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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3And Israel still hasn't learned that it must make permanent peace with its neighbours and stop looking for a military solution to what is a political problem.
"The Israeli government is arrogant, fat and dumb enough to think the lessons in Iraq don't apply to it.
I just don't see any good coming from the Israelis destroying Beruit using American weapon systems bought with U.S. foreign aid, while Condi "no ceasefire" Rice comes in with chump change for assistance and platitudes about a multinational force (but no US forces) to show the U.S. government's "concern" over the violence in the Middle East. And why would any nation sign up to occupy South Lebanon when the Israeli forces are taking out UN observer posts? There can be no good that comes of this."
It didn't really hit Ireland till late in '56, when reduced oil importation (nothing like the later Oil Crises) prompted Sean MacBride to ask the then taoiseach (John A Costello of FG) if Ireland would focus more on turf as an energy resource.
http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0160/D.0160.195611210002.html
Sean MacBride of course was a founding member of Amnesty International, and the only person to win both a Nobel Peace prize and the Lenin Peace Prize. After those his UN silver medal seemed tacky. Today he's remembered fondly for the accent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_MacBride
So 50 years ago today, an event happened in what for almost 170 years had been the sphere of influence of the rival French and British empires. An event which saw 6,000 Egyptian soldiers held as prisoners of war by Israel. & the US brokerage for reconciliation saw Lester B Pearson on his way to win a UN peace prize in 1957. Mr Pearson "the daddy of UN peace keeping missions".
50 years on, the world is a bit befuddled about how to patch a peace keeping mission (be it UN or NATO or even lack of constitution forbid "EU") to keep peace.
50 years on, the USA really believes Egyptian forces should be part of any Lebanese venture.
50 years on, the UK vetos whatever the USA tells it to... hence the disastrous Rome Summit on Israeli aggression on both Lebanon and cough cough UN peace keeping observer posts.
I for one, happen to believe Mr MacBride may have been right. We should have stopped our reliance on foreign fossil fuels and concentrated on our bogs. Burning everything between the Curragh and the river Shannon. Every prayer book. Every lost sunken warrior. By now we would have moved onto solar power and windmills.
Of course they didn't have the option of UN peace keepers then. No-one had even dreamt of a bright blue turban. & to be honest NATO was still more of a theory than anything with real deployment capability.
How much has changed since the epoch of Dr Omar Sharif. His first English language movie was Lawrewnce of Arabia in 1962 playing opposite the Irish born Peter o' Toole in a splendidly romantic and slightly g-a-y account of the British Empire's stunning recruitment of the arabs.
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I recommend reading these articles :-
http://indymedia.ie/article/77571
http://indymedia.ie/article/77517
http://indymedia.ie/article/77521
& for the moment if you don't have time to read all of "Hariri's Game" http://indymedia.ie/article/77195 , I'd just draw your attention to number 3 http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68901 which recounted the week that Bush declared "the Cedar Revolution", in his landmark speech he warned Syria "what part of this don't you get?". Because lots of technically foreign resident Lebanese had assembled in Beirut to wave flags and demand democracy and people power.
They got it too. 300,000 supporters of Hezbollah gathered under posters depicting Bush as "the beast" of Christian endtime, which really shows how sophisticated they are. It was quite a moment for them, previously their largest demonstrations had only counted a few thousands supporters..,
In that article and comments you may read back articles on Beirut indymedia - & come to your own conclusions as to why "who killed Hariri and why?" really was the Agatha Christie of 2005
.:. Dr Omar Sharif born in Egypt 1932 of Lebanese & Syrian parents - the only Muslim face Westerners were ever taught to trust +