This right here is how to “win friends and influence people”:
Hizbollah handed out bundles of cash on Friday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing, consolidating the Iranian-backed group’s support among Lebanon’s Shi’ites and embarrassing the Beirut government.
“This is a very, very reasonable amount. It is not small,” said Ayman Jaber, 27, holding a wad he had just picked up from Hizbollah of $12,000 in banknotes wrapped in tissue.
The article estimates it’ll cost “at least $150 million”. Any bets on where that money’s coming from?
Amazing. I’m going to watch and see how it plays out. I have a bet with myself that Hezbollah will do a better job of this than BushCo has done for us in New Orleans….
BTW, can’t wait to se you again for Rising Tide!
“Any bets on where that money’s coming from?”
Let’s see… could it be a little town in Texas called “Iraan”? Or something similar?
~EdT.
Oh, and I forgot — IIRC, both Hezbollah and Hamas have a practice of paying off the families of the ’suicide bombers’ - said money coming from a certain Middle-Eastern nation whose name begins with an “I” and ends with an “RAN” - and, don’t remember that it also used to come from the one that ends with “RAQ”, also, that is before we put a stop to that nonsense.
~EdT.