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HIZBALLAH REPEATS VOW OF DEATH TO ISRAELIS, PALESTINIAN AND SOME PAN-ARAB MEDIA ECHO HIZBALLAH
IMRA ^ | 7-20-06

Posted on 07/20/2006 5:53:57 AM PDT by SJackson

HIZBALLAH REPEATS VOW OF DEATH TO ISRAELIS, AS PALESTINIAN AND SOME PAN-ARAB MEDIA ECHO HIZBALLAH'S VOICE By Michael Widlanski 19 July 2006

Hizballah's propaganda machine continues to threaten death and destruction to all Israelis in its regular radio, television and internet shows, and this message is being echoed by some of the most important Arab media.

"Al-Mawt le-Isra'il"-"Death to Israel" chants Sheikh Hassan Nasserallah repeatedly in a montage television film shown many times daily on Hizballah's Al-Manar television station.

Pictures show the terrorist leader in his black turban and dark jalaba robe striking the air with his fist as a crowd answers his chant with their own chant of "Death to Israel."

The films show Nasserallah's followers marching in uniforms, goose-stepping as they frequently give an open-palm salute that is identical to the Nazi "zig-heil."

Nasserallah, the Iranian-educated and financed terror leader, has not been seen in public or on live television for several days, but his message of death and destruction for Israel-and for the United States and other Western "infidels"-is preserved by the miracles of video-tape, audio-tape and computer technology.

Al-Manar television and Al-Nur radio rebroadcast Nasserallah's words several times a day-sometimes several times an hour, and other video and audio clips make it clear that this is not some abstract message but a promise.

"Nastarjiu Khaybar"-"We will return to Khaybar" declares a sonorous narrator, recalling the oasis of Khaybar where Muhammad slaughtered all the local Jews who opposed his views and leadership 1400 years ago.

Several times an hour, Al-Manar television places a bull-eye on the name of different Israeli cities on a map, followed by explosions signaling the fate in store for the people living there.

Israel itself is almost never mentioned by name in Nasserallah's speeches. He and the Hizballah officials generally call Israel al-'udu al-sihyouni-"The Zionist Enemy" or "Al-kiyaan al-sihyouni"-The Zionist Entity.

Israelis do not exist, only 'sahayyan'-Zionists, with a tone that indicates that they are some lower dangerous life form which endangers higher life forms, such as Arabs and Muslims.

Hizballah's web-site is called Moqawama.net-Resistance Net-and its net message is rather gross: total destruction and annihilation for all Jews leaving in the "settlement" or "colonies" of Palestine: in other words all Israeli towns, villages and cities.

"In the name of God the merciful, we have responded to the the enemy's targeting of regions in Lebanon, and we have brought and returned hell to the infidels with hundreds of katyusha rockets at the hour of 15:17 on the areas of Kafri and Dalton [places in the Galilee]."

Hizballah's new slogan is "harb maftooha"-"open-ended war," and this message is now being echoed by Al-Jazeera, the popular Pan-Arab television station which uses a logo for its crisis coverage: Al-Muhajimma al-maftooha-The Open-Ended Confrontation.

Al-Jazeera and Palestinian Authority media also echo Hizballah's treatment of other subjects: Hizballah fighters and Palestinian terrorists who die are all martyrs, and they are all part of "muqawwama"-resistance.

Sometimes, they even promote fanciful, even outrageously ridiculous claims as if they were proven facts.

"Polls show 81 percent of Israelis overwhelmingly support the war, and Israeli school children draw pictures and messages which are pasted on bombs that rain down and kill Lebanese civilians," intones a bespectacled Al-Jazeera interviewer as he questions Israeli Arab parliament member Azmi Bishara, who does not try to correct the preposterous second part of the assertion.

A cartoon today in the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds shows a gun-toting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert being hung out to dry-literally-on a laundry line, with one ear pinned by a lothes pin labeled "Lebanon" and the other ear pinned by a clothes pin labeled "Gaza."

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A cartoon today on the web site of Al-Ayyam, the Palestinian newspaper controlled by Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement shows an explosive mine shaped like Lebanon-and labeled '2006' about to destroy an Israeli missile boat.

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The footage of Al-Jazeera and Palestinian television also show graphic pictures of dead Palestinians and Lebanese, often with comments about Israeli "state terror" and "war crimes." No such comments are attached to pictures of Israeli dead.

The Hizballah films also exhibit pictures of Israelis weeping at funerals, then showing Nasserallah and his followers with exultant smiles in the background or as follow-up.

© 2006 Michael Widlanski Associates. Material may be quoted citing source. =======

Dr. Michael Widlanski is a specialist in Arab politics and communication whose doctorate dealt with the Palestinian broadcast media. He is a former reporter, correspondent and editor, respectively, at The New York Times ,The Cox Newspapers-Atlanta Constitution, and The Jerusalem Post.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; hezbollah; hizballah; hizbullah; israel
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1 posted on 07/20/2006 5:53:59 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

And the UN continues to delude itselt into thinking there is room for reason and compromise and diplomacy.

What a crock.


2 posted on 07/20/2006 5:56:27 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: SJackson

You know the thing is..... if Israel vacated all of "palestine" and moved the entire nation to a remote island. In less than 5 years the muslims would be building a mosque there and claiming it was one of their most holy sites, and demanding that Israel leave.


3 posted on 07/20/2006 5:57:41 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: SJackson

Do you know whether Naserallah has been heard from since the attack on the bunker?


4 posted on 07/20/2006 5:58:46 AM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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5 posted on 07/20/2006 6:01:16 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: austinaero

"The footage of Al-Jazeera and Palestinian television also show graphic pictures of dead Palestinians and Lebanese, often with comments about Israeli "state terror" and "war crimes." No such comments are attached to pictures of Israeli dead."

I've been asking on thread after thread, where are these pictures? I was told by one poster that Nassy banned public funerals (which I believe). So, how is it that there graphic pictures of the dead and none of the world's media outlets can get their hands on them? We keep hearing how so many Lebanese have been killed...yet...there is no way to verify this.

It's just hard to believe that with the slime factor inherent in some journalists, that not one of them has been able to capture a funeral, or a pic of a Lebanese family mourning, or burying a victim.....

Am I the only one who sees the inconsistency here?


6 posted on 07/20/2006 6:01:17 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Enterprise

Some think that nasrullah evaporated into a pink mist yesterday. The answer is probably blowing in the wind.


7 posted on 07/20/2006 6:01:37 AM PDT by AdvisorB (For a terrorist bodycount in hamistan, let the smoke clear then count the ears and divide by 2.)
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To: SJackson

These people are demented and delusional.


8 posted on 07/20/2006 6:03:31 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: Mr.Smorch
"The answer is probably blowing in the wind."

Well, it's a fitting end for a blowhard. (And I hope you're right!)

9 posted on 07/20/2006 6:04:43 AM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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To: SJackson
The films show Nasserallah's followers marching in uniforms, goose-stepping as they frequently give an open-palm salute that is identical to the Nazi "zig-heil."

The only thing missing is the swastika - otherwise there is no difference between islamists and nazis.
10 posted on 07/20/2006 6:10:02 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Man was made in the image of God, not pond scum)
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To: SJackson
The Hizballah films also exhibit pictures of Israelis weeping at funerals, then showing Nasserallah and his followers with exultant smiles in the background or as follow-up.

The whole issue in a nutshell.

11 posted on 07/20/2006 6:10:39 AM PDT by SouthTexas (Kim Jong is ILL, VERY ILL)
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To: Enterprise

Hasn't been heard from for days, and certainly not since the bunker attack.


12 posted on 07/20/2006 6:14:26 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: SJackson
They're Islamofascists right down to the "Death To The Jews" rant and the Hitler salute. And their dreams of genocide - how lovely. But fortunately, Israel has nipped all that pleasant daydreaming of slaughtering Jews and instead it is the Islamofascists who are being blasted off the face of the earth from the sky. Virtually all Israelis would agree: better them than us. Quite slowly, the stage being prepared where Saed Nasrallah's smile is being wiped off his face.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)

13 posted on 07/20/2006 6:19:09 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: reagan_fanatic

I read on a thread here some time ago an article that illustrated that the Nazi's got their anti-Semitism, salutes, &c from Muslims and not the other way around. Eye-opening. They truly are the primary source of evil on the planet.


14 posted on 07/20/2006 6:19:54 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: SJackson
"Al-Mawt le-Isra'il"-"Death to Israel" chants Sheikh Hassan Nasserallah repeatedly in a montage television film shown many times daily on Hizballah's Al-Manar television station.

So I take it that they don't have reruns of "Friends" on television there?

15 posted on 07/20/2006 6:22:38 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Life is like a cow pasture, it's hard to get through without stepping in some mess. NRA.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
"otherwise there is no difference between islamists and nazis."

You're right. There isn't!

A picture taken in 1943 of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, reviewing Bosnian Muslim Fundamentalist troops - a unit of the "Handzar [Scimitar] Division" of the Nazi's Waffen SS which he personally recruited for Hitler.
16 posted on 07/20/2006 6:23:27 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Enterprise
Do you know whether Naserallah has been heard from since the attack on the bunker?

If he isn't heard from within 24 hours of the attack it will be a safe bet he's dead, or severely wounded.

17 posted on 07/20/2006 6:23:45 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

His look-alike in Iraq needs a similar fate.


18 posted on 07/20/2006 6:23:53 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: Inyo-Mono
No - the only show is "We Hate The Jews" talkathon. 24/7. Al-Manar television has nothing else on its schedule. Without Israel, they wouldn't have anywhere near the audience they do.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)

19 posted on 07/20/2006 6:25:42 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: SJackson
...bombs that rain down and kill Lebanese civilians...

Mut be a bummer to be a hizbolla troop. As soon as you are killed you are discharged and become a civilian casualty.

20 posted on 07/20/2006 6:39:22 AM PDT by CPOSharky (The biggest greenhouse gas: Dihydrogen monoxide.)
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