From Krim: "To be fair, Anne Barnard is not alone. This from Zeina Karam of the
AP:
"The leader of Hezbollah rallied hundreds of cheering supporters Friday with sectarian pledges of support for Palestinians, a sign of the unease the group feels as turmoil grows within its home of Lebanon. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's first public appearance in almost a year came as Lebanon's president vowed not to be intimidated after two rockets struck near the presidential palace. The rocket volley followed President Michel Suleiman criticizing Hezbollah's involvement in the civil war ravaging neighboring Syria, violence that has spread into Lebanon."
First, she makes out the Al-Quds day rally to be a sectarian rally. (No where in the article is it mentioned that this is actually the yearly Al-Quds day rally.) In fact, the whole article is dedicated to playing up Shiite-Sunni tension, hmmm, whose hidden hand can you make out here?
Second, she tries to sneakily link the rockets fired at the Lebanese presidential palace to Hezbollah. As if that was the party's M.O.
Third, she's probably referring to Al-Akhbar here, not sure, since I couldn't find the article on their webpage:
A pro-Hezbollah newspaper put a picture of Suleiman on its front page Friday with a bold-headlined single word: "Irhal," Arabic for leave."
"The leader of Hezbollah rallied hundreds of cheering supporters Friday with sectarian pledges of support for Palestinians, a sign of the unease the group feels as turmoil grows within its home of Lebanon. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's first public appearance in almost a year came as Lebanon's president vowed not to be intimidated after two rockets struck near the presidential palace. The rocket volley followed President Michel Suleiman criticizing Hezbollah's involvement in the civil war ravaging neighboring Syria, violence that has spread into Lebanon."
First, she makes out the Al-Quds day rally to be a sectarian rally. (No where in the article is it mentioned that this is actually the yearly Al-Quds day rally.) In fact, the whole article is dedicated to playing up Shiite-Sunni tension, hmmm, whose hidden hand can you make out here?
Second, she tries to sneakily link the rockets fired at the Lebanese presidential palace to Hezbollah. As if that was the party's M.O.
Third, she's probably referring to Al-Akhbar here, not sure, since I couldn't find the article on their webpage:
A pro-Hezbollah newspaper put a picture of Suleiman on its front page Friday with a bold-headlined single word: "Irhal," Arabic for leave."
