Tuesday, December 13, 2005

The "democratic" demonstrators of the Batata Revolution (the same ones who are lionized by the Washington Post among others in the US): this is from a column by Saudi writer Muhammad Ar-Rushaydi who was in Beirut the day Jubran Tuwayni was assassinated. It appeared in the Saudi Daily Ar-Riyadh: "I don't know what made me follow and with excitement the chase by a large number of Lebanese youth of a person who was wearing the uniforms of sanitation workers. And I expected the chased person to be a murderer or a thief or something like that, and what only saved the man was his speed and skill in running toward his friends in their car, despite its high speed. And when expressions of amazement appeared on me, they increased when my escort told me that this worker is of the Syrian nationality, and that always and with any explosion the reaction of the Lebanese youth is like what I witnessed, and this recurred after the Syrian withdrawal...." (thanks Amer)