Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri Sides with the Murderers of His Father

In an interview reported by the BBC, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that he is worried by "escalating" threats posed to the Middle East by Israel and that Lebanon's government would be united in its support for Iranian and Syrian proxy Hezbollah:

"This is something that is escalating, and this is something that is really dangerous."

"I think they're betting that there might be some division in Lebanon, if there is a war against us.

"Well, there won't be a division in Lebanon. We will stand against Israel. We will stand with our own people."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8507482.stm

Saad Hariri, soon to be 40-years-old will "stand with his people"? Peculiar how there was no mention in this news item of how Syria murdered his father, former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, on February 14, 2005, by means of a bomb that created a 20-yard-wide hole opposite the St. George Hotel and which demolished the older Hariri's bulletproof car.

Blood is thicker than water? Not for Saad Hariri when it relates to his father's blood, which was spattered over a Beirut street.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, Tom Friedman is visiting Yemen, and in his op-ed of today's date, entitled "It's All About Schools", Friedman claims that by "rebuilding Yemen’s educational system, the West could prevent the country from becoming an Al Qaeda breeding ground." My online comment, if The Times permits it:

Friedman would have the U.S. "build 50 new modern schools that teach science and math and critical thinking — to boys and girls."

Tom, do you really think that Yemen would send its boys and girls together to school to learn "critical thinking"? I suggest you first inform your readership about the horrifying practice of "honor killings" against Yemeni women.

If you really believe these schools would be attended by boys and girls together in Yemen, where women are second class citizens, you have been chewing too much "qat".

Let's build those new schools in the U.S., where unemployment is also rampant, and provide those scholarships to underprivileged American children.

Given the sensitivities of the readership of The Times, I dared not mention the practice of female circumcision in Yemen, which often leads to death from hemorrhage or infection. A pity those persons from the New Left, who advocate "freedom" for Palestine, do not bother calling for the liberation of women throughout the Middle East.