SubscribeMore Praise For Hezbollah From The NY Times
Just when you thought they "Paper Of Treason" the New York Times couldn't top last week's fawning over the Hezbollah, they give us this:
Hezbollah Leads Work to Rebuild, Gaining Stature
By JOHN KIFNER
Published: August 16, 2006BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 15 — As stunned Lebanese returned Tuesday over broken roads to shattered apartments in the south, it increasingly seemed that the beneficiary of the destruction was most likely to be Hezbollah.
A major reason — in addition to its hard-won reputation as the only Arab force that fought Israel to a standstill — is that it is already dominating the efforts to rebuild with a torrent of money from oil-rich Iran.
Nehme Y. Tohme, a member of Parliament from the anti-Syrian reform bloc and the country’s minister for the displaced, said he had been told by Hezbollah officials that when the shooting stopped, Iran would provide Hezbollah with an “unlimited budget” for reconstruction.
In his victory speech on Monday night, Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, offered money for “decent and suitable furniture” and a year’s rent on a house to any Lebanese who lost his home in the month-long war.
“Completing the victory,” he said, “can come with reconstruction.”
On Tuesday, Israel began to pull many of its reserve troops out of southern Lebanon, and its military chief of staff said all of the soldiers could be back across the border within 10 days. Lebanese soldiers are expected to begin moving in a couple of days, supported by the first of 15,000 foreign troops.
While the Israelis began their withdrawal, hundreds of Hezbollah members spread over dozens of villages across southern Lebanon began cleaning, organizing and surveying damage. Men on bulldozers were busy cutting lanes through giant piles of rubble. Roads blocked with the remnants of buildings are now, just a day after a cease-fire began, fully passable.
In Sreifa, a Hezbollah official said the group would offer an initial $10,000 to residents to help pay for the year of rent, to buy new furniture and to help feed families.
In Taibe, a town of fighting so heavy that large chunks were missing from walls and buildings where they had been sprayed with bullets, the Audi family stood with two Hezbollah volunteers, looking woefully at their windowless, bullet- and shrapnel-torn house.
In Bint Jbail, Hezbollah ambulances — large, new cars with flashing lights on the top — ferried bodies of fighters to graves out of mountains of rubble.
Hezbollah’s reputation as an efficient grass-roots social service network — as opposed to the Lebanese government, regarded by many here as sleek men in suits doing well — was in evidence everywhere. Young men with walkie-talkies and clipboards were in the battered Shiite neighborhoods on the southern edge of Bint Jbail, taking notes on the extent of the damage.
“Hezbollah’s strength,” said Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a professor at the Lebanese American University here, who has written extensively about the organization, in large part derives from “the gross vacuum left by the state.”
Hezbollah was not, she said, a state within a state, but rather “a state within a nonstate, actually.”
Sheik Nasrallah said in his speech that “the brothers in the towns and villages will turn to those whose homes are badly damaged and help rebuild them.
“Today is the day to keep up our promises,” he said. “All our brothers will be in your service starting tomorrow.”
Some southern towns were so damaged that on Tuesday residents had not yet begun to return. A fighter for the Amal movement, another Shiite militia group, said he had been told that Hezbollah members would begin to catalog damages in his town, Kafr Kila, on the Israeli border.
Hezbollah men also traveled door to door checking on residents and asking them what help they needed.
Although Hezbollah is a Shiite organization, Sheik Nasrallah’s message resounded even with a Sunni Muslim, Ghaleb Jazi, 40, who works at the oil storage plant at Jiyeh, 15 miles south of Beirut. It was bombed by the Israelis and spewed pollution northward into the Mediterranean.
“The government may do some work on bridges and roads, but when it comes to rebuilding houses, Hezbollah will have a big role to play,” he said. “Nasrallah said yesterday he would rebuild, and he will come through.”
Sheik Nasrallah’s speech was interpreted by some as a kind of watershed in Lebanese politics, establishing his group on an equal footing with the official government.
“It was a coup d’état,” said Jad al-Akjaoui, a political analyst aligned with the democratic reform bloc. He was among the organizers of the anti-Syrian demonstrations after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri two years ago that led to international pressure to rid Lebanon of 15 years of Syrian control.
Rami G. Khouri, a columnist for The Daily Star in Beirut, wrote that Sheik Nasrallah “seemed to take on the veneer of a national leader rather than the head of one group in Lebanon’s rich mosaic of political parties.”
“In tone and content, his remarks seemed more like those of a president or a prime minister should be making while addressing the nation after a terrible month of destruction and human suffering,” Mr. Khouri wrote. “His prominence is one of the important political repercussions of this war.”
Defense Minister Elias Murr said Tuesday that the government would not seek to disarm Hezbollah.
“The army is not going to the south to strip the Hezbollah of its weapons and do the work that Israel did not,” he said, showing just how difficult reining in the militia will most likely be in the coming weeks and months. He added that “the resistance,” meaning Hezbollah, had been cooperating with the government and there was no need to confront it.
Sheik Nasrallah sounded much like a governor responding to a disaster when he said, “So far, the initial count available to us on completely demolished houses exceeds 15,000 residential units.
“We cannot of course wait for the government and its heavy vehicles and machinery because they could be a while,” he said. He also cautioned, “No one should raise prices due to a surge in demand.”
Support for Hezbollah was likely to become stronger, Professor Saad-Ghorayeb said, because of the weakness of the central government.
“Hezbollah has two pillars of support,” she said, “the resistance and the social services. What this war has illustrated is that it is best at both.
Referring to Shiek Nasrallah, she said: “He tells the people, ‘Don’t worry, we’re going to protect you. And we’re going to reconstruct. This has happened before. We will deliver.’ ”
The New York Times never met a terrorist organization it didn’t love.
Just ask Walter Duranty.
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August 16th, 2006 at 8:48 am
I am confused. I seem to recall that this cease-fire wouldn’t exist if both the Hezzies and the Israelis hadn’t agreed on this; and if I remember this wasn’t a standstill fight, it was more of a run-and-gun by the Hezzies and a “We’ll go werever we need/want” by the IDF.
I also don’t understand why the media is supporting a group that not only is a fraction of the standard Muslims out here belief-wise, but also had a fatwa (sp) issued against them and Saudi Arabia. Most of the Muslims I’ve talked to (I’m an American in Doha, Qatar) have said not that Israel is horrible, Israel is warmongering, but that Hezzbolah brought this on themselves.
Any enlightenment out there?
August 16th, 2006 at 9:06 am
The main reason for Hezbolla to agree to this cease fire is the very real fact that most or all of their medium and long range missles were destroyed, and they were running out of the sophisticated anti tank missles as well. Israel needed to re assess it’s inability to fight unimpeded and to figure out a way to defeat the new technology that was given to Hezbolla by the Proxies Syria and Iran.
The very fact that Hezbolla can claim victory is due to yet another useless, weak effort by the United Nations who will get in the way, and try to exploit some kind of face saving action to make up for the fact that because of their uselessness with enforcing 1559, this wouldnt have happened.
The Lebonese government is there, but it is more of a eunich than a state. The main reason it is being punished by all the Islamic parties involved is because it had the audacity to try democracy, so it is being cast adrift by those who support a theocracy.
Israel appears to have screwed themselves, but I have never seen them do something without a good reason, so stay tuned on that…it isnt over by a damn sight, this is just a truce to re think the options. Hezbollah is winning only because the MSM is trumpeting that fact, and our spineless anti everything people are gushing about it on the lefty blogs. Hezbolla survived, and to them that is a major victory. To me, it is just the opening act in a soon to be violent play on the domination of the world.
August 16th, 2006 at 10:19 am
Thanks for the assist!
August 16th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Uhm, boys and girls, where does an organization like Hezbollah get the money to give $10,000 to the owner of each destroyed home? From the missle factories that they operate?
August 16th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
And the NYT’s stock is worth what now? Readership declining, stock depressed. They admit lying over NSA. How long before they realize that most Americans do not think Hez represents heroes….
August 16th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Rush said that the Hezbos are doing such a good job we need to get them down to New Orleans so they can rebuild that region. Hell, put em in charge of the Red Cross.
August 16th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
More on the Cease-Farce
Think of it as HisBullyDepot… your one-stop-shopping center for using your children as human shields for genocidal terrorist’s civilian targeting weapons.
August 16th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Gees, Yall are taking this waaay too serious. The hezboos are just good old southern boys. You know like robinhood, The dukes of hazard, The KKK.They just take money from terrorist and help the po folk of south lebanon and so what if they kill a few jews along the way?
The french are proud of them, what else do you need to know?
August 16th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
The problem with the French has many reaons. First - they are a BIG trading partner with Iran. If Iran looks bad, the French economy takes a hit. But maybe even a bigger reason is that the Islamic population of France - like other Frenchmen - are very volatile in their reactions to things. Remember the major riots over the past year? The French don’t have the guts to make a decision based on what is right - they just don’t want to get into trouble and maybe lose their nice cozy positions.
August 16th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
“The French don’t have the guts to make a decision based on what is right”
Why should they be entrusted with anyone else’s country when they don’t even have the moral certitude to defend their OWN?
August 16th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
Lokki, I beleive the New York Times subsidizes Nasrallah and company. I have it on good authority (from haijj- the reuters photoshopper expert) that higher ups in the New York Treason- oops- Times, has also invested millions in Nasrallah figurines that are selling like hotcakes in the lobby of the Times, the Boston Globe, The Washington Post, CNN, CBS and other such terror apologist headquarters throughout htis fine nation of ours.
August 16th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Not withstanding the excellent comments already made, but the major question/point that the NY Slimes readlily leaves out is, where is Hezbollah getting its money from to dish out $10,000 payments to citizens to help them out?
Of course we here know the money is being supplied by Iran and Syria, so the article headline should really say “Iran and Syria funnel money to Hezbollah to help them buy off Lebanese citizens support”
It’s amazing how the editors at the Slimes try to make Hezbollah look like some humanitarian aid group. There is absolutly no shame in how these azzhats report their so called news.
August 16th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Another thing I think is so simple.
Promising and delivering are two different things.
But if the money is actually forth coming, I have to agree , Where the hell is it coming from.
Regardless the promise will garner support even if only for a short time.
August 17th, 2006 at 12:02 am
It also doesn’t help that Lebanese support for their own government is non-existant, because before the body politica of Lebanon has even the slightest chance to respond to the locals the Hezzies are right there, promising aid. Or was that because there were reporters around to document it…?
-And who’s interest would it be in to paint the country’s government as unresponsive and aloof?
August 17th, 2006 at 8:49 am
Der Spiegel interviewed another Hezbollah devote’, Jimmah Cahtah. Read what this clueless asshat is saying to support terror worldwide at our expense. http://service.spiegel.de/cach.....al/spiegel
SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH JIMMY CARTER
“The US and Israel Stand Alone”
Former US president Jimmy Carter speaks with DER SPIEGEL about the danger posed to American values by George W. Bush, the difficult situation in the Middle East and Cuba’s ailing Fidel Castro.
August 17th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Jimmy Carter, ugh. And to think in my youth (and obvious ignorance & stupidity), I thought he was a decent man, just too much of a humantarian to be president. Time has clued me into the fact that he is just an idiot that should keep his big mouth shut.
August 17th, 2006 at 11:15 am
Isn’t this the middle eastern equivalent to democrats giving “the poor” free shit in expectation that they will vote democratic? Works pretty well too.
August 17th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Carter is such an asshat…!!! What a friggin’ poor excuse of a former POTUS…!!!
The idiot directly contradicts himself in typical liberal moonbat fashion;
Carter: Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of preemptive war. Our country always had a policy of not going to war unless our own security was directly threatened and now we have a new policy of going to war on a preemptive basis.
And later on;
Carter: I don’t think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that’s justified, no.
What a stupid “humanturdian”…!! Israel has their sovereignty threatened but that’s not enough justification for their retaliation against Hezbos and their cohorts?? You just said that it’s OK if our security is threatened, but not for Israel? Typical BS from a terrorist bootlicker, “do as I say and not as I do”. What a completely brain dead ‘mooselimb’ ass kisser! Stoop’id asshat…!!!
August 17th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
“Carter is such an asshat…!!!”
“What a completely brain dead ‘mooselimb’ ass kisser! Stoop’id asshat…!!!”
hahahahaha
It still gets me every time GM…
August 17th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Hey PC, we all need a laugh every now and then, don’t we? :)
Highly unfortunate that Webster’s refuses to add “it” to the ‘american dictionary’, so to speak.
August 17th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Here is why these lunatic lefts really scare me, ala Carter:
‘SPIEGEL: And can you imagine Germans soldiers taking part?
Carter: Yes, I can imagine Germans taking part.
SPIEGEL: … even with their history?
Carter: Yes. That would be certainly satisfactory to me personally, and I think most people believe that enough time has passed so that historical facts can be ignored.’
How about those last seven words - so that historical facts can be ignored! Talk about a brain dead moron. How does that phrase go, ‘those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it’ Guess that is why old Jimmyboy doesn’t get it that we are back where we were when he screwed the whole thing up way back when.
August 18th, 2006 at 12:23 am
Ah, perfect segue.
Thank you, wm4, I was wondering where I should best put this:
http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca.....bnazi.html
August 18th, 2006 at 10:07 am
SJ - excellent post. As with a trauma, I tend to forget the dangerously ignorant, embarrassing, clueless failure that was the Carter administration. Good thing this worthless jerkoff is still around to remind us all.
I thought his most telling quote was this: “…a fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. And so this (Bush) administration…has a policy of just refusing to talk to someone who is in strong disagreement with them — which is also a radical departure from past history.” Putting aside his implicit equation of the Christian Right with Islamofascists and his convenient blur of the Reagan administration, his statement here reveals exactly what’s wrong with him: he sees NO MORAL DIFFERENCE between democracy and terrorism now, any more than he distinguished between democracy and communism when he was in the WH. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear him say: “We suffer from an inordinate fear of terrorism.” GM really sums it up with ‘asshat’ - they don’t get no asshatter.
August 18th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Where is the money coming from is the big question. And even more important now, since Syria has just announced it will be forming it’s own Hezzi militia, to be trained by the Lebanese franchise. I’ve been reading that Syria is scared to death for its own safety (safety of it’s ruling elite), because of its creaky and outdated military, so apparently they’re going to outsource it. Maybe it’s easier that way to get foreign funding from Iran, and phony Islamic charities in the US and Europe, especially France. More reason than ever for banking surveillance, which has been so handily “outed” by the NYT.
August 18th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Helena, They are printing it themselves.
Counterfieting US $100 bills.
August 18th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Ah yes, 1st. I remember the photos. The “banking center.”
Also, supporting the formation of a militia, as opposed to their own military, I suppose gives the government greater “It has nothing to do with us, it’s that damned Hezzi militia” latitude. Wiggle room, as it were.