Arutz-7 reports that Ayoub Kara, a Likud Druze member of the Knesset, plans to launch 2000 blue and white balloons at the northern border when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits Lebanon:
“We are planning to fly 2,000 balloons across the northern border to Lebanon when Ahmadinejad comes for a visit Wednesday,” Kara told Voice of Israel radio. “The balloons represent the fact that the Jewish people have come home after 2,000 years of exile, and they are not going anywhere.” Kara, who is himself not Jewish, said that he appreciated Israel's freedom and democracy – and that were it not for the Jewish people, the entire Middle East would look like Iran.
“It was my idea to organize the event, and I am hoping that thousands will come,” Kara said of the rally, set for 11 a.m. Wednesday in the northern border town of Metulla.
This is a major headline in
Asharq al-Awsat.
(And, yes, I just designed the graphic.)
UPDATE: Speaking of Israeli balloons over Lebanon,
remember this? The hate-Israel crowd at Mondoweiss
still believe it.
