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It's 3 A.M. In Beirut
« on: May 12, 2008, 11:32:03 PM »



It's 3 A.M. In Beirut
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Monday, May 12, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Middle East: A Hamas leader says Lebanon is the next in a series of Islamofascist takeovers. Is Hezbollah's stranglehold on Beirut the prelude to another war with Israel? Is this 1936 all over again?

When asked by President Franklin Roosevelt about what World War II should be called, Winston Churchill suggested it be labeled "The Unnecessary War." "There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle," he wrote in "The Gathering Storm."

Well, we may be about to see another one and, as in World War II, the enemy ? in this case, Iran ? is telling us exactly what it intends to do: wipe Israel off the map. As Hitler rebuilt the Wehrmacht, flaunting the Treaty of Versailles, Ahmadinejad builds his nukes and the missiles to carry them, in the face of ineffective sanctions. And Hezbollah wants Lebanon.

The latest warning in the current gathering storm comes from Sheik Yazeeb Khader, a Hamas political activist and editor based in Ramallah in the West Bank. He told the Washington Times that the current turmoil in Lebanon is part of an inexorable process that began last year in Gaza when Hamas wrested control of Gaza and which will spread across the Middle East.

"What happened in Gaza in 2007 is an achievement; now it is happening in 2008 in Lebanon," Khader said in the interview. "It's going to happen in 2009 in Jordan, and it's going to happen in 2010 in Egypt. We are seeing a redrawing of the map of the Middle East where the forces of resistance and steadfastness are the ones moving the things on the ground."

The real tragedy here is that we know who's calling the shots in Lebanon. The Financial Times quotes a senior U.S. administration official as accusing Iran of giving its terrorist puppet, Hezbollah, a "green light" for the current chaos and Syria of calling its Lebanese allies to take to the streets as well.

So what are we doing about it? State Department spokesman Sean McCormack has called on "those who have influence over Syria and Iran to encourage those countries to use their influence with Hezbollah." But he missed the point. Syria and Iran are using their influence with Hezbollah, giving it money, weapons and orders.

President Bush arrives in Israel on Wednesday to celebrate that nation's 60th birthday. Ze'ev Boim, a lawmaker from Israel's governing Kadima party, says: "What's going on in Lebanon at this hour is actually the overthrow of Lebanon by Hezbollah. The democratic Lebanese government will become a puppet government ? an Iranian dream." Particularly in a conflict with Israel.

Bush has said he'd be willing to meet with beleaguered Lebanese President Fouad Siniora this weekend at Sharm el-Sheikh. That's if Hezbollah would let Siniora out of the country ? or back in. It's time to offer the Lebanese more than moral support anyway.

None of the remaining presidential contenders has linked Lebanon to Iraq as part of Iran and Syria's grand designs for the Middle East. The focus is on Iraq. Hillary made noises about nuking Iran if it attacked Israel, but not about forestalling the attack in the first place. McCain wants to win in Iraq. Obama wants to channel Neville Chamberlain and talk to mad Mahmoud.

Our success in Iraq cannot be viewed in a vacuum. It's part of a global chess game in which only our enemies seem to be thinking more than one move ahead. Iran's support of insurgents in Iraq and Hezbollah in Lebanon begins in the same training camps that former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton suggests we take out. This is why we can't withdraw from Iraq or from the Middle East.

The problems the West faces will not be solved in Baghdad or Beirut, but rather in Damascus and Tehran, and not by "aggressive" personal diplomacy by Barack Obama or anyone else.

We should stop treating the symptoms and remove the cancer.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295485482480957

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Re: It's 3 A.M. In Beirut
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2008, 09:01:16 AM »
Yeah, sure, just like 1936...
Hezbollah is Hitler and Lebanon is Germany.

If we do not stop them, Hezbollah will try to overrun all of the Middle East, because they have the Wahrmacht, the Luftwaffe, and a population of 60 million fanatics, all goose-stepping and zieg heiling and ready to take over the world.

C'mon.

Nobody believes your drivel.

Go unite yourself for less government, kiss your Ronnie Reagan doll and get a good night's sleep.


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Re: It's 3 A.M. In Beirut
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2008, 10:29:32 AM »
Hezbollah is Hitler and Lebanon is Germany. If we do not stop them, Hezbollah will try to overrun all of the Middle East,

i knew you wouldn't read the article

from Sheik Yazeeb Khader:
"What happened in Gaza in 2007 is an achievement; now it is happening in 2008 in Lebanon," Khader said in the interview. "It's going to happen in 2009 in Jordan, and it's going to happen in 2010 in Egypt. We are seeing a redrawing of the map of the Middle East ....."

Nobody believes your drivel.

Yeah you're right no one is the least bit concerned about Iran and the Islamist taking
over the middle east.  ::)



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Re: It's 3 A.M. In Beirut
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2008, 10:43:23 AM »


Ahmadinejad: Israel to be "swept away soon"

May 13, 2008

Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Israel would "be soon swept away" from the Palestinian Territories by the Palestinians. It is the second time within less than three years that the Iranian president predicted the eradication of the Jewish state.

The first time was in 2005 when Ahmadinejad hoped that Israel would be eradicated from the Middle East map.

"This terrorist and criminal state is backed by foreign powers, but this regime would soon be swept away by the Palestinians," Ahmadinejad said in a press conference in Tehran.

Referring to worldwide celebrations for the 60th anniversary of Israel's foundation, he said that "it would be futile to hold a birthday ceremony for something which is already dead."

"As far as the regional countries are concerned, this regime does not exist," Ahmadinejad added.

The Iranian president said last week that the anniversary feasts could not save this "rotten and stinking corpse."

Ahmadinejad caused international outrage in the past by hoping for the eradication of Israel, the relocation of the Jewish state to Europe or Alaska and questioning the historic dimensions of the Holocaust.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/205101,ahmadinejad-israel-to-be-swept-away-soon.html
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Re: It's 3 A.M. In Beirut
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2008, 03:33:03 PM »

Yeah you're right no one is the least bit concerned about Iran and the Islamist taking
over the middle east.  Roll Eyes
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News flash!

Iran is the second or third  largest Middle Eastern countries.

Will Iran take over Egypt?  Turkey?

This is quite unlikely. It really does not matter what Yazeeb Whatever says.

Hezbollah is one minority political party of Lebanon. It will have some creedance there. It gained political capitol by appearing to have driven Israel out of Lebanon, which all Lebanese wanted.

I will predict that for the next ten or twelve centuries at a minimum, Iran will be a large and influential nation in the Middle East, just as the US will continue to be a large and influential nation in North America.

Ahmedinejad is entirely wrong about Israel being dead or even dying, but that is what he feels will win him most favor among his constituents. It is as silly a statement as Juniorbush saying "They hate us for our freedoms". But it resonates with the uninformed and the less astute citizens who elected his incompetent sorry ass.

The problem that Israel has is demographic. Eventually the Jews will be outnumbered by Gentiles, and it will then have to stop being a Jewish state (in which Jews get special treatment) or a democratic one (in which a Jewish minority rules a larger non-Jewish minority). Pretty much everyone in Israel knows this, and yet you seem to ignore it, for who knows what reason.
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