cbmaclean asked:

Of course they are of Lebanese origin, but they cant be all there on summer vacation! There are about 300,000 Lebanon Canadians, so 1 in 6 are out of the country! I have my deep suspicians.
Dori is full of you know what. My implied question is that I wonder how many of the Lebonese Canadians,(Canadians of mere conveneince) are members of the terrorist organization, Hezballa? That is what I am concerned with. These fuckers use our country when they want. They visit a war-torn country and then whine, like the American Lebanese also, at their governments slow reaction. Totally ungraterful citizens of our own country.

M1980 asked:

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/war_on_gaza/2009/01/200914102257130539.html

“No Israeli government can tolerate rockets hitting its towns, even though the casualty totals have been less than the car crash fatalities registered during a single holiday weekend on Israel’s roads.

The firing of the feeble, home-made al-Qassam rockets by Palestinians is both useless and counter-productive.

It damages their image as an oppressed people and gives right-wing Israeli extremists a perfect reason to launch more attacks on the Arabs and refuse to discuss peace.

OMITTING FACTS

As usual, this cartoon-like version of events omits a great deal of nuance and background.

While firing rockets at civilians is a crime so, too, is the Israeli blockade of Gaza, which is an egregious violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions.

Israeli politics are playing a key role in this crisis.

Israel’s elections are only six weeks away, and Likud was leading until the air raids on Gaza began. Kadima and Labour are now up in the polls.

The heavy attacks on Gaza are also designed to intimidate Israel’s Arab neighbours, and make up for Israel’s humiliating 2006 defeat in Lebanon, which still haunts the country’s politicians and generals.

Though Israel’s use of American weapons against Gaza violates the US Arms Export Control and Foreign Assistance Acts, the docile US Congress will remain mute.

Israel’s assault on Gaza was clearly timed for America’s interregnum between administrations and the year-end holidays, a well-used Israeli tactic.”

Read also: NY times “What you dont know about Gaza”

stranger in a strange land asked:

I see that there are lots of American tourists trapped in Lebanon.
Are these people out of their minds?Is this evolution in action?

Si asked:

The State Department tells you not to go there. You do. You can’t even take a direct flight there because they won’t let our airlines land there. The area has been in upheaval for as long as I can remember and you want to vacation there? Why should I as an American taxpayer bail you out??? Don’t complain about the slowness of the response you are lucky we came for you at all. Don’t complain that you don’t have food or blankets. Run out to the store and buy them before you get on the free boat ride!
I think someone in training for the CIA would have more class than to go on tv and complain about his government.
Hey, John J – If you travel there to see your family you go at your own risk. These people need to accept some personal responsibility!
Hey Trout – I would have made sure those school buses were used to evacuate the people in my city unlike the local politicians New Orleans.

yb H asked:

ZIONISM PROPAGANDA

Recent events in the Middle East (can anyone remember, it was previously known as the Arabian Peninsula?) have raised questions more than answers as to where the world is at present.

The massacres of peoples in the name of WAR ON TERROR?raises questions as to who is the terror and who the victim.

How did this sorry state of affairs come about that the world today has become blind to the atrocities committed by a small nation to the rest of its neighbors but instead of the word GENOCIDE or HOLOCAUST the word CLEANSING or SURGICAL STRIKES are used for its actions! Dropping tons and tons of explosives on the civilian populations is justified while the whole world applauds and claps as if they were watching computer games!

This sorry state of affairs came about when the whole world was sleeping while others were busy justifying/ consolidating their vile designs.

Up to 1940s the Jews as a race were the most maligned lot everywhere in Christendom states (as their fore-fathers were held responsible for the Crucification of Jesus). Believe it or not this was in United States as well in most of Europe!

The Jews being a minority worked hard stayed in closed communities and produced intellectuals (scientists, doctors, financial bankers, e.t.c.). As they prospered so also they started to create resentment within the general populations. This resentment reached its crescendo in the 1940s to that extent that Hitler’s **** Party in Germany at that time exploited it to come to power in their country. The Jews were made scape-goats of the ills of the rest of the community and were dispossessed of their wealth and persecuted and sent to concentration camps. Millions of Jews died in horrific conditions in concentration camps during the Second World War termed as THE HOLOCAUST.

After the Second World War there was terrible guilt feeling in the European countries due to the atrocities committed/permitted by them to reach such levels on a minority community. The Jews also realized that the major reason for their persecution was that they had no state of their own to protect their rights. To exploit this guilt situation, the idea of Israel as a state was born. It was mooted that the state of Israel could be either in South America, in some part of United States of America, or the present Middle East. The Palestine state was chosen as the destination as it was under British occupation and the locals were weak in defense. An exodus of Jews was encouraged from all parts of the world to the state of Palestine until they became a formidable number. The Jews formed armed gangs and terrorized the local Arabs to establish their supremacy and achieve their objectives. Ultimately from mass migrations and terror activities they gained sufficient strength to get state-hood from the British in the midst of Arab lands! Thus was born the state of Israel, through terror origins. Today the Israelites see terrorists everywhere! The first to recognize Israel as a state was Soviet Union!

In 1967 and 1973 wars, the Israelites captured further lands from the Arabs and to this date is the only country in the world to occupy other lands ?the rest of Palestine, Syria.
The Jews (now Israelites), realized that to keep their state safe and prosper they had to:
1.Encourage migration of more Jews from different places to the new state of Israel.
2.Be militarily strong.
3.Politically align themselves to a superpower of that time to receive:
a) Military protection as well as arms
b) Political patronage in different world forums and organizations.
c) Control of Media

They achieved this by using Jewish communities in different countries (intellectuals, scientists, bankers), exploiting the guilt feelings of The Holocaust to make the European countries and United States to listen to their demands. The strong Jewish Lobby was born in the United States Congress (government) as the Jewish community made sure that with all the power available to them only that representative of the people would be elected who had strong Jewish sympathies, and this includes even the selection of candidate for the office of the President of United states!

The power of propaganda was realized and unleashed very early so much so that the Jews control or have influence in most of the media organizations so much so that the sickness or well-being of Ariel Sharon, the ex-prime minister of Israel (who is in coma now for five months) makes more headlines than what the Gaza residents are facing at this moment under Israeli bombardment!

The Right Wing Christians were misled by the selected paragraphs extracted from the Book of Revelations that Jesus Christ would come back to Earth to lead the Christians and establish God’s Kingdom. One of the signs of his coming would be the advent of Jews being and establishing their kingdom in Zion. To facilitate therefore the quick return of Jesus this condition has to be there. (Zion means the whole of Palestine, including Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, parts of Iran, Saudi Arabia and parts of Egypt!)

With the advent of George W. Bush becoming the present president of United States and the presence of Right-wing Christians in the Congress (Republicans), the Israelites now have a blank cheque to achieve whatever they desire, and not even in a hurry! (See the actions of Condoleezza Rice!)

Coming to the present conflict, so much hue and cry has been made as to who started the war by capturing two Israeli soldiers, forgetting that hundreds of Arab prisoners are languishing in Israeli jails for decades in inhuman conditions (without trial) and there is nobody for them to cry for 了human rights indeed!

The response of the Israelis? Not content with using massive fire-power (provided to them by United states) they are resorting also to bomb indiscriminately the civilian population, killing the women and children, destroying the infrastructures like water plants, electricity plants, factories, houses, roads so that the remaining surviving population live in poverty and squalor for decades to come and wish that they were dead too! The Israelis are doing this and continuing to do so even today. Not forgetting the poor Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza. This is called CLEANSING not GENOCIDE!

The Israelites even deliberately targeted and killed UN observers at the border out-post in Lebanon. Why? So they do not leave any telling witnesses of their atrocities alive!

The purpose of writing this just to appraise the truth for truth will ultimately prevail over falsehood. If you agree with this please be also one of the torch-bearers to pass on this message to others as I have received it from others. Do not keep the torch with yourself and suppress the truth.

Finally I end with some latest definitions:

DEMOCRACY: A government of people, by the people, for the people (who SHOULD be friendly and serve the purpose of the establishing authority, a superpower, for example as in, Iraq, Afghanistan).

SURGICAL CLEANSING: License to kill any undesirable person of the opposition with firepower unimaginable even for animals.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Annihilation of anyone who is in the way of current designs of the reigning super-power…

GOOD ARAB: Dead Arab

GOOD NEIGHBOR: No Neighbor, or Dead Neighbor

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ROCKMUM LOVES BOWIE asked:

my husbands friend got back from a holiday visiting family in beirut
he said that with his own eyes saw these men banging on a door and as the man opened it he was shot over n over in the head killing him
and on another day he saw these 2 men on the floor getting beaten by a group of men, they were kicking the hell out of them and bashing them with big peices of wood, and then they got bricks and started bashing their heads in killing them

i promise that this is real, i just dont beleive that this stuff goes on in the streets, its so sick, like its nothing extroadinary, why do they live like this?

this was in beirut by the way,, not sure if all lebanon live like this [my hubbies friend wasnt even phased by this as he said this goes on all the time [but im still in shock, lol]

if this happened in australia this would b a full on investigation by forensics ect ect, putting the killers away in jail,,, these killers do it like theyv killed an animal, no big deal

isnt everyones lives as important as another no matter where theyr from?

Voodoo Doll asked:

If they like it there so much why did they immigrate to America, and what in the world would instigate going back there for a vacation
as far as I know, the reason for my being here in the USA is because my ancestors found it unbearable to stay where they were, and none of my family tree ever returned to where they came from
these answers are not even in the realm of the question

JJ C asked:

i had made plans to visit the beautiful island of Cyprus (just off the coast of Lebanon). My plans were for late August. Should i still go or cancel ?

Ali H asked:

Israel had committed genocide against the palestinian people and the world has the cheek to remain silent.

Ok so israel don’t have it that easy yet and they need a reason to go kill 100’s of innocent civilians, so they use rockets as a reason seems though the “suicide bombers” option has been used before as a reason to build the apartheid wall.

now hamas not being an army, it is a resistance group resisting israeli occupation and the israeli siege that has the palestinians locked up in a cage like an animal ever since the israelis so called left the gaza strip.

The usa donates £7 Million of the usa’s taxpayers money everyday to israel and also donates all military capabilities i.e F16 fighters and apache helicopters with missile guidance systems. Hamas only have self made rockets that have no guidance systems hence they can not be targeted at israeli interests.

And now that israel is openly commiting genocide, mr bush has the nerve to say this ia all hamas’s fault. Watching the protests in london today i was happy to see the british public is not as soo called “democratic” as gordon brown is but even though 80% of the british public has voted againt this genocide in the gaza strip, the typical british media has covered it all up once again.

One israeli was even saying that israel have deliberately chosen this time to attack because all the worlds governments are on christmas/new year holidays which helps the israelis to get on with what they are doing freely.

People who are still blind and believe this is all hamas’s fault need to wake up and stop what is happening otherwise they will have no reason to complain abouht ******* bombers targeting israel in the future.

Its not the rockets the israelis want to stop, its the gaza strip they want but just like what happened in lebanon, they will fail in gaza also as the palestinian people are very strong and will not be broken.

May god help the innocent civillians dying and stop this zionist aggression.
Supernovea

Hamas does not have a poor aim, it simply does not have the usa donating state of the art guidance missiles as israel does, thats not hamas’s fault.

Flangela Haddock

Hamas did not brake the ceasefire, israel did so get your facts right before you go commenting.

There has been a lot of pro **** comments being made on here by people who simply get their info of zionist media channels like the BBC and Fox News.

Its a shame on countries like saudi arabia, they could have the terrorist supporting countries in the west by their balls by stopping all sale of oil to the west but its a shame thats not the way it is although i think that might soon happen as the arab countries are putting the pressure on saudi arabia now.

but then again i think if saudi stop selling oil to the west then that would probably be a good enough reason for the west to go and kill 500 civilians in saudi am i right?

People need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Ok for all you people who still have a problem answer this for me.

Whos land is palestine anyway, you do know that israel is an illlegal state according to international law?

its as simple as this if israel stuck to their own borders (1967) then we would have a peaceful solution but israel wants the whole of palestine to itself am i right?

I tell you what, why dont the british hand over the uk to israel and keep wales to itself? well for now anyway until israel decides to bomb the civilians there too.

i bet people dont even think is a occupying state thats how think people are, i can tell the people making negative comments must not have done well in school

mj_oreilly asked:

Why do Americans get a free ride home from Lebanon? If an American visited Lebanon on vacation, it is their own fault. The US State Department website recommends countries for Americans to avoid, surely Lebanon has been one for some time. Especially considering its close proximity to Syria and Iran. Vacationing in Lebanon should be treated similar to a “stupid motorist law.” If I drive around a road block and get stuck in a wash, it’s my own stupid fault. I pay. Same thing for those who visit Lebanon, they are avoiding the State Department road block warning against visiting Lebanon.

For those who are in Lebanon on business, their employer should foot the bill. Those on government business are the ONLY persons that should be covered by the govt.

The govt seems to be wasting too much money, ex: Katrina. If my house burned down, I wouldn’t receive aid.

We need to stop complaining about how our govt is too slow and expects us to pay for our own stupid decisions. Am I alone?