JOSHUA FRANK: President Bush Uncut -- Why Israel Gets Away with Murder

[Tace]

By Joshua Frank -- World News Trust

It was a candid moment. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair were chatting over lunch at the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg Monday when a Russian microphone sitting in front of Bush was unknowingly live. After almost three minutes of Bush/Blair uncut (we saw Bush eating with his mouth open and found out he prefers Diet Coke), the focal point of their conversation took a turn toward the Israel/Lebanon conflict.

Bush confided in Blair that getting Syria to intervene would end the conflict immediately. "See, the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hizbullah to stop doing this shit and it's over." And how’s he going to do that? By threatening Syria I’m sure.

Hearing Bush tell it, one would think that the latest bloodshed in the Middle East is the result of Hizbullah’s barbaric habits, not Israel’s. But the entire reason Hizbullah even exists is because of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. As Lebanon based writer Bilal El-Amine writes in the forthcoming print edition of Left Turn:

“An amalgam of political party, armed resistance and social movement, Hizbullah (“Party of God”) was born of a perfect storm that saw the convergence of several factors in the early 1980s: 1) the long-term changes inside the Shia community, described at length above, 2) the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, and 3) the 1982 Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Although Iranian support was certainly critical to the emergence of the party, the Israeli invasion appears to have been the decisive factor.”

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[Cha]

1. Wow! And this is

from a Jewish writer. The truth..how refreshing.

"After almost three minutes of Bush/Blair uncut (we saw Bush eating with his mouth open and found out he prefers Diet Coke), the focal point of their conversation took a turn toward the Israel/Lebanon conflict."

It's good Joshua Frank is letting us know about bush&blair-the uncut version, too.

[BillZBubb]

2. No Israeli invasion, no Hezbollah threat.

The Israeli's continue to follow the same thuggish policies and keep getting into a worse situation. You would think they would learn. They created the militant Hezbollah. Now they are insuring it's continued growth.

[dennis4868]

4. blaming Israeli...

for the creation of Hezballah is like blaming the jews for the rise of Hitler!

[wellst0nev0ter]

5. OK, How Did Hezbollah Get Formed?

How come there was no Hezbollah before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It's very easy to use heated rhetoric, less so to use sober judgements.

[BillZBubb]

6. Tell me then about the formation of anti-Israel Hezbollah?

I'll be very interested in your story.

The Jews had nothing to do with the rise of Hitler, they were merely scapegoats. The Israeli's had everything to do with the radicalization of Hezbollah. Get a clue.

[jonnyblitz]

7. I can tell you read the article.

:sarcasm:

[cali]

3. hey tace,

how about responding to my post in thread you posted with the Valazuela article?