NYT – Sun to Rise In East
July 28th, 2006 at 11:48 am by CrankyBreaking into Pulitzer territory, the New York Times informs us that Arab Opinion Turns to Support for Hezbollah.
Do you mean to say that the Arab world, even for a minute, supported Israel over Hezbollah? Well, that would be the implication.
In the exact same fashion that France announced that “we were all Americans on 9/11,” Egypt and Saudi Arabia condemned Hezbollah’s act of war on Israel.
So now that we’ve established that the “Arab Street” was shouting that they were all Israelis now, let’s dig in!
Waitafreakinminute! “Even Al-Qaida” is against Israel. All this time watching CNN could not have prepared me for this!
And the number one sign that the Arab world doesn’t support Israel…
After attending an intellectual rally in Cairo for Lebanon, the Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm wrote a column describing how he had watched a companion buy 20 posters of Sheik Nasrallah.
“People are praying for him as they walk in the street, because we were made to feel oppressed, weak and handicapped,” Mr. Negm said in an interview. “I asked the man who sweeps the street under my building what he thought, and he said: ‘Uncle Ahmed, he has awakened the dead man inside me! May God make him triumphant!’ ”
In Lebanon, Rasha Salti, a freelance writer, summarized the sense that Sheik Nasrallah differed from other Arab leaders.
“Since the war broke out, Hassan Nasrallah has displayed a persona, and public behavior also, to the exact opposite of Arab heads of states,” she wrote in an e-mail message posted on many blogs.
Recap: Arab statesmen are to be condemned because they do such ridiculous things like negotiate, compromise and work with non-Arabs.
Not Sheik Nasrallah. No sirree. He is strong and makes us feel strong too.
Nothing cures impotence like blowing sh*t up, eh? Nevermind that if the M.E. was a stable place these little Viagra Warriors could become strong by doing things like purchasing a home, raising families and offroading on weekends.
And all it took was Israel to turn public opinion against it.
July 28th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Al-Zawahri Calls for Muslims to Rise Up…
Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader issued a worldwide call Thursday for Muslims to rise up in a holy war agains…
July 28th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
[...] Courtesy of Six Meat Buffet: [...]