The enormous rally staged by Hezbollah in Lebanon obviously led to a rash of headlines of the 'Lebanon about to slide into anarchy' variety, and enabled the appeasement crowd to re-adopt their normal sneering posture towards the previous anti-Syrian demonstrations. But now, Lebanese politicians are saying that the Hezbollah demonstration was not what it seemed. An article in WorldNet Daily claims that most of the particpants wheren't Lebanese at all. According to the former Lebanese Prime Minister Michel Aoun:
'"This was not a Lebanese showing, and many of those who actually were Lebanese were not there because they support Syria. We know that at least three Palestinian camps were present. And there are 700,000 Syrian workers inside Lebanon, many of whom are not even supposed to be there. They were urged by Syria to attend so it looks like many Lebanese are protesting. Plus Syria bused in their own citizens from Syria through the border into Lebanon to join the rally."
The former prime minister also accused Hezbollah and pro-Syrian Lebanese intelligence forces of coercing students and municipal workers to attend. "They shut down the schools and all the government and public buildings and pressured students and workers to get to the rally," he said. Similar charges were made to WND this morning by a spokesperson for Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party. "In all, it was a real multinational rally," joked Aoun. "Even watching protestors being interviewed, you hear they had Palestinian and Syrian accents. This was not the Lebanese people expressing their will." Aoun compared yesterday's rally to the opposition events held almost daily. "Yesterday was not a spontaneous outpouring; it was planned and orchestrated," he said. "You see in the opposition rallies that they happen every day. People are going because they they want to, and they are going regularly." '
Don't hold your breath to see this reported in the British msm.
