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| Hezbollah rally calls for resistance in Gaza and not surrender |
| 2008-03-03 |
| Thousands of followers of the Islamist movements Hezbollah and Hamas staged a mass rally Monday in Beirut's southern suburbs, vowing "resistance and not surrender" to save the Gaza Strip from "Zionist aggression.""We are not counting on anyone to save us in Gaza. We are counting on our strugglers who will liberate the whole land of Palestine," Hamas spokesman Ousama Hamdan said. "The resistance in Lebanon (Hezbollah) and the resistance in Gaza (Hamas) are united and will break all our borders ... to save Palestine," Hamdan said. The crowd who were carrying Palestinian, Hezbollah and Lebanese flags were shouting "Israel and the US are the mothers of terrorism." Hamdan warned that the "day of punishment is approaching." "Israel is the enemy of Islam," the crowd chanted in return to Hamdan's speech. The crowd was protesting the attacks by Israel on the Gaza Strip over the weekend during which more than 100 people were killed. Hezbollah also denounced the deployment of US warships off Lebanon's coast, saying it would not be intimidated. The US military said last Thursday that its navy was sending at least three warships, including an amphibious assault ship, to the eastern Mediterranean Sea. "(US) warships will not help (Israel) and our strugglers will score another divine victory with God's will," Raad said. Hezbollah is leading the Lebanese opposition in seeking to topple the US-backed government in Beirut. The group fought Israel in the 2006 war and is believed linked to Muslim militants who attacked US forces and diplomats killing about 270 in Lebanon in 1983-84 during the Lebanese civil war. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 FOX's MORT KONDRACKE > despite serious probs or doubts, Dubya's strategy is effectively working and the USA is presently winning the war in the ME. MORT > Osama + AQ [Radical Islam] is weak, scattered, and forced to keep moving and hiding in various places. As argued or inferred a long time ago, to defeat or destroy Radical Islam as an ideological basis/foundation for Terror it may prove necessary for the US-Allies to discredit, NOT only minimize, IMPORTANT QURANIC/SUTRIC TENETS-PRECEPTS, ETC. COMMON TO BOTH HARDLINE MILITANT RADICAL ISLAM, AS WELL AS NON-RADICALIST, "MODERATE" SECUL-LIBERAL GENER ISLAM, WITH POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS RIPPLE EFFECTS OR CONSEQUENCES FOR ALL CONCERNED, FOR BOTH THE US-ALLIES + NON-RADICAL ISLAM. IMO, the Islamists' priority right now is to stop the US [Coalition] entrenchment in the ME, revitalize Local-Global Islamist movements and orgs, and to salvage its designs for an ANTI-US/WESTERN OWG GLOBAL ISLAMIST-JIHADIST STATE. IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ISLAMIST-ONLY MAJOR DECISIVE BATTLEFIELD VICTORY AGZ THE US ANDOR ISRAEL, THE ONLY REMAINING PRAGMATIC WAY TO ACHIEVE THESE WOULD BE VIA AMER HIROSHIMAS [inside the USA?], GREAT POWER CONFRONTATIONISM = "BRINKMANSHIP", AND MUTUAL DESTRUCTION SCHEMAS ALA RADICAL MULLAHS [espec after 2010 + foreign collusion/dependencies]. Even Year 2010 may be safely ascribed as "pushing it". Lastly, the OSAMA, etc. I know from the anti-Soviet AFghan War is IRAN-CENTRIC/FOCUSED in his END-TIMES ISLAMIST APOCALYPSE BELIEFS, i.e. ISLAM/ISLAMISM MUST WIN ALL, OR LOSE ALL, AGZ WORLD NON-ISLAM ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF IRAN [PERSIA]. Osama > is akin to DIVINE VALIDATION. IMO, NO IRAN-FOUGHT APOCALYPSE WOULD ACTUALLY BE SEEN AS A DISHONOR TO HIM, EVEN IFF THE US-WEST MADE UNILATER APPEASEMENT OR SURRENDERED TO ISLAM TODAY - IOW, OSAMA WILL WANT HIS APOCALYPSE REGARDLESS. Year 2008 -2010 >"Make or Break" the budding US-led OWG-NWO vv NATIONAL-GLOBAL DEMOCRACY versus SOCIALISM-GOVTISM, FEDERALISM versus CENTRALISM, ETC. Ditto for Radical Islam includ Islamism-based Terror + possib gener Islam. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-03 21:21 |
| #6 And the leaders of each are willing to send as many people to their death as necessary (i.e., gain sympathy, not actually "win"). |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2008-03-03 16:04 |
| #5 Bingo, grom. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-03-03 14:47 |
| #4 "We are not counting on anyone to save us in Gaza. We are counting on our strugglers who will liberate the whole land of Palestine," Hamas spokesman Ousama Hamdan said. Better them then you, right, Ousama? How's the nightlife in Beirut? Better then Damascus? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-03-03 14:36 |
| #3 I noticed they're rallying in Beirut for the ham-ass mooks to fight until they all die in Gaza. Iranians are willing to fight Israel to the last Lebanese Shiite. Hizbollah are willing to fight Israel to the last Gazan. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-03-03 14:08 |
| #2 I noticed they're rallying in Beirut for the ham-ass mooks to fight until they all die in Gaza. No mention of them going to Gaza to die, too. Funny how that works out. As far as the US warships off the coast, F*ck You, Assholes. Whatcha gonna do about it? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-03-03 13:48 |
| #1 "Israel is the enemy of Islam," Well Yes, but the main enemy of Islam is Islam. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-03-03 13:41 |