Wednesday, February 11, 2015

The Israeli article on Hariri assassination in the New York Times

The Israeli reporter is so ignorant of Lebanese politics that he thinks that a person "runs" to become prime minister in Lebanon.  He also confuses the story about Hariri's nose bleed: it did not happen prior to the extension of the term of Lahhud but--according to the story of the Hariri family itself--in 2003 when Hariri met with Syrian security chiefs.