Heroes and villains in Lebanon

Asia Times Online ^ | Robert Tait

[Pride_of_the_Bluegrass]

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday to a hero's welcome and blaze of fanfare that belied the country's rising intercommunal tensions and Western misgivings about his visit.

Shouts of "khosh amadi" ("welcome" in Persian) and showers of rice, sweets and petals greeted the Iranian leader as he waved to crowds from an open-topped car after arriving in Beirut at the beginning of a two-day trip.

It's Ahmadinejad's first visit to Lebanon, where Iran has cultivated close relationship with Hezbollah, the Shi'ite Islamist group that fought a bitter five-week conflict with Israel in 2006. He was expected to address a Hezbollah-organized rally attended by up

to 60,000 people after meetings with senior Lebanese politicians, including President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri and Nabih Berri, the parliament speaker.

Preparation for his arrival had been underway for weeks, with pro-Hezbollah neighborhoods festooned with posters of Ahmadinejad along with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

[Mayr Fortuna]

You see people, God is amazing isn´t he?

Israel, if you look it at the map, is a little fly dodoo in the mid of giants muslims countries.

But, buuuut... Even a little fly dodoo´s can stand for all of them, if The Lord Hand´s uppon it!

Never Retreat, Never Surrender!

[Nevadan]

re: “Shouts of “khosh amadi” (”welcome” in Persian) and showers of rice, sweets and petals greeted the Iranian leader as he waved to crowds from an open-topped car after arriving in Beirut at the beginning of a two-day trip.”

I am reminded of the eventual outcome of several nations and “leaders” who threatened the Israeli people:

1. Hittites, Amorites, Assyrians, Babylonians
2. Greeks (Antiochus Epiphanes)
3. Rome
4. Hitler
5. Nassar
6. Soviet Union

This nutball will come to the same fate as all the others.