Lebanon, I Do Not
Believe It
By Richard
Salbato
Recently I spent a week traveling from Beirut to the south of Lebanon
and then on to Jordan.
Everywhere I went I met the finest of people.
Of course, most of them were Christians and what great Christians they
were. I went south to visit and write
about a miracle of Our Lady of Lebanon, http://www.unitypublishing.com/Newsletter/LebanonMiracle.htm
I wrote about my trip http://www.unitypublishing.com/Newsletter/JordanVisit.htm
and the wonderful people in Lebanon
and Jordan. Beirut was almost
completely re-built after the war of Syria
and Israel in Lebanon’s
capital city. I say this deliberately as
I am in a disagreement with some of my friends as to what the war in Lebanon was all
about. It is my opinion that the
Lebanese People had nothing to do with the war then and nothing to do with the
war now.
If you look at the history of Lebanon you will see that for many years Lebanon was a
Christian country and a peaceful country. The majority of people were
Christians and the minorities were Moslems, but both got along very well. Syria
could not accept that fact and invaded Lebanon. They brought in hundreds of thousands of
Moslems in order to turn it from a predominately Christian country into a
majority of Moslems. These non-Lebanese
became a Syrian-Iranian surrogate army called Hezbollah.
Although it was claimed that Syria withdrew its army before I visited Lebanon,
I did not see it that way. As I traveled
through the country every check point (about every ten miles) had at least three
military men, one from the Lebanese army, one from the Hezbollah, and one from Syria. Syria? Yes, Syria. Although it was claimed on the world press
that Syria pulled out of Lebanon, they left behind Syrian military men
that were the eyes and ears of Syria
everywhere in Lebanon,
about every ten miles.
And although the stupid United Nations promised to
send in troops that would disarm the Hezbollah in compliance with resolution
1559, the Hezbollah brought in 12,000 rockets and launchers, at least 40 missals
and launchers, hundreds of thousands of guns, thousands of anti-tank guns,
built underground bunkers in the south of Lebanon, trained armies in Iran,
received military uniforms and pay from Iran, and received millions of dollars
per month to buy the support of the people of Lebanon. All this buildup happened over a six year
period under the watchful eyes of the United Nations peace-keeping troops and
the intelligence of the CIA and Israel.
What is now being said is that 90% of the Lebanese
people support Hezbollah, not just Shiites, but Christians and Shiite enemies,
Sunni. I do not believe it.
Truth about Lebanon
Listen to the words of a Lebanese living in America, Debbie Schlussel,
about her friends who had just returned from Lebanon. Debbie said:
“I was talking with few friends of mine
(Christian Lebanese) who arrived in America
this past weekend, rescued by the marines and American ships off the shores of Beirut. They said that as the Marines
were helping the Muslim (American) ladies on the ships, these Muslims were
cussing them out in Arabic. The Muslim (Americans) being rescued were sitting on the decks saying (in Arabic):
"Death to you, (meaning our marines)!
Death to America and Israel! You are
the source of the problems. All our misery is because of you."
“This talk was going on as the marines
were holding their little babies in their arms playing with them. Even in the
bathroom as one woman went on a cussing fit, another one told her to keep it
down in case they understand Arabic and they would hear her. The woman
answered:
"I
don't care if they hear me. I hate them. I cannot stand them anymore."
“I begged my friend to come forward to the
media and give interviews. She said she wouldn't dare because of what the
Muslims might do to her and her family. She said:
"Our
house is there, our businesses, our life, and our relatives. We have to go back
to Lebanon,
if I come out and give interviews they will track us down and kill us. Our life
in Lebanon
would be over. We can't take this risk."
“This is the problem in the Middle
East as to why you only hear one side of the story. People are
terrorized into silence. When you hear the reports (about public opinion in Lebanon
that 80% of Lebanese support Hezbollah) don't be fooled.
“My friends told me when I asked them the question is
it really true that public opinion is changing favoring Hezbollah, my friends
said that the Christians, who answered the poll, were not sure if those people
asking the questions were Hezbollah operatives spying to see who is going to
answer against Hezbollah so they can be eliminated. Also, according to friends
of mine who are close to the government, members of the parliament were
threatened with death just like Harriri if they do
not line up with Hezbollah. That's why you saw the Lebanese leadership change
their tune within the first few days of the war.
“Hezbollah is
king in Lebanon,
and terror is their rule. As for all those wonderful AMERICANS we rescued from
Lebanon
shrouded with headscarves and men with beard, those are the same Hezbollah terrorists men, women and children who are plotting our
destruction right here on our soil, carrying our citizenship.”
Hezbollah in America
By Debbie Schlussel
DEARBORNISTAN, USA--To all those who had any doubt
where the loyalty of Shia Muslims in America is, take
the comments of Hayat Taleb--at
yesterday's latest pro-Hezbollah rally to heart.
Taleb, aged 24, who grew up here, lives in Dearbornistan (Michigan), and is a mother of two U.S.
citizens she is raising to share her beliefs said this to The
Detroit Spews:
"I'd rather die there [Lebanon] than live here [America]."
So, why are you still here, Hayat?
What are you waiting for? Get the heck out. Perhaps we should chip in for a
1-way ticket. And a couple of tickets for her two young
America-haters in training, also.
Also, check out this barely visible sign from
yesterday's rally. It features the name "Bush" and a picture of the
American flag in the shape of a Jewish star. Hmmm . . . they're not
anti-Semitic, are
they?! Memo to Neil Cavuto.
Oh, and by the way, Neil, you might want to check out
some of those Hezbollah planning and financing sessions going on at
restaurants, like Adonis and others all over Dearbornistan
and up and down Warren Ave., where yesterday's Hezbollah rally took place.
Who Are The Hezbollah?
How stupid are Americans or at
least what a short memory they have.
Look at the facts:
1979, November: Muslim extremists (Iranian variety) seized the U.S. Embassy in Iran and held 52 American hostages for 444 days, following Democrat
Jimmy Carter's masterful foreign policy granting Islamic fanaticism its first
real foothold in the Middle East.
1982, Lebanon: Muslim extremists (mostly Hezbollah) began a nearly
decade-long habit of taking Americans and Europeans hostage in Lebanon, killing William Buckley and holding Terry
Anderson for 6 1/2 years.
1983, Lebanon, April:
Muslim extremists (Islamic Jihad or possibly Hezbollah) bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 16
Americans.
1983, Lebanon,
October: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) blew up the U.S. Marine barracks at the Beirut airport, killing
241 Marines.
1983, December: Muslim extremists (al-Dawa)
blew up the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait,
killing five and injuring 80.
1984, Lebanon,
September: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) exploded a truck bomb at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut,
killing 24 people, including two U.S. servicemen.
1984, December: Muslim extremists (probably Hezbollah) hijacked a Kuwait
Airways airplane, landed in Iran and demanded the release of the 17
members of al-Dawa who had been arrested for the
bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait,
killing two Americans before the siege was over.
1985, Lebanon, June
14: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) hijacked TWA Flight 847 out of Athens,
diverting it to Beirut, taking the passengers hostage in return for the release
of the Kuwait 17 as well as another 700 prisoners held by Israel. When their
demands were not met, the Muslims shot U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem and dumped his body
on the tarmac.
1985, October: Muslim extremists (Palestine Liberation Front
backed by Libya)
seized an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, killing 69-year-old American Leon Klinghoffer by shooting him and then tossing his body
overboard.
1985, December: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed airports in Rome
and Vienna,
killing 20 people, including five Americans.
1986, April: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed a discotheque frequented by U.S. servicemen in West Berlin, injuring
hundreds and killing two, including a U.S. soldier.
1988, December: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland,
killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground.
End of Communist Support, (Then came an amazing, historic
pause in Muslim extremists' relentless war on America after Ronald Reagan won the
Cold War by doing the opposite of everything recommended by Democrats,
depriving Islamic terrorists of their Soviet sponsors. This confuses liberals
because they don't understand the concept of terror sponsors, whether it's the Soviet
Union or Iraq.)
1993, February: Muslim extremists (al-Gama'a
al-Islamiyya, possibly with involvement of friendly
rival al Qaeda) set off a bomb in the basement of the World Trade
Center, killing six and
wounding more than 1,000.
1993,Spring: Muslim
extremists (al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya,
the Sudanese Islamic Front and at least one member of Hamas) plot to blow up
the Lincoln and Holland
tunnels, the U.N. complex, and the FBI's lower Manhattan headquarters.
1995, November: Muslim extremists (possibly Iranian "Party
of God") explode a car bomb at U.S.
military headquarters in Saudi Arabia,
killing five U.S.
military servicemen.
1996, June: Muslim extremists (13 Saudis and a Lebanese member of
Hezbollah, probably with involvement of al Qaeda) explode a truck bomb outside
the Khobar
Towers military complex,
killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds.
1998, August: Muslim extremists (al Qaeda) explode truck bombs at
U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania,
killing 224 and injuring thousands.
2000, October: Muslim extremists (al Qaeda) blow up the U.S. Navy
destroyer USS Cole, killing 17 U.S.
sailors.
2001, 9-11, Muslim
extremists (al Qaeda) hijack commercial aircraft and fly planes into the World
Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000
Americans.
2001 to 2006, Attacks on innocent civilians continue daily in Afganistan and Iraqi for over 5 years now.
In the last 5 years they have
bombed Spain, England, countries in Africa, Philippines, and all over Asia.
America, England and Italy have caught and stopped 14
attempted bombings in the last 5 years.
The nation wide riots in France were 90%
French born Moslems.
America's war with Islamic
fanaticism didn't start on 9/11, but it's going to end with 9/11 -- as long as Americans
aren't foolish enough ever to put a Democrat in the White House.
Should We Support Israel? Why?
If you have been
reading my Newsletters over the past months you will see that I am not
pro-Israel as some Catholics and Protestants are. I realize the reason for its creation by the
Illuminati was a way of controlling the oil fields in the Middle
East. I also realize that
Zionists are not the majority of Jews throughout the world, and many Jews do
not support Zionists. I have written
about the two major classes of Jews, the Talmud Jews (much like Radical Islam)
and the Torah Jews, a very moral class of people much like Christians in many
things.
When asked about God’s
help of Jews in Israel
by Syrian Christians a few years ago, I answered that:
“You
will never drive Jews out of Jerusalem
because God wants them there at this time in history. You should not envy Jews, however, since the
reason God wants them there is to be the first to accept the Antichrist as God,
and this is predicted by Christ, Himself.”
That being the case,
why would I support Jews over Moslems in this war today? First of all, Jews are not even the cause of
them being in Jerusalem,
the Illuminati did this. Second, Jews
are not Demonic, but Radical Islam followers of Mohammed are Demonic. Jews to
not deliberately attack civilians, but Radical Moslems do. Jews do not want to
take over other countries but Radical Moslems do. Jews only retaliate after being attacked, but
Radical Moslems attack without provocation.
The Jews were given
this land by God, Himself. The Jews are
God’s chosen people, and even though we Catholics are the fulfillment of that
promise, God will bring back the Jews before the end of the world. Christ, Mary, and all the founders of our
faith are Jews.
But the biggest reason
I support Israel
over Moslems is practical. Iran wants to re-build the Persian Empire and
only America and Israel keep them from taking over Iraq, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
You
could say that Israel
has made big mistakes thinking it could live with Radical Islam. Ehud Barak pulled the IDF out of Lebanon in what
the Arab world perceived as panic. Hezbollah moved in. The same panic motivated
the regime of Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert to flee from Gaza;
and Hamas moved in. Sharon and Olmert kept talking
about "painful concessions"; and here it is, the pain. First came the
concessions, and now, here's the pain.
Shall I say that Israel
(not the 22 tyrannical and fanatical countries that surround Israel) is a
mistake? Israelis, 99 percent of them, are like
Americans. They love peace, cherish liberty. They continue to advance all
civilization in technology and science.
Moslem
Morals
Although I have seen the morality
of Moslem men in my year in Syria,
months in Michigan and in the Moslems I met in
Europe, the experience of Sweden’s
Moslems explains it all. Intimidation of people reporting any kind of
crime to the police by Moslems has almost made them immune to the law.
Threats
against witnesses in Swedish court cases quadrupled between 2000 and 2003
alone. Besides, there is a lack of trust among the general public in the
efficiency of their police force. Street violence of all kinds is soaring
on a national level.
Private
security companies are in great demand in major Swedish cities, as a serious
lack of police to combat rising crime has made many citizens tired of being
robbed. The number of reported cases of physical abuse/assault in Stockholm has tripled in
three decades. The number of people under the age of 18 who are serving
sentences in juvenile detention centers has risen sharply over the last five
years. Gangs of 14 and 15 year-olds raping and robbing is now common in
many Stockholm
suburbs.
Mafia
networks demanding protecting money from private businesses are increasingly
common. Organized crime is no longer just a problem in the major
cities. It has now spread throughout most of Sweden. At the same time, the
under-funded and undermanned Swedish police officers feel
"unmotivated" to fight crime, according to a study made by police
researcher Stefan Holgersson, who interviewed 2000
Swedish police officers," according to Baron Bodissey
via http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-york-times-and-sweden-dark-side-of.html
In other words, for Muslims to take
over a country, all one has to do is silence the reporters, police, political
authorities and news feeds. With that, each neighborhood will have to discover
for itself that the Islamic intrusion is encapsulating the politic.
It is
easier now to fight the enemy by saying there is no enemy. But in time,
the enemy will attack their silent defenders and then there will be no one left
but the enemy. Sweden
in present tense is the perfect frightening example of this mode.
Two
Swedish girls were sent home from school for wearing sweaters showing a tiny
Swedish flag. The headmaster was concerned that this might be deemed
offensive by some immigrants.
As
Muslims take over turf, it is then cowardice that looms for the
authorities weave into the culture the Muslim potential for trouble by negating
the country’s distinction, even in the case of small Swedish flags worn on
sweaters. In other words, we must make room for the new persons —
immigrant Muslims — so that they don’t upset our culture. All the while
however they are taking over the culture so that what was heretofore becomes
nonexistent.
One
wonders then why President Bush and the US
Congress welcomed with US
citizenship papers 7000 Russian Muslims settling outside Philadelphia. They were all granted houses, furniture
and pensions for the elderly. What is that going to
do when that is duplicated throughout the nation? Already Detroit
has become a Muslim province of its own with locals bowing to their demands
rather than take the chance of a Muslim attack.
In some
countries, local police look the other way when a crime such as rape is
committed. Why? They fear Muslims attacking their own persons,
their families, their homes, so they look the other way. With that,
Muslim gangs are all the more encouraged to rape the local females such as is
happening now in Sweden.
Actress Ylva Törnlund has visited several
schools in Tensta, and was alarmed by the harsh
atmosphere she discovered there. ‘The attitudes we meet in the schools
are frightening. One boy talked about how girls should be f**ked to
pieces until they bleed,’ Törnlund
said. She decided to visit the area after a rape that took place in
a public bath nearby in broad daylight. A 17-year-old girl was
raped, and none of the other guests did anything to stop this. The girl
was first approached by a 16-year-old boy. He and his friends
followed her as she walked away into a grotto, and inside the grotto he got her
blocked in the corner, ripped off her bikini and raped her, while his friend
held her firm."
Concerning
Sweden:
‘It is not as wrong raping a Swedish girl as raping an Arab girl,’ says Hamid, in an interview about another gang rape involving a
Swedish girl and immigrant perps. ‘The Swedish
girl gets a lot of help afterwards, and she had probably f**ked before,
anyway. But the Arab girl will get problems with her family.
For her, being raped is a source of shame. It is important that she
retains her virginity until she marries.’
‘It is
far too easy to get a Swedish whore…… girl, I mean;’ says Hamid,
and laughs over his own choice of words. "Many immigrant boys have
Swedish girlfriends when they are teenagers. But when they get
married, they get a proper woman from their own culture who
has never been with a boy. That’s what I am going to do. I don’t
have too much respect for Swedish girls. I guess you can say they get
f**ked to pieces.’
"The
number of rape charges in Sweden
has quadrupled in just above twenty years. Rape
cases involving children under the age of 15 are six times as common today as
they were a generation ago. Resident aliens
from Algeria, Libya, Morocco
and Tunisia
dominate the group of rape suspects. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm, who has investigated violent crimes in one court,
found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or
by foreign parents.
$1,600,000,000 A Year From Iran
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Brigitte Gabriel
Brigitte Gabriel is an expert on the Middle East
conflict and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject. She's the
former news anchor of World News for Middle East
television and the founder of AmericanCongressforTruth.com.
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By Brigitte
Gabriel
www.FrontPageMagazine.com | November
30, 2005
Hezbollah - the organization that America failed to deal with back in 1983 after
it blew up Marines in Lebanon
- is
now flexing its political muscle, positioning itself to take control over South
Lebanon and parts of the Bekaa
Valley beside the juncture of Syria and Israel's northern border. And it is
in these very territories that Hezbollah now trains the Syrian and al-Qaida terrorists who flood daily into Iraq.
Our enemies are strengthening, networking and uniting
for our destruction, and Hezbollah has emerged as one of the major arteries
that fuels the terror that threatens Israel and the West. With the
attention of most Americans focused on the insurgency in Iraq and the rhetorical warfare being waged in the
halls of the U.S. Congress, Hezbollah's bombardment and invasion of northern Israel last
week went almost unnoticed.
For six hours, mortar shells and Katyusha
rockets rained down all along the Israel-Lebanon border and down into the Galilee, driving thousands of Israelis back down into
their bomb shelters. Five Hezbollah raiders were killed and more than a dozen
IDF soldiers were injured. To the extent that any Americans even heard about
it, it was mostly dismissed as just another flare-up of the Israeli/Arab
conflict. Most Americans think Hezbollah is a domestic Lebanese problem, or a problem for the Israelis. This is a critical
and dangerous mistake. Everything that Hezbollah does is intended to eventually
harm the United States.
The stage was set with the recent unilateral Gaza withdrawal and the American pressured decision to
cede security control over the Rafah border with Egypt, which
the Arabs look at as contemptible weakness. In short, radical jihadists sense this vulnerability and attack. The West
needs to wake up to what is coming our way.
Hezbollah is a
real danger to the region as it is backed fully by Iran who is bent on "wiping
the Jewish State of Israel off the map," as Iranian terror President
Ahmadinejad has said not once but twice in recent weeks. Iran now has Russian built spy satellites, long
distance Shehab III missiles that can reach Israel and Europe
with real chemical, biological or nuclear WMD's. Its
population is teeming with tens of thousands of potential suicide bombing
martyrs who can fill Hezbollah's ranks.
In addition, Syria
harbors a desire to wreak revenge on Israel for the shame of having lost
territory in several wars. It also wants to stick its thumb in the eye of the U.S. who are conducting
counter-terrorism actions against terrorists who are using Syria as a base of operations. Bashar Assad is under tremendous
international pressure because of Syrian involvement in the assassination of Rafik Hariri. Therefore Syria is supporting Hezbollah in its attacks on Israel. Assad believes that by supporting Hezbollah in its attacks
on Israel and al Qaeda in Iraq, he can
help to rally the support of the Arab world and deflect attention from the Hariri investigation.
Hezbollah receives over $650 million annually in cash
from Iran.
It earns another $650 million from phone card monopolies and controls the
Internet traffic in Lebanon.
Hezbollah is rumored to earn an estimated $300 million annually in brokering
drug deals in the region. All told, according to reliable sources, it has an
annual war-chest of over $1.6 billion, more than enough to fund terrorism and
build up a hidden store of tens of thousands of Katyusha
rockets and arms in mountain bunkers in the Bekaa Valley. The PLO armed itself with Soviet assistance in the 70's, but the Israelis
were able to neutralize much of this threat. With such unbridled access and
money, Hezbollah can arm itself for another generation of death.
Iran, Syria,
Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda see only weakness - a weakness
arising from Israel's
vulnerability after the Gaza
withdrawal and last week's border crossing fiasco pushed by Condi Rice and the Arabists in the U.S. State Department. They also are pumped
up because they see anti-war activists such as Cindy Sheehan and members of
Congress in an uproar demanding an early exit in Iraq.
Sensing Israel and the U.S.
on the run, they naturally pounce not only because of the prospect of American
forces leaving the region, but also because of possible change in party control
in Israel's
Knesset next March. Now, will the world, especially the U.S., do what is right by its best ally and
military defense force in the Middle East? The
terrorists are watching our consistency and conviction waiting for their
opportunity to strike.
Hezbollah Terrorists in America
By Dale Hurd CBN News
The leader of Hezbollah has
declared America
the enemy. Many Arabs and Muslims in America openly support Hezbollah.
Is
this treason? Is this a potential threat
to our safety? Several thousand people
marched through the Detroit suburb of Dearborn a few weeks ago,
chanting "Hezbollah" and holding up photos of Hezbollah leader Sheik
Nasrallah and posters comparing President Bush to Hitler.
Similar protests took place in San
Francisco, New York,
and other cities. The U.S.
government calls Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but don't tell that to
these Americans.
Osama
Siblani publishes the Arab-American News, the largest
Arab-American newspaper in the United
States. He said, “No, They are not terrorists.
Absolutely not! No! They are freedom fighters.”
He told the Chicago Tribune that if the FBI wants to go after Hezbollah
supporters in Dearborn,
"…they better bring a fleet of buses. I, for one, would be willing to go
to jail."
Hezbollah
is an Iranian creation, and although it has a measure of independence, it's
considered Iran's proxy army
in southern Lebanon.
As many as 15,000 of Dearborn's
Arabs come from the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon.
In
fact, the current mayor in Bint Jbeil,
Haj Ali Bazzi, is from Dearborn. He has an
American passport and a Michigan
driver’s license.
The
dominant Islamic leader in Dearborn is Mohammed
Ali Elahi, an Iranian-American whose Web site
displays photos of Elahi with Hezbollah spiritual
leader Sheikh Fadlallah and former Iranian President
Rafsanjani, who once suggested nuking Israel. He spoke with CBN News
terrorism expert Erick Stackelbeck.
“We
need to have another interview,” said Elahi, “of
talking about Hezbollah – whether that is a terrorist organization or not. I
know that, legally, in the U.S.
now, Hezbollah is on that list. And whether we agree with the law or disagree,
we have to follow the law of the land.”
Before
9-11, Hezbollah killed more Americans than any other terrorist group: 300
murdered in six separate attacks, including 243 Marines in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.
Now, with America's building
confrontation with Iran over
its nuclear program, the New York Post reports that Hezbollah is prepared to
activate terrorist sleeper cells in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Detroit.
No
less than nine Federal prosecutors are investigating Hezbollah ties in the Detroit area alone. And
the FBI has issued a nationwide alert for local and state police to be vigilant
in investigating Hezbollah sympathizers.
Barbara
Newman, a former investigative producer for ABC news, is co-author of Lightning
Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil.
Newman
said, "Hezbollah makes al-Qaeda look like Sunday-schoolers.
They're the best light infantry in the world, and they're dangerous, and
they're all over America.”
"It's
an army that was started in 1982 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards,” Newman
explained. “And they wanted to impose the same type of regime on Lebanon as they have in Iran. They're a mortal enemy of the
West and of democracy."
Hezbollah
fighters have also already fought the United
States in Iraq,
and Newman says it’s building improvised explosive
devices that kill GIs.
"The
FBI just told me that Hezbollah is making the most advanced ones that are
coming into play. Plus, they're training. They have offices there. It's not
widely known," she said.
Arab and Muslim Americans who
support Hezbollah have expressed anger that their patriotism is being
questioned. But critics wonder how it's possible to support both Hezbollah and
the United States.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/745740.html Moslems at Temple Mount
The Catholic Church and Hezbollah
July 14, 2006, Vatican Radio declaration, Cardinal
Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state:
"As in the past, the Holy See also condemns both
the terrorist attacks on the one side and the military reprisals on the
other.” He stressed that Israel has a
“right to self-defense,” but that “does not exempt it from respecting the norms
of international law, especially as regards the protection of civilian
populations.”
Franciscan Father David Jaeger, a Middle East expert
living in Israel, said in a
July 13 Vatican Radio interview, that “it is necessary
to understand the depth and force of Israel’s anger.” He stressed that "the Lebanese
government has a choice: It can continue to allow Hezbollah to control southern
Lebanon
or it can show some courage, reaffirm Lebanese sovereignty and suppress
Hezbollah." Yet, while suggesting that the violence will subside, he was
not optimistic about the future.
“We’ve been in this movie before,” he said. “It is
reasonable to assume that eventually, after further bloodshed and destruction,
God forbid, some sort of truce will be achieved and some sort of calm will
return, until the next time.”
Pope Benedict XVI voiced his growing concern at
violence in the Middle East after the praying
of the Angelus July 2, 2006. "Faced, on the one hand, with blind violence
that provokes appalling massacres and, on the other, with the threat of a
worsening of the crisis which over the last few days has become even more
dramatic, what is needed is justice and a serious and
credible commitment to peace, which unfortunately are nowhere to be seen,” the
pope said.
I firmly support the
careful statements of the Vatican
and Father Jaiger.
The Vatican has to be
careful to not put Christians living in Lebanon,
Syria, Iraqi and Iran in danger
of attacks by what they say but at the same time do not support terrorists. However the words of so-called Christians
below, Orthodox Mona Muzaber and Catholic Father
Elias Zahlawi are so demonic to me that if I were
their bishop I WOULD EXCOMUNICATE THEM. You judge for yourself.
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -
Seventy-seven-year-old Mona Muzaber lights a candle
for Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan
Nasrallah at the Orthodox Church of the Cross in the center of Damascus.
"I love him. I never felt Nasrallah was a religious zealot. He is a
patriot who doesn't seek personal gain," she said. "I light a candle
daily for him to remain under God's protection."
Israel's offensive against Lebanon has brought Christians in neighboring Syria closer to
Nasrallah, a Shi'ite Muslim, reviving Arab
nationalist feelings and blurring sectarian divisions.
Bishops and priests say Syria's
Christians, a devout community of around three million out of a population of
18 million, identify strongly with Nasrallah's battle
with Israel, which has
occupied Syria's Golan Heights since 1967.
"Pray for the
resistance, pray for Hassan Nasrallah. He is
defending justice," Father Elias Zahlawi told
the congregation at special mass held at the Lady of Damascus, a Catholic church.
Across Damascus Christians, like Muslims, sit glued to Nasrallah's al-Manar television,
receptive to his portrayal of the war as one in defense of all Arabs, as well
as Muslims.
At the biblical-era Straight
Street, Khaldoun Uzrai hung the yellow flags of Hezbollah all over his
liquor and grocery shop.
"We are Arabs at the end of the day. Nasrallah is one of our own.
He is realizing our dreams," Uzrai said
Are Lebanese Civilians Innocent?
I started out this Newsletter
saying that I do not believe most Lebanese civilians support Hezbollah and I
think I have made that argument very well because I have used the words and
writings of Lebanese people. Now I am
going to say something that will even anger my friends and maybe even the Vatican. I do not think the civilians of Lebanon are as
innocent of this conflict as it seems at first glance.
Let us first take a look at
the Lebanese Government. This government
was formed with the help of the United Nations and with a promise to disarm the
Hezbollah. They formed a compromise
government with three leaders, one Christian, one Shiite and one Sunni. Under this government the Hezbollah got
stronger and stronger. They let the
Hezbollah bring missals and launchers through the harbor by boat, though the
airport by plane and from Syria
by truck and train. They let Hezbollah
push out everyone except their own families from the south of Lebanon, so that they could control
the house seats of that geographical area and have seats in the house.
From 2000 rockets and some
missals have been launched from and stored in the houses of Hezbollah families
towards only civilian targets in Israel. The Army of Israel drops
leaflets in these areas telling people to get out before they bomb the places
where they know these launchers and storage places are. I cannot see how Israel can do
anything else except let Hezbollah bomb their citizens and do nothing about
it. The first and most important
responsibility of any government is to protect its citizens at any cost. What if the Mexican government let Hezbollah
attach us from Mexico? What would we do? Of course Mexico does let Hezbollah come into
our country but that is another Newsletter.
It can be argued that even
Christians are too intimidated to go against Hezbollah and maybe even forced to
be targets of Israel. I do not hold them innocent any more than I
hold Saint Peter innocent for denying Christ to save his life. I have compassion and understanding but he
did sin.
Were the first Christians
stupid when they went to their death for refusing to condone the Pagan
beliefs? Was Saint Thomas More stupid when
he refused to be silent about his best friends
heresy? My friends say that I am too
extreme because these people who allow Hezbollah on their TV Stations everyday
are only protecting their lives. But
this is why all dictators exist.
Now let us look at Columbia. The terrorists there (the drug lords) have a
bigger army than the government. In
fact, they may even have more supporters in the population than not. Nonetheless, the government and the Catholic
Church fight and fight hard against them.
The Catholics there have lost hundreds of priests, nuns and even bishops
who speak out against the drug lords.
Where are these brave people in Lebanon?
Obsession
Movie
Anyone who thinks he can
coexist with Radical Islam needs to see a movie made by a lady whose was taught
from the age of three years to be a Radical Islamist. Her husband died with bombs strapped to his
body and blew himself up. She presents
actual film of the education these people receive to hate and kill all who do
not hold to the extreme Moslem view.
This movie is a must for all the free world to understand what we are
fighting. After you see this, you will
understand that we are not fighting an army but we are fighting men, women and
children.
I cannot help remembering
what my uncle told me about his experiences in Vietnam. He was talking with a guard at the entrance
to an American Base there. A 5-year-old
Vietnamese boy came to the gate to sell his products in the base. When the guard asked him to open his coat so
that he could search him, the boy walked away into the base. The guard called to him over and over to stop
but the 5-year-old boy did not stop. The
guard shot him in the back. …………………..
…………. Now
that you have had time to judge that the guard as wrong, read on.
The boy had two
hand-grenades under his arm-pits with the pins already pulled. Perhaps you have
not seen the cartoons shown on Iranian Television everyday showing a 5-year-old
boy strapping bombs to his body and jumping on top of a
Israel
tank blowing himself up and then making him out a martyr of the faith. This is the brainwashing that has been going
on for the last 50 years.
Richard
Salbato
Obsession Movie and
References:
http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/index.html
http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/