The Prime Minister of the failed state of Lebanon has finally admitted one of many truths about this country: Abysmal incompetence. He stated unequivocally in an interview that the country "has entered the Guinness book of wasting opportunities".
While this is a huge understatement, it nonetheless is quite refreshing since he - the leader of the country (since the President - the Syrian collaborator army general Michel Sleiman is a castrated puppet dummy without any powers) - is a billionaire Sunni Muslim asshole whose predecessors have themselves ruined the prosperous democratic Lebanon that existed prior to 1975 by selling it to Yasser Arafat's PLO and the fucking Saudis, Kuwaitis and Syrians.
Lebanon has beaten the records of not only missed opportunities, but also of:
- rampant corruption in the state's administrations,
- theft of public funds by politicians,
- fragmentation along religious lines,
- mercenary politicians working for outside countries against their own country's interests,
- pollution, health hazards, and environmental ruin,
- economic disparities in wealth distribution
- poverty, unemployment, emigration
- illegal weapons in the hands of ordinary people and terrorist organizations (both domestic, like Hezbollah, and foreign, like the Syrian militias of the Palestinian camps),
- plain outright incompetence in delivering basic services to people like electricity, water, internet, etc.
Lebanon also has evolved a social fabric that is based on primitive religious beliefs that relegate the human condition to divine responsibility, which makes people not take responsibility for their own lives but instead attribute to God, saints, mullahs, patriarchs, and other divine and religious figures the sole capability of changing matters. And so, Lebanon also has beaten the records in:
- the high per-capita production of saints (The Vatican has beatified and canonized over the past three decades more saints in Lebanon than any other country on a per-capita basis).
- discrimination against women,
- rampant racism and discrimination against foreign workers who are abused and treated like cattle (there are 300,000 foreign maids in Lebanon for a population of 3.5 million),
- a disgusting consumerism in which the few wealthy Lebanese parade their "success" by showing off their cars and maids while the street just outside their doors is pure third-world with pollution and garbage,
- lack of any urban planning - Lebanon is one of the ugliest countries. You have to travel way outside the cities to find any real natural beauty,
- no respect for public spaces: no sidewalks, no parks, cars parked everywhere, no public transportation, and public beaches all stolen by developers and politicians who build gigantic resorts right on the water, thus pilfering property that is not theirs, and depriving the general public of access by imposing exorbitant fees. There is one public beach for every 100 private resorts. The Lebanese don;t seem to understand that air and sea are public property that belong to the people. The rest of the world does, but not the stupid Lebanese.
and where the human element in Lebanese society is the least important.
Thank you, PM Miqati for this first step, although made in jest. You should publicly make an act of contrition for all the harm that the Lebanese, particularly the politicians like you, have done to their own country, and begin reversing all the ills described above.
Hanibaal
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Prime Minister Najib Mikati said in remarks published on Tuesday, "It is high time that the country made use of the available opportunities, as it has entered the Guinness book of wasting opportunities,” he told Al-Jumhuriya newspaper.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
SYRIAN OPPOSITION SHOULD NOT BE HELPED BY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
I am appalled at the Syrian opposition's constant calls for intervention by the international community. The Syrian people - long brainwashed by the Baath Party Nazi ideology - have always lamented foreign intervention in Syria. The vast majority of the Syrian opposition are Sunni Muslim fundamentalist assholes who applauded every bomb and every attack around the world (from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Lebanese south) against US, UN, and NATO forces who are trying to help other fucking Muslims establish decent countries and governments.
The entire mindset of the Syrian Nazis - regardless of their tribal or religious or political affiliations - is based on venomous hatred of any past intervention by "foreigners" (aka imperialists, colonialists, crusaders, zionists, etc.).
When uttered by Arab Nationalists (Nazis), the term "foreigners" should be strictly understood as Westerners, and not any foreigners, since no one among the primitive Arabs ever complains about 400 years of Ottoman Turkish occupation (from 1615 to 1918), but they constantly harp at the 20 years between World War I and World War II when Britain and France were given a League of Nations (the forerunner of the UN) mandate to assist the people of this area in determining their future and establishing state institutions after the collapse of the Ottomans.
The reason why the Arabs complain about Western - but not Turkish - intervention is that the Turks are fucking Muslims while the Westerners are secular. Like their fellow Jewish brethren, the Arabs make no distinction between religious and national identity. And stupid Westerners accept this as a natural condition.
This is one reason you hear the assholes of the Syrian opposition fighting the Syrian army's onslaught chanting "Allahu Akbar" الله اكبر God is Great. The only rallying cry these people have to claim wanting to get rid of a dictator is a fundamentalist Islamic cry. How then can you believe their desire to be free as a genuine one?
In Tunisia - now ruled by fundamentalist Muslims after the Tunisian revolution - alcohol is increasingly banned, women are forced to wear the veil, and all the other accoutrements of an Islamic dictatorial theocracy are gradually been implemented in what used to be a secular dictatorship. Egypt is struggling with similar outcomes of its own revolution.
While I believe that this is a natural cycle - replace the existing dictatorships with religious ones - a few years or decades down the line, and the people of these countries will make an adjustment away from radical Islam. Just consider the French revolution. It took 80 years after 1789 for France to become a stable republic with the functioning of a democracy. It went through convulsions of barbaric revolutionary repression, resurgent empires and monarchies, before the dust settled and France became what we know it for today.
Therefore, I argue that the Syrian opposition - basically a Sunni fundamentalist Islamic movement - should not be helped by the international community. Let it fight its own war, and win if it can or lose if it must. If the international community steps in and helps, do not be surprised that the new Syrian government - whatever shape or form it takes - will make a turnabout and become an enemy of the very hands that rescued it. We have a saying in Lebanese: " ربي كلبك يعقر جنبك The dog that bites the hand that feeds it".
Let the Syrians earn their freedom. Let them earn it alone. Let them not owe it to anyone else. Because this is the very essence of becoming truly free. Helping the Syrian opposition now is a recipe for renewed hostility against the West two or three decades hence. The Nazis of the Arab world have never stopped complaining against the Western intervention of the post Ottoman collapse.... Those same Nazis will continue to complain for the next 100 years about any intervention that is made today to help them. They are ingrate haters of the West, no matter what the West does.
Finally, I don;t understand the premise on which is founded the imperative of US and European assistance. Why can't the fucking Saudis, Pakistanis, Egyptians, Indonesians, and other Arab or Muslim countries with vast resources and reservoirs of oil and money step in WITHOUT the US and Europe taking the lead? Why can't they immediately apply military pressure on the Syrian regime by, for example, flying a squadron and bombing strategic control and command targets of the Syrian regime's military? There is no reason whatsoever to believe the apocalyptic scenarios that many prophesy about such an intervention. Why should it be some American or British or French pilot sitting behind the commands of such a bomber to make it a "legitimate" operation in the eyes of the Syrian opposition and the international community?
Let the Syrian opposition fend on its own the vagaries of earning freedom for the Syrian people, and the international community should not feel the urge to intervene, because the Syrian opposition will later blame it and hold it responsible for decades to come.
Hanibaal
The entire mindset of the Syrian Nazis - regardless of their tribal or religious or political affiliations - is based on venomous hatred of any past intervention by "foreigners" (aka imperialists, colonialists, crusaders, zionists, etc.).
When uttered by Arab Nationalists (Nazis), the term "foreigners" should be strictly understood as Westerners, and not any foreigners, since no one among the primitive Arabs ever complains about 400 years of Ottoman Turkish occupation (from 1615 to 1918), but they constantly harp at the 20 years between World War I and World War II when Britain and France were given a League of Nations (the forerunner of the UN) mandate to assist the people of this area in determining their future and establishing state institutions after the collapse of the Ottomans.
The reason why the Arabs complain about Western - but not Turkish - intervention is that the Turks are fucking Muslims while the Westerners are secular. Like their fellow Jewish brethren, the Arabs make no distinction between religious and national identity. And stupid Westerners accept this as a natural condition.
This is one reason you hear the assholes of the Syrian opposition fighting the Syrian army's onslaught chanting "Allahu Akbar" الله اكبر God is Great. The only rallying cry these people have to claim wanting to get rid of a dictator is a fundamentalist Islamic cry. How then can you believe their desire to be free as a genuine one?
In Tunisia - now ruled by fundamentalist Muslims after the Tunisian revolution - alcohol is increasingly banned, women are forced to wear the veil, and all the other accoutrements of an Islamic dictatorial theocracy are gradually been implemented in what used to be a secular dictatorship. Egypt is struggling with similar outcomes of its own revolution.
While I believe that this is a natural cycle - replace the existing dictatorships with religious ones - a few years or decades down the line, and the people of these countries will make an adjustment away from radical Islam. Just consider the French revolution. It took 80 years after 1789 for France to become a stable republic with the functioning of a democracy. It went through convulsions of barbaric revolutionary repression, resurgent empires and monarchies, before the dust settled and France became what we know it for today.
Therefore, I argue that the Syrian opposition - basically a Sunni fundamentalist Islamic movement - should not be helped by the international community. Let it fight its own war, and win if it can or lose if it must. If the international community steps in and helps, do not be surprised that the new Syrian government - whatever shape or form it takes - will make a turnabout and become an enemy of the very hands that rescued it. We have a saying in Lebanese: " ربي كلبك يعقر جنبك The dog that bites the hand that feeds it".
Let the Syrians earn their freedom. Let them earn it alone. Let them not owe it to anyone else. Because this is the very essence of becoming truly free. Helping the Syrian opposition now is a recipe for renewed hostility against the West two or three decades hence. The Nazis of the Arab world have never stopped complaining against the Western intervention of the post Ottoman collapse.... Those same Nazis will continue to complain for the next 100 years about any intervention that is made today to help them. They are ingrate haters of the West, no matter what the West does.
Finally, I don;t understand the premise on which is founded the imperative of US and European assistance. Why can't the fucking Saudis, Pakistanis, Egyptians, Indonesians, and other Arab or Muslim countries with vast resources and reservoirs of oil and money step in WITHOUT the US and Europe taking the lead? Why can't they immediately apply military pressure on the Syrian regime by, for example, flying a squadron and bombing strategic control and command targets of the Syrian regime's military? There is no reason whatsoever to believe the apocalyptic scenarios that many prophesy about such an intervention. Why should it be some American or British or French pilot sitting behind the commands of such a bomber to make it a "legitimate" operation in the eyes of the Syrian opposition and the international community?
Let the Syrian opposition fend on its own the vagaries of earning freedom for the Syrian people, and the international community should not feel the urge to intervene, because the Syrian opposition will later blame it and hold it responsible for decades to come.
Hanibaal
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Where in the World is Robert Fisk?
I wonder where Robert Fisk is these days and what he is saying about his buddies in the Syrian regime? I don't read the cesspool of journalism - otherwise known as the Independent - where Fisk drinks from and pees in, so I have no way of finding how he is mourning his favorite dictator, Bashar Assad.
Over the past several decades, Fisk has often defended the Syrian Nazis by saying that "their country", Syria, was broken apart by French colonialism between 1920 and 1940 (which is a huge fallacy concocted by British colonial powers who were no better and no worse than the French, except that divided every fucking arse of a country the British colonized: India-Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, among many others come to mind...).
Fisk has argued - while doing his charlatan pseudo-journalism from the safety and freedom of Lebanon - that Lebanon was torn off the Greater Syria fuck of an illusion that he so loves, even as he would not dare show his British arse in Damascus, lest his arse ends up impaled on the German Chair of Syrian Intelligence.
Fisk has also argued that the poor Syrians - whose artificial country is on display today, torn as it is between Alawites, Druze, Kurds, Sunnis, Armenians, and other tribes from the Stone Age - lost the Alexandretta District to Turkey because the French - Fisk's worst enemies - tore it off too from his beloved Syria. He actually would argue that Ireland, Scotland, Wales, India, Kenya, and all the former British provinces of his colonial empire, were also torn off his beloved England
In one commentary he wrote in the trashy Independent (March 15, 2008, "Silenced by the Men in White Socks"), he literally begged the men of the Syrian Intelligence - who, he insisted on telling us, as if to demonstrate that his own visual acuity masks a cerebral deficiency, wore white socks - to stop re-arresting Syrian human rights activists they had just released two weeks earlier. His begging took on the tone of a lamenting whine one normally hears in a pigsty, as he pleaded with his poor Syrian victims of French colonialism to stop abusing and arresting their own Syrian human rights activists - "Why – oh why – must this be so? Why did the Syrian secret police have to arrest....", as if they were ruining his orgiastic feast of defending them.
I should re-consider my ban on reading the insipid diarrhea that the Independent usually spews, just to find out what moral contortions is Fisk resorting to in his defense of the poor Arab Baathist National Socialists (i.e. Arab Nazis) who can't find anything better to do with dissidents than to demolish the entire city of Homs over its own people, like they did in Hama in 1981, or Beirut and other Lebanese cities in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 before they were kicked out like filthy dogs by the Lebanese.
I wish there is a Lebanese somewhere in Beirut where Fisk usually hides his hide who can show Fisk some Fist in the Face and ask him politely to deport himself back to his shitty island, and retire by helping in the building of the future Islamic Republic of Britain. He has done enough harm to Lebanon, and offended so many Lebanese, by espousing the ideas of the Syrian Arab Nazis that reduce the several thousand years old biblical and Phoenician nation of Lebanon to a renegade province of some refuse country called Syria that was clobbered together from disparate desert cities by British colonialists. Much more than the French, and long before the French set their feet in the area, today's map of the Middle East was drawn up by British Colonial Foreign Office bureaucrats.
Hanibaal
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The "Democracy" of Lebanon
1. Prime Minister Najib Miqati of this dysfunctional arse of a country called Lebanon is now - like many of his predecessor Sunni fucker prime ministers - sulking. He said that he will no longer convene his cabinet until "acts of obstruction" stop. Reason: One of his ministers does not want sign on a law that he feels is "illegal".
You would think that a "democratic" country, there are rules of procedure to resolve problems like this. Either the minister in question resigns, or the cabinet resigns, or Parliament convenes on a vote of confidence, or the matter is referred to some judicial body, etc... But not in Lebanon. Why? Because Lebanon's democracy is a charade. It's a lie. It's a farce. It's a wannabe democracy. It's a theocracy of feudal middle ages vintage parading as a modern republic.
Lebanon is ruled by dinosaurs like Patriarch Beshara Rai of the Moronite Church, or the Sheikh Al-Aqel of the Druze Cult, or the Iranian Mullah of the Shia Islamic Council, etc.. There are 18 religious cults that the Lebanese so-called constitution recognizes, and these cults run the country behind a facade of secular-looking puppet politicians beholden to the dinosaur in charge of the cult. Let's say you are a Christian politician of the moronic Maronite brand, and let's say you want to run for election. If your political positions are not approved by the bearded smelly Patriarch of the Moronite Church, then you'd have an uphill battle to get elected. How? Because the bearded smelly Patriarch tells his army of bishops, priests, and nuns to launch a campaign of smears against the politician in the hundreds of schools and churches attended by a captive Moronite population, largely composed of mountain peasant brutes who will believe anything coming out of the mouth of the religious militiaclergy. Same thing exactly in the Sunni cult, the Shiite cult, and so on all the way down to the littlest of the 18 religious cults that make up this "Democracy" of Lebanon.
2. Hassan Nasrallah - the bearded smelly leader of the terrorist gang of Hezbollah - has a similar hold on the Shiite community. He has dragged his million plus Shiite idiots into endless wars and displacement, simply because his God and his boss the Ayatollah in Iran tell him he has to annihilate the Jews in nearby Israel and create an Islamic republic in Lebanon a la Iran. Lovely, isn;t it? Hassan maintains an illegal militia against the will of the other Lebanese, and he gets funded by Iran and armed by the Syrian "Secular" Baathists in Damascus.
Now things are not going well in Syria, as the "secular" Arab Nazi fuhrer there, the giraffe-looking Bashar Assad, is about to lose his brutal control of the country. If his ass is fried like Qaddafi's ass was fried in Libya, then Bashar will have to pack (if he can escape the wrath of his people) his belongings, including the billions he has stashed in his Swiss Bank accounts, and his entire court of wife, children, associates, courtiers, ass-kissers and such, and leave the country.
That scenario is making Hassan Quixote Nasrallah - as we say here in the highlands of Lebanon - shit potatoes. He is terrified that his illustrious career of country-wrecker, mass-killer, bomb-maker-blowupper, God-worshipper, traitor and mercenary will come to an end, and that he too will have to pack and move to Iran (where he actually belongs). So he and his cohorts are defending the Syrian tyrant. They, these shiite religious dinosaurs, have joined with the Atheists and Communists of Russia and China in defense of the "secular"-but-kind-of-Muslim Arab-nationalist Alawite regime of the Assads.What a bunch.
Hanibaal
You would think that a "democratic" country, there are rules of procedure to resolve problems like this. Either the minister in question resigns, or the cabinet resigns, or Parliament convenes on a vote of confidence, or the matter is referred to some judicial body, etc... But not in Lebanon. Why? Because Lebanon's democracy is a charade. It's a lie. It's a farce. It's a wannabe democracy. It's a theocracy of feudal middle ages vintage parading as a modern republic.
Lebanon is ruled by dinosaurs like Patriarch Beshara Rai of the Moronite Church, or the Sheikh Al-Aqel of the Druze Cult, or the Iranian Mullah of the Shia Islamic Council, etc.. There are 18 religious cults that the Lebanese so-called constitution recognizes, and these cults run the country behind a facade of secular-looking puppet politicians beholden to the dinosaur in charge of the cult. Let's say you are a Christian politician of the moronic Maronite brand, and let's say you want to run for election. If your political positions are not approved by the bearded smelly Patriarch of the Moronite Church, then you'd have an uphill battle to get elected. How? Because the bearded smelly Patriarch tells his army of bishops, priests, and nuns to launch a campaign of smears against the politician in the hundreds of schools and churches attended by a captive Moronite population, largely composed of mountain peasant brutes who will believe anything coming out of the mouth of the religious militiaclergy. Same thing exactly in the Sunni cult, the Shiite cult, and so on all the way down to the littlest of the 18 religious cults that make up this "Democracy" of Lebanon.
2. Hassan Nasrallah - the bearded smelly leader of the terrorist gang of Hezbollah - has a similar hold on the Shiite community. He has dragged his million plus Shiite idiots into endless wars and displacement, simply because his God and his boss the Ayatollah in Iran tell him he has to annihilate the Jews in nearby Israel and create an Islamic republic in Lebanon a la Iran. Lovely, isn;t it? Hassan maintains an illegal militia against the will of the other Lebanese, and he gets funded by Iran and armed by the Syrian "Secular" Baathists in Damascus.
Now things are not going well in Syria, as the "secular" Arab Nazi fuhrer there, the giraffe-looking Bashar Assad, is about to lose his brutal control of the country. If his ass is fried like Qaddafi's ass was fried in Libya, then Bashar will have to pack (if he can escape the wrath of his people) his belongings, including the billions he has stashed in his Swiss Bank accounts, and his entire court of wife, children, associates, courtiers, ass-kissers and such, and leave the country.
That scenario is making Hassan Quixote Nasrallah - as we say here in the highlands of Lebanon - shit potatoes. He is terrified that his illustrious career of country-wrecker, mass-killer, bomb-maker-blowupper, God-worshipper, traitor and mercenary will come to an end, and that he too will have to pack and move to Iran (where he actually belongs). So he and his cohorts are defending the Syrian tyrant. They, these shiite religious dinosaurs, have joined with the Atheists and Communists of Russia and China in defense of the "secular"-but-kind-of-Muslim Arab-nationalist Alawite regime of the Assads.What a bunch.
Hanibaal
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Syria on Fire: CHEERS and Many Happy Returns. May the Syrian Civil War Last 50 years.
The Lebanese War from 1968 through 2012.. and still ongoing... was all engineered by Syria. First, the Syrian Baath Nazi Party - and I mean NAZI because the party's ideology is National Socialism, which was abbreviated by Hitler's Germany to NaZi - imported Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Khara Organization from Damascus, then from Amman after King Hussein crushed it in 1970, to Beirut.
Then the Syrians created about a dozen other Palestinian terror organizations, not to help with the supposed liberation of fucking Palestine, but only to undermine Arafat and keep the Palestinians divided and dependent on Syria. These other organizations had names such as: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Yarmouk Brigades, the Saika, the Assifa, the Palestine Liberation Army, George Habash's General Command splinter from the PFLP, etc.
Then the Syrians exploited the stupid Shiites of the Lebanese south who were getting beaten up by the Israelis when the latter retaliated to the Palestinians firing of rockets across the Lebanese border. They created Amal (today led by the imbecile billionaire Nabih Berri who was a used card dealer in Detroit, Michigan, but then was lured back to Lebanon by the Syrians to undermine the religious Iranian asshole Moussa Al-Sadr who was also trying to undermine the Lebanese State after arriving from Iran and settling in Lebanon. Good thing that Qaddafi killed him. Other Shiite shithead organizations that Syria created were: The Movement of the Oppressed of the Earth, Fityan Ali (Ali's Boys) who used to kidnap any non-Muslim (foreigners, Christians, westerners etc) near Sabra-Shatila (I know that because I myself almost got kidnapped by them in 1975. The car behind me unfortunately did not make it. Its driver, fellow AUB student Pierre Zarqa was found mutilated and dead the next day.) These organizations were responsible for the kidnapping of the foreign hostages in the Lebanon of the 1980s. The fact that whenever the Republican jackass US presidents Reagan and H.W. Bush made a deal with Iran (the Iran-Contra affair), a hostage would be released by his Shiite terrorist kidnappers in Beirut, but would be paraded in Damascus under the portraits of the Assad monster who took the credit for the liberation (even though he ordered the kidnapping in the first place).
Then the Syrians created the Sunni militias as well. The Mourabitoun, who said they were Nasserists, followers of the dictator of Egypt at the time Gamal Abdel Nasser, but who in reality worked for the Assad regime. The Mourabitoun were complete idiots, because they did none of the fighting. Instead they relied on their Palestinian Sunni terrorists to undermine the Lebanese State and attack the Lebanese army. In fact, all the Sunnis at the time, including prime ministers Rashid Karami, Rashid Al-Solh, Saeb Salam, etc...were WITH THE PALESTINIANS and against the LEBANESE ARMY. For example, when the Lebanese air force bombed the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila in 1973, Rashid Karami resigned in protest and paralyzed the government for 9 months. No one in their right mind today should believe any word coming out of the fucking traitor Sunnis, from Hariri, Fatfat, Karami and down... because they were the ones who brought all these calamities to Lebanon. If the Sunnis had stood by the Lebanese State and the Lebanese Army, and of course their fellow Christian Lebanese, back in the late 1960s and 1970s, there would not have been a war in Lebanon, and the PLO would have been crushed and done with as happened in Jordan in 1970.
The Syrians also promoted the Druze neanderthals of the Shouf. The Druze, you see, have no principles. They are the most primitive backward sect in Lebanon because they only worry about survival. They go right or left depending on who has the upper hand. When Syria has the upper hand, the Druze are the biggest Baathists. When Israel has the upper hand, the Druze become ardent Zionists. When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, Walid Jumblatt hosted Ariel Sharon in his Mukhtara Palace and treated him like a king. In fact, in Israel, the Druze are the only non-Jews allowed to serve in the Israeli army. Just look at Walid Jumblatt today: He is like a weather penis: If the wind blows towards Damascus, he turns like a penis to the left. If the wind blows against Damascus, he turns like a penis to the right. He sits on the fence until the last possible minute. So, back in the early years of the war, Syria promoted Kamal Jumblatt as the leader of the Anti-Lebanon forces - the so-called National Front - that gathered everybody except the Christians: Palestinians, Druze, Sunnis, Shiites, communists, etc...Eventually the Syrians killed their Druze mercenary Kamal Jumblatt in 1977, just like they killed their fat pig Sunni collaborator Rafik Hariri in 2005, when he dared to be a bit more independent of them.
The Syrians also split the Lebanese army. In 1976, as the Palestinians were marching against the Lebanese State everywhere, committing the Damour massacre of 1976, the Syrians picked up a young traitor Sunni lieutenant - Ahmad Al-Khatib - from the ranks of the Lebanese Army, and propelled him to a mutiny against his own army. He founded the so-called Arab Army of Lebanon which then went on attacking Lebanese army barracks in Saida, Sour, and all the southern sector, including Marjayoun. Those brave soldiers (Shiites and Christians) of the Lebanese army who managed to resist this traitor in the southern sector, became ostracized by the Sunnis and Druze of the National Front. The Lebanese government - now solidly under the Syrians' thumb - blockaded the southern sector and cut off all supplies and contacts between the southern sector and the rest of Lebanon. This was how the "Border Strip" (الشريط الحدودي) was born, that was to be later "liberated" by Hezbollah. It was a part of the country that was abandoned by its own Sunni-led Lebanese government. In need of food, education and medicine, the Lebanese people of the southern strip bordering on Israel opened up to the Israelis. When Israel invaded later in 1982, the Border Strip became integrated with the Israeli occupation, simply because the fucking Lebanese government abandoned its own army and its own soldiers and its own people, as part of its collusion with the Syrians and the Palestinians. Today, about 10,000 Lebanese residents of the Border Strip live in Israel because when Israel withdrew in 2000, those Lebanese people feared retaliation from Hezbollah. The Lebanese government has done absolutely nothing to try to bring back these patriotic Lebanese to their country.
No wonder I hate the Sunnis of Lebanon. They are the root cause of the past 50 years of war in Lebanon. All of them. When Rafik Hariri came on to the scene in 1991, he continued the same policy. Hiding behind Saudi money and the Syrian army, he embarked on his shitty "business" program that built Lebanon's debt upwards of $50 billion and made things even worse. Thank God his buddies the Syrians killed him, because he was a stupid idiot. Money doesn't make people smart. Hariri built his empire by being a butler to the Saudi royal family, building a few buildings for them back in the 1970s when the Saudis still ate camel dung for breakfast and camel dung for dinner. Any asshole who served them became instantly rich. So Rafik Hariri has no merit for all his money, nor for rebuilding downtown Beirut. Any decent government would have done the same thing, but without the Syrian occupation and without all the corruption that Hariri brought.
The Syrians eventually took direct control of Lebanon - after dislodging the last free government Lebanon had, and by eliminating all the militias they themselves had created. Under the collaborator puppet Lebanese governments of the the criminals Hrawi, Lahoud, and Sleiman, the Syrians allowed only one militia to remain armed, namely Hezbollah, which was founded, trained and financed by Iran. Syria needed another pretext to continue undermining Lebanon: They invented the Shebaa Farms occupation, and used Hezbollah to continue harassing Israel from Lebanon, but never from Syria itself.
So, now, as I watch the Sunnis of Syria getting bombed and fucked with Assad's Alawite missiles and tanks, I say, CHEERS. Let the Sunnis of Syria taste a little of the medicine they gave the Lebanese people with the same Syrian tanks and cannons. Let the Syrian people be bombed, kidnapped, tortured, maimed, and killed for another 50 years. Perhaps they would understand everything we the Lebanese had to go through. In fact, the Syrians under the bombs and shells of Assad's army are the same ones who came to Lebanon as Syrian army conscripts where they bombed, kidnapped, raped, tortured, maimed, and killed us for 50 years. The "Free Syrian Army" pretending today to fight Assad consists of the same murderers who were sent by Assad to Lebanon during from 1975 to 2005.
This is what I wish for the Syrian people - all of them, Sunnis, Druze, Alwaites and Armenians:
More bombs on Homs. More shelling of Halab. More destruction in Idlib. More devastation in Damascus. More car bombs and more suicide bombings. More kidnappings and torture in Syria's famous jails at the hands of the Syrian Mukhabaraat services. Let the children of Syria die and get maimed like our children died and were maimed. At least, they are doing it to themselves. More of all of that and then some. Let them taste what we the Lebanese had to endure because of their Social National Baath Party - the ARAB NAZIS - of today. And any Syrian who thinks that he is safe in Lebanon, let him think twice before becoming a refugee in Lebanon. The Lebanese people will not treat them any better than the Palestinian refugees. I think any Syrian thinking of fleeing his or her country should go to Turkey or Iraq. Sunni Muslim on top of Sunni Muslim, خلي الخرى يطبش بعضه. Please donطt come to Lebanon. No one here wants any of you, especially after your regime collapses and the local Syrian pimps of Hezbollah and Michel Aoun are gone, you would have no one to protect you from a revenge-hungry population. أعذر من أنذر.
Let the Syrian Civil War Last 50 YEARS. My best wishes to the Syrian people.
أتمنى لكم التوفيق تحت قنابل جيشكم الباسل
أتمنى لكم 50 عاما من الحرب والدمار والتهجير والخراب
أتمنى لسوريا التقسيم الى دويلات درزية وعلوية وكردية وسنية
ولك من أمواتكم: ألله يغملقهم ومن الموت على هذه الارض مباشرة الى جهنم.
Syria is an artificial country and should be broken down into 4 states:
- A sunni one based in Damascus- This should join the Sunni third of Iraq where it belongs.
- A Alawi one based in Lattaquieh
- A Druze one based in Sweidah in the Houran, which eventually should join with the Golan.
- A Kurdish one based in Al-Hasakeh. This should join the Autonomous Kurdish Republic in Iraq.
Hanibaal
Then the Syrians created about a dozen other Palestinian terror organizations, not to help with the supposed liberation of fucking Palestine, but only to undermine Arafat and keep the Palestinians divided and dependent on Syria. These other organizations had names such as: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Yarmouk Brigades, the Saika, the Assifa, the Palestine Liberation Army, George Habash's General Command splinter from the PFLP, etc.
Then the Syrians exploited the stupid Shiites of the Lebanese south who were getting beaten up by the Israelis when the latter retaliated to the Palestinians firing of rockets across the Lebanese border. They created Amal (today led by the imbecile billionaire Nabih Berri who was a used card dealer in Detroit, Michigan, but then was lured back to Lebanon by the Syrians to undermine the religious Iranian asshole Moussa Al-Sadr who was also trying to undermine the Lebanese State after arriving from Iran and settling in Lebanon. Good thing that Qaddafi killed him. Other Shiite shithead organizations that Syria created were: The Movement of the Oppressed of the Earth, Fityan Ali (Ali's Boys) who used to kidnap any non-Muslim (foreigners, Christians, westerners etc) near Sabra-Shatila (I know that because I myself almost got kidnapped by them in 1975. The car behind me unfortunately did not make it. Its driver, fellow AUB student Pierre Zarqa was found mutilated and dead the next day.) These organizations were responsible for the kidnapping of the foreign hostages in the Lebanon of the 1980s. The fact that whenever the Republican jackass US presidents Reagan and H.W. Bush made a deal with Iran (the Iran-Contra affair), a hostage would be released by his Shiite terrorist kidnappers in Beirut, but would be paraded in Damascus under the portraits of the Assad monster who took the credit for the liberation (even though he ordered the kidnapping in the first place).
Then the Syrians created the Sunni militias as well. The Mourabitoun, who said they were Nasserists, followers of the dictator of Egypt at the time Gamal Abdel Nasser, but who in reality worked for the Assad regime. The Mourabitoun were complete idiots, because they did none of the fighting. Instead they relied on their Palestinian Sunni terrorists to undermine the Lebanese State and attack the Lebanese army. In fact, all the Sunnis at the time, including prime ministers Rashid Karami, Rashid Al-Solh, Saeb Salam, etc...were WITH THE PALESTINIANS and against the LEBANESE ARMY. For example, when the Lebanese air force bombed the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila in 1973, Rashid Karami resigned in protest and paralyzed the government for 9 months. No one in their right mind today should believe any word coming out of the fucking traitor Sunnis, from Hariri, Fatfat, Karami and down... because they were the ones who brought all these calamities to Lebanon. If the Sunnis had stood by the Lebanese State and the Lebanese Army, and of course their fellow Christian Lebanese, back in the late 1960s and 1970s, there would not have been a war in Lebanon, and the PLO would have been crushed and done with as happened in Jordan in 1970.
The Syrians also promoted the Druze neanderthals of the Shouf. The Druze, you see, have no principles. They are the most primitive backward sect in Lebanon because they only worry about survival. They go right or left depending on who has the upper hand. When Syria has the upper hand, the Druze are the biggest Baathists. When Israel has the upper hand, the Druze become ardent Zionists. When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, Walid Jumblatt hosted Ariel Sharon in his Mukhtara Palace and treated him like a king. In fact, in Israel, the Druze are the only non-Jews allowed to serve in the Israeli army. Just look at Walid Jumblatt today: He is like a weather penis: If the wind blows towards Damascus, he turns like a penis to the left. If the wind blows against Damascus, he turns like a penis to the right. He sits on the fence until the last possible minute. So, back in the early years of the war, Syria promoted Kamal Jumblatt as the leader of the Anti-Lebanon forces - the so-called National Front - that gathered everybody except the Christians: Palestinians, Druze, Sunnis, Shiites, communists, etc...Eventually the Syrians killed their Druze mercenary Kamal Jumblatt in 1977, just like they killed their fat pig Sunni collaborator Rafik Hariri in 2005, when he dared to be a bit more independent of them.
The Syrians also split the Lebanese army. In 1976, as the Palestinians were marching against the Lebanese State everywhere, committing the Damour massacre of 1976, the Syrians picked up a young traitor Sunni lieutenant - Ahmad Al-Khatib - from the ranks of the Lebanese Army, and propelled him to a mutiny against his own army. He founded the so-called Arab Army of Lebanon which then went on attacking Lebanese army barracks in Saida, Sour, and all the southern sector, including Marjayoun. Those brave soldiers (Shiites and Christians) of the Lebanese army who managed to resist this traitor in the southern sector, became ostracized by the Sunnis and Druze of the National Front. The Lebanese government - now solidly under the Syrians' thumb - blockaded the southern sector and cut off all supplies and contacts between the southern sector and the rest of Lebanon. This was how the "Border Strip" (الشريط الحدودي) was born, that was to be later "liberated" by Hezbollah. It was a part of the country that was abandoned by its own Sunni-led Lebanese government. In need of food, education and medicine, the Lebanese people of the southern strip bordering on Israel opened up to the Israelis. When Israel invaded later in 1982, the Border Strip became integrated with the Israeli occupation, simply because the fucking Lebanese government abandoned its own army and its own soldiers and its own people, as part of its collusion with the Syrians and the Palestinians. Today, about 10,000 Lebanese residents of the Border Strip live in Israel because when Israel withdrew in 2000, those Lebanese people feared retaliation from Hezbollah. The Lebanese government has done absolutely nothing to try to bring back these patriotic Lebanese to their country.
No wonder I hate the Sunnis of Lebanon. They are the root cause of the past 50 years of war in Lebanon. All of them. When Rafik Hariri came on to the scene in 1991, he continued the same policy. Hiding behind Saudi money and the Syrian army, he embarked on his shitty "business" program that built Lebanon's debt upwards of $50 billion and made things even worse. Thank God his buddies the Syrians killed him, because he was a stupid idiot. Money doesn't make people smart. Hariri built his empire by being a butler to the Saudi royal family, building a few buildings for them back in the 1970s when the Saudis still ate camel dung for breakfast and camel dung for dinner. Any asshole who served them became instantly rich. So Rafik Hariri has no merit for all his money, nor for rebuilding downtown Beirut. Any decent government would have done the same thing, but without the Syrian occupation and without all the corruption that Hariri brought.
The Syrians eventually took direct control of Lebanon - after dislodging the last free government Lebanon had, and by eliminating all the militias they themselves had created. Under the collaborator puppet Lebanese governments of the the criminals Hrawi, Lahoud, and Sleiman, the Syrians allowed only one militia to remain armed, namely Hezbollah, which was founded, trained and financed by Iran. Syria needed another pretext to continue undermining Lebanon: They invented the Shebaa Farms occupation, and used Hezbollah to continue harassing Israel from Lebanon, but never from Syria itself.
So, now, as I watch the Sunnis of Syria getting bombed and fucked with Assad's Alawite missiles and tanks, I say, CHEERS. Let the Sunnis of Syria taste a little of the medicine they gave the Lebanese people with the same Syrian tanks and cannons. Let the Syrian people be bombed, kidnapped, tortured, maimed, and killed for another 50 years. Perhaps they would understand everything we the Lebanese had to go through. In fact, the Syrians under the bombs and shells of Assad's army are the same ones who came to Lebanon as Syrian army conscripts where they bombed, kidnapped, raped, tortured, maimed, and killed us for 50 years. The "Free Syrian Army" pretending today to fight Assad consists of the same murderers who were sent by Assad to Lebanon during from 1975 to 2005.
This is what I wish for the Syrian people - all of them, Sunnis, Druze, Alwaites and Armenians:
More bombs on Homs. More shelling of Halab. More destruction in Idlib. More devastation in Damascus. More car bombs and more suicide bombings. More kidnappings and torture in Syria's famous jails at the hands of the Syrian Mukhabaraat services. Let the children of Syria die and get maimed like our children died and were maimed. At least, they are doing it to themselves. More of all of that and then some. Let them taste what we the Lebanese had to endure because of their Social National Baath Party - the ARAB NAZIS - of today. And any Syrian who thinks that he is safe in Lebanon, let him think twice before becoming a refugee in Lebanon. The Lebanese people will not treat them any better than the Palestinian refugees. I think any Syrian thinking of fleeing his or her country should go to Turkey or Iraq. Sunni Muslim on top of Sunni Muslim, خلي الخرى يطبش بعضه. Please donطt come to Lebanon. No one here wants any of you, especially after your regime collapses and the local Syrian pimps of Hezbollah and Michel Aoun are gone, you would have no one to protect you from a revenge-hungry population. أعذر من أنذر.
Let the Syrian Civil War Last 50 YEARS. My best wishes to the Syrian people.
أتمنى لكم التوفيق تحت قنابل جيشكم الباسل
أتمنى لكم 50 عاما من الحرب والدمار والتهجير والخراب
أتمنى لسوريا التقسيم الى دويلات درزية وعلوية وكردية وسنية
ولك من أمواتكم: ألله يغملقهم ومن الموت على هذه الارض مباشرة الى جهنم.
Syria is an artificial country and should be broken down into 4 states:
- A sunni one based in Damascus- This should join the Sunni third of Iraq where it belongs.
- A Alawi one based in Lattaquieh
- A Druze one based in Sweidah in the Houran, which eventually should join with the Golan.
- A Kurdish one based in Al-Hasakeh. This should join the Autonomous Kurdish Republic in Iraq.
Hanibaal
Friday, February 10, 2012
The Syrian Bloodbath and Mar Maroun of Lebanon
As the Syrian bloodbath continues, most of us Lebanese - ordinary people, not the fucking politicians - have no idea how to feel about the situation in Homs.
On one hand, we feel pity and sorry for the Syrian people as they get pounded by Syrian artillery, with houses crumbling over their heads and glass and metal littering their streets. After all, we - including myself - lived for years under similar sieges by the Syrian army (supposedly in Lebanon between 1976 and 2005 as a peacekeeping force). Beirut in 1978 and 1981 (those are the ones I remember), and Zahleh and many others. Or during the Battle of the Mountain (معركة الجبل) when we were fleeing like rabbits in the pine woods surrounding our villages because our homes in the mountain did not have shelters... Too many memories of blood and destruction, all visited on us by the same Syrian army now pounding its own people with the same barbarity and savagery.
You see, the Syrian army is a piece of shit. They are all conscripted cowards who are poorly trained and poorly armed. There is no morale in the ranks of the Syrian army. Most of the soldiers are Sunni shitheads fighting under orders from Alawite fuckers, and they are asked to bomb their own communities... But the point is that the Syrian army knows one thing and only one thing when it comes to fighting: Surround the cities and towns and villages and bomb them day in and day out with Soviet era tanks. There is no arm to arm combat, there is no strategy. Keep bombing and shelling and pounding - combatants and civilians alike, indiscriminately, without any strategic targets or plans of attack, and hope that the other side will cry uncle and surrender.
That was how it was in Lebanon. We would spend days on end in the shelters, with the bombs and shells falling overhead, blasting buildings and houses, opening craters in the asphalt of the streets... and then during the occasional lulls, we'd come out and tally the losses: Who died, who lost a leg, who bled to death, whose house burned.... The Militias - Phalangists of Amine Gemayel and Lebanese Forces of Samir Geagea and such would be running above ground during the shelling (while we were in the shelters) robbing houses, raping women, pilfering stores... and pretend that they were defending us. Right in front of my eyes one time, they dragged a father of four from his underground shelter to open his store under the shelling so they can rob it. When he refused, they shot him point blank in front of his wife and children. These were the "Christian" militias... Christian my ass. These are the people whom Patriarch Ras Ayri Rahi considers his army. Hezbollah today is doing the same thing to the Shiite population: Cooperate with a gun to your head. That is the problem in Lebanon: People live like coward sheep under their own totalitarian community run by the Clergy and the Churches and the colluding feudal politicians. Dare stand out and they destroy you.
So, I feel sympathy for the Syrian people. But back when the Syrian army was doing this sort of thing to the Lebanese civilian population, the whole world - UN, US, France, UK, Arabs, Kharabs, Russians, Saudi criminals, Egyptian traitors, Emirate turncoats and Kuwaiti bankers bankrolling the PLO and the Syrian onslaught on Lebanon, Chinese, Israeli racists who were, and are still, colluding with the Syrian tyrant, and every son of a bitch and motherfucker in the international community - was blaming the Lebanese people: "You are unruly", they would tell us. "Let the Syrians impose peace", "You can't govern yourselves".... So, they enabled the Syrian regime to take over Lebanon by force of tanks and all the cannons and all the shells..... It took 30 years for all these international and Arab jackasses to realize that they had created a monster, and now they have no way of stopping it from genociding its own people.
So, even if I feel sympathy for the Syrian people, I also feel gleeful and I بشمت (bishmat) the Syrian people. And I say to myself: May the Syrian army keep pounding Homs and Halab and all the shitty Syrian cities for 20 or 30 years. May half the Syrian population leave the country and flee as refugees to the four corners of the world. May every road and every village in Syria become a tomb and a grave for millions of Syrians. May no one ever come to the rescue to the Syrian people because it is that very same people who sent their sons to Lebanon to kill, maim, kidnap, torture, shell, etc... us, the Lebanese people.
May the agony of Syria continue for half a century, to prove that Syrian is - like Lebanon and Israel - an artificial country clobbered together by world wars with disparate communities who will continue to massacre one another whenever they can in the name of the fucking three religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. All junk religions based on racism and supremacy, bent on genocides, built on myths from the Stone Age of humanity.
The Syrian people deserve the fire being visited upon them because for 50 years they allowed their dictator to do this to them. For decades, they believed and subscribed to the poison that the Syrian Baath Party spewed into their stupid brains to believe all the crap about Arab nationalism: Lebanon should be annexed to Syria. The Christians of Lebanon are crusaders and imperialists and Zionists, and must be exterminated. ...
We live in a region where barbarism reign supreme. Not a country in the Middle East has escaped the curse of religion. The God-chosen Israeli people who run around, claiming to be a democracy, when the entire premise of their fucking country is based on the same exact premise upon which shitty Saudi Arabia is based: Religion, and one specific people subscribing to that religion. And if you are not one of us, then we will deport you, we will persecute you, we will take your homes, we will hunt you down, to make sure that ISrael remains Jewish and Saudi Arabia remains Muslim. Yup, that is democracy, middle eastern arab jewish khara style.
Finally, while I got myself all riled up: Today is Saint Maroun's Day in lebanon, the patron saint of the maronite community. Another one of those thousands of tribes who 2,000 years ago decided to follow a smelly old bearded man who was hallucinating in the hills (because of self-imposed hunger and poor hygiene) about how God spoke to him and the son of God told him to believe that He is three people in one, while the Basile in Constantinople wanted him to believe that He is three different people.... And that literally - Byzantine - argument led to massacres and genocides that continue to this day.
The Maronites are no better than any of the tribes surrounding them. They live is a society of feudal lords and clergymen who operate vast financial empires, fuck children behind altars and in the orphanages they open for all the children whose parents were killed by the religious wars the church foments every other generation. The Maronite society is today a cesspool of highly individualistic mercantile moneymakers without any sense of community or shared living. In collusion with the other criminal entreprises of the Shiite and Sunni and Druze communities, they have turned Lebanon into a dog-eat-dog society where no one cares about any one else, yet they all congregate in their stupid churches and mosques to pray like idiots, repeating blatherings they don;t even understand because they don;t mean anything rational....
One of the ironies of history is that Christianity, when it was brought to Lebanon by fucking Jesus and his disciples and then by the Romans and Mar Maroun, it erased our true identity. Christianity in the early centuries of the religion was like Islam today. It was totalitarian. You could not be saved outside the church. And so, the Lebanese, back then known as Phoenicians, lost their cultural identity to their religious one. The Phoenician gods and goddesses were renamed as saints. Our original places of worship were replaced by churches. Everything that gave us our identity was obliterated because we now became Christians, like any other Christian in the Roman world. We were no longer even Roman citizens. We were now Christians.
So when the MAronite Church claims to have given Lebanon its identity, it is lying. The Maronite Church in fact took away our identity as Phoenicians, and replaced it with a Christian identity. So when a few centuries later, the fucking Arab-Muslims came as conquerors, we no longer knew who we were, and so half of us became Muslims, and ever since we have been killing and massacring one another as Christians and Muslims. The Christian religion in Lebanon destroyed the true identity of the Phoenician people, much as Islam today continues to try and destroy the national and ethnic identities of millions of people around the world under the guise of unifying them around fucking Mohammad and his fucking religion.
So to the Maronites of Lebanon and everywhere they are (because generally no one outside of Lebanon has ever heard of you, except for the occasional Western researcher who tries to make sense of your stupidity): FUCK YOU. FUCK MAR MAROUN. FUCK BATRAK RAHI. FUCK YOUR FORNICATING NUNS AND PRIESTS. FUCK YOUR COLLUDING FEUDAL LORDS of the GEMAYELS, CHAMOUNS, EDDEs, KHAZENs, AOUNs, FRANGUYEHs etc.... To the Lebanese people who do not subscribe to any of the religious crap that keeps them swarming in the Lebanese cesspool: Rebel against them. Stop believing their bullshit. Liberate yourselves from the chains of history and predetermination. Prove to the world that you truly a free people, and not some amalgam of racist mountain brutes and vile seacoast merchants who would sell their blood and their mothers for a dollar or a Lebanese lira. Show the world for once that you are truly civilized, in the sense of the true humanistic civilization that cares for every human being, for every tree, for every man, woman and child all over the world. Unfortunately, we are so removed from all of this that I doubt any of us today will see that day in our lifetimes.
Hanibaal
On one hand, we feel pity and sorry for the Syrian people as they get pounded by Syrian artillery, with houses crumbling over their heads and glass and metal littering their streets. After all, we - including myself - lived for years under similar sieges by the Syrian army (supposedly in Lebanon between 1976 and 2005 as a peacekeeping force). Beirut in 1978 and 1981 (those are the ones I remember), and Zahleh and many others. Or during the Battle of the Mountain (معركة الجبل) when we were fleeing like rabbits in the pine woods surrounding our villages because our homes in the mountain did not have shelters... Too many memories of blood and destruction, all visited on us by the same Syrian army now pounding its own people with the same barbarity and savagery.
You see, the Syrian army is a piece of shit. They are all conscripted cowards who are poorly trained and poorly armed. There is no morale in the ranks of the Syrian army. Most of the soldiers are Sunni shitheads fighting under orders from Alawite fuckers, and they are asked to bomb their own communities... But the point is that the Syrian army knows one thing and only one thing when it comes to fighting: Surround the cities and towns and villages and bomb them day in and day out with Soviet era tanks. There is no arm to arm combat, there is no strategy. Keep bombing and shelling and pounding - combatants and civilians alike, indiscriminately, without any strategic targets or plans of attack, and hope that the other side will cry uncle and surrender.
That was how it was in Lebanon. We would spend days on end in the shelters, with the bombs and shells falling overhead, blasting buildings and houses, opening craters in the asphalt of the streets... and then during the occasional lulls, we'd come out and tally the losses: Who died, who lost a leg, who bled to death, whose house burned.... The Militias - Phalangists of Amine Gemayel and Lebanese Forces of Samir Geagea and such would be running above ground during the shelling (while we were in the shelters) robbing houses, raping women, pilfering stores... and pretend that they were defending us. Right in front of my eyes one time, they dragged a father of four from his underground shelter to open his store under the shelling so they can rob it. When he refused, they shot him point blank in front of his wife and children. These were the "Christian" militias... Christian my ass. These are the people whom Patriarch Ras Ayri Rahi considers his army. Hezbollah today is doing the same thing to the Shiite population: Cooperate with a gun to your head. That is the problem in Lebanon: People live like coward sheep under their own totalitarian community run by the Clergy and the Churches and the colluding feudal politicians. Dare stand out and they destroy you.
So, I feel sympathy for the Syrian people. But back when the Syrian army was doing this sort of thing to the Lebanese civilian population, the whole world - UN, US, France, UK, Arabs, Kharabs, Russians, Saudi criminals, Egyptian traitors, Emirate turncoats and Kuwaiti bankers bankrolling the PLO and the Syrian onslaught on Lebanon, Chinese, Israeli racists who were, and are still, colluding with the Syrian tyrant, and every son of a bitch and motherfucker in the international community - was blaming the Lebanese people: "You are unruly", they would tell us. "Let the Syrians impose peace", "You can't govern yourselves".... So, they enabled the Syrian regime to take over Lebanon by force of tanks and all the cannons and all the shells..... It took 30 years for all these international and Arab jackasses to realize that they had created a monster, and now they have no way of stopping it from genociding its own people.
So, even if I feel sympathy for the Syrian people, I also feel gleeful and I بشمت (bishmat) the Syrian people. And I say to myself: May the Syrian army keep pounding Homs and Halab and all the shitty Syrian cities for 20 or 30 years. May half the Syrian population leave the country and flee as refugees to the four corners of the world. May every road and every village in Syria become a tomb and a grave for millions of Syrians. May no one ever come to the rescue to the Syrian people because it is that very same people who sent their sons to Lebanon to kill, maim, kidnap, torture, shell, etc... us, the Lebanese people.
May the agony of Syria continue for half a century, to prove that Syrian is - like Lebanon and Israel - an artificial country clobbered together by world wars with disparate communities who will continue to massacre one another whenever they can in the name of the fucking three religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. All junk religions based on racism and supremacy, bent on genocides, built on myths from the Stone Age of humanity.
The Syrian people deserve the fire being visited upon them because for 50 years they allowed their dictator to do this to them. For decades, they believed and subscribed to the poison that the Syrian Baath Party spewed into their stupid brains to believe all the crap about Arab nationalism: Lebanon should be annexed to Syria. The Christians of Lebanon are crusaders and imperialists and Zionists, and must be exterminated. ...
We live in a region where barbarism reign supreme. Not a country in the Middle East has escaped the curse of religion. The God-chosen Israeli people who run around, claiming to be a democracy, when the entire premise of their fucking country is based on the same exact premise upon which shitty Saudi Arabia is based: Religion, and one specific people subscribing to that religion. And if you are not one of us, then we will deport you, we will persecute you, we will take your homes, we will hunt you down, to make sure that ISrael remains Jewish and Saudi Arabia remains Muslim. Yup, that is democracy, middle eastern arab jewish khara style.
Finally, while I got myself all riled up: Today is Saint Maroun's Day in lebanon, the patron saint of the maronite community. Another one of those thousands of tribes who 2,000 years ago decided to follow a smelly old bearded man who was hallucinating in the hills (because of self-imposed hunger and poor hygiene) about how God spoke to him and the son of God told him to believe that He is three people in one, while the Basile in Constantinople wanted him to believe that He is three different people.... And that literally - Byzantine - argument led to massacres and genocides that continue to this day.
The Maronites are no better than any of the tribes surrounding them. They live is a society of feudal lords and clergymen who operate vast financial empires, fuck children behind altars and in the orphanages they open for all the children whose parents were killed by the religious wars the church foments every other generation. The Maronite society is today a cesspool of highly individualistic mercantile moneymakers without any sense of community or shared living. In collusion with the other criminal entreprises of the Shiite and Sunni and Druze communities, they have turned Lebanon into a dog-eat-dog society where no one cares about any one else, yet they all congregate in their stupid churches and mosques to pray like idiots, repeating blatherings they don;t even understand because they don;t mean anything rational....
One of the ironies of history is that Christianity, when it was brought to Lebanon by fucking Jesus and his disciples and then by the Romans and Mar Maroun, it erased our true identity. Christianity in the early centuries of the religion was like Islam today. It was totalitarian. You could not be saved outside the church. And so, the Lebanese, back then known as Phoenicians, lost their cultural identity to their religious one. The Phoenician gods and goddesses were renamed as saints. Our original places of worship were replaced by churches. Everything that gave us our identity was obliterated because we now became Christians, like any other Christian in the Roman world. We were no longer even Roman citizens. We were now Christians.
So when the MAronite Church claims to have given Lebanon its identity, it is lying. The Maronite Church in fact took away our identity as Phoenicians, and replaced it with a Christian identity. So when a few centuries later, the fucking Arab-Muslims came as conquerors, we no longer knew who we were, and so half of us became Muslims, and ever since we have been killing and massacring one another as Christians and Muslims. The Christian religion in Lebanon destroyed the true identity of the Phoenician people, much as Islam today continues to try and destroy the national and ethnic identities of millions of people around the world under the guise of unifying them around fucking Mohammad and his fucking religion.
So to the Maronites of Lebanon and everywhere they are (because generally no one outside of Lebanon has ever heard of you, except for the occasional Western researcher who tries to make sense of your stupidity): FUCK YOU. FUCK MAR MAROUN. FUCK BATRAK RAHI. FUCK YOUR FORNICATING NUNS AND PRIESTS. FUCK YOUR COLLUDING FEUDAL LORDS of the GEMAYELS, CHAMOUNS, EDDEs, KHAZENs, AOUNs, FRANGUYEHs etc.... To the Lebanese people who do not subscribe to any of the religious crap that keeps them swarming in the Lebanese cesspool: Rebel against them. Stop believing their bullshit. Liberate yourselves from the chains of history and predetermination. Prove to the world that you truly a free people, and not some amalgam of racist mountain brutes and vile seacoast merchants who would sell their blood and their mothers for a dollar or a Lebanese lira. Show the world for once that you are truly civilized, in the sense of the true humanistic civilization that cares for every human being, for every tree, for every man, woman and child all over the world. Unfortunately, we are so removed from all of this that I doubt any of us today will see that day in our lifetimes.
Hanibaal
Friday, February 3, 2012
GLITCH or GOAL? Israeli Attack on Iran Liklely to Save Bashar Assad's Ass
I am no fan of conspiracy theories that people in this part of the world are so fond of believing against any shred of other objective evidence...
But I could not help this afternoon, after reading the news that the US and Israel are preparing to attack Iran's nuclear sites, but deduce that such an attack will:
1- Inevitably draw Hezbollah into a fight with Israel at enormous cost to Lebanon.
2- Give Hezbollah a much needed lifeline into rehabilitating itself as a "resistance" movement against the "inevitable" Israeli aggression (even as Israel would be merely defending itself against missile attacks).
3-Provide a lifeline to the butcher of Damascus next door since he is an ally of Iran, and Assad could use the attack against Iran to re-mobilize - as Hezbollah would do in Lebanon - as the utmost defender against imperialism and zionism.
4- Abort the Syrian revolution
For decades, the Israelis and the Syrians were very happy to maintain quiet and peace on the Golan Heights, even though Israel ANNEXED, and not just occupied, the Golan Heights. Since 1974, not one bullet was ever fired from Syria into Israel, while 2 miles away in southern Lebanon, hordes of resistance movement - from the PLO to the PFLF and down to Hezbollah - were armed and sustained by Syria to force Lebanon into a fight with Israel that Syrian itself never fought.
This led many to question whether BOTH ISRAEL and the ASSAD regime are in cahoots, with some sort of tacit, implicit, secret...understandings and agreements in which:
A- the Israelis, freed from threat on the Golan, continue gobbling up Jerusalem and the West Bank
B- the Israelis, in exchange for security on the Golan, gave the Syrians a free hand in lebanon to keep this tormented country as a crucible of instability that both Israelis and Syrians loved.
C- The outcome of such an agreement being that the Syrians were effectively giving much needed room for the Israelis to continue in their annexation of Palestinian lands, and one day, the Israelis, now satisfied with the Syrians, return the Golan to Assad in some fashion.
D- Meanwhile, in Lebanon, the instability created by all these people (Israelis, Syrians, Palestinians, Iranians...) created a place the Palestinians could consider a substitute homeland and forget about making any claims to the Right of Return. This initially required giving the PLO full power in Lebanon (the 1970-1990 War), but failure to achieve this goal did not preempt the same ultimate objective, since the Palestinians are basically staying forever in Lebanon and have already forgotten about Palestine without running things in this country.
Now that the tide has turned in the Arab world in favor of democratic change, Israel and the Americans fear a rise in genuine popular anti-Israel sentiment. Therefore, it makes sense to undertake a new destabilization, at least in the Syrian-Lebanese corner, by giving Assad a chance to survive the revolution. How do you do this? Let Israel take some action to give the butcher in Damascus a casus belli and tell his people that he needs to stay in power because the Israeli "enemy" is attacking Iran and we could be next....
No one want a nuclear Iran and an attack on Iran is a welcome move. But Israel could drop a couple of well-targeted, much smaller bombs onto nearby Damascus, and bring the Assad Baath regime down. In parallel with a surgical strike on Iran, Israel could kill three birds with one stone: A nuclear Iran, a dictator in Syria, and the Hezbollah dogs in Lebanon. Not bad. But is this really what Israel wants?
Hanibaal
But I could not help this afternoon, after reading the news that the US and Israel are preparing to attack Iran's nuclear sites, but deduce that such an attack will:
1- Inevitably draw Hezbollah into a fight with Israel at enormous cost to Lebanon.
2- Give Hezbollah a much needed lifeline into rehabilitating itself as a "resistance" movement against the "inevitable" Israeli aggression (even as Israel would be merely defending itself against missile attacks).
3-Provide a lifeline to the butcher of Damascus next door since he is an ally of Iran, and Assad could use the attack against Iran to re-mobilize - as Hezbollah would do in Lebanon - as the utmost defender against imperialism and zionism.
4- Abort the Syrian revolution
For decades, the Israelis and the Syrians were very happy to maintain quiet and peace on the Golan Heights, even though Israel ANNEXED, and not just occupied, the Golan Heights. Since 1974, not one bullet was ever fired from Syria into Israel, while 2 miles away in southern Lebanon, hordes of resistance movement - from the PLO to the PFLF and down to Hezbollah - were armed and sustained by Syria to force Lebanon into a fight with Israel that Syrian itself never fought.
This led many to question whether BOTH ISRAEL and the ASSAD regime are in cahoots, with some sort of tacit, implicit, secret...understandings and agreements in which:
A- the Israelis, freed from threat on the Golan, continue gobbling up Jerusalem and the West Bank
B- the Israelis, in exchange for security on the Golan, gave the Syrians a free hand in lebanon to keep this tormented country as a crucible of instability that both Israelis and Syrians loved.
C- The outcome of such an agreement being that the Syrians were effectively giving much needed room for the Israelis to continue in their annexation of Palestinian lands, and one day, the Israelis, now satisfied with the Syrians, return the Golan to Assad in some fashion.
D- Meanwhile, in Lebanon, the instability created by all these people (Israelis, Syrians, Palestinians, Iranians...) created a place the Palestinians could consider a substitute homeland and forget about making any claims to the Right of Return. This initially required giving the PLO full power in Lebanon (the 1970-1990 War), but failure to achieve this goal did not preempt the same ultimate objective, since the Palestinians are basically staying forever in Lebanon and have already forgotten about Palestine without running things in this country.
Now that the tide has turned in the Arab world in favor of democratic change, Israel and the Americans fear a rise in genuine popular anti-Israel sentiment. Therefore, it makes sense to undertake a new destabilization, at least in the Syrian-Lebanese corner, by giving Assad a chance to survive the revolution. How do you do this? Let Israel take some action to give the butcher in Damascus a casus belli and tell his people that he needs to stay in power because the Israeli "enemy" is attacking Iran and we could be next....
No one want a nuclear Iran and an attack on Iran is a welcome move. But Israel could drop a couple of well-targeted, much smaller bombs onto nearby Damascus, and bring the Assad Baath regime down. In parallel with a surgical strike on Iran, Israel could kill three birds with one stone: A nuclear Iran, a dictator in Syria, and the Hezbollah dogs in Lebanon. Not bad. But is this really what Israel wants?
Hanibaal
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
FRIENDS OF US. FRIENDS OF SAAD HARIRI. CIVILIZED SAUDIS DEPORT CHRISTIANS
I am no Christian. I am no Muslim. I am no Jew. I am no member of any stupid racist supremacist religion. I am borderline nationalist. My nation is the country I grew up in AND which gives me a sense of freedom and happiness. Nothing else matters to me, especially not religion.
BUT in this fucked up country of Lebanon, where religion is everything, every politician is allied with an outside country on the basis of religion. It is the most disgusting place on earth. We have all the identities of others but we do not have our own identity. How do I know that? If we knew who we are, we would not have the problems plaguing us for 50 years. We are Muslims, we are Christians, we are Arabs, we are Westerners, we are Druze and we are Orthodox. We are Armenians and we are Maronites. We are pro-Syria and we are anti-Syria. We are Baathists and we are Socialists. We are Phalangists and we are Syrian Nationalists. We are pro-Aoun and we are pro-Hariri. We are pro-Iran and we are pro-Saudi Arabia. NOT ONE FUCKING POLITICAL FARM (they call themselves "parties") HAS THE WORD LEBANON OR LEBANESE IN IT.
As such, our politicians, each hailing from a political farm funded by outside countries, will never enact policies to solve our everyday problems: Electricity, public freedoms, water, roads, the environment, pollution, too many cars and not public transportation, thieves and cronies of the politicians who control our lives with generators and bribes and wasta and client jobs to incompetent bureaucrats... Meanwhile, we educate ourselves like there is no tomorrow, and we end up wasting our lives and our potential for creative productive lives because the system has no place for us. So we emigrate and we excel outside. But in Lebanon, we rot and we become obsessed with whether the generator works or whether this jerk behind the counter will give me my driver's license without a bribe, or whether Hezbollah or the General Security Services are spying on us or listening on our phones to find out if we are Israeli agents, even as they are Iranian and Syrian agents. Lebanon is a digsuting cesspool. No one should believe otherwise.
Now, Saad Hariri, the supposed "pro-Western" politician of Lebanon, son of the former Syrian and Saudi collaborator fat pig Rafik Hariri who pilfered Lebanon's prime real estate from their rightful owners to erase the memory of downtown Beirut and build a huge mosque dwarfing the nearby St. George's Catholic Church simply to spite Lebanon's Christians....and who was later - Arab traditions oblige - assassinated by the very Syrians who brought him to power... Saad Hariri is Lebanon's political child of Saudi Arabia and the US. Everything he does, he does to please Saudi Arabia and the US - not much different from the other Muslim jackass of Lebanon - one Hassan Nasrallah who does nothing but to please Iran and Syria.
The news story below should be a warning to everyone who believes that Lebanon's future is in the hands of people like Saad Hariri or Hassan Nasrallah. It should a warning to all the Lebanese idiots who are selling their lands and homes to Saudi and Gulf money. One day, the fake facade of Sunni Islam, like the fucked up facade of Shiite Islam, will come crumbling, and Lebanon's non-Muslims - including atheists and everyone else - will be crushed under archaic Islamic laws. I hate religion. I hate all religions as cults we keep dragging from the Stone Age of humanity. I hate them for all the killings and genocides that have been carried out in their names. I hate religions for what they are doing to Lebanon. But I hat political Islam the most because of what it does as in the story below.
To the WEST. To Ban Ki-moon... where are you? Why don't you establish a new ARTICLE in the HUMAN RIGHTS CHARTER, an ARTICLE OF PARITY or ARTICLE OF RECIPROCITY, whereby every member state must guarantee to others the same rights it expects from others. If fucking MUSLIMS demand all their rights in the West (veil, scarf, prayer times, etc...) , then they are obligated to extend those same rights to others, to all human beings, in their own fucking MECCA.
Hanibaal
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BUT in this fucked up country of Lebanon, where religion is everything, every politician is allied with an outside country on the basis of religion. It is the most disgusting place on earth. We have all the identities of others but we do not have our own identity. How do I know that? If we knew who we are, we would not have the problems plaguing us for 50 years. We are Muslims, we are Christians, we are Arabs, we are Westerners, we are Druze and we are Orthodox. We are Armenians and we are Maronites. We are pro-Syria and we are anti-Syria. We are Baathists and we are Socialists. We are Phalangists and we are Syrian Nationalists. We are pro-Aoun and we are pro-Hariri. We are pro-Iran and we are pro-Saudi Arabia. NOT ONE FUCKING POLITICAL FARM (they call themselves "parties") HAS THE WORD LEBANON OR LEBANESE IN IT.
As such, our politicians, each hailing from a political farm funded by outside countries, will never enact policies to solve our everyday problems: Electricity, public freedoms, water, roads, the environment, pollution, too many cars and not public transportation, thieves and cronies of the politicians who control our lives with generators and bribes and wasta and client jobs to incompetent bureaucrats... Meanwhile, we educate ourselves like there is no tomorrow, and we end up wasting our lives and our potential for creative productive lives because the system has no place for us. So we emigrate and we excel outside. But in Lebanon, we rot and we become obsessed with whether the generator works or whether this jerk behind the counter will give me my driver's license without a bribe, or whether Hezbollah or the General Security Services are spying on us or listening on our phones to find out if we are Israeli agents, even as they are Iranian and Syrian agents. Lebanon is a digsuting cesspool. No one should believe otherwise.
Now, Saad Hariri, the supposed "pro-Western" politician of Lebanon, son of the former Syrian and Saudi collaborator fat pig Rafik Hariri who pilfered Lebanon's prime real estate from their rightful owners to erase the memory of downtown Beirut and build a huge mosque dwarfing the nearby St. George's Catholic Church simply to spite Lebanon's Christians....and who was later - Arab traditions oblige - assassinated by the very Syrians who brought him to power... Saad Hariri is Lebanon's political child of Saudi Arabia and the US. Everything he does, he does to please Saudi Arabia and the US - not much different from the other Muslim jackass of Lebanon - one Hassan Nasrallah who does nothing but to please Iran and Syria.
The news story below should be a warning to everyone who believes that Lebanon's future is in the hands of people like Saad Hariri or Hassan Nasrallah. It should a warning to all the Lebanese idiots who are selling their lands and homes to Saudi and Gulf money. One day, the fake facade of Sunni Islam, like the fucked up facade of Shiite Islam, will come crumbling, and Lebanon's non-Muslims - including atheists and everyone else - will be crushed under archaic Islamic laws. I hate religion. I hate all religions as cults we keep dragging from the Stone Age of humanity. I hate them for all the killings and genocides that have been carried out in their names. I hate religions for what they are doing to Lebanon. But I hat political Islam the most because of what it does as in the story below.
To the WEST. To Ban Ki-moon... where are you? Why don't you establish a new ARTICLE in the HUMAN RIGHTS CHARTER, an ARTICLE OF PARITY or ARTICLE OF RECIPROCITY, whereby every member state must guarantee to others the same rights it expects from others. If fucking MUSLIMS demand all their rights in the West (veil, scarf, prayer times, etc...) , then they are obligated to extend those same rights to others, to all human beings, in their own fucking MECCA.
Hanibaal
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Christians 'face deportation' in Saudi Arabia
Dozens of Ethiopian Christians are facing deportation from Saudi Arabia after authorities raided a private prayer service in Jeddah, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The group was reportedly arrested in a private home in Jeddah in mid-December. Most of the 35 detainees are women, and three of them told the US-based group that they were strip-searched by police.
HRW said it spoke to three detainees, two women and one man, by telephone from prison.
One of them said the men were beaten, and also complained of inadequate medical care and poor sanitation at the jail.
"Two of the women said that officials there forced the women to strip, and then an officer inserted her finger into each of the women’s genitals, under the pretext of searching for illegal substances hidden inside their bodies," the report said.
"Officers also kicked and beat the men in Buraiman prison, and insulted them as 'unbelievers'."
"Officers also kicked and beat the men in Buraiman prison, and insulted them as 'unbelievers'."
The group now faces possible deportation for "illicit mingling," though HRW said Saudi Arabia has no law defining that offence.
Unrelated men and women are forbidden to mingle in public, though they are generally allowed a degree of freedom in private.
'Intolerant ways'
Saudi Arabia officially bans the public practice of any religion other than Islam.
The kingdom said in 2006 that it would allow non-Muslims to practice their religions in private, but the kingdom's notorious religious police continue to periodically crack down on private services.
The Saudi interior ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
"While King Abdullah sets up an international interfaith dialogue centre, his police are trampling on the rights of believers of others faiths," said Christoph Wilcke, a senior Middle East researcher at HRW, referring to a Saudi-funded "centre for interreligious and intercultural dialogue" established in Vienna last year.
"The Saudi government needs to change its own intolerant ways before it can promote religious dialogue abroad."
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
GEBRAN BASSIL ON THE PATH OF FATHER-IN-LAW AOUN's MADNESS
To all of you out there, friends and enemies, Arabs and Jarabs, look at how my country of Lebanon continues to prove to the world that it is indeed the laughingstock, the farce, and the most surreal country on earth.
Minister of Electricity Gebran Imbecile Bassil in the current Lebanese Hezbollah government is calling on the Lebanese people to "take to the streets" because he, the Minister of Electricity, cannot provide the electricity he promised them when he received an allocation of 1.2 billion dollars a year ago, supposedly to fix the electricity shortage in a country the size of my asshole.
Imagine: The Minister in charge has 1.2 billion dollars allocated to fix the problem, but the only thing he has to offer the Lebanese people, in exchange for his incompetence, is to protest against him! This is really the theater of the absurd.
Does this make sense to anyone? Is this some sort of upside down logic? There is no respectable country on earth that would engage in this sort of acrobatics, other than a country of Mafiosi, sectarian gangsters, and outright primitives like Lebanon.
Typically, when a Minister in a government is unable to discharge his duties - regardless of whether it is his own fault or dereliction, or the dereliction or obstruction of some other Minister with him in the government - he has two options:
- A political option: Either shut up and shoulder the responsibility in solidarity with your own government, or
- A personal (decent) option: JUST RESIGN.
But Minister Khara Gebran Imbassile wants to have it both ways. He wants to be in a government (because that makes him important) even if this government is not letting him do his job. A year ago, Imbassil went head first into his Hezbollah ally government, as his demented Tonton Michel Aoun obstructed the formation of the government for several months for the sole demand that his baby son-in-law Gebran be appointed a Minister in that government. What is it therefore that he is complaining about now, if he cannot get his Hezbollah buddies to agree with him on fixing the electricity problem of a puny stupid little country like Lebanon, even as they gave him 1.2 billion dollars to do so?
If his own allies in the government are not helping him, and if he has any decency in him, this jackass, whose only claim to power is not his intelligence or his merits, but simply that he fucks the demented Aoun's daughter on a regular basis, this jackass should resign.
But this is how this masquerade of a country operates: No accountability, no responsibility, other than holding on to your political and religious tribe like grim death, no matter the performance or lack thereof. Gebran Imbassile will stick to Hezbollah even as Hezbollah is fucking him in his electric ass, at the cost of 1.2 billion dollars to be wasted and pilfered and stolen and pocketed by all the cronies and clients of the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah, and as both these criminal enterprises continue to drag the country under the Syrian and Iranian umbrellas and away from the normality of a decent civilized member of the international community.
Read below what the other FPM jackass - Ziad Ass-wad, MP no less - was pontificating about, to justify the untenable position of staying in power even as you cannot do your job. These people are simply stupid or demented, and they simply believe that the Lebanese people are also stupid and demented, just like them.
Hanibaal
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Change and Reform bloc MP Ziad Aswad commented on the electricity issue saying that he is against the bloc’s resignation from the cabinet “at this time,” and added that he supports protesters taking to the streets.
Aswad told LBC television on Tuesday that Prime Minister Najib Mikati “cannot sit down and toss the responsibility” on Energy Minister Gebran Bassil, a Change and Reform bloc minister.
“Bassil is not the only person responsible for energy because the entire cabinet approved [the bloc’s] proposal on electricity.”
The MP added that the responsibility falls on the cabinet and that it is “unacceptable to hold only one person responsible.”
Last year, the cabinet approved Bassil’s electricity plan to allocate $1.2 billion to the Energy Ministry, on condition that the funds be transferred in installments and that the government supervises the project to increase electricity output by 700 Megawatts.
Minister of Electricity Gebran Imbecile Bassil in the current Lebanese Hezbollah government is calling on the Lebanese people to "take to the streets" because he, the Minister of Electricity, cannot provide the electricity he promised them when he received an allocation of 1.2 billion dollars a year ago, supposedly to fix the electricity shortage in a country the size of my asshole.
Imagine: The Minister in charge has 1.2 billion dollars allocated to fix the problem, but the only thing he has to offer the Lebanese people, in exchange for his incompetence, is to protest against him! This is really the theater of the absurd.
Does this make sense to anyone? Is this some sort of upside down logic? There is no respectable country on earth that would engage in this sort of acrobatics, other than a country of Mafiosi, sectarian gangsters, and outright primitives like Lebanon.
Typically, when a Minister in a government is unable to discharge his duties - regardless of whether it is his own fault or dereliction, or the dereliction or obstruction of some other Minister with him in the government - he has two options:
- A political option: Either shut up and shoulder the responsibility in solidarity with your own government, or
- A personal (decent) option: JUST RESIGN.
But Minister Khara Gebran Imbassile wants to have it both ways. He wants to be in a government (because that makes him important) even if this government is not letting him do his job. A year ago, Imbassil went head first into his Hezbollah ally government, as his demented Tonton Michel Aoun obstructed the formation of the government for several months for the sole demand that his baby son-in-law Gebran be appointed a Minister in that government. What is it therefore that he is complaining about now, if he cannot get his Hezbollah buddies to agree with him on fixing the electricity problem of a puny stupid little country like Lebanon, even as they gave him 1.2 billion dollars to do so?
If his own allies in the government are not helping him, and if he has any decency in him, this jackass, whose only claim to power is not his intelligence or his merits, but simply that he fucks the demented Aoun's daughter on a regular basis, this jackass should resign.
But this is how this masquerade of a country operates: No accountability, no responsibility, other than holding on to your political and religious tribe like grim death, no matter the performance or lack thereof. Gebran Imbassile will stick to Hezbollah even as Hezbollah is fucking him in his electric ass, at the cost of 1.2 billion dollars to be wasted and pilfered and stolen and pocketed by all the cronies and clients of the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah, and as both these criminal enterprises continue to drag the country under the Syrian and Iranian umbrellas and away from the normality of a decent civilized member of the international community.
Read below what the other FPM jackass - Ziad Ass-wad, MP no less - was pontificating about, to justify the untenable position of staying in power even as you cannot do your job. These people are simply stupid or demented, and they simply believe that the Lebanese people are also stupid and demented, just like them.
Hanibaal
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Change and Reform bloc MP Ziad Aswad commented on the electricity issue saying that he is against the bloc’s resignation from the cabinet “at this time,” and added that he supports protesters taking to the streets.
Aswad told LBC television on Tuesday that Prime Minister Najib Mikati “cannot sit down and toss the responsibility” on Energy Minister Gebran Bassil, a Change and Reform bloc minister.
“Bassil is not the only person responsible for energy because the entire cabinet approved [the bloc’s] proposal on electricity.”
The MP added that the responsibility falls on the cabinet and that it is “unacceptable to hold only one person responsible.”
Last year, the cabinet approved Bassil’s electricity plan to allocate $1.2 billion to the Energy Ministry, on condition that the funds be transferred in installments and that the government supervises the project to increase electricity output by 700 Megawatts.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Syrian Enemy kidnaps and Kills Lebanese Fishermen in North Lebanon: Where is the Government of Sleiman, Miqati and Berri?
Al-Aarida, north Lebanon.
Residents of the fishing village of al-Aarida in northern Lebanon, just south of the Syrian-Lebanese border, reported Saturday that a vessel belonging to the enemy Syrian navy forces crossed into Lebanese waters and intercepted a fishing boat owned by two Lebanese fishermen. The fishermen and a young child who was with them were then kidnapped, along with their boat, across the border into Syria. It was later reported that one of the fishermen died in the custody of the Syrian navy force.
The state of lawlessness along the northern Syrian-Lebanese border has been endemic for decades, with the Syrian enemy regime smuggling terrorists and weapons into Lebanon and providing support to a horde of terror organizations operating from Lebanon, led by the notorious gang of the Iranian Hezbollah mercenaries.
In recent months, the uprising - Intifada - by the valiant Syrian people against the Baath dictatorship of Bashar Assad, has led thousands of Syrian civilians to escape into Lebanon for protection against the massacres, kidnappings, torture, and arbitrary killings of civilians by the Syrian regime's multitude of security services and agencies. The "ShabbiHa" - Arabic for "Hoodlums" - are the most vicious killers of the regime, roaming around the towns and cities of Syria and repressing in the most violent ways the Syrian population. There have been reports of mass killings, rapes and child killings, as well as extra-territorial kidnappings outside Syria and inside Lebanon itself, of anyone remotely associated with criticizing the Syrian regime.
What has the puppet Lebanese government of asshole president Michel Sleiman, jackass prime minister Najib Miqati, and warlord speaker Nabih Berri, done to face up to that situation? To say that it has done nothing would be simply too lenient a judgment, because the Lebanese puppet regime has in fact supported the Syrian dictatorship in its repression of its people. At the UN, at the Lebanese Foreign Ministry andin every Lebanese government position and policy, the attitude of the Lebanese puppet regime has been to defend the Syrian regime and protect it in its mass killing of its own people.
When Israeli forces in the south kidnap a Lebanese shepherd who ventures into Israeli territory, they release him unharmed within 24 hours after checking that he is not part of the terrorist Hezbollah organization, and in coordination with the UNIFIL forces that control the south. But, the Lebanese puppet regime cries foul and lodges complaints at the UN, claiming that Israel is violating UN resolution 1701, and making a big fuss about nothing.
But when Syrian forces in the north kidnap Lebanese fishermen, or enter Lebanese territory to hunt down and kill fleeing Syrian refugees, or shoot across the border at Lebanese villages who were helping injured Syrian refugees.... what does the Lebanese puppet regime do? NOTHING. Silence.
In the south, the Lebanese puppet regime allows the Iranian terrorist organization to stock up weapons of mass murder. It allows Syrian Palestinian terror organizations to operate unhindered in the south, regularly firing missiles across the border into northern Israel and bringing the situation every time close to outright war. It constantly begs the world for help instituting security in the south of the country because it itself - the Lebanese regime - refuses to take control of its own land and exercise its sovereignty by dispatching serious numbers of its own army, and so relying like beggars at the UN on UNIFIL forces and money from Western and Arab sources. Even as it sinks in its own excrement, the Lebanese regime also claims - unlike any other Arab country - to want to liberate the south (from an non-existing occupation) and even liberate Palestine on behalf of the Palestinians themselves who, in fact, are negotiating peace with Israel.
In sum, the Lebanese regime operates like a serf to the Syrian regime. It is willing to destroy Lebanon and the Lebanese people in order to give the Syrian regime the merit for "resisting Israel". The Lebanese regime has surrendered its sovereign rights to another country, and operates only as a puppet, a vassal, a subsidiary of that other country.
The Lebanese regime refuses to send the Lebanese army to the northern border with Syria, where it is much needed to:
- Protect Syrian refugees escaping the Baath Party killing fields of the Assad regime.
- Protect Lebanese border villages and towns against Syrian enemy armed forces incursions.
- Stop any smuggling of weapons and terrorists across the border.
But, again, the Lebanese government of asshole president Michel Sleiman, jackass prime minister Najib Miqati, and warlord speaker Nabih Berri, as well as their horde of supporters like Michel Aoun and his poddles (Gebran Bassil, Farid Al-Khazen, Ibrahim Kanaan, Alain Aoun, etc.), Hassan Nasrallah, Walid Jumblatt, Wiam Wahhab, etc... have not only remained silent, but have defended and encouraged the Syain regime to continue on the path of violence in Syria, and on violating Lebanese sovereignty every step of the way.
How can the Lebanese people accept this state of affairs? What kind of country is Lebanon when it cannot exercise the implements of sovereignty, if not in action (because of its size and weakness) then at least in principle by voicing and expressing its claims.
Residents of the fishing village of al-Aarida in northern Lebanon, just south of the Syrian-Lebanese border, reported Saturday that a vessel belonging to the enemy Syrian navy forces crossed into Lebanese waters and intercepted a fishing boat owned by two Lebanese fishermen. The fishermen and a young child who was with them were then kidnapped, along with their boat, across the border into Syria. It was later reported that one of the fishermen died in the custody of the Syrian navy force.
The state of lawlessness along the northern Syrian-Lebanese border has been endemic for decades, with the Syrian enemy regime smuggling terrorists and weapons into Lebanon and providing support to a horde of terror organizations operating from Lebanon, led by the notorious gang of the Iranian Hezbollah mercenaries.
In recent months, the uprising - Intifada - by the valiant Syrian people against the Baath dictatorship of Bashar Assad, has led thousands of Syrian civilians to escape into Lebanon for protection against the massacres, kidnappings, torture, and arbitrary killings of civilians by the Syrian regime's multitude of security services and agencies. The "ShabbiHa" - Arabic for "Hoodlums" - are the most vicious killers of the regime, roaming around the towns and cities of Syria and repressing in the most violent ways the Syrian population. There have been reports of mass killings, rapes and child killings, as well as extra-territorial kidnappings outside Syria and inside Lebanon itself, of anyone remotely associated with criticizing the Syrian regime.
What has the puppet Lebanese government of asshole president Michel Sleiman, jackass prime minister Najib Miqati, and warlord speaker Nabih Berri, done to face up to that situation? To say that it has done nothing would be simply too lenient a judgment, because the Lebanese puppet regime has in fact supported the Syrian dictatorship in its repression of its people. At the UN, at the Lebanese Foreign Ministry andin every Lebanese government position and policy, the attitude of the Lebanese puppet regime has been to defend the Syrian regime and protect it in its mass killing of its own people.
When Israeli forces in the south kidnap a Lebanese shepherd who ventures into Israeli territory, they release him unharmed within 24 hours after checking that he is not part of the terrorist Hezbollah organization, and in coordination with the UNIFIL forces that control the south. But, the Lebanese puppet regime cries foul and lodges complaints at the UN, claiming that Israel is violating UN resolution 1701, and making a big fuss about nothing.
But when Syrian forces in the north kidnap Lebanese fishermen, or enter Lebanese territory to hunt down and kill fleeing Syrian refugees, or shoot across the border at Lebanese villages who were helping injured Syrian refugees.... what does the Lebanese puppet regime do? NOTHING. Silence.
In the south, the Lebanese puppet regime allows the Iranian terrorist organization to stock up weapons of mass murder. It allows Syrian Palestinian terror organizations to operate unhindered in the south, regularly firing missiles across the border into northern Israel and bringing the situation every time close to outright war. It constantly begs the world for help instituting security in the south of the country because it itself - the Lebanese regime - refuses to take control of its own land and exercise its sovereignty by dispatching serious numbers of its own army, and so relying like beggars at the UN on UNIFIL forces and money from Western and Arab sources. Even as it sinks in its own excrement, the Lebanese regime also claims - unlike any other Arab country - to want to liberate the south (from an non-existing occupation) and even liberate Palestine on behalf of the Palestinians themselves who, in fact, are negotiating peace with Israel.
In sum, the Lebanese regime operates like a serf to the Syrian regime. It is willing to destroy Lebanon and the Lebanese people in order to give the Syrian regime the merit for "resisting Israel". The Lebanese regime has surrendered its sovereign rights to another country, and operates only as a puppet, a vassal, a subsidiary of that other country.
The Lebanese regime refuses to send the Lebanese army to the northern border with Syria, where it is much needed to:
- Protect Syrian refugees escaping the Baath Party killing fields of the Assad regime.
- Protect Lebanese border villages and towns against Syrian enemy armed forces incursions.
- Stop any smuggling of weapons and terrorists across the border.
But, again, the Lebanese government of asshole president Michel Sleiman, jackass prime minister Najib Miqati, and warlord speaker Nabih Berri, as well as their horde of supporters like Michel Aoun and his poddles (Gebran Bassil, Farid Al-Khazen, Ibrahim Kanaan, Alain Aoun, etc.), Hassan Nasrallah, Walid Jumblatt, Wiam Wahhab, etc... have not only remained silent, but have defended and encouraged the Syain regime to continue on the path of violence in Syria, and on violating Lebanese sovereignty every step of the way.
How can the Lebanese people accept this state of affairs? What kind of country is Lebanon when it cannot exercise the implements of sovereignty, if not in action (because of its size and weakness) then at least in principle by voicing and expressing its claims.
Hanibaal
Monday, January 9, 2012
Shitehead Nabih Berri Pontificates on Arab Freedoms. الخرى نبيه بري عندو نظرية عن الحريات العربية
The senile piece of shit - الخرى الخرفان اللي بسمّي حالو رئيس المجلس النيابي واللي مصلبط على هل وظيفة الخرية من 30 سنة - Nabih Berri who calls himself Speaker of Parliament and who has monopolized that post for 30 years now, has a theory to share with his Lebanese fucking herd about what freedoms in the Middle East mean.
He said that he fears that the ongoing revolutions in the region will lead to a situation where... "governments will be established that offer their citizens some freedoms, but which do not threaten Israel’s security."Which means that, in the Shit-head brain of this Shiite monster warlord from the 1970s, whose hands are soaked with the blood of fellow Lebanese Shiites, fellow Lebanese Christians, and Palestinian refugees, THE FREEDOMS DEMANDED BY MILLIONS OF ARABS IN THE ONGOING ARAB SPRING REVOLUTIONS WILL DIMINISH THE THREAT AGAINST ISRAEL, AND MUST NOT BE PURSUED. And therefore, these revolutions must not go forward.
Motherfucker - إبن الشرموطة نبيه راس أيري بري - Nabih Berri believes that threatening Israel's security is more important than "some freedoms" that might be doled out to people after these revolutions. Nabih Berri - an Iranian كلب pretending to be a Lebanese patriot - has one priority and only one priority: Fight Israel at the expense of his own country, his own SHIT Community, and his own Lebanese people, only because IRAN asks him to keep threatening Israel.
This asshole is willing to keep millions of Arabs under dictatorships like the one of his slavemaster in Syria, just to keep pressure on Israel.
But I tell this traitor jackass: WE, THE LEBANESE PEOPLE, DO NOT CARE ABOUT FIGHTING OR THREATENING ISRAEL.
- IN FACT, MANY OF US PREFER ISRAEL TO ASSHOLES LIKE YOU OR YOUR BOSSES IN IRAN AND SYRIA.
- WE ARE TIRED OF SACRIFICING LEBANON FOR THE FUCKING ARAB AND MUSLIM AND PALESTINIAN CAUSES. WE WANT FREEDOMS FIRST.
- WE WANT ISLAM - AND ALSO CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM AND ALL THE FUCKING RACIST SUPREMACIST MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS - DOWN THE TOLIET AND INTO THE CESSPOOLS OF HISTORY.
- WE WANT OUR OWN INDIVIDUAL BASIC FREEDOMS FIRST AND FOREMOST - TO TALK, TO WALK, TO FUCK, TO WRITE, TO SING, TO PRAY, TO HOLLER, TO SHIT, TO BRAG, TO DENOUNCE, TO BE SILENT..... ANYTHING AT ALL THAT WE WANT TO DAY EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES.
- THE LAST THING WE WANT IS MOHAMMAD, JESUS, ABRAHAM AND ALL THE OTHER RELIGIOUS MOTHERFUCKER PROPHETS FROM THE STONE AGE, AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES ON EARTH TODAY TELLING US WHAT TO SAY, WEAR, EAT, SHIT OR THINK OR BELIEVE.
In any case, Bashar will soon be hanging by his balls in downtown Damascus. And like him, his dogs, mercenaries, slaves, cronies and hirelings like you will follow him. I hope they hang you by your toes, because you have no balls. You hide behind your people, you let your people get killed, just to serve your paymasters in Iran and Syria. You are a traitor to your country. Your day will come.
And one more thing: All that oil you want to explore and extract in order to steal more millions and stash them in your Swiss accounts: You are too late. The world is turning away from oil and petroleum. Soon enough, you will have nothing to do but stuff all that oil up your greasy ass while you rot in jail - or in Qom where your exile is guaranteed. Too bad you were busy "liberating" and "resisting" three decades ago; you could have explored for that oil and made some money then. Now it is too late. But like the Shiite idiot that you are, you did not think far ahead enough.
Hanibaal Barqa
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Berri to discuss oil, maritime border with UN chief
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Nabih Berri said that the first thing he will discuss with Ban Ki-Moon during the latter’s visit to Lebanon is Lebanon’s offshore oil and maritime border demarcation.
“The government is committed to finish with the subcontracting issue before March 31,” Berri is quoted as saying.
Berri also said that it is important for Lebanon to disassociate itself from what is happening in surrounding countries.
He added he fears that governments will be established that offer their citizens some freedoms, but which do not threaten Israel’s security.
Meanwhile, the UN estimated in December that more than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria since pro-democracy protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad erupted last March.
-NOW Lebanon
“The government is committed to finish with the subcontracting issue before March 31,” Berri is quoted as saying.
Berri also said that it is important for Lebanon to disassociate itself from what is happening in surrounding countries.
He added he fears that governments will be established that offer their citizens some freedoms, but which do not threaten Israel’s security.
Meanwhile, the UN estimated in December that more than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria since pro-democracy protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad erupted last March.
-NOW Lebanon
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Batrak Rai: Can Someone Please Tell this Idiot to Shut up?
Here we go again. The Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai - a jackass like never before seen, whose stupidity is only matched by the uselessness of his fucking church - is echoing the Syrian dictatorship's totalitarian slogans.
In a statement he made today to some visiting Syrian assholes from Tartous, he repeated a slogan long held by the Syrian Baath Party to the effect that LEBANON DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE A DISTINCT NATION from Syria and should be annexed to the Syrian entity. He said that the Lebanese and Syrian peoples are ONE PEOPLE, (but SEPARATED) INTO TWO COUNTRIES. In other words, a Lebanon that is independent from Syria is an anomaly that can only be repaired by a Syrian Anchluss of Lebanon.
Thank you, Batrak Rai, for another asinine comment that you will have to backtrack for years to repair.
Can someone around this idiot tell him to SHUT UP and stop making stupid comments?
Hanibaal
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Le patriarche maronite, Mgr Béchara Raï, a refusé, mardi, que l'Orient se transforme en une "terre de fer et de feu", rejetant la violence d'où qu'elle vienne. Recevant à Bkerké une délégation des avocats de la ville syrienne de Tartous, le patriarche maronite a soutenu toutes réformes qui viennent de l'intérieur, celles qui viennent de l'extérieur étant, selon Mgr Raï, destructrices. Le chef de l'Eglise maronite a assuré, par ailleurs, que tout ce qui touche à un pays arabe touche toute la région ajoutant que les Libanais et les Syriens sont "un seul peuple dans deux pays".
In a statement he made today to some visiting Syrian assholes from Tartous, he repeated a slogan long held by the Syrian Baath Party to the effect that LEBANON DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE A DISTINCT NATION from Syria and should be annexed to the Syrian entity. He said that the Lebanese and Syrian peoples are ONE PEOPLE, (but SEPARATED) INTO TWO COUNTRIES. In other words, a Lebanon that is independent from Syria is an anomaly that can only be repaired by a Syrian Anchluss of Lebanon.
Thank you, Batrak Rai, for another asinine comment that you will have to backtrack for years to repair.
Can someone around this idiot tell him to SHUT UP and stop making stupid comments?
Hanibaal
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Raï : Les Libanais et les Syriens, un seul peuple dans deux pays
olj.com | 27/12/2011 | 14h40
Monday, December 26, 2011
This blog gets regular visits from "b'Abda"....
As a critic of the backward and ultra-religious Lebanese society, and of course the primitive, feudal, theocratic political system in Lebanon, I check every day to see where the thousands who visit my blog come from.
I get regular visits from Dearborn Heights in Michigan (US) where there is a high concentration of Lebanese Shiite lovers and operatives of the Lebanese terrorist organization. I get visits from Damascus, where I suppose the Mukhabaraat try to control what Syrians read about their "dear leader", the butcher Assad. But the one most interesting visit this blog receives regularly is from a place near Beirut called " b'Abda " (in Arabic = بعبدا ), whose spelling (instead of the more conventional "Baabda") indicates a fanatic attachment to the Arabic language and the "glorious Arab-Islamic Umma" (sic).
Now, for those who are not from here and who have no idea what b'Abda is, let me explain. b'Abda is a town on the outskirts of Beirut where the Presidential Palace, the Ministry of Defense, and General Security headquarters are concentrated. This is the place where, for the past three or four decades, what used to be the pride of a liberal democratic Lebanon has become a cesspool of Syrian Baath-trained ruthless intelligence criminals and other abusers of human rights. As in Syria, military intelligence and an assortment of security services (general, special, internal, external....) keep the Lebanese population in check: arbitrary arrests, mysterious disappearances and killings, corruption and bribes whenever a foreigner needs a residence permit or visa...and of course, keep every ant and sheep in Lebanon towing the line behind the Syrian dictator next door in the decomposing country of Syria.
For one, the Presidential Palace has become the place where traitor generals from the Lebanese army (who barely graduated from Military School), end up as "consensus" presidents because this super-divided, tribal and ultra-religious country can never elect a decent civilian. The political process is bankrupt and dysfunctional, divided as it is between 18 religious sects, each led by an unelected Patriarch or Mufti or Mullah working on behalf of a foreign country, that compete for money and power, have and run their own militias that go to war every generation or so committing massacre after massacre, and thus control the destiny of the nation with religious fear-mongering and primitive style cronyism. Around these religious dinosaurs from the Stone Age of humanity is an assortment of political lackeys who go around pretending to defend their own "people" (i.e. the Christians of the north or the Christians of the central Kesrouan district, or the Sunnis of Beirut versus the Sunnis of Tripoli or Sidon, or the Shiites or the Druze..etc.) in their own little mountain village cantons, while transferring this political power (that they obtain by colluding and working for the religious dinosaurs) across generations of sons and grandsons in typical Middle Age feudalism. Each religious sect is in fact divided within itself into tribal, regional, familial clans, which is proof of the primitive and backward nature of Lebanese society. Each of these feudal lords has his own "palace" (Lebanese leaders must live in "palaces" to prove that they are better than their own constituency who live in houses) perched somewhere in the Lebanese hills, and are worshiped by illiterate peasants and villagers who, whenever their feudal leader dies or is killed in one of unending political vendettas, pledge allegiance to the feudal bloodline and then, and only then, elect them blindly at so-called elections in this false democracy that Lebanon has become.
So Lebanon, in its 60 plus years of "independence" since 1943 has had 11 presidents, three of whom were former generals of the Lebanese Army who no one believed are capable of running the country, but end up as presidents because the political system fails to elect one after the country was broken apart by bloody massacres and civil war. A compromise is usually reached over the least qualified, the weakest, the most incompetent person with a semblance of strength (i.e. a former military idiot) to be the "consensus" president, who to boot, must also receive the blessing of the Syrian dictatorship in Damascus. Yes, Lebanon cannot choose its president or prime minister or speaker of parliament without the Syrian dictator approving these choices. Imagine this "sovereignty" enjoyed by the "country" of Lebanon!
You see, the Lebanese people do not directly elect their presidents in universal suffrage; they elect their feudal lords as members of parliament on the basis of religion, and then these religious-feudal lords - who have no clue about the national interest other than preserving their political power base and their grip on their peasants - elect the president in parliament. But because these "members of parliament" are elected on the basis of their religious affiliation, they have stronger allegiances and ties to outside political and religious decision makers (from whom they derive their own legitimacy) than to their country and countrymen. For example, such Faustian deals with outside powers are made as follows, depending on the religious affiliation:
- Maronites and Catholics: The Vatican and France, occasionally the US.
- Greek Orthodox: Russia, Greece, and other centers of Eastern Christianity generally opposed to the West.
- Sunnis: Saudi Arabia and Egypt (hence the US when the latter two countries are in cahoots with the US).
- Shiites: Iran, and therefore Syria because of the Syrian-Iranian alliance.
- Druze: Sometimes Syria, sometimes Israel, sometimes the US... basically the Druze will take their orders from whoever happens to be the stronger outside player.
- Armenians: Russia and Armenia.
- etc.
Depending on the existing international and regional political climate and balance of power, the Lebanese feudal lords take their orders from these outside powers and translate them into domestic policy, which means that the country of Lebanon essentially has no "native" will. There are no Lebanese decisions per se. All political and policy decisions are made outside the country and are executed by the mercenary political leaders. The political peregrinations of the nation are all dictated by whatever the balance of power around the world and the region happens to be at any given time. This is why, throughout its existence, the country keeps ricocheting from one crisis, one war, one stalemate, one standoff, etc. to another. The country never seems to find a stable "native" indigenous basis on which to operate. As an example, the current stalemate inside Lebanon, now about 10 years old, is a power play between the US, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and others on a background of Iran's nuclear crisis and other regional issues. In other words, Lebanon may be a country (i.e. a patch of land with borders and a population), it may have the semblance of a State (with institutions and such), but it is not a nation of people bound by a defined and common sense of history and destiny. As a result, the country and the State are dysfunctional, do not serve their people, and never find with solutions to problems because the allegiances and the decision-making are both located outside the framework of the constituents of a nation.
Right now, the country's political tribulations have nothing to do with the will of the Lebanese people as a whole. They have to do with the split in the Islamic world between Muslim Sunnis (led by Saudi Arabia, supported by the US, and a horde of acolytes and mercenary countries linked into this bizarre coalition by economic and other political interests), and Shiites (led by Iran, backed by Russia and China and a horde of mercenary countries with their own little interests). None of these countries' interests have anything to do with the welfare of the Lebanese people, as would be in normal countries, on matters such as basic services, economic opportunity, education, etc. Lebanon, for example, has not had reliable running electricity for close to 40 years, since the current "crisis" began in 1975. There is no reliable running water. Roads are barely maintained. There are no sidewalks. Crime is rampant and not one crime (among thousands of crimes, some huge, others petty) has ever been solved or a guilty party identified and prosecuted. The only instance where a crime has ever been investigated and solved is the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and the reason that this one crime was ever investigated is because Hariri was a billionaire who bought everyone and everything around him, and because the international community, through the UN Security Council, got involved. Imagine what it is to be an ordinary citizen in Lebanon where you know that there is no recourse to the State's institutions to seek redress against harm or injustice. What do the Lebanese do? Most give up and live lives of resignation and fatalism, resorting to God, saints, divine interventions, and chiromancy.... Others leave the country (by the millions), and others take matters in their own hands and get weapons, and/or join the ranks (for protection) as blind followers of the same feudal-religious lords that are the root cause of the problem to begin with.
Nothing in Lebanon is done with the human in mind; the last factor that the country's governments and institutions consider when they pretend to enact policy is the Lebanese individual, the human component of the country. Public education never really existed to begin with, as the country's education is monopolized by the religious orders of the Muslim and Christian sides. The country has gone through numerous wars, killings, massacres, invasions, occupations.... The country's army serves as the police, hunting petty criminals only when this has no impact on the political-religious divide because it if it did, then the army would splinter into religious militias overnight. And so the country as a state relies on outsiders for defense purposes: the Syrian army was the country's army for several decades. The Palestinian PLO was the army of the Lebanese Sunnis during the 1970s and 1980s. Israel invaded several times, allying itself with various groups depending on the moment, from Christians to Druze and, yes, the Shiites. The Multinational Force of the 1980s. The large UN contingent in the south of the country - UNIFIL - that has been stationed there since 1978 because the Lebanese never agreed if they should send their pathetic army to the southern border because of a political division over what to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict next door.
Back to " b'Abda ". It is also the headquarters of the Defense Ministry where basement dungeons reek of persecution and torture. Military Intelligence, thanks to three decades of Syrian rule, has become a clone of the Syrian totalitarian security apparatus: They watch their own people for any dissent; they arrest arbitrarily for so called "threats to the nation" or "disrespect for the president" etc... Last year, three teenage bloggers were arrested because they criticized the Lebanese Syrian-puppet president Michel Suleiman, who is nothing more than a powerless emasculated "consensus" personage who sits in his "palace" dispensing grandmotherly advice to his otherwise terrified people because he can't do anything else. Suleiman is married to the Syrian regime's Assad family, and will never do anything to upset the Syrian tyrant now killing his own people. He says he is with sovereignty, but supports the illegal Iranian terrorist organization of Hezbollah in its usurping of sovereignty by running its own parallel army, security zones, barracks, telecommunications network, and its launching wars against Israel independently of the State.
The General Security apparatus in Lebanon is also housed in b'Abda, and is essentially the Intelligence arm of Hezbollah which now runs the Lebanese government of castrated President Suleiman and Prime Minister Miqati. The latter is himself a politically powerless Sunni numskull who made it simply because he was "acceptable" to all the competing militias and parties, and is also a billionaire, as if money somehow is going to give him the balls he doesn't have. For some reason, the Lebanese Sunnis like to have billionaires represent them as prime ministers, even though history has shown that billionaires often fail as political leaders because they think they can buy people's allegiance sufficiently well to run the country. It hasn't worked for Rafik Hariri who, after a career as a puppet prime minister and top collaborator with Syria and Saudi Arabia, was killed by the same Syrians once he realized that his stupid bet (that he could run the country like a grocery store without paying the Syrian mafia) could not work.
And so, from this paradise on earth that Lebanon is - political dysnfunctionality, religious barbarity, chronic national discord, chaotic and unregulated urbanism, servile mercantilism of the worst kind, a ruined environment, periodic warfare and assassinations, one of the most corrupt countries on earth (check the UN's ranking), a country the size of a finch's asshole that produces more saints, holy men, sayyids and fornicating, child-molesting priests and nuns than any other on earth, a place that looks more like the bald and disfigured mountains of Afghanistan than those of Switzerland, a crucible of deep barbarity and backwardness happily married to a superficial and utterly commercial modernity that the country sells to credulous tourists.... - my blog is visited regularly by " b'Abda " because the Syrian Shiite Neanderthals and Cro-magnons of Lebanese Security fear blogs like this.
To those bastards at b'Abda: ايري فيكم . One day, the people of Lebanon will rise up like their brothers are doing across the Arab world, and they will come knocking at your doors....And they will bring an end to this charade of a country that you have turned Lebanon into.
Hanibaal
I get regular visits from Dearborn Heights in Michigan (US) where there is a high concentration of Lebanese Shiite lovers and operatives of the Lebanese terrorist organization. I get visits from Damascus, where I suppose the Mukhabaraat try to control what Syrians read about their "dear leader", the butcher Assad. But the one most interesting visit this blog receives regularly is from a place near Beirut called " b'Abda " (in Arabic = بعبدا ), whose spelling (instead of the more conventional "Baabda") indicates a fanatic attachment to the Arabic language and the "glorious Arab-Islamic Umma" (sic).
Now, for those who are not from here and who have no idea what b'Abda is, let me explain. b'Abda is a town on the outskirts of Beirut where the Presidential Palace, the Ministry of Defense, and General Security headquarters are concentrated. This is the place where, for the past three or four decades, what used to be the pride of a liberal democratic Lebanon has become a cesspool of Syrian Baath-trained ruthless intelligence criminals and other abusers of human rights. As in Syria, military intelligence and an assortment of security services (general, special, internal, external....) keep the Lebanese population in check: arbitrary arrests, mysterious disappearances and killings, corruption and bribes whenever a foreigner needs a residence permit or visa...and of course, keep every ant and sheep in Lebanon towing the line behind the Syrian dictator next door in the decomposing country of Syria.
For one, the Presidential Palace has become the place where traitor generals from the Lebanese army (who barely graduated from Military School), end up as "consensus" presidents because this super-divided, tribal and ultra-religious country can never elect a decent civilian. The political process is bankrupt and dysfunctional, divided as it is between 18 religious sects, each led by an unelected Patriarch or Mufti or Mullah working on behalf of a foreign country, that compete for money and power, have and run their own militias that go to war every generation or so committing massacre after massacre, and thus control the destiny of the nation with religious fear-mongering and primitive style cronyism. Around these religious dinosaurs from the Stone Age of humanity is an assortment of political lackeys who go around pretending to defend their own "people" (i.e. the Christians of the north or the Christians of the central Kesrouan district, or the Sunnis of Beirut versus the Sunnis of Tripoli or Sidon, or the Shiites or the Druze..etc.) in their own little mountain village cantons, while transferring this political power (that they obtain by colluding and working for the religious dinosaurs) across generations of sons and grandsons in typical Middle Age feudalism. Each religious sect is in fact divided within itself into tribal, regional, familial clans, which is proof of the primitive and backward nature of Lebanese society. Each of these feudal lords has his own "palace" (Lebanese leaders must live in "palaces" to prove that they are better than their own constituency who live in houses) perched somewhere in the Lebanese hills, and are worshiped by illiterate peasants and villagers who, whenever their feudal leader dies or is killed in one of unending political vendettas, pledge allegiance to the feudal bloodline and then, and only then, elect them blindly at so-called elections in this false democracy that Lebanon has become.
So Lebanon, in its 60 plus years of "independence" since 1943 has had 11 presidents, three of whom were former generals of the Lebanese Army who no one believed are capable of running the country, but end up as presidents because the political system fails to elect one after the country was broken apart by bloody massacres and civil war. A compromise is usually reached over the least qualified, the weakest, the most incompetent person with a semblance of strength (i.e. a former military idiot) to be the "consensus" president, who to boot, must also receive the blessing of the Syrian dictatorship in Damascus. Yes, Lebanon cannot choose its president or prime minister or speaker of parliament without the Syrian dictator approving these choices. Imagine this "sovereignty" enjoyed by the "country" of Lebanon!
You see, the Lebanese people do not directly elect their presidents in universal suffrage; they elect their feudal lords as members of parliament on the basis of religion, and then these religious-feudal lords - who have no clue about the national interest other than preserving their political power base and their grip on their peasants - elect the president in parliament. But because these "members of parliament" are elected on the basis of their religious affiliation, they have stronger allegiances and ties to outside political and religious decision makers (from whom they derive their own legitimacy) than to their country and countrymen. For example, such Faustian deals with outside powers are made as follows, depending on the religious affiliation:
- Maronites and Catholics: The Vatican and France, occasionally the US.
- Greek Orthodox: Russia, Greece, and other centers of Eastern Christianity generally opposed to the West.
- Sunnis: Saudi Arabia and Egypt (hence the US when the latter two countries are in cahoots with the US).
- Shiites: Iran, and therefore Syria because of the Syrian-Iranian alliance.
- Druze: Sometimes Syria, sometimes Israel, sometimes the US... basically the Druze will take their orders from whoever happens to be the stronger outside player.
- Armenians: Russia and Armenia.
- etc.
Depending on the existing international and regional political climate and balance of power, the Lebanese feudal lords take their orders from these outside powers and translate them into domestic policy, which means that the country of Lebanon essentially has no "native" will. There are no Lebanese decisions per se. All political and policy decisions are made outside the country and are executed by the mercenary political leaders. The political peregrinations of the nation are all dictated by whatever the balance of power around the world and the region happens to be at any given time. This is why, throughout its existence, the country keeps ricocheting from one crisis, one war, one stalemate, one standoff, etc. to another. The country never seems to find a stable "native" indigenous basis on which to operate. As an example, the current stalemate inside Lebanon, now about 10 years old, is a power play between the US, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and others on a background of Iran's nuclear crisis and other regional issues. In other words, Lebanon may be a country (i.e. a patch of land with borders and a population), it may have the semblance of a State (with institutions and such), but it is not a nation of people bound by a defined and common sense of history and destiny. As a result, the country and the State are dysfunctional, do not serve their people, and never find with solutions to problems because the allegiances and the decision-making are both located outside the framework of the constituents of a nation.
Right now, the country's political tribulations have nothing to do with the will of the Lebanese people as a whole. They have to do with the split in the Islamic world between Muslim Sunnis (led by Saudi Arabia, supported by the US, and a horde of acolytes and mercenary countries linked into this bizarre coalition by economic and other political interests), and Shiites (led by Iran, backed by Russia and China and a horde of mercenary countries with their own little interests). None of these countries' interests have anything to do with the welfare of the Lebanese people, as would be in normal countries, on matters such as basic services, economic opportunity, education, etc. Lebanon, for example, has not had reliable running electricity for close to 40 years, since the current "crisis" began in 1975. There is no reliable running water. Roads are barely maintained. There are no sidewalks. Crime is rampant and not one crime (among thousands of crimes, some huge, others petty) has ever been solved or a guilty party identified and prosecuted. The only instance where a crime has ever been investigated and solved is the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and the reason that this one crime was ever investigated is because Hariri was a billionaire who bought everyone and everything around him, and because the international community, through the UN Security Council, got involved. Imagine what it is to be an ordinary citizen in Lebanon where you know that there is no recourse to the State's institutions to seek redress against harm or injustice. What do the Lebanese do? Most give up and live lives of resignation and fatalism, resorting to God, saints, divine interventions, and chiromancy.... Others leave the country (by the millions), and others take matters in their own hands and get weapons, and/or join the ranks (for protection) as blind followers of the same feudal-religious lords that are the root cause of the problem to begin with.
Nothing in Lebanon is done with the human in mind; the last factor that the country's governments and institutions consider when they pretend to enact policy is the Lebanese individual, the human component of the country. Public education never really existed to begin with, as the country's education is monopolized by the religious orders of the Muslim and Christian sides. The country has gone through numerous wars, killings, massacres, invasions, occupations.... The country's army serves as the police, hunting petty criminals only when this has no impact on the political-religious divide because it if it did, then the army would splinter into religious militias overnight. And so the country as a state relies on outsiders for defense purposes: the Syrian army was the country's army for several decades. The Palestinian PLO was the army of the Lebanese Sunnis during the 1970s and 1980s. Israel invaded several times, allying itself with various groups depending on the moment, from Christians to Druze and, yes, the Shiites. The Multinational Force of the 1980s. The large UN contingent in the south of the country - UNIFIL - that has been stationed there since 1978 because the Lebanese never agreed if they should send their pathetic army to the southern border because of a political division over what to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict next door.
Back to " b'Abda ". It is also the headquarters of the Defense Ministry where basement dungeons reek of persecution and torture. Military Intelligence, thanks to three decades of Syrian rule, has become a clone of the Syrian totalitarian security apparatus: They watch their own people for any dissent; they arrest arbitrarily for so called "threats to the nation" or "disrespect for the president" etc... Last year, three teenage bloggers were arrested because they criticized the Lebanese Syrian-puppet president Michel Suleiman, who is nothing more than a powerless emasculated "consensus" personage who sits in his "palace" dispensing grandmotherly advice to his otherwise terrified people because he can't do anything else. Suleiman is married to the Syrian regime's Assad family, and will never do anything to upset the Syrian tyrant now killing his own people. He says he is with sovereignty, but supports the illegal Iranian terrorist organization of Hezbollah in its usurping of sovereignty by running its own parallel army, security zones, barracks, telecommunications network, and its launching wars against Israel independently of the State.
The General Security apparatus in Lebanon is also housed in b'Abda, and is essentially the Intelligence arm of Hezbollah which now runs the Lebanese government of castrated President Suleiman and Prime Minister Miqati. The latter is himself a politically powerless Sunni numskull who made it simply because he was "acceptable" to all the competing militias and parties, and is also a billionaire, as if money somehow is going to give him the balls he doesn't have. For some reason, the Lebanese Sunnis like to have billionaires represent them as prime ministers, even though history has shown that billionaires often fail as political leaders because they think they can buy people's allegiance sufficiently well to run the country. It hasn't worked for Rafik Hariri who, after a career as a puppet prime minister and top collaborator with Syria and Saudi Arabia, was killed by the same Syrians once he realized that his stupid bet (that he could run the country like a grocery store without paying the Syrian mafia) could not work.
And so, from this paradise on earth that Lebanon is - political dysnfunctionality, religious barbarity, chronic national discord, chaotic and unregulated urbanism, servile mercantilism of the worst kind, a ruined environment, periodic warfare and assassinations, one of the most corrupt countries on earth (check the UN's ranking), a country the size of a finch's asshole that produces more saints, holy men, sayyids and fornicating, child-molesting priests and nuns than any other on earth, a place that looks more like the bald and disfigured mountains of Afghanistan than those of Switzerland, a crucible of deep barbarity and backwardness happily married to a superficial and utterly commercial modernity that the country sells to credulous tourists.... - my blog is visited regularly by " b'Abda " because the Syrian Shiite Neanderthals and Cro-magnons of Lebanese Security fear blogs like this.
To those bastards at b'Abda: ايري فيكم . One day, the people of Lebanon will rise up like their brothers are doing across the Arab world, and they will come knocking at your doors....And they will bring an end to this charade of a country that you have turned Lebanon into.
Hanibaal
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Defense Minister Ghosn and Michel Suleiman's Puppet Regime in Lebanon: Accomplices of the Syrian Dictatorship. Should be Included in Indictments of Crimes Against Humanity
The Lebanese puppet regime of Syrian stooge Michel Suleiman and his Hezbollah mercenaries Najib Miqati and Nabih Berri should be included in any future indictments of crimes against humanity, as they are accomplices in the brutal repression and mass murder by the Assad regime of the Syrian people.
As the NOW Lebanon report below points to, Lebanese Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn coordinated with the Syrian regime's latest bombings of its own Security Services buildings in downtown Damascus by paving the way for the accusation by Damascus of al-Qaeda involvement.
Two days prior to the bombings, the puppet Lebanese Minister, who operates under orders from the Hezbollah government in Beirut, leveled fabricated stories to the effect that "al-Qaeda terrorist cells had infiltrated Syria through the Lebanese Bekaa Valley border town of Aarsal." The fact is that this so-called "Defense Minister" should be in charge of security in the Bekaa Valley, and he failed. His accomplice in terrorism and crime, Hezbollah, does control the Bekaa Valley, and denies this control to the legitimate Lebanese Armed Forces. For decades since the 1970s, Syria has used the borders with Lebanon as a free for all, since successive Lebanese governments were always subservient and criminal accomplices with Syria , and allowed the Syrians to transport weapons and terrorists INTO LEBANON, destined to its proxy terror organizations from the PLO and the PFLP and on to the Amal and Hezbollah terror organizations.
A sudden shift in direction of smuggling across the border is a mere fabrication destined to help the Syrian dictatorship engineer the blasts in Damascus on the day of the arrival of the Arab League observers, by providing themselves with a "I told you so" deniability.
As such the Lebanese government and the Lebanese regime of Suleiman, Berri and Miqati stand as guilty and accomplices to the criminal enterprise in Syria. The heads of the Lebanese puppet regime should all be referred to the International Court of Justice and be included in any future indictments currently being prepared for the eventual trials of the Syrian regime criminals, Assad, Buthaina Shaaban, Farouq Al-Shara, and other Assad family members and members of the inner circles of the Damascus regime.
For one, sanctions should be applied to the Lebanese government and its leaders because they are aiding and abetting the mass murder, genocide, and crimes against humanity currently being committed against the Syrian people. For too long, the criminals of the Lebanese regime haven collaborated, colluded and served the Syrian dictatorship. Time has come for the international community to make them pay for all that they have done to their own people and to the Syrian people.
Thousands of Lebanese prisoners continue to languish in Syrian jails, having being kidnapped from Lebanon and transported illegally into Syria. Nothing was ever done by the Lebanese puppet governments to free their own people. In fact, many of the Lebanese leaders, from Nabih Berri to Michel Aoun, have all denied the existence of their own prisoners in Syria.
How long before the Lebanese people rise up against their own criminal dictators and the Hezbollah enterprise that has ruined the country on behalf of Syria and Iran?
Hanibaal
Free Syrian Army Chief of Staff, Colonel Ahmad Hijazi told Al-Rai Kuwaiti newspaper on Saturday that the twin blasts that rocked Damascus on Friday were “the work of the Syrian regime [that were committed in order to blame] oppositionists [of involvement in] terrorism, score points in front of international public opinion and portray itself as the victim [before the eyes] of the Arab observers.”
As the NOW Lebanon report below points to, Lebanese Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn coordinated with the Syrian regime's latest bombings of its own Security Services buildings in downtown Damascus by paving the way for the accusation by Damascus of al-Qaeda involvement.
Two days prior to the bombings, the puppet Lebanese Minister, who operates under orders from the Hezbollah government in Beirut, leveled fabricated stories to the effect that "al-Qaeda terrorist cells had infiltrated Syria through the Lebanese Bekaa Valley border town of Aarsal." The fact is that this so-called "Defense Minister" should be in charge of security in the Bekaa Valley, and he failed. His accomplice in terrorism and crime, Hezbollah, does control the Bekaa Valley, and denies this control to the legitimate Lebanese Armed Forces. For decades since the 1970s, Syria has used the borders with Lebanon as a free for all, since successive Lebanese governments were always subservient and criminal accomplices with Syria , and allowed the Syrians to transport weapons and terrorists INTO LEBANON, destined to its proxy terror organizations from the PLO and the PFLP and on to the Amal and Hezbollah terror organizations.
A sudden shift in direction of smuggling across the border is a mere fabrication destined to help the Syrian dictatorship engineer the blasts in Damascus on the day of the arrival of the Arab League observers, by providing themselves with a "I told you so" deniability.
As such the Lebanese government and the Lebanese regime of Suleiman, Berri and Miqati stand as guilty and accomplices to the criminal enterprise in Syria. The heads of the Lebanese puppet regime should all be referred to the International Court of Justice and be included in any future indictments currently being prepared for the eventual trials of the Syrian regime criminals, Assad, Buthaina Shaaban, Farouq Al-Shara, and other Assad family members and members of the inner circles of the Damascus regime.
For one, sanctions should be applied to the Lebanese government and its leaders because they are aiding and abetting the mass murder, genocide, and crimes against humanity currently being committed against the Syrian people. For too long, the criminals of the Lebanese regime haven collaborated, colluded and served the Syrian dictatorship. Time has come for the international community to make them pay for all that they have done to their own people and to the Syrian people.
Thousands of Lebanese prisoners continue to languish in Syrian jails, having being kidnapped from Lebanon and transported illegally into Syria. Nothing was ever done by the Lebanese puppet governments to free their own people. In fact, many of the Lebanese leaders, from Nabih Berri to Michel Aoun, have all denied the existence of their own prisoners in Syria.
How long before the Lebanese people rise up against their own criminal dictators and the Hezbollah enterprise that has ruined the country on behalf of Syria and Iran?
Hanibaal
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Free Syrian Army Chief of Staff blames regime for twin blasts
Free Syrian Army Chief of Staff, Colonel Ahmad Hijazi told Al-Rai Kuwaiti newspaper on Saturday that the twin blasts that rocked Damascus on Friday were “the work of the Syrian regime [that were committed in order to blame] oppositionists [of involvement in] terrorism, score points in front of international public opinion and portray itself as the victim [before the eyes] of the Arab observers.”
He also accused the Syrian regime and the Lebanese government of “paving the way to the two blasts through announcing that Al-Qaeda members infiltrated Syria.”
Earlier this week, a report quoted Lebanon’s Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn as saying that Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist cells infiltrated Syria through the Bekaa border town of Aarsal.
Ghosn’s statements were followed by twin suicide bombings against security service buildings in Damascus on Friday which left over 30 people dead. Syria blamed Al-Qaeda for involvement in the attacks.
The blasts came as an advance team was in Damascus to prepare the logistics for an Arab League observer mission to oversee a plan to end nine months of unrest, which has killed more than 5,000 people, according to the United Nations.
Damascus blames the unrest on "armed terrorist groups" and has unleashed military operations against border towns and protest hubs.
-NOW Lebanon
Earlier this week, a report quoted Lebanon’s Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn as saying that Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist cells infiltrated Syria through the Bekaa border town of Aarsal.
Ghosn’s statements were followed by twin suicide bombings against security service buildings in Damascus on Friday which left over 30 people dead. Syria blamed Al-Qaeda for involvement in the attacks.
The blasts came as an advance team was in Damascus to prepare the logistics for an Arab League observer mission to oversee a plan to end nine months of unrest, which has killed more than 5,000 people, according to the United Nations.
Damascus blames the unrest on "armed terrorist groups" and has unleashed military operations against border towns and protest hubs.
-NOW Lebanon
Friday, December 23, 2011
Where Was the World? Assad's Brutality: 35 years in Lebanon vs. 9 months in Syria.
Where was the world when the Assad Regime was genociding the Lebanese people during 35 years of occupation?
Where were the accusations against the Assad family of committing crimes against humanity when the same Syrian security and armed forces that are brutalizing the Syrian people today were brutalizing the Lebanese people from 1972 to the mid-2008?
Why were the Lebanese people put at the mercy of this criminal regime under the pretext of "peacekeeping" by an "Arab Deterrence Force"? And why was the Lebanese Resistance against the Syrian occupation and its proxy terror organizations (PLO, PFLP, and all the hoodlum Palestinians) deemed a "right-wing" conspiracy against the "poor Palestinian refugees"?
Why was the Damour massacre of January 1976 ignored by racist liberals like Robert Fisk and his ilk, while the Sabra-Shatila continues to this day to be a subject of much debate?
Why the double standards? Why is it that the destruction of Lebanon for more than 40 years at the hands of filthy Arabs (including today's "awakened" Gulf Arabs from Qatar, the Emirates and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and all the neanderthals of pan-Arab nationalism) who colluded with Yasser Arafat and paid him and armed him to destroy Lebanon and bring it to its knees, is ignored and dusted under the rug?
Was it to secure Israel - who today is already mourning the impending fall of the brutal dictator in Damascus because he protected Israel's Golan annexation of his own Golan Heights - against the Right of Return by offering Lebanon as a substitute homeland for the Palestinians?
What conspiracy theory are we to believe as an explanation for the collusion of the international community at destroying the only decent country in the Middle East to the claws of Arab Nationalist Socialist dictators, Islamic theocracies, and the Jewish theocracy next door? The West and the international community at large knew what the Syrians and the Arabs and the Israelis were doing in Lebanon; yet they kept telling the Lebanese that all their occupiers and tormentors were "factors of stability".... until September 2011, when everyone woke up to the monster they had all created. It was only in March 2003 that then Secretary of State Colin Powell uttered the word "occupation" to describe what had heretofore been called a mere Syrian "presence"?
From 1972 onward, Syria committed massacre after massacre in remote Christian villages along its border with Lebanon. It fueled, financed and armed all the Palestinian factions into destabilizing Lebanon. It assassinated foreign and Lebanese dignitaries and diplomats, including Louis Delamare the French Ambassador, and Francis Meloy the US Ambassador. It bombed the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut in 1981 (because the Syrian Baath of the Assads did not like the Iraqi Baath of Saddam Hussein). Syria later bombed the US Embassy in Beirut TWICE, not once, and the French Embassy in 1983. It carried out the bombing of the US Marines compound and the French Paratroopers compound in 1983 as well, forces that had come to Beirut as peacekeepers to supervise the withdrawal of Yasser Arafat's PLO criminals. Syria was behind every kidnapping in Lebanon of the dozens of Western hostages throughout the 1980s, some of whom were murdered in captivity while others were later released in a trickle, appearing suddenly in Syria under portraits of the same Assad who ordered their kidnapping in the first place. Syria essentially evicted the West from Lebanon in order to secure its grip on its neighbor, ensure that the instability in it continued under the pretense of fighting Israel while along its own borders with Israel on the Golan Heights not one bullet was ever shot from 1974 to date.
Meanwhile, the lives of the Lebanese people were shattered. Not one Lebanese family did not see their house destroyed, their son killed or kidnapped to Syria to rot in Syria's notorious prisons, their village uprooted, their city bombed for months on end, their children emigrate, and the entire country becoming the longest held hostage country to a resolution of the otherwise insoluble Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the Lebanese continue to live at the mercy of Syria's foremost ally in Lebanon, the terrorist organziation of Hezbollah which has hijacked the government and state institutions, and maintains Lebanon forcibly in a state of war, simply as a pressure card in the hands of Syria and Iran.
Whatever happens in Syria can never erase the harm and the hurt that the crime committed by the international community against the tiny defenseless country of Lebanon. In its heyday, Lebanon was the only island of tolerance and multiculturalism. Today it is a backwater cesspool of religious intolerance and a haven for terrorist organizations.
Had the world intervened to rescue Lebanon from the claws of the Assad regime in the 1970s, it could have averted the evolution of radicalism that ultimately led to September 11 and the worldwide terror we live in today. Had the world intervened forcefully in the 1970s and 1980s to prevent the takeover by Syria, Iran and Hezbollah of Lebanon, perhaps we would not be fearing Iran's development of nuclear weapons. Lest it be forgotten, the first suicide bombing ever that caused the most dead among Americans prior to September 2011 is the 1983 Beirut twin suicide bombings of the US Marines and French Paratroopers compounds. What did the French and US (Reagan) governments do? They fled like rabbits, hopping onto their ships and returning home with their tails between their legs. Who was behind their defeat? Syria.
It took the world 30 years to begin reacting to the horrendous record of the Syrian Regime in human rights and genocidal crimes in the region. Why? What is it about Syria that is so "strategic" for the West to have protected this monster for so long? After all, the Syrian army is more pathetic than Saddam Hussein's battle-tested army, and Syria no longer has the protection it once had of the Soviet Union. Yet, the criminal tyrant in Damascus continued to be received in Geneva every year by US presidents and state department secretaries, and his crimes against the Lebanese people continued to be ignored. Why?
The only explanation is unfortunately a conspiracy theory: The Syrian regime provided Israel with the stability it needed on the Golan, and it muzzled the Palestinians of Lebanon sufficiently, to allow Israel to continue swallowing up the West Bank and erode all the foundations of a future State of Palestine. Had Yasser Arafat succeeded in taking up the Lebanese government, he would have turned Lebanon into his Palestine, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would have ended.
With American idiots like Newt Gingrich subscribing to the fallacy of the Palestinians as an "invented" people, it would then have made sense for the world to accept Lebanon as a substitute Palestine. But, luckily, things did not work that way. Sooner or later, people act in their interest, no matter the cost. The Lebanese stood up to Arafat and Assad, and though losing all the battles, they have won the war of preserving Lebanon for the Lebanese, albeit at a horrendous price. And now, the Syrian people have stood up. I wish them luck for the next 30 years or so, because they are going to need it.
Hanibaal
Where were the accusations against the Assad family of committing crimes against humanity when the same Syrian security and armed forces that are brutalizing the Syrian people today were brutalizing the Lebanese people from 1972 to the mid-2008?
Why were the Lebanese people put at the mercy of this criminal regime under the pretext of "peacekeeping" by an "Arab Deterrence Force"? And why was the Lebanese Resistance against the Syrian occupation and its proxy terror organizations (PLO, PFLP, and all the hoodlum Palestinians) deemed a "right-wing" conspiracy against the "poor Palestinian refugees"?
Why was the Damour massacre of January 1976 ignored by racist liberals like Robert Fisk and his ilk, while the Sabra-Shatila continues to this day to be a subject of much debate?
Why the double standards? Why is it that the destruction of Lebanon for more than 40 years at the hands of filthy Arabs (including today's "awakened" Gulf Arabs from Qatar, the Emirates and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and all the neanderthals of pan-Arab nationalism) who colluded with Yasser Arafat and paid him and armed him to destroy Lebanon and bring it to its knees, is ignored and dusted under the rug?
Was it to secure Israel - who today is already mourning the impending fall of the brutal dictator in Damascus because he protected Israel's Golan annexation of his own Golan Heights - against the Right of Return by offering Lebanon as a substitute homeland for the Palestinians?
What conspiracy theory are we to believe as an explanation for the collusion of the international community at destroying the only decent country in the Middle East to the claws of Arab Nationalist Socialist dictators, Islamic theocracies, and the Jewish theocracy next door? The West and the international community at large knew what the Syrians and the Arabs and the Israelis were doing in Lebanon; yet they kept telling the Lebanese that all their occupiers and tormentors were "factors of stability".... until September 2011, when everyone woke up to the monster they had all created. It was only in March 2003 that then Secretary of State Colin Powell uttered the word "occupation" to describe what had heretofore been called a mere Syrian "presence"?
From 1972 onward, Syria committed massacre after massacre in remote Christian villages along its border with Lebanon. It fueled, financed and armed all the Palestinian factions into destabilizing Lebanon. It assassinated foreign and Lebanese dignitaries and diplomats, including Louis Delamare the French Ambassador, and Francis Meloy the US Ambassador. It bombed the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut in 1981 (because the Syrian Baath of the Assads did not like the Iraqi Baath of Saddam Hussein). Syria later bombed the US Embassy in Beirut TWICE, not once, and the French Embassy in 1983. It carried out the bombing of the US Marines compound and the French Paratroopers compound in 1983 as well, forces that had come to Beirut as peacekeepers to supervise the withdrawal of Yasser Arafat's PLO criminals. Syria was behind every kidnapping in Lebanon of the dozens of Western hostages throughout the 1980s, some of whom were murdered in captivity while others were later released in a trickle, appearing suddenly in Syria under portraits of the same Assad who ordered their kidnapping in the first place. Syria essentially evicted the West from Lebanon in order to secure its grip on its neighbor, ensure that the instability in it continued under the pretense of fighting Israel while along its own borders with Israel on the Golan Heights not one bullet was ever shot from 1974 to date.
Meanwhile, the lives of the Lebanese people were shattered. Not one Lebanese family did not see their house destroyed, their son killed or kidnapped to Syria to rot in Syria's notorious prisons, their village uprooted, their city bombed for months on end, their children emigrate, and the entire country becoming the longest held hostage country to a resolution of the otherwise insoluble Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the Lebanese continue to live at the mercy of Syria's foremost ally in Lebanon, the terrorist organziation of Hezbollah which has hijacked the government and state institutions, and maintains Lebanon forcibly in a state of war, simply as a pressure card in the hands of Syria and Iran.
Whatever happens in Syria can never erase the harm and the hurt that the crime committed by the international community against the tiny defenseless country of Lebanon. In its heyday, Lebanon was the only island of tolerance and multiculturalism. Today it is a backwater cesspool of religious intolerance and a haven for terrorist organizations.
Had the world intervened to rescue Lebanon from the claws of the Assad regime in the 1970s, it could have averted the evolution of radicalism that ultimately led to September 11 and the worldwide terror we live in today. Had the world intervened forcefully in the 1970s and 1980s to prevent the takeover by Syria, Iran and Hezbollah of Lebanon, perhaps we would not be fearing Iran's development of nuclear weapons. Lest it be forgotten, the first suicide bombing ever that caused the most dead among Americans prior to September 2011 is the 1983 Beirut twin suicide bombings of the US Marines and French Paratroopers compounds. What did the French and US (Reagan) governments do? They fled like rabbits, hopping onto their ships and returning home with their tails between their legs. Who was behind their defeat? Syria.
It took the world 30 years to begin reacting to the horrendous record of the Syrian Regime in human rights and genocidal crimes in the region. Why? What is it about Syria that is so "strategic" for the West to have protected this monster for so long? After all, the Syrian army is more pathetic than Saddam Hussein's battle-tested army, and Syria no longer has the protection it once had of the Soviet Union. Yet, the criminal tyrant in Damascus continued to be received in Geneva every year by US presidents and state department secretaries, and his crimes against the Lebanese people continued to be ignored. Why?
The only explanation is unfortunately a conspiracy theory: The Syrian regime provided Israel with the stability it needed on the Golan, and it muzzled the Palestinians of Lebanon sufficiently, to allow Israel to continue swallowing up the West Bank and erode all the foundations of a future State of Palestine. Had Yasser Arafat succeeded in taking up the Lebanese government, he would have turned Lebanon into his Palestine, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would have ended.
With American idiots like Newt Gingrich subscribing to the fallacy of the Palestinians as an "invented" people, it would then have made sense for the world to accept Lebanon as a substitute Palestine. But, luckily, things did not work that way. Sooner or later, people act in their interest, no matter the cost. The Lebanese stood up to Arafat and Assad, and though losing all the battles, they have won the war of preserving Lebanon for the Lebanese, albeit at a horrendous price. And now, the Syrian people have stood up. I wish them luck for the next 30 years or so, because they are going to need it.
Hanibaal
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