An Israeli Problem with Independent Western Women? Britannia Ruled...........
Guy and Fadlallah: doesn't he look evil and dangerous?
“Frances Guy, Britain’s ambassador to Lebanon, has been criticised by Israel over a blog posting on the death of the controversial senior Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah on July 4. The British Foreign Office has removed the posting, titled “The Passing of Decent Men” from the UK’s Lebanon embassy web page. In her blog, Ms Guy called Ayatollah Fadlallah the public figure she most enjoyed meeting in Lebanon. “The world needs more men like him willing to reach out across faiths, acknowledging the reality of the modern world and daring to confront old constraints. May he rest in peace,” she wrote. The cleric, revered across the Shia world, was fiercely anti-American and anti-Israeli, and had been regarded as a spiritual inspiration for Hizbollah, the armed Shia group that is confronting Israel. He issued edicts justifying suicide attacks on foreign troops in Lebanon. But he was regarded by some as a relative moderate on women’s and social issues. The Israeli ministry of Foreign Affairs said: “The British ambassador must decide whether promoting terror and giving it religious justification can be considered a heritage to be cherished.”……….”
“William Hague was under pressure to sack Britain’s ambassador to the Lebanon today after she heaped praise on the spiritual leader of the terrorist group Hezbollah. In an extraordinary ‘personal statement’ on the Foreign Office website, Frances Guy paid fulsome tribute to Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, who inspired a string of terrorist attacks against Israel and the West…….”
So the British have caved in and pulled the ambassador’s comments from the website. She will be sacked, sooner or later. Britannia does not rule the waves anymore. In fact Britannia is ruled by a ‘foreign’ Israeli Lobby as well.As Arab media have noted, this is the second woman to be threatened or fired this week for praising the dead ayatollah. Some also noted that she is the THIRD woman to come under such pressure this past month for views that Israel did not approve of. The Israeli Lobby seems to have trouble with Western women, even as it rides roughshod over the U S Congress and the White House, and maybe even the British Whitehall.
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