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Sunday, February 12, 2006
Hariri fans resuming their imitations of North Korean crowds' patriotic fesitivites. And Sa`d Hariri has landed in Beirut. Now he will see the crude and vulgar fesitivites for himself. On the 1st anniversary of Hariri's death, I want Haqiqah (truth) about who killed all those poor Syrian workers? Who abused them? Who burnt their tents, and destroyed their houses? Who arrested innocent Syrians to blame Lebanese sectarian hatreds on them? And who still buys the claims of the Hummus Revolution, one year after its eruption? Mini-Hariri urged Lebanese to follow the slogan, Lebanon First (imitating the Jordanian slogan). Those slogans are coined to send a message of hatred against a large immigrant or non-immigrant group in the population. The slogan was raised in Jordan against the Palestinians, and it is being raised in Lebanon agaisnt the Syrians and the Palestinians.