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To: stockman_scott who wrote (194860)	8/4/2006 2:22:42 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hezbollah's status goes UP with the Arabs as Israel's goes down. Even al Qaeda feels threatened by Hezbollah's new-found street cred. I wonder what they'll do to catch up?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (194860)	8/4/2006 2:30:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"We are not Shiite, but we love him," said Mona Saman, a 28-year-old accountant, who is Sunni. "He's defending Lebanon." This is the real problem with the Arab world - they are such suckers for demagogues. They have such an inferiority complex, they suffer from such an achievement gap, that show them ANYBODY who looks and sounds successful and presses the right buttons, they will admire him - even when he leading them right over a cliff against their every interest! and not even in the future, but right here and now! If it was Jews in that cafe, they would be screaming, "This moron is going to destroy us all with his big talk and his rockets that can't even hit anything! Who told him to start a war? He doesn't even care what he does to Lebanon, he's obeying his paymasters in Tehran!" But not Arabs, oh no. They admire him. They just can't help themselves. He talks so well, and he stands up to big bad Israel, that's smaller even than Lebanon. I don't have to guess how the Jews would behave, btw. I just have to look at what happened in Israeli politics in 1982.