{"id":497,"date":"2006-07-13T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T23:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=497"},"modified":"2006-07-13T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T23:24:41","slug":"yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Yikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things are rapidly heating up in the Levant. There are reports that among the Hezbollah missiles striking Israeli targets are Iranian long-range Fajers, launched by Iranian personnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And of course the press sees no reason why<\/a> the dastardly Jews would blockade Lebanon’s ports and destroy Beirut’s airports — the possibility that the peace-loving happy-go-lucky Hezbollah folks might want to import weapons — to replace the hundreds of missiles and artillery shells they’ve launched at Israel in the last few days — is obviously ludicrous.<\/p>\n

(Note that I’m not an impartial observer here — I have good friends in Lebanon right now).<\/p>\n

Israel says it intends to “break” Hezbollah<\/a>. Good riddance, I say.<\/p>\n

There are some bemusing and unusual factors: uncharacteristically, Egypt and Saudi Arabia<\/a> (!) are blaming Syria for exacerbating the situation. Maybe Bush’s tough stance on terror states<\/a> is making Mubarak uneasy about harming the American golden goose. Note that Egypt had already brokered a prisoner exchange when Hamas and Hezbollah upped the ante.<\/p>\n

And over it all rises the specter of the Iranian bomb. Ahmedinejad has been promising for a while now an “explosion” and a “wave” that will finally wipe the Jews off the map. Through its clients it’s now involved<\/a> Israel in a two-front war that could quickly grow to three, if Syria becomes openly involved. It’s a small step to a pretext for testing out its nice shiny new “peaceful” nuclear program.<\/p>\n

And of course the Leftosphere is letting its anti-Semitism all hang out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things are rapidly heating up in the Levant. There are reports that among the Hezbollah missiles striking Israeli targets are Iranian long-range Fajers, launched by Iranian personnel. And of course the press sees no reason why the dastardly Jews would blockade Lebanon’s ports and destroy Beirut’s airports — the possibility that the peace-loving happy-go-lucky Hezbollah … Continue reading “Yikes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}