Stupid US Government Keeps Asking Americans what "Race" They are.

There are no "white"-skinned people, just as there are no "black"-skinned people. People with bleached white skin are people who are stricken with the genetic disease of albinism where their body cannot make melanin. Virtually all humans have some level of melanin, and therefore a hue of skin color that ranges from very light beige to very dark brown. And we are all somewhere in between. 

Race is not part of the scientific classification of humans and all living beings on earth. Race is a false social notion created by beige-colored racist Europeans who used the superficial color of skin (among millions of other features of the human being) to distinguish themselves as better than people with darker complexion. Racists are stupid ignorant people. The historically racist and ignorant US government continues to classify Americans by "race". On questionnaires, Americans are always asked which "race" they belong to, and most Americans find it annoying and insulting that they have to make themselves "fit" into one of several categories of "races", when every American is a genetically mixed bastard. 

Please note that the US government never offers the "Jewish" category to choose from, just as it never offers the category of "Christian" or "Muslim". After all, we are bombarded day and night by the US media and government about the so-called "Jewish people" and its right to rape other people and steal their land, then pretend to defend itself from its own victims. The fact the category of "Jewish" is not proposed to the American people is because the government and the media know there is no such category and because Judaism is a just a religion and not a "race" or "ethnicity". There are Black African Jews, Hindi Jews, Arab Jews, Chinese Jews, Iranian Persian Jews, East European Jews, West European Jews, Mediterranean Jews, North African Jews, Yemeni Jews from the Arabian Gulf...] How can all these people who share one religion become an ethnic group or a "race"? 

Muslims do the same inane thing and propagate the same fake notion that there is something called the "Muslim people" when Muslims are of all colors and ethnic backgrounds. Only Christians - except Trump's MAGA morons who want a purely "Christian America" - have abandoned the stupid idea of a "Christian people".

Here is an example of a US government form asking Americans about their "race" or "ethnicity" [In italics are my own comments]: 

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Specific Instructions: The two questions below are designed to identify your ethnicity and race.
 

Question 1. Are You Hispanic or Latino? - i.e. A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. [What the fuck is "Regardless of race"? Can you imagine the breadth of people these categories comprise? People who hail from these countries or cultures are themselves mixed. In most people of "Spanish culture or origin" there is African, European, and Arab at the very least. People who migrated to Latin America took this genetic baggage with them and bred with  Africans slaves and colonized indigenous Amerindians. How on earth can an American know which of these he or she belongs to?]
---Yes             --- No
 

Question 2. Please select the racial category or categories with which you most closely identify by placing an “X” in the appropriate box. Check as many as apply. [Note the use of "closely identify with". It implies that even though you may look African and come from a Latin American country, you "feel" like a Spanish person, and therefore you "identify" yourself and check the "Hispanic or Latino" box above. Also note the "Check as many as apply" option, which means that you could be a bastard of all these presumed "races" and feel like you belong to all of them. Perhaps, the idiotic US government should start subjecting people to a DNA test upon whose results it will determine what fucking "race" or "ethnicity" or culture or other bullshit way of classifying people] 

RACIAL CATEGORY
(Check as many as apply) DEFINITION OF CATEGORY
 

----- American Indian or Alaska Native: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment. [So if you are a native Amerindian but live in a city and not on a reservation, you should not check this box because you do not maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. In other words, the moment you walk out of the reservation, you are no longer a native Amerindian. Which box should you then check? That's another way for the US government to make you disappear from existence, a policy it has been pursuing since the birth of the republic including massacres and expulsions. Israel is doing the same thing with the Palestinians.]

-----Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. [How lovely! Lump all these very different peoples and cultures into one convenient box: Imagine how close is a Sri Lankan to a Japanese person and how, for a white asshole behind a desk in the US government, they're the same. 

You know the West does the same convenient colonial-vintage thing with the so-called "Arab race" (under the sublime "White" box below) and the other so-called "Middle Eastern race": Lumping together hundreds of different cultures, religions, geographies and background because most of them, but not all of them, speak a form of Arabic and most of them, but not all of them, are Muslims of various denominations. The US govermment might as well create a new category for the sublime "English" race which would include the English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Canadians, Australians, Jamaicans, Nigerians, Americans....etc. because most of them speak a form of English and most of them are Christians of various denominations. Wouldn't that be convenient? 

Let us, since we're deep to our eyeballs in this abject stupidity, create new terms from the perspective of Near Easterners, Middle Easterners and Far Easterners: I propose that all Americas (South, Central and North), Greeland, Island, and the UK be lumped together as the "Far West", continental western Europe as the "Middle West", and then Eastern Europe and Russia as the "Near West".]

-----Black or African American: A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. [Would a mixed White and Black mixed "race" person from a Carribean island fit here? How about a half-African American, half-Japanese? US invading fornicating soldiers, themsleves bastards, always leave behind them thousands of bastards. So let's say, you're a US soldier whose mother was an Italian prostitute in New York and whose father was a Batista Black African Cuban exile. In Vietnam, you fathered a child with a Vietnamese prostitute. That child gets the American citizenship. Which box should this super-bastard American check?  And if that person does check all the boxes, how does that help the government? How useful is this information? The government knows that most Americans are bastards with untracable pedigrees, so what gives?]

-----Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. [No specific reason for creating a special category for these people who, again, might be mixed because of how the white criminal settlers raped these peoples, enslaved them, converted them to fanatic protestantism, destroyed their native cultures, forbade them from speaking their own language, and used their land to conduct nuclear tests whose consequences on their health continue to haunt them]

-----White: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. [Really? Again, these categories of "Caucasian" and "white" are very arbitrary, unscientific, and fallacious. How does a person from Finland in Northern Europe fit into the same box as a Mauritanian from northwestern Africa? How does a Yemeni from the so-called "Middle East" fit into the same box as a Scotsman from Northern Britain? Can someone explain the validity of these categories, and therefore their utility to the idiotic US government?]

 

 

Not a Migrant - White-beige Alabama State Trooper Arrested for Child Sex Crimes

Donald Trump should first deport the millions of white-beige-skin-colored criminals that are born in the US and that make up the vast majority of all criminals in this country.

In the finest of backward southern states in the union, US-born white males, and in this case a State Trooper (with all the accessory shit about "service" that accompanies white morons in uniform), continue to top the list of assassins, murderers, drug dealers, rapists and child sex criminals. 

But Donald Dumb needs these southern morons to vote for him, so he keeps attacking immigrants or "ferners" as these idiots pronounce it.

Alabama State Trooper traveled to rape a child but was arrested



 

An Alabama State Trooper has resigned from his position after being arrested by officers of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.

Ryan Rhodes, a nice authentic English sounding name, was taken into custody on Friday, August 23, for soliciting sex with a child over electronic media, then traveling to have sex with that child - which amounts to statutory rape - and the white entitled hero that he is, resisting arrest. 

Hey, Mr. Rhodes is not a migrant, nor is he an immigrant. I think Trump and his handlers should deport the millions of US-born white-beige skin-colored maniacs, sex addicts, alocoholics, drug dealers, rapists and assorted criminals across this country before they touch a single immigrant. They should look up their pedigrees, and decide which is the "foundational" country from which they or their ancestors came - which is most likely to be England -  and deport them back there.

The US and Israel Bond: Exterminate the Natives

Just as Israel has been doing over the past 100 years - exterminating, raping, stealing, expelling, burning....- to the indigenous Palestinian people, so was the US largely built on exterminating, raping, stealing and expelling the native Americans from their lands.

Remember the story about Tantura, the Palestinian village by the Mediterranean, and how it was "israelized", a story told by an Israeli with some remorse?

https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2022/02/tantura-israels-independence-as.html

The difference though is that the Palestinians did not vanish in the background in some forgotten reservation like the Amerindians, though the Zionist barbarian settlers are trying their best to make them disappear. The Palestinians are still fighting, and this is the 21st century, not the 18th or 19th centuries. While the white English racist settler crooks got away with murder in north America, the white European Zionist settlers will not get away with murder. Unfortunately for them, their Johnny-come-late me-too colonialism was late in a world that was already shedding its colonial past. It hasn't worked yet, and it just won't work.

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A town's name recalls the massacre of Indigenous people. Will changing it bring healing?
Tyrone Beason
Mon, August 19, 2024


A roadside historical marker near Clear Lake describes the mass killing of Indigenous people, mostly women and children, by U.S. soldiers in 1850. The "Bloody Creek Massacre" and events that triggered it are now the focus of a debate over whether to change the name of nearby Kelseyville.` (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

The town of Kelseyville bills itself as one of Northern California's best-kept secrets — an idyllic wine country community that overlooks the state's largest freshwater lake, as well as a 4,305-foot volcano that is blanketed in greenery.

But a dispute has erupted over a proposal to change the town's name because of the history it evokes of violence against Indigenous people.

Mountains rise over Konocti Vista Marina, just north of Kelseyville. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

It is said that the town takes its name from Andrew Kelsey, a notorious white settler who, with his business partner Charles Stone, brutalized Pomo villagers in the late 1840s — murdering men on a whim, raping women and youths, trafficking children and enslaving and starving tribal members.

"These guys were evil, evil men," says Duncan Clayton, an elder from the Robinson Rancheria Band of Eastern Pomo Indians. "They exerted complete control by inflicting terror on the people."

The Lake County Board of Supervisors has responded to calls from both tribal and non-Indigenous residents to change the town's name — and by extension confront this dark history — by placing a nonbinding advisory measure on the Nov. 5 ballot. It asks residents across the county to vote on whether Kelseyville should be renamed for the mountain that towers over the town, Konocti — a Pomo word meaning "Mountain Woman" that celebrates both the volcano and the area's 14,000 years of Indigenous history.

A vineyard sprawls along the banks of Clear Lake as Mt. Konocti rises in the background. Lake County residents will vote on changing the name of Kelseyville to Konocti. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Even if voters reject the measure, the board has indicated that it still might move forward with recommending the change to the U.S. Bureau of Geographic Names, which has authority over the naming process because Kelseyville is in an unincorporated part of Lake County and lacks its own government.

Few of Kelseyville's 3,800 residents dispute that Andrew Kelsey was a cruel man who seemed to take pleasure in mistreating Indigenous people. He and one of his brothers, Ben Kelsey, were infamous in their own time too, according to a research paper by historian and archaeologist John Parker. The paper was presented to the Lake County Historical Society in 2021, and can be watched on YouTube.

Fed up with the abuse, tribal members banded together and executed both Andrew Kelsey and Stone. Accounts of how the men were killed and what happened next vary, Parker found. What is clear, however, is that the killings set off a wave of retaliatory attacks orchestrated by Kelsey's brothers, armed vigilantes and the U.S. Army. The attacks culminated in the "Bloody Island Massacre" on May 15, 1850, when cavalry soldiers slaughtered hundreds of Indigenous villagers at Clear Lake.

Attackers stormed a ceremonial gathering place on an island on the lake's north end called Bo-No-Po-Ti, hunting down women, children and elderly people with bayonets as they fled for cover in the marshes.

Duncan's great-grandmother, Lucy Moore, was just 6 when U.S. soldiers and self-appointed avengers besieged her and other villagers.

For 25 years, Duncan has led a springtime sunrise ceremony at the lake to commemorate the massacre, inviting those in attendance to offer forgiveness for what Kelsey, and cohorts such as his brother, and the U.S. did to his ancestors.

He sees the violence as rooted in avarice, white supremacy and a profound hatred of Indigenous people that rang through in the proclamations of elected officials of the time, including California's first governor, Peter Hardeman Burnett, who publicly mused about the need to pursue a "war of extermination" against the state's tribes.

"It was murder and theft — that simple," Duncan said recently by phone. "We were in the way of their greed and in the way of all this land."

Bo-No-Po-Ti, the scene of the Bloody Island Massacre, rises from a field. When the mass killing of Indigenous people occurred there on May 15, 1850, the site was surrounded by water and marshes. The area has since been drained. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

It's a sentiment echoed in the 2016 book "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe." Author and UCLA historian Benjamin Madley wrote that those who committed atrocities such as the Bloody Island Massacre were part of a "killing machine" made up of state and federal authorities, volunteers and hired mercenaries. Like the Spanish and Mexican colonizers before them, American settlers believed that God had decreed their right to California's natural wealth, and that Indigenous people stood between them and boundless prosperity.

The marshy site where the massacre took place is now dry land — barely noticeable to visitors save for a roadside historical marker that describes the tragedy. But tribal leaders say that doing away with "Kelseyville" will give Indigenous residents a new way to seek healing from a historical trauma that lives on in their hearts and minds.

The effort to change the town's name started in 2020 as an outgrowth of meetings among concerned county residents who went on to form the group Citizens for Healing. Last year, committee co-founder Lorna Sides formally submitted the change request to the BGN, and touched off a fierce public debate.

Sides, 72, says she was recently accosted by a pair of residents on the street who accused her of hurting the close-knit town.

Sides, who is white and not affiliated with any tribe, says she only has one regret.

"I'm just sorry it's become such a battle," she said.

While some opponents say the change would be too costly to implement for the small community, and too burdensome for those whose livelihoods depend on the name recognition that comes with "Kelseyville," there are others who don't believe that changing the town's name is the proper salve for acts of dispossession that played out on a massive scale.

A view of Clear Lake in July. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Local residents and businesspeople formed the group Save Kelseyville to push back against Sides and others who say the change is needed to help atone for past wrongs.

"Changing the name of Kelseyville will not change the past," the group wrote on its website. "This initiative has divided our community rather than offered any healing. The platform to discuss the past may disappear with the name. It is best to educate about history instead of trying to erase it."

Kelseyville isn't the only town in the region that's grappling with its name. Farther west on the Pacific Coast, a group called Change Our Name Fort Bragg has waged a similar effort, arguing that the town's name honors a slave-holding Confederate general named Braxton Bragg and commemorates a military installation "that facilitated genocide, ethnic cleansing, and involuntary servitude of the indigenous people," according to the group's Facebook page.

Given how the Kelseys tried to rob native people of their ancestral connection to their homeland farther inland, it's dismaying to see people in 2024 argue to keep the name Kelseyville, says Duncan's nephew, Lake County Supervisor Chair Eddie Crandell. He's also vice chair of the Robinson Rancheria Citizens Business Council.

While the board has been criticized by some for ordering a countywide vote rather than confining the election to Kelseyville, and by others for not taking direct action to change the name, Crandell says it's only fair to allow voters throughout the county to participate — given that descendants of those harmed by the Kelseys don't just live in Kelseyville.

Crandell says he feels an obligation to his four children and his ancestors to support the change, which he hopes will foster a greater appreciation for some of the first peoples to inhabit Northern California. He says he was only in his 30s when he began to learn about his Pomo culture, because much of that history had been whitewashed in school lessons.

"[Opponents] say you can't change history and when does it stop? I have that same question," says Crandell, 47. "When does it stop that we're being ignored and not taught our true history?"

Not all Indigenous residents of Lake County are of the same mind about the name change.

Flaman McCloud Jr., chairman of the Big Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians, said some are indifferent, or don't see the value of dwelling on the past.

Others, McCloud says, are worried about antagonizing the town's majority-white population when Native Americans make up less than 2%. He, too, has felt apprehensive at times about speaking publicly on an issue that stirs up age-old racial tensions.

"This county is rural — cowboys and Indians," says McCloud, 45. "It's still that way. I'm concerned about what my kids are going to go through if it happens."

"But if we don't do it," McCloud says, "we're still going to be looked at as second-class citizens."

Hear the Racist Truth from their Own Mouth: "White" Jews vs. "Dark" Palestinians

Republicans support Israel because ‘Jews are whiter than Palestinians’

Democratic strategist James Carville believes that racism is what’s really behind the Republican Party’s strong support for Israel over the Palestinians.

During a podcast of "Politics War Room", Carville and co-host Al Hunt discussed why there is a disparity in support for Israel between the Republican and Democratic Parties, stating that the Republicans are much more unified in their support for the country because its citizens are "whiter."

"And the reason I suspect that most of these people describe themselves as pro-Israel is because the Jews are whiter than the Palestinians," he told Hunt.

The topic came up during a question-and-answer segment where Hunt read a guest question asking how a party that has "openly embraced" the "alt-right" and "neo-Nazis" can present itself as the "most pro-Israel party." That is one of the most blatant hypocrisy of Trump and the racist pro-KKK Republicans of this country: They claim to love Israel but are the most devious anti-semites around.

Carville replied, stating that the racism of the party drives it to support Israel.

"It’s really about the misogyny and the racism that drives the thing, and we got to recognize that. It’s not about any policy prescription," he said, adding that the GOP supports the "whiter" Jews over Palestinians.

As to why pro-Palestinian protesters choose to focus on disrupting Democratic Party events, when the GOP is far more supportive of Israel, a pro-Palestinian activist explained this dynamic by saying, "So, the reason that they say we’re targeting Democrats is because, well, we think they would be more open-minded about this. But we’re not going to do anything to the Republicans because we’re not gonna have any influence."

The strategist expressed frustration that the Democratic Party has to deal with this, while the GOP doesn’t. "Well, that’s just some dumb--- political s---."

"So, you’re going to hurt the person that actually has the best chance of resolving this issue in a satisfactory way cause you can’t influence the other person," he said. "I don’t get the logic, I don’t get the logic at all. I just don’t."

What Carville is missing is that the Democrats too are hypocritical on the Palestine issue. They claim to be more open on the flagrantly pro-Zionist position of the US, but have done less and less since Bill Clinton sponsored the Oslo Accords in the early 1990s. Since then, Israel has violated all the provisions of these accords and the Democratic party, including the Obama and Biden administrations, did not make a single serious attempt to address the increasingly volatile situtation that is caused by the extreme right wing ultra-religious Zionist settler barbarians and their continued land theft and aggression against the indigenous Palestinian population. 

All US administrations - both Democrat and Republican - have blocked every single United Nations Security Resolution, including during the last four years under Democract Biden, to try and rein in the savagery of the US-armed Zionists. Biden just pledged $20 billion to the Israelis as they continue to murder entire families and children in Gaza and the West Bank.

The "uncommitted" vote (those Democrats who say they will not vote for Harris unless she commits to addressing the Palestine tragedy fairly and treat Israel as a rogue genocidal state) will have a major impact on the elections. Anti-Zionist demonstrations and protests are planned during the Democratic Convention that begins today in Chicago.

Zionist propaganda in the US continues to portray Israelis as "white westerners" and Palestinians as "dark middle easterners", thus exploiting the American ignorance in matters of race. Supreme terrorist settler Netanyahu himself continues to claim that Israel's war against the indigenous Palestinians is the western world's war against darkness and "human animals". 

The unspoken words here are that Judaism is a "white" religion, while Islam is a "dark" religion. Zionist propaganda continues to claim that there is a Judeo-Christian world that is at war against a Muslim world, when the fact is that Islam for centuries had thrived in accommodation with its Jewish populations - they were both subjected to the Inquisition and were expelled from Spain in 1492, while the Christian West invented Anti-Semitism and practiced it in the most savage ways possible. It is only after the creation of the Jewish colony in Palestine that Zionism started a program of enticing Jews from around the Arab world into migrating to Israel for no other reason than to increase the number of Jews, then claiming that those Jews were expelled from their native Arab countries.

Zionist Jewish Terrorist Settlers Carry out Pogrom in Palestine

Even the president of the Jewish American Settler Colony in Palestine has condemned what his people - whom he himself has encouraged in their murderous attacks and land theft - did yesterday in Palestine, saying it was a 'pogrom". As usual, there will be no accountability because the settlers, albeit radical extremist ultra-religious barbarians, had ancestors who were once poor victims of the German and European Holocaust. I fail to see the connection between the Holocaust and its as an excuse to commit genocide against a people that had nothing to do with the genocide.

The toilet roll the Torah said some 3,000 years ago that Yahweh, the Jewish god, gave the Hebrews the land and ordered them to massacre every Canaanite man, woman, child and beast. Can anyone challenge the word of a fucking god who, the Jews say, "preferred" them over every other member of the human species? Not the billions of brainwashed idiots who believe the garbage written by smelly old nomads in the deserts of Arabia during the Stone Age. People: we are in the 21st century! We no longer live under tents with goats and camels. We no longer believe myths and farbrications from the time when humans were at the peak of their ignorance and barbarity.

"This is not our way and certainly not the way of Torah and Judaism," "President" Herzog lied on X. IT IS THE WAY OF THE TORAH, say his settler citizens". Can anyone explain the contradiction? These Jewish ultra-religious fanatics are the exact clones of the Muslim ultra-religious fanatics who keep telling us that Islam is a religion of peace while we watch Islam wreak havoc across the world for the past several decades.

So-called "moderate" Jews are no different from the so-called "moderate" Muslims who will publicly disavow the Islamist terrorists and child killers while providing them with a safe environment as they pretend to defend their religion. "Moderate" Herzog says the right things, but everything around him says the exact opposite: The barbarity of the creation of Israel by Europeans colonizing and stealing another people's land, evicting or killing as many of the indigenous Palestinians, and creating an artifical America vassal "state" over the bodies, homes, villages and cities of Palestine was not a "moderate" action. It was barbarity, genocide, dispossession, expulsion, denial of history and human dignity.

Will it be a "moderate" action by Ben-Gvir and Smotrich to want to pray at Al-Aqsa in violation of established agreements? If the Palestinians concede on this one, the next step will be for the rabid Zionist fanatics to want part of the real estate. Then the whole thing, little by little, in installments, just as they vae carried out their ethnic cleansing of Palestine in small doses, so no one notices. At least this is what these idiots think. Will it a "moderate" action to demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque and built a Synaguoge on its ruins? Because these criminals declare openly that this is their objective. Will the international community wait until it happens to "denounce" as unhelpful the destruction of what 1.5 billion Muslims believe is a sacred site?

If the European Jews who fled Europe from the European Nazis have a problem, it is not with the Palestinians who had nothing to do with the Holocaust. Their problem is with the Europeans: Let the Europeans, who now say they are no longer Nazis and who love the Jews so much that they let them get away with murder, give them a piece of land somwehere in Europe to build themselves a European Israel. There is no place for Israel in the Near East. Like the Crusades, Zionism will eventually retreat and become unfashionable and Israel will be rejected like the European Christian Kingdom of Heaven did some 800 years ago.

Listen to Herzog's hypocrisy: He urged law enforcement officials to "act immediately against this serious phenomenon and bring the lawbreakers to justice". But 75 years of Jewish abuse of the native Palestinians were never "immediate", nor were the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine judged as "serious".

What happened yesterday was that a gang of terrorist Jewish settlers attacked the peaceful village of Jit in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, killed one Palestinian and wounded another. Mahmoud Abdel Qader Sadda, 23, was killed, and a citizen was critically injured in the chest by settlers’ bullets” in the village of Jit, west of Nablus.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA said “armed settlers” attacked the western part of the village, “setting several vehicles ablaze.” The Israeli military, which is in collusion with the Jewish terrorists and usually watches without interfering as the violence is inflicted on the Palestinians, said “dozens of Israeli civilians, some of them masked,” entered Jit and “set fire to vehicles and structures in the area, hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails.” Videos posted on social media showed homes burning in the village of Jit, east of Qalqilia in the West Bank.

The Jesuitic Jewish numskull Herzog said his heart is bleeding sewage at the attack, “I strongly condemn this evening’s pogrom in Samaria,” distorting even the name of North Palestine and using the biblical name preferred by the Jewish terrorist settlers, a name that has not been used in at least 2,000 years.

“This is an extreme minority that harms the law-abiding settler population and the settlement as a whole and the name and position of Israel in the world during a particularly sensitive and difficult period. This is not our way and certainly not the way of Torah and Judaism. Law enforcement officials must act immediately against this serious phenomenon and bring the lawbreakers to justice," Herzog said.

What extreme minority? The whole people of Israel is an extremist settler population that has been inflicting this sort of savagery on the indigenous Palestinians on the basis of an anachronistic religious argument for the past 100 years. And since the 1970s, after some sort of status quo was reached, it wasn't enough: 700,000 Jewish settler thieves have been buring Palestinian villages, stealing communal lands from around the villages, uprooting and setting olive trees and orchards on fire, expelling Palestinians from their land, poisoning their wells and their sheep.... The construt of the monstrosity of Israel is not the act of a minority; it is the act of a colonial horde of wealthy and sophisticated Europeans who took advantage of a mostly rural and unsophisticated population just emerging from 400 years of another barbaric Ottoman Turkish occupation. The Palestinians had barely awakened from the long nightmare of Turkish occupation that a new equally barbaric and religious horde of European criminals descended on them thanks to the perfidious creepy colonial crooks, the racist ENGLISH.

Jewish Zionist settlements are considered illegal under international law, but nothing has ever been done to stop them and stop the ethnic cleansing. The international community has been condemning the settlements, referring to them as "unhelpful" to a non-existent peace process. When will the international community and the Zionists' dogs the Americans do something about it? When it is too late?

The Zionists claim that the Palestinians have violated every ceasefire agreement reached with the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. As a result, says Rahm Emmanuel, the once Jewish mayor of Chicago and now the US ambassador to Japan, Israel has every right to commite genocide in Gaza. But why did the Palestinians violate the agreements? Because the Israelis violate every agreement and every internationnal law by continuoulsy stealing land and expelling Palestinians from their lands. Don't the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves too?

Alain Aoun, Abi-Ramia, and soon Kanaan: Ex-FPM Political Refugees

Moronic Disintegration of the FPM: Bassil's Free unPatriotic Bowel Movement

One more is about to slam the door on his way out, and that is FPM's Ibrahim Kanaan, a well-respected and hard-working MP. Pretty soon, only the lousy scum servants of Dear Leader Bassil will be left in the Flatulent Prostitute Movement. The string of dismissals and resignations continues unabated from the ranks of a party, once a promising candidate for a modern democratic party, that has become a typical feudal, dictatorial, tribal, familial Christian Lebanese party. It is so pathetic and so disappointing that Michel Aoun's legacy ends in such a putrid disarray, thanks to his bazaar haggler son-in-law Gebran Bassil. 

Instead of the promises made to his followers during his time in exile, Michel Aoun has failed to deliver on establishing a party along a modern model of political parties: No inheritance, no cronyism, based on democratic practices, reliance on merit and a secular foundation.... What happened? Aoun was seduced by his son-in-law whose ambition was to seize power and never relinquish it, just like with the other Lebanese Christian political parties. Aoun was also seduced by the siren song of becoming a president, if only he betrayed his principles and switched his political discourse upside down: Bassil made the old man sign a toilet paper "memorandum of 'disgraceful' understanding" with the foreign-made radical Shiite fundamentalist terrorist organization of Hezbollah that has been destroying Lebanon ever since it erupted on the scene in 1981 right after the Islamic Theocracy took power in Iran in 1979 and proceeded to implant itself in the Bekaa Valley where it created Hezbollah. 

No one suspected that a man like Aoun whose career prior to 2006 was one of a rebel hero who opposed all the enemies, domestic or foreign, of the Lebanese state, an army general who battled the Syrians and their criminal allies to protect the presidential palace in 1984, who fought against all the puppet leaders that Syria imposed on Lebanon during its occupation... No one suspected that he would become a slave, a traitor, a puppet to his former enemies, just so he becomes president.

And president he became thanks to the scuttling of the constitutional process by his ally Hezbollah during two and a half years. And the irony is that Hezbollah is doing the exact same thing now by scuttling the constitutional process again to force the election of its new puppet Sleiman Frangiyeh.

Bassil is like Iznogoud l'Infame. He is a lowly vizir who wants to become Caliph in lieu of the Caliph (i.e. president of Lebanon), just like his father-in-law did, by violating the rules. And he has so far dragged Aoun's followers along with him. But the dissonance between what these followers stood for since 1988 and where Bassil has taken them is now too unbearable that many are abandoning the sinking FPM ship.

Not only does Bassil demand blind allegiance of his imbecile acerebral followers - as if he was Amin Gemayel or Samir Geagea or Sleiman Frangiyeh, all well-steeped feudal tribal leaders - but he cracks the whip when they dare dissent. BAsed on how he runs his desintegrating party, I dare not imagine what he'll do if he becomes president of this miserablre country.

Let's see, ever since Bassil hijacked Michel Aoun's party by signing his sanitary pad with Hezbollah, they have been dumping the party. From the early ones to the latest ones, with Kanaan soon to become the very latest.

The early ones did not have sufficient political ambition to sacrifice their principles and betray their conscience. Then there were the weak greedy ones whose political ambition overrode their principles, so they sold the latter and followed like miserable pawns their new leader, the DEAR LEADER GEBRAN BASSIL, صلى الله عليه وسلّم, SON-IN-LAW OF THE SUPREME LEADER MICHEL AOUN,,سيد التصديق وأفضل البشر رضي الله تعالى عنهما  . Supreme Leader Aoun, of course, made them ambassadors, MPs and ministers. One in particular, Toby Herdane, got nothing even as he kept licking the raspy behinds of both Aoun and Bassil in the hope of squeezing some oily or gassy benefits; but alas, Dear Leader banished him. But the hemorroids in the conscience of those who stayed put as slaves to the Dear and Supreme Leaders kept itching, and now they have to scratch. They can't take it anymore. 

Alain Aoun, who ought to be the Crown Prince (he's a nephew, with 1/4 of the Supreme Leader's genome, since he traveled down the vas deferens from the left testicle of the Supreme Leader's brother) was dismissed from the party by Dear Leader Gebran Bassil last week. Bassil's claims to the throne rest entirely on his regularly consummation of his marriage with the Supreme Leader's daughter. How dare the non-spermatic intruder into the Supreme Leader's divine circle - Bassil -  evict a 25% spermatic heir - Alain? Unheard of in the political inbred family farms of Christian Lebanon.

This booting of Alain Aoun prompted another politically ambitious numskull traitor to his own conscience to resign. What an act of courage after 18 years of kissing the ring of Bassil to become MP and minister. But I'm being generous calling Simon Abi-Ramia's resignation an act of courage. What it is in fact is that Abi-Ramia sees Hezbollah's end coming soon, what with the war drums beating all over the place. By resigning NOW from the party that provided Hezbollah with a Christian fig leaf to continue its undermining and destruction of Lebanon on behalf of Iran, a party that has enabled Hezbollah to become the existential threat it represents today to Lebanon, Abi-Ramia has in fact acted in pure cowardice."Let me get the hell out from under Hassan Nasrallah's abaya while there's still time," Abi-Ramia must have told himself during many long sleepless nights.

But MP Ibrahim Kanaan might be given the benefit of the doubt, even though he too betrayed his conscience for 18 years. At least, he's a hard-working, well-informed MP. So he retains respect with many of his enemies. But he has now announced that we will seek to revive dialogue between the insiders of the party and those who have either left or been excluded from it. Kanaan's initiative, presented during a press conference at his office in Jdeideh (Metn district) and streamed live on his Facebook page, included five main demands:

1- Reverse the recent exclusions and resignations. 

2- End the ongoing media conflict between those he described as members of the "same house" 

3- Set a one-week deadline to resolve disputes. 

4- Enact reforms to the party's decision-making process to enhance member participation, and

5- Reprioritize the objectives of the parliamentary bloc of the FPM. 

Bassil is a stubborn donkey. He is unlikely to agree to these demands. Therefore, expect Kanaan to resign early next week as I had predicted a couple of weeks ago [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2024/08/alain-aoun-useful-idiocy-with-stench-of.html].

==================== update late August 2024 ===================

Kanaan has resigned from the Fornicating Prostitute Movement (FPM) party of Dear Leader Bassil. Along with Alain Aoun, Simon Abi-Ramia, Elias Abou-Saab, Kanaan now is part of the Four Horsemen of  the Apocalypse of Aoun's legacy. Shorty Bassil has none of the aura that Michel Aoun had. Neither he nor his party will last much longer. His "bloc" in parlaiment has shruken down from 23 to 15, with the remaining MPs having been elected only because they were listed on Hezbollah's electoral lists. It is unlikely that BAssil will be able to make such deals at the next elections; Hezbollah is upset with him and doesn't see him as the useful idiot it once did. That is why Hezbollah's candidate to the presidency is Sleiman Frangiyeh, not Gebran Bassil.

 

Archives: Defeat of the Syria Accountability Act of 2002 by US Pro-Syrian State Dept. Apologists

I came across this article on a Lebanese-Canadian website [https://www.clhrf.com/hitti/hitti23.9.02.htm] by Joseph Hitti written in September 2002 when the first version of the Syria Accountability Act (SAA) was defeated by US State Department Arabist crooks who argued for maintaining "dialogue" with the murderous Assad regime. 

A year later, however, in 2003, an amended version, the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act (SALSRA) passed with success. It was not the puny efforts of the Lebanese American lobbyists of Michel Aoun that made a difference; the bill maintained its initial 2002 focus on Syria Accountability, which was defeated. But now after the US invasion of Iraq, Assad was dispatching Islamist terrorists into Iraq to fight the Americans, and that changed the posture of the Bush administration. What the American Lebanese lobbyists of Michel Aoun did was to beg the Jewish members of Congress (Eliot Engel and others who sponsored the bill) to add "Lebanese Sovereignty" to the title of the bill. Whereas in 2002 the bill did not mention Lebanon, in 2003, the words "Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration" were added to the title of the bill as a little cherry on the cake. That is not victory by any means. Proof? The US continued to sell cheap and valueless Lebanon to Syria and Iran in the bazaar of its other interests in the region.

Further, this is evidence that the so-called Lebanese American lobby consists of individual, random, occasional, incompetent, divided and disorganized acts of pathetic public relations stunts. No other successes followed that fleeting superficial success of SALSRA in 2003, and today in 2024 the Lebanese Americans remain as divided as they have always been and are incapable of steering US policy to the advantage of Lebanon. What a serious Lebanese American lobby should look like is a strong, well-funded, and united organization with long term planning to effect a fundamental grassroots change in how Lebanon is viewed by the American public. But do not expect the bigoted religious imbeciles dispatched by the Maronite Church and the traditionalist primitive Lebanese political parties to lobby the US government as a united, smart, organized and effective movement.

In fact, as we speak, the US administration is probably selling Lebanon, once again, to Syria, Iran and its allies in order to prevent an attack on Israel and to preserve the chances of a nuclear deal with Iran. The US is in fact encouraging Israel to strike Lebanon in a premeptive move whose outcome would be to surrender a devastated Lebanon to Hezbollah and Iran. Just like in 1982-1988 when the US twice sold Lebanon (1st time in 1983 by Reagan the coward who fled from the Syrian-Iranian-Hezbollah truck-bombing of his Marines, then went on to sell weapons to Iran to get his hostages back, and the 2nd time in 1990 when George H W Bush and his James Baker the Turd Secretary of State sold Lebanon to Syria, with Israel's collusion, in exchange for Syria joining the anti-Saddam coalition. With a friend like the US, who needs enemies?

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Boston, Massachusetts
Joseph Hitti
New England Americans for Lebanon
September 23, 2002

THE INEVITABLE FAILURE OF THE PRO-SYRIAN APOLOGISTS

American apologists of the Syrian tyranny are led by former US ambassadors to the region, David Satterfield, Edward Djerejian, and Richard Murphy, and their Arab-American poodles of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). Other apologists include the country-club-style wealthy hypocrites of the American Taskforce for Lebanon, kowtowing to billionaire Issam Fares of the Lebanese government and the Syrian Embassy in Washington DC, among other "special interests" groups. In addition, there are those academics, media pundits, and State Department "Arabists" whose impoverished intellectual horizons lead them, in knee-jerk opposition to a perceived pro-Israeli slant in the US political discourse, to blindly support the Syrian totalitarian regime. Oblivious to the fact that the Assad regime has, since its inception in 1970, been no less than a clone of the Iraqi regime, these pseudo-intellectuals and political mercenaries rush to over-simplify complex political problems they are unable to comprehend, and in the process, abandon any creative attempt at imagining other alternatives to the simplistic dichotomy - pro-Arab vs. pro-Israeli - under which they operate.

The Syrian regime is documented to have committed the same identical crimes as the Iraqi regime, crimes ranging from mass murder of its own people (Hama, 1981), flagrant persecution of human rights activists (Riyad Turk), and the brutal and destructive 30-year long occupation of Lebanon that remains by far a greater war of annihilation of a once prosperous, tolerant, diverse, and liberal country than the 6-months Iraqi mayhem in Kuwait in 1990.

As an example of the paucity of their moral and intellectual capital, the pro-Syrian apologists are frantically trying to abort the first US law ever under consideration that will impose sanctions on Syria. The bill and its sanctions, mild by comparison to those imposed on Iraq, call for the US government to hold Syria accountable for its actions for the first time in more than 30 years. The Syria Accountability Act of 2002 - HR4483 and S2215 - sponsored by Richard Armey and Eliot Engel of the House, and by Barbara Boxer and Rick Santorum of the Senate, has to-date garnered 160 co-sponsors from the House and 40 co-sponsors from the Senate since April 18. Hearings were held at the House International Relations Committee last September 18, after pressing requests from the Bush Administration caused delays. In fact, the State Department representative scheduled to testify, former Ambassador David Satterfield, failed to show up and submitted instead a half-page statement declaring that the State Department agrees in full with the tenets of the bill, but considers its "timing" to be inappropriate.

Counter to reason, the pro-Syrian apologists have not changed their tune for close to two decades now, even after September 11. Having literally completed the delivery of Lebanon into the hands of the Assad dynasty in 1990, with promises of a Syrian withdrawal that were never kept, Satterfield, Djerejian and Murphy now lead the posse against the Syria Accountability Act of 2002, trying to convince the American people that Syria is a decent country with an accountable government that can continue to indefinitely "stabilize" Lebanon, as it has done since ca. 1970. The flagrant contradictions in this position are primarily reflected in the fact that it is State Department, and not the Congress, which has kept Syria high on its list of state sponsors of terrorism.

The sum of this untenable position is that the State Department, the primary diplomatic and foreign affairs body of the US government, wants the American people to believe two completely opposite propositions:

1. Syria is a terrorist state that supports Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and others who have killed, bombed, hijacked, and kidnapped hundreds of American citizens over the past two decades, and

2. Syria is a useful partner and a source of intelligence in the War on Terrorism that has saved American lives! [And its “presence” in Lebanon has “stabilized” the country]

In fact, the coincidence is too great to go unnoticed: In the early 1970s, Hafez Assad seized power in Damascus, Syria embarked on its program of "stabilization" of Lebanon - first by proxy PLO and other Palestinian contingents of the Syrian Army, then directly and with the Hezbollah proxy - and Lebanon began its descent into the well-known spiral of violence, from which it never emerged. Erroneously referred to as the Lebanese "civil war", the conflict was essentially a war of the rejectionist Arabs using the Palestinians as their militia against the only liberal Arab country in their midst. Not only was Lebanon a playground of freedoms and a platform of challenging novel ideas for otherwise socially and politically frustrated and oppressed Arabs, but the country offered a dangerous prototype of coexistence, diversity and tolerance, that existed nowhere else in the region. 

Lebanon promoted, practiced, and lived "in the gut" an East-West dialogue between moderate Christians and moderate Moslems. Lebanon was - at least until the Syrian stranglehold - the only place where Moslems cohabited with unsubjugated Christians, and were therefore a living challenge to the tenets of the ever-omnipresent threat of Sharia or Islamic Law under which all other Islamic countries operate. As a result, every fugitive dissenter, poet, political reformer, and free-market enthusiast escaping his or her own Arab country, found shelter in Lebanon's constitutively open environment by virtue of the diversity that makes up its society.

Today, thirty years into the Syrian program of "stabilization" of Lebanon, Syria is firmly in control of Lebanon's political and military institutions, educational programs, trade policies, and foreign affairs. Radical Islam and terrorism flourish, and terrorist groups and former warlords are now legitimate members of government who granted amnesty to their own militias, but exiled, killed or jailed their Christian opponents. The state is absent from the entire swath of land in the south of the country, in contravention to international law, having ceded its authority there to Hezbollah even after the pretext of the Israeli occupation had evaporated with the Israeli withdrawal of June 2000. Ethnic and religious persecution is the norm now under a police state previously unknown in Lebanon, with human rights abuses and repression replicating a Syrian-style totalitarian system.

Twelve years after the Syrian Army evicted the legitimate government of Prime Minister Michel Aoun and replaced it with a government of Syrian stooges (presently President Emile Lahoud and Prime Minister Rafik Hariri), Lebanon remains at the mercy of a pro-Iranian Islamic terrorist group, Hezbollah, and a cohort of other terrorist groups that Syria activates or de-activates at will to make a point, send a message, give in to international pressures, or exert pressure on Israel. And throughout that tragic history, Syria always offered a credulous or colluding international community the best deniability argument any occupier can have: Blame the occupied victim. "The Lebanese are unruly", say the Syrians and their American apologists. "Eruptions of violence are proof that the Lebanese cannot rule themselves", they have told successive US administrations. "Remove the Syrian Army from Lebanon and the latter will once again fall into sectarian violence that threatens US interests in the region", declared an editorial in the Baath Party mouthpiece "Tishreen" last week. Fact is the only armed groups in Lebanon today that can initiate such violence are the pro-Syrian terrorist groups, which is pure unadulterated evidence that Syria has been, and continues to be, the arsonist fireman who starts the sectarian fires in Lebanon, then turns to a naive West and asks to be watched while it puts those fires down.

One needs to look a little closer to the "violence" to see the hands of Syria. As it was in the early 1970s, Lebanese violence always appears "balanced": A tit for tat, an eye for an eye. In June, for example, a car bomb killed a pro-Syrian Palestinian activist on the same day that the decomposing body of an anti-Syrian Lebanese activist was found ten days after he had disappeared. This latest violence between pro-Syrian and anti-Syrian forces in Lebanon, happening all of a sudden at the same time that Syria is under intense pressure to demonstrate its allegiance to the war on terrorism, is precisely the indicator that it is engineered by Syria itself to maintain the justification for its occupation. The reality is that Syria has an extensive network of intelligence agents that activates the violence through the kidnapping, bombing, harassing, assassinating, or jailing of people at will, to maintain a climate of fear and modulate public opinion against a backdrop of mounting pressures from the US and the Syria Accountability Act itself.

The pro-Syrian apologists have argued for decades, as they argue today in their effort to defeat the Syria Accountability Act of 2002 that, first, Syria is a factor of stability in Lebanon, upon which the US can depend to keep Hezbollah and the other terrorist groups under check. Second, they use a Realpolitik argument to defend a policy of engagement with Syria, even at the cost of the ruin of a country like Lebanon that once was has been a bastion of freedoms, diversity, free market economy, and friendship with the West. Both arguments have failed the test of time. Hezbollah and the terrorist groups wreaked havoc in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East during the 1980s and through the middle 1990s. Hamas and Islamic Jihad continue to claim from Damascus their responsibility for acts of terrorism inside Israel. The policy of engagement has been a major US foreign policy blunder since of all countries bordering on Israel, Syria alone refuses to make peace. Egypt and Jordan have made peace with Israel, and Lebanon attempted to sign a peace treaty with Israel in May 1983 only to be forced by Syria to abrogate it. Even the Palestinians in their current predicament under the Palestinian Authority do not dispute the ultimate objective of a negotiated settlement with Israel.

At its foundation, the argument of the pro-Syrian apologists is oxymoronic: The US cannot depend on a state-sponsor of terrorism like Syria to keep terrorist groups under check. It is the equivalent of asking Slobodan Milosevic to invade Bosnia-Herzegovina and keep the Bosnian Serbs under check! Why would people, including senior State Department officials, feel compelled to subscribe to the anomalous concept of Syria as a factor of stability in the Middle East remains somewhat of a mystery. Unless one invokes conspiratorial secrets and shady deals. Or it may simply be the perfectly human quality of refusing to accept failure, and in this case, the lack of character of Richard Murphy, Edward Djerejian, and David Satterfield that leads them to continue defending an indefensible position simply because it would not look good on their resumes! Mr. Djerejian, Murphy, and Satterfield have built their careers on that concept, and they are not about to desist from it at the twilight of their careers. Call it stubbornness if you will, but September 11 did not give these bureaucrats sufficient pause to think about how the world has changed, and how Syria needs to be held accountable after 30 years of mayhem, hatred, death, and destruction in Lebanon and the Middle East at large.

An assortment from the Syrian basket of terrorist-totalitarian delights:

1 - Syria mass-murdered 20,000 Syrian civilians in the city of Hama in a 48-hour long siege in 1981.

2 - Syria has put on trial a 72-year-old human rights activist and dissident, Mr. Riyad Turk, who spent 17 years in jail without a trial ever, was released in 1998 declaring that Syria is a "kingdom of silence" and that he will never feel genuinely free unless "Syria converts itself from a tyranny to a democracy". He was then arrested again eight months ago. Charges against him: "Weakening the national spirit, stirring up sectarian tensions, transmitting or exaggerating false information with the intent to weaken the pride of the nation and bring harm to the dignity and position of the State". He faces life in prison.

3 - Hezbollah continues to fight Israel unabated, first with an arguably justifiable alibi of the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon, but now with only their blind hatred of the Jewish State and in their desire to transform Lebanon into a small clone of Iran.

4 - Terrorist groups that Syria started and supported for 30 years now have continued to derail the peace process. Syria, in tandem with Iran for that matter, has fueled the anti-peace process or "rejectionist" camp that refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist, with weapons, logistics, and the ideological umbrella to spread their venom of hatred and violence.

5 - Syria's sponsorship of Hezbollah and similar groups in Lebanon has led to the death of thousands of innocent foreigners, not the least of them being the 241 US marines who were killed by the first ever suicide bomber, a Hezbollah terrorist, who blew himself up in a truck bomb on October 23, 1983 at the US Marines barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.

Under the tenets of the US war on terrorism and UN resolution 1397, Syria must not just "contain" Hezbollah and other terrorist groups, it must close them down and deny them safe harbor and support. Murphy, Satterfield and Djerejian argue that Hezbollah is a "resistance" movement that must simply be contained. For the Lebanese people and the proponents of a legitimate Lebanese government extending its authority and exercising its sovereign rights over the territory of Lebanon, the fundamental problem is the issue of the violation of all norms of international law and conduct. How can a perfectly sovereign founding member of the UN such as Lebanon be occupied militarily, politically and economically by one of the most vulgar Stalinist tyrannies of our time, such as Syria?

Syrian officials have repeatedly made public statements to the effect that Lebanon is a part of Greater Syria that must be "returned" to Syria, that Lebanon and Syria are "one nation in two states". President Hafez Assad, Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass, and Vice-President Abdel-Halim Khaddam, have never shied away from declaring that their presence in Lebanon is intended to reunite the "separated twins''. In fact, Syria never recognized Lebanon's right to exist since the independence of Lebanon in 1943, refusing throughout the decades since to exchange ambassadors between Beirut and Damascus. That is, in the hearts of many Lebanese, the gravest danger to Lebanon’s right to exist as a diverse multi-ethnic, multi-religious, diverse nation.

The parallels between 2002 and 1990 are as unmistakable as they originate with the same foreign affairs thinkers of State Department. With a wink from the Bush Administration in 1990, interested in securing Syrian membership in the anti-Saddam coalition, the Syrian Airforce - suddenly unhampered by the Israeli-imposed no-flight-zone over Lebanese airspace - bombed the last legitimate government of Prime Minister General Michel Aoun into exile and secured a compliant puppet government at the helm in Beirut. Today, State Department Arabists want an "encore" for that act of international piracy and violation of the rights of the Lebanese people. They are arguing, one more time, that the US must cajole the Syrian regime - still on their own list of terrorist states - by not opposing its occupation of Lebanon, in order to secure some vague and undefined support the Syrians are supposedly providing in the war on terrorism. The Arabists are telling the American people that the big lie about Lebanon must continue. That the betrayal of the most fundamental principles upon which this country is founded must continue. That the agony of Lebanon must proceed. That the only hope for a Christian-Moslem dialogue towards moderation and coexistence must be assassinated. That terrorism pays off. That we must reward Syria for dangling in front of our credulous eyes a couple of petty bits of anti-terror information, after it has written and monopolized the encyclopedia of terrorism.

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