Comments on: Clash on Israel’s border with Lebanon https://www.yourish.com/2010/08/03/11738 Cutting straight to the point Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:00:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Pablo Schwartz https://www.yourish.com/2010/08/03/11738/comment-page-1#comment-41089 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:25:30 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=11738#comment-41089 s focuse away from their assassination of Rafik Hariri." .. the AP/UN narrative (highly suspect) is that it was Syria that put a bomb under Hariri. The only conceivable alternative to this scenario is .. Hezbollah did it. Why? Because Hariri was an unambiguous representative of Saudi interests in Lebanon and a Sunni partisan t'boot. With that said, there is the complication of Hariri's stated position on Hezbollah: he recognized them as de facto guardians of Lebanon's southern border. It is a *puzzler*, surely (popular novelist Don DeLillo tried to present an added dimension to Lebanese politics by adding a Maoist element [in "Mao II"]. while it was an admirable effort, his imaginings still fell short of Lebanese reality ..).]]> “Hezbullah is looking to switch the world’s focuse away from their assassination of Rafik Hariri.”

.. the AP/UN narrative (highly suspect) is that it was Syria that put a bomb under Hariri. The only conceivable alternative to this scenario is .. Hezbollah did it. Why? Because Hariri was an unambiguous representative of Saudi interests in Lebanon and a Sunni partisan t’boot. With that said, there is the complication of Hariri’s stated position on Hezbollah: he recognized them as de facto guardians of Lebanon’s southern border.

It is a *puzzler*, surely (popular novelist Don DeLillo tried to present an added dimension to Lebanese politics by adding a Maoist element [in “Mao II”]. while it was an admirable effort, his imaginings still fell short of Lebanese reality ..).

]]> By: Yannai https://www.yourish.com/2010/08/03/11738/comment-page-1#comment-41082 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:51:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=11738#comment-41082 Update: Lebanese Army forces opened fire in a prepared ambush on an IDF force clearing brush within Israeli territory, killing an senior IDF officer with sniper fire and seriously injuring another. IDF retaliation was immediate, killing 3 Lebanese troops and what was apparently a reporter. Fighting is ongoing, though to what extent is still unclear.

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