Arab News quotes an AFP release (with their usual anti-Israel editing added to AFP’s anti-Israel bias) that says US “peace activists” were given a tour of beautiful south Lebanon—by Hizballah “militants.” And the jovial group stopped to symbolically throw some non-violent stones across the border into Israel: US Peace Activists Throw Stones on Israel. (Hat tip: laurence.)

The moonbats do love their little symbolic gestures.

TYRE, Lebanon, 21 June 2004 — US activists, accompanied by Hezbollah militants, toured yesterday southern Lebanon from where they threw stones on Israel, a day after Washington barred US officials from visiting the area.

The 12 activists met Sheikh Nabil Qaooq, the area’s top official of Hezbollah, which Washington deems a terrorist group, in the southern port city of Tyre.

The activists were then accompanied by three vehicles carrying unarmed Hezbollah fighters to the Fatima Gate former passageway in the village of Kfar Kila where some of them hurled stones on Israel, he said.

Hala Gorssy, a Palestinian-American lawyer, said “we are visiting Hezbollah because they have a cause and they are fighting to liberate their land.”

She was referring to continued Hezbollah operations in the Shebaa Farms border territory seized by Israel from Syria in 1967, and claimed by Lebanon, with consent from Damascus.

Gorssy also said the group’s visit was meant to “check on the conditions of the Palestinian refugees and gather information for a documentary to show the US public opinion that they (Palestinians) have a cause.”

Earlier yesterday, the group toured Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut and southern Lebanon, said Ghassan Hbeishi, from the Palestinian Organization for Human Rights which is hosting the US delegation in Lebanon. Hbeishi said the group included lawyers, legal advisers and movie directors.