11 thoughts on “Lebanon’s Next Twitter Scandal ?”

1. Why is it a Twitter Gaffe? … MTV and other Lebanese outlets have several reporters on site. Al Manar TV does interviews with Zionists and Anti-Zionist Israeli citizens all the time.

2. I don’t see how it’s a scandal. After all MTV have an Israeli correspondent Majdi al Halabi (he’s Druze) and used to work for Al Hurra and Israeli Channel 2.

   LBCi have Amal Chehadi who also reports from inside Israel and her reports feature interviews with Israeli politicians, NGOs and even soldiers.

   So surely it can also work the other way round, right? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

   I suspect that the way round this whole “normalization” hot potato (which somebody’s going to have to explain to me – after all how can having dealings with a country be illegal yet having reporters in it be OK? Baffled) is that the interview will be between Gendelman and al Halabi, rather than between him and, say, Mona Saliba in the studio.
   Though I could be wrong.

   Gendleman speaks on Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya all the time. So why not MTV? News is news innit? Again I suspect they’ll find a way round direct communication between the studio in Beirut and the anyone or anything inside the “Entity”.
   Thus providing the tv station with a cordon sanitaire around anything which even sniffs of “normalisation”, or come to think of that normality too.

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   BTW – I don’t mean to appear all troll-ish and don’t want to hijack this discussion and pull it off course and keep banging a one note drum – but I have to say as someone learning the lingo I like the way Gendelman speaks Arabic. It’s clear, open, concise and most importantly logical. The diametric opposite of this type of discourse here which appears to be written a committee comprisong of Yoda, the Riddler and Michel Foucault. It’s almost a different language.

   http://youtu.be/atOpGlpwW0s

   Welcome, Syria raised the level of military alertness with one hand and carried, with another hand, the new constitution to be placed on the fire of a referendum on the 26th of this month. The constitution and the military – an equilibrium (or equation) which may collide with a state of affairs which won’t permit the settlement of any of these two steps. Particularly as the stages in which the consitution will pass through will be long and arduous in a way which the disturbed street can’t handle it, which isn’t able to send food and meds to those beseiged in their towns. So how then via the ballot box? and so on….. (and that’s one of their more straight forward editorials, most of them are akin to figuring out a Family Guy flashback gag without any knowledge of 1980′s US TV and films)

   Right, rant over. As we were.
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3. Hello.

   Aren’t there plenty news outlets with journalists in both Israel, Palestine and Lebanon?

   Isn’t it true that Israeli and Lebanese military staff meet from time to time with UN present as well, or is this a rumor?

   Friendly greetings,

   Daniel.

4. Haytham’s right, look here’s an Al Manar report on the village of Majd al Krum in Acre / Akka with a reporter on the ground.

   http://youtu.be/whsXU7Vcdkw

   Which tops and tails with

   …of this policy in the neighbourhood of deer almousaier in the refion of as-shagour which lies within the land which the Zionists occupied in 1948 [to the rest of the world this means Israel]

   ……

   Khaled AlFaqeh Al Manar, Occupied Palestine

   Meh. I don’t think the Gendelman interview with MTV is a big deal. After all it’s been the other way round for years.

5. Al-Manar and other TV stations have correspondants in Occupied Palestine but they don’t work with criminals who used to serve in the Zionist army like the one hired by MTV (be it Druze or not. The guy’s religious affiliation is not important). And these stations do not cover Occupied Palestine as if they were a part of the enemy’s propaganda machine, as MTV (that should be closed) does.

6. no harm’s done since “Israel doesnt exist” right

   • Heh!

7. And here it is..

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HRDBUxVC-U&feature=youtu.be#t=20s

   “We have evidence and information confirming direct Iranian involvement in these terrorist activities on Israeli interests outside (Israel). In the last few months we have foiled a number of these operations but unfortunately one of the succeeded in India.
   We’re on our guard and are working to stop this Iranian terrorist assault.”

   So there was no contact between him and Fadi in the studio, so no “normalization” and no potential scandal.

   (what is odd with the report is that there’s an interview with a member of the Arab Democratic Party who pushes the line that Israel is using what happened in order to brand Iran as terrorist and being behind these operations, so called terrorist operations, and to increase pressure on Iran and to mobilizie international public opinion so it can attack Iran. Somebody should send that guy a DVD of the Penn and Teller show “B*llshit!” when they covered conspiracy theories!)

8. sorry reposting the comment here:

   MTV is on Israel’s side in the conflict with Hezbollah and the Palestinians (with the exception of the Palestinian Authority). This position is now adopted by many Lebanese and Arabs, who would prefer Israel anytime over Hezbollah or the Palestinians. The Phalanges and LF doctrine has made its way to many hearts and minds in Lebanon and the liberals of the Arab world. It is only a scandal to those who are in the other camp, and perfectly normal to the normalization camp.

   • I read: “MTV is on Israel’s side” and banged my hand against my laptop.

9. I hope your laptop is alright

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