There was the huge Hizbullah rally in Beirut last Friday, but its seems otherwise, from reading American news in Egypt, that we are to forget about Lebanon, save for the fact that Hizbullah held what I’m sure the nightly news broadcasted as a threat to popular democracy in Lebanon. At least the NY Times is giving us the story, right? I mean, "Lebanon’s Future"? Stormy British MP George Galloway gave this SkyNEWS interview over the summer durin the war; if you haven’t seen it, you ought to, and if any Blogsome users know how to upload YouTube video to their blogs, please let me know. I’m told it only works for Blogger, LiveJournal, and Friendster.
Galloway should go on Fox News and do want other guests cannnot, even he does get into some ranting.
The photos of the Beirut rally from the NY Times. On the rally, and the Times coverage, here’s this bit from As’ad AbuKhalil:
This WAS the biggest crowd in Lebanese history, ever. Did you hear that o American correspondents in Lebanon? Will the Nation magazine publish a piece paying tribute to the demonstrators as they did when demonstrations took place against Syrian domination? Will MERIP now assign a piece by Nicholas Blamford to note the “photogenic” quality of the demonstrators as they did for the 2005 demonstrations? Why do some demonstrations register in the US press and others don’t?
…Take note. I should note that the New York Times’s article by Michael Slackman was atypically fair althogh the pictures on the website did not show what the pictures of Lebanese newspapapers have shown: that there were non-veiled and non-bearded members in the large crowd.
