{"id":2573,"date":"2005-12-14T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-14T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T23:28:07","slug":"yeah-and-the-mexicans-shot-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/yeah-and-the-mexicans-shot-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, and the Mexicans Shot Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Cavanaugh splashes some context on the &#8220;it had to be Syria&#8221; narrative of the recent murder of Lebanese MP Gebran Tueni:<\/p>\n<ul>[Y]ou can get a sense of what made him a polarizing figure in his responses to my followup question: Nobody knows how many Shi&#8217;ites there are in Lebanon (because there hasn&#8217;t been a census since 1940; CIA demographic estimates don&#8217;t break out the Muslim sects), but it&#8217;s reasonable to assume they are the largest single religious group, and Hizbollah is the most important party representing them\u2014more prominent than Amal, the other major Shi&#8217;a party. So how can you keep Hizbollah out of the political process? His response was that the Shi&#8217;ites could have whatever representatives they chose, but only for the limited number of parliamentary seats that were designated for Shi&#8217;ites decades ago, and that that number shouldn&#8217;t be increased to reflect population changes. \u2026<\/ul>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/2005\/12\/the_meaning_of_1.shtml#012002>Read the whole thing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see: a Christian politician wanted to partially disenfranchise the largest single religious group in Lebanon, a group whose leading subsidiary is <a href=http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/1908671.stm>Hezbollah<\/a>. Yes, he was obviously <a href=http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&#038;categ_id=5&#038;article_id=20704>assassinated by foreigners<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Cavanaugh splashes some context on the &#8220;it had to be Syria&#8221; narrative of the recent murder of Lebanese MP Gebran Tueni: [Y]ou can get a sense of what made him a polarizing figure in his responses to my followup question: Nobody knows how many Shi&#8217;ites there are in Lebanon (because there hasn&#8217;t been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}