Monday, November 16, 2015

Anne Barnard still manages to justify the reference to southern suburbs (and its bombing) as "Hizbollah stronghold"

1) "a series of bombings claimed by Sunni militant groups as revenge for the intervention by Hezbollah".  But that is never said about bombing in the West: that they are a revenge for their intervention.  Furthermore, is she trying to say that those Jihadi takfiri groups would have been peaceful and democratic had it not been for Hizbollah's intervention in Syria? She also ignores that such groups have been posting and chanting anti-Shi`ite slogans and genocidal threats long before Hizbollah's intervention in Syria.
2) Here, she manages to still insist that the reference to a residential area housing more than 300,000 civilians (containing people who are pro and anti-hizbollah) is in fact justifiable: "That is hard to dispute in the political sense — Hezbollah controls security in the neighborhood and is highly popular there, along with the allied Amal party. "  In fact, Amal in some quarters is even stronger than Hizb.