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| Army Defuses Bomb at Ain el-Hellhole Entrance |
| 2011-10-03 |
| [An Nahar] A Lebanese army explosives expert defused a bomb found at the entrance of Ein el-Hellhole Paleostinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon on Sunday, the National News Agency reported. NNA said that the bomb was found along with tapes and a battery at al-Tahtani entrance of Taamir Ein el-Hellhole. The device was not set to explode. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the bomb-disposal expert immediately defused it and removed it from its location, the agency added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 I work with an engineer who's of Maronite extraction. Brilliant funny dude |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-10-03 20:57 |
| #4 So much history. Maronites are now all over the world. I would like to think they are still in the mountains. I spoke to a man whose father was Lebanese today. His dad was a leather shoe repairman in this country. Relatives say you can never go back. Lebanon was a jewel at one time. I believe that Egypt will now follow the same path. I like what I have read of the Maronites. Simple life. They could grow things in the most difficult and harsh conditions. Then to survive. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-10-03 20:25 |
| #3 My father was a shooting instructor for the Haganah, Israel4Jews, among other roles. We have photos of him in meetings with Golda Meir when she was running things, and I've seen his name on U.N. documents as the go-to guy for discussing scientific research in Israel. He told stories of instituting hard hats and steel-toed shoes for the Haifa dockworkers. He didn't tell stories of the other stuff. So, bona fides established, let us move on. There is indeed a strong tradition of antisemitism among the Christians of Dar al Islam, plus the follow-on tradition of special pleading to their Muslim Ottoman overlords to turn their wrath on the Jews instead. This is true. Pope Benedict was not pleased when some of that venom came out at a recent conference in Rome -- it was written up in the Jerusalem Post at the time, and discussed here. These days the Lebanese army contains a strong contingent of men from Hizb'allah, I've read, and dare not push the issue lest the generals find out exactly how strong. And the Maronites no longer run Lebanon. The smart ones have sent their children abroad, just as Arab Christians have been emigrating since the 1920s. But did your father mention how very many Lebanese spied for Israel when he was there? Have you not noticed how many have been arrested recently as Israeli spies -- including at high levels in Hizb'allah and several Lebanese generals? And where do you think Israel got all they know about the worst bad guys in the West Bank and Gaza StrIp? Accused spies for Israel are shot in the streets there, but it beggars the imagination that all are false accusations. All this was reported in the Jerusalem Post, Ma'an News, the Daily Star and others, and discussed here. Your personal religious faith is between you and God. It doesn't do to be rude about whatever helps others be better people, though. Lashon harah, and all that. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-10-03 16:42 |
| #2 In the 1980s my father fought the Lebanese. The army was mainly Maronite Christian (as today). The maronites are evil - they are in league with the PLO. Arafat married one of them and made her convert. People have to realize that the Christians are as bad as the muslims, that is why we expel them all. They both believe in false prophets and they both believe that jerusalem is theirs. |
| Posted by: Israel4Jews 2011-10-03 14:42 |
| #1 the bomb-disposal expert immediately defused it and removed it from its location...to use someplace else. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-10-03 09:38 |