"If the Arabs laid down their arms, it would be the end of violence. If Israel laid down its arms, it would be the end of Israel. Why not throw a truth like that in once in a while?"

- Barry Farber NewsMax August 12, 2006

Hey Everybody,

The paragraph above is but one small "snip-it" from an intriguing article written by Barry Farber and appearing in NewsMax on Saturday August 12, 2006. Throughout the article Farber decried the mainstream media's one-sided glorification of Hezbollah as the only/first Arab fighting force to make Israel retreat. He was correct on every point.

For 30 days I watched the news and invariably CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, C-Span and others described the fighting in words to this effect.....
"Today Israeli fighter planes and tanks relentlessly attacked towns & villages in southern Lebanon. In a show of merciless strength Israeli forces hit buildings and homes where Lebanese women & children were hiding from the overwhelming onslaught."

While the description of Hezbollah attacks took on a very different tenor.....
"The heavily outnumbered and overmatched Hezbollah militia was fighting back valiantly with the only weapons they have at their disposal, their limited supply of outdated and highly inaccurate Katyusha rockets. All the while being pummeled by the deadly Israeli bombardments."

30 days of unrelenting media hypocrisy! Maybe once a week a reporter would briefly mention that all this started because a Hezbollah team, crossed into (to be read - invaded) Israel, killed a number of Israeli soldiers (an overt act of war) and kidnapped another 2 soldiers.

[ OK, so here's the corollary...tonight, in the dead of night, I'm going to come into YOUR house. I'm going to kill a couple of YOUR family members, and kidnap two others. And when I refuse your pleas to give them back, YOUR attack on my house is documented by everybody as being absolutely wrong. YOU'RE pilloried in the neighborhood for attacking my house, YOUR family members are still not returned, and my neighborhood is happy because I've beaten you. ]

You're OK with this right?
Because that is what just happened in Lebanon.

Barry Farber's second sentence in the lead-in is absolutely perfect. And in my opinion, that second sentence is what the Arab world wants most - it's certainly what the Islamic fascists want; behind the closed doors of their governments in France, Germany and Russia, Korea & China, it's what they want; it's certainly what the Islamo-centric, anti-American United Nations wants. The end of Israel.

Well, they're on their way to getting it! Here's my interpretation of how it'll go......

First: Israel will withdraw as an absolutely blind and ineffectual UN Peacekeeping force LED by the French (geez, it hurts to even write that!) will march into southern Lebanon.

Second: Syria and Iran will immediately begin to resupply the Hezbollah legions that will filter back into southern Lebanon at the same time. The Lebanese government will be told by Iran and others to keep their mouths shut - or they won't have mouths.

Third: After the 30 day cease-fire...OVERSEEN by that protector of democracy Kofi Annan...Lebanon will ask for some period of time to review "Komrade Kofi's" peace plan. After 3 to 6 months the Lebanese government ("guided" by their Iranian and Hezbollah handlers), will accept it.

Fourth: At some time in mid 2007, President Lahoud and Prime Minister Siniora of Lebanon will "resign" for immediate health reasons, and Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will be named President of Lebanon and his (ahem!) 'democratic' Hezbollah party will be swept into power. The following month, Lebanon will ask for & receive U.N. sanctions against Israel for murdering Lebanese civilians. Lebanon will receive reparations of land from the U.N. up to and including...that's right, anything Lebanon wants! (snigger, snigger! who cares...it's only the Jews!)

Fifth: In early 2008 (after abdicating his throne as Secretary General of the United Nations), Kofi Annan will modestly & humbly accept the title of "Moral Compass of the World," and (joined by the Presidents of Iran, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Palestine, Jordan, Pakistan, & Uzbekistan) will lead "The Great Westward Hajj." This will be billed by Michael Moore and other Hollywood producers as, "An arduous walking tour of southern Europe by 5 million armed Muslims on their way to the coast of Spain for a little fun in the sun!"

Last: While the rest of the world is watching our peaceful Muslim brothers cavort their way across southern Europe to Spain.....Eureka! Iran finishes its work on their nuclear project and unveils to the world their unlimited nuclear weapons capabilities; and Oh, by the way, they're donating a few to their "friends' in Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and those "naughty boys" in the rolling hills of Pakistan & Afghanistan (al-Qaeda land)!

Please read Barry Farber's article. Just go to www.NewsMax.com and follow the links to him in the "Pundits" section. He's a lot smarter than I am, and (obviously) not nearly as paranoid!

Enjoy!

Citadel Dad
"Dum Spiro Spero"