IT WAS THE JEEWWSSSS!!!!!!!!

Don't Lose Your Head, Hafez (WSJ-BOTW)
Syria's dead dictator Hafez Assad has joined the ranks of Lenin and Saddam Hussein, becoming the latest tyrant to have a statue toppled by freedom-starved subjects. It happened in the village of Qana, in southern Lebanon, reports the Daily Star of Beirut:

The monument was first attacked on February 27, when the metallic statue of Assad's head and torso in the middle of a water fountain was felled from a stand hailed "the eternal leader" and was left lying damaged on the ground. This time, the statue was completely destroyed by unknown people on Thursday night. . . .

The president of the Committee for Immortalizing Martyr Hafez Assad, Hussein Dakhlallah, accused the Israelis of perpetrating the attack. "Dirty Israeli hands attacked the statue and those hands will be cut off for committing this stupid act," he said.

If you take literally this crude appeal to anti-Semitism, the president of the Committee for Immortalizing Martyr Hafez Assad (we just love reciting that ludicrous title) is saying that the mighty Syrians are unable to keep Israeli iconoclasts from sneaking into Lebanon to smash the precious Baathist idols.