Archive for January 22nd, 2008

Auf ZEITonline findet sich ein Video und ein Kurzbericht von Jochen Bittners Besuch im Museum der Hisbollah in Beirut:

Die israelische Armee sprach von einer “grausamen und zynischen” Äußerung. Noch zynischer aber ist wohl, wie Hisbollah im Beiruter Stadtteil Haret Hreik die Tötung israelischer Soldaten zelebriert. In einem eigens eingerichteten, technisch aufwendigen Museum feiert die Miliz ihre Erfolge des Sommerkriegs 2006. In Zelten und unterirdischen Installationen stellt sie nicht nur erbeutete israelische Armeeausrüstung aus zerfetzten Uniformen aus. In einer Multimedia-Show kann sich das Publikum zudem am Tod israelischer Soldaten in einem brennenden Merkawa-Panzer ergötzen.

Hier geht es zum Video.

Arab editor blames Hamas for Gaza crisis:

A prominent Arab editor on Monday blamed Hamas for the ongoing crisis in the Gaza Strip, saying the Islamist movement had acted “stupidly” by firing rockets at Israel.

“Hamas committed a stupid act when it gave the Israelis an excuse to launch attacks in retaliation for a few antique rockets,” Rashed wrote in the London-based daily Asharq Al- Awsat.

“Prior to that, Hamas committed a big crime against the Palestinian people by overthrowing the Palestinian Authority [in the Gaza Strip]. The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have suffered a lot because of Hamas’s actions. Hamas is bringing Israel back into the Gaza Strip after it was liberated by the Palestinian groups.”

Das “after it was liberated by the Palestinian groups” ist eine Lüge vorm Herrn (bzw. Allah), ebenso stößt einem “an excuse” auf; aber immerhin wird sogar in Saudi-Arabien erkannt, wer die Palästinenser im Gazastreifen in die Scheiße geritten hat.

Best Friends Forever!

In early December, a surprising scene unfolded at Tehran University: 500 Marxist students held aloft portraits of Che Guevara to protest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s policies. Smaller groups of Marxist students held similar protests in several other cities.

Political protest has been harshly suppressed under the current Iranian government, especially dissent linked to the West. But the radical left, despite its antireligious and antigovernment message, has been permitted relative freedom. This may be, analysts say, because, like the government, it rejects the liberal reform movement and attacks the West.

So die New York Times. Islamo? Socialists? What about Islamo-Communism?

“The government paved the way for leftist movements in the country when its best friends became Castro and Chávez,” he said, referring to Fidel Castro of Cuba and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.

“The whole idea was that any country that was against America was on our side,” he said. “As a result, all communist leaders became the Islamic Republic’s best friends.”