Lebanon (1983)

Thursday, January 27, 2011

(1983) Dry Bones cartoon: Syria and Lebanon.

Today's cartoon is from 1983.

In the cartoon, King Solomon, my stand-in for the government of Israel, was worried about the Syrian desire to swallow the independent state of Lebanon.

* * * Today, twenty seven years later in 2011, The government of Lebanon has fallen into the hands of Hezbollah, the Iranian/Syrian puppet movement. America has lost another ally in the region.

Labels: 1983, 2011, America, Hezbollah, Iran, King Solomon, Lebanon, Shi'ite, Syria

4 Comments:

At 8:50 AM, Israel A Cohen said...: In ancient times, peoples were named after the geographic area they lived in.

In west Asia and north Africa, most large areas were named after the body parts of a god (Hermes ?) and goddess (Aphrodite) that were configured over these areas. This produced a scale 1:1 "mapping" whereby the name of each area automatically indicated its approximate location and direction with respect to all the other areas that were named in this manner.

You can see excerpts illustrating this phenomena at
http://historicalcartography.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/anthropomorphic-maps/
And you can join a very quiet Yahoo discussion group on this topic at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/

The BPMaps website contains databases for the Blackfoot indian maps in Alberta, Canada and for the Phoenician maps of Hermes and Aphrodite. Each database record illustrates a bodypart - place name pair.

King Hiram of ancient Lebanon probably traced his ancestry back to Hermes. Compare Mt Hermon.

Levanon was a reversal of Sanskrit nabhila = navel on the Hermes map. Syria was the tzadi-resh = narrow waist of this body.

The narrow waist of Aphrodite was miTZRaim. Her navel was in Nubia at Karnak/Luxor/Thebes. Compare Hebrew TaBoR = navel, high place ... and Mt Tabor in Israel.

Best regards,
Israel "Izzy" Cohen
Petah Tikva
At 11:44 AM, Katz said...: The time is fast approaching when decisive action will have to be taken here and other areas.
At 9:46 AM, Anonymous said...: its absolutely true
At 6:49 AM, Anonymous said...: Well the fact is, the Maronites did want their own country, free from terrorism. Unfortunately, Israel and the US both withdrew and left their only true Allies to their fate.

You can't blame the Maronites for what Israel did.

They effectively abandoned the Christians in Lebanon to Hezbollah, who, as a puppet of Syria (of some sorts), they expected the same limited freedom that Christians enjoy in Syria.

What? You expect them now, after so many years of fruitless fighting, to go out on their own?