Hizbullah: The British Empire was a Zionist Crime

Hizbullah's top foreign affairs person, one Nawaf al-Moussawi, does what you'd expect a Minister of Foreign Affairs to do: he meets his counterparts from other countries, and there-by acquires the legitimacy of a sovereign government. In this case it was the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aud Lise Norheim. And what does the Norwegian have to show for this gesture? Actually, an interesting tidbit. It turns out that the Hizbullah official doesn't accept the so-called Blue Line, drawn by United Nations officials in 2000 so that Israel would know where its border with Lebanon really is, and would move back behind it.

The reason Moussawi gives for Hizbullah's rejection of this UN decision is that

Al-Moussawi continued to address different lines that were marked in southern Lebanon. "The Zionist terror organizations moved the borderline that was set in 1920 to a new line in 1923 – a line that robbed Lebanon of seven villages and some 20 farms. We must be alert of attempts to show the Blue Line as a border that would rob Lebanon of millions of square meters of its national land."

That's correct. The Zionist terror organizations who drew the line in 1923 between British territory and French territory, they can't be allowed to succeed at their evil machinations.

Actually, Zionist conspiracies aside, I'd be willing to accept the principle that lines drawn by imperial and colonial powers before living memory might perhaps not be the best way for countries to determine the lines between them, given that none of them existed when the lines were drawn. But I'm not certain that's what this Hizbullah fellow had in mind.

I also ask myself what the Norwegian person said when faced with this gibberish? Argued about it, perhaps? I'll bet not. I'm not even certain if he (she?) recognized it for what it is. In any case, you can be reasonably sure that sooner rather than later outlets such as the Guardian will begin to parrot Moussawi's clam about how the Israelis moved that line when no-one was looking, 25 years before their state existed. Remember: You saw it here first.