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It’s just Jimmy Carter again, doing what he does — monitoring elections and hugging extremist leaders. US President Barack Obama’s speech reaching out to Muslims had strong points, Lebanon’s most influential Shi’ite cleric told former president Jimmy Carter, but people were waiting for real results. Grand Ayatollah Muhammad ...
Pro-western parties have won an important victory against Hezbollah in Lebanon: Lebanon’s pro-Western majority declares victory. BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s pro-Western coalition declared victory early Monday, as local television stations reported the faction had successfully fended off a serious challenge by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah and its allies ...
Lebanon, Hezbollah, Fuad Saniora, Democracy, Hizballah, Elections
Spiegel Online has an article with detailed information on the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri — imagine my surprise to learn that New Evidence Points to Hezbollah in Hariri Murder. SPIEGEL has learned from sources close to the tribunal and verified by examining ...
Hillary Clinton has assured Lebanese President Michael Suleiman that the US will never sell out Lebanon. BEIRUT (AP) — Ahead of an election that could oust the U.S.-backed Beirut government, America’s top diplomat said Sunday that Washington supports “voices of moderation” and never will make a deal [with] Syria ...
Lebanon, Syria, Bashar Assad, Baathism, Hezbollah, Hillary Clinton, Michael Suleiman
You mean there are people who actually believe that chinless Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has suddenly become a “peacemaker?” Bashar Assad the peacemaker? Think again. In the last two or three years, a number of old arguments regarding Syria have again become fashionable. One of them is that peace ...
More evidence was announced Friday that Syria is running a clandestine nuclear program: Syria samples reveal more uranium. The UN nuclear agency says it has found additional particles of uranium in samples taken from the site of an alleged nuclear facility in Syria. Syria denied the site was a ...
Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, IAEA
Lurch says: “We want Syria to help with the disarmament of Hezbollah.” BEIRUT (AFP) – Senator John Kerry said on Wednesday that the new US administration will press Syria to help disarm Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as it forges ahead with a fresh diplomatic approach in the region. “We ...
It might be the first peer-reviewed study that begins with the words, “OK, now things are getting weird.” Reviewing Fauxtography: A blog-driven challenge to mass media power without the promises of networked publicity. Abstract During the Israel–Hezbollah War of 2006, bloggers caught Reuters publishing doctored images from Lebanon. Known ...
Fauxtography, Reuters, Academia, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Media Bias
Jimmy Carter has finally found some terrorists who won’t hug him—because despite his long history of anti-Israel statements and actions, he’s just not antisemitic enough for them. BEIRUT (AFP) – Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah has refused to meet visiting former US president Jimmy Carter to discuss legislative elections set ...
Jimmy Carter, Bashar Assad, Syria, Samir Kuntar, Terrorism, Hezbollah, Hizballah
Apparently not satisfied with meeting only with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, America’s most disgraceful former president Jimmy Carter is now looking for an opportunity to hug the murderous thugs of Hezbollah: Carter, in Lebanon, says ready to meet with Hezbollah officials. Carter made the comments upon arrival in Lebanon ...
Jimmy Carter, Bashar Assad, Syria, Samir Kuntar, Terrorism, Hezbollah, Hizballah
The Obama campaign is trying to minimize the damage from a meeting attended by their “Muslim outreach director,” at which several notorious Hamas and Hezbollah supporters were present: Obama concedes mistake over Muslim outreach meeting. The Obama campaign’s Muslim outreach director participated in a meeting in mid September that ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Islam, Militant Islam, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Muslim American Society, MAS, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hizballah, Hezbollah
I’ve never seen a better demonstration of the mainstream media’s collusion with terrorists and murderers than this post at the blog of McClatchy Newspapers Jerusalem bureau chief Dion Nissenbaum: Kickin’ it with Samir Kuntar. What the hell is wrong with these people? Samir Kuntar is sitting under a photo ...
LGF, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Samir Kuntar, McClatchy
News from the past: In August 2006 Jesse Jackson went to Lebanon, had meetings with the terrorist group Hizballah, then stopped over in Israel to tell the families of those two IDF soldiers whose mutilated bodies were returned to Israel last week that their loved ones were still alive. ...
LGF, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Samir Kuntar, Jesse Jackson
Coming soon: a replay of the last Lebanon War. And the sequel will be much more devastating—on both sides: Hizbullah moves into ‘every town’. Hizbullah is bolstering its presence in south Lebanon villages with non-Shi’ite majorities by buying land and using it to build military positions and store missiles ...
LGF, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Samir Kuntar, Mughniyeh, United Nations
United Nations “peacekeepers” stand and salute the remains of Hizballah terrorists on a truck decorated with a photograph of Imad Mughniyeh, mastermind of the Marine barracks bombing that killed hundreds of US citizens.
LGF, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Samir Kuntar, Mughniyeh, United Nations
Israel’s horrifyingly bad decision to swap the remains of two Israeli soldiers for a savage child-murdering terrorist has been carried out. And the child killer will receive a hero’s welcome in Lebanon. Samir Kuntar and four other Lebanese prisoners will receive an official state welcoming when they are released ...
LGF, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Samir Kuntar
I believe this is the first time Israel has released an Arab terrorist with actual blood on his hands—an unrepentant child killer—in exchange for two soldiers who are already dead: Israel, Hezbollah to Swap Prisoners on Wed. The Israeli government said it will swap prisoners with the Lebanese guerrilla ...
LGF, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Samir Kuntar
The US Treasury Department has accused Venezuelan thug-in-chief Hugo Chavez of working with the Lebanese terror group Hizballah. SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia | The Bush administration is accusing the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of providing cash and refuge to the militant Islamist group Hezbollah of southern Lebanon. An ...
LGF, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Hizballah, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Terrorism
Britain has banned the “military wing” of the terrorist group Hizballah. Yes, only now. The “social” and “political” wings of the terrorist group will continue to operate freely in the UK. And the leader of Hizballah is openly mocking the British. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has said that Britain’s ...
LGF, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Propaganda, Britain, Dhimmitude
Propaganda that came directly from the Hizballah terror gang is now being parroted by Western wire services: Lebanese feast on ‘buns and guns’ in Hezbollah fiefdom. Beirut restaurant makes meal out of war. Note: this story is based on a report that appeared on Hizballah’s official channel, Al-Manar TV. Al-Manar ...
Media Bias, Propaganda, Terrorism, Hezbollah, Hesbollah, Hizballah, Lebanon, LGF
The rationale for prisoner exchanges like this may be understandable, but it doesn’t make the reality any less nauseating: Israel to Free Prisoners. One of the prisoners being released to Lebanon is cold-blooded, remorseless child killer Samir Kuntar. JERUSALEM, June 29 — Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved a rare ...
LGF, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Samir Kuntar
Israel’s unsurprising experience in their negotiations with the terrorist group Hizballah shows what we can expect from an Obama presidency that believes in diplomacy above all else: Hizbullah backtracks in negotiations. Hizbullah has returned to its original demand that Israel release not only several Lebanese prisoners but also hundreds ...
ABC News reports that the Lebanese Islamic terrorist group Hizballah is preparing to strike at “Jewish targets” in the West. Intelligence agencies in the United States and Canada are warning of mounting signs that Hezbollah, backed by Iran, is poised to mount a terror attack against “Jewish targets” somewhere ...
I haven’t even wanted to write about this latest episode in folly, because it’s so maddening and depressing, but here it is. Israel is being pushed by the US to concede the Shebaa Farms (an area bordering the Golan Heights) to Hizballah. That would be bad enough, but Hizballah is ...
LGF, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah, Civil War, Beirut, golan heights(
Another victory for the terrorist gang Hizballah, who will now have veto power over any Lebanese government decision: Lebanon’s feuding factions reach agreement. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon’s feuding factions reached a breakthrough deal Wednesday that ends the country’s 18-month political stalemate, but also gives the militant Hezbollah group and ...
LGF, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah, Civil War, Beirut