Increasingly a marionette of the US Zionist lobby, Ms. Brigitte Gabriel has enjoyed a few lucrative and unobstructed years of increasingly hysterical Muslim and Arab bashing. Recently however, she has attracted the attention of the FBI investigating her organization, "Act for America!" for possible hate crimes and financial irregularities, according to US Congressional Judiciary Committee sources.
Who is Bridgette Gabriel?
"The difference, my dear Christian friends, between Israel and the Arab world is quite simply the difference between civilization and barbarism. It's the difference between good and evil and this is what we're witnessing in the Arabic and Islamic world. I am angry. They have no SOUL! They are dead set on killing and destruction. And in the name of something they call "Allah," which is very different from the God we believe in, because our God is the God of love". -- Brigitte Gabriel, speaking at John Hagee's Christians United for Israel Convention, July 27, 2007
Marjayoun, Lebanon -- One imagines that all Americans, and people from every part of the globe and of sundry faiths, are touched emotionally upon encountering the natural beauty of the northern Biblical Holy Land that is South Lebanon. With its rugged vegetation-covered hills and valleys and more than 500 picturesque villages, many quite ancient and populated by warm, devout, and peaceful people, the area is hypnotic.
So it is for this observer, visiting Marjayoun ("meadow of springs" in Arabic), one of Lebanon's most stunning towns and the home of the historic Cathedral of Saint Peter as well as beautiful historic mosques.
Marjayoun towards the east.
A lovely, modest, bucolic town of roughly 2,300 residents in winter and 3,500 in summer, Marjayoun sits majestically on a hill facing Mount Hermon to the east, Beaufort Castle, the 1,000-year old Crusader Castle above the Litani River and overlooking Mount Amel (jabal amel) to the west. Marjayoun's fertile plains, some of the richest in the Middle East, extend southward into the Galilee and Syria's Golan Heights.
Maid Brigitte of Marjayoun
Marjayoun has become notorious recently, in some circles, not just for decades of Israeli crimes, but also as the base whence Ms. Brigitte Gabriel , a local woman, appeared and launched her virulent strain of Islamophobia. Joining with the US-Israel Lobby, she has been organizing perhaps the most vicious hate campaign against Islam, Arabs, and Muslims ever witnessed in America.
There is no shortage of people in Marjayoun with varying views of "what happened to Miss Brigitte" and how she became so hateful toward her countrymen and became an Israeli collaborator. "She always loved the Israeli occupation of Marjayoun and over time just came to dislike Arabs of all types, even though as a Lebanese she is totally Arab," one of her former neighbors explained.
Another disagreed, "Brigitte never really thought of herself as an Arab at all,
rather she fantasized that she was "Phoenician' and pointed out to her
Arabs neighbors that "Phoenicians were in Lebanon long before the Arabs invaded
and it belongs to us!'" According to a former classmate, when she was in middle
school, Brigitte preferred French and would announce to classmates in Arabic
class, "I don't speak Arabic, I speak Lebanese!"
Before moving to Israel and eventually to the United States, Brigitte worked
for Middle East TV, a Marjayoun-based station run by the South Lebanon Army
(SLA) and funded by Israel. It moved to Cyprus for a period and was later
purchased by Pat Robertson, who is now building a Christian Zionism Center in
Israel.
After obtaining a green card by marrying an American, Brigitte set up a
business selling her new country "insider information not available elsewhere
"about the existential dangers posed by Islam and Arabs, based, she announced,
"on my unique perspective having been nearly killed by them and rescued by
Israel."
Regarding recent Lebanese affairs, according to her former neighbors in South Lebanon, Brigitte has been a close supporter of the Phalange militia and SLA since her teenage years. According to her ACT office in Virginia Beach, Brigitte hopes to host the current Lebanese Forces warlord, Samir Geagea--five times convicted of murdering various Christian opponents and their children--during his upcoming March visit to the US.
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