Israel Matzav

Still in love with Assad

Like the beaten wife who goes back to her abusive husband, former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri continues to adopt the positions of Bashar al-Assad, the man who murdered Hariri's father. This time, Hariri is accusing Israel of being behind a bomb blast that went off in Hezbullah's stronghold in the Dahiye section of southern Beirut earlier this week.

This is from the third link.

Hariri, who heads the predominantly Sunni Future Movement (Tiyyar al-Mustaqbal) party in Lebanon, accused Israel of organizing the "terrorist attack" to "push Lebanon to strife" and destabilize the country, according to Lebanese English-language newspaper The Daily Star.

"The blast requires the highest-level awareness," Hariri cautioned.

The statements of the former prime minister, whose government collapsed in 2011 when the opposition parties including Hezbollah withdrew, echoed comments by Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar on Tuesday, who said shortly after the bombing that the "act clearly bears the fingerprint of the Israeli enemy and its tools."

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on Tuesday did not comment on Lebanese accusations directed at Israel, but said, "This fight is between the Sunnis and the Shiites and Israel will not intervene in it."

If they actually believe this, they are totally off the wall. And if they don't believe it, they don't see the civil war that's just around the corner as a result of Hezbullah's support of Assad.

Labels: Bashar al-Assad, Beirut, conspiracy theories, Hezbullah, Saad Hariri

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:39 PM