Saturday, December 14, 2013

Western liberals: why they are loathed in the Arab world

Do you know that the Hariri family of Lebanon, which has a TV station, a radio station, a newspaper and a family political party, decided to join a world association of "liberal political parties".  Western European political parties, through their embassies in Lebanon, arranged for the admission of the Hariri family into that club and now a Hariri family representative--I am not making this up--appears at every function of a Western liberal association function?  But then again, the feudal Walid Jumblat is the official Arab member of the Socialist International.  This is only a bit more absurd than the membership of the Socialist Party of France.