Lebanon: Gunbattles break out in Beirut ('War has started,' Hezbollah leader say)

[MikeWB]

I'll bet you anything that Israel is using them as their pawns again.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/ ... index.html

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Gunfire broke out in downtown Beirut Thursday after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said recent government actions amount to "a declaration of open war."


Government loyalists add tires to a burning barricade Thursday outside Beirut, Lebanon.

"Just in the past few minutes ... things have gotten a lot worse," CNN's Cal Perry reported from downtown Beirut. The sound of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades could be heard throughout his live reports.

Perry, who took cover with the Lebanese army, said government forces have not yet reacted to the violence.

The violence appeared limited to Shiite and Sunni neighborhoods in the capital, near CNN's Beirut bureau. There were no reports of violence in Beirut's Christian neighborhoods.  Watch Perry call in through gunfire

[joeblow]

guulu ma@i guulu ma@i, guulu ma@i, guulu ma@i guulu ma@i. Allaah, Allaahu akbar!

A little background is called for, the Masonic-America loving-treasonous pro-grovernment groups have been attacking Hebullah demonstrators for weeks now. What is happening now is that Hizbullah is fighting back. These guys are like Jews that scream in pain, while they are slapping you in the face.

1. The government is made up of Druze (used to be Muslims, just like Mormons used to be Christians, and just like them Masonic) and Christians (who think if they're Masons, then they'll be more European).
2. They have the exact same philosiphy as Republicans. Crush the poor, give government contracts to each other, and try to create a police state.
3. During the many wars that Lebanon defended itself against Israel/USA/UN invasions (and won BECAUSE of Hizbullah!), alot of the people in the ruling govenment were actually spies for Israel and America.

[Ralph Furely]

just got home and someone had sent me the link to this on msn.  craziness.
thanks for the little background there joeblow.  
a female friend of mine who is from Syria but lives here now, just left at the 1st of the week for a 2 week trip back to Syria.  
said its pretty nutty over there.  everyones talking about the civil war being back.

feel bad, yet again, for that beautiful city they keep ruining.

[sullivan]

The government is made up of Druze (used to be Muslims, just like Mormons used to be Christians, and just like them Masonic) and Christians (who think if they're Masons, then they'll be more European).

Druze beliefs are a strange and often impenetrable combination of Ismaili, Sufi, Greek Philosophy and Gnostic esoterica. Druze believers are divided between the majority al-Juhhal (the ignorant) and minority al-Uqqal (the knowledgeable).  In that sense they are indeed similar to the Masons with their emphasis on initiation, levels of "knowledge" and other esoteric bullshit.  

What is particularly notable about the Druze, and specifically the 100,000 or so that reside in Israel, is that they have close ties with the Israeli Offensive Forces and frequently rise to quite high levels of command in the sociopaths favourite army.  The Herev (sword) battalion of the IOF, which is composed entirely of Druze, was deeply involved in the 2006 war of aggression Israel started against its Lebanese neighbours.  Without them, it is likely that Israel's ass-kicking would have been even more humiliating.

Like their Jewish counterparts, they tend to be over-represented in positions of power - when compared against their actual numbers the general population.  This is the case both in Lebanon and in Israel.

Their ultra-cozy relationship with (and their similarities to) the Zionist regime in Israel makes them a natural enemy of the rest of the Lebanese people.

[Ralph Furely]

tres interesting.