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329: THEY MOURNED FOR THOSE; WHO WILL MOURN FOR THE OTHERS?

22 July, 2008

THEY MOURNED FOR THOSE; WHO WILL MOURN FOR THE OTHERS?

HEZBALLAH HOLDS FUNERAL & MOURNS GUERILLAS KILLED IN 2006

Gleaned from Earth-Times Friday 18^th July 2008 and assorted newspapers/websites

BEIRUT: The Lebanese militant group, Hezballah, held a funeral for eight guerrillas killed during its 2006 war with Israel. Their bodies were returned in a prisoners swap last week. Thousands of Hezballah supporters attended Friday's funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs. The eight coffins were lined up in a huge hall in Beirut's southern suburbs, where grieving women, parents, relatives, and friends had gathered to bid their last farewell. Hezbollah's Executive Council Chief, Hashem Safieddine, in a speech inaugurating the ceremony, said the eight men defeated Israel twice; once during the war in 2006 and again by returning home. He spoke in front of their coffins, which were covered with Hezballah's yellow flags. Their bodies were later taken to their home-towns. Israel released five Lebanese prisoners and the remains of almost 200 guerrillas – including 191 Arab fighters, mostly Palestinians – in return for the bodies of two soldiers whose capture triggered the 34-day war. A prayer was recited for the souls of the dead as wailing women kissed the coffins before they were paraded through the streets by Hezbollah fighters in uniform – these women are professionals, and they would wail for anyone and kiss anything for the right price. There are women like them in all the religions on the planet that are either being sold to, or forced down the throats of, the ASSES – that’s “MASSES” without the “M” and they do not fool me a single iota.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; I don’t know about all of you, or almost all of you, or most of you, or half of you, or some of you, or a few of you out there, but the fact that these people held a funeral and mourned for 200 guerillas – only eight of them were Lebanese – who died in a war that neither Lebanon, nor the Lebanese government, nor the Lebanese people, wanted or needed at the time – a war that killed 1,200 innocent Lebanese men, women, and children; deprived thousands of children of summer camps and schools or a normal summer holiday; dispersed hundreds of thousands all over the country who became Lebanese refugees in Lebanon; imprisoned in schools and other educational institutions and camps; scattered hundreds of thousands to the four winds, who fled with only their shirts on their backs; destroyed several bridges and devastated the whole country – especially the south; and deprived several thousands of people of their incomes or jobs – most of the businesses, establishments, restaurants, shops, even hospitals, Etc, were either closed down or semi-closed down because both management and staff and/or employees could not come or go to work; and all as the result of the July 2006 Fiasco, Folly and Madness – makes me sick!

Also, I don’t know about all of you, Etc, and so forth and so on out there, but what I’d like to know is: WHO WILL MOURN FOR THE 1,200; WHO WILL BRING BACK THE SUMMER OF 2006 TO THE CHILDREN OR CURE THEIR TRAUMA; WHO WILL BRING BACK THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS THAT FLED THEIR BELOVED COUNTRY, AND WHO HAVE SETTLED DOWN ELSEWHERE; WHO WILL COMPENSATE THE SEVERAL THOUSANDS WHO LOST THEIR JOBS AND/OR INCOMES?

Trauma: an extremely distressing experience that causes severe emotional shock and may have long-lasting psychological effects; a serious injury or wound to the mind or to the body

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