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Next up, Osama bin Ladin could use a big hanging banner from Harbor Center in downtown Vancouver. Any takers?

Commuters in the city of Windsor nearly spilled their coffee on their laps this week as they passed by a giant billboard depicting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. His face overlooks a caption reading "Lebanese and Arab communities in Windsor city congratulate the Lebanese people for their steadfastness and endeavor to establish peace in Windsor."

That's odd. Hezbollah is outlawed as a terrorist entity in Canada.

Yes, Hezbollah does fund social programs in southern Lebanon. They also commit kidnappings, assassinations and bombings.

If I donated a large chunk of my income to Human Rights Watch and also happened to regularly murder people, I wouldn't be known as a human rights activist. Likewise, a terrorist organization like Hezbollah ought not to be receiving PR on a giant billboard in Windsor.

By the way, why does the Lebanese community in Windsor need to endeavor to establish peace in Windsor? I didn't realize Ontario was an ethnic-religious conflict zone.

(Thanks to conservative blogger Celestial Junk for the link to this story).

When even Hezbollah thinks you're too extreme, it's time to call it quits

With Palestinian terrorists sitting on a huge stockpile of weapons and planning imminent attacks, the army's patience has run out. Armored vehicles cordon off chokepoints and the camps are besieged by waves of infantry.

The thunder of artillery announces the start of the attack. Artillery shells slam into buildings, causing the fragile structures to cave in on the army's militant targets as well as innocent bystanders. A United Nations relief convoy is attacked as a tenuous cease-fire ends mere minutes after it begins.

Arab countries condemn the violence and send weapons and support to... the army?

Yup. But it isn't the Israeli army. Lebanese forces are fighting Palestinian militants who have turned a refugee camp into Fatah Islam's terrorist base. Tellingly, the Lebanese are doing so with the support of Arab governments and even have the backing of uber-Islamic militant group Hezbollah (for the simple reason that Hezbollah are Shia and Fatah Islam are Sunni. Can't all the nutjobs just get along?)

Meanwhile, Israelis are fighting Palestinian terrorists in Gaza that have launched about 150 rockets at Israeli civilian centers just this week.

Arab television network managers must be having an awful time trying to maintain their usual balanced perspective to current events in the Middle East.

At this rate, Palestinians hoping to win their state through violent resistance can count on achieving their goal sometime in the fifth millenium.