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'One of Hezbollah's Giants I Respect A Lot'
Octavia Nasr, CNN's senior editor of Middle East affairs, is going to get a lot of grief over this tweet about the death of Hezbollah's Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.
What is it about Fadlallah's record that earns Nasr's respect?
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Fadlallah's approval of the Hezbollah manifesto, which describes "the necessity for the destruction of Israel?"
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Fadlallah's links to the 1983 truck bombing of the US Marine barracks, the 2008 Mercaz HaRav Kook massacre, and his support for the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran?
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A fatwa to boycott Israeli and USA products?
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Holocaust denial?
As far as all-time sympathy for the devil goes, Barbara Plett's tears for Arafat still tops the list.
Related reading: Hizbullah in Lebanon
(Hat tip: dejerusalem)
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CNN long ago sold its soul to the sheikhs. I watch CNN from Israel and the only mention of Israel is war and violence while the Emirates are portrayed as heaven on earth. Not surprisingly CNN recently opened a new middle east headquarters in Dhubai.
Posted by: max at Jul 4, 2010 3:42:25 PM
I do not think that is true Max, coz CNN has been trying very hard to state both sides of the story as well.
Posted by: Mark@Maple Syrup Diet at Jul 5, 2010 9:14:21 AM
I watch CNN here in the UK-
In all the years it has never given Israel any credit for surviving- Much like the BBC-
However the BBC for the first time showed impartiality over the flotilla incident- I am not giving them praise for it- Impartiality should be their remit-
CNN needs to follow suit.
Posted by: steve mann at Jul 5, 2010 12:49:58 PM
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