Tuesday, November 04, 2008

So, We're Back to 1920

I am quite well aware that certain levels of government, executive and diplomatic as well as public administrators and, of course, "intellectuals", would consider the "legalistic" explanations of why the territories might belong to Israel, or why the Jewish communities are not illegal, etc., a bit 'not with it'. All the nitpicking and argumentation and going back 80 years or more simply disinterests the officials I've met from the U.S., the UK, the EU, et al.

So I thought this might lighten things up:

Nawaf Musawi, head of international relations for Hizbullah, said on Monday said the Shi'ite terror organization believes that large strips of northern Israel - beyond the border published by the United Nations in 2000 - belong to Lebanon. Musawi spoke after a meeting with the Norwegian ambassador to Lebanon.

According to Hizbullah "foreign minister", "The Zionist terror organizations moved the border from that of 1920 to that of 1923, and Lebanon lost seven villages and twenty farms. One must be cautious before moving the border to the Blue Line, because then Lebanon will lose millions of square meters." Musawi's comments mark the first time in recent years that Hizbullah is echoing the claims of various Lebanese Shi'ite figures.


If so, will they be telling this fellow to just get on with it?

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