Jumblatt: Our rivalry with Hezbollah not lasting (he is not kidding!)

Oh, boy, take a look at this:

Druze politician Walid Jumblatt has said that the Lebanese government and the majority bloc would support Hezbollah and the resistance. In a meeting with Qatari Premier Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani, Jumblatt reportedly sent a message to Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah to announce that hostility between the two sides is temporary and Mount Lebanon would support the resistance movement, al-Jazeera TV reported.

Sure looks like Jumblatt, a.k.a. the "weather vane", has sensed that the "weather" has changed in the Middle-East.

Like Gollum of the "Lord of the Rings" (whom he amazingly resembles, see picture), Jumblatt just can't resist the urge to offer his services to anyone who might get him what he covets (in this case, association with, and protection by, whomever might rule in Lebanon).

This long time CIA agent (who also worked for the French and, of course, the Israelis) now is making overtures towards Hezbollah. Having been utterly defeated (both militarily and politically) by the Resistance, Jumblatt is now offering his "support" to Hezbollah.

What is interesting here is that we are witnessing the breakup and self-destruction of the pro-US coalition into mutually hostile and bickering groups. While Hariri is making statements that he will "never surrended to Hezbollah" and Siniora throws in the towel and accepts all the terms of Hezbollah, Jumblatt says that he supports the Resistance.

Like the Three Stooges, Hariri, Jumblatt and Siniora will now point fingers at each other for their debacle and give everybody else in the Middle-East a good laugh looking at their fights with, and recriminations against each other.

It will never cease to amaze me how utterly incompetent the USraelian Empire is in selecting its stooges. Think Marcos, Noriega, Saddam, Abbas, Karzai, Pahlavi and, of course, the Hariri-Siniora-Jumblatt trio. Don't they all look like clowns? If it were not for their ruthlessness and the innumerable number of their victims all these USraelian stooges would look hilarious, grotesque, ubuesque.

In a world were Hollywood actors become politicians, most of these stooges should consider becoming actors: they would make us laugh even more, and nobody would be harmed by their antics.

It's over: the Three (Isareli) Stooges have rolled over and caved in

What is inevitable tends to happen, doesn't it? This is the novel conclusion which Hariri, Siniora and Jumblatt have (finally!) come to. They have agreed to oficially revoke the anti-Hezbollah decision which had triggered the conflict last week. Which is a good thing, considering that these decisions were not implementable anyway. Hopefully they will soon come to the next inevitable conclusion: its time that they joined their pal Gemayel in Paris. Forever.

Why don't the Three Stooges realize that the show is over?

Yesterday President Dubya, in an interview to the BBC, made one of those statements which will enter future history books as among the dumbest ever uttered by any head of state: the USA will send more money to the Lebanese Army to help them to get the weapons they need to defeat Hezbollah. Amazing, isn't it?

Obviously, the great President of the only 'hyperpower' on the planet does not read Counterpunch, but we knew that (he does not read at all). If he had, he would have read the excellent article by Franklin Lamb, Choufeit's Bloddy Pentacost, where, among many other good points, Lamb wrote:

The reality in West Beirut today is that even if every Hezbollah member but one withdrew, Hezbollah would still be in control of Lebanon's capital. He does not even need to have a weapon. All that is necessary is for it to be known that he is present. The Lebanese Army is increasingly deployed but its role is determined by the Bay Rocks barricade. One faculty member of the American University of Beirut (AUB) explained that if someone from Hezbollah handed the US Embassy gate-keeper a polite note asking the Embassy to close up shop, it would be done within hours this Monday.

To anyone with a modicum of understanding of the situation in Lebanon it is quite clear that weapons and firepower are really not the issue here: the USA has already spent hundered of millions of dollars to arm the militias of the Three Stooges (Hariri, Jumblatt and Siniora) and more millions will not make any difference at all.

Still, Dubya looked sincere when he made that statement. I personally suspect that he is kept in a state of total ignorance by the Neocons surrounding him and that he he utterly clueless about what has really happened this past week in Lebanon. Regardless of the idiocies voiced by Bush, it is a reasonable guess to make that the real deciders in Washington in Tel Aviv are by and large aware of what has really happened. This awareness of the real situation is probably what prompted the Imperial High Command to order the USS Cole back to the Lebanese coast.

Immediately, Stooge #1 (Hariri) declared that, quote, "he would not surrender to Hezbollah". Man, this playboy (see picture) is one tough dude, isn't he? He will not surrender to Hezbollah, wow! Over 800 of his militiamen did, but he will not surrender to Hezbollah. Sure makes me wonder why he was not in the streets showing them how to get the job done...

Another fire-breathing Iran basher who thinks that he will "teach Iran a lesson" is Robert Gates who, having caught on all the nuances behind Adm. Fallon's ouster and, even more so, the nomination of David "ass-kissing little chickenshit" Betrayus as CENTCOM commander now does his own brown-nosing to the Israel Lobby by promising it that Iran will be taken care of, and soon. So what can they really do?

With Lebanon? Nothing. At least nothing the Israelis have not already tried and failed at. What they can - and will - do is present the attack on Iran as part of a strategy to "support democracy in Lebanon"; that, at least, will be one of the many reasons (yes, the Neocons never heard of Occam's razor; they think many bad reasons can be a substitute for one good one). Which brings the back to the Three Stooges and their select coterie of fat millionaires supporting them.

It appears that the Zionists puppets in Beirut still think that the USraelian Empire can do something to protect them. They are utterly unaware that an attack on Iran is all that the Empire can come up with and that this attack, when it happens, will do exactly nothing to change the equation in Lebanon (besides making Hezbollah even more popular, of course). Like all the rest of the slowly vanishing millionaires in history (Pahlavi, Batista, Marcos, etc.) they appear to be unable to see the end coming (except for Amin Gemayel who "leads his men" against Hezbollah from.... Paris).

It is time for the Three Stooges to realize that the show is over. All that remains for them now is to steal as much money as possible and choose a comfy place of exile from which to (ghost-) write their memoirs and enjoy all the coke, women and luxury which they are used to.

The show is over.