Again - the may have Australian citizenship but they are not people that
anyone thinks of when when they say Australian.
Antimulticulture wrote:
> Warzone whingers suddenly Australian
> http://blogs.news.com.au
> By Piers Akerman
> July 19, 2006
>
> The latest Middle East conflagration has flushed out a new class of dual
> nationality super-snivellers who believe mere possession of an Australian
> passport guarantees them security in their "other" homeland.
>
> A number of Lebanese-Australians are berating the Australian Government for
> not doing enough to get them out of Lebanon.
>
> According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, up to 25,000 Australians -
> who also hold Lebanese passports - live permanently or semi-permanently in
> Lebanon.
>
> Of these, some 6000 are registered with the Australian Embassy, presumably
> because they expected they might need assistance that Lebanon was unable to
> provide.
>
> Preposterously, they have been hitting the airwaves and the front page of
> the Sydney (note: shouldn't that be Syrian?) Morning Herald with their
> carping and cavilling criticism that the Australian Government isn't doing
> enough to help them.
>
> Leaders of the Lebanese "community" have said they are so frustrated with the
> Federal Government's "shameful" attempts to rescue Australians from Lebanon
> they are willing to fly there and do it themselves.
>
> Dr Abraham Constantine from the World Lebanese Cultural Union of Australia
> and Asia said people were lining up to help get the Lebanese-Australians
> home.
>
> "If the Australian Government needs manpower to assist with the evacuation,
> hundreds of Australian-Lebanese are ready to get on a plane and assist with
> the evacuation process," he said.
>
> "We are ready to assist with money, we are ready to assist with manpower, we
> just need a safe plan to get the people out of Lebanon."
>
> Dr Constantine said the Australian Government must use its strong
> relationship with the US to influence Israel into effecting a 24-hour
> ceasefire in order to get Australians out.
>
> Rockdale Mayor and ALP stalwart Shaoquett Moselmane said the Government had
> shown no urgency evacuating Australians and instead had "cut and run",
> leaving Australians in fear.
>
> He said the Government had not shown the same "decisive action" in
> evacuating citizens from the Middle East as it had from East Timor earlier
> this year.
>
> "In Lebanon, the Federal Government's delayed reaction was so apparent it
> could only be described as shameful in the full meaning in the word," Mr
> Moselmane said.
>
> "At citizenship ceremonies as Mayor I tell our new Aussies that they have
> the same rights and privileges as any other Australians," he said.
>
> "Those Aussies left stranded in Lebanon today are probably wondering if that
> statement was ever true."
>
> While this bunch of insufferable ingrates whinge and whine, the stressed and
> overworked team at the hard-pressed Australian Embassy in Beirut is pulling
> out all stops to arrange evacuation aboard a ferry chartered at extortionate
> cost to all Australian taxpayers.
>
> That it is absolutely unreasonable in such circumstances to expect the
> Government to be able to organise a sea-lift overnight seems to have escaped
> the Constantines and Moselmanes, just as their obligations to this nation
> seem to have slipped their attention.
>
> Lebanon is half a world away, not an hour's flight from Darwin.
>
> While it may be convenient for these gentlemen to keep a foot in both
> nations, how inconvenient is it for Australian Australians to foot the bill
> for them to enjoy this privilege?
>
> Apparently 400 of the dual citizens demanding assistance to leave are in
> southern Lebanon, that part of the nation occupied by the Iranian and
> Syrian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organisation, which, with the Palestinian
> Hamas terrorists, has long been dedicated to erasing the nation of Israel
> from the map.
>
> Presumably, some of these Lebanese-Australians vote in the Lebanese
> elections and, just as probably, also voted for Hezbollah candidates, though
> the group is listed by the Australian Government as a terrorist
> organisation.
>
> And while the coverage in the Sydney Morning Herald goes out of its way to
> blame Israel for belligerence, intransigence and even, most laughably, for a
> lack of "proportionality" in its response to aggression, it must not be
> forgotten that this current crisis was triggered by a Hezbollah raid into
> Israel and the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers.
>
> This is not a war of Israel's making. This is part of the ongoing jihadist
> war to dominate the world.
>
> [ed. And thanks to the fool politicians we have in place, they are
> succeeding...]
>
> Nor should it be forgotten that it is six years since the Israelis left
> southern Lebanon, and Israel also insisted on the withdrawal of Israeli
> settlements in Gaza earlier this year in the vain hope Hezbollah and Hamas
> would recognise such commitments to peace and honour their agreements.
>
> Fat chance of that.
>
> The UN Security Council also required all militias in Lebanon be disbanded.
> This has not occurred.
>
> A recurring but telling image on the television news is of Israelis taking
> refuge in bomb shelters from Hezbollah missiles fired from Lebanon or those
> fired by Hamas from Gaza.
>
> Bomb shelters are built by groups at risk of attack. Pictures from Lebanon
> and Palestine usually show civilians running in the streets - no shelters -
> which probably indicates the lack of fear of sudden attack among Lebanese
> and Palestinians.
>
> The Israelis have every reason to fear Hezbollah because it has already
> fired about 1500 of the 13,000 missiles it was supplied by Tehran.
>
> The Lebanese-Australians squealing about the Australian Government's
> performance should direct their attention to their other government. Its
> surrender to Hezbollah has guaranteed instability.
>
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