Lebanon election

[minionofmidas]

A countries military can defend themselves all they want, but when a terrorist group, be it Hizballoh, the French Resistance, or the colonials' attack before the Declaration was signed, it's terrorism. I don't deny that the organized military forces of Israel have a spotty at best record as far as selecting targets, but when you're surrounded by enemies on all sides who from the day your nation was founded have tried to destroy you, I think you'd think a bit different.

There are a number of pithy comments I could make about Israel.   The one I feel like making tonight is that what happened in the British mandate of Palestine just goes to show how important it is to stop illegal immigration.

Indeed. If only those dumb Jews had accepted their lot in Nazi Germany instead of risking life and limb to sneak into Palestine, we'd all be a lot better off today. Except a few thousand more dead christkillers, of course, but then who needs the lousy kikes?

Sometimes smart people say phenomenally stupid things.

I think Ernest was referring to 1945 to 1948...

[2952-0-0]

http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/l/lebanon/

Here are the results from Adam Carr's site. Note that the north has just voted and the results there are only preliminary. The official results should be out by tomorrow.

[minionofmidas]

No, the Bekaa voted last week. The North just voted.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

And apparentely the pro-Syrian candidates in the north got routed. Hell yeah!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well from what I hear now the anti-Syria coalition has a majority of the seats and will control the new government. That means Syria's grip on Lebanese politicis is finally over. Woohoo!

[minionofmidas]

No, it's hung.

[WMS]

No, it's hung.

I guess Michael Aoun's gambit paid off then, if he's the kingmaker...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The results I have say that Hariri's bloc won 72 of the 128 seats.

[minionofmidas]

You need a two-thirds majority to get anything beyond patronage done.
Btw, have you had a look at how the Lebanese Parliament is elected.

[Beet]

You need a two-thirds majority to get anything beyond patronage done.

So it's like California, then