Voices From Israel, Voices from Lebanon, Voices of Sanity

Two of Mike's America friends from Israel dropped by today with links to some interesting posts.

The American Israeli Patriot came across the web site: Lebanon's Voices, the stories of Lebanese who didn't have full time Hezboo propagandists working on their behalf in the lamestream media. Patriot highlights the story of a family in Tyre, who wanted to evacuate but were forced back into their home at gunpoint by the "freedom fighters" of Hezbollah.

Lebanon's Voices chronicles the personal testimonies of those who have been:

Living in fear yet infused with hope. Held hostage in their own nation against their will. A state within a state dictating its terms on a sovereign government unwilling and unable to protect its own citizens. They face extortion, kidnappings, threats at gunpoint and religious persecution. A campaign of intimidation aimed at crippling the Cedar Revolution so painfully gained last year after the assassination of a great leader. Sunni, Druze, Christian and even Shi’a; they are the four branches of a strong tree being cut at the base by those who seek its destruction. These are the people of Lebanon, living in the Land of the Cedars, diverse in their faiths yet united by love for their country.

Civilian at War, from the war zone, sends links to two excellent videos. First is Brigitte Gabriel interviewed on CNN. Brigitte is a Lebanese Christian forced as a young child to live for years in a bomb shelter due to rockets that the Hezbollah "freedom fighters" used to drive Christians from Southern Lebanon.

Now living in the United States, Ms. Gabriel has her own web site: American Congress for Truth.

The second link is to the video of Wafa Sultan, a Syrian who also emigrated to the land of the free. Her interview in Arabic is a rare voice of dissent on Al Jazeera. Listen to the tone of her voice as she slams the radical poison which grips the Middle East:

Mike's America first highlighted Ms. Sultan's interview in March. And you can read a partial transcript and more information about Ms. Sultan in our initial post on the subject.

Beware Hezboos Bearing Franklins

Since we're talking about the Hezboos, I thought I would toss in this excerpt from David Frum:

Counterfeit News
By David Frum
American Enterprise Institute

Perhaps you saw the images in your newspaper or on television:

"A Lebanese man counts U.S dollar bills received from Hizbollah members in a school in Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, August 19, 2006. Hizbollah handed out bundles of cash on Friday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing, consolidating the Iranian-backed group's support among Lebanon's Shiites and embarrassing the Beirut government. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (LEBANON)"

This scene and dozens more like it flashed around the planet. Only one thing was missing--the thin wire security strip that runs from top to bottom of a genuine US$100 bill. The money Hezbollah was passing was counterfeit, as should have been evident to anybody who studied the photographs with due care.

Care was due because of Hezbollah's history of counterfeiting: In June, 2004, the U.S. Department of the Treasury publicly cited Hezbollah as one of the planet's leading forgers of U.S. currency.

Frum goes on to point out that journalists who failed to investigate the phony "news" that poured out of Lebanon during the war are doing no better now. One look at the Franklins being passed around in Lebanon would show they lack the security strip and holographic printing that protects U.S. currency.

I've got an idea... Let's offer to pay "journalists" with Hezboo funny money!