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• 1. indyana | December 22nd, 2007 at 10:02 pm

  Allow me a small correction:
  Israel indeed drop cluster bombs during the conflict, but MOST of it was AFTER the date/time of the cease-fire was agreed!
  Talk about a farewell gift…

• 2. Rodge | December 22nd, 2007 at 11:11 pm

  Nicely said N, you hit the target, but unfortunately, the argument will still the same for a long time, eventhough there is a change in the Shias mood up in the south, especially those who are living in the areas where the UN troopa are working.

• 3. Paul | December 22nd, 2007 at 11:43 pm

  The fanaticism makes the eye blind, the ear deaf , the thoughts sick. and he batters the true faith

• 4. Paul | December 22nd, 2007 at 11:58 pm

  واكد قاووق في تشييع أحد عناصر الحزب رائف أنيس بشارة في مدينة النبطية !!!???

• 5. Paul | December 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 am

  بعلبك - “النهار”:
  شيع “حزب الله” احد عناصره مهدي محمد عباس الذي قضى في اثناء ادائه الواجب الجهادي في مأتم حاشد في بعلبك، !!!???

• 6. ali | December 23rd, 2007 at 12:08 am

  I’ll tell you who is to blame. It’s those damn southerners. They’ve always been a liability to the Lebanese state. During the 50s, 60s, and 70s they greedily sucked up 0.7% of the nation’s budget. Today they even demand more than this! Besides, they know there are unexploded bomblets in those fields. Why the hell are they working them? So their kids want to eat? Hey, sometimes calorie reduction is better in the long run.

• 7. Ibrahim | December 23rd, 2007 at 3:49 am

  N, some users of your blog need some manners (I am refering to comments from a recent entry)…
  Before I go to enjoy my vacation, I would like to wish you a Happy New Year. I hope you can manage to stop listening to politics so you can enjoy your time for a while.

• 8. fad14 | December 23rd, 2007 at 9:14 am

  Sayyed Hassan doesn’t believe in lost limbs, its either die or live.
  dakheel leheyto ana.

• 9. theCourtFool | December 23rd, 2007 at 9:54 am

  N10452, I am not sure if you’re post is sarcastic. It has to be. You can’t be serious.
  so… hahaha

• 10. N10452 | December 23rd, 2007 at 10:13 am

  TheCourtFool,
  It is not ..

• 11. N10452 | December 23rd, 2007 at 10:14 am

  Ibrahim,
  I am quite aware of some comments and i try to delete as much as possible ..

  I thank you for ur wishes .. i ll do my best not to listen to politics, though its somehow a hobby for me

• 12. ali | December 23rd, 2007 at 5:56 pm

  Sheikh Ibrahim, have I offended thee? Please allow me to offer my sincerest apologies. While on holiday break, take some time to familiarize yourself with the concept of sarcasm.

• 13. Ali1559 | December 24th, 2007 at 6:48 am

  ali

  Those damn sotherners??? Do you mean all of them? Shame on you … b4 calling your neighbors and freinds to read the racism on this blog (as you said in a recent post) go find you some more ppl to read your SELF-AWARNESS. Just in case you dont know buddy , these DAMN southerners that you’re talking had no one back them up during the 50’s,60’s and 70’s , so i advice you to rethink your words b4 posting .

  I dont know much about you yet , but let me tell you this MR.ali (whether you are a southerner or not) , these damn southerners are the DEGREE to which you like and accept yourself istez ali.

  Shame …

• 14. Ali1559 | December 24th, 2007 at 7:02 am

  N 10452

  Again, quit haaretz.com for a minute and go back to your normal behavior . Are HA responsible now?lol ? How the hell do you expect HA to clean out the area without any map provided from the other side??????? N , you are not a military person and your argument doesnt make any sense.

  The lebanese gov should have stepped in b4 it got to this point (over a million bomb) walla USA ma bitmun 3la ISRAEL anymore ? EH N? Pathetic…

• 15. ali | December 24th, 2007 at 2:36 pm

  my goodness. one must be quite literal when posting any comments. perhaps it’s a language or cultural thing; you know its quite sad (and an insult to you as a reader) if one must continously point out that a comment is sarcastic. i guess i’ll keep that in mind next time and stick to simple polemics (ie, M14 kicks ass! Opposition is a bunch of traitors!). it seems this is the only language many people understand.

• 16. ali | December 24th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

  BTW, merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

• 17. theCourtFool | December 24th, 2007 at 3:49 pm

  MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU TOO ALI and All reading this blog

• 18. S | December 24th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

  Israel and Israel alone is responsible for the cluster bombs and the killings of innocent civilians in Lebanon. Hezbollah is right to call it a terrorist State and is just stating the truth by doing so.

  You claim that Hezbollah is a threat to Lebanon when Hezbollah NEVER used its weapons inside of Lebanon and against Lebanese civilians. Indeed and unlike others political groups in Lebanon, Hezbollah only uses its weapons against the worst aggressor in the Middle East in centuries ISRAEL. The REAL TRAITORS MY DEAR IS SAMIR GEAGEA AND THE LEBANESE FORCES WHO WORKED WITH THE ZIONIST AGAINST THEIR OWN PEOPLE. SHAME ON YOU! Hezbollah has a pure and clean history of resistance, unlike the Lebanese Forces. Without Hezbollah, Israel would still be occupying Lebanon today and even Beirut.

  And like an ignorant, you still claim that Hezbollah started the war when the Israeli soldiers were captured when Hezbollah attacked an Israeli commando force trying to infiltrate the village of Ayta ash-Shab, well inside Lebanese territory. So stop saying Hezbollah “started” the Israeli attack in 2006 by “crossing the border into Israel.” The issue of who first crossed the border is controversial, but Israel’s year-long preparation for its 2006 attack is not. Israel has been meddling in Lebanon since the 1950s, and has been directly attacking Lebanon since the 1960s, including two invasions.

  WE, THE LEBANESE, LOVE HEZBOLLAH AND WE DON’T WANT IT TO DISARM BECAUSE IT IS OUR ONLY PROTECTION AGAINST ISRAEL WHICH IS CAPABLE OF ATTACKING LEBANON AT ANY TIME!

  AND WHAT YOU ALSO FAIL TO MENTION IS THAT Hezbollah’s legitimate goal was and still is to respond to this aggression, to the occupation and daily violation of the Lebanese border, space and waters by Israel. Throughout the years Hezbollah has proved to be the only movement capable to act as a deterrent to Israel, and the only true defender of the country’s security. As such, Hezbollah is a resistance party dedicated to protect its homeland territories, and it also emerged as the only group to deal with the needs of the Shiite population.

  Today, Hezbollah is at once a political party with 14 seats in the Lebanese Parliament, the main provider of social welfare throughout the poor areas of Lebanon, a social movement voicing the aspirations of the Shi’a, and a fighting force.

  THIS IS WHY MORE THAN 2 MILLIONS OF LEBANESE SUPPORT HEZBOLLAH AND WILL NEVER STOP!!!

  KEEP SPREADING YOUR LIES, YOU ARE FOOLING NO ONE BUT YOURSELF.

  MERRY CHRISTMAS!

• 19. ali | December 25th, 2007 at 12:07 am

  Merry Xmas to you too S. Very well said. Your entire comment contains the hard truth, which many people try to avoid at any cost. Amazing what people will do to deceive themselves.

• 20. Mir | December 25th, 2007 at 5:56 am

  Sure, and all the bombs launched by Hizbollah into Nahariya, and Haifa, directly at civilian centers in Israel are not in contradiction to international law? Please. Hizabollah apologists argue that their rockets are not as accurate as israel’s. Great, so there’s a greater chance at firing into civilian populations, whereas Israel’s accuracy on hitting targets is villified even though it’s precisely what enables it to minimize collateral damage. The double standards here are fascinating.

  What evidence is there of a year long preparation to invade Lebanon? Hello, it WITHDREW from Lebanon in May 2000 for political purposes and under political pressure. Then, it gets villified again for “abandoning” certain Christian militia…obviously, Israel can never do anything right as long as it exists as a Jewish, read non-Muslim nation in the middle east. (Despite any ancient history that demonstrates Jewish population centers in J-lem, TIberias and Hebron long before other religions…)

• 21. Ali1559 | December 25th, 2007 at 8:42 am

  S

  Good job …

• 22. Hawk | December 25th, 2007 at 11:48 pm

  S, hezbollah has a clean background? What’s so clean about it? They perpetually keep Shia poor, they harass non-shia in the villages they control, and show no indication of ever integrating into society. The Lebanese Forces collaboration with Israel in the past was due to the aggressions of Palestinians on Lebanese soil. I see nothing wrong with that when Hezbollah directly shows support to Iran over Lebanon. And of course you blindly choose your history when you say hezbollah never aimed its weapons directly at the lebanese people. You are truly ignorant if you turn a blind eye to internal-shia fighting during the 80s where Hezbollah was directly involved in clashes that killed many lebanese. So I say your hezbollah is nothing but cowards that did not defeat israel in 2006 but used lebanese civilians as collateral damage when Israel was bombing Lebanon left, right and centre. You people are nothing but cowards and fanatics with the foresight of mice. May God have mercy on you because your backwards way of life will soon end.

• 23. Ahmad.B | December 26th, 2007 at 7:43 am

  Ali 1559

  We lost one of our lovely brothers today TROY ya ali troy , did you know him?

  BTW, thank you on your 13…

• 24. Delta | December 26th, 2007 at 9:05 am

  ali 1559 yin3ad 3lek hayde wahad 2 he is not talking about mines mines has maps while cluster bombs cannot be planned there is target plans during the war that has been giving to the isreal air force they hit thosde targets and these clusters sprays and covers big distances and can be hiden any where even isreal dont know where they are and can not uncover war targets speciallly that it still in war with beyrut.

• 25. Delta | December 26th, 2007 at 9:06 am

  chu ra2yak 3alouch twa2fo tkhatfo soldiers over the blue line barke bi ilo il cluster bombs bi l jnawb

• 26. Ali1559 | December 27th, 2007 at 5:08 am

  Delta

  Despite our political issues, TIN3D 3lek istez, sad2ine israel ma btodrob min doun MAP , ya3ne badak ta2ile 2ino iza IDF decided to invade lebanon again , ma ra7 ya3ref when hine the cluster bomb?? Akid la2, HA ra7lo ktir chabeb bil cluster bomb , w hayde laman HA yin3o chab min chabebon under : WAJEB JIHADI , ya3ne al chab ra7 cluster bomb ….

  Chu ra2yak delta , nirja3 la abel the blue line w nchuf min houwe l MOU7TAL?

• 27. Ali1559 | December 27th, 2007 at 5:11 am

  Ahmad.b

  La2 ma ba3rfo lal chab bass sme3it bil khabar 3la vcoderz :(… chu badak ta3mel ya zalame ? khsaara.. last month ra7 chab gher chikel bi MI,usa D. mattar MD, nafess li 7keye 7adess sayara … Good ppl always die …

  RIP …

• 28. Ali1559 | December 27th, 2007 at 5:14 am

  Delta

  ba3den ma 7adan ghayrkon ken mrakhasslo la HA , bayen wizareh …

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