LEBANON IZNOGOOD

GLITCH or GOAL? Israeli Attack on Iran Liklely to Save Bashar Assad's Ass

2012-02-03T07:55:00.000-05:00

I am no fan of conspiracy theories that people in this part of the world are so fond of believing against any shred of other objective evidence...

But I could not help this afternoon, after reading the news that the US and Israel are preparing to attack Iran's nuclear sites, but deduce that such an attack will:

1- Inevitably draw Hezbollah into a fight with Israel at enormous cost to Lebanon.
2- Give Hezbollah a much needed lifeline into rehabilitating itself as a "resistance" movement against the "inevitable" Israeli aggression (even as Israel would be merely defending itself against missile attacks).
3-Provide a lifeline to the butcher of Damascus next door since he is an ally of Iran, and Assad could use the attack against Iran to re-mobilize - as Hezbollah would do in Lebanon - as the utmost defender against imperialism and zionism.
4- Abort the Syrian revolution

For decades, the Israelis and the Syrians were very happy to maintain quiet and peace on the Golan Heights, even though Israel ANNEXED, and not just occupied, the Golan Heights. Since 1974, not one bullet was ever fired from Syria into Israel, while 2 miles away in southern Lebanon, hordes of resistance movement - from the PLO to the PFLF and down to Hezbollah - were armed and sustained by Syria to force Lebanon into a fight with Israel that Syrian itself never fought.

This led many to question whether BOTH ISRAEL and the ASSAD regime are in cahoots, with some sort of tacit, implicit, secret...understandings and agreements in which:
A- the Israelis, freed from threat on the Golan, continue gobbling up Jerusalem and the West Bank
B- the Israelis, in exchange for security on the Golan, gave the Syrians a free hand in lebanon to keep this tormented country as a crucible of instability that both Israelis and Syrians loved.
C- The outcome of such an agreement being that the Syrians were effectively giving much needed room for the Israelis to continue in their annexation of Palestinian lands, and one day, the Israelis, now satisfied with the Syrians, return the Golan to Assad in some fashion.
D- Meanwhile, in Lebanon, the instability created by all these people (Israelis, Syrians, Palestinians, Iranians...) created a place the Palestinians could consider a substitute homeland and forget about making any claims to the Right of Return. This initially required giving the PLO full power in Lebanon (the 1970-1990 War), but failure to achieve this goal did not preempt the same ultimate objective, since the Palestinians are basically staying forever in Lebanon and have already forgotten about Palestine without running things in this country.

Now that the tide has turned in the Arab world in favor of democratic change, Israel and the Americans fear a rise in genuine popular anti-Israel sentiment. Therefore, it makes sense to undertake a new destabilization, at least in the Syrian-Lebanese corner, by giving Assad a chance to survive the revolution. How do you do this? Let Israel take some action to give the butcher in Damascus a casus belli and tell his people that he needs to stay in power because the Israeli "enemy" is attacking Iran and we could be next....

No one want a nuclear Iran and an attack on Iran is a welcome move. But Israel could drop a couple of well-targeted, much smaller bombs onto nearby Damascus, and bring the Assad Baath regime down. In parallel with a surgical strike on Iran, Israel could kill three birds with one stone: A nuclear Iran, a dictator in Syria, and the Hezbollah dogs in Lebanon. Not bad. But is this really what Israel wants?

Hanibaal

FRIENDS OF US. FRIENDS OF SAAD HARIRI. CIVILIZED SAUDIS DEPORT CHRISTIANS

2012-02-01T07:46:00.000-05:00

I am no Christian. I am no Muslim. I am no Jew. I am no member of any stupid racist supremacist religion. I am borderline nationalist. My nation is the country I grew up in AND which gives me a sense of freedom and happiness. Nothing else matters to me, especially not religion.

BUT in this fucked up country of Lebanon, where religion is everything, every politician is allied with an outside country on the basis of religion. It is the most disgusting place on earth. We have all the identities of others but we do not have our own identity. How do I know that? If we knew who we are, we would not have the problems plaguing us for 50 years. We are Muslims, we are Christians, we are Arabs, we are Westerners, we are Druze and we are Orthodox. We are Armenians and we are Maronites. We are pro-Syria and we are anti-Syria. We are Baathists and we are Socialists. We are Phalangists and we are Syrian Nationalists. We are pro-Aoun and we are pro-Hariri. We are pro-Iran and we are pro-Saudi Arabia. NOT ONE FUCKING POLITICAL FARM (they call themselves "parties") HAS THE WORD LEBANON OR LEBANESE IN IT.

As such, our politicians, each hailing from a political farm funded by outside countries, will never enact policies to solve our everyday problems: Electricity, public freedoms, water, roads, the environment, pollution, too many cars and not public transportation, thieves and cronies of the politicians who control our lives with generators and bribes and wasta and client jobs to incompetent bureaucrats... Meanwhile, we educate ourselves like there is no tomorrow, and we end up wasting our lives and our potential for creative productive lives because the system has no place for us. So we emigrate and we excel outside. But in Lebanon, we rot and we become obsessed with whether the generator works or whether this jerk behind the counter will give me my driver's license without a bribe, or whether Hezbollah or the General Security Services are spying on us or listening on our phones to find out if we are Israeli agents, even as they are Iranian and Syrian agents. Lebanon is a digsuting cesspool. No one should believe otherwise.

Now, Saad Hariri, the supposed "pro-Western" politician of Lebanon, son of the former Syrian and Saudi collaborator fat pig Rafik Hariri who pilfered Lebanon's prime real estate from their rightful owners to erase the memory of downtown Beirut and build a huge mosque dwarfing the nearby St. George's Catholic Church simply to spite Lebanon's Christians....and who was later - Arab traditions oblige - assassinated by the very Syrians who brought him to power... Saad Hariri is Lebanon's political child of Saudi Arabia and the US. Everything he does, he does to please Saudi Arabia and the US - not much different from the other Muslim jackass of Lebanon - one Hassan Nasrallah who does nothing but to please Iran and Syria.

The news story below should be a warning to everyone who believes that Lebanon's future is in the hands of people like Saad Hariri or Hassan Nasrallah. It should a warning to all the Lebanese idiots who are selling their lands and homes to Saudi and Gulf money. One day, the fake facade of Sunni Islam, like the fucked up facade of Shiite Islam, will come crumbling, and Lebanon's non-Muslims - including atheists and everyone else - will be crushed under archaic Islamic laws. I hate religion. I hate all religions as cults we keep dragging from the Stone Age of humanity. I hate them for all the killings and genocides that have been carried out in their names. I hate religions for what they are doing to Lebanon. But I hat political Islam the most because of what it does as in the story below.

To the WEST. To Ban Ki-moon... where are you? Why don't you establish a new ARTICLE in the HUMAN RIGHTS CHARTER, an ARTICLE OF PARITY or ARTICLE OF RECIPROCITY, whereby every member state must guarantee to others the same rights it expects from others. If fucking MUSLIMS demand all their rights in the West (veil, scarf, prayer times, etc...) , then they are obligated to extend those same rights to others, to all human beings, in their own fucking MECCA.

Hanibaal
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Christians 'face deportation' in Saudi Arabia

Dozens of Ethiopian Christians are facing deportation from Saudi Arabia after authorities raided a private prayer service in Jeddah, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The group was reportedly arrested in a private home in Jeddah in mid-December. Most of the 35 detainees are women, and three of them told the US-based group that they were strip-searched by police.

HRW said it spoke to three detainees, two women and one man, by telephone from prison.

One of them said the men were beaten, and also complained of inadequate medical care and poor sanitation at the jail.

"Two of the women said that officials there forced the women to strip, and then an officer inserted her finger into each of the women’s genitals, under the pretext of searching for illegal substances hidden inside their bodies," the report said.

"Officers also kicked and beat the men in Buraiman prison, and insulted them as 'unbelievers'."

The group now faces possible deportation for "illicit mingling," though HRW said Saudi Arabia has no law defining that offence.

Unrelated men and women are forbidden to mingle in public, though they are generally allowed a degree of freedom in private.

'Intolerant ways'

Saudi Arabia officially bans the public practice of any religion other than Islam.

The kingdom said in 2006 that it would allow non-Muslims to practice their religions in private, but the kingdom's notorious religious police continue to periodically crack down on private services.

The Saudi interior ministry did not respond to a request for comment.

"While King Abdullah sets up an international interfaith dialogue centre, his police are trampling on the rights of believers of others faiths," said Christoph Wilcke, a senior Middle East researcher at HRW, referring to a Saudi-funded "centre for interreligious and intercultural dialogue" established in Vienna last year.

"The Saudi government needs to change its own intolerant ways before it can promote religious dialogue abroad."

GEBRAN BASSIL ON THE PATH OF FATHER-IN-LAW AOUN's MADNESS

2012-01-24T08:14:00.000-05:00

To all of you out there, friends and enemies, Arabs and Jarabs, look at how my country of Lebanon continues to prove to the world that it is indeed the laughingstock, the farce, and the most surreal country on earth.

Minister of Electricity Gebran Imbecile Bassil in the current Lebanese Hezbollah government is calling on the Lebanese people to "take to the streets" because he, the Minister of Electricity, cannot provide the electricity he promised them when he received an allocation of 1.2 billion dollars a year ago, supposedly to fix the electricity shortage in a country the size of my asshole.

Imagine: The Minister in charge has 1.2 billion dollars allocated to fix the problem, but the only thing he has to offer the Lebanese people, in exchange for his incompetence, is to protest against him! This is really the theater of the absurd.

Does this make sense to anyone? Is this some sort of upside down logic? There is no respectable country on earth that would engage in this sort of acrobatics, other than a country of Mafiosi, sectarian gangsters, and outright primitives like Lebanon.

Typically, when a Minister in a government is unable to discharge his duties - regardless of whether it is his own fault or dereliction, or the dereliction or obstruction of some other Minister with him in the government - he has two options:
- A political option: Either shut up and shoulder the responsibility in solidarity with your own government, or
- A personal (decent) option: JUST RESIGN.

But Minister Khara Gebran Imbassile wants to have it both ways. He wants to be in a government (because that makes him important) even if this government is not letting him do his job. A year ago, Imbassil went head first into his Hezbollah ally government, as his demented Tonton Michel Aoun obstructed the formation of the government for several months for the sole demand that his baby son-in-law Gebran be appointed a Minister in that government. What is it therefore that he is complaining about now, if he cannot get his Hezbollah buddies to agree with him on fixing the electricity problem of a puny stupid little country like Lebanon, even as they gave him 1.2 billion dollars to do so?

If his own allies in the government are not helping him, and if he has any decency in him, this jackass, whose only claim to power is not his intelligence or his merits, but simply that he fucks the demented Aoun's daughter on a regular basis, this jackass should resign.

But this is how this masquerade of a country operates: No accountability, no responsibility, other than holding on to your political and religious tribe like grim death, no matter the performance or lack thereof. Gebran Imbassile will stick to Hezbollah even as Hezbollah is fucking him in his electric ass, at the cost of 1.2 billion dollars to be wasted and pilfered and stolen and pocketed by all the cronies and clients of the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah, and as both these criminal enterprises continue to drag the country under the Syrian and Iranian umbrellas and away from the normality of a decent civilized member of the international community.

Read below what the other FPM jackass - Ziad Ass-wad, MP no less - was pontificating about, to justify the untenable position of staying in power even as you cannot do your job. These people are simply stupid or demented, and they simply believe that the Lebanese people are also stupid and demented, just like them.

Hanibaal

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Change and Reform bloc MP Ziad Aswad commented on the electricity issue saying that he is against the bloc’s resignation from the cabinet “at this time,” and added that he supports protesters taking to the streets.
Aswad told LBC television on Tuesday that Prime Minister Najib Mikati “cannot sit down and toss the responsibility” on Energy Minister Gebran Bassil, a Change and Reform bloc minister.
“Bassil is not the only person responsible for energy because the entire cabinet approved [the bloc’s] proposal on electricity.”
The MP added that the responsibility falls on the cabinet and that it is “unacceptable to hold only one person responsible.”
Last year, the cabinet approved Bassil’s electricity plan to allocate $1.2 billion to the Energy Ministry, on condition that the funds be transferred in installments and that the government supervises the project to increase electricity output by 700 Megawatts.

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Syrian Enemy kidnaps and Kills Lebanese Fishermen in North Lebanon: Where is the Government of Sleiman, Miqati and Berri?

2012-01-21T08:41:00.000-05:00

Al-Aarida, north Lebanon.

Residents of the fishing village of al-Aarida in northern Lebanon, just south of the Syrian-Lebanese border, reported Saturday that a vessel belonging to the enemy Syrian navy forces crossed into Lebanese waters and intercepted a fishing boat owned by two Lebanese fishermen. The fishermen and a young child who was with them were then kidnapped, along with their boat, across the border into Syria. It was later reported that one of the fishermen died in the custody of the Syrian navy force.

The state of lawlessness along the northern Syrian-Lebanese border has been endemic for decades, with the Syrian enemy regime smuggling terrorists and weapons into Lebanon and providing support to a horde of terror organizations operating from Lebanon, led by the notorious gang of the Iranian Hezbollah mercenaries.

In recent months, the uprising - Intifada - by the valiant Syrian people against the Baath dictatorship of Bashar Assad, has led thousands of Syrian civilians to escape into Lebanon for protection against the massacres, kidnappings, torture, and arbitrary killings of civilians by the Syrian regime's multitude of security services and agencies. The "ShabbiHa" - Arabic for "Hoodlums" - are the most vicious killers of the regime, roaming around the towns and cities of Syria and repressing in the most violent ways the Syrian population. There have been reports of mass killings, rapes and child killings, as well as extra-territorial kidnappings outside Syria and inside Lebanon itself, of anyone remotely associated with criticizing the Syrian regime.

What has the puppet Lebanese government of asshole president Michel Sleiman, jackass prime minister Najib Miqati, and warlord speaker Nabih Berri, done to face up to that situation? To say that it has done nothing would be simply too lenient a judgment, because the Lebanese puppet regime has in fact supported the Syrian dictatorship in its repression of its people. At the UN, at the Lebanese Foreign Ministry andin every Lebanese government position and policy, the attitude of the Lebanese puppet regime has been to defend the Syrian regime and protect it in its mass killing of its own people.

When Israeli forces in the south kidnap a Lebanese shepherd who ventures into Israeli territory, they release him unharmed within 24 hours after checking that he is not part of the terrorist Hezbollah organization, and in coordination with the UNIFIL forces that control the south. But, the Lebanese puppet regime cries foul and lodges complaints at the UN, claiming that Israel is violating UN resolution 1701, and making a big fuss about nothing.

But when Syrian forces in the north kidnap Lebanese fishermen, or enter Lebanese territory to hunt down and kill fleeing Syrian refugees, or shoot across the border at Lebanese villages who were helping injured Syrian refugees.... what does the Lebanese puppet regime do? NOTHING. Silence.

In the south, the Lebanese puppet regime allows the Iranian terrorist organization to stock up weapons of mass murder. It allows Syrian Palestinian terror organizations to operate unhindered in the south, regularly firing missiles across the border into northern Israel and bringing the situation every time close to outright war. It constantly begs the world for help instituting security in the south of the country because it itself - the Lebanese regime - refuses to take control of its own land and exercise its sovereignty by dispatching serious numbers of its own army, and so relying like beggars at the UN on UNIFIL forces and money from Western and Arab sources. Even as it sinks in its own excrement, the Lebanese regime also claims - unlike any other Arab country - to want to liberate the south (from an non-existing occupation) and even liberate Palestine on behalf of the Palestinians themselves who, in fact, are negotiating peace with Israel.

In sum, the Lebanese regime operates like a serf to the Syrian regime. It is willing to destroy Lebanon and the Lebanese people in order to give the Syrian regime the merit for "resisting Israel". The Lebanese regime has surrendered its sovereign rights to another country, and operates only as a puppet, a vassal, a subsidiary of that other country.

The Lebanese regime refuses to send the Lebanese army to the northern border with Syria, where it is much needed to:
- Protect Syrian refugees escaping the Baath Party killing fields of the Assad regime.
- Protect Lebanese border villages and towns against Syrian enemy armed forces incursions.
- Stop any smuggling of weapons and terrorists across the border.

But, again, the Lebanese government of asshole president Michel Sleiman, jackass prime minister Najib Miqati, and warlord speaker Nabih Berri, as well as their horde of supporters like Michel Aoun and his poddles (Gebran Bassil, Farid Al-Khazen, Ibrahim Kanaan, Alain Aoun, etc.), Hassan Nasrallah, Walid Jumblatt, Wiam Wahhab, etc... have not only remained silent, but have defended and encouraged the Syain regime to continue on the path of violence in Syria, and on violating Lebanese sovereignty every step of the way.

How can the Lebanese people accept this state of affairs? What kind of country is Lebanon when it cannot exercise the implements of sovereignty, if not in action (because of its size and weakness) then at least in principle by voicing and expressing its claims.

Hanibaal

Shitehead Nabih Berri Pontificates on Arab Freedoms. الخرى نبيه بري عندو نظرية عن الحريات العربية

2012-01-09T13:38:00.002-05:00

The senile piece of shit - الخرى الخرفان اللي بسمّي حالو رئيس المجلس النيابي واللي مصلبط على هل وظيفة الخرية من 30 سنة - Nabih Berri who calls himself Speaker of Parliament and who has monopolized that post for 30 years now, has a theory to share with his Lebanese fucking herd about what freedoms in the Middle East mean.

He said that he fears that the ongoing revolutions in the region will lead to a situation where... "governments will be established that offer their citizens some freedoms, but which do not threaten Israel’s security."

Which means that, in the Shit-head brain of this Shiite monster warlord from the 1970s, whose hands are soaked with the blood of fellow Lebanese Shiites, fellow Lebanese Christians, and Palestinian refugees, THE FREEDOMS DEMANDED BY MILLIONS OF ARABS IN THE ONGOING ARAB SPRING REVOLUTIONS WILL DIMINISH THE THREAT AGAINST ISRAEL, AND MUST NOT BE PURSUED. And therefore, these revolutions must not go forward.

Motherfucker - إبن الشرموطة نبيه راس أيري بري - Nabih Berri believes that threatening Israel's security is more important than "some freedoms" that might be doled out to people after these revolutions. Nabih Berri - an Iranian كلب pretending to be a Lebanese patriot - has one priority and only one priority: Fight Israel at the expense of his own country, his own SHIT Community, and his own Lebanese people, only because IRAN asks him to keep threatening Israel.

This asshole is willing to keep millions of Arabs under dictatorships like the one of his slavemaster in Syria, just to keep pressure on Israel.

But I tell this traitor jackass: WE, THE LEBANESE PEOPLE, DO NOT CARE ABOUT FIGHTING OR THREATENING ISRAEL.
- IN FACT, MANY OF US PREFER ISRAEL TO ASSHOLES LIKE YOU OR YOUR BOSSES IN IRAN AND SYRIA.
- WE ARE TIRED OF SACRIFICING LEBANON FOR THE FUCKING ARAB AND MUSLIM AND PALESTINIAN CAUSES. WE WANT FREEDOMS FIRST.
- WE WANT ISLAM - AND ALSO CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM AND ALL THE FUCKING RACIST SUPREMACIST MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS - DOWN THE TOLIET AND INTO THE CESSPOOLS OF HISTORY.
- WE WANT OUR OWN INDIVIDUAL BASIC FREEDOMS FIRST AND FOREMOST - TO TALK, TO WALK, TO FUCK, TO WRITE, TO SING, TO PRAY, TO HOLLER, TO SHIT, TO BRAG, TO DENOUNCE, TO BE SILENT..... ANYTHING AT ALL THAT WE WANT TO DAY EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES.
- THE LAST THING WE WANT IS MOHAMMAD, JESUS, ABRAHAM AND ALL THE OTHER RELIGIOUS MOTHERFUCKER PROPHETS FROM THE STONE AGE, AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES ON EARTH TODAY TELLING US WHAT TO SAY, WEAR, EAT, SHIT OR THINK OR BELIEVE.

In any case, Bashar will soon be hanging by his balls in downtown Damascus. And like him, his dogs, mercenaries, slaves, cronies and hirelings like you will follow him. I hope they hang you by your toes, because you have no balls. You hide behind your people, you let your people get killed, just to serve your paymasters in Iran and Syria. You are a traitor to your country. Your day will come.

And one more thing: All that oil you want to explore and extract in order to steal more millions and stash them in your Swiss accounts: You are too late. The world is turning away from oil and petroleum. Soon enough, you will have nothing to do but stuff all that oil up your greasy ass while you rot in jail - or in Qom where your exile is guaranteed. Too bad you were busy "liberating" and "resisting" three decades ago; you could have explored for that oil and made some money then. Now it is too late. But like the Shiite idiot that you are, you did not think far ahead enough.

Hanibaal Barqa
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Berri to discuss oil, maritime border with UN chief

January 9, 2012

Nabih Berri said that the first thing he will discuss with Ban Ki-Moon during the latter’s visit to Lebanon is Lebanon’s offshore oil and maritime border demarcation.
“The government is committed to finish with the subcontracting issue before March 31,” Berri is quoted as saying.

Berri also said that it is important for Lebanon to disassociate itself from what is happening in surrounding countries.
He added he fears that governments will be established that offer their citizens some freedoms, but which do not threaten Israel’s security.

Meanwhile, the UN estimated in December that more than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria since pro-democracy protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad erupted last March.
-NOW Lebanon

Batrak Rai: Can Someone Please Tell this Idiot to Shut up?

2011-12-27T10:59:00.000-05:00

Here we go again. The Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai - a jackass like never before seen, whose stupidity is only matched by the uselessness of his fucking church - is echoing the Syrian dictatorship's totalitarian slogans.

In a statement he made today to some visiting Syrian assholes from Tartous, he repeated a slogan long held by the Syrian Baath Party to the effect that LEBANON DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE A DISTINCT NATION from Syria and should be annexed to the Syrian entity. He said that the Lebanese and Syrian peoples are ONE PEOPLE, (but SEPARATED) INTO TWO COUNTRIES. In other words, a Lebanon that is independent from Syria is an anomaly that can only be repaired by a Syrian Anchluss of Lebanon.

Thank you, Batrak Rai, for another asinine comment that you will have to backtrack for years to repair.

Can someone around this idiot tell him to SHUT UP and stop making stupid comments?

Hanibaal

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Raï : Les Libanais et les Syriens, un seul peuple dans deux pays

olj.com | 27/12/2011 | 14h40

Le patriarche maronite, Mgr Béchara Raï, a refusé, mardi, que l'Orient se transforme en une "terre de fer et de feu", rejetant la violence d'où qu'elle vienne. Recevant à Bkerké une délégation des avocats de la ville syrienne de Tartous, le patriarche maronite a soutenu toutes réformes qui viennent de l'intérieur, celles qui viennent de l'extérieur étant, selon Mgr Raï, destructrices. Le chef de l'Eglise maronite a assuré, par ailleurs, que tout ce qui touche à un pays arabe touche toute la région ajoutant que les Libanais et les Syriens sont "un seul peuple dans deux pays".

This blog gets regular visits from "b'Abda"....

2011-12-26T08:42:00.001-05:00

As a critic of the backward and ultra-religious Lebanese society, and of course the primitive, feudal, theocratic political system in Lebanon, I check every day to see where the thousands who visit my blog come from.

I get regular visits from Dearborn Heights in Michigan (US) where there is a high concentration of Lebanese Shiite lovers and operatives of the Lebanese terrorist organization. I get visits from Damascus, where I suppose the Mukhabaraat try to control what Syrians read about their "dear leader", the butcher Assad. But the one most interesting visit this blog receives regularly is from a place near Beirut called " b'Abda " (in Arabic = بعبدا ), whose spelling (instead of the more conventional "Baabda") indicates a fanatic attachment to the Arabic language and the "glorious Arab-Islamic Umma" (sic).

Now, for those who are not from here and who have no idea what b'Abda is, let me explain. b'Abda is a town on the outskirts of Beirut where the Presidential Palace, the Ministry of Defense, and General Security headquarters are concentrated. This is the place where, for the past three or four decades, what used to be the pride of a liberal democratic Lebanon has become a cesspool of Syrian Baath-trained ruthless intelligence criminals and other abusers of human rights. As in Syria, military intelligence and an assortment of security services (general, special, internal, external....) keep the Lebanese population in check: arbitrary arrests, mysterious disappearances and killings, corruption and bribes whenever a foreigner needs a residence permit or visa...and of course, keep every ant and sheep in Lebanon towing the line behind the Syrian dictator next door in the decomposing country of Syria.

For one, the Presidential Palace has become the place where traitor generals from the Lebanese army (who barely graduated from Military School), end up as "consensus" presidents because this super-divided, tribal and ultra-religious country can never elect a decent civilian. The political process is bankrupt and dysfunctional, divided as it is between 18 religious sects, each led by an unelected Patriarch or Mufti or Mullah working on behalf of a foreign country, that compete for money and power, have and run their own militias that go to war every generation or so committing massacre after massacre, and thus control the destiny of the nation with religious fear-mongering and primitive style cronyism. Around these religious dinosaurs from the Stone Age of humanity is an assortment of political lackeys who go around pretending to defend their own "people" (i.e. the Christians of the north or the Christians of the central Kesrouan district, or the Sunnis of Beirut versus the Sunnis of Tripoli or Sidon, or the Shiites or the Druze..etc.) in their own little mountain village cantons, while transferring this political power (that they obtain by colluding and working for the religious dinosaurs) across generations of sons and grandsons in typical Middle Age feudalism. Each religious sect is in fact divided within itself into tribal, regional, familial clans, which is proof of the primitive and backward nature of Lebanese society. Each of these feudal lords has his own "palace" (Lebanese leaders must live in "palaces" to prove that they are better than their own constituency who live in houses) perched somewhere in the Lebanese hills, and are worshiped by illiterate peasants and villagers who, whenever their feudal leader dies or is killed in one of unending political vendettas, pledge allegiance to the feudal bloodline and then, and only then, elect them blindly at so-called elections in this false democracy that Lebanon has become.

So Lebanon, in its 60 plus years of "independence" since 1943 has had 11 presidents, three of whom were former generals of the Lebanese Army who no one believed are capable of running the country, but end up as presidents because the political system fails to elect one after the country was broken apart by bloody massacres and civil war. A compromise is usually reached over the least qualified, the weakest, the most incompetent person with a semblance of strength (i.e. a former military idiot) to be the "consensus" president, who to boot, must also receive the blessing of the Syrian dictatorship in Damascus. Yes, Lebanon cannot choose its president or prime minister or speaker of parliament without the Syrian dictator approving these choices. Imagine this "sovereignty" enjoyed by the "country" of Lebanon!

You see, the Lebanese people do not directly elect their presidents in universal suffrage; they elect their feudal lords as members of parliament on the basis of religion, and then these religious-feudal lords - who have no clue about the national interest other than preserving their political power base and their grip on their peasants - elect the president in parliament. But because these "members of parliament" are elected on the basis of their religious affiliation, they have stronger allegiances and ties to outside political and religious decision makers (from whom they derive their own legitimacy) than to their country and countrymen. For example, such Faustian deals with outside powers are made as follows, depending on the religious affiliation:
- Maronites and Catholics: The Vatican and France, occasionally the US.
- Greek Orthodox: Russia, Greece, and other centers of Eastern Christianity generally opposed to the West.
- Sunnis: Saudi Arabia and Egypt (hence the US when the latter two countries are in cahoots with the US).
- Shiites: Iran, and therefore Syria because of the Syrian-Iranian alliance.
- Druze: Sometimes Syria, sometimes Israel, sometimes the US... basically the Druze will take their orders from whoever happens to be the stronger outside player.
- Armenians: Russia and Armenia.
- etc.
Depending on the existing international and regional political climate and balance of power, the Lebanese feudal lords take their orders from these outside powers and translate them into domestic policy, which means that the country of Lebanon essentially has no "native" will. There are no Lebanese decisions per se. All political and policy decisions are made outside the country and are executed by the mercenary political leaders. The political peregrinations of the nation are all dictated by whatever the balance of power around the world and the region happens to be at any given time. This is why, throughout its existence, the country keeps ricocheting from one crisis, one war, one stalemate, one standoff, etc. to another. The country never seems to find a stable "native" indigenous basis on which to operate. As an example, the current stalemate inside Lebanon, now about 10 years old, is a power play between the US, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and others on a background of Iran's nuclear crisis and other regional issues. In other words, Lebanon may be a country (i.e. a patch of land with borders and a population), it may have the semblance of a State (with institutions and such), but it is not a nation of people bound by a defined and common sense of history and destiny. As a result, the country and the State are dysfunctional, do not serve their people, and never find with solutions to problems because the allegiances and the decision-making are both located outside the framework of the constituents of a nation.

Right now, the country's political tribulations have nothing to do with the will of the Lebanese people as a whole. They have to do with the split in the Islamic world between Muslim Sunnis (led by Saudi Arabia, supported by the US, and a horde of acolytes and mercenary countries linked into this bizarre coalition by economic and other political interests), and Shiites (led by Iran, backed by Russia and China and a horde of mercenary countries with their own little interests). None of these countries' interests have anything to do with the welfare of the Lebanese people, as would be in normal countries, on matters such as basic services, economic opportunity, education, etc. Lebanon, for example, has not had reliable running electricity for close to 40 years, since the current "crisis" began in 1975. There is no reliable running water. Roads are barely maintained. There are no sidewalks. Crime is rampant and not one crime (among thousands of crimes, some huge, others petty) has ever been solved or a guilty party identified and prosecuted. The only instance where a crime has ever been investigated and solved is the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and the reason that this one crime was ever investigated is because Hariri was a billionaire who bought everyone and everything around him, and because the international community, through the UN Security Council, got involved. Imagine what it is to be an ordinary citizen in Lebanon where you know that there is no recourse to the State's institutions to seek redress against harm or injustice. What do the Lebanese do? Most give up and live lives of resignation and fatalism, resorting to God, saints, divine interventions, and chiromancy.... Others leave the country (by the millions), and others take matters in their own hands and get weapons, and/or join the ranks (for protection) as blind followers of the same feudal-religious lords that are the root cause of the problem to begin with.

Nothing in Lebanon is done with the human in mind; the last factor that the country's governments and institutions consider when they pretend to enact policy is the Lebanese individual, the human component of the country. Public education never really existed to begin with, as the country's education is monopolized by the religious orders of the Muslim and Christian sides. The country has gone through numerous wars, killings, massacres, invasions, occupations.... The country's army serves as the police, hunting petty criminals only when this has no impact on the political-religious divide because it if it did, then the army would splinter into religious militias overnight. And so the country as a state relies on outsiders for defense purposes: the Syrian army was the country's army for several decades. The Palestinian PLO was the army of the Lebanese Sunnis during the 1970s and 1980s. Israel invaded several times, allying itself with various groups depending on the moment, from Christians to Druze and, yes, the Shiites. The Multinational Force of the 1980s. The large UN contingent in the south of the country - UNIFIL - that has been stationed there since 1978 because the Lebanese never agreed if they should send their pathetic army to the southern border because of a political division over what to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict next door.

Back to " b'Abda ". It is also the headquarters of the Defense Ministry where basement dungeons reek of persecution and torture. Military Intelligence, thanks to three decades of Syrian rule, has become a clone of the Syrian totalitarian security apparatus: They watch their own people for any dissent; they arrest arbitrarily for so called "threats to the nation" or "disrespect for the president" etc... Last year, three teenage bloggers were arrested because they criticized the Lebanese Syrian-puppet president Michel Suleiman, who is nothing more than a powerless emasculated "consensus" personage who sits in his "palace" dispensing grandmotherly advice to his otherwise terrified people because he can't do anything else. Suleiman is married to the Syrian regime's Assad family, and will never do anything to upset the Syrian tyrant now killing his own people. He says he is with sovereignty, but supports the illegal Iranian terrorist organization of Hezbollah in its usurping of sovereignty by running its own parallel army, security zones, barracks, telecommunications network, and its launching wars against Israel independently of the State.

The General Security apparatus in Lebanon is also housed in b'Abda, and is essentially the Intelligence arm of Hezbollah which now runs the Lebanese government of castrated President Suleiman and Prime Minister Miqati. The latter is himself a politically powerless Sunni numskull who made it simply because he was "acceptable" to all the competing militias and parties, and is also a billionaire, as if money somehow is going to give him the balls he doesn't have. For some reason, the Lebanese Sunnis like to have billionaires represent them as prime ministers, even though history has shown that billionaires often fail as political leaders because they think they can buy people's allegiance sufficiently well to run the country. It hasn't worked for Rafik Hariri who, after a career as a puppet prime minister and top collaborator with Syria and Saudi Arabia, was killed by the same Syrians once he realized that his stupid bet (that he could run the country like a grocery store without paying the Syrian mafia) could not work.

And so, from this paradise on earth that Lebanon is - political dysnfunctionality, religious barbarity, chronic national discord, chaotic and unregulated urbanism, servile mercantilism of the worst kind, a ruined environment, periodic warfare and assassinations, one of the most corrupt countries on earth (check the UN's ranking), a country the size of a finch's asshole that produces more saints, holy men, sayyids and fornicating, child-molesting priests and nuns than any other on earth, a place that looks more like the bald and disfigured mountains of Afghanistan than those of Switzerland, a crucible of deep barbarity and backwardness happily married to a superficial and utterly commercial modernity that the country sells to credulous tourists.... - my blog is visited regularly by " b'Abda " because the Syrian Shiite Neanderthals and Cro-magnons of Lebanese Security fear blogs like this.

To those bastards at b'Abda: ايري فيكم . One day, the people of Lebanon will rise up like their brothers are doing across the Arab world, and they will come knocking at your doors....And they will bring an end to this charade of a country that you have turned Lebanon into.

Hanibaal

Defense Minister Ghosn and Michel Suleiman's Puppet Regime in Lebanon: Accomplices of the Syrian Dictatorship. Should be Included in Indictments of Crimes Against Humanity

2011-12-24T11:21:00.000-05:00

The Lebanese puppet regime of Syrian stooge Michel Suleiman and his Hezbollah mercenaries Najib Miqati and Nabih Berri should be included in any future indictments of crimes against humanity, as they are accomplices in the brutal repression and mass murder by the Assad regime of the Syrian people.

As the NOW Lebanon report below points to, Lebanese Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn coordinated with the Syrian regime's latest bombings of its own Security Services buildings in downtown Damascus by paving the way for the accusation by Damascus of al-Qaeda involvement.

Two days prior to the bombings, the puppet Lebanese Minister, who operates under orders from the Hezbollah government in Beirut, leveled fabricated stories to the effect that "al-Qaeda terrorist cells had infiltrated Syria through the Lebanese Bekaa Valley border town of Aarsal." The fact is that this so-called "Defense Minister" should be in charge of security in the Bekaa Valley, and he failed. His accomplice in terrorism and crime, Hezbollah, does control the Bekaa Valley, and denies this control to the legitimate Lebanese Armed Forces. For decades since the 1970s, Syria has used the borders with Lebanon as a free for all, since successive Lebanese governments were always subservient and criminal accomplices with Syria , and allowed the Syrians to transport weapons and terrorists INTO LEBANON, destined to its proxy terror organizations from the PLO and the PFLP and on to the Amal and Hezbollah terror organizations.

A sudden shift in direction of smuggling across the border is a mere fabrication destined to help the Syrian dictatorship engineer the blasts in Damascus on the day of the arrival of the Arab League observers, by providing themselves with a "I told you so" deniability.

As such the Lebanese government and the Lebanese regime of Suleiman, Berri and Miqati stand as guilty and accomplices to the criminal enterprise in Syria. The heads of the Lebanese puppet regime should all be referred to the International Court of Justice and be included in any future indictments currently being prepared for the eventual trials of the Syrian regime criminals, Assad, Buthaina Shaaban, Farouq Al-Shara, and other Assad family members and members of the inner circles of the Damascus regime.

For one, sanctions should be applied to the Lebanese government and its leaders because they are aiding and abetting the mass murder, genocide, and crimes against humanity currently being committed against the Syrian people. For too long, the criminals of the Lebanese regime haven collaborated, colluded and served the Syrian dictatorship. Time has come for the international community to make them pay for all that they have done to their own people and to the Syrian people.

Thousands of Lebanese prisoners continue to languish in Syrian jails, having being kidnapped from Lebanon and transported illegally into Syria. Nothing was ever done by the Lebanese puppet governments to free their own people. In fact, many of the Lebanese leaders, from Nabih Berri to Michel Aoun, have all denied the existence of their own prisoners in Syria.

How long before the Lebanese people rise up against their own criminal dictators and the Hezbollah enterprise that has ruined the country on behalf of Syria and Iran?

Hanibaal

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Free Syrian Army Chief of Staff blames regime for twin blasts

Free Syrian Army Chief of Staff, Colonel Ahmad Hijazi told Al-Rai Kuwaiti newspaper on Saturday that the twin blasts that rocked Damascus on Friday were “the work of the Syrian regime [that were committed in order to blame] oppositionists [of involvement in] terrorism, score points in front of international public opinion and portray itself as the victim [before the eyes] of the Arab observers.”

He also accused the Syrian regime and the Lebanese government of “paving the way to the two blasts through announcing that Al-Qaeda members infiltrated Syria.”
Earlier this week, a report quoted Lebanon’s Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn as saying that Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist cells infiltrated Syria through the Bekaa border town of Aarsal.
Ghosn’s statements were followed by twin suicide bombings against security service buildings in Damascus on Friday which left over 30 people dead. Syria blamed Al-Qaeda for involvement in the attacks.

The blasts came as an advance team was in Damascus to prepare the logistics for an Arab League observer mission to oversee a plan to end nine months of unrest, which has killed more than 5,000 people, according to the United Nations.
Damascus blames the unrest on "armed terrorist groups" and has unleashed military operations against border towns and protest hubs.
-NOW Lebanon

Where Was the World? Assad's Brutality: 35 years in Lebanon vs. 9 months in Syria.

2011-12-23T11:16:00.002-05:00

Where was the world when the Assad Regime was genociding the Lebanese people during 35 years of occupation?

Where were the accusations against the Assad family of committing crimes against humanity when the same Syrian security and armed forces that are brutalizing the Syrian people today were brutalizing the Lebanese people from 1972 to the mid-2008?

Why were the Lebanese people put at the mercy of this criminal regime under the pretext of "peacekeeping" by an "Arab Deterrence Force"? And why was the Lebanese Resistance against the Syrian occupation and its proxy terror organizations (PLO, PFLP, and all the hoodlum Palestinians) deemed a "right-wing" conspiracy against the "poor Palestinian refugees"?

Why was the Damour massacre of January 1976 ignored by racist liberals like Robert Fisk and his ilk, while the Sabra-Shatila continues to this day to be a subject of much debate?

Why the double standards? Why is it that the destruction of Lebanon for more than 40 years at the hands of filthy Arabs (including today's "awakened" Gulf Arabs from Qatar, the Emirates and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and all the neanderthals of pan-Arab nationalism) who colluded with Yasser Arafat and paid him and armed him to destroy Lebanon and bring it to its knees, is ignored and dusted under the rug?

Was it to secure Israel - who today is already mourning the impending fall of the brutal dictator in Damascus because he protected Israel's Golan annexation of his own Golan Heights - against the Right of Return by offering Lebanon as a substitute homeland for the Palestinians?

What conspiracy theory are we to believe as an explanation for the collusion of the international community at destroying the only decent country in the Middle East to the claws of Arab Nationalist Socialist dictators, Islamic theocracies, and the Jewish theocracy next door? The West and the international community at large knew what the Syrians and the Arabs and the Israelis were doing in Lebanon; yet they kept telling the Lebanese that all their occupiers and tormentors were "factors of stability".... until September 2011, when everyone woke up to the monster they had all created. It was only in March 2003 that then Secretary of State Colin Powell uttered the word "occupation" to describe what had heretofore been called a mere Syrian "presence"?

From 1972 onward, Syria committed massacre after massacre in remote Christian villages along its border with Lebanon. It fueled, financed and armed all the Palestinian factions into destabilizing Lebanon. It assassinated foreign and Lebanese dignitaries and diplomats, including Louis Delamare the French Ambassador, and Francis Meloy the US Ambassador. It bombed the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut in 1981 (because the Syrian Baath of the Assads did not like the Iraqi Baath of Saddam Hussein). Syria later bombed the US Embassy in Beirut TWICE, not once, and the French Embassy in 1983. It carried out the bombing of the US Marines compound and the French Paratroopers compound in 1983 as well, forces that had come to Beirut as peacekeepers to supervise the withdrawal of Yasser Arafat's PLO criminals. Syria was behind every kidnapping in Lebanon of the dozens of Western hostages throughout the 1980s, some of whom were murdered in captivity while others were later released in a trickle, appearing suddenly in Syria under portraits of the same Assad who ordered their kidnapping in the first place. Syria essentially evicted the West from Lebanon in order to secure its grip on its neighbor, ensure that the instability in it continued under the pretense of fighting Israel while along its own borders with Israel on the Golan Heights not one bullet was ever shot from 1974 to date.

Meanwhile, the lives of the Lebanese people were shattered. Not one Lebanese family did not see their house destroyed, their son killed or kidnapped to Syria to rot in Syria's notorious prisons, their village uprooted, their city bombed for months on end, their children emigrate, and the entire country becoming the longest held hostage country to a resolution of the otherwise insoluble Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the Lebanese continue to live at the mercy of Syria's foremost ally in Lebanon, the terrorist organziation of Hezbollah which has hijacked the government and state institutions, and maintains Lebanon forcibly in a state of war, simply as a pressure card in the hands of Syria and Iran.

Whatever happens in Syria can never erase the harm and the hurt that the crime committed by the international community against the tiny defenseless country of Lebanon. In its heyday, Lebanon was the only island of tolerance and multiculturalism. Today it is a backwater cesspool of religious intolerance and a haven for terrorist organizations.

Had the world intervened to rescue Lebanon from the claws of the Assad regime in the 1970s, it could have averted the evolution of radicalism that ultimately led to September 11 and the worldwide terror we live in today. Had the world intervened forcefully in the 1970s and 1980s to prevent the takeover by Syria, Iran and Hezbollah of Lebanon, perhaps we would not be fearing Iran's development of nuclear weapons. Lest it be forgotten, the first suicide bombing ever that caused the most dead among Americans prior to September 2011 is the 1983 Beirut twin suicide bombings of the US Marines and French Paratroopers compounds. What did the French and US (Reagan) governments do? They fled like rabbits, hopping onto their ships and returning home with their tails between their legs. Who was behind their defeat? Syria.

It took the world 30 years to begin reacting to the horrendous record of the Syrian Regime in human rights and genocidal crimes in the region. Why? What is it about Syria that is so "strategic" for the West to have protected this monster for so long? After all, the Syrian army is more pathetic than Saddam Hussein's battle-tested army, and Syria no longer has the protection it once had of the Soviet Union. Yet, the criminal tyrant in Damascus continued to be received in Geneva every year by US presidents and state department secretaries, and his crimes against the Lebanese people continued to be ignored. Why?

The only explanation is unfortunately a conspiracy theory: The Syrian regime provided Israel with the stability it needed on the Golan, and it muzzled the Palestinians of Lebanon sufficiently, to allow Israel to continue swallowing up the West Bank and erode all the foundations of a future State of Palestine. Had Yasser Arafat succeeded in taking up the Lebanese government, he would have turned Lebanon into his Palestine, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would have ended.

With American idiots like Newt Gingrich subscribing to the fallacy of the Palestinians as an "invented" people, it would then have made sense for the world to accept Lebanon as a substitute Palestine. But, luckily, things did not work that way. Sooner or later, people act in their interest, no matter the cost. The Lebanese stood up to Arafat and Assad, and though losing all the battles, they have won the war of preserving Lebanon for the Lebanese, albeit at a horrendous price. And now, the Syrian people have stood up. I wish them luck for the next 30 years or so, because they are going to need it.

Hanibaal

Lebanon's Fake Freedoms Under a Military Dictatorship

2011-12-18T09:40:00.000-05:00

Lebanon is a lie. Everything about the country is a lie.

It is not a democracy, it is a federal theocracy.

It is not beautiful, it is an ugly disfigured polluted third world garbage dump.

It is not free; books and films are censored, and General Security can do what it wants. It goes after artists and writers, but protects criminal politicians and never investigates any real crimes against ordinary citizens. The function of law enforcement in Lebanon is to to be a crony for the political and religious establishment.

People are not civilized and "modern" as they want you to believe: The Lebanese believe in gods, saints, mullahs, prophets.... they are as backward as people in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia are, with the difference that they don't wear traditional clothes. So they look modern, when in fact they are essentially primitive neanderthals. Beneath the veneer, there is nothing but rotten substance.

People in Lebanon are racist to the core: They import maids from poorer countries and treat them like slaves.

There is no respect for the the environment: Ugly buildings everywhere built on where tress and forests used to be. Entire mountains are dug out to build a road leading from the seacoast to the palace of a retired former Lebanese president who was a puppet for the Syrian occupation. Beaches are taken by private developers who built ugly building right on the water for the exclusive use of the rich and filthy and wealthy.

Lebanese lead a hypocritical life: They are ashamed of themselves and spend their time pretending they are not who they are. They spend their time and money being crappy imitations of what they think is best about the west, yet they never import what is good about the west (true freedom, true democracy, a belief in human dignity, etc). In many ways, the Lebanese are like Western-dressed Saudis or Afghans. I have yet to see one Lebanese walking around in traditional dress. The Lebanese are not authentic: Everything you see in them is a fake imitation of someone else. They way they wine and dine or party; they way they lead their everyday lives, they way they dress. Nothing that a Lebanese does is done out of genuine interest or belief; it is always done to prove something to others. Look at me, I drive a Mercedes (ergo, I am rich, while the truth is that I am deep in debt). I have a maid (ergo, I am successful and upper class, not like the other scum Lebanese around me, when the fact is that my maid is a more decent civilized human being then me). Look at me, I go to the best restaurants (ergo, I am sophisticated and civilized, unlike the rest of the peasants around me, when in fact I am as barbaric and unsophisticated as can be). etc...

One instance of the lies propagated by the Lebanese about their so-called freedoms is that their General Security is constantly banning books and films, and interdicting political activists who stray away from the dictates of religion and traditional politics... Below is a movie by a Lebanese movie-maker: It has just been banned by General Fucking Security. The current democratically-elected president of Tunisia used to be an activist for freedom and democracy: The Lebanese General Security prohibited him from entering Lebanon a couple of years ago when he was a freedom activist. He had been invited to Lebanon to speak on freedom and democracy.

The Lebanese never invent anything worthwhile. They do not make their own clothes or their own food. They live off begging rich Arabs, Americans and Europeans to constantly bail their failing economy, and never say thank you. To the contrary, they turn around and make racist remarks about they, the Lebanese, are superior to the Arabs, or smarter than the Europeans and the Americans, etc...

We are a disgusting people. We have no core. We are a prostitute nation that raises the banner of whomever we are in bed with, but never find anything of substance inside us to raise our own domestic native indigenous banner. We have nothing to contribute to the world. The only time that a Lebanese makes any contribution to humankind is WHEN HE/SHE LEAVES LEBANON AND ENCOUNTERS GENUINE PEOPLES AND SOCIETIES.... Lebanese who live in Lebanon are crushed by the religious-political oppression that surrounds them and live like cattle in a barn. They are herded from one dictatorship to another, and never rise up against their predicament. Imagine: Here is a people who have been living in a state of war for 40 years, they have been killed and maimed, their children have emigrated to the far flung corners of the world, they have been abused like no other people ever have... yet, they have never attempted to do anything about it. After abuse like this, even animals have a reaction. But not the Lebanese: I guess kebbe and tabboule have a narcotic effect on their stupid brains....

Hanibaal
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Sunday, December 18, 2011 | 16:06 Beirut

Talking To

Banning Beirut, again

Talking to Danielle Arbid

Hanin Ghaddar, December 13, 2011

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Lebanese director Danielle Arbid’s latest film, Beirut Hotel, has been banned in Lebanon. The film’s release originally scheduled for January 19 was canceled after General Security’s censorship committee argued that “the film’s depiction of the political situation would endanger Lebanon’s security.” It insisted that all the sequences mentioning the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafic Hariri should be removed. Arbid vehemently refused to cut out any scene and decided to take things a step further by taking legal action against General Security.
The plot revolves around Zoha, a young Lebanese singer who’s trying to break free from her ex-husband. She meets Mathieu, a French lawyer on business in Lebanon and has a wild love affair with him. However, Mathieu is suspected of being a spy.
Originally produced for French-German TV channel Arte, Beirut Hotel, which is rich in political references, sex scenes and violence, is scheduled to air prime time on January 20 with an expected audience of some 1.5 million viewers.
It was also selected for the 2011 Locarno Film Festival official competition and was recently shown in Glasgow and Edinburgh as part of the 2011 French Film Festival UK.
Is it the politics in the movie or the erotic nature of it that caused it to be banned?
Danielle Arbid: General Security asked us to remove the scenes which talk about the political situation [in Lebanon]. I am against removing any scene from any movie; if we remove them, one will no longer understand the story because the [events] are interrelated. General Security knows very well that the scenes cannot be cut, and they also know that I will not agree to it.

Is this the first time you’ve had to deal with General Security censoring your material?
Arbid: No, it is not the first time. I have mentioned this on my Facebook page and in press releases that it has happened many times before.
The movie is currently showing at the Dubai Film Festival. What are some of the reactions you’re getting from the Lebanese audience there?
Arbid: This is the first time my movie is shown at the Dubai Film Festival. Last week, I was in Edinburgh and Glasgow showing Beirut Hotel. There were two types of reactions: some really liked the movie, while others thought it was bad for Lebanon’s reputation. My movies are like that; they portray strong emotions, violence and sex… It is very simple, people either like my movies or they don’t.

I’m not commercial, and I refuse to advertise my movies. My goal is to involve my viewers. I don’t want them to forget my work in an hour, I want it to stay with them.
We know that the movie will air on [the French-German TV channel] Arte. When should we be expecting it?
Arbid: It will run starting January 20, prime time. During the competition in Le Carnot, the movie was shown two more times due to popular demand. We will most probably run in the Lebanese press the exact day and time of when the movie will be showing on Arte.
What will you do regarding the ban of your movie in Lebanese theatres?

Arbid: We will take legal action against General Security. We have a lawyer in Lebanon working on the case. This is a matter of freedom of expression. The movie has no blasphemy in it, there is no cursing of religions, no cursing of any person alive, and the movie does not serve the interest of anyone.
When I was shooting in Solidere [in downtown Beirut], we were paying $500 a day to film there, so the movie was not made to serve a certain party’s interest. We are neutral. That is why there is no justification for the ban.
You Facebook page posts ask users to spead the news of the film’s banning. What is the purpose of taking such a step?
Arbid: So that General Security stops treating us like dogs. We’re trying to show how artists are being demeaned by General Security personnel, who I regret to say, barely have [an art] education. They perceive art as a non-cash generator, so to them, it has no value.
The movie is fiction, and so the [dynamics of the] politics in the story are fictional too. But politics was the only thing General Security could see in it, they couldn’t see beyond it. It remains unacceptable for an artist, a writer or a composer to use politics as material under the pretext of causing incitement.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese are expected to sit there and listen to politicians rambling for hours and accept it. General Security objected to me mentioning PM Hariri’s murder in the movie, and they questioned my intentions when I was simply using it as material.
Many Lebanese who are following the issue are requesting that the movie be shown online, in the same manner as seeing it in theatre. Would you consider this option?
Arbid: It is not my right to do so. The producers have to decide whether or not they want to stream it online. There can be a mechanism we can adopt to show the movie, but this is not the issue at hand.
If I do that, I will be solving my problem with General Security and getting around the ban, but this does not address censorship in Lebanon. This is why we decided to take legal action against General Security and take it to the courts. If General Security has a right to censor the movie then let it be. But if they don’t, then they should pay the price.
Why do you believe foreign films that tackle similar issues of sex, violence and politics pass by General Security without censorship while Lebanese films do not?
Arbid: Because I believe it is more about the person making the movie here, whether or not the filmmaker has connections. It is only in Lebanon that films are censored and scenes are removed... In the rest of the world, movies are just rated. The irony of it all is that Beirut Hotel is showing on TV at 8:30 p.m., which means children are permitted to see it in France, which means the West did not even rate it or see a need to.
Do you see it necessary that there be some cultural activism to tackle these issues of censorship?
Arbid: For sure. I think Lebanese need to know where we’re living, whether or not we are living in a civilized society. If we are, then we should have the freedom to express ourselves... But if we’re not and if I am obliged to be censored, then censorship should apply to across the board, especially to politicians who go on television and start the real incitement.
I am the first director who is willing to take legal action with regard to film censorship. I have been facing censorship issues with most of my movies: In the Battlefield, A Lost Man and now, Beirut Hotel.
Honestly, I have had enough and that is why I decided to take this step.
After your experience with the General Security, would you consider doing another movie about Beirut?

Arbid: I don’t think they will allow me to do another movie in Lebanon or about Lebanon, because I am defying the system. My next movie will not be about Lebanon. But I am going through with [the legal action] because I need to know where I, as an artist, stand in this system.
I have put three years of my life into Beirut Hotel, 50 persons worked in this movie and 30 of which were Lebanese and were able to put food on the table out of what they were earning. When the system disregards these efforts and its effects, then this only points to its contempt of art.
There is little awareness about art, how it is formed and what it generates, which is why it remains very easy for censorship to take place [and be accepted].
Hanin Ghaddar is the managing editor of NOW Lebanon
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FRANCE and UNIFIL: Get the hell out of South Lebanon. LEBANON: Grow up and become a decent country!

2011-12-13T08:31:00.001-05:00

France has informed Lebanese officials that it will downsize its troops in the UNIFIL force in the Lebanese south.

It's about time the farce and the charade that has been perpetuated in south Lebanon since 1978.

It is time for the asshole Lebanese to have a real country and a real army and a functioning state, instead of the pathetic banana republic that they have decided to have.

The asshole Lebanese want to fight Israel and liberate Palestine and play the Arab Antar, the Don Quixote, the Tartarin de Tarascon, the Jack the Slayer of Dragons... all with shit in their pants, no electricity or water in their homes, corruption up to their eyeballs, and then go cry baby at the UN for help against Israel when the latter retaliates.

The international community is responsible for the state of affairs in the South. By intervening WITHOUT EVER BRINGING A SOLUTION, they have perpetuated a situation of instability and conflict that has devastated and ruined the country for 40 years. UNIFIL is a mockery. Its soldiers are like babysitters brought in to change the diapers of the Lebanese every time they poop on themselves.

It is enough. France, Ireland, Ghana, Spain, Nepal,... and all the countries contributing to UNIFIL: Cut the umbilical cord of the pathetic Lebanese and go home. Leave the asshole Lebanese handle their own shit. And if the end of this tragedy is for the Lebanese Army to finally do its job, then let it be. Let the Lebanese army battle Hezbollah to the death, and whoever wins would have won, and we would all know which fuck of a life we are going to have. Please leave us alone so we face our demons by ourselves.

From the 1970s to the 1990s, the Lebanese Army was forbidden from doing its job by Lebanon's SUNNI sons-of-bitches (including Rafik Hariri himself) who were protecting Yasser Arafat and his fucking PLO.

Then from the 1980s onward, when Hezbollah and Hassan Khara Nasrallah and Nabih Ras Ayri Berri took over from the PLO, the Lebanese Army was forbidden by the SHIITE jackasses from again doing its job.

All the while, from the 1970s till today, the motherfucker Muslims of Lebanon prefer everyone else - UNIFIL, Hezbollah, Palestinians, Syrians, and even the Israelis when they invaded in 1982... - to their own fucking army. Why? Because they want to spite their fellow Christian Lebanese. And the UN and the international community ant the Arab League... They have all contributed to this state of affairs by buying the Lebanese with money, with protection, with bribes...

Now is the time to end all this charade. UNIFIL: Leave the south because Hezbollah and Syria (in their dying days) are going to attack you and cause more harm.

Leave Lebanon altogether, and let the Lebanese assume their own responsibilities and stop being the cry babies. Let the Lebanese grow up and own up to their duties, which are to send the Lebanese army to the south, disarm the fuckers of Hezbollah no matter what the cost, because after 40 years of instability, millions of people have been killed, maimed, displaced and an entire country ruined.

This is the final act in this tragedy. If the Lebanese cannot handle their own shit, then there is no point in pretending to have a country worthy of this name. This is Lebanon's final test as to whether is can be a country, govern itself functionally, and move into the modern world, rather than remain the pathetic dysfunctional banana republic that lives off by begging others for money, for protection, and for everything else.

Until the Lebanese can stand on their own feet, I will remain ashamed to be a Lebanese. And the international community should cut off the umbilical cord and let Lebanon prove that it is a country.

Hanibaal

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Report: Paris Informs Lebanese Officials about Troops Downsize

by Naharnet Newsdesk

6 hours ago

France has decided to decrease the number of its troops serving with UNIFIL despite pledges by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon that last week’s attack on his country’s peacekeepers would not dampen Paris’ commitment to the mission, An Nahar daily reported Tuesday.
The newspaper said consultations are underway between French army generals to set the number of the downsize before informing the U.N. peacekeeping leadership that is reviewing UNIFIL’s strategic mission about their decision.
Five French members of UNIFIL were wounded on Friday when a bomb targeted their patrol on the outskirts of the southern coastal city of Tyre. Two passers-by were also injured.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the third this year on UNIFIL soldiers.
In July, six French troops were wounded, one of them seriously, in Sidon, in an attack similar to Friday's. In May, six Italian peacekeepers were wounded in the same city, also in a roadside bombing.
Three Spanish and three Colombian peacekeepers were killed in June 2007 when a booby-trapped car exploded as their patrol vehicle drove by.
Lebanese leaders were officially informed about the French decision on Monday, An Nahar said.
But Fillon, who spoke at a military base in the northeastern French town of Saint Dizier, paid homage to the injured soldiers and said the attack “will not shake our determination.”
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Sunday that Syria and Hizbullah were probably behind the bombing. But Damascus and the Shiite party denied the accusations.

UNIFIL: The Beginning of the End

2011-12-03T15:30:00.003-05:00

France Rejects Leading UNIFIL Mission Fearing ‘Situation Might Deteriorate’
---> With the Syrian regime now in its death throes and Hezbollah about to be dismantled, the French know this is the beginning of the end. Good news for Lebanon. The fucking UN force that has been in the south since 1978 because the Lebanese governments under all the fucking Sunni prime ministers since Karami, Yafi, Salam etc... wanted to give the PLO and Hezbollah a free rein in south Lebanon and so would not allow their own Lebanese Army there. Instead, they allowed the PLO and Hezbollah - prompted by Syrian regime - to stage attacks against Israel, which then retaliated, and the Lebanese went begging the UN for help, and UNIFIL was created.

It took the motherfucker Sunnis 40 years to become nationalist Lebanese, and this was only after their fat pig Syrian collaborator - Rafik Hariri - was killed by his Syrian masters. What a waste of a country that the Lebanese Sunnis caused to Lebanon. And the international community waited 40 years before it broke its collusion with Syria against Lebanon. For 40 years, they told the Lebanese Christians that Syria was "a factor of stability" in Lebanon, while the Syrians were doing to the Lebanese population what they are doing to their own people today. The billions of dollars spent on UNIFIL + All the dead soldiers of UNIFIL + a destroyed Lebanon were all a huge price to pay.... Hopefully, the international community will have learned its lessons in Lebanon.

UNIFIL should be disbanded, and the Lebanese Army should be deployed in full force in the south, and if Hezbollah doesn;t like it, then let the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah fight it out and let us get over 40 years of bullshit.

Assad ‘Personally’ Intervened to Fund the UN Special Tribunal for Hariri (STH)
---> The coward Syrians and their poodles like Hezbollah, Nabih Berri, Michel Aoun and others... have finally kissed the hand of their enemy. This is proof that no one can stand up to the international community. Like dogs, they have cowered in the corner and accepted to fund the "Israeli-US" conspiracy, because if they don't, the beggar fucked up country of Lebanon they have created will be starved to death by the West and by the Gulf Arabs, and a dead Lebanon cannot "Liberate" and "Resist" on behalf of Syria and Iran, and the khara Michel Aoun, the ibn esh-sharmouta Hassan Nasrallah, w ibn al-Kalb Nabih Berri will be out of work and out of money.

This is the beginning of the end for Lebanon's suffering. It took the real resistance of the Christian Lebanese in the 1970s and 1980s to get rid of the PLO, then it took the Hariri Sunni conversion from Syrian collaborators to nationalist Lebanese to bring the end of the Hezbollah terror organization.

UNIFIL: Please pack up and go home. Thank you for perpetuating a problem for 40 years when it could have been solved in 1 year if the international community had any balls. But a beggar country like Lebanon cannot be a chooser. So thank you and sorry for all your deaths. But we all could have been better off if the international community stood up to Syria and to the PLO back in 1970, and then stood up to Syria, Iran and Hezbollah in the early 1980s, instead of allowing the cancer to metastasize and grow to the monster we have today. Thanks to the Syrian people, the head of the snake is being strangulated in Damascus, and it won't be long before its Hezbollah tail is cut off and thrown over the compost pile and the dung heap.

Lebanon Plunges into Darkness after Zahrani Power Plant is Shut Down

--->Welcome to the future. Lebanon has been without regular electricity since 1976, and no Zaim or Rais or General or Sayyid or Docteur or Bek or Sheikh or Batrak ... Has been able to do anything against the corruption, the primtiveness, and the backwardness.

Why? Because they are the corruption, the primiteveness and the backwardness.

The Lebanese have so much ego to brag about what a great country Lebanon is, even as they live in excrement up to their eyeballs. Like most Mediterranean people, they think with their asses, and believe that the purpose of life is to dress well, drive a nice car, and have a maid, in order to prove to the other scum around you (your neighbors and compatriots) that you got it made. SUPERFICIALITY is the primary concern of the Lebanese.... Having electricity, running water, a sense of citizenship, telephones, Internet, clean environment, less corruption, public beaches, a real democracy (and not the multi-theocracy that the Lebanese political system is), rights for women, paying taxes... All the things that make a country strong and civilized.....all these things are irrelevant for the average jackass Lebanese

Hanibaal

People of Egypt: Thank you for Showing the Way

2011-11-23T08:37:00.000-05:00

The Egyptian people know the price one has to pay for genuine freedom.

When another dictator - a military one again - tried to steal their revolution and impose another 30 years of abject tyranny on them, they started a second revolution.

I salute you, great people of Egypt, because you are by far much much better than any of the other Arab peoples around you.

You are definitely better than the pathetic Lebanese who rebelled against Syria in 2005, but now that they are again ruled by pro-Syrian asshole politicians and former collaborators with the Syrian occupation, they just sit and watch their lives continue to be destroyed by feudals, terrorists, agents and mercenaries of religious orders and foreign countries.... and like sheep, they vote for these same people.

All of Lebanon's politicians - without exception - even those who claim to be anti-Syrian and pro-democracy today - all of them have at one time or another worked for Syria and worked for the feudal-religious system in order to stay in power and deny their people the true freedom that everyone deserves.

There are thousands of Lebanese prisoners in Syria's jails. But no one complains.
There were thousands of Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails, and everyone keeps complaining even as all these prisoners have gone home and the ISraeli occupation has ended.

Syria violates Lebanese territory every day by sending troops, kidnapping people, and no one complains.
When Israel enters one inch into Lebanese territory to chase Hezbollah terrorists, everyone screams bloody hell.

All of Lebanon's politicians and Patriarchs and Muftis and all the political-religious scum that rule our lives want to preserve the status quo, because they maintain their hold on power and over our lives. They want to keep using Syria when it suits them, and rebelling aginst its intervention when it also suits them. They have no principles, they are only after power and money. They will work with anyone to stay in power and continue ruining our lives.

Nothing will change. Corruption will continue. Foreign intervention will continue. Wars will continue. Kidnappings will continue. Shortages of water and electricity will continue. Bad roads and infrastructure will continue. The rape of the environment and the stealing of public waterfront property will continue... Political inheritance will continue from father to son, as if we live in the Middle Ages...

Nothing will improve UNLESS we do what the people of Egypt are doing: LAUNCH A SECOND,a THIRD, and a FOURTH REVOLUTION until we get what we deserve: Honesty, respect, freedom, dignity, and a decent government that serves us and not them.

Haven't we had enough of the Hariris, the Aouns, the Gemayels, the Karamis, the Jumblatts, the Frangiyehs, the Salams, the Chamouns.... Haven't we had enough of their grandfathers, fathers, children and grandchildren?

Each one of us is so much better than them and their children and their grandchildren. We are all much more educated, less corrupt, and more deserving of a civilized decent life than their families living in their castles, lording it over us as if we were slaves and serfs to some primitive tribal lord... Don't you think we should finally move into the 21 century, and leave feudalism and religious crap behind us?

People of Egypt: We salute you because you are showing us the way, and what we need to do to end centuries of backwardness.

Hanibaal

Lebanon's Independence: طزّ and a million طزّ

2011-11-22T08:15:00.000-05:00

WHAT INDEPENDENCE?
Malla maskhara... malla khara....
A dummy Maronite Christian president of the republic who sucks ass to Syria
A castrated Sunni Muslim prime minister who sucks ass to the Saudis
A traitor Shiite Speaker of Parliament who sucks ass to Iran
A country whose Army could not fight the pro-Saudi Sunni terrorists of the PLO from the 1960s to the 1980s, and to this date cannot fight the pro-Iranian Shiite terrorists of Hezbollah who have become more powerful than the national army...
A country that has seen a third of its people killed and maimed, the better third emigrate to never return, and the last - and worst - third remaining in a country of wolves, coyotes, mountain gorillas without a speck of a brain in their thick skulls...
A country divided between 18 religious communities..
A country at war for the past 40 years....
A bankrupt country that can barely pay its debts but survives on handouts and begging from Arabs and Westerners...
A country where the Intelligence and Security Services will arrest young people who criticize the "President" on Facebook....
A country in which other countries come in as they please and kidnap people, and no one in the fucking Lebanese government complains.... but like the coward dogs that they are, they remain silent....
A country that is at the top of the charts of MOST CORRUPT COUNTRY on earth....
A country whose people have no say in their future - other than be led into religious slaughters every 10-20 years, and who to compensate for their incompetence, focus their lives on the superficial and the irrelevant (maids, showing off, cars....), blindly follow their religious leaders, and do not give a damn about their fellow countrymen....
Khalil Gibran used to say about the Lebanese that they do not live off of what they themselves make... A people of phonies and fakes and imitators without any substance to them... Gibran also told the Lebanese that they have their Lebanon (the shitty Lebanon described above) and he (Gibran) has his Lebanon, the Lebanon that no longer exists and which has been buried under the scum, the depravity and the barbarity of the politicians and religious leaders of Lebanon with all their blind followers....

And they call this INDEPENDENCE! It is not independence, it is
A JOKE...
It is not a مسخرة but a piece of pure خرى

They think that independence consists of sitting and watching a military parade by a castrated army once a year....then go eat kibbe and tabbouli....

Mabrouk....

Hanibaal

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Lebanon Celebrates its 68th Independence Day

by Naharnet Newsdesk

Lebanon commemorated on Tuesday its 68th independence anniversary in downtown Beirut, marking the liberation from the French Mandate which was exercised over Lebanese soil for over 23 years.
President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Najib Miqati, and Speaker Nabih Berri headed the officials that joined the celebrations marking the country’s independence.
Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn, Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji, Brazilian Vice-President Michel Tamer and a number of politicians and security figures attended the military parade which was held at Shafiq al-Wazzan Boulevard in Downtown Beirut.
Suleiman placed a wreath on the monument of the Unknown Soldier.
At the end of the parade, the president, PM and speaker headed to the Baabda palace to receive congratulators.
Lebanon received its independence after French troops arrested Lebanese national leaders Beshara al-Khoury, Riad al-Solh, Pierre Gemayel, Camille Chamoun, and Adel Osseiran in Rashaya.
After national and international pressure, the prisoners were released on November 22, 1943 and that day was declared the Lebanese Independence Day.
On Monday, Suleiman addressed the nation urging the Lebanese to maintain national unity and civil peace.

من المزبلة للششمى: Listen to Patriarch Rahi's Garbage

2011-11-17T10:56:00.000-05:00

The "Batrak" of the Maronites is NOW - after 40 years of his church abusing its own people, neglecting them both in the home country and in the diaspora, after allowing the militias of Geagea and Aoun and Gemayel and all the criminal Maronite warlords to destroy the country and make money off the backs of the poor and ignorant Maronite peasants from Ashrafiyeh to Tannourine - only NOW, after 40 years of war and destruction, that the church - losing people and money - is asking the Christians to "cling" to therir homeland.

Has anyone among the Christians who have fled 40 years ago seen what the country has become? A cesspool of a mercantile, insincere, back-stabbing population that cares nothing for its environment or its own people or its own country. The Lebanese - naturally after the good educated elements have left - are now a population of animal superficial brutes who care more about their cars, maids, and money than anything else in the world. They don;t even care about fucking Jesus or Saint Maroun, but the hypocrites that they are pretend to do so. The Maronite Christians - and all the other Christians of the East - do not even apply their religious beliefs in their daily lives. To them, this fucking faith or religion that Rahi speaks about is just three things: go to the stupid church on sundays and for marriages and deaths. Otherwise, the whole religion thing has no meaning to them and never translates into daily life.

Lebanese society is a cruel, dog-eat-dog society, where from the politicians and religious monsters at the top, all the way down the social scale to the laborers and peasants and merchants, everyone is a survivalist. They will kill their mother for a few bucks, for a maid and for a mercedes to show off to the neighbors that they are "better" than the scum around them. This is the essence of Lebanese society, including the supposedly superior and Westernized Christians.

So when this idiot below tells his "flock" to cling to the homeland, he is asking the good Lebanese who have fled long time ago, to return and become like the monster native Lebanese: corrupt, after money, get a maid, buy the mercedes, and go to the fucking church on Sundays. There is nothing else left in this forsaken country other than corruption, mercantilism, and blond religious barbarity promoted by Rahi and Hassan Nasrallah and all the religious motherfuckers who run the country.

Among the pearls that he uttered at his conference of child-molesting Catholic bishops, Rahi said:
“Religion paves way for peace and bridging the gap between citizens,” he said.

I have to laugh, because his Christian religion and the Islamic religion of his Lebanese Muslims were the cause of 40 years of butchery and massacres that continues to this day.

Religion and peace? WHo is he fooling?
Bridging gap betwee citizens? Who is he taking for idiots?
Lebanon is nothing but a divided patch of land between 18 religions.... and they massacre one another every 20 years or so... Lebanon is the definition of blind religious hatred and hostility and the place where people kill one another because of religion.

Rahi is a criminal hypocrite for lying through his nose. All he cares about is to have more MAronites under his thumb so he can bilk them of money every time they want to marry, divorce or get a paper.
He does not care for the country, for the people, for the environment, for democracy, for human rights... All he does day long is work against human rights, against the rights of any citizen to be free from the tentacles of religion into people's affairs and daily lives... WHAT A JOKE.

HANIBAAL

Little Lebanese Dogs on the leash of the Big Syrian American Saudi Iranian Dogs

2011-11-15T08:40:00.000-05:00

What do assholes like Michel Suleiman, Najib Miqati, Nabih Berri and their poodles like the so-called Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour, the traitor Maronite Michel Aoun, and many others have in common?

They are all puppets of the Syrian regime. They are dogs on a leash. Yank the leash one way, they go that way. Yank the leash to the other side, they move to the other side. But who is holding the leash? The BIG DOG in Syria, the coward brutal and barbaric monster in Damascus who inherited the barbarity of his Baath Party from his father and Saddam Hussein and their ilk. All mass murderers who thrive on their people's backs and at the expense of their people's lives by telling them stories about liberation and resistance....

How stupid have the Syrians been for decades to believe this trash and follow these animals for all those years? Very stupid... but now they have awaken. Now they know what their dictator did to the Lebanese people for 40 years. I have met Syrians and other motherfucker Arabs, including the asshole Kuwaitis, who would tell me - 10, 20 years ago - that Lebanon deserved to be ruled by the Syrian regime because we the Lebanese were all "Zionists" and isolationists...

For 40 years, we tired of the jackass dumb Americans telling us - even as their ambassadors, embassies, marines, and citizens were bombed, assassinated, blown up, kidnapped...... in Syrian-occupied Lebanon - that Syria is a "FACTOR OF STABILITY" in Lebanon. Even as we were dying, bombed, kidnapped, taken to Syrian jails never to return... Even as terrorist organizations like the PLO and Hezbollah were running amok in our villages and cities, the dumbass Americans and French were telling us that we needed Syria and the Syrian army and the Syrian Intelligence, because they brought STABILITY.

FUCK YOU ALL: ARABS, AMERICANS, EUROPEANS... and everyone else, because now you are facing the monster you all created over our blood and at the expense of our lives and country.

Had Ronald Reagan the stupid Republican president confronted Syria and Hezbollah in Beirut in 1983, then his Marines would not have died in vain, and Hezbollah would not have become the monster that it is today, and the Assad regime would not grown to be the tyranny we are witnessing today.

But in the end, it is our fault - we the Lebanese - for allowing rulers like Suleiman, Miqati, Berri, HAriri, Aoun, Gemayel and Geagea and the whole rest of them to rule over us from under the robes of the Patriarchs, Muftis, Sayyids, Imams and all the religious Mafias that run our lives as if we were sheep led to the slaughter every 20 years or so.

It is our fault because we do not have our own LEBANON SPRING, once and for all, a revolution to change the political system of the religious-feudal-money Mafias that rule our lives. At the next elections, we will go elect again the same people that destroy our lives every day, that steal our resources, that impose their fucking sons and daughters every time one of them dies, that deal with foreign countries to maintain themsleves in power, while we pay the price.

Lebanon is a country of brutes and savages. The day that we elect decent professional politicians because of their credentials - and not because of their balls, religion, or money - is the day that I will become proud of being a Lebanese.

Until then, until an uprising is launched in Lebanon against our backwardness and our primitive political system, let the big DOGS (Syrians, Americans, French, Iranians, Saudis,....) keep us on a leash because we are nothing but little filthy dogs who do not deserve the country given to us.

أيري يلبنان وبهالبلد المؤير اللي ما بيقدر يقود حاله لوحده

Hanibaal

LEBANON TO SEND PEACEKEEPING TROOPS INTO SYRIA TO QUELL CIVIL WAR

2011-11-12T10:06:00.000-05:00

It is time for the brotherly Arab country of Lebanon to help the artificially-created Syrian entity from further descending into chaos and civil war. The Syrian entity was artificially created by French colonialism at the end of World War I, which placed the Alawite minority clan into positions of power to the detriment of the vast Sunni majority in the country.

The Alawite sect benefited from its collaboration with the colonial power and forced France to clobber together an artificial country made up of vastly diverse sects, cities, and religions. The Mediterranean seacoast cities of Tartous and Lattaqiyeh (Alawite) have nothing to do with the desert cities of Damascus, Homs and Hama (Sunni Arabs), or with any of the other cities in the far north (Aleppo and Qamishli) which are more Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish than Arab, or with the southern Druze cities where the uprising began.

Lebanon should repay its sister Syria by sending peacekeeping troops into Syria to separate the clashing sides there and put an end to the massacres and brutality that both sides have shown. As a model of religious coexistence, Lebanon can provide the stability that the Syrians need to learn how to live together in harmony. The Lebanese can teach the backward Syrians how Alwaites, Druze, Sunnis, Kurds, Armenians, neanderthals and cro-magnons can coexist together without the savage rule of the Assad clan or the violence that opponents of the Assads are demonstrating in the streets across Syria.

The Arab League should set up an ARAB DETERRENCE FORCE (قوة الردع العربية) made up of 90% Lebanese troops and token troops from other Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait. The Lebanese troops can separate the belligerents and impose the order needed in the streets of the artificial Syrian entity until such time as negotiations can be held between the parties and decisions are made to create a separate Alwaite country on the Syrian coast, a Syrian Arab Sunni entity from the cities of Homs, Hama and Damascus, annex the Kurdish north to the very successful Autonomous Kurdish Region in northern Iraq, and annex the southern Druze region to the Golan Heights.

The Lebanese having experienced those tensions during their civil war of 1975-1990 have a lot to teach the Syrian brutes about the benefits of peaceful coexistence. The Lebanese will not undertake the shelling of the Syrian cities, like the Syrian troops did in Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s. Instead they will hold workshops and peace rallies to teach the Syrian primitives how to function in the modern world without killings, massacres, and the brutality that the Syrians have been capable of in both Lebanon and Syria. The Lebanese troops will not kidnap ordinary Syrian civilians and put them in jail for the rest of their lives, like the Syrians did during their "peacekeeping" in Lebanon back in the 70s and 80s.

We propose that the Arab League, which has now suspended Syria's membership in it, reconvene and immediately issue a call for Lebanese Army troops to enter - without waiting for a formal agreement - into Syrian territories and begin separating the protagonists. If the troops arrive in Damascus, they should seek to arrest the top levels of the Syrian artificial entity's government - Bashar Assad, Buthaina Shaaban, and all the hoodlums and gangsters running the dictatorship there - and hand them over to international justice where they have to be tried for Crimes Against Humanity. Lebanese troops will not resort to bombing these people or killing them, (which is what Syria did when it entered to put peace in lebanon). They will simply arrest them very humanely and hand them over. This way, the barbaric and backward Syrian people will learn how to handle these situations without resorting to violence and bloodletting. This is how a country like Lebanon can begin civilizing the primitive country of Syria.

Hanibaal

"Speaker" Nabih Berri: Koal Khara

2011-11-05T09:01:00.000-04:00

Aymta raH yeskut hal-khara w yHill 3an Tizna? This Domestic Shiite Traitor Enemy is again having a verbal diarrhea instigated by his Iranian and Syrian paymasters. When Hassan shuts up in his rathole, we have this filthy asshole who still has a US GREEN CARD and used to sell used cars in Detroit before he became a "Speaker (what a joke)" of the Lebanese Parliament.

When will this piece of Shiit shut up and leave us alone? Nabih: Listen, and listen well. There is a revolution coming to Lebanon, and it is coming soon. It is a revolution much worse than the Cedars Revolution of 2005, because it will not be against the filthy Syrians, but it will be against the POLITICIANS OF LEBANON, ALL OF THEM, INCLUDING YOU AND YOUR OTHER ASSHOLE HASSAN.

The Lebanese people and the young of Lebanon have not yet had their ARAB SPRING REVOLUTION, but it will happen soon. This revolution will sweep your filth and scum out of power. It will sweep all the other feudal and religious jackasses from the positions of power they hold over our lives.

Listen, Nabih ras-ayri:

We, the Lebanese, don't want to liberate Palestine.
We, actually, don't want the Shebaa Farms. We want to give them to Syria or Israel, so they can go fight and fuck each other over them, and leave us alone.
We don't hate the US.
We don't hate the West.
We hate Iran.
We hate Syria.
And... we want peace with Israel, like all the other motherfucking Arabs.

In fact, we love the US and the West, and we want Lebanon to remain a Western stronghold in the midst of the surrounding Arab, Islamic and Jewish cesspools.

We, in fact, hate every religious piece of shit: shiite, sunni, khara, maronite, orthodox, jewish, fatimi, alawi, druze, catholic, lutheran, protestant, assyrian, mornonic, mormon, archaic, baptist, buddhist, numskull, latin, greek, worshiper of stars, sorcerer, wizard, nun, priest, imam, sheikh, reverend, etc....... We want a secular Lebanon where religious primitive sectarian fanatic idiots like you are confined to their dusty mosques and churches and other such fucking temples that take space, waste time and money, and oppress people with antiquated ideas from the Stone Age.

But the ones we hate most right now are those who carry weapons, who threaten our lives with wars, with terrorism, with assassinations, and who keep us backward. JUST LIKE YOU.

We hate those who deny us every little freedom in every detail of our lives: what we should eat and when we should eat it. What we wear and when we should wear it. Who we fuck and how and when we fuck them. What we read, what we watch, what we say, and what we listen to..

That is what our revolution is about. It is not about Palestine and the asshole Moussa Sadr or the Grand Asshole in Tehran Khamene'i. It is not about the prophet Mohammad or Jesus or the Pope of the Vatican or any of the Protestant backwood primitives of America or the filthy Patriarch of the Orthodox.....

It is about our own individual selves, our own dignity as human beings, our own environment, our own lives, our little simple ordinary lives.... It is not about YOUR IDEAS, it is about OUR IDEAS.

I live to see the day when they will catch you in a sewer drain pipe somewhere in Beirut, hiding your filthy skin with all the millions you stole from the South Development Fund... That should be the fate of every Lebanese politician who still puts the lives of their people at risk in order to please some outside country to which they are sold.

SO NABEUH BERRI: FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR DIALOGUE. YOU SHOULD GO TO SOME SHASHMA, and DIALOGUE WITH THE SHIT COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, BECAUSE YOU ARE DISGUSTING and MAKE US ASHAMED TO BE LEBANESE.

Hanibaal________________________________________________________________________

Berri: Dialogue Necessary Not Just for Internal Reasons

Speaker Nabih Berri revealed on Friday that he will once again propose to President Michel Suleiman the resumption of the national dialogue.
He told al-Manar television: “The dialogue is necessary for not just internal reasons, but external ones as well.”
“There can be no real Lebanon without dialogue,” he stressed.
The speaker had told Ad Diyar newspaper in remarks published on Friday that dialogue is necessary throughout the various phases a country goes through, especially during critical times.
Berri emphasized the importance of resuming the dialogue without preconditions “because it will no longer be a dialogue if conditions are set.”
“People are wrong in believing that Hizbullah’s arms will be discussed at the dialogue table,” he told al-Manar.
“The defense strategy that the dialogue addresses is based on the equation of the army, people, and resistance,” he continued.
Addressing the dispute over the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the speaker noted: “The matter is related to its constitutional legitimacy and the way it was formed.”
“Lebanon’s democracy allows contentious issues to be subject to a vote at cabinet and they are also free to subject it to a vote at parliament,” Berri stated.
Earlier on Friday, Voice of Lebanon radio reported that the speaker is expected to hold talks with President Suleiman before Eid al-Adha.

When will this dick (ظبر) shut up?

2011-10-21T15:49:00.000-04:00

When will this اير (penis) shut up and go back to his monastery and leave us alone?

Who the fuck he is to "Warn against foreign meddling?" and basically tell the Arab peoples who have been suffering from unelected dictators like him they should not seek outside help to get rid of the likes of Bashar Assad, Hosni Mubarak, Mouammar Qadhafi....?

Like Hassan Rass Ayri Nasrallah, Bechara Bikish Tizi Rahi is an unelected son-of-a-bitch from the Stone Age of religious cults who is interfering in politics, and injecting his poison into the will of people to be free from dictators, from religions, from archaic ideas that have kept them chained for centuries.

We don't need their opinions. We don;t need their weapons. And we don;t need their Gods, their Jesuses, or their Mohammads.... They can all go to hell, eat shit and leave us alone.

Just remember how the French Revolution ushered democracy throughout Europe. Many people - especially the fucking Francophone Lebanese idiots - forget that the French Revolution was PRIMARILY anti-church, anti-religious, anti-clerical, anti-God, and anti all that crap from humanity's primitive past. The French revolution kicked the church out of France and for 70 years the religious orders could not run a school in France. Today, France is a secular non-religious country and people. Very few French idiots go to church on Sundays and that is the end of it.

The Arab revolutions will get there some day - but it is a long way. Yet, we don't need the primitive sorcerers of the Shiite cult, the Sunni cult, or the Maronite cult to interfere and pretend to influence the course of history. They can't, because the course of history is AGAINST THEM, and they are trying to protect their interests.

God is dead. Religions are dead. Time to move forward.

The problem in the Middle East is not ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM. It is ALL RELIGIONS and religious fundamentalisms - Islamic, christian and Jewish..

There is not a MINORITIES issue in the Middle East. There is a HUMAN RIGHTS issue in the Middle East. When everyone is protected, then there will be no more minorities.

Those who use scare tactics on the pretext that they are "protecting their minority rights" should call for the respect of the rights of ALL PEOPLE, of WOMEN, of CHILDREN, of every fucking human being regardless of their religion.

Beshara Al-Rahi: كس إمك وإم كنيستك الشرموطة
Hassan Nasarallah: كس إمك وإم دينك الخرى
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Al-Rahi Urges Peaceful Arab Spring, Voices Concern over Minorities

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Friday hoped the so-called Arab Spring sweeping the region will be maintained through “dialogue, not conflict and civil wars.”
He also warned against “all foreign meddling” in the ongoing popular uprisings.
“It won’t be an Arab Spring should violence and war drag on, as they reap numerous innocent victims and minorities would usually pay the price,” al-Rahi warned, at a reception thrown in his honor at the Lebanese consulate in New York.

“It won’t be an Arab Spring should anyone of the children of this nation die; it won’t be an Arab Spring should we end up with civil, religious or sectarian wars,” the patriarch, who is on a pastoral visit to the U.S., cautioned.

However, al-Rahi added that “we are looking forward to an Arab Spring during which Muslims and Christians would live together, as we belong to one nation, one fate, one culture and one civilization that we have built together year after year.”

The patriarch stressed that “it will be an Arab Spring should the Arab peoples realize their demands and right to a decent living and should all reforms be implemented,” hoping the new regimes will be built upon the principles of justice, public freedoms and democracy.

Qadhafi Down - Is Assad Next?

2011-10-21T15:30:00.000-04:00

It is increasingly highly likely that Bashar Assad will suffer the same fate as Qadhafi.

Saddam Hussein was found hiding in a rat hole...

Mouammar Al-Qadhafi was found hiding in a sewer pipe...

So let's see.... where will Bashar Assad be found hiding?
- I predict in the جورة خرى septic tank of his palace because his smell and his overall texture fits perfectly well with the sludge down there... Also with him will be found BOUTHAINA SHAABAN holding hands....

Yalla, 3a'bel 3indak ya Bashar....

Hanibaal

Where is Freedom of Opinion in Lebanon?

2011-10-09T09:34:00.000-04:00

These actions by the Lebanese government and security services is the latest in a series of acts censoring the very freedoms that Lebanon claims to uphold.(See news below).

When compared to the freedoms rising throughout the Arab world, these actions show that Lebanon continues to recede into a backwater of repression and tyranny. Lebanon is no longer the island of freedoms in the Arab world, it is now the ONLY Arab country where repression is official policy and where there are no freedoms. Add to it the abysmal violations of human rights in Lebanon's prisons, the virtually non-existent basic services of water, electricity, phone, etc..., the continued rape of the environment and the Mediterranean by the businesses owned by the same corrupt politicians who impose censorship, the primitive religious mindset that oversees the entire political process, the rampant corruption that makes Lebanon the 6th most corrupt nation on earth, etc.... and you wonder where do the Lebanese find the gall to continue making their megalomaniacal claims of Lebanon's superiority to the other Arab countries.

With Army Chief Jean Kahwaji going to Washington DC to beg the Americans for weapons to his shitty army, Lebanon has never ceased to be a nation of beggars. We live on handouts from both West and Arabs. We do not pay taxes. We steal public funds right and left. We are a nation of filthy beggars who contribute nothing to the world other than our corruption and our self-centered narcissism about how great we are, when we are deep in excrement up to our eyeballs. And, to top this whole charade of a nation, we are the only pathetic tiny asshole of a country that is still fighting the Israeli "enemy". In fact, our so-called "Speaker" (who has been Speaker for close to 30 years after a career as a used car dealer in Detroit, Michigan) Nabih Berri, one of the most corrupt politicians to ever walk the earth, has recently declared from Tehran (where he went to collect his mercenary money) that "Lebanon is Israel's main competitor". I wonder how can this be when we have no running water, no electricity, no Internet, and no telephones to speak of... when our roads and streets become open sewers the moment it rains; when we keep producing Saints and Divine Bastards while Israel just produced a Nobel prize in chemistry and Yemen a Nobel prize in peace; when we can barely keep the water that runs down our hills and have no idea how to turn it into the electricity that we badly need, and yet we want to drill for gas in the Mediterranean; ...

Yup, the Lebanese young people see all this and truly believe that Lebanon is a promising country where they can build a future.

Hanibaal
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Iranian director banned from Lebanon

dailystar-LB Sunday, October 9, 2011 2:44:00 PM CEST | info

Lebanon has imposed a travel ban on Iranian director Nader Daoudi, preventing him from participating in the Beirut International Film Festival Monday....

Lebanon bans screening of documentary on Iran vote

nowlebanon Sunday, October 9, 2011 1:32:00 PM CEST | info

Lebanon has banned a screening of Iranian documentary "Red, White and the Green," which deals with violence in the weeks before the 2009 presidential election, an organizer announced Sunday. "Lebanese censorship authorities on Friday informed us we would have to pull Iranian director Nader Davoodi's.......

Al-Ahbal As-Sagheer: "President" Suleiman to Blather at the UN

2011-09-17T15:26:00.000-04:00

Nataq Zakariyah.....
While the Ahbal Al-Kabir in Damascus continues to massacre his people, the dumbass Ahbal As-Sagheer President of Lebanon, Michel Tizi Suleiman, continues to support his boss in Syria, and continues to repeat all the asinine Arabist crap about "liberation" "resistance" and rights he himself denies his own people.

This is the idiot petty dictator who had three young Facebook bloggers arrested in Beirut for "harming his dignity". What dignity does this asshole have, only God knows. His dignity consisted in working under the Syrian occupation to allow Damascus to take over the Baabda Palace in 1990. This is the guy who is married to the Assad dynasty and has every reason to keep supporting the butcher in Damascus. Like Patriarch Khara Al-Rahi, Suleiman is a Maronite Dhimmi who kisses the Muslims' ass in order to remain "under their protection" as a second class citizen.

And now he is going to the UN to lecture the world about "rights and preventive diplomacy". Think about it: This is the so-called "Consensus President" (i.e. a president without balls) of a country that still has no electricity, no running water, and no Internet to speak of. This is a country where the law of the jungle and corruption are supreme. Out of 192 countries, Lebanon ranks as the 6th most corrupt country in the world (at No. 186). This is the President of a country who violates his own fucking constitution by allowing dozens of Palestinian terrorist groups affiliated with Syria to operate without hindrance on the country's soil, and who not only allows, but praises and supports another illegal militia - Hezbollah - to remain armed, to threaten the country's security, and to operate in parallel and against the country's own fucked up army, of which he, Suleiman, was in fact one day a General. What an army that produces nothing but Dhimmi traitors to their country. Like his predecessor, Emile Zibb Lahoud, and the other General, Michel Aoun, Suleiman is a traitor to his country.

I am ashamed that this son-of-a-bitch Syrian agent is going to represent my country at the UN. His own ambassador to the UN, Adnan Mansour, has declared that Lebanon WILL NOT VOTE AGAINST THE SYRIAN DICTATORSHIPin the Security Council.... If this is what these murderers think of the Syrian people, can you imagine what they think of their own Lebanese people?

Read the comment below the Naharnet article below ..... I wholeheartedly agree!

Hanibaal

Suleiman to Stress Lebanon’s Right to its Natural Resources at Security Council

by Naharnet Newsdesk

4 hours ago

President Michel Suleiman will tackle during his speech at the United Nations Security Council session on Sep. 21 Lebanon’s constant position on the regional developments, he will also stress Lebanon’s adherence to the Arab peace initiative and the importance of the peace process in the region, the Central News Agency reported on Saturday.
“The president will stress the importance of recognizing a Palestinian state and Lebanon’s right to preserve its national natural resources and oil,” high-ranking sources told the news agency.
The sources said that Suleiman will address the situation in the Middle East and the popular uprisings in the region and its effect on the general situation.
In his speech before the Security Council under the title of ‘Preventive Diplomacy,’ Suleiman will stress on the importance of diplomacy to avoid conflicts, its role in preventing its recurrence and Lebanon’s experience in this field.
The sources noted that he will meet on the sidelines of his participation in the Security Council session U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
They told the news agency that Suleiman will meet the heads of state including Slovenia, Serbia and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
President Michel Suleiman is expected to go to New York on Sept. 18 at the head of the Lebanese delegation that will participate in the 66th General Assembly meeting.
Suleiman is scheduled to address the Assembly on Sept. 21 and chair the next day a Security Council session on preventive diplomacy.

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youssefhaddad

What a government and what a president who looks for issues with Israel in order to keep the fake struggle going while they exploit the lebanese people and execute the agendas of Iran and Syria.
The problem is the dumb lebanese who still buy this manure!

SUPPORT PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD

2011-09-17T08:44:00.000-04:00

I am no fan of the Palestinians because of their stupidity. They could have had 55% of Palestine and Jerusalem if they had accepted the UN partition of 1948, without all the death and destruction and loss of land they have suffered themselves and caused to others.

I am no fan of the Palestinian morons because it took them more than 60 years to begin understanding that fighting for what they want or believe is their right takes SMARTS and TIME, not bravados and macho Arabism bullshit.

I am no fan of Palestine and the Palestinians because of what the PLO and all the terrorist offshoots that Syria, Libya, and many others created under the PLO umbrella, did to my country of Lebanon for decades. We received them as guests and refugees, but they fought us like their worst enemies, massacring our villages (Damour) and fighting our government and army. The Palestinians and those using them (Syria, etc.) have inflicted more harm to my country of Lebanon than any other theoretical enemy (Israel)

I am no fan of neither Palestinians or Israelis, because their problem is only theirs, and not mine. Everything related to the conflict between these two fucking peoples was dumped on Lebanon, and till today, Lebanon remains the victim of the only extant war front between Arabs and Israelis.

I am no fan of the Israelis because the entire premise on which they came to create their country is based on a religious mythology from the Stone Age that is no longer compatible with the modern age. To say that some god chose you as "his people", and that the same god, 3,000 years ago, gave you a land that belonged to others, and worst of all, that this land STILL belongs to you is anachronistic, stupid, barbarian and disgusting, much as the claims by Muslims that theirs is the final prophecy and that all other religions should be "defeated" because Islam is the "true religion" are anachronistic, stupid, barbarian and disgusting.

Be all the above as it may, the time has come to finish this masquerade of the "Holy Land" for which millions have been dying for millennia. I support Palestinian statehood out of basic fairness, and out of the fact that Netanyahu and the Israelis have been lying about their objectives. By refusing to freeze new settlement construction, the Israelis have proven that their intention - as it has been for decades - was to buy time with endless re-starts and failures of so-called negotiations, and to use that time to create "facts on the ground" and take land that does not belong to them (except if one believes the racist supremacist divine promises god made to them in the desert 3,000 years ago). By refusing to freeze new settlement construction in the last negotiations, the Israelis have pushed Abbas into the lap of Hamas and re-sealed Palestinian unity, at a time what Palestinian division was the best thing that ever happened to Israel.

Most of all, I support Palestinian statehood because it opens the doors to ship all the fucking Palestinian refugees and their filth out of Lebanon and back to Palestine where they belong. LEBANON WILL NEVER INTEGRATE THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES INTO ITS SOCIAL FABRIC. THEY MUST GO AND THEIR CAMPS TURNED INTO NATIONAL PARKS. PALESTINIANS BELONG IN PALESTINE, UNLESS WESTERN AND ARAB COUNTRIES - WHO HAVE BEEN DECLARING FOR DECADES THEIR UNDYING LOVE AND PITY FOR THE POOR REFUGEES - TAKE THEM AND HELP THEM RE-SETTLE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES.

I support Palestinian statehood, so that there are no more excuses for terrorists like Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, and others for the destruction of Lebanon.

LONG LIVE FREE PALESTINE (بس حلّوا عن طيزي)(as long as you get off my ass).

Hanibaal

Electricity Bill Before Parliament?... Let the Stealing of Public Funds Begin!

2011-09-12T07:51:00.000-04:00

Now that the political thieves have agreed on a bill that is now in Parliament, in a supposed attempt to fix the chronic electricity shortage in Lebanon, I make a couple of predictions:

- Hezbollah and the large and filthy Shiite slums will still refuse to pay their bills, arguing that they are "defending the country against the Israeli enemy", and that they are "a downtrodden, oppressed, and poor community."

- People (mostly in Hezbollah-run areas of the country) will continue to steal electricity from the grid (as the picture below shows) as there is no serious deterrence from the state agencies or security forces enforcing the laws.

- The stealing of public funds will go unchecked - as it has always in Lebanon - by the very politicians who are supposed to protect the funds. Whether under Jebran Bassil alone, or under an Audit Bureau, the LL1772 billion (US$1.2 billion) will largely be pilfered by each of the members of the Audit Bureau, including Minister Bassil, who will also receive kickbacks from companies bidding for the construction of the new power plant.

- The new power plant will be built on the Mediterranean to make sure to add to the pollution of that sad body of water, probably in an area near impoverished neighborhoods whose inhabitants cannot protest.

- Even when such a plant is up and running - assuming ten years of delays and bureaucratic incompetence - there will still be rationing of electricity, and Mafia-run generators in the neighborhoods will continue to impose a second bill on the stupid Lebanese people, particularly in those areas where the Mafiosi generators are intimately connected to the local political boss (who stands to lose the support of the electricity Mafia if he were to allow 24-hour delivery of state electricity).

Hanibaal

Electricity Draft Law Referred to Parliament

by Naharnet Newsdesk

The electricity drat law that was approved at cabinet last week has been referred to parliament on Monday, reported Voice of Lebanon radio.
Speaker Nabih Berri consequently called the various joint committees to convene on Thursday in order to discuss the law.
There was a delay in referring it to parliament because of disputes between Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Energy Minister Jebran Bassil over the phrasing of some terms in the law, informed sources told As Safir newspaper in remarks published on Monday.
The draft law was the subject of a dispute between various government factions.
It calls for dedicating LL1772 billion to fund the establishment of a power plant capable of producing 700 megawatts.
An agreement was reached to fund the law in four installments after some government factions criticized the hefty price of the project.
The March 14-led opposition accused Bassil of seeking to adopt the law without the Audit Bureau’s supervision of the spending of the funds.

WIKILEAKS, I love you.

2011-09-11T07:25:00.000-04:00

What is most revealing about the leaked Wikileaks cables of late is the duplicity of the Muslim politicians of Lebanon. They tell their people one thing (Hezbollah's resistance and liberation, Israel is the enemy, Syria the great sister, and other Arab nationalist crap and bullshit that no one ever believed in, but for which Lebanon continues to pay a heavy price), then tell the "enemy" (the US, etc.) the complete opposite. Enjoy and learn!

WIKILEAKS: MIQATI (FILTHY SUNNI DOG)

The following are from a WikiLeaks cable dated Dec. 19, 2009, and reporting on a meeting between Miqati, then U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michelle Sison and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Hale.

1. Prime Minister Najib Miqati: I do not represent the “Sunnis” in Lebanon.

2. Prime Minister Najib Miqati: Hizbullah aims at establishing an Iranian Military base on the Mediterranean centered in Lebanon from which Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution could be carried to the West.”

3. Prime Minister Najib Miqati: "Hizbullah is a tumor that should be removed. Hizbullah’s mini-state should be removed to preserve Lebanon.” " Hizbullah will lead Lebanon to a “sad ending"

4. Miqati described Lebanese President Suleiman as “Calm and an easy going” person, but found it "worrisome that Suleiman said that his job was easier than the expected."

5. Concerning Syrian-Lebanese diplomatic relations, Miqati noted that they were “superficial” but important.
However, he said that “we should neutralize Syria’s role in Lebanon to give the government a chance to buy some time to counter Hizbullah.”
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WIKILEAKS: BERRI (FILTHY SHIITE DOG)

In another Wikileaks cable (dated August 18, 2006, and reporting on a meeting between Used Car Dealer Speaker of Lebanese Parliament and then U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman), Nabih Berri said the following:

1. He encouraged a military and a political strike against Hizbullah during the 2006 war so that the Israeli aggression against Lebanon doesn’t last long and so that the operation doesn’t have any repercussions.

2. Berri described Syrian President Bashar Assad’s speech on Aug. 15, 2006 as “stupid and unreasonable… because people forgot everything related to Israel.”

3. During the meeting with Feltman, Berri criticized “the obvious Syrian attempt to meddle in Lebanon’s affairs.” Concerning the monitoring of the Syrian-Lebanese border to stop weapons smuggling, he wondered why doesn’t “the Lebanese cabinet order the army to deploy there", and suggested that then United Nations chief Kofi Annan head to Damascus and Tehran where the root of the problem is.”

4. In a clear expression of his fear that Hezbollah might take all his share of Shiite following, Berri sought to use the money from the Council of the South, the main channel to distribute reconstruction funds in the south, so that he begins with the process of reconstruction, warning that any failure by the government to reconstruct the south will enable Hizbullah to carry out this mission.

5. Berri described the idea of an Israeli attack on Hizbullah to weaken its military forces and political role as a “positive development,” (In another cable date July 17, 2006.): “Hizbullah underestimated the kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers… We want the implementation of (U.N. Security Council Resolution) 1559, this is what was stated in the national dialogue… we need to implement it…,” Berri said.

6. Feltman said that Berri expressed irritation from the prolonged Israeli aggression on Lebanon that might develop some sympathy from the Lebanese towards Hizbullah. The U.S. official quoted him as saying: “The Israelis have additional four or five days (to carry out their attack on Hizbullah) after that people will turn against them.”
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The Lebanese people need to draw their own conclusion about the liars, whores, and assholes they continue to vote to power in this "democracy" called Lebanon. After the fucking Christian Maronite Bastard Batrak Rahi's statements this past week, the Lebanese people have only one thing to do to rescue their country: A REVOLUTION AGAINST THEIR FEUDAL-RELIGIOUS OPPRESSORS.

Hanibaal

RAHI: Another Maronite Dhimmi Traitor

2011-09-09T20:23:00.001-04:00

Like many of his predecessors in the Maronite clergy, Batrak Rahi is another Christian Dhimmi who think of themselves as "protected minorities". Which means that in order to appease the dominant culture or religion (in this case Islam or the Baath Party in Syria), you accept second-class status, and you consent to be so "protected" by your ruler or oppressor.

The Maronites have long claimed to be champions of freedom and liberty in this otherwise tyrannical Middle East, but this freedom that they claim to champion is so qualified and compromised that it really misses the point of human freedom as it is understood the world over.

As merchants and traders, the Lebanese in general, and the Maronites in particular, will sell their mothers to make a quick buck. Success in Lebanon is solely determined by how much money you make. Any other contribution to humankind is considered a waste of time. Such is the Mediterranean. The Maronite sense of freedom is therefore a relative one, not an absolute one. They have no sense of the real meaning of freedom. As often as they compromised with their surroundings, less in order to survive and more in order to make a buck, the definition of freedom in the mindset of the Maronite mountain brute is really a very narrow one when it is compared, for examples, with the notion of freedom in the West.

For the Maronites, especially those like President Sleiman, Batrak Rahi, General Aoun, and many others in the contemporary Maronite political and religious pantheon, who generally have espoused compromise with the Muslims in order to be accepted and tolerated as second class citizens - i.e. Dhimmis - the notion of freedom is as primitive as the ability to ring their stupid church bells on Sundays, or wear a visible cross, or any such narrow ability at exercising religious rituals, as if one's freedom is limited to the exercise of religion.

By contrast, the notion of freedom in the West is a much more elaborate and broad concept, whereby it is the individual - not the minority group, or the sect, or the clan.... - that is the central object of freedom. Moreover, individual freedom, as exercised in the West, extends to any realm of human existence: Speech, conduct, association, thought, expressions of any sort, political action, and so on, including freedom from oppression, freedom from curtailing any expression, and freedom from any invasion by government or any similar entity. The only limits to such freedom are when it encroaches on the freedoms of others. Unfortunately, none of the elements of this broad individual freedom has ever existed in Lebanon.

Lebanon is still a heavily religious society, ruled as much by the religious orders as by secular institutions. It is still a place where expression is often repressed because "it harms the dignity of the State, or the President, or this or that religious cult". Lebanon is a place where speech is self-controlled, association is heavily discouraged, artistic expression is censored, and none of the daily activities that Westerners take for granted are allowed, if not by law, then by custom and social pressure.

An example would be that unless you are a member of the 18 religious cults recognized by the Lebanese constitution, you would have no legal existence in Lebanon. If you are a Hindu, a Buddhist, an atheist, a Bahai, or even a member of your own cult... the Lebanese government would, first, not accept you as a full fledged Lebanese citizen, and second, you would not be allowed to advertise or speak up about your beliefs. All the talk about freedoms in Lebanon is hot air, and I, as a Lebanese, feel as stifled and repressed as an individual as one would be in Saudi Arabia. The superficial expressions of freedoms, as women in bikinis on the beach, are not real freedom. They are, at least in Lebanon, mere marketable consumer images to use in advertising for tourism, because once that woman returns to her home after the beach, she is treated like cattle by the men in her family, regardless whether you are in Christian or Muslim areas of Lebanon.

Another example is the press in Lebanon. The claim is that the press is free. But if you look carefully, you would realize that every newspaper that is published in the country is owned and run by a political or religious group. Every party has its own mouthpiece. There are no really "independent" newspapers in Lebanon. So when the press speaks in Lebanon, it is usually for one political leader to attack his opponent, and never to express objective and independent ideas. Second, in order to be allowed to publish a newspaper in Lebanon, you have to be first a member of the "Press Syndicate" which, not surprisingly, is the club of existing newspapers owners, i.e the politicians and religious bosses. So, if they see you as a threat to the established order, they will not accept you as a member of the Syndicate, and you cannot start a newspaper. The club is closed to newcomers, existing members pass on their positions and newspapers to their sons and daughters, as they do their political power by the way, and no outsider ever makes it in the club. In fact, newspapers in Lebanon do not sell very well because people are poor and of course because of the Internet. Yet, no less than 20 newspapers are published every day in Lebanon on a population of 3.5 million. Why? Because these newspapers do not survive on market dynamics; they survive by losing money thanks to the funding of the owner politicians.

Back to Motherfucker Batrak Rahi. He now is the latest in the Christian "leadership" to take the side of the Syrian regime, even though it is the same regime that nearly annihilated the Christians of Lebanon between 1970 and 2005 with massacres, shelling of cities and Christian neighborhoods and villages, kidnappings, murders and assassinations, and on and on. He probably thinks he can better "protect" his fucking flock of Maronite mountain brutes by kissing ass to the Assad regime. When he, Aoun, and others are asked why, they will tell you that Assad is better than the alternative, namely the scarecrow of fundamentalist Sunnis taking over and making life even more dangerous for Christians. In other words, choosing the least tyrannical of two options seems to be the modus operandi of these imbeciles.

But there is no way that countries like Syria, Egypt or Libya or Tunisia.... where anti-tyrannical regimes revolutions are under way, will be governed by something like the Taliban. This is nothing more than a scare tactics. People who think this way - the Dhimmis - are still thinking with 19th century mentality.

But surprised we are no longer. We have gotten used to these Maronites turncoats who have taken their people from one disaster to another over the past 100 years, and who are losing Lebanon every day. From Emile Bustani to Sleiman Frangiyeh to Amin Gemayel to Michel Aoun, Emile Lahoud and Michel Sleiman... every single one of them betrayed his people and the principles on which this fucking cult claims to have as far as Lebanon's independence and existence.

Batrak Rahi: كس إمك وإم هلكنيسة الشرموطة تبعيتك
Your church has never done anything for its people, othern than collude with the politicians to keep people chained by ignorance and despair. No wonder Lebanon - all 1 million of its Maronites - is producing saints like it produces hashish. Every year, the Vatican beatifies or sanctifies some moron monk or nun from ther Maronite Church. More than any other country - large or small - in the world. This is not a sign of sanctity. it is a sign of backwardness and primitiveness. The more advanced a nation is, the less its reliance on religion. Unfortunately for Lebanon, it is still living in the neolithic.

Mabrouk
Hanibaal

Al-Rahi Says Israeli Withdrawal before Hizbullah Lays Down Arms

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by Naharnet Newsdesk

18 hours ago

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi’s statements to al-Arabiya television will trigger wide responses locally, especially among the March 14-led opposition that had already criticized them, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Friday.
Sources told the newspaper that al-Rahi’s statements will have an impact on the Christians in Lebanon and they will confuse them.
Former Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir also expressed his dissatisfaction with al-Rahi’s statements.
The daily said that the ex-Patriarch might outspokenly object to them in the next Maronite Bishops Council meeting.
Al-Rahi told al-Arabiya on Thursday that sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites may emerge if the Syrian government is overthrown.
“If the regime changes in Syria, and the Sunnis take over, they will form an alliance with the Sunnis in Lebanon, which will worsen the situation between the Shiites and the Sunnis,” al-Rahi said.
He warned that the Christians will pay the price if the Muslim brotherhood succeeded Syrian President Bashar Assad.
In addition, the Patriarch voiced support for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri “on condition that it is not politicized
Asked about Hizbullah’s arms, he responded: “The international community must pressure Israel to withdraw from the occupied Lebanese territories … and fulfill the Palestinians’ right of return, and consequently Hizbullah will have to lay down its arms.”
Concerning the Syrian people uprising, al-Rahi urged the international community to grant Assad more time to implement reforms and resume dialogue with the opposition.
“Assad cannot make miracles… The Lebanese have suffered from the Syrian regime’s meddling, however, I want to be objective,” he added.
Al-Liwaa newspaper noted that LBC wondered if the Patriarch will reiterate his stances during his visit to Washington, or if his stances in France will affect it, “especially since his stances in Paris were not welcomed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the French officials.”

Lebanon: The Next few Months

2011-09-02T09:02:00.000-04:00

1. Michel "Syrian Jackass" Sleiman is coming to New York to lead the UN Lebanese delegation and chair Lebanon's rotating presidency of the Security Council for September.

- Instead of taking this opportunity to re-affirm Lebanon's sovereign rights against BOTH Syria and Israel, this Syrian asshole will bend his ass to Hezbollah and to Syria, repeat the "resistance" and "Israel enemy" blatherings, and ignore the real aspirations of the Lebanese people, namely to finish with all the bullshit about liberation and resistance, for which Lebanon has paid a heavy price for 40 years while all the fucking Arabs have made peace with the "enemy". Sad, but true.

Somewhere in their traumatized mountain gorilla brains, the Maronites like this asshole have lost their will to LIVE FREE, SAY WHAT THEY THINK, and ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR BELIEFS. Instead, like this Syrian jackass that represents them in the Lebanese presidency, they have become the very DHIMMIS that the Muslims want them to be. They ACCEPT second-class status as long as they are "protected" by the Muslims.

Why can't the criminal Geagea, the Gemayel idiots, the hypocrite Patriarch Rahi, and all the other Maronite "leadership" (I am not mentioning the demented Aoun because his head is way up the rectum of Hezbollah and Syria that whatever he says stinks) tell the world, the Arabs, the US, their "ally" Hariri and all the numskulls of the March 14 brothel.. that LEBANON NEEDS TO NEGOTIATE PEACE WITH ISRAEL once and for all... negotiate over the only two issues remaining between Israel and Lebanon: The Shebaa shithole and the maritime borders.... and get on with life, LIKE ALL THE OTHER MOTHERFUCKER ARABS HAVE DONE DECADES AGO.

And No, the issue of the Palestinian refugees is a red herring thrown by Aoun and Sleiman and heir ilk to scare the Lebanese against peace with Israel. The PALESTINIAN REFUGEES should be returned to the soon-to-be-declared STATE OF PALESTINE, namely the West Bank and Gaza, where they belong. Later on, the Palestinian Government itself will negotiate with Israel over which of these refugees should be compensated for lost property in Haifa and Jaffa, and which should be offered to re-settle in Israel proper.

These details are not an issue for Lebanon. These details were forced as an issue on the Lebanese by Syria and its allies, just to keep Lebanon as the cauldron of war by the coward Arabs against Israel. Why should Egypt have peace with Israel, even when there are hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Egypt? Ditto for Jordan! and Ditto for the Palestinian Authority since there are dozens of Palestinian refugee camps IN PALESTINE ITSELF. Why is this issue a problem for LEbanon ALONE?

The "refugee settlement" problem that Syria, Hezbollah, Aoun and their allies continue to pose as the reason why Lebanon should continue to be at war is a FAKE ISSUE. Once the State of Palestine is declared, the refugees should pack and return to Palestine. Negotiations can then be conducted between the ISraeli and the Palestinian governments over the final status.

JACKASS PRESIDENT SLEIMAN: For once defend Lebanon against its real enemies: the Syrians, the Iranians and Hezbollah. And stop using the boogeyman "Israeli enemy" as a cop out against getting to the business of rescuing Lebanon from 40 years of endless wars. The Lebanese people are tired of war, of liberation, of resistance, of Hezbollah, of Aoun, of BAshar Asad, and - of course - they are tired of stupid traitors like you. It's a shame that Lebanese Army produces traitors like you and like Emile Khara Lahoud, who end up as Presidents of this tormented country of ours. SHAME ON YOU.

Hanibaal

Syrian Regime Breaks Hands of Cartoonist critical of Assad: Remember Salim Al-Laouzi?

2011-08-26T06:46:00.000-04:00

The Barbarity of the Syrian regime is matched only by its hypocrisy.

The news below of the caricaturist been kidnapped and beaten up, and his fingers broken, is not new to how the Baathist entity in the artificial country of Syria deals with its critics.

On February 24, 1980, Salim Al-Laouzi, owner and director of the Lebanese al Hawadess magazine, was kidnapped by Syrian Intelligence in the streets of Beirut. He had written commentaries critical of the Syrian Assad regime's occupation of Lebanon.

His body was found two days later by the roadside, his right hand melted in acid. This is a signature of the Syrian Intelligence barbarians of the Baathist entity as they react to any criticism of the Damascus despot.

Hanibaal

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"Syrian Regime Searching for the Cartoonist's Attackers....Who are Thugs sent by the Regime itself!

Syrian police are hunting for the attackers who broke the hand of the country's leading political cartoonist, the official SANA news agency said Friday, after Washington condemned the attack.
"The competent authorities at the Interior Ministry are seeking the culprits in order to bring them to justice," the agency said.

Cartoonist Ali Ferzat, 60, said that four men abducted him while he returned home before dawn Thursday, and broke two fingers of his left hand, his right arm and damaged his left eye.
Opposition activists have accused members of the security services and masked pro-regime militias of being behind the attack.
The US on Thursday condemned the attack.
Citing information from the U.S. embassy in Damascus, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Ferzat's hands had been broken in what she called "the most disgusting and deplorable way to send a message."
Since the start of an anti-regime uprising in March, Ferzat, one of the Arab world's most renowned cartoonists, has published cartoons critical of the brutal crackdown on protesters.

Source Agence France Presse

BURN, Baby Assad, BURN.... All the way to hell!

2011-07-15T12:24:00.000-04:00

As this AFP photo of a Syrian demonstrator suggests, Baby Doc Assad's ass will soon be frying on the gallows or in jail, or in a nice exile in the Iranian desert.

So is Bouthaina Shaaban's ugly ass. She is Assad's Whore-in-Chief and has reputedly slept around with such allies as Hassan Tizi Nasrallah and Michel Khara Aoun, in order to cement the bond between Godzillah and Syria. Yuk! The mere thought makes me want to puke....

Burn, baby, Burn.... Your end is near, and the 50-year old nightmare of the Lebanese and Syrian peoples will soon come to an end.

Liberty and justice for the Syrian people. No more resistance and sumud and tassadi and and mumaan3a and other Stalinist bullshit... Who cares about Palestine? Who cares about Al-'3urubah? .... No one.

We want those things: Freedom, liberty, leave me alone, take your gods and your parties and your movements and your "harakat" and your "tayyarat" and your military security intelligence mukhabaraat, istikhbaraat, and all the other khraa'iyat and go. These are our countries, no yours. These are the ordinary people's countries, not your family farms...

Baby Doc Assad: Listen to your people and

IRHAL إلى غير عودة .......يا كلب

Hanibaal هانيبعل

Faisal Karami: A New Testicular Jackass on the Sorry Lebanese Block

2011-07-09T22:08:00.000-04:00

Here we go... FAISAL KARAMI, another "star" of Lebanon's political pantheon. A newbie, a rookie, a jackass, a fils-a-papa, who inherits political power in primitive tribal Lebanon not because he has any brain, nor because he has proven himself in any worthy pursuit..... but only because HE WAS ONCE A SPERM IN HIS PRIME MINISTER FATHER'S LEFT TESTICLE.

That is the sole criterion in Lebanon for becoming a politician: A Sinister Testicular Origin from a veteran father politician... and you become a Minister.

Mind you, Faisal Kess Emmo Karami is not the only one. He's just the newest one in a series of idiots in Lebanon who have recently began inheriting political power. (The Egyptians are better than us Lebanese... They rebelled against Mubarak because he was bequeathing the Presidency to his son Gamal - يقبرني ....)

In the past few years we have had the following (and please help me make a list of our testicular crown politicians):
- The Tueni broad of An-Nahar fame. Not only did this dumbass inherit the newspaper but also a seat in parliament, because the even dumber Lebanese of her district voted for her as they felt pity for her due to her father's assassination... Ya Haram, and there you go, whatever her name is now leads the Tueni dynasty...I still cry when I see her....

- The Abbot and Costello (or the Ghawwar and Shrenno) of the Phalangist imbeciles and their mountain gorilla pea-size brains: Nadim and Sami Gemayel. They retain the "cuteness" of their fathers and grandfather by speaking with a French-accented Aghabic, but they also retain the low IQ and high propensity for murder and theft and corruption... And also, let us not forget, like Hassan Nasrallah, the Gemayels have God on their side... The Christian Maronite one, but still ... The Phalangist motto is "God, the nation, and the family".

- Bassel Berri, the rising star of the Amal Shiite neanderthals from Nabatiyeh. Son of Nabih Berri who runs his office of Speaker of Parliament like the "dekkanji" that he was in Michigan. Problem for Bassel is that his father Nabeuh does not seem inclined to give up his job any time soon.... so he must wait.

- The winner of the beauty contest among Lebanon's testicular progeny politicians is Taymur Jumblatt. Now here, we are assured not only of preserving the dementia and the penile flip-flopping of Walid and Kamal, (father and grandfather), but also the murderous love for killing and massacring Christians of the Shouf. The Jumblattis did it in 1860 in Deir Al-Qamar, then again in the 1977 (when Kamal Allah Yighamme'lo Jumblatt was blown to shreds by the Syrians, the Druze Cro-Magnons of the SHouf went about killing a few hundreds of their Christian neighbor villagers - not Syrians, but fellow Lebanese Christians - So I am reassured that Taymur Ras-Ayri Jumblatt will be at the helm for the next installments of massacres and bloodletting in the Shouf Mountains.

- The grand master of political testicular inheritance will have to be Saad Hariri... Not only did he inherit the billions, but also the prime ministership and the entire harem of his fat bastard pig of a father who - too - was blown up to shreds by his erstwhile allies, the Syrians. Indeed, DOCTOR AMAL MUDALLALI who served as maid and office servant to Rafik was also inherited by Saad. You see, these modern day pharaohs inherit the entire household when the patriarch passes away: cars, donkeys, maids, political whore advisors, etc,...The whole bit.

- And to crown the lot (and believe me, there are many others, because primitive tribal transmission of power is a hallmark of Lebanese "genius" and "democracy" (Uhum, uhum...), we have Michel Aoun and his brood of nephews, son-in-laws, nieces, and every second and third degree cousin who milks cows on the Aoun farm is lined up for a bright political future, regardless of whether they win or lose elections... Yes, gonadal and testicular ascendancy trumps political and professional merit in Lebanon, which is why the country is a cesspool of God-fearing corrupt incompetence. Gebran Bassil Aoun is a case in point: He has been Minister several times despite losing in elections an equal number of times. His only credential is that he fucks (or maybe no more after decade or so of marriage) Aoun's daughter every once in a while. That proximity to the patriarch - namely the ability to penetrate Aoun's daughter's vagina - makes Gebran by far a superior candidate to run ministries in the Lebanese government.

- The most famous of all testicular politicians in Lebanon is treason-cum-stupidity artists Emile Lahoud and Emile Lahoud. No, don;t confuse them.... the first Emile was a President of the Fucking Republic of Lebanon and a whore to the Assads. He fornicated at length with them, offering his asshole to the Syrian intelligence, from which copulation was born Emile Junior or otherwise know Emile Emile Lahoud.... What pride these people have in the name of a traitor... You should see their IQs... Nothing to ashamed of.

As I said earlier, there are many others in Lebanon, as the old political establishment continues to pass on its powers to their sons and daughters. The grandfathers built Lebanon by whoring themselves to the French and the Turks. Their sons inherited an independent Lebanon, which they proceeded to burn to the ground by allying themselves with every Muhammad and Mahmud and Hassan and Hussein in the area (the Arabic equivalent of "every dick and harry")... And now that Lebanon is limping along after 50 years of war (thanks to an international community that got tired of Lebanese blood polluting the Mediterranean and bodies washing ashore on the Italian coast), we behold in awe the new generation of Lebanese politicians... the same names, Tueni, Jumblatt, Hariri, Chamoun, Gemayel, Arslan, Berri, Frangiyeh, Karami, etc.... but another crop of sperm transmitted politicians who will certainly preserve the legacy of massacres, wars, treason to one's country, alliances with foreign countries, incompetence, corruption etc... that has made Lebanon so famous around the world as a first rate country.

أهلا و سهلا إلى لبنان، أخرى بلد في العالم
Hanibaal

Faisal Karami Slams STL, Says Bellemare Employee of Lebanon

by Naharnet Newsdesk

13 hours ago

Youth and Sports Minister Faisal Karami slammed the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, stressing that no tribunal will be able to carry out its investigations without a unanimous agreement on its credibility, professionalism and neutrality.
“The national consensus on the tribunal was gone since long time ago due to a series of mistakes and a behavior that didn’t comply with the minimum reputable standards,” Karami said during a dinner in honor of Arab Union Lawyers delegations on Friday.
He stressed that the STL probing ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination takes its legitimacy from the international community, however, it doesn’t represent it in an “exclusive” and “absolute” way.
Karami said that “Lebanon is a founding member of the U.N., so (STL Prosecutor) Daniel Bellemare is an employee of Lebanon and not the other way around.”
“Lebanon has the right to object to a commission funded by the United Nations,” the minister noted.
Karami stressed that “the STL issued an indictment after scandalous years filled with false files, suspicious leaks and false witnesses.”
“It’s a conspiracy targeting Lebanon,” he said.

Where was Bassem Mroue when Lebanese Prisoners were tortured in Syria's jails?

2011-07-08T17:45:00.000-04:00

Arab and Lebanese journalists nowadays are all shedding crocodile tears over the torture and abuse of the Syrian people by the Syrian regime (see below - and please note that these practices have been detailed for decades by international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, and by Lebanese human rights organizations such as the Lebanese Center for Human Rights).

These are the same journalists and reporters who were paid by cronies of the Syrian regime during its occupation of Lebanon to exercise "self-censorship" - i.e. not to criticize what the Syrian criminals were doing to the Lebanese people. These are the same journalists who paraded themselves on television, night after night, or in editorial after editorial, to tell us about the semantic nuances between "torture" and "interrogation methods" (A reminder of George W Bush's policies), or about the difference between the "sisterly Syrian presence" which was not "an occupation" until their fat bastard master Rafik Hariri was assassinated by Syria and its proxy Hezbollah.

I am also reminded of "Doctor" Amal Mudallali, the prostitute journalist who, trashing all objectivity aside, is now serving like a maid the Hariri family and empire, much like the other prostitute Butanina Shaaban who continues to serve the Assad family. Why am I reminded of Amal Mudallali? Because I knew her personally back at Syracuse University in the early 1980s, when after I published an editorial in the Daily Orange criticizing BOTH Syria and Israel for what they were doing to Lebanon, she went mad admonishing me for treating Syria and Israel equally, when I should - according to her fucking Sunni-Arab mentality - criticize only the enemy Israel and leave the "sisterly" Syrian occupation alone and not talk about it in the Western press because, still according to her, we should not criticize fellow Arabs and Muslims, even if they were torturing, shelling, bombing, kidnapping, jailing etc.... Of course, like the political whore that she is, she eventually got a job licking Hariri's shoes, went on praising the fat bastard pig who came to power riding the Syrian occupation and Saudi interference in Lebanese affairs, and of course, continued to praise the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.... until Syria blew up the fat bastard Sunni pig to shreds... Now, only now, does Amal Mudallali, understand "Lebanese patriotism" and now, only now, does she criticize Syria, and talk about freedom and independence.... Sad. just sad. Yes, she stood under that bus shelter telling me that I should not have written that editorial and I should only criticize Israel, not Syria, even as Syria was doing a thousand times more harm to Lebanon than Israel ever would or will.....

So Bassem Mroue (heir to a leftwing press empire in Lebanon and a dog to all Arab-Muslim nationalisms....) is now shedding crocodile tears over the Syrian prisoners being tortured by Syrian intelligence.

Has he ever mentioned the thousands of his own Lebanese citizens who have disappeared into Syria's dungeons and jails? Has he ever copy-and-pasted in his reports Amnesty International's reports or the Lebanese Center for Human Rights' hundreds of pages of testimonies by former Lebanese prisoners who described in horrid details their own beatings, their own torture, their own ordeals with the vulgar Muslim-Arab tyranny of the Syrian regime? No, he never did. But now, he hopes to make a splash and wow Western audiences with these reports because now, the Syrian people have finally awaken. Only now do Arab reporters become courageous, when the Syrian regime is bleeding and on its knees, when it no longer threatens their jobs. Now, when they feel that the order is changing, and so they change to match the coming order so they can later claim to have been heroes of the new revolution... All of them whores and prostitutes to the extant power, none of them with the courage to say the truth when it is the most inconvenient, but the most decent, thing to do. Why? Because they are indecent. They are not reporters. They are slaves to the powers-that-be.

All of them, from Amal Mudallali to Bassem Mroue and on and on to all the journalists and political prostitutes of Lebanon and the Arab World. No wonder the younger Arab population hates them as much as they hate the dictators and the tyrants, because they, like the tyrants and dictators of the ARab World, lied and prostituted their way into their pathetic careers as "Journalists of the Court" of this or that tyrant and dictator.

BAssem Mroue and Amal Mudalli: Fuck you both.

Hanibaal
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Witness saw teen beaten in Syrian jail

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press,JAMAL HALABY - Associated Press | AP – Thu, Jul 7, 2011

Inside a filthy detention center in Damascus, eight or nine interrogators repeatedly bludgeoned a skinny teenager whose hands were bound and who bore a bullet wound on the left side of his chest. They struck his head, back, feet and genitals until he was left on the floor of a cell, bleeding from his ears and crying out for his mother and father to help him.

Ibrahim Jamal al-Jahamani, a fellow prisoner who said he witnessed the brutal scene in Syria in May, heard the interrogators demand that the 15-year-old proclaim strongman Bashar Assad as his "beloved" president.

The youth, later identified as Tamer Mohammed al-Sharei, refused. Instead, he chanted an often-heard slogan from anti-regime street protests calling for "freedom and the love of God and our country."

Tamer's refusal apparently was the final straw for the interrogators.

"Guards broke his right wrist, beating him with clubs on his hands, which were tied behind his back," al-Jahamani told The Associated Press after his release from detention, referring to the beatings as torture.

"They also beat him on the face, head, back, feet and genitals until he bled from the nose, mouth and ears and fell unconscious," he recalled.

"He pleaded for mercy and yelled: 'Mom, dad, come rescue me!'" al-Jahamani said. "He was lying like a dog on the floor in his underwear, with blood covering his body. But his interrogators had no compassion that they were savagely beating a boy," al-Jahamani added, his voice breaking with emotion.

Tamer and al-Jahamani were two of thousands of Syrians caught up in mass arrests of those suspected of opposing Assad during an uprising that began in March.

Al-Jahamani witnessed the beating from a corridor lined with cells while he was waiting for two hours for the prison guards to take him to his cell. He said the corridor reeked from the stench of blood and dirty toilets and the cell beds were covered in dirty sheets.

At the lockup run by Syria's Air Force Intelligence, security forces kept Tamer bound and nearly naked, his body covered in blood and bruises, while interrogators broke his forearm and teeth.

At one point, a doctor was brought in to revive him, al-Jahamani said.

"He gave him an injection and they started beating him again," concentrating on his feet and genitals, and the boy started bleeding from his ears, al-Jahamani said.

The next day, the teenager's screams abruptly stopped and al-Jahamani said he never heard a sound from him again.

Al-Jahamani, 23, told the AP he was held in the same Damascus detention center as Tamer in May and saw and heard the boy being beaten over two days.

On the first day, al-Jahamani saw a bruised Tamer face down on the floor of the corridor. Later that day, they were placed in different cells near each other on that same corridor, and al-Jahamani could hear Tamer's screams.

The story of Tamer's death while in detention offers a rare, first-hand account of the beatings of young detainees during the nearly 4-month-old uprising. Tamer's case, along with another youth whose body bore signs of brutality, have galvanized thousands of protesters in the face of a brutal crackdown that has killed more than 1,400.

Al-Jahamani spoke to AP reporters by telephone and in person over two days of interviews. He asked that his precise location, somewhere along the Syrian-Jordanian border, not be revealed out of fear of retribution by Syrian secret police.

He said he fled Syria after authorities released him May 31. He spent nearly a month in detention. He showed the AP a copy of his release paper, signed and stamped by Syrian authorities after they failed to find evidence linking him to charges of incitement.

Syria has banned nearly all foreign media and restricted media coverage, making it impossible to verify events independently. But since the early days of the uprising, al-Jahamani has provided reliable witness accounts to the AP that have been confirmed by multiple sources.

Tamer's death became known in June, when blurry cellphone videos showed the teen's bruised and bullet-pocked body, missing most of his teeth, in a wooden coffin. In one clip, a woman cries out: "This is my son! I swear this is my son!"

Al-Jahamani said he saw the video after his release and instantly recognized the dead youth as the teen from the detention center. He had heard interrogators call him "Tamer."

The videos have come to symbolize the brutality of a crackdown that does not even spare children, with at least 72 of them killed in the uprising, according to the Local Coordination Committees, a group that documents protests.

The account of Tamer's beating and death could bolster calls by human rights groups that Syrian forces should be investigated for possible crimes against humanity. This week, London-based Amnesty International urged the U.N. Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court for such an investigation.

"We'd like to see peaceful demonstrators allowed, and we'd like to see a real dialogue begin," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said this week. "We want to see political prisoners released. We want to see repression and torture ending in Syrian jails."

Tamer and another youth, Hamza al-Khatib, 13, both from the southern village of Jiza in Daraa province, disappeared April 29. The province is where the uprising began after security forces arrested high school students who scrawled anti-regime graffiti on a wall.

Hamza was arrested at a demonstration and not seen again until his mutilated body, with his penis severed, was delivered to his family weeks later. He, too, has become a symbol of the revolt against Assad, driving thousands of protesters into the streets.

The deaths of Tamer and Hamza in particular enraged Syrians who have lived under a brutal dictatorship led by the Assad family dynasty for more than four decades. The protests have grown larger and drawn a broader cross section of society every week.

Al-Jahamani said he was walking in Daraa on May 3 with his friend, Firas Nassar, when security forces asked them to stop. Nassar ran and was shot to death instantly by a plainclothes policeman.

"I was traumatized seeing my friend getting shot dead in front of my eyes," he said. "He didn't do anything to be killed."
Al-Jahamani said he wasn't afraid, but he was angry about the death of his friend.
"I had to remain quiet because they may have killed me if I did or said anything," he said.

Al-Jahamani decided not to run.

Security agents handcuffed him, covered his eyes and pushed him into a car where he was driven for more than an hour. He later found out he was being held at the Air Force Intelligence detention center in Damascus.

He said he also was beaten with clubs and kicked by interrogators, leaving marks on his thigh long after his release. It was there that he witnessed Tamer's beating.

"What mistake had he committed?" al-Jahamani asked. "He wanted freedom, he wanted to be like his peers elsewhere, enjoying life, going out without looking over his shoulder."

He said he was arrested at least three times since protests swept Syria in March.

"I was arrested twice in March, once in April, and the one during which I witnessed the torture in May," al-Jahamani said. "They were after me because I was active on Facebook and the Internet, feeding video material and pictures to show the world the brutality of Bashar Assad's regime. I was also in contact with the media, like the AP, outside Syria."

During his three detentions before the one in May, "the authorities used to ask me to remain quiet and not to speak out to anyone. They hacked all my emails and even my page on Facebook and my Twitter account," he said.

Al-Jahamani said he "will not go back to Syria until the regime there is toppled."

"I will return home to a free Syria, free of the tyrant Bashar Assad and his corrupt clique," he said.

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Halaby reported from the Syrian-Jordanian border. Mroue reported from Beirut.

Halaby can be reached at: http://facebook.com/jjhalaby

Follow Bassem Mroue at http://twitter.com/bmroue

Quid of the Love Affair between the Syrian Regime and the West?

2011-07-08T10:49:00.002-04:00

[Continues the comments exchange in the previous post on this blog...]

But why wait so long? Why wait 50 years to get where we are? If the West has incompetently fucked up every other place they have justifiably intervened in, why the extreme care and caution with Syria?

They threw the towel with Egypt, but they held their ground with Bahrain and Saudi Arabia (because of oil)... But Syria? A vulgar little tyranny whose army is largely untested (unlike the Iraqi army after a long war with Iran), whose population is less likely to break apart along sectarian lines than Iraq did, and whose people are just as eager to get rid of their dictator, etc...

Syria used to be backed by the Soviets. So we were careful. But no more.

Syria might have some missiles, but is nowhere near the threat that a hostile Egypt could pose to Israel.

Syria is the only obstacle to peace in Palestine-Israel. Iran is too geographically removed from the Palestinian-Israeli arena to pose an immediate threat, unless, as is currently the case, it is given the bridge, the link the Syria provides, to proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah.

Syria is a major violator of human rights. It sits right next door to a future European Union that includes Turkey.

All these factors ought to make dealing with Syria a priority. But the dereliction of the West in addressing the Syrian cancer all those decades, allowed the metastasis of Hezbollah and Hamas, and provided an apparently successful anti-western model to all the Al-Qaedas and its offshoots around the world...

Up to the early to mid-1980s, Syria did use the PLO, then the Lebanese Muslim militias, as proxies, but was otherwise directly involved. Since the mid-1980s, it delegated all its sinister operations to the nascent Hezbollah, Amal, Hamas, anti-peace Palestinians etc... Thus claiming deniability...

But before Syria succeeded in doing this, it had evicted the West from Lebanon, weakened the pro-Western Christians there, and ushered a Muslim-dominated Lebanon. All with Western endorsement and direct support to the Syrian regime.

WHY? What is West afraid of in confronting Syria? What is the West afraid of in breaking the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah chain by eliminating the Syrian link in the middle?

What is there to fear in a fucked up third-world little tyranny called Syria? No nuclear weapons... no major army.... no contiguous borders with a country that is likely to help Syria in case of a confrontation (Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon... ).

Why did the US all those decades give Syria what it wanted in Lebanon? From George Bush Senior and his Jim Baker, Ed Djeredjian, Richard Murphy, all Assad ass-kissers and ass-lickers... killing any uprising by the Lebanese against Syria during 3o years of occupation.

WHY?

Why was nothing ever done?
What are they still waiting for?

If Israel's security is the ultimate objective of the US, then the Syrian regime holds a card that Israel and the West want, and which only the Assad regime is able to give. And that is why the US and the West in general have been so willing to allow the Assads to get away with murder, brutality, dictatorship, sponsoring terrorist organizations, derailing time and again the peace process, etc....

My guess is that the reward from a collaboration with Syria must be bigger than the risks entailed with allowing Syria to get away with murder. What is this reward?

Israel wants nothing more than take over the entire West Bank and eliminate once and for all any Palestinian existence in Judea and Samaria. This is the long term objective of Israel, and this cannot be denied. The trajectory of Israel's policies since the 1960s has been a straight line: Gobble up land, make Palestinian life miserable, delay ad infinitum any settlement with the PLO, build settlements, increase the Jewish population, etc.....

Why should this trajectory suddenly make a turn towards conciliation, surrender of land, etc...? It is not going to happen. Israel's surrender of Gaza is a tactical move aiming at exactly what is happening now: Show that the Palestinians are unreliable, cannot be trusted, etc... and therefore keep delaying and creating pretexts and facts on the ground that will one day make any negotiation really useless and moot. Another 20 years and the Jewish population of the West Bank will be equal to the Palestinian population. What sovereignty will the Palestinians then claim? What grounds will they have for a separate state?

The Syrian regime must be a part of this long term plan. It must have promised at some point to deliver the Palestinians and the Lebanese, in exchange for Golan and Lebanon... So you are right.

Hanibaal

Hassan Tizi Nasrallah: KOL KHARA

2011-07-02T18:13:00.002-04:00

Hassan Nasrallah's leash is running short.... The mad dog is getting rabid.... He is hiding in his rathole, he can't even go to the toilet without praying to Ali and Mohammad..... AND HE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ME. HE IS NOT MY LEBANON. HE SHAMES MY LEBANON. I am ashamed every time he appears on television, because he does not represent the Lebanon I grew up in. He is the exact opposite of my Lebanon.

He can threaten and play scary, but he knows he is only that... a scarecrow, a fake "Fezzay3a", and he also knows that his entire Hezbollah Mafia can hide in ratholes 6 feet under the ground ... but no one can hide the truth, the facts, and the certainty that the Lebanese people and the entire fucking world are tired of him, of his resistance, and of his liberation crap..... Let him liberate himself first from the claws of justice and history, before he makes any claims to liberating anything worthwhile.

And in my opinion, nothing is more worth than my own well being, the well-being of the Lebanese people, and the well-being of my country of Lebanon. Nothing. Not God, not Muhammad, not Jesus, not Ali, not Mariam, nor any of the fucking religious crap that Hassan and his enemies claim to fight for. Nothing. Not Palestine, not Shebaa, not Jerusalem. No fucking piece of land, no Prophet, no religion, is worth killing another human being for.

Lebanon has been killed a thousand times since the late 1960s. What for? For Palestine, for Yassser Arafat, for every Muslim-Arab-Palestinian-Shiite-Iranian-Syrian-Saudi bastard retarded primitive son of a bitch of a cause, except ME and my own cause, the cause of Lebanon.. Me, and every other ordinary Lebanese citizen.

We have died a million times. We have been handicapped a million times. We have been imprisoned a million times. We have been shelled a million times. We have been kidnapped and made to disappear a million times. Our homes, our gardens, and our mountains have been blown up a million times. Our cities have been bombarded a million times. Our children have been scared and terrorized for all these causes that we alone are made to burden and shoulder, while the owners of all those causes themselves have given up on them and renounced them. Why? Because of a lunatic like Hassan Nasrallah. Because of criminals like Hassan Nasrallah and Michel Aoun. Because of criminals like Samir Geagea and Amin Gemayel and Emile Lahoud. Because of criminals and traitors like Michel Suleiman, Nabih Berri, Rafik Hariri, and many others who have killed us, then worked with our enemies, then came back and ruled our lives - and continue to rule our lives - this charade has been going on for 50 years.

When are we going to learn that a smallest hair on the head of a small Lebanese boy or girl is worth a thousand Palestines and a thousand fucking Islams and a thousand fucking Christianities and a thousand fucking Judaisms, and every fuck of a monotheistic cult from antiquity.....

When are we going to really learn the value of our lives, the value of our selves, and the value of every human being. There is no cause greater than one's own well-being and freedom. Not even your country can demand of you to sacrifice your life and your happiness for it. Those who make you believe the crap that you should sacrifice for your country are lying to you because they want to use you for their own purposes.

Hassan Nasrallah: Soon, your turn is coming to follow in the footsteps of Rafik Hariri who sold his country to Syria and Saudi Arabia and then realized his mistake, so they killed him. In the footsteps of Usama Bin Laden.... In the footsteps of Imad Mughniyeh.... In the footsteps of all the criminals who sold Lebanon for money or to other countries....and then died like the filthy dogs that they are.

The young people of the Arab world, including Lebanon, are waking up to the lies they have lived under for so many years and decades. They now know that the ONLY FREEDOM worth fighting for is YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, and not the freedom of a sect, or a community, or a people, or a country, or an organization, or a party.... Civilized peoples around the world have realized this fact long time ago, and that is why they bring politicians to power, then discard them like garbage three years later. That is DEMOCRACY. The rule of the people. The people decide. Not God, not some Mullah, not some fat ass Patriarch, not some government.... No... the people, you and me... the ordinary people. You should fight for YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM TO THINK WHAT YOU WANT, TO BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT, TO SPEAK WHAT YOU WANT, and TO DO WHAT YOU WANT. Dying for Hassan or Amine or Michel or any fucked up politician is stupid and primitive.

The dictatorships of the Arab world have kept you from your freedoms. They have denied you all your freedoms on the basis of nationalism, partisanship, God and his fucking religions, and in order for them "to fight the enemy".... Look at Syria... For 40 years the Assad assholes told their people that they have to have emergency rule, arbitrary justice, a repressive regime, atrocious human rights, barbarity and prisons... in order to fight the "Zionist entity". Well, now we see what the Syrian people really think, and who they think is the enemy. They have discovered, like all the young Arab generation, that the enemy is within. THE ENEMY IS OURSELVES for allowing ourselves to be treated like idiots and like cattle by our rulers, for suffering the abuses and the corruption at our expense, at the expense of our children, and that of our future and our environment....

WHEN WILL WE WAKE UP?

Hanibaal

Asshole Sleiman, Numskull Miqati, Senile Berri and Demented Aoun: Surrender the Hezbollah Criminals to International Justice

2011-07-01T13:23:00.000-04:00

To all the corrupt, sold-out, traitor politicians in Lebanon, from the Great Asshole in Baabda Michel Suleiman, the stupid Najib Miqati who - like the fat Sunni pig Hariri before him - thinks he can kiss Hezbollah's ass and govern decently, to the demented traitor Michel Aoun and his poodle son-in-law the imbecile Gibran Bassil, and to the Unspeakable Speaker of the dysfunctional Lebanese Parliament....: ALL OF YOU, you are now bound, like the filthy dogs that you are, to hand over your Hezbollah criminals to international justice.

The Lebanese justice that you have in Lebanon is a corrupt, kangaroo justice that, for the past 50 years, sacrificed justice to criminality and served occupiers and foreigners at the expense of dispensing justice to its own people. Lebanese justice is incapable, incompetent, corrupt and in an irreversible state of disrepair. Lebanese justice cannot be trusted after it handed over innocent people to the gallows simply because the Syrians and Hezbollah demanded the cover of justice to carry out their criminal activities...

That is why, only an impartial international justice like the Special Tribunal for Lebanon can track the killers, the bombers and the terrorists you all continue to shelter and harbor. These are the killers of Hezbollah who killed the fat pig Rafik Hariri and a slew of other corrupt Lebanese politicians and journalists who, after working for Syria, the PLO, and Hezbollah for 30 years under the Syrian occupation, suddenly switched sides and became pro-American, and nationalist Lebanese. They all deserved what they got at the hands of Hezbollah and Syria because they all supported Hezbollah and Syria in their slaughter and destruction of Lebanon.

But beyond killing Hariri and his corrupt cronies of politics and journalism in Lebanon, the cowards and traitors of Hezbollah, Iran and Syria were responsible for dragging Lebanon into becoming the only war front against Israel. They did so by bombing the real friends of Lebanon, namely the US, France, the UN, Europeans of all nations... back in the 1980s when Hezbollah bombed the US MArines and the French paratroopers, twice bombed the US embassy and the French embassy, kidnapped foreign hostages and held them like animals for years, hijacked planes, etc.... All these actions shamed Lebanon in international public opinion, made Lebanon became synonymous with filth and murder and terrorism, and evicted all Lebanon's Western friends from the country, leaving only Syria to run the country and bring its own poodles to power like Hariri, Berri, Sleiman, Aoun and all the corrupt politicians who can;t even run Lebanon decently today.

That is the biggest crime for which Hezbollah will pay, followed hopefully by every politician who is a member of the Lebanese religious-family-money mafia. They should all be dragged into jail for failing the Lebanese people, for causing the destruction of Lebanon with endless acts of war and infighting, and making Lebanon a joke of a country. The Lebanese people themselves are not that smart. They don;t see where their real interests are, which is to dump all their politicians into trash at the next elections and bring decent, honest, young, competent, educated people to power to run the country. At every election opportunity they have had in the recent past, the Lebanese people continue to choose the same criminals who fail them again and again.

The Lebanese live in this country like animals. The country itself is an ungovernable polluted corrupt mess, and the Lebanese - notwithstanding the shit in which they live every day - are convinced that the same politicians or their sons who have failed them in 50 years will one day rescue them from the shit.

Many thanks to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and to its judges, attorneys, clerks, and everyone working on exposing the filth of the Lebanese political system and the criminals that run it.

Hanibaal

Israel is the new Silicon Valley.... Meanwhile in Lebanon....

2011-06-29T11:37:00.000-04:00

While Israel and the Arab Gulf states are building and developing, all the brains and the education in Lebanon are going down the toilet because the Lebanese are still determined to "resist" - thanks to Hezbollah - against the "conspiracy" that is constantly being plotted against them. In fact, the genius Lebanese believe that all these enemies around them and around the globe (from Israel to Syria, and Turkey and the United States....) are constantly plotting against them to prevent them from becoming the next Silicon Valley or the Einsteins of their times.

You see, the Lebanese are so smart that the world is terrified of them and of the competition they would pose in the world's economy. Therefore, it goes without saying that the failure of Lebanon and of the Lebanese people to have a functional country with electricity, running water, reliable phone and Internet, paved roads, laws that are enforced, decent public transportation, etc... (i.e. all the normal things that normal civilized countries have), is not due to the stupidity of the Lebanese. No, far from it. It is due to Israel and Syria and the US and Europe and Saudi Arabia and Egypt and all the enemies of Lebanon around the world who fear the genius of the Lebanese so much that they all plot and conspire to keep the Lebanese from achieving their true potential....

And so, the Lebanese, thank God and thank Iran, have a genius named Hassan Zoballah who runs an organization called Fuckallah, and he and his organization now run the government, thankfully, to "resist" the conspiracy and finally bring Lebanon to its true potential, which is to basically run the world and control the destiny of history. At long last, the Lebanese can now, with Tizallah at the helm, justifiably brag to the world what a great country they have. It really is not about electricity, roads, crime, running water, corruption, garbage, pollution, rape of the environment, discrimination against women, rule of backward religion.... No, none of these things really matters. What matters is that the Lebanese and Lebanon are smart and great and wonderful.... And it is all these other enemies that is keeping us from demonstrating our genius, our wonder and our smartness....

With Zeballlah's 50,000 missiles (and who is counting anymore? Syria is currently transferring its entire arsenal to Lebanon because the Syrian regime, another fantastic proof of Arab genius, is about to collapse), I am no longer afraid. I now know that the world will soon recognize me as the genius that I am, under my five decaying cedar trees, with garbage up to my ears, without water and electricity, and without the Internet, along my polluted coastline, and with all the asses I have to kiss and all the bribes I have to pay every time I need a paper from the government. This is indeed the best environment for business.... and all we need to do is "confront" the enemies and all will be grand.

Oh, and by the way, while we still haggle over who killed Hariri and whether Gebran Ras-Ayri Bassil will be minister of toilets or minister of sewers.... Israel and Cyprus have finished siphoning off all the natural gas we share with them in the Mediterranean. Well, it's not our fault. We have all these enemies plotting against us, but they (Israel and Cyprus) have no such enemies plotting and conspiring against them, and that is why they have no Hezbollah resistance to manage. And we do. But soon, with Hezbollah and Miqati and Michel Sleiman in Power, all our problems are solved, and we should soon prove to the world our genius and what smart asses we are...

Hanibaal

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With a concentration of start-ups just behind that of Silicon Valley and an impressive pool of engineers, Israel is becoming the new standard for high-tech, with a unique business model.
Internet-related activities contributed 9 billion euros (12.6 billion dollars) to the Israeli economy in 2009, representing 6.5 percent of GDP, according to a report from management consultancy McKinsey.
The sector is worth more than the construction industry (5.4 percent of GDP) and almost as much as health (6.8 percent).
The web economy has also created a total of 120,000 jobs, accounting for 4 percent of the country's workforce, McKinsey says.
From Microsoft to Intel through Google, IBM and Philips, almost all the giants of the Internet and technology have set up important research and development centres in Israel, spawning products and systems used worldwide.
"Israel is the country with the most engineers in its population, and it ranks second behind the United States in the number of companies listed on Nasdaq," said David Kadouch, product manager at Google Israel, which opened its R&D operation in 2007 and currently has 200 employees.

RELIGION IS THE CRIMINAL IN LEBANON AND ALL OTHER BACKWARD COUNTRIES

2011-06-24T12:59:00.000-04:00

A couple of decades ago, when the Lebanese were slaughtering one another like animals in the name of their fucking religions and sects, someone asked why can;t there be civil marriage in Lebanon? All of a sudden, all the criminal Muftis, Patriarchs, Bishops, Sayyids and such religious bastards - who otherwise were encouraging the religious and sectarian bloodshed - rallied together to oppose the introduction of civil marriage into Lebanese law (currently, Lebanese law bans civil marriage and allows only the churches and the mosques to perform marriages). They made the claim that allowing civil marriage would lead to the elimination of fucking God from the holy bond of marriage and lead to the disintegration of the family.

Fast forward to June 2011, and again, the introduction of a Domestic Abuse Law into Lebanese social and civilian life is rejected by the religious institutions because, again, they say it would lead to the breakdown of the family. Supposedly, the rape or beating of a wife by her husband keeps the family intact and raises "good" children. Never mind the lies and the fucked up loveless families that traditional religious mores and customs lead to... Never mind the generations of frustrated, repressed, unloved children that are produced by Arab societies these days, all of whom become violent, all of whom never become productive members of their societies and turn instead to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda to defuse their bent-up frustrations and repression. Never mind that Arab societies, in the opinion of Arab scientists and scholars themselves, are the least productive, the most developmentally backward societies on the surface of the planet today.... All the ills of Arab societies in our time are the product of religious edicts and the religious tyranny that opposes any change and any evolution from neanderthal-vintage traditions into the modern world...

Never mind that in Lebanese societies, and likely in all Arab societies, domestic abuse goes beyond spousal abuse by the husband against his wife, but includes incest and the abuse and rape of maids imported from poorer countries around the world and literally imprisoned by their employers. Dozens of these maids from such countries as Nepal, the Philippines, Ethiopia and others, kill themselves each year by throwing themselves from balconies, simply because they are locked in the apartments of the Lebanese families where they work. They kill themselves out of despair, because of the daily rapes and beatings.... and Lebanese police and judiciary merely ship the body back to the home country, and never investigate any criminal activity that led to the suicide.

The arguments by the Lebanese clergy - both Christian and Muslim - that Lebanese women who are demanding legal protection against domestic abuse are "cloning western ideas" is not unlike the southerners of the United States who opposed the emancipation of slaves because God meant the slaves to be slaves due to their inferiority as "blacks". These clergymen who run the organized religions of Lebanon are against any change, any improvement in the miserable lives of the Lebanese people who have been killed and massacred for generations because of religion. They want the status quo, they can't imagine losing the power they hold over people's lives.

Everything in the personal status lives of the Lebanese is ruled by unelected barbaric ignorant men with beards and strange hats who, having read a couple of texts from 2,000 years ago, claim to know the absolute truth and the "word of fucking God". So they cannot be challenged by anyone.

But the young generation of Lebanese and other Arabs know deep down that this status quo is holding them back, is keeping them chained to the past and to archaic and antiquated ideas. The revolutions in the Arab world today are a first spark in this gigantic Intifada that has now begun, and there is no return. let the churches and the mosques and all the fucking bastards of God beware the coming change, because if they do not embrace it and continue to oppose it, they and the religious institutions they hide behind will be the target of the anger and wrath of an enlightened and educated younger generation who have seen and know the truth, the real truth.

Hanibaal

Dar al-Fatwa Rejects Domestic Abuse Law

by Naharnet Newsdesk

1 hour ago

Lebanon's highest Sunni Muslim authority on Friday rejected a bill aimed at protecting women against domestic violence and marital rape, saying it would lead to the demise "of the family as in the West."
"Islam is very aware of and concerned with ... resolving problems of poor treatment ... but this should not happen by cloning Western laws that encourage the breakdown of the family and do not suit our society," Dar al-Fatwa said in a statement on its website.
Dar al-Fatwa also slammed as "heresy" a clause in the bill that criminalizes marital rape, accusing those behind the draft law of "inventing new types of crimes."
"This will have a negative impact on Muslim children ... who will see their mother threatening their father with prison, in defiance of patriarchal authority, which will in turn undermine the moral authority" of fathers, it said.
"We must continue to follow sharia (Islamic law) as concerns the Muslim family," it added.
The bill, drafted by feminist organizations, lawyers and forensic experts, was approved by Lebanon's cabinet in 2010 and is currently under study in parliament.
Should it be passed, the law would come under the penal code -- under which cases are referred to a criminal court -- rather than personal status laws, which are ruled on by religious authorities in multi-confessional Lebanon.
The bill criminalizes marital rape and calls for police intervention should a woman notify authorities of abuse by her husband or another family member.
If found guilty, defendants would have to undergo rehabilitation or face prison should they fail to do so.
Domestic abuse and harassment continue to be taboo in Lebanon, considered the most liberal country in the largely conservative Arab world, with very few women filing complaints as police generally turn a blind eye and send the victims home.

To Iran's Ambassador in Lebanon: Fuck you and the 1982 diplomats

2011-06-23T08:18:00.000-04:00

The Iranian Shitallah Republic continues to raise the issue of the 4 Iranian diplomats who were seized by the Lebanese National Resistance in the Lebanese mountains in 1982 and slaughtered like the fucking pigs that they are up.

The Iranian ambassador in Beirut Markoub Bitizo-Nabadi said yesterday that these four diplomats were alive in Israeli jails. Let us see, if these motherfuckers of the Pasdaran (who had come to Beirut to create the monster Hezbollah terror organization, to begin kidnapping foreign hostages, to bomb the US MArines and French Paratroopers compounds in Beirut, to hijack TWA flight 847, to bomb the US embassy twice, and to bring back the Syrian army into Beirut))...so if these motherfucker Muslim Shits from Iran were 35 of age at the time, they would be 65 years old today. Since they are near retirement from their illustrious careers as fucking Muslim bombers and trainers of bombers, then it makes sense to keep them in jail.

In fact, who cares about 4 motherfucking Iranians who were killed by the Lebanese National Resistance in 1982, when one considers what Iran and Syria have done to Lebanon from the 1970s till today: 200,000 Lebanese dead, half a million maimed and injured, the entire country burned to the ground, one million emigrated and refugees, constant useless provocation of Israel to retaliate and bomb Lebanon, etc.... When one considers the scale of destruction that the fucking Lebanese Muslims have caused to their own country in subservience to their "islamic" brothers - the Sunni Lebanese in their support of the Palestinians and the PLO against the Lebanese Christians, and the Shiite Lebanese in their support of Syria and Iran against their own people and country - then who cares about 4 Iranian pigs who died in 1982?

What about the 17,000 missing Lebanese, many of whom are believed to be still alive in Syrian prisons? Isn't the Iranian ambassador Markoub Bitizo-Nabadi going to ask Syria about them, since he cares so much for the welfare of the Lebanese people?

In any case, I can assure Mr. Markoub Bitizo that soon his Syrian buddies will soon be hanging by their balls in downtown Damascus (and Bouthaina Shaaban will be hanging from her breasts, unless someone discovers that she is really a man with balls because she is so ugly), and then he wouldn't have to worry about his 4 Pasdaran motherfuckers anymore because he will follow them to jail (if they are alive as he claims) or to the hanging galley like his Syrian buddies.

Lebanon will again be clean of the scum of the fucking Islamic revolutions. Of this, I can assure the Iranian ambassador Markoub-Bitizo.

Hanibaal

Roknabadi: 4 Kidnapped Iranian Diplomats Alive in Israeli Jails

Iran’s ambassador Ghazanfar Roknabadi said on Thursday that four Iranian diplomats, seized in 1982 by a Christian militia in Lebanon, are still alive and being held in Israel.
“We believe that they are alive in Israeli jails. That’s why we have asked the Lebanese government to seriously follow-up the issue,” Roknabadi said following talks with Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour.
Israel at the time was carrying out a major military operation in Lebanon when the three diplomats -- Mohsen Mousavi, Ahmad Motevaselian and Taghi Rastegar Moghadam -- disappeared, along with Kazem Akhaven, a photographer with Iran's official IRNA news agency.
On Wednesday, Roknabadi called on U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to respond to Tehran's demand for a U.N. probe into the fate of the four diplomats.
The issue was raised during a meeting with the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams in Beirut on the occasion of the anniversary of the abduction of the four men.

Kidnapping of Foreigners by Syrian Operatives Rising in Lebanon

2011-06-15T14:11:00.000-04:00

To all foreigners contemplating tourism this summer in Lebanon: DO NOT COME HERE.

- The terrorist organization Hezbollah now runs the government.
- This increases significantly the likelihood of war between Hezbollah and ISrael
- Israel now will hold ALL of LEBANON responsible and will retaliate against any Hezbollah attack with massively destructive force.
- The kidnapping of Westerners is on the rise: The 7 Estonians remain missing. After their kidnapping in Lebanon's lawless Bekaa Valley, they were then taken across the border into Syria where it is believed that the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad holds them to use them later in any deal with the West.
- Similarly, last week, a Dutch diplomat was snatched in the same Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, and again transferred to Syria. The fact that all these Westerners are abducted in Lebanon, then reappear in Syria, is not surprising. The lawlessness that is endemic to the Bekaa Valley and to all Lebanese regions bordering on Syria is deliberately created by Syria and its proxy terrorist Muslim organizations like Hezbollah or the Palestinian PFLP and others in order to maintain anarchy and instability in the country. Syria uses these kidnappings and the instability as a leverage with which it barters favors with the stupid Europeans and Americans.

NO SANE WESTERNER OR SUNNI ARAB FROM THE GULF SHOULD COME TO LEBANON THIS SUMMER ON TOURISM. Do not listen to the propaganda of the Lebanese Tourism Minister... It is all lies destined to get you into the country and spend your dollars on garbage and pollution.

Hanibaal

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Dutch Diplomat Abducted in Baalbek, Transferred to Syria

(Naharnet)

A Dutch diplomat was kidnapped in Lebanon some ten days ago in a development that has raised European fears of the return of the abduction of foreigners in Lebanon that was prevalent during the civil war years.

A European diplomatic source told the Central News Agency on Wednesday that the Dutch diplomat was abducted by tribes from the Baalbek region as he was passing through the area. He was placed in an SUV with tinted windows and no license plates and taken to Syria through an illegal border crossing. Upon arrival in Syria, he was handed over to the Syrian security forces who have been committing all sorts of atrocities and mass murder against their own people.

The Netherlands has informed other European governments of the incident, who intensified contacts with Lebanese security officials to put an end to the abduction of foreigners. However, the Lebanese government, now in the hands of Hezbollah, will have even less incentive to prevent the kidnappings because it is Hezbolah itself and its Syrian allies who are carrying out the kidnappings to begin with.

Meanwhile, European diplomatic sources voiced their fears of the return of such kidnappings in Lebanon in light of March’s abduction of seven Estonian cyclists, the recent bomb attack against a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon patrol in the South, and this latest kidnapping.

Miqati announces new government... and apologizes to the international community

2011-06-13T16:30:00.001-04:00

What a fucking Sunni loser... He's got Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia and America (not to mention the Syrian-Iranian dildo Michel Aoun) up his ass. No wonder his first word at the birth of his stillborn government to the international community: "I am sorry, but I had to include Hezbollah in it."

With Syria on the verge of collapse any moment now, with Iran's confrontation with the international community heating up for a flare-up soon, Hezbollah and their mental dildo Aoun will soon be in the trash bin, and then Miqati will probably stop sweating like a pig. You see, he has businesses in the US and around the world... The Americans will pinch him hard if he bends his ass too high to Hezbollah.

Not to mention the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, soon to indict Hezbollah and Syria for the Hariri assassination. It will be fun to watch how the Sunni Miqati will navigate these murky waters without losing his balls and his mind, if not his life to a Syrian bomb.

Welcome to the never-ending saga of the dysfunctional, worthless, pathetic little asshole of a country called Lebanon. It is the mopping rag of the Middle East - MamsaHa as we call it here - Is there any jackass piece of shit around the world that did not have a say in forming this government?

Hanibaal

AUB "Leftism" has Become Stale and Archaic

2011-06-11T18:23:00.001-04:00

Back in the 1970s, it was fashionable for the wealthy and elitist students of the American University of Beirut (AUB) to protest because it was the chic thing to do. These sons and daughters of the rich, famous, feudal, and wealthy had nothing better to do with their lives than protest anything and everything that came out of the University Administration, with an abject ignorance of the facts and the realities that surrounded them.

For those outsiders who marvel at the fact that an American University does even exist in the Hezbollahland that Lebanon has become, a historical perspective would be helpful. AUB was founded by American Presbyterian missionaries, and to this date continues a tradition (from its founding in 1866) of catering to the elites of the pre-independent Lebanon, in the pitiful hope, perhaps, of converting a few haggard Muslim or Christian souls from those elites to Protestantism, and thus hope through them to peddle political and economic influence along the traditions of colonial settlers in a newly discovered land where the natives still lived in caves or the trees. While the religious endeavor did fail - as Lebanon's already religiously fragmented society could not sustain even more divinely-inspired stupid religious cults, education became the mantra under which Americans tried to compete with the French or the Arabs for influence in the Lebanese bazaar. From the Syrian Protestant College, the institution changed its name to American University of Beirut right after WWI, as soon as Lebanon declared its new independence and constitution in 1921. Note that while "Syrian" was deleted from the name, since the country of Lebanon was being born, the university chose "Beirut" - and not Lebanon - in its name to emphasize the displeasure of the Americans at the independence of the country of Lebanon.

When WWI ended and the modern states of the Middle East emerged from under the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, AUB leaders mourned the drawing of borders inside the former large swaths of amorphic Ottoman territories between Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Israel and Jordan, for the simple facts that - as Americans - they believed in large political entities where a single elite (like the Anglo-Saxon White Protestants of the United States) could rule all the others (like the Hispanics, Blacks, Native Indians, and so on), and because it would be a lot easier to buy influence from a single ruler over a large swath of territory than to have to cavort and kiss ass to many little dictators; it would be too difficult for the dumb Americans to try and comprehend the complexities of history. Also, those latter-day orientalists liked the fact that they could herd their porters, butlers, chauffeurs, maids, and such from among the local indigenous riff raff and, say, drive from Beirut to Aqaba for a long weekend. With borders, they now had to get visas and suffer the inconveniences of scrutiny at ports of entry.

It was from that generation of "Arabists" (many of whom were born in Beirut to their parent teachers and spies who taught at AUB and learned Arabic there) that the long-standing hatred by US State Department for the independence-minded Lebanese emerged. To this date, the US State Department is largely staffed by the children and grandchildren of all those "Arabists" who rejected an independent Lebanon and who favored instead one huge Arabia Felix ruled by some king with whom it would have been easier to barter influence-peddling. And, given this colonialist, elitist foundation, many of AUB's native students today - as they always were - are the sons and daughters of the Lebanese and Arab elites, the children of the same corrupt Lebanese politicians who can't even form a government today, who were criminal warlords during the war, and who continue to collaborate with Syria and every other foreign country against their own people, and the children of the Arab despots and tyrants against whom, finally, the real Arab peoples are rising in revolution. You see, admission at AUB always had less to do with merit and academic qualifications, and more to do with genetics, power; pulling strings, bribes and connections. In other words, to be admitted to AUB, you need "WASTA" (the Lebanese term واسطة for who you know doing you an illegal favor even though you may not deserve it) or you need a genetic pedigree that traces your genes to some dictator or king or other despot in the Arab world.

So when AUB students - and the Faculty is not that much better than the numskulls they teach - go on strike or protest something, it is more along the lines of "protest chic". You see, after the mommy and the daddy have bought you the bright red BMW or the newest SUV and paid your exorbitant tuition at AUB, and after the maids have cooked and cleaned after you, and after you have secured your future by being born from the gonads of powerful feudal parents, after skiing in the fancy resorts up the hills or frolicking on the beach at the exclusive resort along the Mediterranean, and when you just have nothing of substance to do with your life, like say make a living, the only cool thing left for you to do is to PROTEST. That is basically how AUB students protest. It's simply cool, something you do between two loungings at AUB beach, and regardless of the merits of whatever the cause you might be protesting for or against, because most of the time, you don't even bother to read about the facts or perhaps comprehend the reality of the multitudes around you, a reality from which you are constitutively detached.

Why, for example, haven't AUB students and faculty mounted demonstrations or protests in support of the regular Arabs rising in revolution against barbaric regimes and dictatorships? The answer is simple: These revolutions target the status quo from which AUB students and faculty draw their power. AUB students and faculty, and the entire institution for that matter, are the targets of that revolution. When all is said and done, it will be those elites, and their children, and their teachers, and their press colluders, and their maids and butlers, who will be on trial for corruption, war crimes, and the like.

In 1974, for example, AUB students went on strike to protest a modest tuition hike of 4%, even though they - I should say, their Papas and Mamas - could afford it. Mind you, they did not protest the fact that Syria was carrying out massacres in the Lebanese villages in the north near the Syrian border; they did not protest the fact that the PLO had established a State within the State and was acting with impunity by kidnapping and killing Lebanese civilians and police, or by provoking Israel with pathetic rockets fired illegally from south Lebanon, leading to retaliations and the suffering of the Southern Lebanese. No, they went on strike because they did not want to pay a few extra Lebanese Pounds from their parents' pockets while splurging on every other piece of trash that America was sending them to consume (cars, cigarettes, etc.). The strike went on for one year, including the disruption of classes and the cancellation of entire semesters (for which they had to pay again to take the courses again...) and the occupation of the campus for 4 months, followed by a Lebanese Army intervention to dislodge the fornicating, hashish-smoking, rich fils-a-Papa protesters from the university buildings.

In 1984, when Hezbollah burst on AUB campus and assassinated AUB President Malcolm Kerr at the time - who was himself an Arab-ass-kissing Arabist to boot - the students did not protest against Hezbollah. To date, AUB students, including the protesters against the Commencement Speaker (because he is Jewish), are Hezbollah and Syria and Iran lovers... This is the AUB that educates its own enemies - all the Palestinian terrorists of the 1960s and 1970s, those who went on to hijack planes and bomb innocent civilians, were AUB graduates. AUB is a stinking institution because of this incestuous hypocritical mission it claims to promote: It claims to want to convert the elites who are by definition inconvertible because they would do anything - including get educated at the enemy's institutions - to stay in power. Instead, AUB should educate the very poor in Lebanon and deliberately kick out the sons and daughters of Lebanese and Arab politicians who have the money and power to send their children to AUB so that they can, in turn, preserve the status quo and prevent any meaningful change in Arab societies at large.

And so today, as the stale chic Leftism of AUB students and faculty reaches a new pinnacle of knee-jerk stupid rejectionism to anything that might remotely be Jewish -such as the Commencement Speaker James Wolfensohn - I commend AUB President Peter Dorman for speaking up against this culture which, unfortunately, his own institution has long nourished and catered for. Perhaps, he should instead invite President Bashar Assad to be the Commencement Speaker and give him an honorary degree in cruelty, barbarity, and crimes against humanity. I am certain that AUB Students and faculty - who have yet to go to the street and protest in support of the Syrian people fighting their own Syrian dictatorship - would be very happy to see the Syrian tyrant be their Commencement Speaker. After all, AUB students are the children of Arab feudal and establishment leaders who stand to lose in the ongoing Arab Revolution, and AUB faculty are the long-standing intellectual collaborators (along with the press) with an Arab status quo of tyranny, dictatorship, and religious backwardness.

AUB has become so irrelevant in Lebanon and the Middle East today because of the fantastic educational institutions that have sprung up elsewhere in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East. My personal recommendation is that - like they did with Aramco in the 1970s - the Americans should sell AUB to the locals and just move out of the country. All these "American universities" in Beirut, Cairo, and the Gulf States are embarrassing symbols of a colonial past that are no longer in tune with the times. As a vestige of a defunct orientalist tradition that remains at odds with the realities on the ground, AUB's mission is archaic, passé, obsolete, and out of touch with the modern Middle East. No one really needs a faux American education anymore. Because it is located in the Middle East doesn't really make AUB dispense a genuine American education: Anyone these days can hop on a plane to America and get an American education - a real one.

Let the Presbyterians go home finally to their native Appalachia to continue the inbreeding, much as I would like to see all the native stupid religious cults also disappear from Lebanon and the surface of the earth: Shiites, Maronites, Orthodox, Sunnis, Druze, Jews, Catholics, and every other religious agent of barbarity and backwardness.

Hanibaal

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AUB President Dorman Slams Petition, Media Coverage against Wolfensohn

From Naharnet

American University of Beirut President Peter Dorman condemned on Saturday the petition against AUB honoring former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, which also forced him to cancel his scheduled keynote address at the university’s Commencement ceremonies on June 25.
He also slammed the media coverage of the event, describing it as portraying the formed World Bank chief in a negative light.
Dorman said in a statement:
“Wolfensohn’s decision not to attend the June 25 Commencement ceremonies was taken in the aftermath of a petition that was organized by several faculty members at AUB, then circulated to the faculty and student community, as well as to our alumni, who were specifically encouraged not just to sign the petition but to write letters of protest.
In the wake of predictable coverage by the media, the press in Lebanon have given wide notoriety to the issue as well, apparently based primarily on the wording of the petition, which is highly selective in the information it provides.
The coverage has been mostly, and unfairly, critical of James Wolfensohn.
Neither the petition nor the media will inform you of Wolfensohn’s long and devoted record of work on behalf of the Arab world. I believe a more accurate picture, based on facts rather than insinuations is required.
The petition does not mention that:
On taking office as president of the World Bank, Wolfensohn initiated semi-annual meetings with the finance ministers of Arab countries, creating a dialogue that built greater understanding of the region’s problems. He traveled dozens of times to the region and was received at both official and community activist levels; many of these contacts remain his close personal friends, including Palestinian and Lebanese leaders.
As Special Envoy for the Middle East for the Quartet (the United Nations, the European Union, Russia, and the United States), Wolfensohn was given the delicate task of coordinating Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and leading reconstruction efforts in the area. After one year in office, Wolfensohn resigned from his position, protesting the Quartet’s decision to boycott and freeze aid to the Palestinian Authority following the Hamas victory in the January 2006 elections.
In an article published in 2007 reflecting his support for strengthening Palestinian sovereignty, Palestinian institutions, and a sustainable Palestinian economy, he explains his reasons for opposing the Bush Administration’s policies towards Palestinians after Hamas won the elections in 2006: “The reality is that you have 1.4 million Palestinians living in Gaza and you can’t wish them away, you can’t leave Gaza as a place where the rich and the intellectuals and the powerful can get out, and leave just people who can’t make a living – or can make a living if they could but have no leadership. And military use of subjugation doesn’t solve the problem, it seems to me.”
In recognition of his efforts to rebuild Gaza, Wolfensohn received, in 2007, the Palestine Prize for Excellence and Creativity by the Palestinian Authority.
Following his retirement as Special Envoy, Wolfensohn devoted significant attention towards issues related to the youth in the Arab world. He personally contributed a donation of more than $1 million towards those efforts, the main part of which was located at the Dubai School of Government as a joint venture with the Wolfensohn Foundation. Over 30 monographs and books have now been published on the topic of Arab youth, and the Foundation is looking for institutions that could house this research effort more centrally in the Arab world. Ironically, before this week, AUB might have been regarded as a natural collaborator.
Wolfensohn was part of the founding Board of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, headed by Maestro Daniel Barenboim and the late Edward Said, an orchestra that promotes intercultural dialogue, trains Arab musicians and creates opportunities for them to perform around the world.
Wolfensohn has, on record, criticized Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territories and, in support of the Palestinian people, has often voiced strong criticism in Israel and the United States against their policies. In an article published in 2004, he was quoted as saying, “Israel’s military operations pertaining to the demolitions of thousands of homes in Rafah are reckless, and leave tens of thousands of people without a roof over their heads… As a Jew, I am ashamed of this kind of treatment of people.”
As a university we recognize and respect the diversity of opinions that must be expressed on campus, and it is the right of faculty and students to disagree with decisions made by the administration. The policies of the World Bank are controversial in many countries and are rightfully a topic of discussion and debate in academic circles.
As an institution devoted to critical thinking and the judicious weighing of evidence, however, AUB is not well served by petitions that are deliberately slanted to serve narrow interests regardless of facts. Co-opting the opinions of fellow faculty, students, and alumni by a pretext of authority, such campaigns are fundamentally dishonest and diverge from our university’s commitment to the pursuit of knowledge as grounded in intellectual integrity.
Let us acknowledge that ours is a complex region that is undergoing unprecedented change, and that it needs people, like James Wolfensohn, who have the ability to reach out across cultural and political boundaries to improve the human condition. We are saddened by the fact that AUB will not be able to honor him this June, when we had hoped we might bring his many positive contributions on behalf of the Arab world to the attention of a wider audience, especially here in Lebanon.”
Wolfensohn on Friday canceled a scheduled keynote address at AUB, amid accusations by the faculty that he supported Israel.
The decision came after more than 90 faculty members signed a petition, entitled "Not in our name: AUB faculty, staff and students object to honoring James Wolfensohn."
This pressured the university to revoke its decision to grant an honorary doctorate to Wolfensohn.
The petition argued that "honoring Mr Wolfensohn ... symbolically undermines AUB’s legacy in the struggle for social justice and its historical connection to Beirut, to Palestine and beyond."
It also detailed Wolfensohn’s alleged links to Israeli companies and accused him of being "an investor in an Israeli company developing transport infrastructure for illegal Jewish-only settlements built in the occupied West Bank" and a "standing member of the international advisory of the Israeli Democracy Institute."
Wolfensohn, an Australian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, could not be reached for comment.
The international investment banker and financial adviser served as president of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005 and is currently chairman of his own firm, Wolfensohn and Company.
In past years, several artists and writers have had to cancel scheduled performances in Lebanon amid controversy over their alleged ties to Israel, which ended a 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000.
Lebanon remains technically at war with Israel and has vowed to be the last Arab country to sign a peace agreement with the Jewish state.

Jumblatt Prepares to Switch Sides....Again!

2011-05-29T06:45:00.000-04:00

The chameleon Druze neanderthal Walid Jumblatt, this "Socialist Feudal Lord" from the Middle Ages is like a limp penis: He switches sides, not on principle, but according to where the wind blows.

After a career leading a mercenary Druze militia allied with the Syrian dictatorship and the PLO against his own country - fighting alongside the Palestinian terrorists and other hordes of Syrian mercenaries against the Lebanese national army in the 1970s and 1980s, Walid Jumblatt became a stalwart collaborator of the Syrian occupation during the 1990s alongside Rafik Hariri, the fat Sunni pig who licked and kissed to no end the ass of the Syrian occupation and defended Hezbollah's "Resistance". The West wanted and approved the Syrian occupation of Lebanon - thinking, in its stupidity, that it was a cheap price to pay to get the Syrians to sign peace with the Israelis. And so even as the Syrians killed Walid's Papa Kamal (another traitor to his own country) in 1977, Walid continued to bend his rear to the Syrians.

Then, the winds of change blew. September 11, 2001 happened, and the unprincipled merchants of death and money, like Jumblatt and Hariri, sensed that the anger of the West was not going to favor a continued support of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. So they changed shirts and became anti-Syrian. Upset at this reversal, the Syrians instructed Hezbollah to blow up the fat pig prime minister as he drove in downtown Beirut in 2005. Hezbollah was happy to oblige. Now, Jumblatt, now engaged in major American and Western ass-kissing, was also terrified that the Syrians might also blow him up too. So he joined the Cedars Revolution and became a pro-Western, anti-Syrian, right-winger whom President Bush and Secretary Rice invited to the White House and treated him like a national patriot.

Not too long after, Obama was elected to the White House in 2008, and he reopened the US Embassy in Damascus. Turkey meanwhile had also switched sides and became friendly with the Assad regime, and Iran was at the height of its challenge to the West. Jumblatt, again, sensed that change had occurred, and he switched sides. Last December (2010), he abandoned the pro-Western Lebanese circus of Saad Hariri and his band of jugglers, and roped himself back into the Syrian bosom and into the warmth of Hezbollah's tentacles. By doing so, he unraveled the coalition in government and forced the resignation of Saad Hariri from the prime ministership. Since January, the Lebanese have been unable to form a new government because of the events that followed.

Those unexpected events were the popular uprisings and Intifadas that the Arab peoples undertook in the streets of every dictatorial country in the region, including the Syrian cesspool. With the Assad regime embarking on a bloodbath to remain in power, and with all the regimes in the region threatened, a new wind began blowing that did not augur well for tyrants such as Assad. The timing of the Arab revolts was quite vexing for Jumblatt because though he had initially calculated correctly the direction of the new winds, he did not expect the Arab peoples to scuttle his plans for yet another reversal of principles. But that is exactly what happened. No sooner had he jumped the Hariri ship and became a pro-Syrian, pro-Hezbollah, anti-American.... son of a bitch, that the revolts began and the regimes on which Jumblatt counted to pretend to be a pro-Resistance and pro-Liberation asshole began crumbling.

So now, as he sees his on-off boss in Damascus clutching his throat in suffocation, Jumblatt has re-calculated his knee-jerk unprincipled position and decided that the winds had blown again in favor of the West and against the Syrian-Hezbollah terror tandem.

I predict that Jumblatt will reverse his position ONE MORE TIME soon. He will announce that he is abandoning Syria and Hezbollah, and that he will be joining the pro-Saudi, pro-US Hariri jugglers...

I still think that comparing Jumblatt to a limp penis is appropriate. He can be moved from the extreme left to the extreme right in a flash, and he can also be made to dangle down in the middle too. He is able to grow big in the head as he self-aggrandizes himself despite his intrinsic irrelevance, because his relevance derives solely from his constant political re-positioning. Abandoned to his principles alone (assuming he has some) he would be as boring as a pile of dung. But he always manages to make himself relevant by dropping his pants every time the temperature changes, and when he does, his stench rises as he goes begging his old friends to take him again and forgive his past errings. One thing is certain, however, Jumblatt has no principles, he has no backbone, and like the limp Druze penis that he is, he can't sustain a principled erection. He is an unprincipled fornicator in the brothel called Lebanon.

Hanibaal

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Al-Hayat newspaper reported on Sunday that members of the Progressive Socialist Party are calling on their leader, MP Walid Jumblatt, to reevaluate the party’s position pertaining to its alignment with the Hezbollah-led March 8 coalition.
“PSP officials see that regional developments and their dangers on Lebanon … call for returning to the logic of settlement instead of ‘winner and loser’. [The current situation calls for] returning to the option of [forming] a national-unity cabinet,” a source close to Jumblatt told the Lebanese daily.
“Jumblatt feels that what is happening at the governmental level is [harming] him because he is contributing in covering for the [cabinet delay],” added the source.
The PSP leader is not convinced that Hezbollah is unable to persuade Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun to modify his cabinet demands, the source also said, adding that Jumblatt is concerned with the “terrible economic and financial situation” in the country.
Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, who was appointed to the premiership in January with the backing of the Hezbollah-led March 8 alliance following the forced collapse of Saad Hariri’s unity government, has not yet formed the new cabinet. Aoun’s cabinet demands are reportedly delaying the formation of a government.

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Hezbollah Attacks Italian UNIFIL Peacekeepers in Lebanon

2011-05-27T15:38:00.000-04:00

After a long record of attacking and bombing Western peacekeepers in Lebanon (US Marines and French Paratroopers in 1983), killing, kidnapping, and holding Westerners hostages (the infamous Western hostages of the 1980s and 1990s) , and hijacking planes (TWA flight 847 in 1985),;

After mobilizing and inciting the Shiite villagers of the Lebanese south against UNIFIL for the past 4 years, and deliberate attacks against UNIFIL whenever UNIFIL is called upon to investigate Hezbollah "accidents" in which suspicious bombs and explosions go off (example: Tayr Felsay), or to investigate Hezbollah's massive illegal smuggling of weapons and missiles from the Syrian dictatorship across the border into Lebanon;

Cornered north of the Litani, lest it violates UNSCR 1701, and watching its Syrian ally fall to the Syrian people's Intifada against the murderous and war criminal Baathist entity in Damascus led by the butcher Bashar Assad, Hezbollah and its terrorist-in-chief Hassan Nasrallah has no option but to resort to violence against UNIFIL in order to get itself out of the defeat and irrelevance that Hassan Nasrallah and his terror organization have become.

One interpretation for why Hezbollah chooses this specific time to attack the Italian UNIFIL convoy near Sidon, in the south of Lebanon, is that Hezbollah's pupeteers in Damascus are increasingly desperate to deflect attention from their own predicament and imminent demise. Even the Russian jackass Medvedev has finally relented and demanded that Assad stop promising and deliver actions toward reforms. Hezbollah's attack against the Italian peacekeepers of UNIFIL is a message by Syria and Iran that they will not go down without bringing the temple with them, consistent with the statement by one of the criminals of the Baath regime (Makhlouf ) that if Syria goes unstable, then Lebanon and Israel will also go unstable.

I predict more violence against UNIFIL in the coming days and weeks. This time the message is a serious and definitive one, and will not see a return to the status quo ante. This time, the push by Hezbollah to rid Lebanon of ALL WESTERN influence will resemble its push in the 1980s to do the same:With killing, kidnapping, bombing, hijacking... Hezbollah managed to evict the Americans, the Italians, the French and the British - all of whom ran out of Lebanon like coward rabbits fleeing the fox - and bring back the Syrian occupation from which Lebanon would not escape until 2005.

The question is will the sissies Americans, Italians, French and other Westerners do the same today as they did in 1983? Or have they learned the lesson that if they let the terrorists get away with murder in Lebanon, they will have to deal with them in New York and Madrid and Rome.

Hanibaal

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Six Italian peacekeeper were injured when a UN convoy was targeted by a bomb in southern Lebanon, officials said.
The explosion occurred on a busy highway leading to the city of Sidon. A spokesmen for the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon said the bomb had been aimed at a logistics convoy.
Italian soldiers have had a presence in Lebanon since the late 1970s. In 2008 Italian president Silvio Berlusconi vowed to maintain Italy’s military presence to help consolidate democracy.
There are currently 2,000 soldiers in the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Italy took over the command of UNIFIL in February 2008, after the French.
The attack took place on a day when murdered UN peacekeepers are commemorated by their colleagues

Baabda's Grand Idiot - Michel Suleiman - Celebrates Hezbollah's "Divine Victory"

2011-05-24T09:04:00.000-04:00

Here we go again, the Great Maronite Dhimmi Idiot squatting in Baabda is still kissing ass to Hezbollah, Iran and Syria, even as the Arab revolutions are simmering all around his stupid head.

As he marked "Divine Liberation Day" today Tuesday to celebrate the Israeli withdrawal from the Lebanese south in 2000, the Great Maronite Idiot in Baabda said, in the Baathist language so dear to his masters in Damascus: "Israel continues in... committing its massacres, the most recent of which was the Maroun al-Ras massacre,” in reference to the Palestinian hoodlums he himself dispatched (under orders from Syria and Hezbollah) to his own country's border to harass Israel and violate international law, and 10 of whom were killed when Israeli soldiers fired on them.

Never mind the 1,500 Syrians so far killed by his dictator buddy in Damascus, Bashar Assad, as they demonstrate in their own country against their own dictator... According to Michel Khara Suleiman, this is not a massacre... This is restoring stability and, in Michel Ibn Ash-sharmouta Suleiman's own words of encouragement to Assad to keep killing his own people, "...I am confident that Bashar Assad will overcome this crisis."

The Ahbal in Baabda goes on to say: “Lebanon can unite these capabilities [i.e. Hezbollah terror organization] to fortify its impregnability, resist the enemy's plots, and build a modern state of citizenship and justice that is suitable for the Lebanese.” You've got to laugh at these last words.... Modern State? Justice?... Michel Khara Suleiman runs, according to international organizations, one of the most BACKWARD, CORRUPT, UNDERDEVELOPED, countries in the world. One of the most POLLUTED, LEAST ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY country in the world. One of the MOST POLICE-LIKE STATES in the world, where Security Services run everything, including TORTURE OF PRISONERS, ARBITRARY DETENTIONS, SELECTIVE JUSTICE, REPRESSION OF FREE SPEECH in the world.

And all of this, thanks to Michel Khara Suleiman's alliance and subservience to Syria, Iran and Hezbollah. Michel Suleiman - like Michel Aoun - brings shame on the Maronite community and on the Lebanese in general. He is yet another coward Christian, who finds the Dhimmi posture the best way to move forward (i.e. to bend one's Christian minority ass to one's Muslim majority enemy in order to survive, then turn around and thank one's enemy for protecting you by fucking you in the ass.

That is exactly what the Syrian Christians are doing in Syria itself: They love Bashar Assad because, as Dhimmis, he protects them by "not killing them"; they are so thankful that he does not kill or imprison them, that they are willing to abandon all their rights, as long as he lets them toll that stupid church bell on Sunday. That is their definition of freedom: "Thank you, Mr. Assad, for letting me toll my church bell on Sunday. In exchange, I will let you run my life, I will not criticize you. I will not challenge you on any of your multitude of human rights violations. I will not say a word about your corruption, your incompetence, and you absolute power and control over Syria and the Syrian people... Thank you Mr. Assad, for letting me be alive.... That is all I ask of life: to breathe, eat, reproduce, then die. I do not care about ideas, hopes, change, freedom, justice, etc... " That is what a Dhimmi is.

The Lebanese Christians, as represented by Michel Suleiman and Michel Aoun, have become like the Syrian Christians, pure Dhimmis to the Islamo-Iranian-Arab-Hezbollah tyranny: Dogs on a leash, who get their daily food, are taken out to shit, then are brought back to their cage, and know well that they bark only when prompted.

That is what Michel Suleiman was doing today Tuesday in celebrating "Liberation Day": He was barking under prompt by his Syrian masters.

Hanibaal
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President Michel Sleiman on Tuesday marked Liberation Day by “congratulating the Lebanese people and Resistance on the liberation of southern Lebanon and inflicting defeat on the Israeli enemy.”

Israel continues to “reject the implementation of international resolutions and continues committing its massacres, the most recent of which was the Maroun al-Ras massacre."

Lebanon has proved that it possesses the “national capabilities that allowed it to liberate [its land] and repeal aggression,” he said. “[Lebanon] can unite these capabilities to fortify its impregnability, resist the enemy’s plots, and build a modern state of citizenship and justice that is suitable for the Lebanese.”

Liberation Day, celebrated on May 25, marks the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon in 2000.

[Lebanon Now]

The Bala-Akl Family in Ohio: Traitors to US and Bad Name for Lebanese Disaspora

2011-05-23T13:09:00.000-04:00

The Akl family in Ohio are a stain on all Lebanese-Americans. They were caught trying to send $1 million to the Hezbollah terror organization.

For those who don't know Lebanese Arabic, the word "Akl" means brain. So, the "Bala-Akl" (brainless) family was caught and I hope they rot in jail.

There are many Lebanese-Americans who support Hezbollah, either directly or indirectly through their support of the traitor Michel Aoun. Back when Syria was at the height of its occupation and torment of Lebanon, Michel Aoun spearheaded the resistance to the Syrian occupation from exile, and he had many supporters here in the US. While many have deserted him after he allied himself with the dictatorships in Syria and Iran, and with the terrorist organization Hezbollah, there are still a good many among Aoun's former supporters who continue to applaud his alliance with Hezbollah and his reversal into a puppet of Syria and a traitor to the cause of Lebanese freedom. In fact, Aoun has family in Ohio itself and it is possible that Ohio is second only to Detroit, Michigan in the magnitude of Hezbollah and Aoun support among the Lebanese-American Diaspora. There was an organization back in the 1990s that worked exclusively for Aoun, called the Council of Lebanese American Organizations. It is believed that CLAO imploded and disappeared from view as soon as Aoun signed his Memorandum of Understanding with Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah.

Lebanon Iznogood applauds the FBI for rooting out any supporters of terrorism within the Lebanese-American community. We denounce them for supporting the Hezbollah organization that is second only to Al-Qaeda in the numbers of Americans it has killed. Kudos for law enforcement agencies for a job well done.

Hanibaal

Ohio couple pleads guilty in terror funding case

By JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press John Seewer, Associated Press – 1 hr 31 mins ago

TOLEDO, Ohio – An Ohio husband and wife pleaded guilty Monday to charges that they plotted to help finance a Mideast terrorist group under a deal that spares them from potential life sentences.
Hor and Amera Akl were arrested in June 2010 after authorities said an FBI informant provided them with cash that they were planning to hide in a vehicle to be shipped to Lebanon. They intended to conceal up to $1 million for Hezbollah, the Lebanese group the U.S. government lists as a terrorist organization and blames for numerous attacks on Israel, federal prosecutors said.
The Akls, dual citizens of the United States and Lebanon, had previously pleaded not guilty to several counts carrying the possibility of life prison terms, prosecutors said. They pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge James Carr in Toledo to conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Hor Akl now faces a sentence of a little more than seven years in prison, while his wife could receive up to four years. They remained free on bail after their pleas, and it was not immediately clear when they would be sentenced.
Prosecutors said Hor Akl traveled to Lebanon in March 2010 to arrange the delivery of money. He returned to the United States claiming that he had met with Hezbollah officials, the government's said.

PATHETIC LEBANON: No GOVERNMENT and CENSORSHIP

2011-05-23T07:24:00.000-04:00

Under Muslim rule in Lebanon, the country has regressed into a little Syria. All the claims of freedoms that the Lebanese flaunt to credulous and naive outsiders are false and outright lies. The country is dangerous to foreigners who get kidnapped and moved across the border into Syria and are never heard from again.

The press imposes a self-censorship so as not to suffer the consequences of a corrupt administration that is heavily infiltrated by Shiite Hezbollah operatives who basically dictate all of Lebanon's policies. The figurehead President Michel Suleiman is just that: A former military idiot who is cultivating his own little political farm in the hope - like all his predecessors - of amassing a few millions, building a "palace" in his hometown on day, and retiring comfortably. The only way for him to do this successfully is to be a maid to Hezbollah and to Syria, and he is brilliantly performing his role.

Meanwhile, there has not been a government in nearly 6 months because the Lebanese, in their pathetic little political fights cannot 1) agree on how to divvy up a cabinet, not because they try hard to serve their people, but because each of the fractious parties and blocs are beholden to a foreign country (Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, US, France, etc...) and they play their roles of pawns moved about by these foreign countries on the filthy chessboard called Lebanon. Problem right now is that one of the foreign countries, Syria, is so busy with managing its demise by genociding its own people, that it has not had time to instruct its pawns and puppets in Lebanon (like Aoun the castrated mad general, Hezbollah's Hassan Bigballs Nasrallah, and other Syrianized buffoons), and the Lebanese cannot form a government. Talk of freedom, of sovereignty, of independence.... What a pathetic insignificant little cesspool of a country that has been at war for 50 years, mainly because outsiders are stronger than the will of the corrupt insiders, and Lebanon is basically a rag, a dirty rag, with which the Arab world and the West wipe their asses and flush the toilet at will.

Now, if that was not enough in this headless, aimless fuck of a country, the Lebanese people keep bragging about their freedoms, about their Paris of the Middle East and their Switzerland of the Middle East. But, no more. The Lebanese should wake up to the reality around them. I, as a Lebanese, am more proud of the peoples of Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and Syria than I am of being Lebanese because those peoples rose fearlessly to defend their own human rights, while the Lebanese continue to live like dogs in a cage, mistreated by their own little dictators, treated like scum, deprived of any sense of normal life, fearful of the Hezbollah criminals and the Syrian regime behind them, feafrul of their own "security services" (which operate exactly as they do in Iran and Syria, kidnapping, killing, detaining at will, under false claims of "dealing with the enemy" etc.). In fact, the Great Ahbal President Michel Suleiman had 3 young people arrested last year because they criticized him on Facebook.

And now, the latest news of this country of freedoms, ruled as it has become by backward primitive Muslims from the Stone Age, is that the "Security Services" ordered the removal of photos from an international exhibit in Beirut because one of the photographers is an Israeli. This tells you where the priorities of this stupid country are. The country has no government, it has no running water and rations electricity. Cell phones are run by politicians like farms, charging an impoverished population the highest rates found anywhere in the world, the country is infested with radical Islamists who were kicked out of other countries, Palestinian and Shiite terror organizations operate freely, including the Speaker of the so-called Parliament is himself the head of a Shiite terror militia called Amal...

Lebanon needs a revolution like all the other Arab countries. The people of Lebanon should wake up and realize that their ruined nightmarish lives are caused by their social-religious system that perpetuates an incompetent, failed political system. Lebanon is not a country worthy of such a name. Lebanon is a failed federation of warring religious tribes and sects that need a constant slave master to keep things going. The Lebanese cannot govern themselves, as things stand today.

For a brief interlude in the post World War II era, right after independence, when the Christians has the upper hand, they manage to propel Lebanon into prosperity and good living by steering this small finch's asshole of a country away from the cesspool of Arab and Islamic nationalism. But then, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, lebanon's Muslims decided that Islamic Law, the Palestinian issue, and Arab nationalism take precedence over the preservation of a successful division of power and national cohesion. They fought their fellow Lebanese Christians, supported the PLO against them, defeated the Christians and brought down the country and its institutions. With the support of Syria, the Muslims rewrote the Constitution (Taif Agreement) such that the country now had three presidents: One castrated Christian, one Sunni slave to Saudi Arabia, and one Shiite slave to Iran. And it was downhill from there.... This is the Lebanon of today: run by the Muslims, like every other Muslim country: garbage everywhere, rampant corruption, Islamic Law here and there, incompetence, and a general degradation of services.... There is an element of fatalism about Islam that makes its adherents so obsessed with the fucking will of God that they stop doing anything for themselves... and most of these countries live on the edge of barbarity and civilization, without any personal or societal will to take charge of one's own life, one's own environment, one's own fate.... Islam's doctrinal tyranny is such a surrender of personal will that it inevitably leads to a general deterioration of life wherever ISlam happens to take over.

I congratulate the managers of the World Press Photo exhibit for shutting down their exhibit in reaction to the Lebanese Security hoodlums... This should be an example and a message to all international operators (tourism, art, culture....) who intend to have shows and activities in Lebanon not to continue supporting the pro-Syrian, pro-Iranian, pro-terrorist Hezbollah Police State in Lebanon. They should starve the beast. It should also be a message to the Lebanese people that if they don;t do anything about this pro-Syrian pro-Iranian regime of Michel Suleiman, the quality of their lives will continue to decline. Do they want Lebanon to become like Syria or like Iran or like Saudi Arabia? What next: public floggings and stonings?

Hanibaal

Show Ends After Lebanon Bars Israeli

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: May 20, 2011

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A World Press Photo exhibit in Beirut closed early after Lebanese authorities ordered the removal of an Israeli photographer’s prize-winning work, an organizer of the exhibit said Friday.
A Lebanese security official said the General Security Directorate ordered the organizers to remove the work of Amit Shaal because he is Israeli. Speaking on condition of anonymity, he noted by way of explanation that the two nations were “in a state of war.”
Erik de Kruijf, a World Press project manager, said the organization preferred to close the exhibit 10 days early rather than face censorship.
“For a week it was no problem, and then someone noticed that he is an Israeli photographer,” he said. “We cannot allow censorship of any kind, so that’s why we decided to take everything down.”
The World Press award is one of the industry’s most coveted prizes. Mr. Shaal won third prize in the arts and entertainment category.
His photographs show street scenes in Israel in which he holds up historical photos of the same places to show past and present.
Mr. Shaal said he was surprised by the decision, saying his work was not intended to be political. “It’s an examination of what was once and what is now,” he said. “The viewer can reach his or her own conclusion.”

Nakba My Ass

2011-05-16T17:45:00.000-04:00

Arab Islamo-Fascist nationalism wants you to believe that "Palestine" suffered a catastrophe or "Nakba" in Arabic in 1948 when the State of Israel was founded and thousands of Palestinian cowards fled their villages from what is today Israel.

The same thing happened between India and Pakistan in 1947, with millions, not thousands, of people fleeing in both directions - Muslims from India into Pakistan, and Hindus from Pakistan to India. Yet, no one today in Pakistan or India talks about a "catastrophe". No one claims a "right of return", and there are no refugees left in squalid camps. However, there is one difference between these two post-British mandate splits. In the Pakistan and Indian situation, both sides accepted the United Nations vote to split the area in two countries. But the fucking Arabs in the Middle East rejected Palestine.

The Palestinian themselves refused to accept the birth of their own country following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the brief British interlude between the two world wars. The Palestinians, stupid as they have always been, did not accept their own Palestinian State back in 1948, and instead chose the path of refugee status and insist, even today on reclaiming something they lost long time ago. A monumental mistake which, to this date, they are still divided upon. Palestinians today are negotiating for crumbs of Palestine when they could have had the bulk of it back in 1948.

Everywhere in the post-World War I and World War II interim, countries were being created, even in the heart of Europe. Why, of all these places and countries, the Palestinians chose to reject their own country, remains a mystery. But in fact, it is not a mystery. This historic failure has all to do with a primitive Arab sense of masculinity and machismo, the notion that only one's big balls count in this world, and nothing else. To accept a State of Palestine in 1948 would have been an admission of defeat, when sometimes historic compromises are based on an admission of defeat by both sides. The Israeli Jews saw a victory in their loss of the other half of Palestine, but the Palestinian Arabs saw a defeat in the same event.

Other areas under the British and French mandates were also being carved out of the dead Ottoman Empire. Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey itself, Egypt, etc.. all are countries that came into being at the time, and no one today makes claims of "catastrophes" like the Palestinians. Of course, the Fascist Baathists of Syria and Iraq will claim that Greater Syria and Greater Iraq should have included Lebanon, Cyprus and other Greek islands, Kuwait, the Arab Emirates, etc... But only Nazi-like Arabs of the ultra-nationalist Islamic-Arab brand make such claims: The Baathists, the Syrian National-Social Party (the exact Arab equivalent of the Nazis, with racist claims of the superiority of the Northern Arabs over the Southern Arabs... Yeah, just look at what the superior Syrians are doing today to their people).

The Palestinians have lost Palestine. They should accept this fact and move one. Japan lost and moved on. Germany lost and moved on. Turkey lost and moved on. It is time for the Arabs to accept their loss and move on. After all, the Jewish people are of the same ethnic Semitic stock as the Arabs, much as the Lebanese are Semitic but not Arabs, or the Ethiopians are Semitic but not Arabs, or the Iraqis are Semitic but not Arabs.

The only ethnic group that lost after the world wars of the 20th century are the Kurdish people. If there is one people today who deserves a country from the territories that were stolen from them by Iraqis, Syrians, Turks and Iranians, it is the Kurdish people. A Kurdistan should be created from the region straddling the borders of the four countries. The Kurds have their own language and their own culture, and the harm done to them by denying them a country should be undone.

But the Palestinians should give up. They should take the small fucking few hills of the West Bank and make the insignificant country of Palestine from them today and move on, before there is no Palestine left at all. The refugees should leave the squalid camps in which they deliberately kept themselves (There are 15 refugee camps in Palestine today, including in the Gaza Strip.) or in which the other Arab countries have kept them on purpose (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan etc..).

Countries of emigration (Canada, US, Australia, Latin America....) should offer to resettle these people for new lives and future, now that the young Palestinian generation is 4 generations removed from the long lost Palestine. I have met many well-adjusted Palestinians who are very happy to be Israeli citizens, or who want to stay in Lebanon as Lebanese citizens, etc...

We no longer live in the Middle Ages or the Barbaric times of conquest and invasions....

Hanibaal

Hypocrite Jackass Lebanese and Syrians: Dismantle Lebanon

2011-05-16T12:41:00.001-04:00

Syrians are being massacred by their own government, and are fleeing Syria by illegally crossing the Syrian-Lebanese border. What does the Great Ahbal Lebanese President Michel Suleiman do? He sends his best wishes to the Syrian dictator Assad, wishing him to recover and overcome the "crisis" by killing more of his people.

Meanwhile, Lebanese President - Jackass (حمار) Michel Suleiman - sends his own people to illegally rush the Lebanese-Israeli border and get killed by the Israelis who are legitimately defending their border. What does the Great Ahbal Michel Suleiman next do? He asks the US to pressure Israel into not killing those Lebanese who - on Suleiman's own orders - violate international law and borders. Is this guy an IDIOT or what?

Similarly, the Butcher in Damascus, Bashar Assad, who has so far killed 1,500 of his own people, who has shelled his own citizens in their towns and cities, and who has kidnapped and arbitrarily detained thousands of his own people, sends more of his stupid Syrians to rush the Israeli border on the Golan. Dozens get killed by Israeli army border guards who are legitimately defending their borders. Should Assad have the gall to criticize Israel? Any reasonable and sane person would say no. How can someone who killed 1,500 Syrians criticize someone else who killed 12 Syrians? Yet, the Syrian butcher did just that. It is OK for him to illegally kill his own people, but it is not OK for others to legally do the same.

This is Syrian hypocrisy at its best, and also Lebanese inferiority to Syria and the lack of self-esteem by the Lebanese vis-a-vis their own issues. No matter what happens, the Lebanese find a way to kiss the ass of the Syrians and thank them for kidnapping. bombing, hijacking, shelling, etc.. innocent people. The Lebanese will never criticize Syria upfront and on the basis of reason. The Lebanese have this knee-jerk response to Syria as the "sister" who, no matter how abusive or tyrannical or inimical or hostile she might be, the Lebanese will always crawl on their hands and knees, lift their tails and let the Syrians fuck them from behind. The Lebanese are slaves to Syria. They have no identity of their own, no personality of their own...They are a bastard people living in a fake artificial country, that is useless, pointless, dysfunctional, unproductive, and which contributes nothing to world peace. In fact, Lebanon has cost the international community billions and billions of dollars over the years, with all the peacekeeping forces that are continually being sent to Lebanon to clean up the mess left by Lebanese corrupt and incompetent feuding politicians.

The fact is that the Lebanese have not been able to clobber a government together for 5 months now, because the Syrians have not yet told them what to do. You see, the Syrians are so busy killing their own people; they have no time to manage their Lebanese slaves who are running around like headless clueless chickens.

What kind of fucked up country called Lebanon is this?

What kind of sovereignty is this, when the country's politicians are all mercenaries working for the country's enemies?

What kind of independence is this when the President of the country is beholden to a foreign country, which is a totalitarian tyranny to boot?

I personally think - and I am a Lebanese through and through - that Lebanon is a worthless country that I am ashamed of being a citizen of. I am embarrassed by the fact that my country cannot put together a government because the Syrian enemy is holding all the cards. I am ashamed that my country is being used by its own hypocrite politicians as a card with which to please the Syrian dictatorship, while the Lebanese people continue to suffer under 40 years of wars, all created by Syria.

The Lebanese have gotten so used to operating under the Syrian umbrella that they no longer know what it is to serve your own country and your own people. It is the ultimate Stockholm Syndrome in which the hostage (Lebanon and Lebanese politicians) becomes so attached to his kidnapper (Syria) that he no longer knows how to live without the kidnapper.

Lebanon is a fake artificial country that should be disbanded:

1- The south should become a Shiite-Palestinian cesspool federation of Islamic crap and stinking Arab-Persian nationalism that will go on "liberating" and 'resisting" until the cows come home.

2- The Sunni north, the Bekaa Valley and the city of Tripoli should be re-attached to Syria because all the people in the north want to be part of Syria.They never believed that Lebanon should have become independent, and they do not today believe that it should be.

3- The central mountains should be reassembled into a small Lebanon, the size of Monaco, comprising mostly primitive Christians and Druse villagers who, though they will continue to massacre one another for centuries to come, will make up a less complex demographic population that is at least manageable, unlike the current cesspool of Saudi-beholden Sunnis, Iranian-beholden Shiites, and other primitive Muslim ass-fuckers from the Stone Age pretending to live in a democracy.

As long as more than half the Lebanese population consider themselves "pro-Syrians", they should be allowed to re-join Syria. Michel Aoun, Wiam Wahhab, Suleiman Frangiyeh, Tala Arslan, Walid Jumblatt, etc... should all become governors of the new Syrian provinces to be created after the re-annexation of most of Lebanon back to Syria.

In 1921, when the modern State of Lebanon was artificially created, the Muslims did not want to be part of Lebanon. They wanted to remain with Syria. They now should be allowed to become part of Syria all over again. Fuck them, I say. Let them go back to Syria and be ruled by the Assad family that they love so much. Let the collaborators with the Syrian enemy become Syrian nationals, and take away their Lebanese identity, because they love Syria more than they love Lebanon.

Hanibaal

The Disease of Lebanon: Organized Religion

2011-05-13T15:07:00.001-04:00

The dinosaur primates who rule Lebanon. This is the image of 21st century Lebanon.

These are the scourge of Lebanon.

The disease that keeps on eating up the country like a worm from within.

These are the ancient "patriarchs", "mullahs", "sheikhs", and other primitive bastards that rule Lebanon from behind their political stooges.

This is the true face of Lebanon - not secular, not democratic, not modern.... - but deeply religious, undemocratic, theocratic, feudal, archaic, and primitive.

These are the faces that push their "faithful" followers every generation to a civil war of religious massacres and sectarian feuds.

This is the identity of Lebanon: A facade of modernity against a background of Taliban-on-the-Mediterranean; a hypocritical pretend-democracy based on people's religious identity.

In Lebanon, you are nothing if you are Protestant or Jewish. Worse yet, you do not even exist under Lebanon's constitution if you are Bahai, Hindu, Buddhist, secular, agnostic, atheist, or of any belief system other than the 18 religious cults that the fucking backwards Lebanese constitution recognizes.

This is the country that has been at war for the past 40 years, primarily because of religious differences between the 18 different sects that make up this primitive country.

Hundreds of thousands have died, half a million maimed and injured, and 1.5 million have fled the country. Yet, the fat-bellied patriarchs, priests, mullahs, sayyids, and muftis.... and all these child-fuckers remain comfortably seated in their positions, dispensing "love and peace" in the media, but inciting to sectarian violence behind the scenes, supporting warlords and war criminals (like Geagea, Jumblatt, Aoun, Francgiyeh, and others....) and preparing the stage for the next outbreak of sectarian violence in which more people will be killed and maimed, more villages uprooted, more emigrants fleeing the country....

The Churches and Mosques have not lost anything in the past 40 years of war. In fact, they got richer and richer, while ordinary people got poorer and poorer. The proof: Look at all the churches and mosques they have built. Look at all the universities they have founded, with the express purpose to keep instilling in their young people's minds stupid beliefs in resurrections, virgin births, God's last message, ascents to heaven on winged horses.... as well as the moral obligation to kill the other sects because they threaten you in your existence.

And now, decades later, they hold their "spiritual summits" in which nothing gets done, other than further the divide between the people, as they hussle and tussle over seats in a government yet to be formed. The ongoing haggle is just about how many portfolios should the stupid Maronites or the backward Shiites or the hypocrite Sunnis or the prostituting Druse get in the government. It doesn't matter if any of these jerks is qualified to run a ministry; what matters is whether he is circumcised or baptized or whatever else religious cults force their people to do.

Lebanon is a pathetic country, old and rotten like the 3 cedars left in the country. It is a country of bald mountains and polluted beaches, raped by greedy religious-feudal developers; it is a country where you can't ride a bike, take a quiet walk, or go simply to a beach like people do all over the world, without being assaulted by corruption, pollution, garbage, etc. It is a country that has no sidewalks, where people are treated like cattle, where there is no order, no civil decency, no politeness, no civility....

The day that religion is put in trash bin, and the day that these dinosaurs are sent back to their churches and mosques, the day that every human being is respected by his or her government, regardless of his nationality, his religion, or his beliefs... That will be the day when Lebanon can claim to be a decent country. But right now, this pathetic patch of garbage will continue to pretend to fart higher than its asshole, and claim to be a Paris or a Switzerland of the Middle East, when it is the worst country that can exist on earth.

The Lebanese people are imitators. They are ashamed of who they really are, and compensate by over-imitating the West, particularly what is kitchy and cheap and irrelevant about the West. By contrast, everything that is good about the West (human rights, cleanliness, the environment, human decency, authenticity, etc...) is ignored and mocked.... You see, the Lebanese, even as they continue to sink in their own excrement, have the megalomaniacal belief that they are so special that they can dispense with basic human decency.

Lebanon is a pile of religious trash from prehistoric times. Welcome to Beirut.
Make sure to buy kidnapping insurance before you embark on your trip. As of now, Seven Estonian bike riding tourists have been kidnapped in Lebanon and remain missing. They are believed to have been transferred into Syria across the lawless borders between the two countries, and the Syrian regime is believed to want to use them as pressure card against the EU sanctions imposed on the barbaric regime of Bashar Butcher Assad in Damascus. So, prepare yourself if you are a Westerner who has been fooled by promises of a great tourism spot that Lebanon is. It is not. It is a religious cesspool of barbaric people ready to mug you, shoot you, kidnap you, and hold you hostage for ransom or for political gains. The Lebanese have done this for 40 years. Why should they stop now?

Hanibaal

To Really Understand the Syrian Baath Alawi Assad Regime

2011-05-11T09:38:00.000-04:00

The ongoing shelling of the city of Homs by the Syrian army in the Assad regime's attempt to crush the Syrian anti-Baath Intifada is not very surprising.

The Syrian brutality does not surprise me. I experienced it firsthand, right here in Lebanon, back when the Syrian army was "pacifying" Lebanon under a green light from the colluding Americans and Arabs. I have lived through countless Syrian shellings of Beirut and the mountains where we had escaped. We fled from town to town, from house to house, out of Beirut, then back to Beirut when we had nowhere else to go... all because the Syrians were "stabilizing" Lebanon, with the permission of the Americans and their British poodles, using their proxy terror organizations of the PLO, Al-Saika, Hezbollah, and others..., and protected as they were by such liberal hypocrites of the media like Robert Fisk Thomas Friedman, and others... more concerned about polishing their CVs for their next gigs, than truly searching for the truth of what was going on.

The fact is, out of that entire era, if you ask schoolchildren today what do they know of the Lebanese war, they will say "Sabra-Shatila". They have never heard of Hama, or Damour, or the countless other massacres and brutalities perpetrated by the vulgar Syrian regime. Why? Because of racism. Fisk, Friedman, and their ilk do not consider Arab killing Arab a worthy event because "that's what Arabs do". But as soon as a Jew or a Christian is involved, the whole moral bullshit surges forward and everyone starts saying their acts of contrition, beating their chests with pity and compassion..... That is the fucked up "orientalist" version of the story.

The fact is that the Baathist Fascist enemy regime in Damascus has done this many times before, both in Syria itself and in neighboring Lebanon which it occupied for more than 30 years.

The same brutality. The same savagery. The same Arab barbarity that is on display today . While thanks to Facebook, Twitter, CNN, and al-Arabiyaah, everyone nowadays gets to see the Syrian barbarity unfold, the cruelty of the same barbaric Arabs of Syria against the Lebanese people was never documented because satellite channels and social Internet networks did not exist in the 1970s and 1980s, when Syria occupied Lebanon and terrorized the Lebanese for more than 30 years. Massacres (in Damour for instance), bombardment and shelling of residential areas of Lebanon's cities (Beirut, Zahleh, Tripoli, etc...), arrests, disappearances, arbitrary detentions, torture,.....

Even as the Lebanese complained, the United States in collusion with the same Barbaric Arab regimes supporting the Syrian enemy dictatorship's bloody repression of its own people, criticized the Lebanese victims as unruly and said that the Syrian occupation was "A FACTOR OF STABILITY" in Lebanon. Fuck Human rights, fuck sovereignty, fuck war crimes. Irrelevant stuff, back then. As long as the Syrian enemy government was keeping the Golan Heights quiet, to the pleasure of the Israeli Zionist government, the West was OK with Syria's brutality in Lebanon. As long as the Syrian enemy government was instructing its PLO and Hezbollah terror organizations to release Western hostages they held in Beirut in a trickle in the late 1980s, President Ronald Reagan was willing to even send weapons and fucking bibles to the Iranian dictatorship in Tehran, Syria's partner in this charade, and he even fled from Beirut with his remaining Marines after that October 1983 bombing (see below), scared as he was and the coward Republican idiot that he was (an earlier clone of George W. Bush), instead of confronting Syria and Hezbollah and Iran, and preventing them 30 years ago from becoming the monsters they have become today.

The Lebanese people were the first in the trenches, in the first war front against radical Islam. They suffered the first large-scale terrorist bombings in the 1970s and 1980s that the rest of the world had to sustain only three decades later. The fight against Islamic fundamentalism began in the streets of Beirut; the first truck bomb to kill 243 US Marines (second only to the plane bombs of September 11, 2001) took place in Beirut. The first massacres of unarmed civilians by Muslim fundamentalists took place throughout Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet, the whole world then blamed the victims - the Lebanese- for trying to protect their country from falling into the hands of terror organizations like the PLO and Hezbollah, and of terrorist regimes like Syria and Iran.

Because one cannot trust the West; because one cannot trust the Arabs; my advice is to let the Syrian people get butchered by their own dictator. That is the only way for them to learn never to allow such governments in the first place. Unless the Syrian people experience the true barbarity of these forms of government, they will never understand what it takes to earn their freedom from such tyrants in the future.

Today, the BAATHIST ENEMY ENTITY has killed more than 1,500 of its own people, thus beating the 1,200 pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Shiite terrorists killed by Israel in 2006, or the 1,200 pro-Hamas Palestinian Sunni terrorists killed by Israel in 2008-2009 war. So, where are the Arab apologists of dictatorships and tyrannies? Where are the fucking brothers and sisters of the fake Arab Umma crap? Nothing should stop the revolutions in the Arab streets. They must continue until all the dictators and kings and monarchs and false presidents and "democracies" are dead and eradicated.

This is what the Assad regime did in the city of Hama in 1980-1981:

".... In June 1980, Hafez al-Assad and his brother Rifaat killed over 1,000 dissident prisoners, the majority of whom were caught in the Aleppo dragnet. The massacre took less than an hour when French helicopters, solely used by Rifaat's private army Sarayaa al-Difaa, gunned down the prisoners in cold blood in the Palmyra prison yard, northwest of Damascus. The following month, on July 7, 1980, Assad imposed Law 49, making dissidence punishable by death.

The attacks and counterattacks continued until finally, in 1982, approximately 200 Islamic dissidents led a large-scale insurrection in Hama. The government, led by Rifaat Assad, responded indiscriminately by bombing Hama for two weeks without interruption. Hama was decimated. Between 20,000 and 30,000 people were killed. The majority were non-combatants, including women and children...."

Hanibaal

Two Standards in Lebanon: Syria versus Bahrain

2011-05-08T20:59:00.000-04:00

There is a double standard right now being applied by Lebanon's corrupt politicians in dealing with seemingly similar situations arising out of the revolutions in Bahrain and in Syria.

One one hand, the Syrian regime has accused certain Lebanese political blocs (Hariri and company) of incitement and of offering weapons to the anti-Regime demonstrators in Syria. The repercussions of these most certifiably false claims is that the pro-Syrian traitors among Lebanon's politicians (Michel Aoun, Wiam Wahhab, Hassan Nasrallah, Nabih Berri) have raised hell and suggested to bring their fellow Lebanese politicians to justice on the basis of their alleged interference in the Syrian regime's impending demise.

On the other hand, the Bahraini regime, no less Arab and no less murderous than the Syrian regime, has accused Hezbollah in Lebanon of providing support to Bahraini activists with the aim of toppling the regime in Bahrain. Yet, no one in Lebanon has issued calls to bring Hezbollah to justice on the grounds of its interference in Bahraini affairs.

This double standard can only be attributed to the servility of Lebanon's politicians to the Syrian enemy regime. The protectors of the Syrian regime, unfortunately for Lebanon and the Lebanese people, include not only the declared pro-Syrian traitors and dogs in Lebanon, but also the declared enemies of that regime like Hariri and Saniora, who go around fearing being blown up by a Syrian bomb, yet proclaim the sisterhood of Syria to Lebanon and by extension (in their kneejerk submission to the Syrian regime's) the enmity of Israel to Lebanon.

The Sunni leadership in Lebanon cannot be trusted, much as the Shiite traitors cannot be trusted. The Sunnis sided with the PLO and Syria against their own country on the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Sunnis, represented by Rafik Hariri were themselves Syria's top dogs, further ruining their own country to accommodate the Syrian occupation. Hariri was the Syrian occupation's best protector during the 1990s and early 2000s. Then, the moment he realized his predicament, namely that there cannot be a genuine exit for Lebanon from the war without lifting the Syrian occupation, the Syrians killed him in 2005. And now, all of a sudden, the filthy Sunnis discovered their Lebanese nationalism. After they had the bigger hand in the ruin of their country, they became overnight the defenders of sovereignty, independence and freedom - all three concepts they cannot and will never comprehend.

As much as I love to see Hassan Nasrallah murdered by an American Seals team, like Osama Bin Laden, I do not - and will never - trust the Sunnis of Lebanon. Just wait and see: When the Arab revolutions start spawning Islamic republics right and left in the fucking Arab countries, the Sunnis of Lebanon will make another U-turn and rediscover that their Islamic identity takes precedence over their Lebanese identity...

The Muslims of Lebanon - both Shiites and Sunnis - have never believed in the existence of Lebanon to begin with. They are like all Muslims, including the fucking moderates. They belong to the Umma before belonging to anything else. Not much different from the Jewish people whose religious identity trumps all other identities they may have. Lebanon is cursed with its Muslims. Lebanon will never know peace and genuine democracy as long as religion dominates the social and political landscape. Either of two things ought to happen for any change to occur in Lebanon: Either the Lebanese Muslims mutate into secular human beings (highly unlikely) or the political system in Lebanon is redesigned to eliminate religion from the public sphere (also highly unlikely, because the Christian churches and establishment also want to preserve their privileges and their control of life in the country.

There is no solution. Lebanon is doomed. The only viable solution is for Lebanon to be partitioned into the smaller Lebanon of the pre-1920s decades and the rejoining of the north and the bekaa valley to Syria. In a smaller Mount Lebanon, there will be more uniformity in the country's demographic composition, rendering the country more manageable, since demands for social change will not corrupted and denigrated by the arguments of the religious establishment. The creation of a Greater Lebanon was a mistake. Time to admit that fact and begin acting accordingly. There are too many pro-Syrian communities in Lebanon, and these communities should be given the option to secede from the Lebanese State and join the Syrian.

Hanibaal

Bashar Assad Sends 432 Four-wheel Drive Vehicles to Qaddafi

2011-05-07T06:57:00.002-04:00

A ship carrying 432 four-wheel drive vehicles, coming from Syria to Libya, ends up in the Tunisian port of Girgis, some 120 Km from the Libyan border.

The vehicles were allegedly en route from Syria to Libya, in what appears to be an effort by one Arab dictator to help another Arab dictator crush his people. Bashar Assad appears so confident in his success in crushing the Syrian people's Intifada against him that he is even extending a helping hand to the Libyan dictator who is struggling in his fight against the Libyan rebels because of the arms embargo imposed by the UN on Libya.

The four-wheel drive vehicles are critical in the war in Libya because they are flexible vehicles that can be equipped with various mortars and machine guns. Since the Libyan rebels use them almost exclusively, the vehicles are not targets by the NATO attacks against the Libyan army. Pro-Qaddafi forces can thus use them to camouflage themselves as rebels and avoid NATO strikes.

When the Syrian dictator occupied Lebanon for more than 30 years, the enslaved Lebanese were taught to repeat political formulas that dictatorships are so enamored with, and the formula "Unity of Path, Unity of Fate" was used by the Syrians and their Lebanese collaborators to essentially denigrate any Lebanese independence by subsuming any Lebanese will under the Syrian will.

The Buffoon and the Idiot - المهرّج والأهبل
UNITY OF PATH, UNITY OF FATE - وحدة المسار، وحدة المصير
Death by hanging or life sentence - الموت شنقاً او السجن المؤبد

It now seems that this slogan now best applies to Assad and Qaddafi, as they are united in the path of killing their own people, as much as they are united in their most likely fate: To die like filthy dogs hanged by their own people or convicted and sentenced by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

Incidentally, the long time Sunni dog slave of the Assad regime has disappeared. Farouk Al-Sharaa, the vice-president of Bashar Assad, has not been heard from in days. There is a rumor circulating in Syria that Maher Assad, Bashar's brother and the chief criminal of the regime who has led the troops in slaughtering the Syrian people, had an argument with Al-Sharaa and killed him point blank.

Hanibaal

Suleiman, Hariri, Aoun to Attend Osama Bin Laden Funerals

2011-05-06T20:01:00.000-04:00

Like they did when the scumbag killer Samir Kuntar was released - welcoming him, rolling the red carpet for him, praising him, kissing him, and bestowing awards and medals on him, for smashing the head of a little girl with a rock, Lebanon's politicians - from the Maronite ass-kisser President Michel Suleiman, to the Sunni numskull Saad Hariri, and every other jackass politician in Lebanon - will heed the call by the Muslim fundamentalist piece of shit Omar Bakri to hols funerals for Osama Bin Laden in Lebanon.

No one knows why this Syrian asshole, this Muslim fundamentalist who supported the Fatah Al-Islam terrorist group that President Suleiman had more than 200 of the finest Lebanese soldiers die trying to dislodge them from the Nahr El-Bared terrorist camp in 2007, why does this Syrian asshole hold a Lebanese passport, why is he in Tripoli, why is he speaking out on behalf of Al-Qaeda, and why haven't the Lebanese courts tried and fucked him in jail already?

What bullshit Lebanese State is this?

Why doesn't the Lebanese police arrest him for incitement to terrorism?

Why is President Suleiman praising him and expressing his willingness to attend Osama Bin Laden's funerals?

Why did 230 Lebanese soldiers die fighting Al-Qaeda in Tripoli, when this self-declared Al-Qaeda sympathizer Omar Bakri is allowed to run free and proclaim Al-Qaeda's threats?

How come did this Syrian national, who was kicked out of Great Britain, end up in Lebanon with a Lebanese passport?

Who issued his passport for him?

Will anyone in the fucked up Lebanese government answer these questions?

Hanibaal
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Omar Bakri Calls for Prayers for Bin Laden
Radical cleric Omar Bakri, on bail in Lebanon on charges including incitement to murder, has called for prayers to mourn Osama bin Laden in Lebanon and outside U.S. embassies around the world.
"We call on our followers in Europe, Canada and especially Britain to pray for his soul outside American embassies," Bakri, who was based in Britain for nearly two decades, told Agence France Presse.
"We will hold prayers for his soul in the Khulafa al-Rashidin mosque and receive condolences here in Tripoli, and there will be prayers for his soul in mosques in Beirut and Sidon," added the preacher, who is now based in Tripoli, Lebanon's main northern city.
Bakri was banned from returning to Britain in 2005 under government curbs introduced following the London underground and bus bombings that year.
He earned notoriety by praising the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and hailing the hijackers as the "magnificent 19."
Last November, a Lebanese court sentenced him to life in prison on charges including incitement to murder, theft and the possession of arms and explosives.
But a retrial was ordered as he had not been present in court and the 50-year-old was released on bail.
Bakri has appointed Hizbullah Member of Parliament Nawwar Sahili as his defense lawyer and has appealed to the leader of the Shiite group Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for help.
The Syrian-born cleric, who also holds Lebanese nationality, has denied he has any links to al-Qaida although he says he believes in "the same ideology."
The al-Qaida leader was killed in a U.S. Special Forces raid in Pakistan announced by President Barack Obama in a late-night White House address on Sunday. (AFP)

Netanyahu Finally Pushes Abbas in the Lap of Hamas

2011-05-04T15:07:00.000-04:00

The story:

1- Hamas was the only remaining obstacle to peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Finally, after decades, Abbas breaks with Hamas, in the hope that the Israelis will deal honestly with him.

2-Abbas tries to make a deal with Israelis to finish the peace process, prove Hamas wrong, and create the much-awaited Palestine.

3- But the Israelis lied, stalled, and continued building settlements, despite promises to Abbas and to the international community.

4- Abbas has nowhere to turn but back into the lap of Hamas. This week, Fatah and Hamas signed a reconciliation agreement in Cairo ending four years of division.

5- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes statement: "Reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas is a tremendous blow to peace.... "

Comments:

What peace, Mr. Netanyahu? You had 4 years to make a deal with Abbas, yet you screwed him by failing to stop building settlements. What do you want Abbas to do?

Israel has lost all credibility and appears to be digging its own grave. It seems increasingly clear now that Israel never had, does not now, and seemingly has no intention to make peace. Peace for Israel with the Palestinians is the end of the expansion and encroachment on Palestinian land.

Like Syria tried to do with Lebanon, Israel is stalling and biding time to take over all of Palestine. It gambled on the Hamas-Fatah split to further weaken the Palestinians, but its stupidity of not making a single concession to Abbas is what constitutes the blow to peace. Only Israel is to blame for the re-marriage between Abbas and Hamas.

Meanwhile, the Israelis are lamenting the impending fall of their favorite Arab dictator Bashar Al-Assad. They love Assad because he never bothered them on the Golan, kept Lebanon on fire, thus giving both the Israelis and the Iranians (Hezbollah) all the excuses to wage wars by proxy.

After 60 years in the region, the Israelis have perhaps become more stupid than the Arabs. Extreme nationalism, religious backwardness, antiquated beliefs of chosen people, splitting oceans, virgin births, resurrections from the dead, ascent to heaven on winged horses.... all the religious bullshit of the three monotheistic religions and the mass murders and genocides that are still committed in their name. 2,000 years in the West, it seems, have not taught the Israeli Jewish people anything. Like their fellow Arab Muslims, they still cling to antiquated notions that any sane, modern, rational human being has already discarded. Seen from the eyes of a secular human being, there is no difference between orthodox Jews and fundamentalist Muslims: They both spend hours memorizing crappy religious texts written by smelly desert Bedouins from the Stone Age, they adhere to strict bullshit primitive customs, and they teach their children to hate everyone else because they (themselves) have the "true message" of fucking God, while everyone else is subhuman and deserves no respect...

Hanibaal

BASHAR ASS-ad FIRES BUTHAINA THAABAN - SAYS SHE IS AMERICAN SPY

2011-05-04T14:23:00.000-04:00

Lebanon: Dumping Ground of World's Islamic Garbage

2011-05-03T07:36:00.001-04:00

Anyone thinking about doing some tourism in this country this summer: DO NOT.

Going into Lebanon is like walking into a powder keg of Islamic garbage and resistance scourge and liberation bullshit... From the pro-Iranian Hezbollah to all the smelly Sunnis of Al-Qaeda vintage... They are all on the loose in the Lebanese cesspool... Not to mention all the Palestinian trash organizations and their weapons, or the Syrian Baath Party hoodlums now injured in Syria itself and seeking to blow things around to relieve the tension off the butt of their butcher boss, Bashar Al-Asad, who seem to be much happier killing Lebanese and Syrian civilians that harming the nail off the pinky toe of his Israeli enemies.

The kidnapping of the seven Estonian tourists a couple of months ago on Lebanese territory - and they have disappeared, in Syria it appears - should give pause to any sane westerner who is contemplating visiting the disgusting and polluted Lebanese barren mountains and beaches... You are more likely to die from a car accident (as the Lebanese drive like castrated bulls) or from a bombing courtesy of Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda or perhaps get kidnapped and chained for ransom for months and years....

Also, there is no government right now in the Lebanese jungle.... All the animals are on the loose and they are hungry.

The country of Lebanon and the Lebanese State are a jungle under the aegis of the traitor President Suleiman (who has his head up the ass of Bashar Assad, as he has been sending messages of support and how to overcome the demonstrations in Syria by wantonly killing innocent men, women and children...), of the caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri (a half-Saudi, half-Lebanese hybrid who even as Hezbollah and Syria have killed his father, he continues to stoop on his knees and proclaim the sisterhood of Syria, the resistance of Hezbollah, and the enmity of Israel), and of the Iranian stooge billionaire Nabih Berri who has made his billions as Speaker of the Lebanese parliament for the past 20 years or so...

And I could go on and on... there is not one politician in Lebanon who is not a thief, a warlord, a war criminal, a billionaire miscreant, the retarded son of inbred political families, or a demented general, or a former Israeli collaborator who turned into a Syrian collaborator when it was convenient, etc... Not one principled statesman exists in this forsaken country...

And now one last thought: Just read below about how a Syrian son-of-a-bitch radical Sunni Muslim and Al-Qaeda follower lives in Lebanon and makes grand statements about his Emirate and Caliphate and such deranged concepts from the Middle Ages, right here in Lebanon, after he was evicted from every corner of the world, including Britain, for making terrorist threats. How does such a bastard end up in Lebanon and with a Lebanese passport? God only knows who paid how much to whom so that this jerk elects residence in Lebanon and make terrorist proclamations from the rooftops?

Why is the United States not pressuring its "Allies" in Lebanon - Miqati, Hariri, and all the fucker Sunnis of Lebanon - to get rid of this guy or have him arrested for inciting terrorism?

Bakri should be promoted to the top ten wanted terrorists and should be targeted after Hassan Nasrallah, now that Osama is being eaten by sharks in the depths of the Indian Ocean.

So, again, Western tourists: Think twice about playing the tourists in Lebanon this summer.

Hanibaal

SYRIAN SUNNI TERRORIST LIVING IN LEBANON AND MAKING THREATS:

Omar Bakri Expects Revenge Attacks in Europe after bin Laden Death

Radical Islamist cleric Omar Bakri said on Monday that with the death of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, the Arab world had "lost a leader," adding that he expected "revenge" attacks in Europe.

"The news of the death of Sheikh Osama has saddened and delighted us at the same time. It saddened us because we lost a leader in the Arab region and it is welcomed because he fell a martyr as he wanted," Bakri told Agence France Presse in Lebanon.

"Undoubtedly the martyrdom of Osama bin Laden will infuse new life into the next generation as jihad will not stop. We expect reactions from this generation in Europe ... their operations will take revenge for Sheikh Osama."

Bakri, a Sunni radical, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court for inciting murder, but was freed on bail in November pending a new trial. He lives in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli.

Originally from Syria but holding a Lebanese passport, Bakri denies having any direct link with al-Qaida and had called the trained September 11 suicide bombers "magnificent."

He settled in Britain in 1986 where he became a leading figure among Islamist circles until the authorities tightened the screws after the 2005 bombings in London. Since then he has been banned from Britain. (AFP)

FPM FIGHTS CORRUPTION WITH AOUN FAMILY NEPOTISM

2011-05-02T10:05:00.000-04:00

Typical Lebanese bullshit that flies in the face of any reason.

Listen to this:

"Free Patriotic Movement MP Alain Aoun says his bloc should be given the Interior Ministry portfolio because of his party’s so-called commitment to fighting corruption. Are we to assume, then, that if the FPM does not get its man (or woman) in the Interior Ministry that Lebanon’s chronic corruption will be ignored simply because the job rests with the president’s share?"
[Source: NOW Lebanon: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=265473&MID=10&PID=2#ixzz1LCdBuyQU ]

Now, consider the following two things:

1- Alain Aoun is Michel Aoun's nephew. He has been elevated to his position and was elected as MP BECAUSE HE IS GENETICALLY RELATED TO MAXIMUM LEADER GENERALISSIMO MICHEL AOUN. In modern democratic societies, this is called Nepotism. Considering that all Lebanese politics are founded in hereditary transfers of power, nothing really distinguishes Alain Aoun's statement from other stupid Lebanese politicians, except the fact that Alain Aoun is saying that his political bloc should get the Interior Ministry for the express purpose of FIGHTING CORRUPTION. I can't help but laugh. If the FPM is truly a reformist party, it should start by banishing all family members from positions of leadership in the party.

2. Now, the story does not end here. Laughable, indeed, but doubly so. You see Generalissimo Kiss Emmo Michel Aoun has no sons. He has three daughters busy making babies to ensure the survival of the precious genes the Demented General has in his testicles. So, short of transmitting power to his daughters (not a very common thing in this patriarchal machismo fucked up society of criminals and killers), he has been doling out power to nephews and sons-in-law, including a failure of a son-in-law named Gebran Bassil who has failed three times in previous parliamentary elections in his district of Batroun, only to be imposed by force as a Minister in cabinets resulting from those elections. Not very "uncorrupt", isn't it? And to boot, the Generalissimo Kiss Emmo Michel Aoun has started butt-fucking the Syrian dictator Bashar Asad in his recent career, after the Syrian occupation butt-fucked him out of his miserable tenure as Interim Prime Minister in the late 1980s-early 1990s by bombing his ass out of the presidential palace. So, the Generalissimo is a convert from an anti-Syrian madman to a pro-Syrian slave. So, now, not only does Aoun want the Interior Ministry, period; he wants it for Gebran Bassil only. He insists on having his son-in-law in the cabinet, again.... I wonder what the rationale is. Bassil has shown he is a failure at best and is a yes-man to his father-in-law. So, I wonder if fucking Aoun's daughter makes anyone worthy of such blind trust?

The bottom line: Generalissimo Michel Aoun and his Uncle's Ass-kisser Alain Aoun: If you want to fight corruption, start by cleaning the FPM of all the nephews, sons-in-law, cousins, bastard sons and other retarded useful second degree relatives.... You just look like any of the other inbred Lebanese political families, you lack any credibility and your claims to fighting corruption just don't hold any water.

Hanibaal

Bin Laden Down: Next Hassan Nasrallah, Inshallah!

2011-05-02T06:51:00.003-04:00

One motherfucker down: ......Next motherfucker on the list:

With Bin Laden's death, we have one primitive Muslim radical terror chief down. Next on the list should be the other primitive Muslim radical terror chief, Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah who is hiding in Lebanon.

Bin Laden was difficult to find in the huge mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Nasrallah's hiding in a tiny tiny rat hole in tiny tiny Lebanon should be a much easier task, especially that the Lebanese are known for selling their mothers for a nice ransom to inform about Hassan's whereabouts.

Bin Laden is credited as the terrorist jackass responsible for the killing of most Americans, including the September 11 attacks in New York. Hassan Nasrallah is second to Bin laden in the murder of most Americans: He and Imad Mughniyeh (whom the Syrians killed in 2008 before he spills the beans on them at the Hague's Special tribunal for Lebanon) are responsible for the death of 243 US marines and servicemen in Beirut in October 1983 in the first ever mass suicide truck bomb terrorist act. Hassan Nasrallah is also responsible for the hijacking of a TWA Plane to Beirut in 1985 and the killing of US Navy Diver Dean Stethem, another truck bomb (simultaneously with the attack on the US Marines above) that killed 58 French paratroopers in Beirut, the kidnapping of countless diplomats, teachers, Christian clergymen, university administrators, etc. holding them hostage, killing them, then trading them by Syria for weapons and money to Iran, the death of thousands of Lebanese by provoking useless wars of "liberation" in the Lebanese south, and several high profile bombings and assassinations around the world. Hassan Nasrallah's resume has nothing to be shy about compared to Bin Laden's.

Nowadays, Hassan Nasrallah is parading himself as a respectable politician and a social worker in Lebanon, in addition to his "liberation" and "resistance" achievements. Lebanese politicians of all colors - from the Christian asshole Michel Aoun all the way to the supposedly "pro-Western" Sunni Muslim jackass and half Lebanese-half Saudi mutant Saad Hariri - protect Hassan Nasrallah by admitting him to the club of Lebanese "politicians" and praising his liberation and resistance antics. But the fact remains that Hassan Nasrallah is a mass murderer and a dangerous one at that. He is a terror chief, just like Bin Laden, and has proven he can go far in his threats. Should Mamouhd Ahmadinejad provide Hassan Nasrallah him with some of that nuclear material that the turbaned Iranian Assofallahs have been centrifuging in Natanz and Qom, Hassan would make it to the Guiness Record book of "Terrorist Accompli". He therefore should be eliminated before he carries out his next "exploit" of mass murder with all the Iranian and Syrian weapons stockpiles he has been building in south Lebanon.

Congratulations to our friends in America and the free world for the death of Bin Laden. Now, focus your efforts on ferreting Hassan Nasrallah out of his rat hole in south Lebanon or south Beirut, and give him the "Bin Laden" treatment. He deserves no less. Perhaps those 243 US Marines and Servicemen could finally rest in peace.

Hanibaal

Lebanon: Junk Country, Laughingstock "Faux" Democracy

2011-05-02T06:21:00.001-04:00

What kind of country is this where you can't form a government unless a neighboring country - Syria, of all the fucked up Arab dictatorships that are on their deathbeds - gives the "green light"?

What kind of prostitute politicians are these - from the President down to every son of a bitch with claims to political "leadership" - that cannot make independent decisions in the interest of their own people and country without waiting for the permission of a miserable gutter vulgar regime like the Syrian Baath?

It has been 4 months since the asshole Najib Miqati has been trying to form a government. Even if we dispense with the haggling over this or that ministry, the fact that these politicians admit that they are waiting for a green light from Syria, "which is currently unavailable," is simply unacceptable for a supposed "sovereign" country like Lebanon.

When will Lebanon be truly free to make its decisions on its own?

How long before the Lebanese people undertake their own revolution against their political establishment which continues to act on behalf of other countries and against the interests of their own pople?

How long before the Lebanese people wake up to their own stupidity of electing these merchants of blood and money back to power every time they have a chance to discard them like old underwear in elections?

Either we, the Lebanese people, stop electing these mercenaries or we should shut up. Because we deserve these leaders. We deserve this country that has become the laughingstock of the world. We deserve this junk country of Lebanon.

Hanibaal

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[From Naharnet, Monday May, 2, 2011]:

President Michel Suleiman's visitors have stated that the concerned sides in the government formation process "don't have a real initiative to reach a solution" to the governmental vacuum.

The daily An Nahar reported them as saying that the salvation government proposed by Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel "needs a Syrian green light, which is currently unavailable."

His proposal stipulates that caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri would resume his role as premier, which would mean that the crisis would return to square one, they continued.

Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper reported on Sunday that Prime Minister-designate Najib Miqati held talks on Friday with Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah soon after meeting with Suleiman earlier that day.

POLITICAL ALAWISM and the GUTTER COUNTRY of SYRIA

2011-04-27T13:37:00.000-04:00

To all the apologists of Syria and the Syrian regime, ROBERT FISK, PATRICK SEALE, FRANKLIN LAMB, and such assholes), on the grounds that the Assads are "cunning", or that they "keep their word" (meaning, they make deals with Israel and the Americans), or that for some reason the Baath Party of Syria is "immune" to the convulsions rocking the region, etc...:

1- Syria is a gutter country barely able to survive economically.

2- The Syrian regime is one of the most vulgar dictatorships on earth - vulgar in the sense of its wantonness and arbitrariness in dispensing tyranny.

3- The ideology of the Baath Party finds its roots in the Fascist Social-National movements of Nazi vintage of the 19930s. Baathism, like Nazism, degrades and oppresses all native nationalisms, local autonomies, divergent multiculturalism, and the innate cultural differences that exist across geographical areas.... and proclaims the supremacy of ONE culture (Arab), ONE language (Arabic), ONE religion (Islam), etc... over all others, regardless of history and natural evolutionary variability. Like the Nazis tried to impose ONE CULTURE (Aryan), ONE LANGUAGE (German), and ONE RELIGION (Christianism) on peoples stretching from Spain to the Urals, the Baathists want to impose the fucking ARAB-ARABIC-ISLAMIC triad on everyone from Morocco to the Gulf,

4- In addition, the proponents of this gutter fascist ideology are all members of the Alawi sect - a hybrid mutant of a bastard mix between coward Christians who pretended to convert to Islam, but did not really do so... , a religion of stupid beliefs that have evolved out of even more stupid and archaic beliefs, not unlike the Druse cult - the proponents of the Baath ideology are all from that sect. They are a minority of fuckers who concocted that ideology to rule over all the other groups in the "country" of Syria.

5- Furthermore, the Batahists-Alawites have maintained a peaceful border with their declared enemy Israel for 40 years on the Golan which Israel took from them by force, all the while shouting from the rooftops that they are "resisting" and "steadfasting" and "opposing" that enemy in order to "liberate" the Golan. While they maintained their peaceful border with Israel, the Syrian Baathists-Alawis ignited war after war in Palestine and Lebanon, using proxy terrorist organizations like the PLO, Hezbollah and Hamas to harass Israel and undermine Palestine and Lebanon for the past 40 years.

So, to the assholes ROBERT FISK, PATRICK SEALE, FRANKLIN LAMB: Do you agree that the demonstrators in Syria are "foreign agents" trying to undermine the paradise that is Syria? Or do you realize that the Syria which you so romantically and nostalgically cultivated in your verbiage over the decades is but a gutter country with no prospects other than to provide you with a means to make a fucking living writing about it, even as it killed hundreds of thousands of people?

Hanibaal

Subservient Lebanese and Colluding Americans = Survival of the Syrian Dictatorship

2011-04-26T23:47:00.000-04:00

The Shiite scumbag politicians in Lebanon, whose entire power grab in Lebanon depends on the Syrian regime's own survival, are naturally defending the Syrian regime, even as it kills its own people by the thousands and even as it has become clear that the Syrian regime is on its deathbed.

To wit, the "Foreign Minister" of Lebanon, who otherwise would be working as a toilet cleaner in Damascus, has asked his "ambassador" to the UN to vote against any UN resolution sanctioning Syria for genociding its own people. That is how low the Shiite scumbags will sink.

Watching the Syrian tanks roll into Daraa yesterday and shell randomly at unarmed civilians reminded me of how the Syrian army used to do the same "peacekeeping" in Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s. Yes, this is the army that was sent by the US and the West to "stabilize" Lebanon (after the Syrian army itself created the instability, in a textbook example of the arsonist-fireman). For decades, as we lived in basement shelters under a rain of mortar shells and missiles fired by the Syrian army on the civilian population of Beirut and other Lebanese cities, as thousands and thousands of unarmed Lebanese civilians were being killed and maimed and kidnapped by the criminals of the Syrian army, the West - and the US in particular - were telling us that the Syrian occupation was a "factor of stability" in Lebanon, that it was better for the Lebanese to live under the bloody rule of the Syrian Baath Party and accept idiot puppet governments the Syrians wanted to impose on us as presidents or prime ministers, instead of our demands for fair elections or a normal democratic political process.

For example, in 1988, the US colluded with the Syrian tyrant in trying to impose Mikhael Daher as the Syrian puppet president of Lebanon. The Lebanese were resisting the Syrian and American diktat and wanted elections in parliament. Richard Murphy, the US State Department criminal envoy to Beirut, gave the Lebanese two options: Either submit to the Syrian demands, or you will have chaos. The Lebanese rejected Murphy's ultimatum, and they got chaos. Murphy (and his bosses George Bush Sr. and James Baker) gave the Syrians the green light, and they bombed parliament, kidnapped and threatened MPs to prevent elections from going forward. The outcome was the nomination of traitor Michel Aoun as prime minister of a transitional government by the departing president, and 3 years of absolute genocide conducted by the Syrians against the Lebanese people. When it was all done, Syria had completed its takeover of Lebanon by bombing the presidential palace and installing a puppet regime that has lasted to this day. The list of Syrian achievements in Lebanon include murders, bombings, kidnappings, enforced disappearances, torture, the hijacking of all institutions of the Lebanese government, the pilfering of treasuries and corruption..... with the crowing achievement of the assassination of Rafik Hariri and 17 other Lebanese politicians who tried to resist Syria during all those years from the 1970s and until the late 2000s.

Why did the Americans do this? They just love the Syrian dictatorship. The bureaucrats of State Department are so enamored with the Damascus butcher that they would give their daughters in marriage to the Assad hoodlums. And they also got the Hezbollah-held hostages to be released. The Americans traded an entire country (Lebanon) to a dictatorship (the Syrian Baath) to get the the Syrian proxy terrorist organization Hezbollah to release the US hostages. The more the Americans gave Syria, the more Syria gave back to the Americans, and it was all at the cost of Lebanese blood and treasure.... Some moral ground of US foreign policy! And it was the REPUBLICAN Reagan and Bush senior administrations who did this "American value-laden" foreign policy.

Now, they cry foul and threaten Syria with sanctions.... 40 years too late. Forty years of cuddling and cavorting the dictator.... American values, my ass.

Hanibaal
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Shami Calls on Salam Not to Approve Security Council Statement on Syria
Caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Shami called on Lebanon's ambassador to the United Nations Nawwaf Salam to reject the Security Council's expected draft statement on the developments on Syria.
The U.N. will discuss Syria later Tuesday.
Diplomats said Monday that Britain, France, Germany, and Portugal are seeking a Security Council condemnation of the killing of hundreds of demonstrators in Syria and a call for an independent investigation.
The United States is supporting the statement of condemnation, a diplomat said.

DO NOTINTREVENE IN SYRIA: LET THE SYRIANS SOLVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS

2011-04-25T17:34:00.000-04:00

The West (US, UN, Europe, etc) should not intervene in Syria.

The Syrian people are taking matters in their own hands, and that is the only path to a long term solution.

Yes, people will die, and it will be hard for a while, but that is the only way out of the rotten dictatorships that have plagued Syria and the other Arab countries for decades.

All we have to do is look back at the French revolution and its aftermath throughout Europe: Almost two centuries of bloody revolutions against the established order of monarchies and the domination of the Church, upheavals, mayhem, world wars, civil wars, etc..... that ultimately led to the establishment of the nation-states we know today and to the advent of Western democracies.

The world must recognize that only a harsh pathway in which people pay a price for their freedom, and dictators pay the price of their tyranny, will lead the Arab world out of the backwardness in which it has been wallowing for centuries... first under 400 years of Ottoman occupation, then the inter-world war years of European colonialism of a few decades.

This is the only time in a very long time that the peoples of the Middle East are confronting their own demons of religious backwardness and of tribal social structures that have let them be subjugated by foreigners first, then by their own dictators.

Arab socieites - thanks to the younger generations - have got to realize that they must push beyond the primitive religious, social and political cesspool of the Middle Ages, in order to finally move into the modern world. And the price is sacrifices, bloodletting, and terrifying times ahead.

BUT THAT IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD on the long term. Any intervention by outsiders is likely to re-create the same "blame the foreigners" syndrome that has been used by the current dictators to justify their tyranny.

Just let them be. Let them earn their freedom. Let them learn firsthand what it takes to have real democracies. None of it can be handed on a silver platter. It has to be earned with death, injuries, and suffering....

Hanibaal

Syria's Puppet in Lebanon: Fat Pig Wiam Wahhab To Stop Verbal Diarrhea Soon

2011-04-23T14:21:00.000-04:00

FAT PIG WIAM WAHHAB - TOP SYRIAN ASSLICKER IN LEBANON

This is the image of Syria's top puppet mercenary dog in Lebanon: A completely sold-out druze buffoon whose specialty is to fabricate shit, dung, feces, stools and excrement of all kinds, then proceeds, like the chimpanzee that he is, to fling it to the corrupt media in Lebanon who rush to eat it like candy and entertain the sedated Lebanese people with it.

This guy has no following in Lebanon. He has a phantom organization of which he is the only member, and his sole purpose in life is to defend the Syrian Baath (بعص in Arabic, which has now turned to مبعوص) regime at any cost and for any reason whatsoever. He is probably paid handsomely by Buthaina Shaaban, including with disgusting blowjobs by her ugly and repugnant face.

The sad thing is that the Lebanese media - instead of boycotting this son-of-a-pig and ignoring him - rush to his every statement and make predictions and divinations as to what hidden messages the Syrian filthy regime is sending by allowing this inverted anus (Wiam Wahhab, a.k.a WW) to unleash his diarrheal drivel. After all, he is just like the American W of yesteryear, only double the stupidity and the neanderthalism.

WIAM WAHHAB: PUT YOUR SHOES ON AND START PACKING YOUR BELONGINGS. THE IMMINENT FALL OF YOUR BOSSES IN SYRIA MEANS YOU WILL HAVE TO MOVE EITHER TO SOMEWHERE NICE OR TO THE GRAVE. EITHER WAY, YOUR VERBAL DIARRHEAS WILL HAVE TO CEASE, AND NO ONE WILL MISS THEM.

Love
Hanibaal

Compare and Contrast: Arab Lies and Hypocrisy vs. the "Enemy"

2011-04-23T00:19:00.001-04:00

1. Hezbollah and Amal - the Lebanese Shiite terror organizations - are stealing land in Lebanon belonging to the State or to Christians, and are building illegal Shiite settlements on land that does not belong to them. When the security forces or the army try to intervene to stop the illegal activity, Shiite militias show up, fire on the soldiers and prevent them from enforcing the law. [See: http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&8179F9918D607E5BC225787A0069C00C]

- Shiite land-grab from Christians
- Shiite illegal construction of settlements
- Shiite are Islamizing Lebanon by force with weapons given to them by Iran

-----> Can anyone tell me how different is this from the Israeli land-grabbing, illegal settlement construction and Judaification of Palestine? Isn't this a case of double-standard that Arab and Islamic fuckers believe apply to others but not to them?

2. The Syrian regime is killing peaceful Syrian protesters by the hundreds, causing the death of innocent Arabs trying to liberate themselves from a 50-year old dictatorship that has crushed every fiber of their beings.....

- The "Baathist entity" in Syria is committing genocide against Syrian Arabs and annihilating an entire people just to maintain its hold on power while receiving weapons and aid from Iran..... Sounds familiar? Just replace "Baathist entity" with Zionist entity", Syrian with Israeli, Iran with United States, innocent Syrians with innocent Palestinians,... and you get the idea.

-----> Can anyone tell me how different are the practices of the Syrian regime from the Israeli occupation vis-a-vis the people they occupy? Isn't it another case of double standard and hypocrisy by all the Islamo-Arab nationalist fundamentalist fuckers who cry out day and night against the "enemy" while they themselves have done a thousand-fold more harm than Israel ever has?

How long will the peoples of the countries in the region continue to believe the lies of the Baathists, the Hezbollah terrorists, and all the so-called nationalists of the putrid Arab causes?

Hanibaal

تحيتي إلى الشعب السوري - شعارنا الجديد: الحرية قبل التحرير -Salute the Syrian people: OUR NEW SLOGAN IS "FREEDOM BEFORE LIBERATION"

2011-04-21T07:35:00.002-04:00

Assad piece of shit: LEAVE (and take the whore Buthaina with you)
أسد يا خرى: إرحل
Grande Merde Assad : PARTEZ

HATS OFF TO THE SYRIAN PEOPLE.
CHAPEAU AU PEUPLE SYRIEN.
تحية إلى الشعب السوري.

وأخيراً يقف الشعب السوري وقفة التحرير الحقيقي

وقفة الرفض والممانعة الصحيحة

وقفة العز وإحترام النفس

وقفة العطش للحقيقة والتوق للكرامة الإنسانية البسيطة

وقفة التمدن والحضارة

وقفة رفض الكذب والإدعاءات الباطلة التي طال ما أستخدمت غطاءً للقمع والسرقة والتسلط على الحكم.

الوطن السوري لا يحيا من حروب التحرير والمقاومة والممانعة والتصدي وما إلى هنالك من هراءات واكاذيب.

يحيا الوطا السوري من أبسط قواعد الكرامة الإنسانية، وهي الحرية.

الحرية من القمع البوليسي

الحرية من العوز

الحرية من الكذب والتضليل

الحرية من العائلات والقبائل والإقطاع والطوائف والأديان والإيدولوجيات الوسخة

الحرية اليومية في تناول لقمة الخبز والتنزه على الطرقات

الحرية للسفر والتجول في أناء العالم من دون خوف، والعودة بطمأنينة إلى الديار

حرية قول وفعل ما يطلبه الضمير وما يريده القلب

هذه هي الحريات الاساسية التي نريدها كلنا من دون أن تكون الأجهزة الامنية والدويلات الفاسدة وموظيفها الفاسدون وكل الذين يقتاتون من البرطيل والفساد والسرقة وراء أعناقنا يحكمون أيديهم عليها ويمنعوننا من التنفس والعيش.

الحرية قبل التحرير. هذا هو شعار الشعوب العربية الثائرة اليوم.

التمدن والإنفتاح على العالم بأجمله، بروح الود والتسامح، وليس الإنغلاق والعداوات التي لا تنتهي والتي تسمم حياتنا واجيالنا لكي تركب عشيرة الأسد وغيرها من العشائر والعائلات الكريهة على ظهورنا مدى حياتنا...

كفى تحرير.... تعالي يا حرية.

وأردد مع الشاعر، وكم يغني النشيد الوطني التونسي الذي فتح لنا جميعاً نافذة على مستقبل رائع:

إن الشعب يوماً أراد الحياة فلا بد أن يستجيب القدر.

من لبناني المعذب منذ أجيال على أيدي الكلاب البعثية في دمشق،

أحييكم يا شعب سوريا وأرحب بثورتكم، لأن حريتكم هي أيضاً حريتي.

هانيبعل

The Muslim Fundamentalist PIGS of Hizb ut-Tahrir do not Recognize Lebanon's Independence

2011-04-20T13:55:00.001-04:00

Yesterday, the spokesman of the fundamentalist Muslim pigs of Hizb ut-Tahrir (yet another fucking Muslim gang who wants to liberate something....), Ahmed al-Qasas, said the following, as he commented on the Lebanese government's banning of demonstrations (scheduled to be held in the Lebanese city of Tripoli) against the dog Bashar Assad of Syria:

" The demonstrations will take place and we don’t recognize the political borders between Muslim states."

1- This jackass Muslim radical from the Stone Age does not recognize the existence of Lebanon as a nation-state.

2- This jackass believes that Lebanon is a Muslim State, which it is not.

Why, then, doesn't the Lebanese government ban Hizb ut-Tahrir? Why give people like this a platform to break the law and run around denouncing the very existence of their own country?

In fact, Israel is much better than any of these jerks, including the tyrant Assad and his rotten Baath Party in Syria, because Israel recognizes Lebanon as an independent distinct nation that deserves to exist, while the Muslim and Baathist fuckers and their shitty primitive Islamo-Arab ideologies from the Jurassic do not.

Who, then, is my enemy?

My "brother" and "sister" who have been killing me, bombing me, and torturing me for decades, and who do not believe that I have the right to exist?

Or my neighbor who just wants to live next to me and not bother me as long as I leave him alone and not bother him?

When are the Lebanese - especially the Muslims among them - going to stop lying to themselves about what is in the best interest of their country in the future?

When are we going to stop the "Arab-Muslim" bullshit nationalism propaganda under which millions have died in the Arab world, millions are in the prisons of the "Arab world", and many many millions are lining up like beggars at Western embassies and consulates or sneaking illegally across borders to make it to Europe and the West?

When are we going to take control of our lives as ordinary people who want nothing in this world than to have normal, safe lives, and NOT to liberate some fucking Palestine or engage in medieval wars against hypothetical Western enemies?

Enough lying. Long Live all the secular people's revolutions in north Africa (Tunisia, Libya, Egypt), the eastern mediterranean (Syria, Lebanon) and everywhere else in western Asia (Jordan, Yemen)

Hanibaal

إبن الشرموطة قاوق يقف ضد لبنان دفاعاً عن سوريا: إلى أين التكلب الشيعي الوسخ؟

2011-04-18T17:18:00.000-04:00

The extent to which the filth of the Shiite Hezbollah traitors has reached is inconceivable. The motherfucker clergyman QAOUQ (what a fucking name!) wants to take a Lebanese political group that has immunity and which represents half the Lebanese people to justice because Syria has accused that group of fomenting the troubles now ongoing in Syria.

The douche bag QAOUQ is attacking his own compatriots in defense of a foreign and filthy dictatorship like Syria because QAOUQ is paid by Syria. All his illegal power and his weapons comes from Syria, so no wonder he would stoop so low. QAOUQ, like all the bunch of criminal hoodlums running the Iranian Mafia called Hezbollah, is a traitor who should be hanged in downtown Beirut immediately without trial.

This good news is that this God-fucker jerk is defending the indefensible, and as such he is on his way down to the cesspool of history, like his masters in Damascus and Tehran. One day soon, the Syrian dictator will be tried and hanged in Damascus for his record as a tyrant and a war criminal (like his Baathist buddy Saddam Hussein), and the leader of the crappy religious Islamic garbage of a country called Iran will also soon be brought down. What will QAOUQ then do? Whose ass will he be kissing?

Hanibaal

Qaouq: Judiciary Should Uncover Extent of Mustaqbal's Involvement in Conspiring against Syria
The deputy head of Hizbullah's executive council Sheikh Nabil Qaouq rejected on Monday any meddling in Syria's internal affairs.
He said: "The Lebanese judiciary should immediately uncover the extent of the Mustaqbal movement's involvement in conspiring against Syria."

"Since 2005, the movement has not shied away from targeting Syria the same way it targeted the Resistance, in fact its campaign against Syria is aimed at weakening the Resistance," he stressed.

"Mustaqbal's involvement is the greatest national sin as it has gotten embroiled in a project that is greater than it and this will definitely affect Lebanon's national interest," he continued.

"Is this how the Lebanese repay Syria for its support to the Resistance?" the Hizbullah official asked.

Addressing the government formation process, Qaouq said that the other camp is openly confronting Prime Minister-designate Najib Miqati's attempts to form a Cabinet in order for it to return to power.

"The war it is waging will fail because it represents fraud in Lebanon and it is not qualified to govern," he stated.

Latest Syrian Joke? Controlling Smuggling Across the Lebanese-Syrian Borders

2011-04-18T06:11:00.000-04:00

It's a joke, and everyone knows it. Since the 1960s, the Lebanese-Syrian borders have been the least controlled borders in the world: Drugs, Hashish, Al-Qaeda terrorists en route to Iraq, 40,000 missiles from Iran to Hezbollah, and the list is way too long.....Hezbollah today receives truckloads of weapons from Iran through the Syrian border and dispatches all manner of operatives and terrorists to the world through the Syrian-Lebanese border. Before 1982, it was the PLO who did the same thing.

But now, while the Syrian people are liberating themselves from 40 years of the Assad Dictatorial Dynasty, and as his ass is being roasted slowly (before he and his bitch Buthaina Saaban who was once celebrated as a "visiting scholar" by Duke University, are shipped to exile in the Iranian desert), Bashar Assad has decided to "control" the border. Everyone knows the back story: Assad is punishing the Lebanese because he is accusing them of fomenting the trouble he has in Syria and of smuggling weapons and snipers into Syria as a way to deflect his troubles by blaming "conspirators and foreign agents". So he "controls" regular, legitimate trade across the border.

The Syrian Baathists have always done this. Back in the 1960s, they would shut the border to trucks hauling goods from Beirut Harbor to the booming hinterland of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, thus penalizing the Lebanese economy, just to get back at the Lebanese who dared, for instance, quell the pro-Syrian terrorists running "liberation and resistance" mayhem in Lebanon.

Let the Syrian people continue their Intifada and liberate themselves from Assad, his family, his cronies, his Bitch Buthaina Shaaban, and all his Fascist Baath Party hoodlums and beggars. In their liberation and emancipation, perhaps the Syrian people will once and for all give their Lebanese neighbors some relief from 50 years of wars and massacres, all concocted, engineered, planned, and executed by the Syrian Baath monsters. Perhaps, then, Syria and Lebanon can become true friends and neighbors.

Hanibaal

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Syrian Troops Deploy along Lebanese Border to Combat Smuggling
Syrian troops have deployed along Syria's border with Lebanon on Saturday in an effort to combat terrorism, reported the daily An Nahar Sunday. It added that the Syrian border patrol have intensified their procedures along the Syrian-Lebanese border.
Earlier this week, hundreds of trucks were held up at a border crossing between Lebanon and Syria amid heightened security measures enforced as the Syrian regime faces unprecedented protests.
"Between 400 and 500 trucks, most with Syrian or Jordanian license plates, have been held at the Abboudiyeh border crossing for hours for inspection by Syrian security forces," a Lebanese security source told Agence France Presse.