As Ali Abunimah
noted this week, “ The persistent association of Israel with
the world’s most negatively viewed countries will come as a
disappointment to Israeli government and other hasbara
officials who have invested millions of dollars in recent
years to greenwash and pinkwash Israel as an enlightened,
democratic and technological “Western” country.
With the 6/5/13
National Lebanese Resistance victory at al-Qusayr, coming as
it does 97 years to the month after the Triple Entente’s
(UK, France & Russia) May 1916 secret Asia Minor Agreement,
generally known as Sykes-Picot , the scheme to control the
Middle East following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, has
furthered crumbled.
Its ‘Rosemary’s
baby’ progeny, the colonialist Zionist occupation of
Palestine, is condemned increasingly by history to an
identical fate.
According to a
growing number of US and European officials and Middle East
analysts, as well as ever more public opinion polls, it is
solely a matter of time until, like al-Qusayr, Palestine is
returned to her rightful inhabitants.
Franklin Lamb is
doing research in Syria and Lebanon and is reachable c/o
fplamb@gmail.com

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