http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=74304
First person Marc J.
Sirois Recent talk of a new
international force to police a proposed buffer zone in South Lebanon prompted
a flurry of media reports purporting to explain Tuesday's attack was
just the latest in a long line of incidents that have poisoned relations
between The host and the
"expert" demonstrated their ignorance from the start, repeatedly
describing the peacekeepers killed more than 24 hours earlier as having been
assigned to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which was
created in 1978 after The embarrassment got
even worse for CNN's performance in terms of objectivity in reporting the
facts of the current conflict has improved markedly over the past few days, but
it began in such an ignominiously subterranean manner that it had nowhere to go
but up. Wednesday's episode of "Insight" shows how easy it is for
even a seemingly well-meaning sort like Mann to enable the spreading of
misinformation by relying on an "expert" who either isn't very well
informed or knowingly lies (on this occasion, the former seemed more likely). The crux of the problem is that the Jewish state resents
the United Nations because it has failed to accept repeated humiliations - and
worse - with sufficient obsequiousness. In the Israeli view, international
organizations should follow the example of the Members of other
international agencies have faced similar acts of intimidation from Israeli
forces. A typical example is the Temporary International Presence in Hebron
(TIPH), established in 1994. TIPH came into being as a result of a massacre at
a It is likely that
some UN personnel have been derelict in their duties vis-a-vis the conflict in Now that ground has
been stained with the blood of four innocent men who repeatedly warned the
Israelis that their bombs and shells were landing perilously close to a
long-established UN monitoring post. The gutless government currently in power
in Canada seems not to care that one of its military officers assigned to
Observer Group-Lebanon has been the victim of Israeli fire, but the governments
of Austria, China and Finland are taking their losses very seriously - as is
the United Nations, an organization that created Israel in the first place and
has had good reason to regret it ever since. Marc J. Sirois is managing editor of The Daily Star. *************************************************************************** {Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy Quran-16:125) {And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33) The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim] The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all." [Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recommended: http://www.ikhwanweb.com http://www.islamonline.net http://www.islam-guide.com http://www.prophetmuhammadforall.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All views expressed herein belong to the individuals concerned and do not in any way reflect the official views of IslamCity unless sanctioned or approved otherwise. If your mailbox clogged with mails from IslamCity, you may wish to get a daily digest of emails by logging-on to http://www.yahoogroups.com to change your mail delivery settings or email the moderators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title "change to daily digest". YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
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