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Egantry47
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Username: Egantry47
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 06:57 am: | 
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Hizbullah's Victory Has Transformed the Middle East
The defeat of the regional superpower could yet open the way to a wider settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict
by George Galloway
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The Arab world is waking up to its potential power. It has seen the Iraqis confound Anglo-American efforts to recolonise their country, the unbreakability, whatever the cost, of the Palestinian resistance, and now the success of Hizbullah. If there is no settlement there can only be war, war and more war, until one day it is Tel Aviv which is on fire and the Israeli leaders' intransigence brings the whole state down on their heads. Nor is it only Israel that will pay the price for continued conflict: the enduring injustice of Palestinian dispossession has already poisoned western-Muslim relations and helped spill violence and hatred on to our own streets. There is still time to choose peace. But make no mistake, with the victory of Hizbullah, a terrible beauty is born.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0831-20.htm
"If we don't learn to get along with one another, cast off our social and religious dogma and deal with reality as it is, we will not survive this social cycle and have to start all over again." - Jim Armstrong
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Aimstraight
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Username: Aimstraight
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 07:59 am: |
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One word, rubbish |
Egantry47
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Username: Egantry47
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 08:31 am: |
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Why do you say that, Michael?
"If we don't learn to get along with one another, cast off our social and religious dogma and deal with reality as it is, we will not survive this social cycle and have to start all over again." - Jim Armstrong
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Aimstraight
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Username: Aimstraight
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 09:15 am: |
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The only thing Hizbullah has won -
Is the moral victory of a terrorist heart
I hope you have a lovely day ET 47 |
Egantry47
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Username: Egantry47
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 11:16 am: |
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Not sure what you mean by a moral victory of a terrorist heart, but it's a memorable phrase. Thanks, Michael, you have a nice day, too.
Moral victory made me think of this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6020264244416084639&hl=en
(Message edited by egantry47 on September 02, 2006)
"If we don't learn to get along with one another, cast off our social and religious dogma and deal with reality as it is, we will not survive this social cycle and have to start all over again." - Jim Armstrong
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Aimstraight
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Username: Aimstraight
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 12:37 pm: |
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That was an old fashion whopping - LOL |
Egantry47
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Username: Egantry47
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 12:50 pm: |
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It certainly was a whopping, Bambi was cheering in the background.
Do you think that was photoshopped or real? I really couldn't tell.
"If we don't learn to get along with one another, cast off our social and religious dogma and deal with reality as it is, we will not survive this social cycle and have to start all over again." - Jim Armstrong
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Aimstraight
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Username: Aimstraight
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 01:07 pm: |
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That was real. |
Egantry47
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Username: Egantry47
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 01:23 pm: |
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And to think I only worried about being shot by a drunken hunter, no one told me to watch out for a teed off deer.
"If we don't learn to get along with one another, cast off our social and religious dogma and deal with reality as it is, we will not survive this social cycle and have to start all over again." - Jim Armstrong
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Aimstraight
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Username: Aimstraight
| | Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 09:53 am: |
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'Syria will form own Hezbollah'
Israeli intel chief says Damascus seeking to copy Lebanese group
Posted: September 11, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – Syria is considering forming its own Hezbollah-like guerrilla organization to fight Israel in hopes of "liberating" the Golan Heights, the chief of intelligence for the Israeli Defense Forces announced yesterday.
Speaking at a government meeting, the IDF's Major General Amos Yadlin said Syria is in the initial stages of developing the concept for the copycat Hezbollah group, which he said would launch attacks aimed at pressuring Israel into vacating the Golan Heights, strategic mountainous territory captured by the Jewish state after Syria used the terrain to attack Israel in 1967 and again in 1973. The Heights borders Israel, Syria and Lebanon and is claimed by Damascus.
Yadlin's announcement comes one month after WND broke the story that following its estimation Hezbollah was victorious during military confrontations with the Jewish state, Syria is in the process of forming what an official from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Baath Party called the Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights, a new "resistance" group that models itself after Hezbollah.
The official told WND the Front will attempt attacks to force Israel from the Golan.
Military officials here have long maintained returning the Golan Heights to Syria would grant Damascus the ability to mount an effective ground invasion of the Jewish state. The territory looks down on major Israeli and Syrian population centers.
The Baath party official told WND Syria learned from Hezbollah's military campaign against Israel the past month that "fighting" is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory.
Hezbollah claims its goal is to liberate the Shebaa Farms, a small, 125-square-mile bloc situated between Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The cease-fire resolution accepted by Israel to end its military campaign in Lebanon calls for negotiations leading to Israel's relinquishing of the Shebaa Farms.
The Baath official told WND the Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights was formed in June and that the group currently consists of Syrian volunteers, many from the Syrian border with Turkey and from Palestinian refugee camps near Damascus. He said Syria held registration for volunteers to join the Front in June.
One week after the WND article detailing the claimed group was published, state-run Al-Alam Iranian television featured an interview with a man who identified himself as the leader of the new Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights.
The man, whose features were blocked out, said his new group consists of "hundreds" of fighters who are training for guerrilla-like raids against Israeli positions in and
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