{"id":818,"date":"2005-03-08T16:01:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=818"},"modified":"2005-03-08T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T20:01:53","slug":"half-a-million-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Half A Million Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/lebanon_syria\">Thousands Answer Hezbollah Call in Beirut <\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon &#8211; 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. <\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/us_syria\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/pp.jpg?resize=310%2C200\" width=\"310\" height=\"200\" \/\" alt=\"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 in answer to a nationwide call by the militant Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group to demonstrate against foreign intervention and counter weeks of massive anti-Syrian rallies.\" style = \"padding: 2px;\" border=0><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;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&#8217;s flag&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anti-American?  Wildly waving?  I think they&#8217;re giving America good advise, unlike the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P1841_0_1_0\">two-faced<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P1853_0_1_0\">Walid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P1855_0_1_0\">Jumblatt<\/a> who is quite willing to expend American lives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P1869_0_1_0\">propping-up<\/a> his anti-American, <a href=\"http:\/\/angryarab.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/walid-jumblat-feudal-warlord-who-is.html\">racist dynasty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/050308\/481\/bei10803081448\">AP Photo\/Mahmoud Tawil<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Lebanon and the Avaricious Superpower<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Next Crusades<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/counterpunch.org\/avnery03072005.html\">By URI AVNERY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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, &#8220;freedom&#8221; and &#8220;democracy&#8221;, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;freedom&#8221; and &#8220;democracy&#8221; are hoisted over a crusade by an avaricious and irresponsible super-power, the results can be catastrophic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands Answer Hezbollah Call in Beirut BEIRUT, Lebanon &#8211; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=818\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-dc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}