Tuesday, September 7, 2010

بعد خمس سنين


بعد خمس سنين فتن ومشاكل وحمل سلاح و قتل ومعارك داخلية ومجازر وكره بين الناس وإلخ...
بتخلص الخبرية على صفحات جريدة مش لبنانية... وانتبهوا انو مش لبنانية...  ما هيه طول عمرا ما كانت لبنانية...
بعد خمس سنين تبين انو سبب كل البلاوي يلي حلت علينا خطأ...
انو بتصير... كل هالشباب يلي راحت والتعصب الاعمى يلي عايشينو وغيرو بسبب هالخطأ... 
مين بعوض الام والبي يلي خسروا ولادن هلأ... ما حدا...
لما خلصت الحرب الأهلية قالو انو هيدي كانت حروب الاخرين على ارضنا... وانتبهوا انو الاخرين مش لبنانية كمان...
هالشباب يلي راحت هيديك الايام مين بيذكرا... ما حدا...
بتتخيلو انو هني هلأ عم يتشقلبو بقبورن وعم بقولو انو مش عأساس استشهدنا كرمال الاخرين ما هيكي فهمونا... والاحلى انو بعد ما ماتوا صار الحق عليهن...
مع انو هني كمان ضحية خطأ... و ضحية مبادىء ومفاهيم وطنية... بس ما كانو عرفانين انو كلو مرتبط بمشاريع خارجية...
انشالله يا اخواني ورفاقي وأحبائي منتعلم قبل ما نرجع نعيدا... لأنو المرة الجايي مش رح يبقى مين يخبر...
وتصبحون على وطن...
وطن حر سيد مستقل ذو وجه عربي وعلاقات مميزة...
مش عنزة ولو طارت... بتضلا عنزة

Friday, May 28, 2010

Lebanon and Syria


While working in Haiti, a Sierra Leonean doctor joined our team as a food security advisor.
He was a nice guy who knew many Lebanese from his homeland and we had lots of interesting discussions together.
One night while we were discussing the politics in the Middle East, he asked about the Syrian role and continuous intervention in Lebanese politics.
It seems that someone convinced him that all the problems of Lebanon were only because of the Syrian intervention.
How funny people can be when they try to attribute the problems to one side, forgetting the other sides that have probably a similar or bigger role in creating them.
From the information that I got from my colleague, I quickly realized that the person who gave him the information was a supporter of the Lebanese Forces party; an anti-Syrian and pro-Israeli Christian militia.
What my friend didn’t know, and of course I explained to him later, that the Lebanese forces are the one who actually brought the Syrian into Lebanon.
Of Course my Sierra Leonean friend was lost and maybe only then he realized how much complicated is the Lebanese politics.
Actually when the Lebanese forces militia were getting close to be defeated by Fateh and its allies, they asked Hafez el Assad to send his troops to save them. So the Syrian forces came and turned the result of the civil war. But of course after that, they wanted to stay. Then the same Lebanese forces militia had to ask Israel to send its troops to kick the Syrian troops out. So the Israeli forces came and kicked Fateh and the Syrian out, but of course they also wanted to stay. Then the militias of west Beirut requested weapons from Libya, Syria and Iraq to fight the Israeli and quick them out of Beirut. Also the people of south Lebanon, who were until then not participating to the civil war, asked Iran to send them weapon to kick the Israeli out. And this is how Iran came to the Lebanese scene and Hezbollah was created. Then again, the same Lebanese forces militia assisted the Syrian troops to attack the stronghold of General Aoun, their main opponent in the Christian part of Lebanon as it was recognized then. And finally, after that Hezbollah Kicked the Israeli troops out, most of the Arab countries, especially KSA and Egypt, realized the danger of the high appreciation that Hezbollah gained between the Arabs and got more seriously involved in the Lebanese politics.
Now this is a small part of the story just to show the domino effect that was created during the war. But a lot of others countries were involved and still in the Lebanese politics such as Arabs and European and of course the main player was and still the USA.
Now of course my Sierra Leonean friend explained that maybe the Christian forces had no other choice to do so to prevent their defeat.
Then I had to explain again that if the Muslims were not treated as second grade citizens before, they would have never joined forces along with the communist and socialist parties to support Fateh in its war with the Christian forces.
And when I explained to my friends that the Christian forces didn’t involve all the Christians and that some of them were members of the communist and socialist parties… he was really lost.
Are you?
Come on, I didn’t go into details yet

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Arab and Jews



“Why do you hate Jews?”
A shocking question addressed to me by a Haitian colleague when I was working in Haiti after the devastating earthquake of January 2010.
I was still under the shock when he quickly noticed my surprise and continued to ask (trying to resolve the situation I guess): “I meant why Arabs hate Jewish people?” 
Nice try but he didn’t resolve anything. Instead he made the situation worse.
Only then I realized how successful the Israelis were, in spreading their propaganda around the world.
I asked him: “who gave you the idea that we hate them?”
And he answered: “well everyone knows that”!!!!
Who’s everyone????
In a situation like this, I always tend to compare cases to explain my point of view.
So I asked him: “If the Haitians declared now the war on Tibet, would this be a war between Haiti and Tibet or between Haiti and the Buddhist” and logically he chose the 1st answer.
So why in the case of the Arab Israeli conflict, the most common word used to describe the conflict is the Arab Jewish war? It shouldn’t make any sense. 
But actually it makes sense when we know that the Israelis propaganda has always use this kind of methods to acquire worldwide support by convincing everyone that the Holocaust is not finished yet and it is still being practiced by the Arabs instead of the Nazis.
The truth is that before the creation of what is called the state of Israel, the Jews had long lived in the Arab world freely. When the Muslims were kicked out from Spain, lots of Jews suffered because they lost the freedom that they enjoyed under the Muslim regime in Spain. And when the Jews came to Palestine after the holocaust, the Palestinian were the first one to welcome them because they knew about the massacres that happened and they didn’t consider them as foreigners because Palestine was always a land were Muslim, Christians and Jews lived together in peace.
The problem is that no one actually knew or believed the Zionist plan to transform Palestine to a land for the Jews and kick all the Arab Palestinian outside.
Moreover, when the state of Israel was created, hundreds of thousands of Jews were still living in the Arab world. And anyone can imagine the embarrassment they endured when they saw what Zionist did in Palestine. In Lebanon for example, thousands of Jews were still living in Beirut until the Israeli invasion when they left with the Israeli retreating forces scared from any retaliation that could be done against them because of the public anger against the Israeli army brutality. Even though that in 1978 when Israeli army invaded south of Lebanon for the first time no action against Jews was made.
The true plan was revealed when the numbers of Jews arriving became much higher and the Zionists start taking over with their radical ideas. Then the war started against the Palestinian to kick them out and take over their land. And since then Israel has never stopped the aggression against the Arab countries.
The idea of ”Big Israel” is still the main target of the Zionist, and they will continue their aggression until they fulfill their dream.
But surprisingly, this is not the dream of all the Jews. Lots of Jews living around the world and in Arab countries, refuse the idea. And actually, few years ago, a committee of Jewish rabbis came to visit Lebanon and declared that they were against the idea of the Israeli state.
Comparing the Arabs to the Nazis is actually the biggest lie ever!!!
Just compare the massacres that the Israeli forces have been doing to the Arabs since 1945 and the massacre that the Nazis did to the Jews, and you will know the truth.
Just compare the dream that the Nazis had to conquer all of Europe and the dream that the Zionists have to conquer all the Middle East from the Nile to the furat, and you will know the truth.
The truth is that the Zionists are doing to the Arabs the same what the Nazis did to the Jews.
So please, you can call it Arab – Israeli or Arab – Zionist war but do not call it an Arab Jewish war.