Comments on: Supporting terrorism, one billboard at a time http://www.yourish.com/2007/08/13/3540 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:14:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lowfields http://www.yourish.com/2007/08/13/3540/comment-page-1#comment-27907 Lowfields Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:13:07 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/08/13/3540#comment-27907 Nabbout is the one who is lying: I have no real opinion on the billboard – one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, etc, etc – but the translation is 100% accurate. It says, literally and uncontroversially, that the city congratulates ("tuheni") the steadfastness ("sumoudho") of the Lebanese people, and their aspirations/endeavours ("sa'eeyho") to achieve peace ("Ihlal as-salaam") in Lebanon. Whatever you think about the billboard or the characters portrayed – in fact, only Nassrallah is from Hezbollah, the others are Lebanese of all stripes, including a leading Christian leader Michael Aoun – it is important to report ACCURATELY what this poster says and shows... ... otherwise you're just as bad as the propagandists from the other side. As an Arab, Mr Nabbout certainly knows the misrepresentation he is seeking to peddle.... Nabbout is the one who is lying: I have no real opinion on the billboard – one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter, etc, etc – but the translation is 100% accurate.

It says, literally and uncontroversially, that the city congratulates (”tuheni”) the steadfastness (”sumoudho”) of the Lebanese people, and their aspirations/endeavours (”sa’eeyho”) to achieve peace (”Ihlal as-salaam”) in Lebanon.

Whatever you think about the billboard or the characters portrayed – in fact, only Nassrallah is from Hezbollah, the others are Lebanese of all stripes, including a leading Christian leader Michael Aoun – it is important to report ACCURATELY what this poster says and shows…

… otherwise you’re just as bad as the propagandists from the other side.

As an Arab, Mr Nabbout certainly knows the misrepresentation he is seeking to peddle….

]]> By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2007/08/13/3540/comment-page-1#comment-27854 Michael Lonie Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:57:03 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/08/13/3540#comment-27854 Lebanese government turns a blind eye to war preparations on its soil it incurs the blame for any attacks Hizbollah makes from Lebanon. That is actual international law, as opposed to the fanciful nonsense that gets shreiked at the US and Israel by professors and UN or EU corrupticrats to blame them for non-existent infractions of international law. The USA learned this lesson the hard way in the 1860s, when New York allowed Irish Fenians to make guerilla attacks on the British in Canada across the lake. When diplomatic protests failed to accomplish anything the British Army crossed the lake and destroyed the Fenian base. When the US protested we found that we did not have a legal leg to stand on. If Lebanon wants to be a sovereign nation it had better act that way. If it wants to fight Israel it will have to face the consequences. If they do not exert their soveriegn authority to stop Hezbollah they make their country the battleground for others, and they have no standing to complain. Lebanese government turns a blind eye to war preparations on its soil it incurs the blame for any attacks Hizbollah makes from Lebanon. That is actual international law, as opposed to the fanciful nonsense that gets shreiked at the US and Israel by professors and UN or EU corrupticrats to blame them for non-existent infractions of international law.

The USA learned this lesson the hard way in the 1860s, when New York allowed Irish Fenians to make guerilla attacks on the British in Canada across the lake. When diplomatic protests failed to accomplish anything the British Army crossed the lake and destroyed the Fenian base. When the US protested we found that we did not have a legal leg to stand on.

If Lebanon wants to be a sovereign nation it had better act that way. If it wants to fight Israel it will have to face the consequences. If they do not exert their soveriegn authority to stop Hezbollah they make their country the battleground for others, and they have no standing to complain.

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