Lebanon

[M]

Ukraine, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon.

In four months, four major changes in the world towards democracy and peace. I wonder if 2004-5 is the new 1989-91.

Plus Afghanistan. I, too, wonder if you're right. And although all of this is stuff I've been hoping for and expecting for 4 years (and since 2003 on this forum, if you care to look through my old posts), the remarkable speed of democratic revolution has amazed me. Oh, and watcg Moldova on Sunday.

As to al-Lubnan, Brandeis's Arabic teacher, a Maronite, is jumping for joy; Fouad Ajami is seeing his dream advanced in is homeland; Amin Gemayel and Michael Aoun are back in politics; and the Druze have finally joined with their natural allies against the forces of darkness. So let's think big. Bashar NixonNow illegitimately occupies a second Arab country to Lebanon's west, and there's plenty of discontent too. With the rise of democratic Shi'ism, the progressive Iranian populace is more restive than ever. And perhaps we may wish to review the clause in the Libyan devil's bargain that denies them democracy. Things are happening in Araby, very, very quickly.

In the words of our president: "Freedom is not America's gift to the world. Freedom is G-d's gift to humankind."

[M]

Are you guys also supporting giving back the Golan Heights to Syria? Let's see you supporting Arab democracy even if it hurts Israel's interests.

Were you raped by a Lebanese as a child? Otherwise I don't understand your loathing of them, and opposition to their patriotic truggle for freedom.

Now the Golan is approximately 50% Jewish and 50% Druze, so in a popular vote it would almost certainly elect to remain Israeli, if you want to be strictly democratic. But as a matter of fact, I support an Israeli return of at least part and perhaps even all of the Golan (though not Galilee water rights) even before a republican government appears in Damascus. However, they must first fully exit Lebanon and cease their support for terrorism.

[M]

You're a real piece of work, M; your deliberate disingenuous way of discussing never ceases to amaze me.

Were you raped by a Lebanese as a child? Otherwise I don't understand your loathing of them, and opposition to their patriotic truggle for freedom.

Nice straw man, reminds me how opposers of the Iraq war were supposedly all Saddam lovers. Remember the Lebanese Civil War, Sabra & Shatilla, Qana? Were you also against the suffering of civilians in Lebanon THEN even if that meant it would put you against the actions of Israel? Perhaps not if they were Palestinians...

And now Syria is the bad guy, but I never heard as much as a squeak from you guys when the U.S. OUTSOURCED THE TORTURE of a Canadian national to Syria for "information extraction" when they were still the ally in the "War on Terror". Of course not, because that would put the U.S. in a bad light!

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Convenient of you to omit those people who fled the area during the war. Oh, and non-Islamic Arabs are NOT en masse pro-Israel as the corporation-controlled media might lead you to believe.

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Of course you don't, because the Jews deserve the water more, just like all those West Bank settlers, right? What happened to following UN Security Council Resolutions, the failure of which SUPPOSEDLY led to Saddam's downfall?

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I doubt if you were as insistent as well for an Israeli withdrawal when they still occupied parts of Lebanon. Of course, NOW that would be easy for you to say.

STOP HIJACKING OTHER PEOPLE'S CAUSES FOR YOUR OWN NEOCONSERVATIVE INTERESTS!

My race controls capitalism and communism, and has for year. The Aryan's last chance of stopping our rise to power was fascism. However, with it's fall we have invented neoconservatism, which will eventually lead to our total world domination.

Both the Galilee water ant the Lebanese Druzes' babies blood are necessary for the baking of our holy bread, the matzoh. Your opposition to our posession of the materials for baking matzoh is an attempt to end our religious freedom, and delay the coming of the Messiah.

And of course, the little Arabs fighting each other will only speed up our rise to total domination. He he ha ha haw!

Happy?