Wednesday, December 12, 2007
So as I was driving from Berkeley today, I was listening to Fox News on satellite radio. They had a report on the assassination of Hajj. Fox's correspondent in Beirut identified Al-Hajj as "a life-long opponent of Syrian occupation" in Lebanon. I kid you not. He then introduced a sound bite by Marwan Hamadah in which he blamed the "Syrian-Iranian axis." Hamadah has not updated his rhetoric to match that of master, Walid Jumblat. A month ago, Walid Jumblat was describing Hizbullah as a terrorist organization; in the last week, he talks about the "need to protect the resistance." Don't pin hope on anybody in Lebanon: you will surely be disappointed.