Monday, August 21, 2006
Portents of things to come:
Telegraph: Hizbollah pushes past guards in show of force
The party had been told it would be allowed to bury three "martyrs" at the Naqoura town cemetery inside the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) compound, but only if there was no flag-waving or political sloganising.
When the chanting procession, several hundred strong, reached the gates, it found the way barred by cruci-form steel tank traps. Mourners argued with the French guards, but failed to gain entry.
A mob of young men then dragged the barriers away and the UN opened the gates. "They will eat us alive," said a middle-aged official as the throng surged in.
A column of black-shirted men carried the three coffins to the graveyard. They waved yellow Hizbollah banners and portraits of the movement's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and yelled anti-Israeli and anti-American doggerel...
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I am deeply concerned that if nothing is done to prevent Hizbollah from rearming, then Hizbollah will end up overtaking the Lebanese Government.
It is appalling that once again history repeats itself,and Israel needs to defend itself, becasue one nuclear war head could kill everyone in Tel-Aviv within 45 seconds to a minute.
this is far to dangerous situation to be in.
Thank you
Rosa Manson
Hmmmm.
Is "anti-Israeli and anti-American doggerel" more or less threatening than the usual "anti-Israeli and anti-American slogans"?
How odd
Of God
To choose
The Jews
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/007491.shtml
I'm thinking the "doggerel" was somewhat different than that, though.
If Hizbolah ends up supplanting the Lebanese government, then the next time Israel won't be so restrained.
Maybe if Israel wasn't so restrained, Hezbollah would not be so likely to supplant the next Lebanese government, and the decent moderate Muslims and CLebanese Christians would not be living under threat of living in an an Islamist state.