Tuesday, January 27, 2015

For those who take seriously think tanks in Washington, DC: this is the Wilson Center

  I know that you have never heard of this man: by his own admission he received generous Saudi funding in the last parliamentary election to defeat Hizbullah because he a scion of an old feudal family in the South which succeeded in expelling all vestiges of feudal influences during the years of the civil war.  He managed to receive a whopping 1% of all Shi`ite votes in South Lebanon (see the detailed results of the election in the Electoral Encyclopedia of Lebanon published by Kamal Fghali).