George Galloway rips into Britain's Sky news.

[insomnia]

http://www.youtube.com/v/249JaIaubVw&feature=PlayList&p=E876461D1EA06F2E&index=5

Now, I'm not saying that George Galloway isn't a fairly manipulative politician, who has, in the past, kissed up to some pretty nasty dictators...  (as

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[communistmonkey]

as long as Hezbollah fight soldiers trying to invade my country, i must admit i am very grateful. but the firing rockets AT CIVILIANS has got to stop. on both sides. even tho we're getting a lot more than they ever will.

hm, well, as an answer to ur questions: Nasrallah is a very smart man, tho i do not support him, i admit to that. Hezbollah arent a simple militia, they're a powerful high-tech army, dt let the beards and heated "Allah w Akbar" chants fool you lol. they have impeccable strategy, weaponry and paramedics and doctors accompagning their troops. they are a fully fledged army, secret services, hospitals, orphanages, tv station, and elderly shelters included, with better chances to stand up to Israel than our measly army will ever have. why?

->after our civil war ended, the USA sold the lebanese army the only weapons it *allowed* them to yield: mostly M16, basic anti-jets things (useless against israel's supersonics) and sum tanks, with "repair parts" for the head of the tanks when its common knowledge that if that part is damaged, u might as well throw the tank away lol. this is our lebanese army, a crippled old man. unable to fight off anything. if it tries to re-arm, the international community and UN (not to mention Israel) will quickly "condemn" it. and we, unlike the USA/Israel axis, *have* to obey the UN.
the only ones capable of resisting Israel are thus Hezbollah, altho i must say, they have monopolized and capitalized on resisting Israel. even if sum1 else wanted to, sum other group, theyd have to either join hezbollah or 4get it. (im here mainly refering the communist resistance that once existed and was quite effective in Leb).

about civilians, i shd tell you that Lebanon is made of 40% christians and 60% muslims. half of those muslims are chiites and a crashing majority of them supports hezbollah. (they are located mainly in the south and dahieh.) by support i mean here "are directly helping them" as in hiding weapons for them in their houses or taking care of the soldiers or providing information, food, helping them dig up the huge underground web of tunnels and facilities they use to surprise israeli troops and other stuff... a lot of chiite families are proud to say their sons are part of hezbollah, so they have a HUGE following of civilians who wd follow Nasrallah to the grave. Right now, bcoz of the war, all of the lebanese ppl supports Hezbollah, but it hasent been this way at all, b4 this started the gov was in constant "dialog" with its different parties to convince HEzbollah to disarm, but they said they will only do so "when the whole of the lebanese territory is free of occupation" (they refer here to Chebaa). so it was really going nowhere.

as for the israeli-dictated peace, the leb goverment already unanimously rejected it. untill the conditions of the cease-fire stop making ISrael look like the poor helpless victim and lebanon as the evil blood-thirsty terrorists, there will b no cease fire. which is exactly wt the USA and Israel gov want, as they are now planning to further their invasion of leb, which might take, according to israeli newspaper "at least a month". enough for the international community to get bored of us. just so you know, altho i think u do lol, Israel is the one who wanted the army to take possession of the south so they'd pull out, but now that the leb gov (including hezbollah) is ready to send in troops to secure the south, suddenly the Israeli gov deems them "not strong enough" to contain Hezbollah. ill remind you why they arent so strong tho *points upward* as i said b4, cuz this how strong the USA will allow them to be...

*sigh*
i hope ive answered your questions, if anything sounded offensive, it wasnt meant to be.
if u want to know anything else, tell me. :) hope ive been useful lol

[insomnia]

"as long as Hezbollah fight soldiers trying to invade my country, i must admit i am very grateful. but the firing rockets AT CIVILIANS has got to stop. on both sides."

Spoken like a true patriot. I absolutely agree with you. Hezbollah have every right to resist invaders and not be viewed as terrorists while doing so, even if their idiot leaders insist upon incitement, attacking civilian targets, and have arguably violated their own religious beliefs by sanctioning terrorism in the past. It's unfair to say that all Hezbollah are terrorists. Some are patriots.

"the only ones capable of resisting Israel are thus Hezbollah, altho i must say, they have monopolized and capitalized on resisting Israel. even if sum1 else wanted to, sum other group, theyd have to either join hezbollah or 4get it."

Not a good situation, certainly.

"Israel is the one who wanted the army to take possession of the south so they'd pull out, but now that the leb gov (including hezbollah) is ready to send in troops to secure the south, suddenly the Israeli gov deems them "not strong enough" to contain Hezbollah."

I have noticed this, and believe its a hypocritical act. Israel doesn't want a quick peace or a quick ceasefire. They want to go into south Lebanon and tear it apart, hunting down Hezbollah... who, by their definition, are basically anyone left in the area. Nevermind all the people of Tyre, a city of 175,000, who haven't been able to leave, or have chosen not to do so for various reasons, much like people in New Orleans chose to ride out the hurricane, only to find themselves trapped in the city afterwards.

The U.S. government know *EXACTLY* what Israel is doing, and support it. I guess we'll be able to watch them put on a display of mock outrage for awhile, even as they buy the Israelis time to kill more Lebanese and destroy more of Lebanon's infrastructure.

And no, nothing you have said has been in the least ways offensive. It has been enlightening and informative. I think this is a time when all of Lebanon should unite to resist Israel's invasion of their country, but I also think that they must find ways to do so that do not make them puppets of Hezbollah.

[communistmonkey]

the ppl of Tyr cant leave bcoz of wt the leaflets said: any moving vehicle will be bombed, so they're trapped.

I basically agree with you, we shd resist without falling into Hezbollah's hands, but the lebanese balance is very fragile and so the gov has decided to back up hezbollah all the way now as some kind of "united" resistance, and also, i believe, in order not to trigger another civil war bcoz of parties vehemently throwing the responsibility of this at eachother and building up hatred between the lebanese. so for now, backing up hezbollah is the only way out; when it's all over it will be time for expressing differences of opinion again, but right now the words on every lebanese's lips are "united" and "resisting".