A total non-event for me. Until just now. A couple of days ago I read in several blogs about Lebanon that the Israelis had flown over Beirut and drop a load of leaflets, warning us for the evil ‘baddies’; Hezbollah. I hadn’t heard the planes, nor did I see any leaflet floating around the air, nor did I find any on the street, so I didn’t really understand what they were talking about. Then I saw it on the news (they pictured early morning joggers picking up yellow papers and reading them), but didn’t think anything of it.
And now, as I got onto the back balcony, I see a paper lying on the floor. The writing is in Arabic, so I cannot read it, but obviously this is the famous Israeli pamphlet. Must have been quiet a ticker parade over Beirut. Now what an odd thing to do! Fly a plane over Beirut, and drop papers warning the population for Hezbollah (they hardly need to, the infamous Party of God seems to lose some popularity now that the Syrians have gone.). But can you just picture that military staff meeting in Israel? Big guys in uniforms deciding to make up some silly paper? “What shall we write on it, boss”? What amateurism! It’s just incredible. These days there are several blogs that cannot get over the fact how Syria is run by a bunch of total idiots and amateurs, but I must say our Southern neighbors are capable of making some pretty dense decisions as well. Did they actually think it was going to change anyone’s mind? How much does an operation like this cost? If I were living in Israel, I’d wonder whether my tax shekels were wisely spent.
I kept the paper; nice memento. We still have the ones the Israelis sent out in 1982, urging the population of West-Beirut to get out of town before they’d bomb the place to smithereens.
And now, as I got onto the back balcony, I see a paper lying on the floor. The writing is in Arabic, so I cannot read it, but obviously this is the famous Israeli pamphlet. Must have been quiet a ticker parade over Beirut. Now what an odd thing to do! Fly a plane over Beirut, and drop papers warning the population for Hezbollah (they hardly need to, the infamous Party of God seems to lose some popularity now that the Syrians have gone.). But can you just picture that military staff meeting in Israel? Big guys in uniforms deciding to make up some silly paper? “What shall we write on it, boss”? What amateurism! It’s just incredible. These days there are several blogs that cannot get over the fact how Syria is run by a bunch of total idiots and amateurs, but I must say our Southern neighbors are capable of making some pretty dense decisions as well. Did they actually think it was going to change anyone’s mind? How much does an operation like this cost? If I were living in Israel, I’d wonder whether my tax shekels were wisely spent.
I kept the paper; nice memento. We still have the ones the Israelis sent out in 1982, urging the population of West-Beirut to get out of town before they’d bomb the place to smithereens.
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