News – Shiite Hezbollah supporters and the Lebanese government's Sunni backers clashed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades Thursday in battles that spread through Beirut's streets soon after Hezbollah's leader vowed to fight any attempt to disarm his men.
I'm waiting for someone to find a way to blame Bush and the jews...where is nikki when you need her?
Now, now, we all know this wouldn't be happening if the U.S. wasn't in Lebanon! Oh, wait, we AREN'T in Lebanon. My bad. Please forgive me. It's all date palms and fig pies in the Middle East.
Now I'm really confused . If the Sunni's and Shiite's can get along in Lebanon , why can't they get along in Iraq ?
The Sunni Moslems and the Shiite Moslems are killing themselves in Lebanon. And just this month, Conde Nast Traveler did a piece on how Beirut has rebuilt itself after the 15 year civil war that previously destroyed it. I don't know if the Lebanese "government" has the resources to prevent these two sects from destroying Beirut again.
Here's an idea!
America, under the leadership of George Bush and Dick Cheney, has solved the Sunni/Shiite problem in Iraq, so let's just help out the Lebanese and solve it there, too!
We fixed it in Iraq, we can fix it in Labanon.
"Now I'm really confused . If the Sunni's and Shiite's can get along in Lebanon , why can't they get along in Iraq ?"
Did you read the story? ...
"...the second day of clashes between Sunni Muslims loyal to the government and Shiite supporters of Hezbollah."
In other words, they aren't getting along.
How about letting mideastern jews point the finger at the criminals. They are better informed about zionist crimes against humanity than americans.
Indigenous Middle Eastern Jews condemn Israeli aggression
Indigenous Middle Eastern Jewry, from Lebanon, Morocco, and Iran, have issued recent condemnations of the Israeli assaults on Lebanon and Palestine....
http://www.ww4report.com/node/2278
Moroccan Jews ask court to try Amir Peretz for war crimes
Three Jewish Moroccans have submitted Rabat's high court with a petition against Defense Minister Amir Peretz, accusing the Moroccan-born Israeli of war crimes. ...
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/746169.html
Enter the PLO
On July 23 rd 1968, in the middle of the "summer of love," three PFLP guerillas took control of an EL AL Boeing bound for Tel Aviv from Rome and diverted it to Algiers. The Algerians weren't expecting them, but as they as they were among Israel's strongest denouncers, the hijackers, choice of destination wasn't too surprising. Algiers has since become the place to take the hijacked aircraft, and the Algerian government has developed a great deal of expertise in dealing with them. The PFLP now changed tack a little, and started shooting up airliners as they started there take-off run. In Athens and again in Zurich they were only marginally successful, killing one Israeli in each attack. But five Palistinians were captured and held in European jails, and that was to spur their PFLP colleagues to great lengths to get them released.
Then, one can remember that the US and Israel are "supporting" the minority "christian fascist government" in Lebanon, including terrorists.
Who's Behind the Fighting in North Lebanon?
... Given Bush administration debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan and its encouragement for Israel to continue its destruction of Lebanon this past summer, the situation in Lebanon mirrors, in some respects, the early 1980's when groups sprung up to resist the US green lighted Israeli invasion and occupation. But rather than being Shia and pro-Hezbollah, today's groups are largely Sunni and anti-Hezbollah. Hence they qualify for US aid, funneled by Sunni financial backers in league with the Bush administration which is committed to funding Islamist Sunni groups to weaken Hezbollah.
This project has become the White House obsession following Israel's July 2006 defeat.
... To understand what is going on with Fatah al-Islam at Nahr el-Bared one would want a brief introduction to Lebanon's amazing, but shadowy 'Welch Club'.
The Club is named for its godfather, David Welch, assistant to Secretary of State Rice who is the point man for the Bush administration and is guided by Eliot Abrams...
Key Lebanese members of the Welch Club (aka: the 'Club') include:
The Lebanese civil war veteran, warlord, feudalist and mercurial Walid Jumblatt of the Druze party( the Progressive Socialist Party or PSP)
Another civil war veteran, warlord, terrorist (Served 11 years in prison for massacres committed against fellow Christians among others) Samir Geagea. Leader of the extremist Phalange party and its Lebanese Forces (LF) the group that conducted the Israel organized massacre at Sabra-Shatilla (although led by Elie Hobeika, once Geagea's mentor, Geagea did not take part in the Sept. 1982 slaughter of 1,700 Palestinian and Lebanese).
The billionaire, Saudi Sheikh and Club president Saad Hariri leader of the Sunni Future Movement (FM).
Over a year ago Hariri's Future Movement started setting up Sunni Islamist terrorist cells (the PSP and LF already had their own militia since the civil war and despite the Taif Accords requiring militia to disarm they are now rearmed and itching for action and trying hard to provoke Hezbollah).
The FM created Sunni Islamist 'terrorist' cells were to serve as a cover for (anti-Hezbollah) Welch Club projects. The plan was that actions of these cells, of which Fatah el-Islam is one, could be blamed on al Qaeda or Syria or anyone but the Club....
The first Welch Club funded militia, set up by FM, is known locally as Jund-al-Sham ...
The second was Fateh-al-Islam ...
According to members of both Fatah el-Islam and Jund-al-Sham their groups acted on the directive of the Club president, Saad Hariri.
... Today, tensions are high between the Lebanese army and the Welch Club. Some mention the phrase 'army coup'.
The Club is trying to run Parliament and is prepared to go all the way not to 'lose' Lebanon. It has a dutiful PM in Fouad Siniora.
The club tried to seize control of the presidency and when it failed it marginalized it. Last year it tried to control of the Parliamentary Constitutional Committee, which audits the government's policies, laws and watch dogs their actions. When the Club failed to control it they simply abolished the Constitutional Committee. This key committee no longer exists in Lebanon's government.
.. The Welch Club now considers the Lebanese Army a serious problem. The Bush administration is trying to undermine and marginalize it to eliminate one of the last two obstacles to implementing Israel's agenda in Lebanon.
If the army is weakened, it can not protect _over 70% of the Christians in Lebanon who support General Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement. The F.P.M. is mainly constituted of well educated, middle class and unarmed Lebanese civilians. The only protection they have is the Lebanese Army which aids in maintaining their presence in the political scene. The other type of Christians in Lebanon is the minority, about 15% of Christians associated with Geagea's Lebanese Forces who are purely militia. If the Club can weaken the Army even more than it is, then this Phalange minority will be the only relatively strong force on the Christian scene and become the "army" of the Club.
Another reason the Club wants to weaken the Lebanese Army is that the Army is nationalistic and is a safety valve for Lebanon to ensure the Palestinian right of return to Palestine, Lebanese nationhood and the resistance culture led by Hezbollah, with which is has excellent relations.
For their part, the Welch Club wants to keep some Palestinians in Lebanon for cheap labor, ship others to countries willing to take them (and be paid handsomely to do so by American taxpayers) and allow at most a few thousand to return to Palestine to settle the 'right of return' issue while at the same time signing a May 17th 1983 type treaty with Israel with enriches the Club members and gives Israel Lebanon's water and much of Lebanon's sovereignty....
http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb05242007.html
Mar 9, 2002: Avia Malka, 9 months, and Israel Yihye, 27, were killed and about 50 people were injured when two Fatah terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city's boardwalk and hotels.
�March 21, 2002: An Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bomber exploded himself in a crowd of shoppers in Jerusalem, killing 3 and injuring 86.
� March 29, 2002: Two killed and 28 injured when a female Fatah suicide bomber blew herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket.
� March 30, 2002: One killed and 30 injured in an Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
� April 12, 2002: Six killed and 104 wounded when a female Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bomber blew herself up at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market.
Does Hitler's Ghost Live In Israel?
It is apparently acceptable for Israeli soldiers to shoot and kill children...
On September 23, 2001, Palestinian students at Al-Najah University in Nablus opened an exhibition commemorating the year-old uprising against Israel. The exhibit includes a gruesome reenactment of the August 9, 2001, suicide bombing of the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem where a suicide bomber killed himself and 15 other people. The exhibit's organizers are students who support Hamas, the militant Islamic group that carried out the Jerusalem attack.
In another part of the exhibit, visitors looked through dark windows to see mannequins dressed as suicide bombers. Each had Islam's holy book, the Quran, in one hand, and an automatic rifle in the other.
The exhibit also includes a large rock in front of a mannequin wearing the black hat, black jacket and black trousers typically worn by ultra-Orthodox Jews. A recording from inside the rock calls out: "O believer, there is a Jewish man behind me. Come and kill him."
At approximately 9 a.m. on October 29, 2007, a cell of terrorists launched a barrage consisting of three mortar shells at Israeli territory. The shells were fired from an elementary school for boys in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of Hamas-controlled Gaza. The use of an elementary school as a shield for this terrorist activity stands in clear violation of international humanitarian law.
Click here to watch the video.
Meanwhile, Jerusalem police chief Cmdr. Aharon Franco told the radio station that during overnight searches, police had found a car they believed was used by the terrorist. Franco said that it was the car the attacker worked with on a regular basis, estimating that it was the vehicle he used to travel to central Jerusalem to perpetrate the attack.
The names the victims of the shooting attack were released Friday morning.
May 27, 2002: Ruth Peled, 56, of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter, aged 14 months, were killed and 37 people were injured when a Fatah suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva.
� May 28, 2002 - Albert Maloul, 50, of Jerusalem, was killed when shots were fired by Fatah terrorists at the car in which he was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road.
� May 28, 2002 - Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terrorists killed Netanel Riachi, 17, Gilad Stiglitz, 14, and Avraham Siton, 17, three yeshiva high school students playing basketball.
� June 19, 2002: Seven people were killed and 37 injured when a Fatah suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem.
� June 20, 2002: Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai, 5 - as well as a neighbor,
It didn't take long for the Jew hater in chief to show up. Arabs killings Arabs and the Jews are blamed.
Too bad the article that you plagiarize from is from May 2007.
"It didn't take long for the Jew hater in chief to show up. Arabs killings Arabs and the Jews are blamed."
Exactly what I was thinking. Maybe killing each other is just a past time for some of these groups - in addition to hating Jews.
Yup, Hyperbola can't exist unless everything that happens in the world is the fault of the Jews. Unfortunately, she isn't smart enough to realize that the Sunnis and Shias don't need any help, or for that matter any reason to fight each other. It's been going on for 1400 years. They don't need any help from the Jews, Christians, Hindus, Druze, Kurds, Buddists or any other secular group to kill each other. It's ingrained in their culture now. Hyperbola has to be one of the least intelligent people that I have ever seen. She needs serious psychological help to work through her hate and stupidity.
31 July: A bomb in the students' cafeteria at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem kills seven - five of them Americans - and wounds more than 80.
30 July: A suicide bomber kills himself and wounds several Israelis in a fast-food store in Jerusalem.
17 July: A double suicide bomb attack near the old Tel Aviv bus station leaves five dead, including the two bombers, and injures about 40.
19 June: Eight people die including the bomber and 35 are injured in a suicide attack at a bus stop in the French Hill neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.
18 June: A suicide bomber kills himself and 19 civilians in a bomb attack on a bus in southern Jerusalem.
5 June: At least 14 are people killed in an attack on a bus at Megiddo junction, near the border with the West Bank. A suspected suicide attacker is believed to have driven up in a car behind the bus and detonated a bomb.
Yet the isrealis kill far more civilians in pursuit of their racist totalitarian state. Of course, this is censored in US corporate media.
Deadly Distortion
Associated Press Coverage of Israeli and Palestinian Deaths
II. Coverage of Children's Deaths
9 Israeli children's deaths were reported in the headlines or first paragraphs of AP articles on the Israel/Palestine conflict in 2004, when 8 had actually occurred. During the same period only 27 out of 179 Palestinian children's deaths were reported. (Children are defined by international law as those who are 17 and younger.)...
22 times more Palestinian children were killed than Israeli children.
AP reported on 113% of Israeli children's deaths in headlines or first paragraphs, while reporting on only 15% of Palestinian children's deaths....
http://ifamericansknew.com/media/ap-report.html
July 25, 2002: Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, was killed in a Fatah shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav.
� July 26, 2002: St.-Sgt. Elazar Lebovitch, 21, of Hebron; Rabbi Yosef Dikstein, 45, of Psagot, his wife Hannah, 42, and their 9-year-old son Shuv'el Zion were killed in a Fatah Al Aqsa Brigade shooting attack south of Hebron. Two other of their children were injured. � July 30, 2002: Shlomo Odesser, 60, and his brother Mordechai, 52, both of Tapuach in Samaria, were shot and killed when their truck came under Fatah fire in the West Bank village of Jama'in.
� Aug 4, 2002: 2 killed and 17 wounded when a Fatah terrorist opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City.
� Aug 5, 2002: Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, were killed and one of their children, aged 3, was injured when terrorists opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road in Samaria. The Martyrs of the Palestinian Popular Army, a splinter group associated with Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack.
� Aug 10, 2002: Yafit Herenstein, 31, of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley, was killed and her husband, Arno, seriously wounded when a Fatah terrorist infiltrated the moshav and opened fire outside their home.
� Sept 18, 2002: Yosef Ajami, 36, was killed when Fatah terrorists opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank.
� Oct 29, 2002: Three people, including 2 fourteen year olds, were shot to death by a Fatah terrorist.
May 5, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman, 27, was killed and two other passengers, his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier, were seriously wounded when Fatah terrorists fired shots at their vehicle in Samaria.
� May 19, 2003: 3 were killed and 70 were wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.
� Aug 29, 2003: Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, was killed in a Fatah shooting attack while driving northeast of Ramallah. His wife, Limor, who was seven months pregnant, sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section.
� Jan 29, 2004: 11 people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 29, 2004: 11 people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
� Mar 14, 2004: 10 were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
� May 2, 2004: Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed when two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
Nov 10, 2002: Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 5, and Noam, 4, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, were killed when a Fatah terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire.
� Nov 28, 2002: 5 killed and 40 wounded when two Fatah terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, near the central bus station, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary.
� Apr 24, 2003 - 1 was killed and 13 were wounded in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.
� May 5, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman, 27, was killed and two other passengers, his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier, were seriously wounded when Fatah terrorists
It is funny ...those who have been pushing for confrontation with Hizbullah are all US and Israel's friends, allies and spies...Take the case of Walid Junbalat, , the head of Druz, he has been on French pay list for a long time,currently more likely on CIA's pay list he provided intelligence for Israel to bomb Nasrallah's headquarters in 33 day war that Israel lost, The bombing that ended up killin dozens of civilians (which was ok bcos they were not Jews , they were Gentiles!!)
It is a good thing that Hizbullah monitors the air port to see who iscoming and who is going , wh i smeeting who and ..u kno wthe normal stuff...if live next to Israel...
That's awful to say that it's ok to kill civilians.
Well, the zionists in our government certainly think it is better to kill lebanese civilians than to stop zionist meddling in lebanon.
Blowback Across Lebanon
... The Bush administration listened, and never creating a Middle East problem it didn't have a solution for, followed the lead of the Neocons and Ziocons in their ranks and advised their Sunni allies of yet another new project....
http://joun.leb.net/lamb06152007.html
12 April: A suicide bomb attack at a bus stop in West Jerusalem, kills the bomber and six other people and injures about 50 more.
10 April: A suicide attack on a bus travelling near the Israeli city of Haifa kills at least eight people and injures dozens more.
31 March: Bomber attacks restaurant in Haifa, northern Israel, killing himself and 14 Israeli Jews and Arabs. On the same day, another bomber kills himself and wounds four people in an attack on an office for paramedics at the Jewish settlement of Efrat, south of Bethlehem.
27 March: In the Israeli resort of Netanya, a bomber blows himself up at a hotel, killing 28 Israelis celebrating Passover. The attack claimed by the armed wing of Hamas was the deadliest since the beginning of the uprising.
LEAD: Three Palestinian guerrillas hijacked an Israeli bus today, killing one hostage before they and two Israeli women died in a blaze of gunfire as troops stormed the bus.
Three Palestinian guerrillas hijacked an Israeli bus today, killing one hostage before they and two Israeli women died in a blaze of gunfire as troops stormed the bus.
Al Fatah, Yasir Arafat's organizational base within the Palestine Liberation Organization, took responsibility for the hijacking in a broadcast tonight by the P.L.O. radio station in Baghdad, Iraq, confirming reports by hostages and the Israeli Army.
Think palestinian christians and moslems shouldn't fight back against genocide Walden? Most jews (like these) are more moral than you.
Iran's Jews won't mark Israeli independence day
Do No Evil â;; The Iranian Jewish community will not mark Israel's 60th Independence Day, incoming Iranian Jewish parliamentarian Siamak Morsadegh said Wednesday. The Iranian Jewish leader told Reuters that Israel's policies toward Palestinians, particularly Gazans, demonstrated "anti-human behavior ... they kill innocent people."
http://donoevil.propeller.com/story/2008/05/08/...
The Mega Prison of Palestine
Religion â;; Israel is pursuing a genocidal policy against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, while continuing the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. The West Bank is made of small open air prisons and the one in Gaza is a huge mega prison of its own.
http://religion.propeller.com/story/2008/05/06/...
# Another PLO official, Abdul Latif Abu Hijleh, has been implicated in the PLO's murder of the U.S. ambassador to Sudan in 1973, Cleo Noel (Jerusalem Post, January 8, 1989).
# The PLO has refused to arrest Abul Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking in which American tourist Leon Klinghoffer was murdered. Abbas freely enters and leaves PLO territory without being detained.
# The PLO has refused to hand over to either Israel or the U.S. four terrorists who have been identified as suspects in recent murders of Americans: Nabil Sharihi, who helped prepare the bomb for the April 1995 attack in which Alisa Flatow of New Jersey was murdered; Muhi a-Din a-Sharif and Abd al-Majid Dudin, who were involved in planning and preparing the August 1995 bombing in which Joan Davenny of Connecticut was murdered; and Amjad Hanawi, one of those who carried out the May 1996 shooting in which David Boim, an Israeli-American, was murdered.
# Two of the PLO terrorists involved in planning the Munich Olympics massacre, in which David Berger, an Israeli-American athlete was killed, reside in PLO territory. Amin el-Hindi is chief of Palestinian General Intelligence; Abu Daoud is a resident of PLO-controlled Ramallah.
Feb 8, 2002 - Moranne Amit, 25, of Kibbutz Kfar Hanasi was stabbed to death by four Palestinians, aged 14 to 16, while strolling on the Sherover Promenade in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood Friday afternoon.
Feb 9, 2002 - Atala Lipobsky, 78, of Ma'ale Ephraim was shot dead on Saturday night while driving on the Trans-Samaria Highway with her son. Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the car, apparently from an ambush, between Ariel and the Tapuah Junction.
Feb 10, 2002 - Lt. Keren Rothstein, 20, of Ashkelon and Cpl. Aya Malachi, 18, of Moshav Ein Habesor were killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at the entrance to the IDF Southern Command base in Be'er Sheva. Four others were wounded, one critically. One of the terrorists was killed at the scene; the second, wearing an explosives belt, fled in the direction of a nearby school when he was shot and killed by a soldier and police officer. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Ron Lavie, 20, of Katzrin, St.-Sgt. Moshe Peled, 20, of Rehovot, and St.-Sgt. Asher Zaguri, 21, of Shlomi were killed and four soldiers injured when a powerful mine exploded under a IDF tank on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip Thursday night, following the detonation of a roadside bomb at a civilian convoy of cars and a bus.
Feb 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis, 20, of Holon, was shot and killed by gunmen on Friday night at a roadblock north of Ramallah. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 16, 2002 - Nehemia Amar, 15, and Keren Shatsky, 15, both of Ginot Shomron were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. Rachel Thaler, 16, of Ginot Shomron died of her wounds on February 27. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.
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additional reports from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/08/leban...
"Just in the past few minutes ... things have gotten a lot worse," CNN's Cal Perry reported from downtown Beirut. The sound of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades could be heard throughout his live reports.
Perry, who took cover with the Lebanese army, said government forces have not yet reacted to the violence.
"Perry, who took cover with the Lebanese army, said government forces have not yet reacted to the violence."
It's a civil war! (sarcasm, of course - not intended at you, TA). The Religion of Peace is taking a self-inflicted beating.
your ignorance is overwhelming , Hizbullahs allies are Christian Michelle Oun and his party (all Christians) plus Muslims (Shia and Sunni).So go back and rephrase your Islamophobic rants..