Mid-July, 2006 -- The Reuters photos (on Drudge and at the link destination) showed various signs held by middle-eastern types.  You know what the guy looked like.  Dark skin, short dark hair and the stubble of a black beard covering the bottom half of his face.  The signs said Allah Will Destroy Israel, and Islam Will Dominate.

The problem is that headline.  It is unlikely that Matt Drudge wrote it.  It is almost certainly a Reuters product.  It proves what critics of this European news service have been saying for years -- namely that Reuters is a source of leftwing propaganda, not journalism.

Supporters of Lebanon? Hogwash!

Israel has been attacking Syrian-armed Hezbollah sites in Lebanon.  Syria has for years -- some say acting as an agent of Iran -- encouraged Hezbollah's meddling, there.  Why?  Because Lebanon for years had a huge Christian population.  That's right, a nation in the heart of the middle-east which not only tolerated, but celebrated Christians. The Islamo-fascist movement, of which Hezbollah is a member, doesn't care for Christians.  So, if Israel manages to destroy the Hezbollah influence in Lebanon, the Lebanese Christians which are left (haven't been killed or driven out) would have their country back.  They would be free from Syrian-generated persecution for the first time in many years.

So, those protestors in the Reuters photos linked on July 19th on Drudge are actually Islamo-fascists telling a great big lie.  They are not, as the Reuters headline says "supporters of Lebanon."  They are supporters of the fascist Syrian overlords who have held the Lebanese in chains of fear, and who have daily worked to eliminate freedom of religion in that country.

That headline is a lie.  Supporters of Lebanon would help Israel load the shells into their guns, and join them as they crossed the border and killed the soldiers of Hezbollah.  Those Lebanese who did that would be patriots.  The Israelis, here, have in this case some historic qualities similar to the French who helped the Colonists during our Revolutionary War. 

The people in the Reuters photos, the demonstrators in front of that Israeli embassy in New York, are defending Syrian despotism, not Lebanese freedom. 

(LL)

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