United We Should Stand...
Now, that I started this blog, I got more curious to see other Lebanese blogs and how they are living this conflict. I was very impressed with the quality of many of them. I did not agree necessarily with their entire content, but I learned a lot.
This surfing made me even more convinced that there is some positive outcome from all this nightmare. First, these are times where people get their information right. They try to learn more about some of their "givens" and question their beliefs. This is always good. It goes for those that have put blindly their faith in the resistance but also for those that considered that the resistance had kidnapped the entire country in the name of three lebanese prisoners.
Second, it is very likely that this bloody inhuman aggression will drive a solution to the entire conflict between Lebanon and Israel.
It is healthy that we don't agree about one specific political explanation, however recognizing today how crucial it is to be united facing the Israeli danger and plot is the exact translation of wise patriotism and the real test of attachment to our country; our only hope to secure a stable future and build a real nation. The many blogs that I read expressed in a way or the other these views. Bravo!
Today, Israel is under pressure, internally (59% of Haaretz readers are asking for an immediate cease fire) and externally (even Condi asked for a cease fire before being overwritten by her boss). Israel is now thinking about the exit plan (does that remind you of another conflict in the ME?) . This exit plan wants to rely on a major success on the battlefield (i.e. breaking/weakening the resistance) .
If Israel's success is large, they will not give up maybe the Shebaa farms (or not entirely), try to keep some land, a prisoner, a symbol, as they did in 2000, to comfort their arrogance. This is bad for Lebanon, these are seeds for internal conflicts. The worse scenario. Israel then will watch us fighting (again). A fight between those that will not accept that one inch is lost to the zionists and those that care about ROI, those that talk with their heart (sometimes faith) and those that are eloquent in the money language. Iraqi shism, our own unsettled problems will be the catalysts of an ugly conflict. We would certainly be back then to "case depart" to thirty years ago...
If the resistance is not broken if no major defeat is inflicted to Lebanon, we will be able obviously to negotiate an honorable solution, which basically means getting back all our rights and preparing for a real stable future (which by the way is in Israel's benefit if reasoned with humbleness).
This leads clearly that being united behind the resistance is our best bet our only hope to live in peace. Even if the resistance is defeated, having been united will certainly minimize from its effects and will give us all the credibility needed to decide the after war steps; continuing the resistance and with which means... Those that hope for a weakening of the resistance are being emotionally driven (either are scared of another win of the islamic resistance or being so upset of the economical/humanitarian disaster that we got into) and are not considering the consequences of such defeat. They forgot that the resistance was initially created as a result of Israel's aggression in 1982 and most probably if this resistance is broken, another one, maybe more extreme will soon see the light.
The only way to break this cycle of violence is to be united. The most honorable and rewarding position...
Monday, July 31, 2006
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Chacun A Sa Facon...
I finally decided to start my blog. I am not sure how long it will last. What started me, like many others, is a certain frustration and a feeling of "impuissance" of being not capable to do something while seeing something/someone you love being killed destroyed hurt.
In my case, it is about my coutry Lebanon. It is about a massacre that Israel inflicted to my people in Qana today. It is about so many children once more paying the price of arrogance and terrorism. It is about another war...
Today, after I learned about the massacre I rushed to the news. I live in New York, I moved here four years ago. The location is important, because when the massacre happened I was sleeping or maybe having a drink somehwere in the city far away from the darkness of Beirut and the sound of Israeli planes and the screaming of these innocent children. I started reading and reading and then reading again. I wanted to learn everything I wanted to be there. I was upset frustrated sad. I had pity but quickly I thought that those people don't need people to pity them they need justice they need the world to point out the only criminal.
I was in a protest on Saturday here in New York. I was also in a couple of others few days earlier in Paris. Protests organized by lebanese and in one case other arab associations related to what is happening in Lebanon (and Gaza in the case of the NY protest). One thing striked me. Most of the slogans and many of the speeches barely mention the criminal Israel and eventually the US. As if people are afraid of calling terror by its name. What is the point of the protest? Asking for a cease fire they would say! not enough, I answer. The point is to call on the world to wake up to what Israel is doing to Lebanon to stop Israel's massacre. Period.
After reading the news and after my frustration calmed down. I started thinking. It became to me obvious today that one important question one needs to answer, a crucial question while we are looking into solving all these conflicts in this so dear middle east is the following. Does the state of Israel has still the right to exist?
I know that many people and most of you who might read this would find such questions unacceptable. I used to. This question has nothing to do with the right of the people living in today's Israel and Palestine in continuiing to live in this land. This question has nothing to do with antisemitism or putting the jews out or killing them etc... This question has to do with the solution that the UN came up with in 1947 to deal with the jewish problem.
I truly believe that if one is born in a place, and wishes to become citizen of this place, he should always have this right. Hence, I beleive that all the people born in Israel and Palestine have the right to live their to become citizen of this land. But I am not sure anymore that a state of Israel has anymore the right to exist. I am asking the question and I am ready to be convinced either way. What drove me to ask this question is that since the creation of this state, this state has been transformed into a killing machine. Whether Israel is right or not whether the arabs are the bad guys or not, whether they started it or not, it is obvious to all of us that this solution obtained by some countries voting for and others voting against did not bring a stable solution.
I invite these people to meet again and impose, as they did after they voted in 1947, another solution, one that takes into account almost sixty years of a bloody conflict.
I finally decided to start my blog. I am not sure how long it will last. What started me, like many others, is a certain frustration and a feeling of "impuissance" of being not capable to do something while seeing something/someone you love being killed destroyed hurt.
In my case, it is about my coutry Lebanon. It is about a massacre that Israel inflicted to my people in Qana today. It is about so many children once more paying the price of arrogance and terrorism. It is about another war...
Today, after I learned about the massacre I rushed to the news. I live in New York, I moved here four years ago. The location is important, because when the massacre happened I was sleeping or maybe having a drink somehwere in the city far away from the darkness of Beirut and the sound of Israeli planes and the screaming of these innocent children. I started reading and reading and then reading again. I wanted to learn everything I wanted to be there. I was upset frustrated sad. I had pity but quickly I thought that those people don't need people to pity them they need justice they need the world to point out the only criminal.
I was in a protest on Saturday here in New York. I was also in a couple of others few days earlier in Paris. Protests organized by lebanese and in one case other arab associations related to what is happening in Lebanon (and Gaza in the case of the NY protest). One thing striked me. Most of the slogans and many of the speeches barely mention the criminal Israel and eventually the US. As if people are afraid of calling terror by its name. What is the point of the protest? Asking for a cease fire they would say! not enough, I answer. The point is to call on the world to wake up to what Israel is doing to Lebanon to stop Israel's massacre. Period.
After reading the news and after my frustration calmed down. I started thinking. It became to me obvious today that one important question one needs to answer, a crucial question while we are looking into solving all these conflicts in this so dear middle east is the following. Does the state of Israel has still the right to exist?
I know that many people and most of you who might read this would find such questions unacceptable. I used to. This question has nothing to do with the right of the people living in today's Israel and Palestine in continuiing to live in this land. This question has nothing to do with antisemitism or putting the jews out or killing them etc... This question has to do with the solution that the UN came up with in 1947 to deal with the jewish problem.
I truly believe that if one is born in a place, and wishes to become citizen of this place, he should always have this right. Hence, I beleive that all the people born in Israel and Palestine have the right to live their to become citizen of this land. But I am not sure anymore that a state of Israel has anymore the right to exist. I am asking the question and I am ready to be convinced either way. What drove me to ask this question is that since the creation of this state, this state has been transformed into a killing machine. Whether Israel is right or not whether the arabs are the bad guys or not, whether they started it or not, it is obvious to all of us that this solution obtained by some countries voting for and others voting against did not bring a stable solution.
I invite these people to meet again and impose, as they did after they voted in 1947, another solution, one that takes into account almost sixty years of a bloody conflict.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)