7/20 Middle East Live Thread

Did anyone just see on Fox news that the state of Maryland is going to provide health care, lodging and money to evacuees from Lebanon.....American citizens......that just landed at BWI? They are eligible for assistance for up to 90 days.....what is up with all of that??????

whispers...... Katrina...........

241 posted on 07/20/2006 3:53:31 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (The right wants victory, the left wants to surrender. It's that simple.)

Alright, rebel_yell2!!!

242 posted on 07/20/2006 3:58:10 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

"The difference today is that the western media is more than willing to propogate the Arab fantasies as truth."

Along with all the other left-wing distortions and fantasies.

243 posted on 07/20/2006 4:01:02 AM PDT by defenderSD (Just when you think it's never going to happen, that's when it happens.)

To: Knitting A Conundrum

Haaretz news tracker:

13:52 Palestinian sources: Another youth, 16, killed by IDF gunfire in Gaza Strip (Haaretz)
13:41 Russia: IDF offensive in Lebanon has gone `far beyond` anti-terror operation (Reuters)
13:27 French Jewish film director Gerard Oury dies aged 87 (AP)
13:25 Tibi: Can`t accept dismantling all of Lebanon in response to military action (Sky News)
13:20 State Department urges Americans to `weigh carefully` the risks of travel to Israel (AP)
13:11 Palestinians in Gaza launch two Qassam rockets at western Negev (Haaretz)
13:09 Fire breaks out between Sderot and Yad Mordechai due to Qassam rocket (Haaretz)
13:09 German government: Chancellor Merkel received letter from Iranian president (AP)
12:59 IDF Chief Halutz to soldiers: Fighting in Lebanon could last a long time (Itim)
12:32 Cabinet Secretary Maimon: Ground invasion of Lebanon not on agenda (Israel Radio)
12:22 Katyusha rockets rain down on western Galilee, Nahariya, Kiryat Shmona (Haaretz)
12:16 Authorities say Hezbollah fired 20 rockets Thursday morning into north (Israel Radio)
12:13 Medics say one Palestinian dies in IAF strike on Gaza refugee camp (Reuters)
11:51 Lebanese PM: Hezbollah created `state within a state,` must be disarmed (AP)
11:42 Palestinian sources: IDF killed 13-year-old boy in central Gaza refugee camp (Haaretz)
11:39 EU calls for cease-fire, international peacekeepers in Lebanon (AP)
11:39 Mofaz: IDF destroyed half of Hezbollah`s military capability (Israel Radio)
11:14 Nazareth court indicts Harish man who broke into abandoned homes in north (Haaretz)
11:14 EU Commission pledges $12.5M to help civilian victims of violence in Lebanon (AP)
11:13 Rockets strike areas in Western Galilee (Haaretz)
10:50 Palestinian killed in clash with IDF troops in Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza (Reuters)
10:17 IDF soldier seriously wounded in clash with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon (Haaretz)
10:14 Train service resumes up to Atlit (Israel Radio)
10:09 Woman on skates, 30, seriously hurt after being hit by car in Ramat Gan (Itim)
10:08 Truck driver suffers serious wounds after collision with bus in Holon (Itim)
10:08 Bangladesh FM terms Israel`s attacks in Lebanon `state terrorism` (AP)
10:05 Katyusha rockets land in Tiberias, Upper Galilee; no injuries reported (Haaretz)
10:02 Alert siren heard in Tiberias (Channel 10)
09:47 Philippines President appeals to Hezbollah, Israel to spare Filipinos in Lebanon (AP)

244 posted on 07/20/2006 4:01:35 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

To: mainepatsfan

WE'll probably hear about debit cards next at this rate. I'm upset with myself that I've become so cynical, but after Katrina I guess I see things through "Katrina colored glasses."

245 posted on 07/20/2006 4:02:18 AM PDT by VirginiaMom (abortion is NEVER an option!)

It's the ungratefulness that really ticks me off.

246 posted on 07/20/2006 4:04:41 AM PDT by mainepatsfan

To: mainepatsfan

Well, there's someone of Fox now bashing the US response time to getting people out of Lebanon. I may vomint up my morning coffee now.

247 posted on 07/20/2006 4:05:52 AM PDT by VirginiaMom (abortion is NEVER an option!)

This is a new Iwo Jima, commissioned in June 2001.

Glad to hear that!

248 posted on 07/20/2006 4:06:09 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? (Gal.4:16))

To: tiredoflaundry

This is hilarious...did you guys just see Steve, Edie and Brian interview the wife of one of the "evacuees"?

249 posted on 07/20/2006 4:06:47 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)

250 posted on 07/20/2006 4:07:18 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)

YAAYYY!!!

Welcome home (when ya get here)!

251 posted on 07/20/2006 4:08:21 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)

What happened? I'm at work and am missing it.

252 posted on 07/20/2006 4:08:53 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)

To: Knitting A Conundrum

"10:08 Bangladesh FM terms Israel`s attacks in Lebanon `state terrorism` (AP)"

Clueless in Bangladesh.

253 posted on 07/20/2006 4:09:08 AM PDT by defenderSD ("Rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty)

I did, I wanted to smack her upside her head!

254 posted on 07/20/2006 4:10:18 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (The right wants victory, the left wants to surrender. It's that simple.)

another Islamic state showing solidarity, I suspect....

255 posted on 07/20/2006 4:11:17 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

I saw her too Virginia Mom. It makes one wonder just how "cut-off" from information and help he was if his wife was here and in total communication with him.

Why didn't she register him and coordinate he evacuation / cruise home?

256 posted on 07/20/2006 4:12:17 AM PDT by Kakaze (American: a Citizen of the United States of America........not just some resident of said continent)

To: Knitting A Conundrum; BurbankKarl

Good morning, all. BK, thanks for posting the thread today.

257 posted on 07/20/2006 4:13:27 AM PDT by bwteim (bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind)

What I do not understand, she said her husband had to "live on the street", while visiting his mother???

258 posted on 07/20/2006 4:14:17 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (The right wants victory, the left wants to surrender. It's that simple.)

These were not Americans who live in the U.S. and many were not citizens. Arabic was the language of choice; even shipboard announcements were done in Arabic and English.

Much as I suspected and what we've been seeing on tv. We hoped your silence meant you were on the OQ and on the way out. Now you can breath a sigh of relief. Do regale us with your photos when you get home.

259 posted on 07/20/2006 4:14:20 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)

To: mainepatsfan

We have a society whose current version of ethics is 'I am the center of the Universe." In such a world, gratefulness really isn't a virtue. But complaining to get more or to whine when you didn't receive what you wanted are virtues, especially when done in front of a TV...

260 posted on 07/20/2006 4:14:48 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

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