TOBY PETZOLD

There’s a report in the Telegraph about some recent Israeli tourists venturing into Syria:

A US official has confirmed that Israeli warplanes carried out an air strike “deep inside” Syria, escalating tensions between the two countries.

The target of the strike last Thursday remained unclear but Israeli media reported that a shipment of Iranian arms crossing Syria for use by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon was attacked.

And these Democratic assholes in the Senate are fretting about what we might do to poor old Iran? But there really isn’t any choice. The Israelis know this, but idiots like Bernie Sanders? He turns his back on necessity.

Further on in the report we read:

Another theory gaining ground yesterday was that Israel was deliberately attacking the Russian-made Pantsyr air defence system recently bought by Damascus. The sale includes provision for the Pantsyr system to be shipped on to Iran and it is possible the Israeli attack was co-ordinated with America to probe the effectiveness of the system. It is believed that Iran would use the Pantsyr system to defend its nuclear facilities.

Sounds good to me. Once again exposing the inferiority of Russian military technology in the Middle East while reminding the floor-kissers in Iran that they’ll get the same when the time is right? Rock on.

On Fox News Sunday this morning, Chris Wallace ran some funny footage from earlier this week of the French armed forces coming to the rescue of Lebanon: it was a couple of motorized rubber boats with not even a dozen —albeit smiling and waving— men between them. Of course, these Gallic warriors made sure to be flying the Tricolor —yet I would suggest that such a display of maritime power was somewhat undermined by the fact that their flags were a third of the length of the boats themselves.

Oh, well. Give these human shields their due. Like all good dhimmis, they may be allowed their illusions of autonomy in the heart of the New Caliphate.

Did y’all see that giant meeting of the Arab League today in Beirut? You know: the one where everybody pretended that the Lebanese Army is going to save their country by going into the south and taking charge? Well, they’re just going to go right down there and get it done —right after every nutcase Shiite who needs to be killed gets killed.

Well, the most important thing you should have noticed is that there was a giant meeting of the Arab League today in Beirut. The city that the Zionists have absolutely destroyed —far beyond even the powers of PhotoShopping to approach. The whole city is in ruins. It’s a firebombed Tokyo. It’s a Dresden-like shell.

Yet, practically every Arab country sent its embassies and emissaries into this devastated city today. And it was all on TV. How did any of them survive the Israeli onslaught?

It’s almost like they know something that assholes on CNN and at al-Reuters aren’t telling the rest of us.

Hmmm…

There’s been some talk here about collective punishment, so let’s think for a moment about the collective responsibility that societies bear for their political choices.

Hizballah is a party in the Lebanese legislature. It has a civil arm that is known for its charitable works, especially within the natural manure of its Shiite base in the south of the country. Hizballah is widely and publicly credited by the very highest officers in the Lebanese government as the true liberators and defenders of the country against the awful Zionists. And, as the asshole propagandists that CNN puts on the TV tell us every night, Hizballah enjoys as much as 85 percent support all across the country. Eighty-five percent! Wow!

Now, if these last few facts may be qualified by the argument that the Lebanese government and its various mouthpieces and propagandists have been bullied into supporting Hizballah —a minority party within Lebanese society— then make that argument. Accept and acknowledge that such is the case: these poor bastards, in their comfortable palaces and mansions overlooking Beirut, know that all they have to do to invite their own murders or harm to their families and friends is to speak out against the insanity of Nasrallah’s terrorist army.

So, they do not.

But these people —the Lebanese People— are responsible for what Hizballah is doing. They permitted them their place in society and did nothing to stop their rearmament by Syria and Iran —a direct violation of United Nations resolutions (which is something that the dhimmis on the UN-loving Left are supposed to care about somehow). And Israel is to blame in defending itself?

Why shouldn’t such a society pay a price for allowing itself to be overrun by a proxy army of terrorists supported by Syria and Iran?

Let this be a Lebanese war. Because, if you’re willing to countenance Nazis in your own government, schools, media, and business, then you’re going to get tarred with the same brush. 

I wouldn’t believe a single thing to come out of the mouths of any of the so-called leaders of the Lebanese political establishment. They’re either in fear of their lives at the hands of Hizballah or they are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Syria. In either case, they are lying to stay alive or stay in power.

And this bullshit about Hizballah enjoying 80 percent-plus support across the political spectrum in Lebanon? Gibberish. The Christians and Druze and Sunnis would elect an outright majority of Hizballah members to their parliament if elections were held today? Who the hell is supplying that number? It’s pathetic.

The Lebanese people are obviously terrified and humiliated and enraged at Israel right now, but it’s a total joke (along the lines of the exit polling bullshit that was flying around on our own Election Day of 2004) to believe that they would consent to have their country run by these filthy Nazis. Don’t tell me that the same kids who were out in the streets of Beirut protesting the assassination of Rafiq Hariri and celebrating the Mehlis Report and the withdrawal of the Syrian army are now excited at the prospect of being ruled by a bunch of Islamofascists.

It’s manifestly a lie —and the Big Media craphounds should be ashamed of themselves for not rebutting such nonsense on the spot.

Of course, considering the fact that CNN often gains its access to totalitarian regimes by agreeing to not confuse the propagandists’ lies with clear counterarguments, it’s no surprise that they would uncritically broadcast this stuff.