Thousands Answer Hezbollah Call in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Nearly 500,000 pro-Syrian protesters waved flags and chanted anti-American slogans in a central Beirut square Tuesday, answering a nationwide call by the militant Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group for a demonstration to counter weeks of massive rallies demanding Syrian forces leave Lebanon.
“Hundreds of thousands pro-Syrian protesters gather in a central Beirut square, Lebanon, Tuesday March 8, 2005, chanting anti-American slogans and wildly waving Lebanon’s flag…”
Anti-American? Wildly waving? I think they’re giving America good advise, unlike the two-faced Walid Jumblatt who is quite willing to expend American lives propping-up his anti-American, racist dynasty.
Lebanon and the Avaricious Superpower
The Next Crusades
By URI AVNERY
“It is easy to ignite a civil war, whether out of fanaticism or out of intolerable naivete. George Bush, the (not-so-) Quiet American, runs around the world hawking his patent medicines, “freedom” and “democracy”, in total ignorance of hundreds of years of history. Hard to believe, but he draws his inspiration from a book by our own Nathan Sharansky, a very small genius, to say the least.
Every human being and every people has a right to freedom. Many of us have shed their blood for this aim. Democracy is an ideal that every people has to realize for itself. But when the banners of “freedom” and “democracy” are hoisted over a crusade by an avaricious and irresponsible super-power, the results can be catastrophic.”