Posted on 07/06/2010 9:42:30 AM PDT by Nachum
How did CNN senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr celebrate July 4? By mourning the passing of Hezbollah's Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. Here's what the CNN editor posted on her Twitter account:
Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot..#Lebanon
Fadlallah "famously justified suicide bombings," as the New York Times recalls in its obituary for him:
In a 2002 interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph, he was quoted as saying of the Palestinians: “They have had their land stolen, their families killed, their homes destroyed, and the Israelis are using weapons, such as the F16 aircraft, which are meant only for major wars. There is no other way for the Palestinians to push back those mountains, apart from martyrdom operations.”
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Morn the death of an Islamist?
You must be sh***...er...Obama-ing me.
They had tanks in 1967. Didn't work out so good for them.
The land wasn't theirs to begin with, and the land that became the State of Israel was purchased fair and square. Their families are killed by other extremists and by the families themselves. Their "homes" are squatter ratholes and are unfit for occupation by anything but vermin and Palestinians (I repeat myself).
and the Israelis are using weapons, such as the F16 aircraft, which are meant only for major wars.
Since this is a "minor war," the Israelis should only be using pointed sticks and broom handles.
There is no other way for the Palestinians to push back those mountains, apart from martyrdom operations.
Translation: "We cannot fight effectively against these imagined offenses, so we justify our murder by pretending it is just 'asymmetric warfare.'"
She’s also fugly, in a manly sort of way.
There goes her child support...
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