“The Swastika and the
Cedar”
Very interesting essay comparing the “three streets” of
Lebanon…the secular and democratic majority, the enclave of Hezbollah loyalists
and the upstart fascist group, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party – whose
emblem is a swastika.
The opening of the essay is a scary, but somehow comical,
recounting of Hitchens violent run-in with the S.S.N.P. in Beirut….definitely worth
reading.
S.N.N.P. flag on the street....like the one Hitchens was trying to deface when he was attacked:
New Learning: Beirut’s independent newspaper is called “An-Nahar”
or “The Day”
New Word: ululating = howl or wail of grief
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