"Nobody knows who killed Rafik Hariri. Nobody!"

 

"What a crock!  Nobody knows who killed Rafik Hariri.  Nobody.  Lots of people have candidates for identification as the guilty parties in this killing.  Murder may be too strong a word.  Killing is too commponplace in Lebanon in the political world for "murder' to be used as a term of art.  Rafik had many, many enemies, too many to count.  Nobody knows. BTW, Rafik Hariri was a hugely corrupt politician who did well for his friends in the re-building of Beirut when he was prime minister and who variously worked for Saudi Arabia and Syria.  It was a good trick playing Riyadh and Damascus against each other but he managed it for a long time.  The United States harbored the foolish idea that he had some allegiance to Washington as well but he was always basically Riyadh's man.  In pursuit of Saudi objectives he distributed vast amounts of Saudi money in Lebanon and Syria.  He WAS NOT the apostle of good government and democracy that he is being marketed as today.

So, why is Obama pushing this so hard?  Easy!  His neo-liberal Zionist buddies and financiers want it pushed.  They want it pushed because they want to imagine that "justice" (pinning it on Hizbullah) will make Israel safe in the same way that revolutions across the Arab world will make Israel safe by disrupting potential hostiles.  Additionally, some of them undoubtedly believe that a civil war in Lebanon will make israel even safer.  pl "