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May 10, 2008
Driving To Lebanon
I will be taking the long road to Beirut in a few hours. The airport is still closed, so our CNN team is driving in.
There is a lull in the fighting in the Lebanese capital and Hezbollah has withdrawn its armed men from the streets. But will it stay calm for long? We will report on where the country goes from here, whether the Siniora government can survive and what life is like for ordinary residents of Beirut. We'll also look at the damage - physical and financial - to country mired in this protacted and divisive tug-of-war.
Good luck to you Hala. You might be about to witness the sadest possible end to this beautiful country.
When God created earth, all other countries where gealous of Lebanon and complained why god had given this small territory so many beauties. God answered them: "wait until you see the neighbours i will give them". My congratulations go first to Israel and Ehud Olmert who's war only result was to strengthen Hezbollah (by the way, any idea of what happened to these two soldiers for whom this war was supposedly started?!). I hope Israel will welcome living with a Hizbollah controled country at its borders. Second, congratulation to Syria and Iran for playing the right cards. They understood very well that western democracies where all talk and no action. What is happening is so sad and revolting. This is real politics at its worse. If you think you can influence world opinion in any way, i beg you to do something urgently. Have a safe trip.
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing, someone once said, and for the people of Lebanon, these words should not linger.
If they would not act now, forcefully against Hezbollah and their Syrian and Iranian puppet masters, they will surely lose their county, their freedom, and many their lives. The people of Lebanon can no longer blame the history for their situation. The US and IL tried to destroy Hezbollah, for their own reasons, during the summer of 2006, and failed. No one will step out for the people of Lebanon if not the people of Lebanon for themselves, surely not the so called Arab Nation. I wish the people of Lebanon find the courage to make history, other than become one.
as long as the saniora is holding lebanon hostage, things will remain so. STEP OUT. but he's just a simple employee in the white house.
Lebanon is in very good condition.
saniora, jumblat, hariri and jeajaa gave promises to their western masters to get rid of Hizbullah weapons, not knowing that the best thing that can ever happen to Lebanon is to get rid of them from power. Jumblat and jajaa are but WAR CRIMINALS and the other two are and -sorry for this expression- "SUCKING THE BLOOD" from Lebanese citizens. And the US is loosing in iraq and this tyrant in the white house want to play a winning card by destroying hizbullah. Let the US stop dreaming. Hizbullah is LEBANESE in the same way like any other lebanese citizen. |
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