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Agree, the Cedar revolution was not all it was turned out to be - however today we have this:

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Lebanese PM: Hezbollah created `state within a state,` must be disarmed (AP)

Disraeli wrote once that oriental politics is just so much dissimulation. True then, true today.

Middle Eastern politics, as practiced by those states hostile to the West, is just disinformation and two-faced deception cloaked in dissimulation.

(In other words, we have to fact check every single thing they say.)

Update on post 206:

Jul. 20, 2006 12:05 | Updated Jul. 20, 2006 12:30
Lebanese PM Saniora: Disarm Hizbullah
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME

Hizbullah has created a "state within a state" in Lebanon and must be disarmed, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said in an interview published Thursday in an Italian daily.

Saniora told Milan-based newspaper Corriere della Sera that the Shi'ite group has been doing the bidding of Syria and Iran, and that it can only be disarmed with the help of the international community and once a cease-fire has been achieved in the current Middle East fighting.

Disraeli wrote once that oriental politics is just so much dissimulation. True then, true today.

There's a story in Raphael Patai's "The Arab Mind" about and Egyptian commander telegraphing the Jordanian front during the 6-day war claiming the Arabs were routing the Israelis, and had destroyed 75% of the IAF. As a result, Jordan entered the fray, in what was actually a lost cause for the Arabs, who were being trounced by Israel. The next day, when the damage by the Israelis could no longer be kept a secret, Nasser phoned Hussein to suggest that they put out a communique stating that Egypt had lost the battle not because of tiny Israel, but because the US and Great Britain had collaborated with the Israelis by bombing from aircraft carriers. Hussein, more than a little miffed that his years spent in the West had led him to accept the hype at face value, wisely declined supporting Nasser's face-saving lie.

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