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‘BOLLAH LOATHED IN LEBANON, LOVED IN WEST
Bridget Johnson meets the Hollybollah:
You may have missed the march in downtown L.A. on Aug. 12, but I was there. I expected the Palestinian flags, the jaunty kaffiyehs, the drum-beating and brow-beating. But I nearly dropped my pen in the gutter when I heard cries of “Long live Hezbollah!” from the marchers.
It’s one thing to protest the Israel-U.S. alliance, to think Israel’s a big bully, etc. I don’t agree, but a free country is open to varied political discourse. Call everyone with whom you disagree a Nazi if it makes you feel better.
But it’s quite another to cheer on a terrorist organization.
Brilliantly, while these and other bollah boosters celebrate murderous goons, the Lebanese are turning against them:
They pushed, shoved, shouted and cursed one another.
In the end, Hezbollah supporters were turned back from an attempt to plaster posters of their leader around Marwaheen, a Sunni Muslim village in southern Lebanon that is mourning the loss of 23 residents from an Israeli air attack during the war.
“Why do you want to put up an image of someone who is killing us?” a man screamed as dozens of villagers brandished fists and thrust open palms at Hezbollah loyalists clutching posters of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s bearded and bespectacled chief. “We don’t want to see it!”
Those villagers might be surprised to learn that Nasrallah recently turned up in front of San Franciso’s City Hall. More from Lebanon:
“Nobody wants Hezbollah here,” Adel Abdallah said. “They don’t want to fight for Lebanon. They fight for themselves, for Iran, for Syria.”
Residents talk bitterly of Hezbollah turning their village into a battleground.
When the war broke out, people said, Hezbollah fighters in civilian clothes entered the village and set up launchers to fire rockets south into Israel. The guerrillas moved the launchers around, putting one on top of a house that was subsequently destroyed, they said ...
“Nobody knew they were using our houses to store weapons. We were surprised to find them” after the war, said Wassim Abdallah, 24. “How could they keep weapons in the middle of all these civilian houses?”
The New York Times reports from the same Hezbollah-hexed village:
“There is no way for us to stop them,” said Ibrahim, who lost several relatives in the attack and who asked that his last name not be used for fear of retribution. “These are not people you can say no to.”
And the peace movement loves them.
“These are not people you can say no to.”
Diana West proposes to say no to them, and all countries should consider their own future in these terms:
“If we do not want to see such changes here, we must act. Accordingly, I am asking Congress to amend our laws to bar further Islamic immigration, beginning with immigration from Shariah states.”bollah boosters
Tim,
Are you learning Yiddish?
Balaboosta means “perfect housewife”. As in: “if only she could cook, Natalie Portman would be a ganseh balaboosta”.
Referring to Hezbollah supporters, somehow I don’t think that’s what you mean.
Maybe you meant “schmucks”?
This development was to be expected as soon as the true “civilians” returned home.
I suspect Sunnis, Maronites and Druze will disarm Hizbollah—probably both arms.
What would Fisk say? “Lebanon is not Iraq!” “Lebanon is not Iraq!” “Lebanon is not Iraq!” “Lebanon is not Iraq!”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 27 at 06:45 AM • permalinkThen again, dumb Westerners have cheered on people like Stalin, Pol Pot and Robert Mugabe, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.
#1, Speaking of people getting a clue, it looks like the MSM have just figured out that Cuba is a bit of a hell hole:
Land of rum and rumba blighted by communism
TWO years ago, I was given what quickly became an awful assignment. I was told to visit Cuba. Oh sure, like everybody I thought: dark rum, hot nights, fat cigars, the rumba.
The reality was very different. Cuba was wretched. Every day the photographer and I encountered distressing scenes of women, children and ageing Cubans living in terrible poverty.(Apologies for the slightly off-topic post)
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 08 27 at 06:46 AM • permalinkIf the Hezbollah attracted a bunch of incoming artillery to the peaceniks’ suburb and caused the peaceniks’ houses to be flattened, the peaceniks would have a slightly different opinion.
Until they worked out a way to blame the Jews, of course.
Posted by TheRealBigAl on 2006 08 27 at 06:52 AM • permalink“There is no way for us to stop them,” said Ibrahim, who lost several relatives in the attack and who asked that his last name not be used for fear of retribution. “These are not people you can say no to.”
Maybe its time for the Lebanese army to pull its collective finger out of its arse and defend its country from these
camel felchersfreedom fighters..Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 27 at 09:58 AM • permalinkThe President of the U.S. said this, and I think it was, and remains, absolutely true:
“This is not a time free from peril, especially as a result of reckless acts of outlaw nations and an unholy axis of terrorists, drug traffickers and organized international criminals.”
“And they will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot allow that to happen.”
Sadly, the reactionary left-wing in the U.S. is too blinded by its ideology to accept this wise advice, and will not acknowledge the ugly truth about international terrorism that has been unfolding before their eyes.
Happily, there are still millions upon millions of people who are not fooled by the noxious ideology of the reactionary left-wing - -and the internet is an enormously valuable resource in getting the information to us. Thank you Tim!!
Posted by John Fembup on 2006 08 27 at 10:48 AM • permalink#6, TheRealBigAl nails it. Those people marching in pro-Hezbollah parades live in safe, sanitized, utterly comfortable Western countries. They have no grasp of the realities people in countries like Lebanon and Iraq have to deal with every day. If Hezbollah started a war in our streets, the peace movement would vanish like so much swamp gas.
#5 Art:
I think it is entirely on topic.
It was a terrible shock because, like many people, I’d believed the hype about Cuba: that it was a socialist paradise; that Castro was a visionary leader; that the Cuban people were happy communists.
This means that as late as 2004 she still believed this. It has been many years since it became obvious to anyone with a brain that Cuba is not like this. People do not risk their lives to escape paradises, socialist or otherwise. And tales from people who escaped, that tell what Cuba is really like abound. It is this willful ignorance that keeps idiots in the west supporting the likes of Hezbollah and, frankly, much of Islam, even the peaceful type.
Still, anytime someone sees the light, we should be happy.
Posted by Not My Problem on 2006 08 27 at 02:33 PM • permalink#11, RebeccaH: the peace movement would vanish like so much swamp gas.
Or, to paraphrase the warden in The Shawshank Redemption, “So he just disappeared like a fart in the wind?” (Which, in my opinion, was the best llne in the movie.)
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2006 08 27 at 02:37 PM • permalinkRebecca,
The anti-defense movement is still big in New York City despite the fact that they’ve got a flipping great hole in the ground where the Twin Towers used to be, the evidence that Hezbollah’s pals carried their war to the USA. I think that you overestimate the rationality of the left. If Hezbollah brought war to the pampered clowns of the Western liberal/left the jerks would blame Bush and absolve their actual tormenters, who are just misunderstood and in a justified rage over American policies. Liberals are actually too stupid to know who their real enemies are, or to think rationally about how to fight them. That’s one reason they focus on Bush; he’s an enemy they can understand. They have no ability to comprehend their real enemies.Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 08 27 at 03:03 PM • permalink#15 If Hezbollah brought war to the pampered clowns of the Western liberal/left the jerks would blame Bush and absolve their actual tormenters,
Only so long as they were able to continue living comfortably. Let them have to cope with pain, hunger, and real-life fear inherent in daily war, and I think their whole lefty world-view would go out the window. I don’t count on their rationality. I count on their selfishness.
Tom Wolfe points out something about the sort of people who drive the “peace’ movement in the US in his book Hooking Up... all they want is to be able to retire to their little elitist cliques and be not involved. They don’t want to actively engage the world’s problems because that would involve having to make actual moral choices in a world in which they reject every possible foundation for morality. As long as the rockets aren’t going off in their Starbucks while they read the NY Review of Books, they don’t want to asked to do anything about it.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 08 27 at 06:22 PM • permalinkIt is not necessary for members of the peace movement to know anything about the groups in whose support they rally. Such groups are not important in the grand scheme of things. It is necessary only that they maintain focus on those against whom they demonstrate. They are not really for anything, including peace. They are the Great Againsters.
I had to laugh (or cry) when Castro sent 1000 doctors to Venezuela to assist that nation’s poor. The last statistics I read about Cuban health “care” showed a ratio of one doctor to every 500 Cubans.
I’m glad that Carolyn Overton has seen the light, but, honestly, anyone who truly believed that Cuba was a socialist paradise; that Castro was a visionary leader; that the Cuban people were happy communists is more than a bit of a fool, wouldn’t you say.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 27 at 06:28 PM • permalinkMeanwhile, Jane Fonda talked to Michael Parkinson recently, confirming that she was still ‘proud’ of having gone to Hanoi in the 70s to celebrate communist invasions. She only regretted sitting on the ak-ak gun for ‘those photos’, because it created a bad impression!
Fonda is incapable of choosing her friends, or her husbands, wisely, even at 68..Now we have another generation of murderous-goon-boosters on our streets.
They include many journalists who do the enemy’s propaganda for them in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and the PA.
Once again, those lovers of humanity in the west condemn another society to the horrors of totalitarianism, all in the name of brotherhood and love.
Kyda, I agree that anyone who still thinks Castro is the communist exception is a fool. I am hoping that the author is young; at least then she has the excuse of a western education to explain her ignorance.
who asked that his last name not be used for fear of retribution.
Reminds me of that great line from P.J. O’Rourke: “why do western journalists persist in asking for ‘vox pop’ opinions in countries where it is illegal to hold certain opinions?”
How long before some Leb civilian tells CNN that he “hates Hezbollah” before his wife is raped and his family murdered by them?
Posted by Apparatchik on 2006 08 27 at 11:34 PM • permalinkwhy do you think people support Hezbollah? Because the jews are behaving like the descendants of the bolshevics they are!
Posted by alan b'stard M P on 2006 08 28 at 06:48 AM • permalink#21 Yeah Barrie Hanoi Jane was a mess,“me,me and me” is what she cares about.
Parkinson “gallantly “lied and trowelled on the compliments and put her ego in a sling.
She’s just like a little kid -oh I’m all ALONE in the world (twice)..
and she defiantly yelled “I supported North Vietnam and I’m PROUD of it”.
You could have heard a pin drop.The audience which responded so loudly to the next guest -a very down to earth,plump comedienne-ignored Fonda’s cry.
She blathered on about her father and how he didn’t love her and her mother didn’t love her either.
The best part was when Daniel Day Lewis was on and she kept interrupting him.She said at one stage “Your profile there looks JUST like the young Fidel Castro..you should play him one day.”
Day Lewis not impressed so she tried to make it better..“I meant it as a COMPLIMENT”. She is a washed up,useless,hopeless,sad baby who’s thrown away her chances but still wants constant attention.
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It’s incredibly bizarre that even freakin’ Lebanese Muslims can work out that Hezbollah is a Syrian/Iranian terrorist proxy and not good for Lebanon, yet dickheads in the West continue in this bizarre “freedom fighter” fetish.
Then again, dumb Westerners have cheered on people like Stalin, Pol Pot and Robert Mugabe, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.