I wonder if that mall has a store to sell semtex vests? Is there a shop to sell “Make Your Own Rockets At Home In Your Garage” kits for Palestinian DIY addicts? No doubt there is a marital aids store too, where one of those Hamas bigshots can get the proper sized stick to beat his wife in a proper, Koranically-approved manner, especially if she gets too upset about that lack of haute coutoure clothing. Of course, as P. J. O’Rourke pointed out after inspecting a similar mall in The Wahhabist Entity, a man with four wives might well decide that the most inportant marital aid was a pair of earplugs.

As for Rafik Hariri’s son, there is a guy who knows which side of his bread substitute has the ersatz margarine on it. When the Lebanese let the Hezbos take over their country on behalf of Iran and Syria, they lost their independence again. They will pay a price for that bit of short-sighted cowadice. The brief war of 2006 was their last chance to retain independence, but they would rather be Iranian serfs than ally with Jews to maintain their freedom. I had better hear no whining from them about what happens when Iran next has Hezbollah start a war against Israel. By refusing to help Israel smash the Hezziesm they will have earned whatever happens to them as Iran pursues genocide against Israel. They will get no sympathy from me next time.

-ls/cm