[Zeppo]

The United States complained to the governments of Lebanon and Syria, as it did last year to the Egyptian government when a similar series played there, but to no avail.

That's strange - I don't remember hearing Barbra Streisand being "deeply disappointed" that the United States tried to prevent this from being broadcast...

But, imagine if Al-Manar had caved in to the US request. I can just hear the words that Streisand would have spoken (or published on her blog) - "I am deeply disappointed that Al-Manar has caved in to right wing Republican pressure to cancel the network broadcast of the movie entitled "The Diaspora". (And I say MOVIE - because this is NOT a documentary - it's a television drama.)"

Oops, that was what she was saying about the flap over the CBS "The Reagans" biopic... Never mind...

[Dallas59]

It does seem strange. Since the US government gave her son HIV, you'd think she'd say something about the same government wanting to restrict the arti-sic value of Syrian TV.

[richardtavor]

I have heard that at the UN (com) Post that is East of Metullah (on the edge of what the Hiz calls the Shabaa farms that there is a large poster that hangs from a UN watchtower. One of the IDF soldiers that escaped the Hizbollah kidnapping (if you recall, 3 IDF were captured, 1 killed, 2 still kidnapped) has said that his best friend was the one that was killed--also, that the UN soldiers did nothing when the kidnapping occured but watch. The large poster that hangs from the UN is a picture of the IDF soldier's head being held up--the caption below is "this is what happens to the IDF-one down, two to go.) This is a fact, and I hope to have pictures soon--the person that took the pictures has had trouble getting any of our media to print them.

[SJackson]

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