assassination.
----> Now come on, Hassan. Everyone knows you killed Rafik Hariri on behalf of the Syrians your friends. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is just about to announce that your organization, Hezbollah, was behind the assassination of Hariri. Who are you fooling? You think we, the non-Shiite Lebanese, are as stupid as your Shiite bastards? Think again. You can buy your Shiite numskulls with Iranian money, but you will never buy us off. We want peace with Israel, just like Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, and other Arab countries. We don;t want to liberate Palestine. Let the Palestinians liberate Palestine; it's their country. I could care less about Palestine. My priority is Lebanon. And it should be yours, too.

Hanibaal

Lebanon is No. 5 Top Terror Risk Among 196 Nations

Lebanon ranks 5th as a top terror risk among 196 countries
16 Feb 2010
Source: Reuters

LONDON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Iraq is the country most at risk from terrorist attacks for the second straight year, according to a ranking by global analysts Maplecroft, while Thailand has joined the nine countries most in danger for the first time.

The risk consultancy's Terrorism Risk Index of 196 countries shows that although security in Iraq has improved, the scale, human impact and frequency of attacks still makes it the riskiest country for political violence with nearly 4,500 civilians killed in 2009.

Rated at extreme risk, based on 2009 data, are the following countries: Afghanistan is 2, Pakistan 3, Somalia 4, Lebanon 5, India 6, Algeria 7, Colombia 8 and Thailand 9.

The UK-based risk advisory group's index tracks the risks of an attack, the intensity of violence as measured by casualties per incident, and a country's history of extremist violence.

POTENTIAL DISRUPTION OF BUSINESS AND TOURISM OPERATIONS

"However, smaller terrorist incidents often go unreported, despite having potential to disrupt business operations and supply chains."

More than 3,900 people have been killed in six years of unrest in Thailand's rebellious deep south blamed on separatist insurgents in the region bordering Malaysia.

In Afghanistan, Western countries hope a major offensive this year backed by 30,000 extra troops will help push the Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table.

Major movers in the index, versus a year earlier, were:

Yemen: Rose to 22 from 29 due to an increase in abductions and an increase in the threat from al Qaeda.

Iran: Rose to 19 from 25, due to insurgencies in Baluchistan and Khuzestan and rising anti-government sentiment.

China: Rises to 43 from 54 due to increase in the intensity of security incidents in 2008-09 compared to 2006-07.

Egypt: Rises to 54 from 66, due to a spate of minor security incidents in late 2008 and early 2009.

For more go to http://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2010/02/warning-against-travel-to-lebanon.html

Hezbollah's Involvement in Hariri Murder: A Certainty

Le Monde: Revelations about Hizbullah's Involvement in Hariri's Murder Credible

The French newspaper Le Monde says that revelations published by the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel about Hezbollah's involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri were "trustworthy."

It said that primary conclusions of the investigation since 2005 pointed a finger at Syria. Damascus, however, hailed as a "victory" the release in April of four Lebanese generals who were held for nearly four years without charges over Hariri's murder.

Their release was not due to errors in the conclusions of the probe, but due to the methods adopted by initial investigators -- witnesses making questionable statements, unprofessionally gathered forensic evidence which cannot be used before a court.

But, despite those mistakes which accompanied the investigation, the probe is progressing, Le Monde wrote, adding that the cellular phone network used by the perpetrators had been pinned down.

It quoted sources as saying that the network pointed to the involvement of Hezbollah officials in the assassination of Rafik Hariri.

"This confirms a May 2009 report by Der Spiegel which accused Hezbollah operatives," Le Monde added.

Hezbollah's Nawaf Moussawi dismissed Le Monde's report.

Der Spiegel has said a U.N.-backed tribunal investigating Hariri's murder has obtained new evidence proving Hezbollah was behind his assassination.

Hezbollah had described Der Spiegel's report as "fabricated lies" and a cheap attempt at influencing the June 7 parliamentary elections.

WARNING AGAINST TRAVEL TO LEBANON

WARNING to all potential tourists who read press reports about what a great place Beirut and Lebanon are to visit this coming summer, you should not listen to greedy and corrupt journalists and others who would sell their mothers if they could to make a buck.

Lebanon is a very dangerous place, especially this summer:
- Crime is rampant, especially attacks on foreign tourists.
- Pollution in Lebanon is one of the highest around the Mediterranean: all large vehicles (trucks, busses, vans, etc...) run on very low grade diesel. The air you breathe in Lebanon is one of the most dangerous to your health, not to mention that everyone smokes right in your face in every public and private place, including at the airport right under the "No Smoking" signs.
- Lebanese drivers are some of the worst in the world: They drive at vertiginous speeds down dangerous mountain roads, will pass you at hairpin loop turns, then push you aside into the ditch if they encounter oncoming traffic. Traffic accidents are nothing short of horrific because of the speeds involved. There is no traffic code in Lebanon, people drive anywhere, park anywhere, and traffic jams in the summer sweltering heat are pretty close to Dante's seventh circle of hell.
- Human Rights are not respected in Lebanon. Last year the French UN Ambassador's son had a minor road accident with a Lebanese Army truck. The soldiers proceeded to kidnap him, put a bag on his head, take him to the Army Intelligence HQ in Yarzeh, and beat him so badly that they broke his back and permanently disabled the young man. There are 300,000 foreign maids working for 3 million Lebanese (imagine what that ratio means in terms of social perceptions and social disparities); every week, there are reports that these maids supposedly "commit suicide" by hurtling themselves from high rise buildings. No one knows the real story, but sexual abuse and labor abuses are believed to be behind all those killings/suicides. If you want to see Middle Ages practices in a 21st century setting, then go to Lebanon. But if you have any respect for human rights, then you should not go to Lebanon to help fund the abuses.
- Oh, and by the way, Beirut and Lebanon are VERY EXPENSIVE, especially for the poor bang you get for your buck. It's not even worth it. Even the ruins they take you to see for exorbitant fees are mismanaged and in total disrepair. The Lebanese respect nothing - they are basically a highly unethical people - believe me, I am one of them.
- Simple access to beaches on the Mediterranean is impossible: They are are either owned by proprietors in collusion with politicians, and so are made to be "exclusive" with high entry fees and where you find snotty snobs with their maids (who are denied swimming, of course, with the natives), or they are dirty "public" beaches that are 1 hour away from Beirut where you will lounge on rocks and pebbles (instead of sand), amidst piles of plastic garbage, and swim with tchador-clad women. There is nothing in between. It's either filthy rich, or it's simply filthy.
- Last but not least, A second war between Hezbollah and Israel is looming very large. There are daily threats on both sides, and the stupid Lebanese government of Saad Hariri and Michel Suleiman are backing the terrorist organization Hezbollah, and so is the cowards in the Baath regime in Syria.
- This war is likely to be so much more devastating than the 2006 war because Hezbollah is no longer an organization, it now sits in the Lebanese government. While in 2006, Israel limited its devastation to logistics targets serving only Hezbollah, this time Israel is saying clearly that - since Hezbollah is in the Lebanese government - everything is fair game: Lebanese ministries, army positions, etc... Also, because of the perception that Israel "lost" in 2006 by not being able to curtail Hezbollah's ability to shell Israeli territory, it is likely that Israel this time will be unrelenting, which means that the war is likely to be much more devastating and last a longer time, something resembling the 1982 Israeli invasion to dislodge the PLO from Beirut.
- You, as a foreigner, don't want to be stranded in a basically lawless country where the infrastructure sucks, and have to be evacuated in miserable conditions, like what happened in 2006.

Lebanon is my country. I know it. I love it. But I no longer respect it because it has become synonymous with the worst in humans. I do not advise you to go spend your money and be mistreated. One day in the future, perhaps, when there is no more garbage in the streets, when people no longer smoke in your face, when the forests and the beaches of Lebanon become clean and protected from greedy corrupt developers, and when the Lebanese finally learn to treat their fellow human beings with dignity and respect, perhaps then I will invite you to my own home. Inshallah.

Hanibaal

Lebanese Mafia Godfather: Walking with His Father's Killers

The Saudi Prime Minister of Lebanon, Mr. Saad Hariri, is a perfect example of the Mafia structure of the Lebanese political milieu.

Here is a guy who inherited his power simply because he was once a sperm in his father's testicles - another one of the hundreds of examples of "sperm politicians" in Lebanon. He is a total novice who is learning on the job. Because he is a rookie, he is being yanked around by the regime of his real homeland of Saudi Arabia, by his so-called allies the Americans (who continue to kiss ass to the Saudis, September 11 and Bin Laden notwithstanding), and now by the Syrians and the Iranians. No one knows what this guy really believes anymore.

For one, when his father Rafik was assassinated in downtown Beirut in 2005 by the Baathist Syrian regime with the almost certain involvement of Hezbollah in the bombing, Hariri has attacked Hezbollah and Syria as his father's killers and pledged to bring them to justice, leading in the process a so-called "Cedars Revolution" against Syria and for (finally) Lebanese independence from the dictatorship next door.

Since 2005, a UN investigation has been ongoing into the Hariri assassination, to which were added about 17 other bombings and assassinations of pro-Hariri politicians and journalists. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is slated to begin soon its prosecution of (as of yet unnamed) suspects in the assassination(s).

In the interim, there was a change in the US administration. The Democrat Obama administration is eager to engage Syria and Iran into discussions and talks, as opposed to the bellicose (albeit stupid) posturing of the previous George W Bush administration.

Now there seems to have been a change by the Saudis and the Americans vis-a-vis Syria, and lo and behold, thanks to the reappointment of a US Ambassador in Damascus, the reconciliation between Riyadh and Damascus, and a general thaw between a kiss-ass credulous West and the Baathists in Syria, the Syrian regime has returned en force to pulling all the strings in Beirut. To wit, Walid Jumblatt, the Druze Whorelord, is literally begging the Syrians to welcome him in Damascus so he can ask for forgiveness.

The result: Saad Hariri stopped blaming Syria and Hezbollah for the killing of his father; he went to Damascus and begged for forgiveness from his father's own killer the Syrian president Bashar al-Asad; and Saad Hariri, who for years demanded the demilitarization of Hezbollah, is now proclaiming that he, as the Prime Minister of Lebanon, will support Hezbollah if the latter triggers another devastating war with Israel. That war is imminent, with the Iranians raising the stakes of their nuclear program, and Iran's Hezbollah dogs in Lebanon barking louder and louder against the "Zionist entity".

In essence, like the Saudi-American poodle that he is, Saad Hariri is now walking alongside and behind his father's killers, and trashing all the principles he claimed to have upheld for a brief 4 years since 2005. Like the Sunni dog that he is, he is returning to his roots - and to the legacy of dozens of Sunni Prime Ministers before him - of destroying Lebanon for the sake of non-Lebanese causes.

To all those "Cedars Revolution" idiots out there in Lebanon, and also in Florida, Washington DC, and Toronto and elsewhere, who believed in the miracle of the transformation of this Sunni dog into something resembling a Lebanese patriot, your idiocy shall remain a shining example of inferior intellectual acumen and degenerate political opportunism. Perhaps the Batrak your hero, even in his senility and his own Maronite imbecility, might save the day. Who knows? Let us pray to God, to Saint Maroun, to Saint Rafka and all the monks, priests, nuns, and others in the crowded Maronite pantheon, because in the grand tradition of Maronite politics, faith, religion, and other stupid beliefs have often pre-empted the little bit of gray matter that may exist somewhere in the numskulls of the regressive mountain brutes that the Maronites essentially are.

Hanibaal

Top Lebanese Druze Whore: Walid Jumblatt

To the Druze fellow who commented once on this blog about how the Druze are a proud and principled people, and are not like goats who follow their feudal masters like idiots:

Please show us what the Druze are doing to not allow their Whore Lord Walid Jumblatt yank them around like a limp penis between opposite political positions overnight. For now, to any outside observer, the Lebanese Druze - much like most of the Lebanese - appear like stupid numskull goats who blindly follow their tribal leader.

وقرد يا عمّي هالدروز صاروا مثل شراميط السوق
باسم الأخضر الاخضر، إسّأ تنييّ فاتحين تمهن وراخيين بيضهن

Hanibaal
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Jumblat Expresses Regret at 'Offensive Words' against Syrian People, Leadership

Progressive ["Regressive" would be better] Socialist ["Feudal" is more accurate] Party leader Walid Jumblat has denied that he had told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius in a telephone interview in 2006 that the U.S. went to Iraq and "can do the same thing in Syria." "I never called for the invasion of Syria by the U.S. army … this is crazy," Jumblat told As Safir in an interview published Tuesday. "Maybe I thought that the condition of the opposition in Syria could improve."

"I hope my clarification today would wipe out the offensive words against the Syrian people and the Syrian leadership," he said.

The Druze leader rejected continuous incitement against Damascus by some March 14 officials, saying "I don't see a necessity for that particularly after the historic settlement began with Premier Saad Hariri's visit to Damascus."

About bomb attacks against anti-Syrian officials and journalists in Lebanon, Jumblat said that the series of assassinations continued after the withdrawal of the Syrian army from Lebanon. "Maybe someone wanted to pour oil on fire."

On Hizbullah, Jumblat told his interviewer that he only sees "solidarity with the resistance in Lebanon and with Syria because Israeli madness" could lead to war anytime.

"That's why I say that we are with the Syrian leadership above anything else in our confrontation with the Israeli enemy," the PSP leader said.

He told As Safir that he would meet with Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah soon.

Turning to the Feb. 14 mass rally on the occasion of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's 5th assassination anniversary, Jumblat reiterated that he hoped the occasion would bring all Lebanese together.

He also said he would decide on how to participate in the event at the appropriate time. "Unfortunately some people are trying to isolate us from the commemoration and seeking to build a hostile atmosphere against us without any justification."

One More Arab Collaborator with Israel: The Saudis

Even the jackass Saudis are "civilized" enough to meet with Israeli officials, shake hands with them, and attend conferences with them....

There's no one left in the fucking Arab world that has not talked, negotiated, sat down, opened embassies with, established trade with Israel, except the IDIOT Lebanese who are still fighting Israel ON BEHALF of the Arabs who are making peace with Israel.

Go figure... The Lebanese keep on destroying their country for the sake of a cause that no longer exists. In fact, the Lebanese once had a stupid Prime Minister by the name of Siniora who said that Lebanon will be the last Arab country to make peace with Israel. He, and the jackass Lebanese (or whoever will be left of them), are keeping their word. One day, they'll wake up on the smoldering ashes of their country, wondering why they are the last ones....and guess what? They'll accuse Syria or Israel or the United States...It's never their fault because they - the magnificent Lebanese - are infallible. That's what Hassan Nasrallah told them!

Hanibaal

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JORDAN TIMES 7 Feb.'10:"Israeli, Saudi handshake settles seating
spa", Reuters
SUBJECT: Israel/Saudi handshake at international security conference

FULL TEXT:;MUNICH (Reuters) - A handshake between an Israeli politician and
a Saudi prince settled an unusual public diplomatic spat on Saturday(6 Feb)
about the seating arrangements at an international security conference.
To applause from the audience at the Munich Security Conference, a global
gathering of defence, security and diplomatic chiefs, Israeli Deputy Foreign
Minister Danny Ayalon and Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki Al Faisal smiled and
shook hands in a display of diplomatic good manners.
"There is a chance," Ayalon said, apparently referring to prospects for a
more peaceful region. "I am very glad". Ayalon had accused Turki, a former
Saudi intelligence chief and envoy to Washington and London, of
orchestrating a decision to keep him off a panel involving other regional
powers meant to discuss the security of the Middle East.
The panel had been due to feature speakers from Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Turkey, Egypt, Russia and the United States.
In the event, it was split into two sessions, the first featuring Turki,
Egyptian diplomat Hossam Zaki and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
and a second with Ayalon, Russian academic Igor Yurgens and US Senator
Joseph Lieberman.
Ayalon began his talk saying it appeared "a representative of a country with
a lot of oil" had pressed the organisers to separate the panel because he
"did not want to sit with us".
This showed a lack of mutual respect and tolerance, a failing at the heart
of the region's problems, he said.
In the subsequent question and answer session, Turki stood up in the
audience and said it was not he who had objected and the splitting of the
panel was probably due to Ayalon's "boorish behaviour" with Turkey's envoy
to Israel.
This was a reference to a public dressing down Ayalon gave Ambassador Oguz
Celikkol in January. Ayalon later conceded his behaviour towards the envoy
had been inappropriate. Israel has apologised for the incident.
Ayalon responded to Turki saying Turki had called into question his
integrity. He added: "If indeed it was not him who objected to my being here
with him, I would welcome him to shake my outstetched hand." Turki
approached the podium, Ayalon descended from it and the men grasped hands.
Davutoglu could not immediately be reached for comment.
Turkey, as a Muslim country, is an important ally of Israel and in the past
has helped forge contacts between Israel and the Arab world. But relations
have deteriorated following criticism by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of
Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip last year.

Misplaced Rage - Ethiopia, Lebanon, and the Racist Maide Trade

Check out this beautiful commentary on how the racist Lebanese have used the Ethiopian plane crash to indulge their racism and prejudice. I have always spoken against the maid trade in Lebanon. This is an opportunity to read and understand how those countries, in this case Ethiopia, think of the dehumanizing treatment of their own decent people who work in Lebanon by money-engorged, disgusting, lazy, and racist Lebanese.

You will note that Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christian countries of the world, much like the Lebanese Christians claim to be. Yet, the way the Lebanese treat their Ethiopian maids (and maids from other countries) is far from Christian and so remote from the minimum decency and civility. Shame on my country of Lebanon.

http://abbaymedia.com/News/?p=3734&cpage=1#comment-109504

Hanibaal

Aoun's FPM and Nasrallah's Hezbollah to Confront Israeli "Aggression" Together

As preparations are underway in South Lebanon for a fresh war between Israel and Hezbollah, the role that members and followers of Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement will play this time is expected to be much bigger than sheltering Shiite refugees escaping the violence, as they did in 2006.

No longer is the relationship between the FPM and Hezbollah limited to the "understanding" signed in February 2006; it has in fact grown into a strategic alliance that, contrary to all expectations, has sustained various tests and challenges. Aoun is solidly now in the Syrian-Iranian camp, with repeated visits to Damascus and Tehran.

Therefore, as a new war is being planned, it is expected that committed party members in the FPM will this time - like their Hezbollah brothers - leave their cushy Christian suburbs of Beirut and the mountain highlands east and north of Beirut, and join their "Resistance" Shiite brethren in "confronting" the "Zionists" and their insidious plots and conspiracies to weaken the resolve, the steadfastness, and the determination of the glorious Arab nation.

Yes, this time, Elie, Tony, and Joseph will join Ali, Hassan, and Mohammed in launching the 40,000 missiles or so stockpiled in the south against Israeli cities, and they will hide together in the rat holes dug up for the war, and together they will write a new chapter in the glories of this newly founded Arab-Islamic-"Christian" front against the Jewish-Zionist-American-imperialist enemy. Another super-divine victory is in the making. Just wait and see.

Of course, in the heat of the moment and the hair-raising emotion at the mere contemplation of this grandiose achievement-to-be, Elie, Tony, and Joseph (and Michel and Gebran and all the FPMers) perhaps forget that there is a price to pay for heroism like this. Especially since this time ISrael has repeatedly warned that since Hezbollah is now officially (i.e. no longer hiding behind their FPM and Amal dummies) in the Lebanese government, then the Lebanese government becomes fair target in the up and coming glorious war to be devastated again on Lebanon, supposedly for the liberation of Palestine and Jersualem.

So, this time, the heroic acts will not be take place in Dahiyeh (Hezbollah's capital in the southern Shiite suburbs of Beirut) or Aita Al-Shaab or Marwaheen or Bint Jbeil.... They will spread like an epidemic of glories and epics in Jouniyeh, Rabieyh, Ashrafiyeh, Ghazir, Batroun, and of course, the Cedars, Bsharreh, Ehden and all the Christian mountain highlands where supporters of Aoun and Frangiyeh will join the battle against the Zionists alongside their fellow Shiite Hezbollah fighters. Byblos, of course, Broummana, Baabdat - probably not Bickfaya, though - Bteghrine, Baskinta, and other major Christian towns will be hit, especially if Hezbollah's friends there decided to plant missile launchers from the heights so they can reach deeper into the Zionist entity's interior.

And at that moment of Lebanon's history, the real glorious Lebanon will be born, straight out of the ashes, in the blood and the rubble, without distinction of religion... to teach the Zionists and also the Zionising Sunnis the true meaning of heroism, and the real path to either heaven or to Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Bashar al-Assad in Damascus and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran will be strenuously clapping and applauding the boys in Lebanon, while careful not to distract them or the Israelis from the joys of battle, and to avoid unnecessary shedding of blood and destruction in their own countries. There would be no point, for example, for the Syrians to launch missiles and rockets from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights because, first, the ISraelis are there (not the Syrians), and second, the Syrians and the Israelis have a ceasefire agreement along their disputed borders that was signed in 1974 and which ought to be respected. You know, Syria is a respectable country that upholds its international agreements; it is not some backwater dump like Lebanon where anything goes. So, Syria will not wage war on Israel, and it will not fly its mighty airforce, even if this might bring temporary relief to the heroes fighting in Lebanon. But, the Syrians will watch the whole thing on their TVS and they will applaud and write editorials extolling the defeat (again and again) of the Zionists and their devious plans to divide the Arab Nation and weaken the will of the struggle - just across the border in Lebanon, but not inside Syria proper, because of those respectable agreements that Syria is obligated to uphold, really, and for no other reason. You see, Syria will be very happy to assist Lebanon by actually doing some of the fighting, but unfortunately, it just can't. It wouldn't be legal under international law and it wouldn't be prudent (as George Bush Senior would say).

So there it goes: Finally, a united Arab-Islamic-"Christian" Middle East, fighting with ALL its mighty Lebanese population against the Zionist hordes, and proving again and again, even as Palestine is disappearing before our eyes, that "absolute resistance" is the means and the goal, just like Don Quixote did it.

You see, in the grand scheme of the Islamo-Arabists, one fights for the sake of fighting, and to write one's own glories, regardless of who the enemy is and for what purpose. If there was no Zionist enemy south of the border, we just would create one...because how else could one get martyred and go to heaven? Can you really imagine what life would be if there were no wars to fight, and no enemy to kill, and no Crusader-Imperialist-Colonialist-Reactionary-Zionists to fight, and no glories to write, and no funerals at which to bark and wail, and no editorials to write about glorious Arab nationalism and decadent Western imperialism? Can you imagine if life were reduced to fixing water delivery, electricity matters, sewage disposal problems, tax payments, fixing sidewalks, taking care of the environment, preparing for retirement, cleaning the streets, driving like civilized people, securing jobs, riding bicycles, taking walks by the sea, teaching your kids about respecting others...you know, all those boring things of every day life?

Onward we go, Lebanese Christians of Aoun's FPM, and Lebanese Shiites of HAssan Nasrallah's Hezbollah, to write another chapter of our endless (50 years plus) glorious wars, but this time with the destruction of an ALL and UNITED Lebanon, and not just the Shiite areas and villages. We want Israel to bomb the Christian cities and villages, just like it usually does the Shiite cities and villages. We need Israel to unite us in the blood, the rubble, and the destruction, because we don;t know how else to do it. We don;t know how to become united other than with violence and hatred. We don;t know how to do it with elections and rational processes of communal living. Israel: We need you, our beloved enemy.

Hanibaal





South Lebanon Villagers Brace for New Israel War
More than three years after the last war between Israel and Hizbullah, south Lebanon residents are bracing for new conflict amid Israeli warnings against both Hizbullah and its backer Syria.

"If you come back, we'll be waiting for you," Hizbullah warns Israel on a billboard near the southern village of Aita Shaab.

It was across the border from Aita Shaab that Hizbullah fighters captured two Israeli soldiers in a deadly cross-border raid in July 2006, provoking a devastating month-long Israeli offensive against Hizbullah strongholds in south Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburb.

The war killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mainly civilians, and 160 Israelis, most of them soldiers.

"We are afraid, of course," said Hayat, a resident of the southern village of Qana, which came under deadly bombardment in the 2006 war.

"Every day we hear news of a possible new war," she tells AFP from her terrace which overlooks the village cemetery.

She said she feared any renewed fighting would see even the heart of the capital Beirut bombed. "Where will we hide?" she asked.

Her neighbor Diba agreed that any new conflict risked being more devastating than 2006.

"If war erupts, Syria and Iran will participate too. Next time it will not be limited to Hizbullah."

Israeli officials have warned repeatedly in recent weeks that any attack by Hizbullah will meet with a tough response.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused Lebanon of allowing Hezbollah to develop its stockpile of weapons, which Israel estimates at some 40,000 rockets, a significant rise from the group's 14,000 rockets in 2006.

Last month, Yossi Peled, an Israeli minister without portfolio and a reserve army general, warned Israel was heading towards a new war with Hizbullah.

"We are heading toward a new confrontation in the north but I don't know when it will happen, just as we did not know when the second Lebanon war would erupt," Peled told Israeli radio.

In Aita Shaab, new houses and villas are under construction, visible to Israeli soldiers across the border.

But a third of the homes in village remain in ruins after the 2006 war. Farmer Hassan Srour's house was reduced to rubble.

"We are rebuilding, and if war breaks out again, then we will rebuild again," the 39-year-old said.

"We have got used to occupation, war and destruction. Where are we expected to go? This is our land," he said.

Unlike in northern Israel, villagers in Aita Shaab are not building bomb shelters as they reconstruct their homes.

"What for?" said Srour. "In 2006, two of our neighbors were buried alive in their bomb shelters."

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has voiced fear of another "Israeli intervention" and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the next war would "change the face of the region."

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem warned Israel that war against his country would turn into a wider conflict.

"Israelis, do not test the power of Syria since you know the war will move into your cities," Muallem said on Wednesday.

His Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman retorted on Thursday that any war would cost Syrian President Bashar al-Assad his grip on power.

In the village of Yarin, Khaled and his wife Dima, who run a shop near the border, carry on with their daily lives amid the mounting war of words.

"This time with the first explosion we're packing our bags," Dima said, adjusting her black veil.

Akel Hammoud, from the nearby village of Beit Leef, said Hizbullah's fighters were prepared for any Israeli move.

"Everything is ready," he said. "The weapons and equipment are there. All we need is anti-aircraft defense."(AFP)

The Damascus Dick of Arabism Pulsates to the CIA

The Syrian dick-tator Bashar a-Assad was pontificating to imbecile Seymour Hersh about how the Lebanese political system is so bad... implying that his own Baathist Nazi-style dick-tatorship, under the guidance of Bitchin-Ugly-Chief Buthaina Shaaban would be a better option for Lebanon.... But that is the least of what this smart ass was saying.

Listen to how this "pulsating dick of the Arab World", full and engorged with "Sumud and Tassadi" and resisting all manner of imperialism, colonialism, Zionism, isolationism...for the greater good of the glorious Arab-fucker Nation, is actually a CIA Collaborator, delivering people he wants to get rid of to US and British intelligence. In other words, Assad sends total innocent numskulls his security services pick up on the streets, or annoying political dissidents, to be tortured by naive and credulous American and British intelligence... only to be praised by cretins like Seymour Hersh or by bleeding heart liberals as "cooperating" with the West on terrorism, while he continues to wreak havoc in places like Lebanon and Gaza with terrorists, weapons, destabilization galore.... We all know how this scheme has worked so well for more than 40 years: The Assads' regime is one of the strongest in the Middle East (protected by a colluding West and Israel), yet every place around Syria remains at war...

Note also that for domestic consumption, Dick Bashar does not want his Syrian people to know that he is collaborating with the CIA...

Excerpt from Seymour Hersh's interview of the Dick in Damascus:
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Assad's interviewer, Seymour Hersh, said that a Syrian official had told him last year that Syria agreed last year to renew sharing of intelligence on terrorism with the C.I.A. and with Britain's MI6, after a request from U.S. President Barack Obama that was relayed by his Middle East envoy George Mitchell. He added that the Syrian president confirmed he had agreed to do so.
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However, Hersh added that the transcript of his interview with Assad, provided by Syrian president's office, was "generally accurate" but it did not include the exchange they had about intelligence.
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Hanibaal

Coming Soon to Beirut: WAR - and bigger this time

The drums of war are beating.

Israel is warning - justifiably so because Hezbollah still plans to liberate Palestine at the expense of Lebanon...

While all other Arab and Islamic countries exchange embassies with ISrael (Jordan, Egypt...) or invite Israel to conferences and exhibitions (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar...) or open Israeli trade offices (Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania...) or engage in negotiations with Israel (Syria...).

Only Lebanon is expected to "Resist" and "Fight" and "Struggle" and "Liberate"... and the stupid Lebanese agree (Hezbollah, Michel Aoun, Hariri, Siniora, and all the pro-Syrian traitors....)

When will the Lebanese learn to take care of themselves FIRST, before trying to help others?

Are the Lebanese really interested in liberating Palestine, or are they just saying so because they have an inferiority complex to the rest of the motherfucker Arabs?

The Lebanese people are prostitutes and merchants - they would sell their mothers for a quick buck. As far as Palestine is concerned, they are destroying their country because Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and all the Arab cowards want them to, for the black eyes of those same Palestinians that waged war on the Lebanese in the 1970s and 1980s, killing many more Lebanese than Israel ever has or will ever kill.

When will the Lebanese ever learn?

Hanibaal
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Israel: Lebanese Government Responsible in Case of Eruption of Violence

Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz, has said the Jewish state will hold the Lebanese government responsible for any deterioration in the security situation on the northern border.
"Hizbullah has become stronger after the Second Lebanon War. They are investing a lot in deployment of arms in towns and villages," Gantz told the 10th annual Herzliya Conference on Sunday.

"Hizbullah is moving its military bases and capabilities to all of Lebanon, including the northern part," he said.

"This is proof that the Lebanese government is allowing Hizbullah to operate in territories which it didn't before," Gantz said.

The Jewish state will hold the Lebanese government responsible for "any eventuality with Hizbullah," he added.