Words of the Prophets

Thomas L. Friedman (New York Times Sunday Review) reports from Beirut, Lebanon:

"As I walk around the streets of Beirut, that verse from “The Sounds of Silence” keeps rattling around in my head: “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls ..."  There is a highly revealing graffiti war going on here pitting opponents of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, and his Lebanese ally, the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on one side and their Lebanese and Syrian supporters on the other."   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/friedman-words-of-the-prophets.html

Simon & Garfunkel "The Sound of Silence":

Meanwhile, the bloodshed in Syria continues, despite the presence of UN monitors. Below: a young boy in the center of Homs holds up a sign that reads, "Bashar al-Assad destroyed my home, the street has become my home". http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Syria

[Reuters]