Posted on 08/27/2010 11:46:40 AM PDT by La Lydia
..."Fareed Zakaria GPS" opened with a debate about the controversial mosque slated...in Manhattan. It ended with a monologue in which the host seemed to imply that Hezbollah’s "respect" for Jews could be a model for Americans concerned with the mosque plans. In that final segment, Zakaria said:
I wanted you to see this. This is the Magen Abraham synagogue. It's not in Miami. It's not in Tel Aviv. It's in Beirut. That's right, Beirut, Lebanon. The synagogue is just now emerging from a painstaking restoration project...So why did this nation, often teetering on the brink of religious hostilities and hostilities with Israel, restore a Jewish house of worship? To show that Lebanon is an open and tolerant country.
And indeed, the project is said to have found support in many parts of the community, not just from the few remaining Jews there, but also Christians and Muslims and Hezbollah. Yes, Hezbollah -- the one that the United States has designated a foreign terrorist organization.
Zakaria’s...more immediate point — that Hezbollah respects the Jews and is merely opposed to Israel’s "occupation of Arab lands" — dramatically misinformed viewers about the radical and anti-Semitic nature of the Lebanese terror group. Hezbollah has repeatedly made clear not only its opposition to Israel’s very existence, but also its contempt for Jews....
Hezbollah has not been shy about admitting that, in its view, Israel occupies not just the West Bank but also Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and every other inch of its sovereign territory.
Equally misleading was the Hezbollah’s claim, again unquestioningly accepted by the CNN journalist, that the organization has no problem with the Jews, and in fact "respects" them.
Hassan Nasrallah, a Holocaust denier, was quoted in Lebanon’s Daily Star saying that if the Jews "all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide...."
The Jewish state, he continued, must be "wiped out": Hezbollah's view on the renovation goes like this. "We respect divine religions, including the Jewish religion. The problem is with Israel's occupation of Arab lands ... not with the Jews."...
The group's ideology frequently spills into devastating violence. Hezbollah has been implicated, for example, in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed. This is one of many deadly attacks by the group.
CNN’s Zakaria told his viewers he was giving them "food for thought." Unfortunately, with regard to Hezbollah, they got little more than empty calories.
They are proof a graduate degree (in the case of Zakaria even an Ivy League PhD) does not make you smart, and it sure as Hell does not make you wise.
fareed speaks for satan.
LLS
A show of amazing tolerance to Muslims is allowing the construction of one synagogue or church anywhere in the country.
There are 1,209 mosques in the US. We’ll talk when there are even a tenth of that number of synagogues and churches in Saudi Arabia.
Most Lebanese would not venture into the areas of Lebanon that are full of Hezbollah supporters. Beruit itself is still has many urbane, educated people who wouldn’t care if Israelis lived next door to them. Many are not overly religious. The problem though is they let Hezbollah and Hamas rule over certain portions of the country and are too weak to kick them out. The fear of most Muslims to stand up against terror is their ultimate failing and means that they condone terror by their in action.
As for restoring a Synagogue that’s fine by Hezbollah as long as there are no Jews left to pray in them.
Mel
Fareed is so full of shiite and is an ugly little critter to boot.
Is that not the heavy hand of Syria upon them? I have always thought that Lebanon was a great tragedy, they had a beautiful, prosperous city that everyone admired and then boom.
And CNN and Zakaria are both smoking serious crack. I call BS on their assertion of Hexbollah as being an example of “religious tolerance” given the apparent fact that they have a hard time getting along with Judaism...you know...Israel.
BTW, does CNN and Zakaria both acknowledge that Hezbollah interacts with Latin America drug cartels by importing drugs into Lebanon? Idiots and Idiocy courtesy of CNN and Zakaria. =.=
Hezbollah have deep Syrian ties and Hamas are in bed with Iran. It is terribly sad for Lebanon but they are so conflicted by their religion that they let these people in and then can’t get rid of them.
Mel
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