Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Western observers in Lebanon

A Western observer in Lebanon was offended with my reference to Western observers' support for March 14 (minus the French professor who talked to my mother). He/she (does not want to be identified) wrote me this: "Your French professor friend does not know what he is talking about
and he has no way of knowing. I bet Angry Arab has more supporters in the Carter Center crowd than March 14. Sincerely. Your friend Richard Norton is here, so is Helga Baumgarten from Beir Zeit. Lots of lefty types. Some young lefty Arab Americans too. [An] interpreter was a young Shia hijabi woman who came from a staunch Hizb famiy, and even she said that she is more Angry Arab than she is "Sheikh" Hasan. She reads you in Al Akhbar in Arabic and had never heard of the blog."