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DEATH CALLED FOR
The Ozbollah come out to play:
Tired of the death and carnage in their homeland, about 1,000 mostly Lebanese protesters took to Sydney’s streets on Saturday in a show of anti-Israeli sentiment.
Waving placards and shouting “Israel, the USA, how many kids have you killed today”, the march moved through the city from Town Hall to Hyde Park ...
With strong support from the highly emotional gathering, Mr Bazzi cried “death to the enemies, long life for the Lebanese resistance”.
So much for being “tired of death”. The SMH describes these people as “anti-war”.
(Via Dan Lewis, who reports that the death-to-the-enemies rally tied up central Sydney traffic for around an hour.)
Deport the bastards. Every last one of ‘em.
Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 08 12 at 04:16 AM • permalinkAnti-war but pro insurrection, perhaps?
Against the bombing of marketplaces with a view to chaos? Against the assassination of Hariri by Syria? Against the UN’s pathetic efforts to de-fang Hezbollah?
Just against the west, and against Israel for showing them up by making a huge success of poor, dry country.Yesterday I had personal business that caused me to walk up past the Cesspool of the East Side—that is, the UN HQ in Manhattan. A couple of blocks from Cesspool Central (because they couldn’t even get permission to stand nearby, I suppose) was a handful of sad, motley protestors holding up placards saying things like “Stop Israeli Terrorism” “Condi Rice War Criminal” blahblahblah. What a pack of losers. I knew it would make them happy if I confronted them, so I merely rolled my eyes and continued about my business.
Another exhibit in the case that “The world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force”—or just a bunch of people with nothing better to do on a beautiful summertime Friday afternoon than stand around accusing a people under attack of the most heinous crimes imaginable? You decide!
Hassam Bazzi told the crowd - “There is not a single bridge left, not a single school that hasn’t been destroyed, there’s no mosques, no churches, no children that haven’t been injured yet”.
Population of Lebanon in 2006 was 4,376,900. Percentage of children under 15 years of age estimated to be 30.2%. This equates to 1,321,824 Lebanese children injured so far in about 14 days of the conflict. Roughly 100,000 per day or 70 per minute.
Well thanks for that Hassam old son. I will certainly be all ears when you have anything to say in the future.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 08 12 at 06:40 AM • permalinkSince when do these vermin care about the death of children, or any other civilians?
Posted by Jim Geones on 2006 08 12 at 07:16 AM • permalinkCaught a bit of ABC news tonight. The report on the Sydney march included all the usual suspects (Brown, Nettle, Trad, various “Lebanese Australian” nobodies). One was a Muslim woman in full-on black hijab, who addressed the crowd saying that Israel needs to join the rest of the world. Incongruous, no?
And Trad reckons it’s a great shame on the world that Leb civilians are being starved into submission. Nothing to do with Hezbollah, or a backward culture from the dark ages.
I’m with #2 on this one. If they’re unhappy, fuck off back to Lebanon and do something about the situation.
I really can’t figure this mob out. They cry when the US and Britain don’t put pressure on Israel to stop the bombing of Lebanon, but they demand the withdrawal of British and US forces from Iraq, the only thing preventing further bloodsheed in that country.
I’ve been playing with a theory in my head for some time now, and the more time passes the more true it becomes.
It is not the problem of death that seems to bother some Muslims, rather it is who is causing the death. Encouraging your children to blow themselves up is fine, Muslims killing other Muslims is fine, but Westerners inadvertently killing Muslims in response to Muslims attempting to kill just about anyone is cause for jihad?
The SMH describes these people as “anti-war”.
That’s because the SMH is fair and balanced. Further proof of this is in today’s Domain realestate section of the SMH. They advise property bargain hunters to consider rough areas to live in. They offer some suggestions and prices of houses in these rough suburbs.
The suburbs include Redfern, Mt Druitt, and Lakemba. But because the SMH is fair and balanced, one more rough suburb was included - Cronulla.
Cronulla is such a rough joint you can pick up a rundown hovel for oooh, $800,000 or so. If you want a roof, you’re looking at over a million. Of course you’ll have to live side by side with the racist rednecks, but that’s reflected in the cheap house prices.
I’ve only seen the paper version, so no link, sorry. If you can bear to pay for a copy of the SMH, have a read. It is puke-making.
Does anyone know of an organisation where we non-Jews can get together to give Israel some support?
“Friends of Israel?”
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 08 12 at 10:23 AM • permalinkWell, Susan, there’s always Magen David Adom (the Israeli Red Cross, or should I say, Red Star of David) - Lord knows they need all the help they can get.
American website: http://www.afmda.org
Australian website: http://www.magendavidadom.org.au
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 08 12 at 11:26 AM • permalink“There is not a single bridge left, not a single school that hasn’t been destroyed, there’s no mosques, no churches, no children that haven’t been injured yet,” he told the crowd.
Wouldn’t want to pass “judgment” on anybody, but do you suppose this might be, *gasp*, propaganda, a verbal Mr. Green Helmet Guy, if you will?
I know, I know…I’m a RACIST!
#11 and #16,
The motto should be “Work Shall Set You Free”.
Same thing for this “anti war” group.
That’s what it all comes down to.Posted by jeff mccabe on 2006 08 12 at 03:19 PM • permalinkHassam Bazzi told the crowd - “There is not a single bridge left, not a single school that hasn’t been destroyed, there’s no mosques, no churches, no children that haven’t been injured yet”.
Or, as we like to call it, “Nice grouping.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 08 12 at 03:21 PM • permalink#7—You left out ‘56. Also known as the “Suez Crisis”:
In 1952, officers in the Egyptian army overthrew the monarchy of King Farouk who had been a close ally of the British. Abandoning policies co-operative with European powers, the new government asserted an independent and Arab nationalist identity. This led to conflict with the European powers over the Suez Canal. Especially once Israel’s port of Eilat was completed in the mid 50s, conflict also heated up over the only gateway to it, the Straits of Tiran.
Meanwhile, the so-called Gaza Strip - a part of the former British mandate, now occupied by Egypt - became a haven for masses of Palestinian refugees and a hotbed for guerilla activity against the fledgling Jewish state. In response, from 1953–1956 the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a number of strikes.
These attacks were assisted by the future prime minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, who interrupted his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become the military leader of the first special forces unit of the IDF: the elite Unit 101. This policy of reprisals was a major source of internal dispute between hawks, led by David Ben-Gurion, and doves, led by his successor for a short time, Moshe Sharett. It sometimes led to strong external criticism from the United Nations and even Israel’s supporters.
Throughout 1956, tensions increased between Israel and Egypt, with Egyptian fedayeen launching frequent incursions into Israeli territory and Israel launching retaliatory raids into Egyptian territory. On 1956 July 26, Egypt, under the leadership of President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, which operated the vital trade route to the east.
Here is what the IDF and Ariel Sharon’s first command accomplished:
Enter the UN: By early 1957 all Israeli troops had withdrawn from the Sinai. As part of the deal, the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was placed in the Sinai (on Egyptian territory only) with the express purpose of maintaining the cease-fire. While effective in preventing the small-scale warfare that prevailed before 1956 and after 1967, budgetary cutbacks and changing needs had seen the force shrink to 3,378 by 1967. The Egyptian government then began to remilitarize the Sinai, and demanded that the UNEF withdraw. This action, along with the blockade of the Strait of Tiran, led directly to the Six Day War. During the war, Israeli armed forces captured the east bank of the canal, which subsequently became a de facto boundary between Egypt and Israel and the canal was therefore closed until June, 1975.
This first United Nations Peacekeeping Force was Lester Pearson’s (Canadian PM and Nobel Laureate) creation and he is considered the father of the modern concept “peacekeeping”.
He gave birth to a congenital idiot as subsequent history illustrates.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 12 at 05:18 PM • permalinkNow wait a minute. There’s not a single bridge, school or mosque left standing nor one uninjured child in all of Lebanon? How come we haven’t heard about this?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 12 at 05:48 PM • permalink#27 - Patricia, I always think of the Seinfeld ep. about the puffy shirt when I see those hats.
Posted by ozconservative on 2006 08 12 at 08:08 PM • permalinkAh, the ABC nostalgia for the Peace Fronts, the Anti-Vietnam Marches days and the European anti-Nuke rallies of the early 80s.
‘Anti-War’ and ‘Peace’ rallies are so ingrained as code for ‘anti-American’ and ‘anti-West’, they just can’t help themselves.
They should have motto in every ABC office: “Objectivity is BIAS”This morning, as a truce looms, the ABC now presents it as stopping the Israeli Blitzkrieg
This term means ‘a lightning advance in war’, and was appropriate for the very short Gulf War One, perhaps.
A few days ago, 4 weeks into this war, the Israelis were being criticised for getting bogged down, dithering and losing, even by Andrew Bolt [shame on him].But ‘ABC history’ will talk of another ‘Israeli Blitzkrieg’ now..
Hassam Bazzi from the prime minister’s Muslim Advisory Council… (The SMH)
Call me old fashioned, but I still prefer Hassan with an n. But what would I know? The SMH has fact checkers, editors and goodness knows who else to ensure total reliability…
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“Highly emotional”.... What a nice euphemism.