Almost a million people gather in the Lebanese capital,
Beirut, to protest against the presence of Syrian forces.
Posted on 03/14/2005 7:44:28 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Almost a million people gather in the Lebanese capital,
Beirut, to protest against the presence of Syrian forces.
I just listened to Claudia Rosett on Hugh Hewitt's show discuss this. Amazing. This was a REAL showing by REAL Lebanese, not bused-in Syrian fakes and Hezbollah agents.
Many mullahs are quaking in their sandals tonight.
The question is: is this going to be a repeat of East Berlin, 1989, or Beijing, 1989?
Exactly right - And what is funny is to watch the headlines from the MSM -
When the "fakes" Syrian soldiers hold protests the MSM headlines are "protest against America in Syria" - Yet when these honest protesters show up to protest against Syria (and in support of America to some extent) -
The headline reads "pro-Lebanon protesters blah, blah blah" - But they try and completely leave out any reference to it being pro-American. (yet run with the anti-American angle on the other side. They can't even stay consistent).
Here's another to add to your list.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362891/posts
"protest against America in Syria"
When did we go into Syria & where are all of these protests against our being there? (Sorry, I couldn't help myself.)
You are exactly right - but I have seen that exact headline on Yahoo, Google News and MSNBC web sites.
Suggesting "large protests in support of Syrian Gov't and against America" -
Okay, Wikipedia says that the total population of Beirut is somewhere between 1.8 and 2.1 million, depending on whether or not you count the suburbs. Lebanon itself has only got 3.7 million people total.
So that's right around ONE QUARTER OF THE TOTAL POPULATION of the country who thought it was worth their time to take the day off of work or school or whatever, drive downtown, try to find parking, and yell their lungs out with 999,999 of their closest friends, just to send a friendly message to Bashar Assad that he should sod off and die or something.
I live in the fourth-largest city in Japan, Kyoto, total population about 1.5 million. I can't imagine anything that would make one-third of the people here all go to one place and holler like a bunch of rednecks, unless the Hanshin Tigers won the pennant again.
Man, these people REALLY want to be free, God bless 'em.
LOL! Damn straight these people are REAL 100% lebanese.
I love these people. They are so witty and educated in how to comunicate to TPTB that have the power to stand behind them (signs in English).
This will have impact with the Mullahs in Tehran for sure!
Thank You!
"Hezbollah organised a giant demonstration last Tuesday to intimidate us," Nada, 35, who travelled to Beirut from Zahle in the east, told AFP. "Today we're taking up the challenge and invite [Hezbollah] to join us because we represent the true majority of the country," she said.
Slam! Hezbollah revealed as orchestrating a sham protest! Humiliated because everyone in the world knows it was nothing but illusion.
My suggestion would fall more along the lines of their trying to report the news, rather than editorialize. Personally, I think headline editors are among the worst.
Amen! An old Scorpion song has been gnawing away at the edge of my brain since the first large Lebanese protest, shades of the fall of the Eastern block.
It really annoys me that the MSM wants to turn all world events into a referendum on America. It's not. The Lebanese (like the Afghanis, the Iraqis and the Ukrainians before them) want to have a Democratic country. That's a point that Liberals want to argue, but events make their position rather dubious.
When we can make their path to Democracy easier, they will appreciate what we do. They've been educated to be skeptical about our intentions, and it's not unusual for oppressed people to believe we'd have the same evil intentions that their previous rulers did.
But when we can do something like pressure Syria to get out of Lebanon and let them have free elections, eventually they will see our good intentions. Maybe not tomorrow, but when they have a functioning gov't, they will.
But Hariri's sister drew jeers from the crowd when she told them: "We will stand by Syria until its land is liberated and it regains its sovereignty on the [Israeli-] occupied Golan Heights."
This is big!! They try the old anti-Israel propaganda and it doesn't work. Because of GWB, Arabs are starting to care more about themselves and their own countries, and less about the Palestinians. This trend will continue as more and more Arabs realize that the supporters of Palestinian terror are also the suppressors of freedom in Arab counrtries.
A realistic goal is an Arab world that is not too crazy about Israel, but sober enough to accept it as a reality. This will only happen if the Arab world decides to step out of the middle ages and step into the 21st century.
You did not catch the "finesse" of Ms Hariri. Syria has been stirring trouble with Israel thru the lebanese border for decades while respecting a formal cease-fire at the syrian border with Israel!
Now that this mascarade is over, let Syria use its own border to flex muscle.
Thanx for the heads up. I'm a real sucker for this kind of news.
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