7/30 Middle East Live Thread

7/29 Middle East Live Thread ^ | 7/30/06 | BurbankKarl

[mainepatsfan]

Imagine CNN showing live footage of the landings at Omaha beach?

[conservativepoet]

"Just the thought of that makes me shudder."

And yet, that's where we are as many university professors bend student sensibilities in a direction hostile to this country.

[mainepatsfan]

That's an understatement.

[mainepatsfan]

No dues money then no support.

[DCPatriot]

I saw that "wounded" man get up off the stretcher too, but I thought it was similar to the way a hospital demands you be wheeled to the hospital door in a wheelchair regardless of your good health.

Now that I think about it, it was strange.

[tsmith130]

SE Mom and I had almost the exact same conversation yesterday. We'd all be speaking German if WWII was waged today.

[RDTF]

Sure has been. I always feel guilty sleeping safely through the night and waking up to this sort of news. And very thankful to those that are making it that way for me.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Thanks for the ping, Karl.

These threads will be a research goldmine in the future, I suspect.

Plan to do a lot of handsewing at the computer today... :-(

Pinz

[mainepatsfan]

Well maybe half the country. The other would be speaking Japanese.

[mewzilla]

but I thought it was similar to the way a hospital demands you be wheeled to the hospital door in a wheelchair regardless of your good health.

FWIW, in my experience that's outgoing not incoming :)

[monkapotamus]

[Dinah Lord]

Hee-hee. That sure would explain it - and I could make a remark here about Mel Gibson but guess I better not. Don't want to hijack the thread.

uh-oh. Hollywood Hezzie alert: Here comes the big guy in the striped shirt and shorts again. Again, no blood, no dust, not a mark on him. Looked like all his extremities were moving too.

I hope he gets residuals. Looks like that is going to be the footage du jour.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Arutz

16:09 Jul-30-06
Tibi Blames Olmert, Bush & Peretz for Climbing Body Count in Lebanon
16:00 Jul-30-06
EU: No Justification for Qana Incident
15:50 Jul-30-06
Beilin: The IDF Spokesman Cannot Explain Away Injuries to Innocent People
15:47 Jul-30-06
Alan Dershowitz live at 5PM Israel, 10AM New York
15:40 Jul-30-06
PA Calling on UN to Broker a Ceasefire
15:30 Jul-30-06

Ynet


Updates
Knesset Chairman: all Knesset aid funds to be directed to north
(16:06 , 07.30.06)
57 people injured in rocket attacks Sunday
(16:01 , 07.30.06)
Security official: 5 terror attacks foiled over last 10 days
(15:55 , 07.30.06)

Haaretz


16:08 Rice to leave for Washington on Monday to work on UN resolution (Reuters)
16:06 Iran awards Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez its highest state medal (AP)
16:05 IDF: Qana incident won`t halt military operation (Channel 2)

[mainepatsfan]

LOL!!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I woke up too early. Sometimes, I think I get nudged to be here for things like this.

[tsmith130]

I finally saw the beared guy - the back of his shirt was ripped - for effect? He was laying on the stretcher looking pathetic and was just fine when he stood up

The fat, bearded guy and the person who sits up with the back of his shirt ripped are two different people, are they not?

[mewzilla]

I finally saw the beared guy - the back of his shirt was ripped - for effect? He was laying on the stretcher looking pathetic and was just fine when he stood up

It's a miracle!!!

[Valin]

Rantings Of A Sandmonkey
http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/07/30/foreboding/

7/30/06
Foreboding

I just received word that things in Lebanon are, getting, ehh, a little secterian. There was stories of Shia refugees in a druze beighbourhood that tore up Walid Jumbalatt's pictures and posters that were hanging on the walls. There was another story of a Christian supermarkets refusing to sell groceries to Shia regugees, saying that they are saving it for the christians. I recalled a post that I read at Mustapha's blog the nother day, where the Shia regugees booed and heckled the FPM sunni youth while it was bringing them food and supplies, and I started to get slightly alarmed.

The Lebanese are currently united behind Hezbollah because they want the israeli shelling to stop, and the only people who are doing something about it are Hezbollah. But the moment ba cease fire takes place this could all change. I am more afraid of lebanse civil war than I am of what is going on right now, and I think many lebanese people would share my view. The Lebanese fabric maybe united right now, but it's secterian. And while I said that any civil war would be won by the Shia at this point, it doesn't mean it would be a pleasant victory, or that it would stop the other lebanese sects from fighting it. All it would take, for it all to go to hell, is for someone to do something stupid, someone else to retaliate, and mob rule will take over.

However, since I didn't want to be the lil monkey who cried civil war, I figured I would cruise around the lebanese blogs to see if the stories I've heard were isoalted incidents, or if there is a larger pattern taking shape here. I basically wanted them to comfort me that what's happening right now is the worst that Lebanon will have to endure. After reading a couple of them, such comfort now seems lacking.
(Click on link for more)

[mewzilla]

Tyrants have no problem sending them to their deaths even when they know their cause is lost.

That picture is a sad and scary reminder.