{"id":3097,"date":"2005-02-19T02:50:12","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T09:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2005\/02\/freedom-on-the-march-in-lebanon\/"},"modified":"2005-02-19T02:50:12","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T09:50:12","slug":"freedom-on-the-march-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/19\/freedom-on-the-march-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom on the march in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tGroups that battled each other during the civil war (see a rundown of Syrian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/spot\/lebanon1.html\">ethnic factions<\/a> for lowdown on Shia, Sunni, Druze, Maronite, and Orthodox Christians) are now united against the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/5FFE0143-9BE7-4209-B3AA-7726208C8141.htm\">Syrian occupiers in Lebanon:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After meeting on Friday in a Beirut hotel, they urged the Lebanese people to back a peaceful &#8220;independence uprising&#8221; &#8211; using the word <em>intifada <\/em>in Arabic, the first time they had used the term.<\/p>\n<p>They also called for parliament to suspend all debate unrelated to the assassination until the truth about who killed former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri emerged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t just the opposition,&#8221; Druze leader Walid Jumblatt earlier told reporters. &#8220;All the Lebanese are with al-Hariri, a free Lebanon and [a] Syrian withdrawal.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this continues, we could see the restoration of democracy in Lebanon without an invasion. The neo-cons are right, freedom is contagious. Next thing we know it will come to Iran, and then the sky&#8217;s the limit.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the American left <a href=\"http:\/\/mumonno.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/jeff-gannon-asks-why-should-my-past.html\">obsesses over gay prostitutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/\">Instapundit<\/a>, who&#8217;s in the hospital with his woman, poor dear.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groups that battled each other during the civil war (see a rundown of Syrian ethnic factions for lowdown on Shia, Sunni, Druze, Maronite, and Orthodox Christians) are now united against the Syrian occupiers in Lebanon: After meeting on Friday in a Beirut hotel, they urged the Lebanese people to back a peaceful &#8220;independence uprising&#8221; &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/19\/freedom-on-the-march-in-lebanon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freedom on the march in Lebanon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-NX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}