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To: Road Walker who wrote (296761)	7/25/2006 2:49:46 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575543

The NYTimes is on the wrong side. But we knew that already.... mediacrity.blogspot.com In an article on the Lebanese elections today, the Times said "At one campaign event last month, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, led a celebration of the anniversary of Israel's pullout from Lebanon by boasting that his men had more than 12,000 rockets and warning that the resistance would never be squelched." The Times went on to parrot Hezbollah and others repeatedly in their self-glamorizing use of that word, adopting and tacitly endorsing it. For example: "Nabih Berri, speaker of the Lebanese Parliament and Amal's leader, has described the election as a vote 'to choose the representatives of the nation who will protect the resistance.'" The reporter, Hassan Fattah, goes on in similar cheerleading vein, talking about "the patina of heroism that it [Hezbollah] earned in the 23 years of Israelis occupation of the south." Yeah, I remember. Really heroic, murdering 241 Marines in their beds! Before September 11, Hezbollah had killed more Americans than any other terrorist group. To Hassan Fattah, and the New York Times, murder is heroic I guess--as long as its Americans or Israeli Jews. Hezbollah's goals are clear and often repeated. As Jeffrey Goldberg noted in a New Yorker piece in 2002 (see this online Q&A for the highlights), it "wants to create in Lebanon an Islamic republic in the style of Iran; it wants to destroy Israel; and it wants to unite the Islamic world under its banner." Gee, the Times forgot to mention any of that! Its correspondent was too busy doing PR for his fave terrorist group, and his editors were nodding off or nodding in agreement.