......The disarming of Hezbollah is a ``pipe dream,'' said Timor Goksel, who was Unifil spokesman for 20 years until 2003 and now teaches at the American University of Beirut. ``The Lebanese army is going south to defend Lebanon, not Israel.''
Malaysia said today that it wants to send peacekeepers to Lebanon even as Israel says it might oppose the inclusion of countries with which it does not have diplomatic ties, Reuters reported, citing Malaysian Defense Minister Najib Razak.
``There is no reason whatsoever to stop us from sending our men there,'' Razak told reporters, Reuters said.
Predominantly Muslim Malaysia and Indonesia have each offered to send 1,000 troops to the UN force and neither has diplomatic relations with Israel, the news service reported.
Iranian Congratulations
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on his organization's fight with Israel, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Khamenei said Hezbollah scored a victory for Islam and demonstrated vulnerabilities in the Israeli military.
Hezbollah, whose name means Party of God and is sponsored by Iran and Syria, has been linked to scores of terrorist attacks on Israelis and Americans, including rocket assaults on Israeli towns, bombings in Beirut in 1983 that killed 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French soldiers, and the 1994 attack that killed 85 people at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
Full article can be found at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ayHgCAF9i.cA&refer=homeEver wondered why the surrounding countries like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc are all in turmoil? The blessing went somewhere else, I guess. You figure that out for yourselves.
baruch ata adonai, eloheinu melech ha-olam, rokei ha-aretz al ha-mayim
*ha i like this guy's eyes. he could make even guys fall for him. ho ho*
We always pass by one another in the season where the powdered snow flutters
Even though I slip away into the crowd, we're looking up at the same sky
We're freezing, as though we were blown on by the same wind
I probably don't know everything about you
Yet out of one hundred million people, I found you
I have no basis for this, but it really is what I think
Powdered snow, you, in a way that is too fragile
Turn eternity into a stain on the rough asphalt up ahead
Powdered snow, my unreliable heart wavers
And yet, I want to keep protecting you
Powdered snow, when you colored us white, all the the way to my heart
You envelop our loneliness, and return it back to the sky
~from 1 Litre of Tears (2005)