“in a huge downtown tent, with separate entrances for men and women and separate seating (with the women all covered in black).

During the warm-up, an onstage Muslim Milli Vanilli orchestra and choir lip-synchs badly to a repetitive, robotic music video that shows lurid scenes of martyrdom and warfare.

Worse is Britain’s Orwellian excuse for re-establishing ties in the first place. The Foreign Office said it was encouraged by “positive recent political developments in Lebanon.”

One of the “positive recent political developments” the office referred to is the “national unity” government formed after Hezbollah’s violent seizure of West Beirut last year. Hezbollah acquired veto power in the Lebanese government’s cabinet by shooting up and terrorizing the most liberal and cosmopolitan neighborhood in the entire country.