THE AMAZING COVERAGE BY AL MANAR--AND SECURITY ALERT

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written soon after a moderate volume of red wine, with dinner, and a supremely hectic all-American day–and a $50 ticket for failure to exhibit a NewCarInspectionSticker which DMV never had given me upon registering the stupid thing. Avoid at all cost Georgetown’s DMV. It’s hell incarnate. In contrast, the inspection station was nearly empty at around 3:15 PM. But it needed better instructions. Do I stand in the queue at the cash register? Don't I?

To access the Arab press and other useful sources, I go to al-bab.com.



Al Manar online, the Hezbollah Palestinian/Lebanese publication (Arabic), provides terrific predictive coverage In part, this is likely due to its knowledge of what Hezbollah’s allies are up to.

In part, al Manar has a keen ability to understand the mind of the harmful idiots and their stragtegy (I'm laughing) . In contrast, the harmful idiots--the stalwarts of the American right wing ( the Jewish right, the Christian right, and the Jewish right’s adoring and applauding liberals.) only know how to create misery and orphan little ones ("harmful") and understand...nothing; they're idiots!

SECURITY ALERT:

Al Manar carries "articles" which are no more than threats to regional countries or messages to allied operatives.



I went back one month. Here’s what al Manar had said:

--On or about May 13, 2007, al Manar reported that Hamas had been putting out feelers to the U.S. to check out the latter’s willingness to lift the embargo on the Palestinians.


--On or about May 15, 2007, al Manar wrote that, due to Hamas’s failure to break the American-Israeli sanctions, it had now set its mind on seeking the total destruction of the Palestinian Authority (PA). And, if need be, to sign an Oslo II ,without the involvement of Fatah.

--On or about May 17, 2007, al Manar wrote that Israel would be launching a vicious assassination campaign against leaders of Hamas and other Islamist leaders. I read between its lines that the goal of the planned assassination campaign was to help Fatah against Hamas. One day later, Israel bombed the headquarters of the Executive Force, a Hamas outfit.

HOW IT CAME TOGETHER

The result, as elaborated by this newsletter on May 16, 2007:

"Hamas re-took the initiative. It set off fighting with Fatah and launched rockets into Israel. Hamas wasn’t about to capitulate to an embargo: intra-fighting confuses the issues so as to lift the blame of starvation off the shoulders of Hamas leaders. Without the fighting [these] almost certainly would’ve been blamed for the stop in cargo delivery--the starvation of the Palestinians. With the fighting , Fatah ends up sharing a part of the blame."