Mr. President,
As a Lebanese Arab, I applaud your reluctance to intervene in Syria and denounce the hypocrisy of your Republican opponent Mitt Romney who is claiming that he would intervene militarily in Syria. Here are the reasons why you should maintain the same exact position your administration and your ambassador to the uN, Susan Rice, are articulating:
1- No one wants a repeat of Iraq and Afghanistan (and before them Lebanon in 1982, and Somalia in 1993), where US troops go in with the best of intentions, and end up being besmirched by the very same people who initially advocated US intervention. Right now, everyone is blaming you for "lack of leadership" on Syria, and arguing that the world is waiting for the US to lead. They are all hypocrites and liars, and they want you to intervene because a US intervention will be an endless source of ammunition against the United Stats for decades to come. Not one Arab has ever thanked the US for ridding the world of Saddam Hussein. To the contrary, all the killings committed by America's enemies (suicide bombers and insurgents...) are blamed on the American troops.
2- By helping the Syrian rebels, you would be repeating the mistakes committed by Republican presidents like the Bushes and Reagan who supported the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s, only to see them turn against the US in the form of Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The Syrian rebels are in their vast majority members of the Muslim Brotherhood who, even as they are begging you today to intervene, will not hesitate one second before turning against you the moment you rid them of the Assad regime. I know how the Syrians work. They occupied my country for 30 years, and they kept playing one side against the other. They will play nice right now just long enough to bring US troops into Syria, and then it will another decade of insurgency against US troops by the same Muslim Brotherhood now begging you to invade. There is no need for thousands of US troops to be killed, only to promote the rise of yet another Islamocracy in the Middle East. Just look at where the Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan revolutions have ended: Ruled by Muslim fundamentalists, and they will eventually turn against Israel and America's friends in the region. PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THE SYRIAN REBELS BECAUSE THEY ARE AMERICA's ENEMIES.
3- By letting the ARAB NATIONALIST Baath Party fight it out with the MUSLIM NATIONALISTS for what I hope will be many many long years of fighting, you would be depleting the Arab world and the Middle East of two failed ideologies: Arab nationalism and Islamic nationalism. Let these two narratives demonstrate to the world their capability for hatred and for violence, so that in the end perhaps a chance would emerge for a governance in the Arab world that is based on neither religious supremacy nor nationalist supremacy. They are both equally abhorrent as the past decades have proven. LET THEM SELF-DESTRUCT FOR DECADES, even at the price of innocent deaths. US and NATO interventions in places like Iraq and Afghanistan have in fact increased civilian deaths, so the argument that an intervention will stop the killing is not true. The killings will go on regardless of whether the US or NATO intervene. At least, without a foreign intervention, the Arabs and the Muslims will only have themselves or each other to blame. With a foreign intervention, they will all rally to denounce the foreign intervention.
4- If there should be an intervention, then let it be by the Arabs themselves. There are regional Arab abd Muslim powers with lots of money, men, and weapons: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, the UAE. Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia..... and they all pretend to a common Muslim Umaa that stands against the West. Let this Umma act. Let these powers send in their own joint expedition based on all the common organizations they have (Arab League, the Islamic Conference, etc.). Why can't these countries marshall the will to send in troops, patrol the skies, establish no fly zones, etc.... to end the killing in Syria? Why does it have always have to be the soldiers from US or Europe or NATO? Enough hypocrisy by the Arabs and Muslims. Enough condescension by Westerners like the Republicans who think they should go in every time a dictator farts somewhere in the Globe.
5- Finally, those same regimes in the Arab and Muslim world have themselves long supported the Syrian regime in its human rights abuses and its long and brutal occupation of Lebanon. They are the ones who have propped up that regime, like they did with Saddam Hussein until he invaded one of them (Kuwait), let them shoulder their responsibility in creating the monster now savaging the Syrian people by acting directly and without being dragged into an intervention on an American leash. Also, the Syrian people themselves would so much more dignified if they were to fight a long and bloody fight, only to emerge victorious against their enemy regime without having needed anybody;s help, let alone American and European "imperialist, colonialist, Zionist, neo-Crusader..." help.
You should challenge Mitt Romney on Syria publicly: Let him state (and fumble like the stiff that he is) to the American people exactly WHAT WILL HE DO? and HOW WILL HE PAY FOR IT?
If I was an American voter, I'd vote for you. Please do not intervene in Syria. Do not send US troops to Syria under any form. Let the scum kill the scum in Syria. Let America's enemies kill America's enemies in Syria. The longer this goes on in Syria, the better off America will be in the end. Do not listen to your detractors on Syria because they would love to see you intervene and then blame you. You are the smartest, most decent, most educated President that the US has seen in a long long time. Please keep it that way, and we, here, in the Arab world, look forward to another 4 years of your administration.
Hanibaal
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Prime Minister Miqati Deceptive on Tourists Safety in Lebanon
The Lebanese worship of money has no bounds. They will open their country, their homes, their daughters, their mosques and their churches to any asshole who has a few dollars to waste on a polluted, dangerous, corrupt, deeply divided and deeply religious country like Lebanon.
So now, after dozens of foreigners have been kidnapped or disappeared across the country thanks to Syrian regime terrorist operatives, Palestinian guerrillas operating under Syrian regime command, and Hezbollah terrorists operating at the behest of Iran... the Lebanese puppet Prime Minister, a lapdog for Assad and a poodle for the Americans - a feat only a prostitute can achieve - is inviting the rich, but otherwise disgusting and backward, Gulf Arabs to come and spend their money in Lebanon. The Lebanese worship of money has no bounds, as I said, to the point where they will even beg the very enemies of Lebanon to come and spend a few meager dollars, in an environment of:
1- traffic congestion, caused by an abysmal lack of public transportation and an equally abysmal irresponsible and primitive Lebanese mindset that believes that the bigger your car, the more important you are, even if you are the shoeshine or the butler of some filthy oil Arab. There are no sidewalks in Lebanon, cars drive all over pedestrians, no functioning traffic lights, and the Lebanese drive like lunatic maniacs.
2- air pollution, caused by antiquated laws that allow trucks and buses and taxis to use the filthiest diesel fuel that exists, too many cars due to the preceding problem. You should see the smog that hovers over Beirut every summer morning. It does not rain at all here for 7 straight months from April through November, so the air never cleans up from the dust, smoke, smog, and industrial smoke. Come to Lebanon if you want to make sure you develop lung cancer or emphysema.
3- Crime and terrorism: The two are inseparable for the simple reason that the terror groups like Hezbollah and the Palestinian guerrillas, under the guise of "liberation" and "resistance" (God knows against what anymore) often resort to car theft, ransom kidnappings, vicious street attacks against civilians and the like (like the 7 Estonian cyclists who spent about a year last year chained in a basement somewhere between Hezbollah-land in the Bekaa and the Syrian capital... only to be released upon payment of ransom.) So, to our European and Arab "friends", come to Lebanon if you like the thrill of "terro-tourism", a new brand of tourism only numskull Lebanese could invent.
4- High density population of foreign maids. If you'd like to be surrounded on every street corner by a maid from the Philippines or Nepal or some other poor forsaken country, maids who are often abused by their "mistresses" , raped by the "mastetrs", sequestered against their will, their passports confiscated, made to work 24/7 in abject inhumane conditions, and who jump off balconies every other day to their deaths for reasons that the Lebanese State refuses to investigate...Then come to Lebanon, the land of the Maid Abusers who pay an arm and a leg to have a maid, show off to their neighbors that they have a maid, while lounging lazily around and getting fat from having nothing to do all day long...
5- High corruption. If you want to experience State-of-the-Art corruption that is as old and deeply rooted as the "nation" of Lebanon, then come to Lebanon and, say, try to obtain a driver's license at the "naf3a" (the local version of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles). You will first be denied even the decency of processing your paperwork by the jerk (appointed there by some politician like Miqati or Jumblatt or Gemayel or Aoun, to name a few), and you wait, and wait....until someone whispers in your ear "I can do this for you for $20". As you hand in the $20 to the "semsar" (broker), the paperwork magically works, $10 going to the same bueraucrat who would not process your papers, and $10 to the semsar. Of course, you can avoid all this headache, call the uncle of your maternal aunt's cousin's son-in-law who knows one of the guys at the Naf3a, and he will just get you a driver's license in 24 hours without as mush you moving a finger. YOu see, Lebanon is an advanced country where who you know is much much much more important that what you know. You could be the last imbecile of the surface of the earth, and Lebanon will still make you President or Ambassador, simply because you know people. Now, of course, Lebanon's population is a pathetic 3.5 million, so the reason why all these people get their papers done is that someone always knows someone....and corruption IS THE MODUS OPERANDI. You never go to the Naf3a...unless you are a Lebanese immigrant who is back to experience the old country and who is used to decent government in other countries. You first ask around your extended family until you pinpoint the go-to-man, and he'll take care of things for you.
So, please Arabs, Jarabs, Kharabs, and Europeans and Americans and Canadians and every idiot Westerner who wants to experience the thrills of a third world banana republic, come to Lebanon this summer. The only thing you may want to worry about is if Israel decides to launch an anti-nuclear pre-emptive strike against Iran, then be ready to see Hezbollah come out of their rat holes in south Lebanon and launch 20,000 to 50,000 missiles and rockets at Israel, and then the country will be paralyzed, the airport will close and you end up having to evacuate the country like miserable boat people.. packed like sardines for the long and dangerous trip by boat to Cyprus.... Or be ready for the Syrian Arab Folkloric Festival next door, now in its 14 bloody months, to explode further with hundreds, not just dozens, of children slaughtered like sheep at Ramadan, and spill over into Lebanon. The thing is not to go too close to the Syrian border or the Israeli border, which then limits your area of mobility to 30 miles by 20 miles (Beirut north to Byblos or Batroun, in unbearable heat and congestion, and from that coastal line up to the highlands). Everywhere else is war, crime, terror, pollution, corruption, and sudden unexpected flareups of shiite tribes and clans fighting over hashish or weapons.....
Other than that, enjoy your stay in Lebanon this summer, and ahlan wa sahlan أهلاً وسهلاً. Prime Minister Miqati said we are "ready", and he means it!
Hanibaal
____________________________________________________
Mikati: Lebanon “ready” to receive Arab, foreign visitors
Prime Minister Mikati of Lebanon said that his government is doing its best to maintain the safety of foreign visitors. “We want to reassure everyone, including friendly countries who issued special warnings against their citizens’ traveling to Lebanon, that their security is our concern as much as the security [of the Lebanese] is,” Mikati said following a meeting of the committee in charge of the tourism sector.
“...life in Lebanon is ongoing despite the problems and difficulties that we are facing... we want to send a message to all the Arab brothers and foreign friends that Lebanon is ready to receive them as usual,” Mikati added.
The UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain last week urged their citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon, where clashes linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria have left 10 people dead. Kuwait, later on, made a similar move.
So now, after dozens of foreigners have been kidnapped or disappeared across the country thanks to Syrian regime terrorist operatives, Palestinian guerrillas operating under Syrian regime command, and Hezbollah terrorists operating at the behest of Iran... the Lebanese puppet Prime Minister, a lapdog for Assad and a poodle for the Americans - a feat only a prostitute can achieve - is inviting the rich, but otherwise disgusting and backward, Gulf Arabs to come and spend their money in Lebanon. The Lebanese worship of money has no bounds, as I said, to the point where they will even beg the very enemies of Lebanon to come and spend a few meager dollars, in an environment of:
1- traffic congestion, caused by an abysmal lack of public transportation and an equally abysmal irresponsible and primitive Lebanese mindset that believes that the bigger your car, the more important you are, even if you are the shoeshine or the butler of some filthy oil Arab. There are no sidewalks in Lebanon, cars drive all over pedestrians, no functioning traffic lights, and the Lebanese drive like lunatic maniacs.
2- air pollution, caused by antiquated laws that allow trucks and buses and taxis to use the filthiest diesel fuel that exists, too many cars due to the preceding problem. You should see the smog that hovers over Beirut every summer morning. It does not rain at all here for 7 straight months from April through November, so the air never cleans up from the dust, smoke, smog, and industrial smoke. Come to Lebanon if you want to make sure you develop lung cancer or emphysema.
3- Crime and terrorism: The two are inseparable for the simple reason that the terror groups like Hezbollah and the Palestinian guerrillas, under the guise of "liberation" and "resistance" (God knows against what anymore) often resort to car theft, ransom kidnappings, vicious street attacks against civilians and the like (like the 7 Estonian cyclists who spent about a year last year chained in a basement somewhere between Hezbollah-land in the Bekaa and the Syrian capital... only to be released upon payment of ransom.) So, to our European and Arab "friends", come to Lebanon if you like the thrill of "terro-tourism", a new brand of tourism only numskull Lebanese could invent.
4- High density population of foreign maids. If you'd like to be surrounded on every street corner by a maid from the Philippines or Nepal or some other poor forsaken country, maids who are often abused by their "mistresses" , raped by the "mastetrs", sequestered against their will, their passports confiscated, made to work 24/7 in abject inhumane conditions, and who jump off balconies every other day to their deaths for reasons that the Lebanese State refuses to investigate...Then come to Lebanon, the land of the Maid Abusers who pay an arm and a leg to have a maid, show off to their neighbors that they have a maid, while lounging lazily around and getting fat from having nothing to do all day long...
5- High corruption. If you want to experience State-of-the-Art corruption that is as old and deeply rooted as the "nation" of Lebanon, then come to Lebanon and, say, try to obtain a driver's license at the "naf3a" (the local version of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles). You will first be denied even the decency of processing your paperwork by the jerk (appointed there by some politician like Miqati or Jumblatt or Gemayel or Aoun, to name a few), and you wait, and wait....until someone whispers in your ear "I can do this for you for $20". As you hand in the $20 to the "semsar" (broker), the paperwork magically works, $10 going to the same bueraucrat who would not process your papers, and $10 to the semsar. Of course, you can avoid all this headache, call the uncle of your maternal aunt's cousin's son-in-law who knows one of the guys at the Naf3a, and he will just get you a driver's license in 24 hours without as mush you moving a finger. YOu see, Lebanon is an advanced country where who you know is much much much more important that what you know. You could be the last imbecile of the surface of the earth, and Lebanon will still make you President or Ambassador, simply because you know people. Now, of course, Lebanon's population is a pathetic 3.5 million, so the reason why all these people get their papers done is that someone always knows someone....and corruption IS THE MODUS OPERANDI. You never go to the Naf3a...unless you are a Lebanese immigrant who is back to experience the old country and who is used to decent government in other countries. You first ask around your extended family until you pinpoint the go-to-man, and he'll take care of things for you.
So, please Arabs, Jarabs, Kharabs, and Europeans and Americans and Canadians and every idiot Westerner who wants to experience the thrills of a third world banana republic, come to Lebanon this summer. The only thing you may want to worry about is if Israel decides to launch an anti-nuclear pre-emptive strike against Iran, then be ready to see Hezbollah come out of their rat holes in south Lebanon and launch 20,000 to 50,000 missiles and rockets at Israel, and then the country will be paralyzed, the airport will close and you end up having to evacuate the country like miserable boat people.. packed like sardines for the long and dangerous trip by boat to Cyprus.... Or be ready for the Syrian Arab Folkloric Festival next door, now in its 14 bloody months, to explode further with hundreds, not just dozens, of children slaughtered like sheep at Ramadan, and spill over into Lebanon. The thing is not to go too close to the Syrian border or the Israeli border, which then limits your area of mobility to 30 miles by 20 miles (Beirut north to Byblos or Batroun, in unbearable heat and congestion, and from that coastal line up to the highlands). Everywhere else is war, crime, terror, pollution, corruption, and sudden unexpected flareups of shiite tribes and clans fighting over hashish or weapons.....
Other than that, enjoy your stay in Lebanon this summer, and ahlan wa sahlan أهلاً وسهلاً. Prime Minister Miqati said we are "ready", and he means it!
Hanibaal
____________________________________________________
Mikati: Lebanon “ready” to receive Arab, foreign visitors
Prime Minister Mikati of Lebanon said that his government is doing its best to maintain the safety of foreign visitors. “We want to reassure everyone, including friendly countries who issued special warnings against their citizens’ traveling to Lebanon, that their security is our concern as much as the security [of the Lebanese] is,” Mikati said following a meeting of the committee in charge of the tourism sector.
“...life in Lebanon is ongoing despite the problems and difficulties that we are facing... we want to send a message to all the Arab brothers and foreign friends that Lebanon is ready to receive them as usual,” Mikati added.
The UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain last week urged their citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon, where clashes linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria have left 10 people dead. Kuwait, later on, made a similar move.
Remember Syrian Peacekeeping in Lebanon?
As the world watches the savagery of the Syrian regime and its army slaughtering its own people, it ought to remember that once upon a time between the early 1970s and 2005 these same Syrian armed forces maintained "peace" in Lebanon.
The international community bears a great deal of the responsibility for the 30 years of Syrian occupation and brutality inflicted upon the Lebanese people because it, the international community, including the United States, the Europeans, the Russians, and all the Arabs of the Gulf (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE) and Egypt and others, all of them supported the same "peacekeeping" we are witnessing today inside Syria as it was practiced by the Syrian army on the people of Lebanon.
Instead of the "terrorist gangs" it claims to be fighting in Syria today, the Syrian regime back then claimed to be fighting the "pro-Zionist Christian isolationist imperialist crusaders" (all kinds of names to refer to the Christian Lebanese resistance that stood up to Hafez Assad and to Yasser Arafat, as they made their way into Lebanon massacring one village after village - foremost of which is Damour and its massacre in 1976 - and laying siege after siege to Beirut, Zahle, and other Lebanese cities. I was there, I lived through the all Syrian sieges of the 1970s and 1980s.
Remember the two little girls and their family who were killed in March 1989 by a Syrian shell that struck their boat as they tried to escape the siege of the Jounieh and the Christian enclave by boating their way out of the harbor to reach a larger ship going to Cyprus? I hope that the demented traitor General Michel Aoun remember that day, because he declared his War of Liberation against Syria triggering the Syrian barrage that did not stop until October 13, 1990. I also hope that the brutal criminal traitor of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, also remember how his militias at the time sided with the Syrian army against his own people because the same Americans whose feet he laps today promised him the presidency if he collaborated with them and the Syrians. What he got instead was 11 years in a prison cell.
For 30 years - from the early 1970s when the Syrians would enter Lebanese territory like they are doing today to kill and kidnap villagers and monks in the Lebanese towns bordering on the cesspool called Syria, until March 2003 when the first American official, General Colin Powell, then US secretary of state, for the first time ever used the term "occupation" in referring to the Syrian army in Lebanon. Up to that time, the code word used by American and Saudi and Qatari and Kuwaiti and Egyptian and French and British.....diplomacies to refer to the Syrian army's brutality in Lebanon was "presence".. Yes, the Syrian army and intelligence services were merely "present" in Lebanon as they engaged in kidnappings, assassinations, massacres, torture, shelling of cities and towns, and other refined modes of "Arab" peacekeeping. When pressed by the occasional decent Western journalist who dared challenge the central dogma of 30 years of Syrians as peacekeepers in Lebanon, Western and Arab officials would respond, "the Syrian army is a factor of stability in Lebanon"... perhaps they meant the "peace and stability of the prisons and the graves"...
Every American President and a horde of European and Arab lapdog leaders following the American lead met with the Syrian President (the murderous Assad father, Hafez, and today's butcher Bashar) every year in places like Geneva or Vienna to reseal the Syrian "role" in Lebanon. Everyone smiled as peace was maintained in Lebanon, provided the Syrian butcher also maintained the higher-prized peace on the Golan Heights. While in Lebanon, Syria claimed to want to help the Lebanese (via the PLO and Hezbollah and the PFLP... and other terrorist organizations) liberate their land from Israeli occupation in the south (an occupation that Syria itself caused). But in Syria itself, the Israelis had occupied and annexed the Golan Heights in 1967 and 1973, but the Syrians never allowed those same terror organizations from firing a single bullet to try and "liberate" the Golan Heights from a much more drastic Israeli occupation than the one Israel exercised in the Lebanese south. For 30 years, Syria pushed Lebanon into the crucible of war as the only active Arab front against Israel, murdering and killing and devastating my country, while it - Syria - and Egypt and Jordan and the Palestinians all made peace with Israel.
That, my friends, is the joke of Arab nationalism, followed by the joke of American foreign policy that never succeeds in doing anything useful other than seek short term short-sighted gains at the expense of long term decent solutions to problems it creates in the first place. And the Arabs, all nationalist Antars from behind their borders, follow like lapdogs the American edict. You see, they all have interests - the Americans will always kiss ass to Saudis and other wealthy Arabs for oil. The Americans will kiss ass to Syrians, Jordanians and Egyptians as they beg them not to bother Israel. And for all this "stability" (political and economic), American diplomacy has been to decimate and dismantle Lebanon, keep it on fire to enable all kinds of terror groups to thrive, thus keeping the pretext for a super-militarized Israel and for one day to settle the Palestinian refugees in this ruined Lebanon as a substitute Palestine, and to get Israel off the hook on the "Right of Return" of all the Palestinian refugees to Israel where they belong.
The United States was even willing to accept that these Syrian peacekeeping terror proxy groups bomb the US embassy twice, the French embassy twice, truck bomb the US Marines barracks and the French paratroopers compound in 1983, kidnap the Western hostages in the 1980s, ravage Lebanon for 30 years, assassinate US, French, Jordanian, Iraqi and other diplomats posted to Lebanon....and all manner of Syrian-sponsored "stability" mechanisms, just to keep Lebanon on fire but everyone else stable and non-threatening to Israel and to keep the oil flowing.
Even today, as the same Syrian army that ravaged Lebanon for 30 plus years continues the bloodbath in Syria itself, we see grandstanding and endless threats of even more sanctions.... but not one action. Not one. After all, Syria is a pathetic little dictatorship whose military might is a joke compared, for instance, to the 4th largest army in the Middle East that George W Bush claimed was the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein (yet it fizzled like so many running rabbits in less than 48 hours in March 2003). No one - not Iraq, not Jordan, and certainly not Russia - will come to the rescue of the Syrian dictatorship. All it takes is a couple of well-targeted bombings inside Syria for the entire Syrian Baath edifice to crumble... A couple of well-targeted air strikes will lead to the collapse of the Syrian army, the defection en masse of thousands, the flight and entrenchment of the Syrian Alawi leadership to the Alawi region...
What "consequences" would obtain from attacking the Syrian regime to cause its collapse and stop the bloodbath? None as scary as all the idiot political pundits repeat ad nauseam. Nothing will happen. The only thing that would happen that scares the Americans, the Israelis, and their Arab poodles is for the Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon to return to Israel, and for that reason alone, the West is willing to allow the Syrian regime to continue the bloodbath in Syria, as it ran a bloodbath in my country of Lebanon for more than 30 years. No other reason can explain the fears that keep the international community from acting against the Syrian regime.
Hanibaal
The international community bears a great deal of the responsibility for the 30 years of Syrian occupation and brutality inflicted upon the Lebanese people because it, the international community, including the United States, the Europeans, the Russians, and all the Arabs of the Gulf (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE) and Egypt and others, all of them supported the same "peacekeeping" we are witnessing today inside Syria as it was practiced by the Syrian army on the people of Lebanon.
Instead of the "terrorist gangs" it claims to be fighting in Syria today, the Syrian regime back then claimed to be fighting the "pro-Zionist Christian isolationist imperialist crusaders" (all kinds of names to refer to the Christian Lebanese resistance that stood up to Hafez Assad and to Yasser Arafat, as they made their way into Lebanon massacring one village after village - foremost of which is Damour and its massacre in 1976 - and laying siege after siege to Beirut, Zahle, and other Lebanese cities. I was there, I lived through the all Syrian sieges of the 1970s and 1980s.
Remember the two little girls and their family who were killed in March 1989 by a Syrian shell that struck their boat as they tried to escape the siege of the Jounieh and the Christian enclave by boating their way out of the harbor to reach a larger ship going to Cyprus? I hope that the demented traitor General Michel Aoun remember that day, because he declared his War of Liberation against Syria triggering the Syrian barrage that did not stop until October 13, 1990. I also hope that the brutal criminal traitor of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, also remember how his militias at the time sided with the Syrian army against his own people because the same Americans whose feet he laps today promised him the presidency if he collaborated with them and the Syrians. What he got instead was 11 years in a prison cell.
For 30 years - from the early 1970s when the Syrians would enter Lebanese territory like they are doing today to kill and kidnap villagers and monks in the Lebanese towns bordering on the cesspool called Syria, until March 2003 when the first American official, General Colin Powell, then US secretary of state, for the first time ever used the term "occupation" in referring to the Syrian army in Lebanon. Up to that time, the code word used by American and Saudi and Qatari and Kuwaiti and Egyptian and French and British.....diplomacies to refer to the Syrian army's brutality in Lebanon was "presence".. Yes, the Syrian army and intelligence services were merely "present" in Lebanon as they engaged in kidnappings, assassinations, massacres, torture, shelling of cities and towns, and other refined modes of "Arab" peacekeeping. When pressed by the occasional decent Western journalist who dared challenge the central dogma of 30 years of Syrians as peacekeepers in Lebanon, Western and Arab officials would respond, "the Syrian army is a factor of stability in Lebanon"... perhaps they meant the "peace and stability of the prisons and the graves"...
Every American President and a horde of European and Arab lapdog leaders following the American lead met with the Syrian President (the murderous Assad father, Hafez, and today's butcher Bashar) every year in places like Geneva or Vienna to reseal the Syrian "role" in Lebanon. Everyone smiled as peace was maintained in Lebanon, provided the Syrian butcher also maintained the higher-prized peace on the Golan Heights. While in Lebanon, Syria claimed to want to help the Lebanese (via the PLO and Hezbollah and the PFLP... and other terrorist organizations) liberate their land from Israeli occupation in the south (an occupation that Syria itself caused). But in Syria itself, the Israelis had occupied and annexed the Golan Heights in 1967 and 1973, but the Syrians never allowed those same terror organizations from firing a single bullet to try and "liberate" the Golan Heights from a much more drastic Israeli occupation than the one Israel exercised in the Lebanese south. For 30 years, Syria pushed Lebanon into the crucible of war as the only active Arab front against Israel, murdering and killing and devastating my country, while it - Syria - and Egypt and Jordan and the Palestinians all made peace with Israel.
That, my friends, is the joke of Arab nationalism, followed by the joke of American foreign policy that never succeeds in doing anything useful other than seek short term short-sighted gains at the expense of long term decent solutions to problems it creates in the first place. And the Arabs, all nationalist Antars from behind their borders, follow like lapdogs the American edict. You see, they all have interests - the Americans will always kiss ass to Saudis and other wealthy Arabs for oil. The Americans will kiss ass to Syrians, Jordanians and Egyptians as they beg them not to bother Israel. And for all this "stability" (political and economic), American diplomacy has been to decimate and dismantle Lebanon, keep it on fire to enable all kinds of terror groups to thrive, thus keeping the pretext for a super-militarized Israel and for one day to settle the Palestinian refugees in this ruined Lebanon as a substitute Palestine, and to get Israel off the hook on the "Right of Return" of all the Palestinian refugees to Israel where they belong.
The United States was even willing to accept that these Syrian peacekeeping terror proxy groups bomb the US embassy twice, the French embassy twice, truck bomb the US Marines barracks and the French paratroopers compound in 1983, kidnap the Western hostages in the 1980s, ravage Lebanon for 30 years, assassinate US, French, Jordanian, Iraqi and other diplomats posted to Lebanon....and all manner of Syrian-sponsored "stability" mechanisms, just to keep Lebanon on fire but everyone else stable and non-threatening to Israel and to keep the oil flowing.
Even today, as the same Syrian army that ravaged Lebanon for 30 plus years continues the bloodbath in Syria itself, we see grandstanding and endless threats of even more sanctions.... but not one action. Not one. After all, Syria is a pathetic little dictatorship whose military might is a joke compared, for instance, to the 4th largest army in the Middle East that George W Bush claimed was the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein (yet it fizzled like so many running rabbits in less than 48 hours in March 2003). No one - not Iraq, not Jordan, and certainly not Russia - will come to the rescue of the Syrian dictatorship. All it takes is a couple of well-targeted bombings inside Syria for the entire Syrian Baath edifice to crumble... A couple of well-targeted air strikes will lead to the collapse of the Syrian army, the defection en masse of thousands, the flight and entrenchment of the Syrian Alawi leadership to the Alawi region...
What "consequences" would obtain from attacking the Syrian regime to cause its collapse and stop the bloodbath? None as scary as all the idiot political pundits repeat ad nauseam. Nothing will happen. The only thing that would happen that scares the Americans, the Israelis, and their Arab poodles is for the Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon to return to Israel, and for that reason alone, the West is willing to allow the Syrian regime to continue the bloodbath in Syria, as it ran a bloodbath in my country of Lebanon for more than 30 years. No other reason can explain the fears that keep the international community from acting against the Syrian regime.
Hanibaal
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The Worth of a Human Being in Lebanon
It always takes the death of "important" people in Lebanon to cause crises. The death, killings, assassinations of ordinary people are not even worth mentioning.
I have never heard of the Sunni cleric Ahmad Abdel Wahed until he was killed at a Lebanese Army checkpoint because he failed to stop at the checkpoint. Now the whole country is on the verge of a precipice because of his death.
For 30 years, Lebanon was seized by war, assassinations, massacres, mass killings, abductions, bombings... hundreds of thousands of ordinary civilians were killed and many more injured or maimed or disappeared... Yet, not one monument, not one statue, not one marker or memorial was ever erected to pay tribute to all these innocent people who were killed by religious fanatics or militias of all kinds.
On the other hand, it took the assassination of Rafik Hariri, a billionaire prime minister who had bought his way into the premiership, to send the country into a convulsion. Even the Lebanese people themselves were never outraged enough by their own suffering to descend into the street and demand the withdrawal of the Syrian enemy's occupation forces from Lebanon. Yet, the killing of Hariri did just that. Go to downtown Beirut and to other places across the country and you'll see huge monuments for Rafik Hariri who, arguably, was a collaborator with the Syrian enemy occupation until the occupier killed him.
And now, the killing of some otherwise unknown clergyman is causing another convulsion in Lebanon, putting the country on the precipice of another war. Rafik Hariri had bought many people and governments with his billions, so it makes sense that he be missed. But why is this Sunni cleric Ahmad Abdel Wahed important? Is he more important than you and me? Isn't any human life worth descending in the street and demonstrating for?
The answer is that in Lebanon, like many backward third world primitive countries, religion reigns supreme and defines everything. People's lives are so miserable, eking out a living in the midst of corruption, wars, pollution, congestion, militias, absence of laws... that they turn to primitive religious beliefs for consolation. As a result, ordinary people see their own lives as worthless, but the life of a religious symbol as much more important than their own that they are willing to risk the death of their own children because a cleric died. Medieval mindset where religions and feudalism run the show.
That is, by the way, the reason why Lebanon has produced many more saints than any other country in the past few decades. Even the Vatican has tired of canonizing and beatifying nuns and monks from the hills of Lebanon.
In the early decades after independence, Lebanon was steering toward a liberal secular future. Slowly and without fanfare, Lebanese society was gradually moving away from religion as the identity definer. Those were the times when the country was, incidentally, led by the Christians who tend to imitate the West in its separation between religion and matters of state. But today, the Christians have lost their prominence, and the country is led by Muslims, both Sunnis and Shiites. And the result is that since the 1980s, the country has receded into an abysmal backwardness, such that even the Christians have become more religious simply to counter the extremely religious Muslims.
Hanibaal
I have never heard of the Sunni cleric Ahmad Abdel Wahed until he was killed at a Lebanese Army checkpoint because he failed to stop at the checkpoint. Now the whole country is on the verge of a precipice because of his death.
For 30 years, Lebanon was seized by war, assassinations, massacres, mass killings, abductions, bombings... hundreds of thousands of ordinary civilians were killed and many more injured or maimed or disappeared... Yet, not one monument, not one statue, not one marker or memorial was ever erected to pay tribute to all these innocent people who were killed by religious fanatics or militias of all kinds.
On the other hand, it took the assassination of Rafik Hariri, a billionaire prime minister who had bought his way into the premiership, to send the country into a convulsion. Even the Lebanese people themselves were never outraged enough by their own suffering to descend into the street and demand the withdrawal of the Syrian enemy's occupation forces from Lebanon. Yet, the killing of Hariri did just that. Go to downtown Beirut and to other places across the country and you'll see huge monuments for Rafik Hariri who, arguably, was a collaborator with the Syrian enemy occupation until the occupier killed him.
And now, the killing of some otherwise unknown clergyman is causing another convulsion in Lebanon, putting the country on the precipice of another war. Rafik Hariri had bought many people and governments with his billions, so it makes sense that he be missed. But why is this Sunni cleric Ahmad Abdel Wahed important? Is he more important than you and me? Isn't any human life worth descending in the street and demonstrating for?
The answer is that in Lebanon, like many backward third world primitive countries, religion reigns supreme and defines everything. People's lives are so miserable, eking out a living in the midst of corruption, wars, pollution, congestion, militias, absence of laws... that they turn to primitive religious beliefs for consolation. As a result, ordinary people see their own lives as worthless, but the life of a religious symbol as much more important than their own that they are willing to risk the death of their own children because a cleric died. Medieval mindset where religions and feudalism run the show.
That is, by the way, the reason why Lebanon has produced many more saints than any other country in the past few decades. Even the Vatican has tired of canonizing and beatifying nuns and monks from the hills of Lebanon.
In the early decades after independence, Lebanon was steering toward a liberal secular future. Slowly and without fanfare, Lebanese society was gradually moving away from religion as the identity definer. Those were the times when the country was, incidentally, led by the Christians who tend to imitate the West in its separation between religion and matters of state. But today, the Christians have lost their prominence, and the country is led by Muslims, both Sunnis and Shiites. And the result is that since the 1980s, the country has receded into an abysmal backwardness, such that even the Christians have become more religious simply to counter the extremely religious Muslims.
Hanibaal
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Lebanese Sunni Traitors Doing it Again: 1975-Maarouf Saad, 2012:Ahmad Abdel Wahed
In 1975, Lebanese Army troops shot and killed Maarouf Saad, a fanatic radical Nasserist Muslim Sunni who wanted Lebanon annexed to Syria and to Egypt, and for the PLO to run the Lebanese State down. The country was divided between the patriots who wanted to keep Lebanon out of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on one side, and the Sunnis who wanted Yasser Arafat to run his own liberation of fucking Palestine over the backs of the Lebanese people and State. Saad was demonstrating against his own Army, his own country, and against his own people, in support of Yasser Arafat and in support of the Syrian and Egyptian dictatorships, because he believed that pan-Arab nationalism was a higher cause that the cause of a sovereign Lebanon. The rest is history. One month later, Palestinian PLO criminals tried to assassinate Pierre Gemayel in Ain Remmaneh and killed two of his bodyguards instead. This was the trigger for the Lebanese War of liberation from pan-Arab traitors and Palestinian terrorists.
In 2012, Lebanese Army troops shot and killed Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed, a fanatic Sunni fundamentalist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and of Al-Qaeda, because he thought it was beneath him to stop at a checkpoint of his own Lebanese Army. Sunni fundamentalists do NOT BELIEVE in the Lebanese Nation. They believe only in a Pan-Islamic fucking Umma (nation) and their allegiance to this bullshit fiction overrides their allegiance to their own country. Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed supports the tyrannical Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda terrorists against the equally tyrannical despot Bashar Assad in Syria, as if any of these two alternatives are better for the Lebanese. Who cares? Let the Khara beat up the Khara in Syria, and let all tyrants, from Assad, to Al-Qaeda, to Hezbollah fall down. Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Ayri should support his own country and not drag Lebanon in the Syrian bloodbath.
The stage is set for a civil war in Lebanon. This time, however, the Christians will stand aside as mere observers of the Muslims who are bent on destroying a country they never believed in. Even when Lebanon was born in 1920 out of the ashes of the Ottoman fucking Sunni Empire, the Lebanese Sunnis wanted to be part of Syria. The Christians made a huge mistake by letting them remain part of Lebanon. When the French withdrew in 1943, the Muslims still were not convinced of the finality of their Lebanese identity, and they waited until the 1960s, when Yasser childfucker Arafat created the PLO and took over the Lebanese State. Lebanon's Sunnis used the PLO as their militia to run down the Lebanese State, created their own Arab Army of Lebanon under the orders of a traitor lieutenant Muhammad Al-Khatib who attacked all Lebanese Army barracks in Muslim areas of Lebanon. The Christians took up arms to prevent the Palestinization and Islamization of Lebanon. The Lebanese War was the first front line in what has now become our daily war against Islamic terror around the world.
And now the Sunnis are again threatening to create their own Free Army of Lebanon because they reject Lebanon and the Lebanese Army, and they want to be part of the Islamic Umma cesspool of Osama bin Laden. I give Lebanon 1-2 months, and one little incident will happen that will trigger an all-out outbreak of violence between the Shiite fundamentalist terrorists of Iran - Hezbollah on one side, and the Sunni fundamentalist terrorists of Al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia, on the other side.
This is the Curse of Lebanon: Syria next door, and the Muslims of Lebanon who do not recognize Lebanon as their own country, and who will destroy this country to be part of a Shiite theocracy a la Iran or a Sunni theocracy a la Saudi Arabia. I call for breaking up Lebanon back to the small Lebanon of 1920. Re-attach Tripoli and Akkar (Sunnis), the Hermel and the Bekaa (Shiites) to the Syrian artificial entity, and let all these lucky Muslim fuckers enjoy one another, and bring back Lebanon to its original Christian-Druze duality in the Mountain.
The Western press used to blame the Christians of Lebanon for seeking the help of Israel back in the 1970s and 1980s when the radical Sunnis and the PLO were decimating the country. Lebanon's Christians were the canaries in the mine, warning everyone else that what was happening to Lebanon will happen elsewhere if the Islamists are not defeated. But the hypocritical West sided with the Muslims and the PLO terrorists, branding the Christians "right-wing" extremists. They did so again in Bosnia..Only 20 years separate the Islamic terror truck bombings of the French and US peacekeepers in Beirut in 1982, and the plane terror bombings of September 2001 in New York and their corollaries of Madrid, Bali, London, etc... One day, when Islamic Republics mushroom across Europe, I hope there will be a few who will realize the gravity of the moment we are living today.
Lebanon is back on the front line of this fault line between Islam and the rest of the world. We've been here before, but I hope we will be here again in 30 years to tell the story. In the meantime, I suggest that the Christians should pack up, turn off the lights and let the Muslims fight it out until not one tree is left standing in the country.
Hanibaal
___________________________________________________
In 2012, Lebanese Army troops shot and killed Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed, a fanatic Sunni fundamentalist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and of Al-Qaeda, because he thought it was beneath him to stop at a checkpoint of his own Lebanese Army. Sunni fundamentalists do NOT BELIEVE in the Lebanese Nation. They believe only in a Pan-Islamic fucking Umma (nation) and their allegiance to this bullshit fiction overrides their allegiance to their own country. Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed supports the tyrannical Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda terrorists against the equally tyrannical despot Bashar Assad in Syria, as if any of these two alternatives are better for the Lebanese. Who cares? Let the Khara beat up the Khara in Syria, and let all tyrants, from Assad, to Al-Qaeda, to Hezbollah fall down. Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Ayri should support his own country and not drag Lebanon in the Syrian bloodbath.
The stage is set for a civil war in Lebanon. This time, however, the Christians will stand aside as mere observers of the Muslims who are bent on destroying a country they never believed in. Even when Lebanon was born in 1920 out of the ashes of the Ottoman fucking Sunni Empire, the Lebanese Sunnis wanted to be part of Syria. The Christians made a huge mistake by letting them remain part of Lebanon. When the French withdrew in 1943, the Muslims still were not convinced of the finality of their Lebanese identity, and they waited until the 1960s, when Yasser childfucker Arafat created the PLO and took over the Lebanese State. Lebanon's Sunnis used the PLO as their militia to run down the Lebanese State, created their own Arab Army of Lebanon under the orders of a traitor lieutenant Muhammad Al-Khatib who attacked all Lebanese Army barracks in Muslim areas of Lebanon. The Christians took up arms to prevent the Palestinization and Islamization of Lebanon. The Lebanese War was the first front line in what has now become our daily war against Islamic terror around the world.
And now the Sunnis are again threatening to create their own Free Army of Lebanon because they reject Lebanon and the Lebanese Army, and they want to be part of the Islamic Umma cesspool of Osama bin Laden. I give Lebanon 1-2 months, and one little incident will happen that will trigger an all-out outbreak of violence between the Shiite fundamentalist terrorists of Iran - Hezbollah on one side, and the Sunni fundamentalist terrorists of Al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia, on the other side.
This is the Curse of Lebanon: Syria next door, and the Muslims of Lebanon who do not recognize Lebanon as their own country, and who will destroy this country to be part of a Shiite theocracy a la Iran or a Sunni theocracy a la Saudi Arabia. I call for breaking up Lebanon back to the small Lebanon of 1920. Re-attach Tripoli and Akkar (Sunnis), the Hermel and the Bekaa (Shiites) to the Syrian artificial entity, and let all these lucky Muslim fuckers enjoy one another, and bring back Lebanon to its original Christian-Druze duality in the Mountain.
The Western press used to blame the Christians of Lebanon for seeking the help of Israel back in the 1970s and 1980s when the radical Sunnis and the PLO were decimating the country. Lebanon's Christians were the canaries in the mine, warning everyone else that what was happening to Lebanon will happen elsewhere if the Islamists are not defeated. But the hypocritical West sided with the Muslims and the PLO terrorists, branding the Christians "right-wing" extremists. They did so again in Bosnia..Only 20 years separate the Islamic terror truck bombings of the French and US peacekeepers in Beirut in 1982, and the plane terror bombings of September 2001 in New York and their corollaries of Madrid, Bali, London, etc... One day, when Islamic Republics mushroom across Europe, I hope there will be a few who will realize the gravity of the moment we are living today.
Lebanon is back on the front line of this fault line between Islam and the rest of the world. We've been here before, but I hope we will be here again in 30 years to tell the story. In the meantime, I suggest that the Christians should pack up, turn off the lights and let the Muslims fight it out until not one tree is left standing in the country.
Hanibaal
___________________________________________________
Army troops shot
dead a Sunni cleric on Sunday when his convoy failed to stop at a
checkpoint in North Lebanon, the scene of deadly clashes linked to the
uprising in Syria, a security official said, adding that another religious figure in the car of Sheikh Ahmad
Abdel Wahed, known for his support of the anti-regime uprising in
neighbouring Syria, was also killed.
The Lebanese National News Agency identified the man accompanying Abdel Wahed as Mohammad Hussein Merheb. Abdel Wahed's convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in Koueikhat town, in the Akkar region. The incident took place following a week of intermittent clashes in the northern port city of Tripoli between Sunnis hostile to the Syrian regime and Alawites who support President Bashar al-Assad.
The clashes in Lebanon's second largest city left 10 people dead.
Prime Minister Najib Miqati appealed for calm in the wake of the cleric's killing, as the army said it "deplored... the regrettable incident that took place near a checkpoint" and that it had opened an investigation. Local residents set fire to tyres to cut off several roads in northern Lebanon in protest, including a road leading to Syria. "We will not allow ourselves to be targeted like this," warned Khaled al-Daher, a Sunni MP and member of the anti-Assad opposition in Lebanon, accusing the army of "targeting" the cleric.
Daher also called on television for the fall of the Lebanese government, branding it "a collaborator government for Syria and Iran." However, Lebanese opposition chief Saad al-Hariri called on "residents of Akkar to remain calm, and not to fall into the trap of igniting sectarian tensions." Hariri's March 14 movement will push to ensure that those who killed the cleric "and those who ordered the killing" are held accountable, he said in a statement. Some Lebanese Sunnis have accused the Lebanese army of toeing the Syrian regime's line. Following the clashes in Tripoli, Miqati expressed concern that the Syrian crisis may spill over into Lebanon, where tensions have been exacerbated by the 15-month revolt.
The Lebanese National News Agency identified the man accompanying Abdel Wahed as Mohammad Hussein Merheb. Abdel Wahed's convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in Koueikhat town, in the Akkar region. The incident took place following a week of intermittent clashes in the northern port city of Tripoli between Sunnis hostile to the Syrian regime and Alawites who support President Bashar al-Assad.
The clashes in Lebanon's second largest city left 10 people dead.
Prime Minister Najib Miqati appealed for calm in the wake of the cleric's killing, as the army said it "deplored... the regrettable incident that took place near a checkpoint" and that it had opened an investigation. Local residents set fire to tyres to cut off several roads in northern Lebanon in protest, including a road leading to Syria. "We will not allow ourselves to be targeted like this," warned Khaled al-Daher, a Sunni MP and member of the anti-Assad opposition in Lebanon, accusing the army of "targeting" the cleric.
Daher also called on television for the fall of the Lebanese government, branding it "a collaborator government for Syria and Iran." However, Lebanese opposition chief Saad al-Hariri called on "residents of Akkar to remain calm, and not to fall into the trap of igniting sectarian tensions." Hariri's March 14 movement will push to ensure that those who killed the cleric "and those who ordered the killing" are held accountable, he said in a statement. Some Lebanese Sunnis have accused the Lebanese army of toeing the Syrian regime's line. Following the clashes in Tripoli, Miqati expressed concern that the Syrian crisis may spill over into Lebanon, where tensions have been exacerbated by the 15-month revolt.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
No One Should Come to Lebanon this Summer
The WARNING against travel to Lebanon issued by the United Arab Emirates and Qatar on Saturday is well-deserved and should be emulated by many other countries. Many Western countries already have a ban or a warning (US, and others) against traveling to Lebanon.
These warnings and bans are well-deserved for a number of reasons:
1- Lebanon is today run by the Iranian terror organization Hezbollah and its poodles, like the demented fundamentalist Christian Michel Aoun and his family farm the FPM (Fornicating Prick Masturbators), or the feudal Homo Horribilis humanoid bastards of the northern highland clan of the Frangiyeh otherwise known as the Marada (or Shitters in the ancient Lebanese Phoenician language), and others.
Hezbollah runs the government and has established a police state in lebanon mirrored on the Syrian Baath Party. They watch everyone, they control everything, and everything in Lebanon is today focused on saving the ass of the Baath regime of Bashar Assad in Syria. Why? Because if Assad falls, then Hezbollah's lines of weapons, money, terrorists that have been pouring in since the 1980s, would be cut off, and Hezbollah can no longer export its terror from Lebanon to the world.
2- Any money that tourists bring in to Lebanon is siphoned into funding the terrorist activities of the Hezbollah government. For Hezbollah runs enclaves that the Lebanese army cannot enter, that Hezbollah has been digging roads and installing private communications networks over private and public land unhindered by Lebanese state institutions, Hezbollah pilfers electricity - which is rationed by the way to 8 hours for the average citizen - and pays no bills to the State, Hezbollah has been buying - with Iranian money - lands in the Christian mountain hinterland very similar in scope and outlook to the Jewish settlements in the West Bank for the sole purpose of Islamizing Lebanon even further and continue weakening the Christian community by forcing its people to emigrate; Hezbollah has tens of thousands of missiles stashed in the south along the Israeli-Lebanese border, ready to inflame Lebanon the moment Israel attacks Iran's nuclear reactors...
3- The Lebanese people are basically stupid. They see no farther than their pockets. They will sell their country for a dollar, which is what their ancestors the Phoenicians also did: They sailed around the Mediterranean, selling and buying and establishing colonies, but never wrote one text - the Hebrews left us the Bible, the Greeks left us the Iliad, the Sumerians left us the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Babylonians left us the Code of Hamurabi, the Egyptians left us all their ancient texts and monuments, but the Phoenicians wrote not one single book...they just made money. And the Lebanese are exactly the same today... They have 18 religions and one god, which is money. And so, faithful to their modus operandi, the Lebanese have been selling their country to the filthy Arabs from the Gulf. The Lebanese work as chauffeurs and butlers and maids to the Gulf Arabs, yet they will all claim to be superior to everyone else. No principle will ever stand between the Lebanese and money.
Therefore, Arab Gulf tourists are not really welcome. They are in fact, hated, by the Lebanese. Consider the fact that these filthy Gulf Arabs come to Lebanon for the libertine ways: alcohol, women, etc... which they don't have ion their socially repressed countries. Now inside Lebanon only the Christian areas offer these freedoms, not the Muslim areas. So the Gulf Arabs come to spend their money on the booze and the women of the Christian Lebanese. In other words, the Lebanese Christians prostitute themselves to their own enemies for a few bucks.
Hence, I ask that Western tourists starve the Lebanese of this money. Perhaps they might learn to live decently, honestly and within their means, rather that whoring themselves to any jackass under the sun to make money.
4- Western tourists should should not spend money in Lebanon the Lebanese do not respect their environment: trash, garbage, pollution, filthy beaches - in fact there are no public beaches in Lebanon: all ocean front property has been stolen by the politicians and their wealthy cronies where they have built enormous resorts catering only to the rich and the fucking "exclusive" beautiful people, while the vast majority of the Lebanese people cannot go to the beach. In Lebanon, you will not find what is normal in many other countries: A simple road, leading to a simple beach, where you park and walk down to the beach. NO. In Lebanon, you drive in hours in horrendous traffic, in congested pollution, to arrive at a heavily fortified gated resort where you have pay an arm and a leg to gain access to a beach, provided the bouncers at the gate like you and allow you in.
So why in the world would anyone go a Hezbollah-infested, dirty and polluted and congested country where religious fanaticism and corruption are the highest in the world, and where Westerners can get kidnapped or murdered by any one of a number of terrorist organizations that are openly anti-Western? Remember the 7 Estonians last year? If you are into "reality tourism" and want to experience the thrill of spending one year chained to a radiator in a filty and hot basement in the southern suburbs of Beirut or in the Bekaa Valley, then by all means, come to Lebanon. But make sure to read the horror stories written in several books by the former Western hostages of Hezbollah from the 1980s, so you know what to expect.
Otherwise, welcome to Lebanon, the land of filth, corruption, saints and holy men and women of all brands, land of primitive religions and religious barbarity, and have fun.
Hanibaal
______________________________________________________________________________
The United Arab Emirates and Qatar on Saturday urged their citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon, where clashes linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria have left 10 people dead.
"The UAE Foreign Ministry has urged citizens not to travel to Lebanon until the tense security situation there is cleared," it said in an English-language statement carried on state news agency WAM. The advice has been issued "to guarantee the safety of its citizens," senior foreign ministry official Issa Abdullah al-Kalbani said in the statement. Kalbani also called on "citizens currently in Lebanon to leave the country, and in case they have to stay back for any unavoidable reasons, to contact the UAE embassy in Beirut" to give their whereabouts and contact details.
Qatar issued a similar warning due to the "unstable security situation" in Lebanon, its news agency QNA reported.
Sectarian clashes in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli over the past week have left 10 people dead and sparked fears that the deadly revolt sweeping Syria since March 2011 could spill over into Lebanon.
Tension between the Sunni and Alawite communities in Tripoli has been fueled by the uprising and the arrival in the area of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the violence in their country. Clashes broke out last weekend after the arrest of a Sunni Islamist on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization. His supporters say he was targeted for helping Syrian refugees. Since the outbreak of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011, Tripoli has become a safe haven for activists and thousands of refugees.
These warnings and bans are well-deserved for a number of reasons:
1- Lebanon is today run by the Iranian terror organization Hezbollah and its poodles, like the demented fundamentalist Christian Michel Aoun and his family farm the FPM (Fornicating Prick Masturbators), or the feudal Homo Horribilis humanoid bastards of the northern highland clan of the Frangiyeh otherwise known as the Marada (or Shitters in the ancient Lebanese Phoenician language), and others.
Hezbollah runs the government and has established a police state in lebanon mirrored on the Syrian Baath Party. They watch everyone, they control everything, and everything in Lebanon is today focused on saving the ass of the Baath regime of Bashar Assad in Syria. Why? Because if Assad falls, then Hezbollah's lines of weapons, money, terrorists that have been pouring in since the 1980s, would be cut off, and Hezbollah can no longer export its terror from Lebanon to the world.
2- Any money that tourists bring in to Lebanon is siphoned into funding the terrorist activities of the Hezbollah government. For Hezbollah runs enclaves that the Lebanese army cannot enter, that Hezbollah has been digging roads and installing private communications networks over private and public land unhindered by Lebanese state institutions, Hezbollah pilfers electricity - which is rationed by the way to 8 hours for the average citizen - and pays no bills to the State, Hezbollah has been buying - with Iranian money - lands in the Christian mountain hinterland very similar in scope and outlook to the Jewish settlements in the West Bank for the sole purpose of Islamizing Lebanon even further and continue weakening the Christian community by forcing its people to emigrate; Hezbollah has tens of thousands of missiles stashed in the south along the Israeli-Lebanese border, ready to inflame Lebanon the moment Israel attacks Iran's nuclear reactors...
3- The Lebanese people are basically stupid. They see no farther than their pockets. They will sell their country for a dollar, which is what their ancestors the Phoenicians also did: They sailed around the Mediterranean, selling and buying and establishing colonies, but never wrote one text - the Hebrews left us the Bible, the Greeks left us the Iliad, the Sumerians left us the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Babylonians left us the Code of Hamurabi, the Egyptians left us all their ancient texts and monuments, but the Phoenicians wrote not one single book...they just made money. And the Lebanese are exactly the same today... They have 18 religions and one god, which is money. And so, faithful to their modus operandi, the Lebanese have been selling their country to the filthy Arabs from the Gulf. The Lebanese work as chauffeurs and butlers and maids to the Gulf Arabs, yet they will all claim to be superior to everyone else. No principle will ever stand between the Lebanese and money.
Therefore, Arab Gulf tourists are not really welcome. They are in fact, hated, by the Lebanese. Consider the fact that these filthy Gulf Arabs come to Lebanon for the libertine ways: alcohol, women, etc... which they don't have ion their socially repressed countries. Now inside Lebanon only the Christian areas offer these freedoms, not the Muslim areas. So the Gulf Arabs come to spend their money on the booze and the women of the Christian Lebanese. In other words, the Lebanese Christians prostitute themselves to their own enemies for a few bucks.
Hence, I ask that Western tourists starve the Lebanese of this money. Perhaps they might learn to live decently, honestly and within their means, rather that whoring themselves to any jackass under the sun to make money.
4- Western tourists should should not spend money in Lebanon the Lebanese do not respect their environment: trash, garbage, pollution, filthy beaches - in fact there are no public beaches in Lebanon: all ocean front property has been stolen by the politicians and their wealthy cronies where they have built enormous resorts catering only to the rich and the fucking "exclusive" beautiful people, while the vast majority of the Lebanese people cannot go to the beach. In Lebanon, you will not find what is normal in many other countries: A simple road, leading to a simple beach, where you park and walk down to the beach. NO. In Lebanon, you drive in hours in horrendous traffic, in congested pollution, to arrive at a heavily fortified gated resort where you have pay an arm and a leg to gain access to a beach, provided the bouncers at the gate like you and allow you in.
So why in the world would anyone go a Hezbollah-infested, dirty and polluted and congested country where religious fanaticism and corruption are the highest in the world, and where Westerners can get kidnapped or murdered by any one of a number of terrorist organizations that are openly anti-Western? Remember the 7 Estonians last year? If you are into "reality tourism" and want to experience the thrill of spending one year chained to a radiator in a filty and hot basement in the southern suburbs of Beirut or in the Bekaa Valley, then by all means, come to Lebanon. But make sure to read the horror stories written in several books by the former Western hostages of Hezbollah from the 1980s, so you know what to expect.
Otherwise, welcome to Lebanon, the land of filth, corruption, saints and holy men and women of all brands, land of primitive religions and religious barbarity, and have fun.
Hanibaal
______________________________________________________________________________
The United Arab Emirates and Qatar on Saturday urged their citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon, where clashes linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria have left 10 people dead.
"The UAE Foreign Ministry has urged citizens not to travel to Lebanon until the tense security situation there is cleared," it said in an English-language statement carried on state news agency WAM. The advice has been issued "to guarantee the safety of its citizens," senior foreign ministry official Issa Abdullah al-Kalbani said in the statement. Kalbani also called on "citizens currently in Lebanon to leave the country, and in case they have to stay back for any unavoidable reasons, to contact the UAE embassy in Beirut" to give their whereabouts and contact details.
Qatar issued a similar warning due to the "unstable security situation" in Lebanon, its news agency QNA reported.
Sectarian clashes in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli over the past week have left 10 people dead and sparked fears that the deadly revolt sweeping Syria since March 2011 could spill over into Lebanon.
Tension between the Sunni and Alawite communities in Tripoli has been fueled by the uprising and the arrival in the area of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the violence in their country. Clashes broke out last weekend after the arrest of a Sunni Islamist on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization. His supporters say he was targeted for helping Syrian refugees. Since the outbreak of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011, Tripoli has become a safe haven for activists and thousands of refugees.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Lebanon: Afflicted with the Syrian Curse
The recent events in Tripoli remind me of the situation in the late 1960s and early 1970s, just before the outbreak of the Lebanese War of 1975. The actors' names may have changed, but the play and the director - namely Syria - remain the same.
In the 1970s, the Palestinian criminals of the PLO were the Trojan horse used by Syria to destabilize Lebanon and use it as the war front against Israel. There were - and the evidence to date is that there still are - at least two motives for the Syrian enemy regime to do so.
One was that Syria's defeat in the 1967 War with Israel was of such magnitude that the "honor" and "dignity" of the Arab Syrian Baath Socialist Party had to be restored by all means. And so Syria, in its military weakness and incompetence at ever defeating Israel, made the strategic decision to drag Lebanon along into a fight with Israel that Lebanon had managed to escape since the only war it fought against Israel, the 1948 war in whose aftermath Lebanon and Israel signed the 1949 armistice that to this day both countries agree defines their relationship, despite the many other wars between them since 1949. I remember the 1967 war vividly: We knew the Syrians (and the Egyptians too) were losing and lying to their people about who was winning. We painted our windows and car headlights blue, supposedly for camouflage against a possible Israeli attack. But the vast majority of the Lebanese sided with Israel publicly, knowing from the experience of the previous three decades that Syria hated Lebanon, that Syria had attempted several times to topple the Lebanese government in coup after coup attempt executed by the Fascist Syrian Socialist National Party (الحزب القومي السوري), and that both Syria and Egypt were trying to force Lebanon into an ill-fated Arab Union spearheaded b Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Lebanese hated Syria in return, as they still remembered the relatively recent 1958 troubles caused by the Syrians and Nasser's attempts at derailing the Lebanese National Pact that defined the structure of government in Lebanon, for the sole purpose of dragging the country into a confrontation with Israel that Lebanon knew it could never win.
The second motive for the Syrian enemy regime's attempts to destabilize Lebanon followed shortly after the 1973 October War, when a second defeat and humiliation of the Syrians on the Golan Heights convinced the Baathists in Damascus, now led by Hafez Assad, to acquiesce to Henry Kissinger's plan. Kissinger, then the US Secretary of State, had negotiated the truce on the Golan Heights after the 1973 War, which led to the positioning of UN observers in 1974 between Syria and Israel. The Kissinger Plan, to which both Syria and Israel subscribed called for:
1- Keep the Golan Heights front calm at any cost. This has been very successful since to date not one bullet was ever fired between Syria and Israel, even though Israel eventually annexed the Golan Heights, and Syria has continued its warmongering against Israel via the Lebanese War as a proxy. Indeed, the destabilization of Lebanon by Syria for the next 50 years - and to this day - remains the means by which Syria claims to be "resisting" Israel, because in Syria itself no such resistance or effort at liberating the Golan ever materialized other than by yelling and screaming through the media.
2- Focus any hostilities between Israel and Syria to the Lebanese arena, which both the Americans and the Israelis also hoped would have another windfall: As the Anglo-Saxon West considered Lebanon a French Mandate vintage country (as opposed to Israel which was a British Mandate vintage country), then a failure of Lebanon as a state would be an indirect good mark for the American-British line of western diplomacy and a downgrade of the French line of diplomacy. Remember that these were times still very close to the end of World War II and the French-British duel persisted. A failure of Lebanon as a state was already cooked up with the major ingredient being the defeat of the PLO by the US-British vintage Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the 1970 Black September Palestinian genocide conducted by King Hussein of Jordan against the Palestinian population. As a result, the PLO and its hordes of terror groups moved their headquarters from Amman to Beirut (not Damascus, mind you), and the Kissinger Plan called for surrendering the soon-to-fail State of Lebanon to Yasser Arafat who would then be satisfied with Lebanon as a substitute homeland for his lost Palestine, and Israel would be off the hook when it came to the Right of Return and other Palestinian claims to Mandatory Palestine.
Thus, since the 1970s the Syrian enemy regime's mantra became to make Lebanon the ONLY war front against Israel, thus sparing Syria itself all the consequences and calamities of the same "Resistance" and "Steadfastness" and "Liberation" that were to be the hallmark of Lebanon's predicament for the next 50 years. In fact, all the other Arab countries - mainly Jordan and Egypt, and eventually the Palestinians themselves - regulated their relationships with Israel: Egypt signed the Camp David Accord in 1979. Jordan followed suit in the mid-1980s by surrendering its claims to the West Bank to the PLO who, in in turn signed its own treaties with Israel (Oslo and Madrid). Of course, the Syrian enemy regime regulated its relationship with Israel through the 1974 truce agreement to which it adhered to this day like a religion. To all these people, however, their war against Israel continued in Lebanon, via Lebanon, with Lebanese blood and treasure, sending the country into a spiral of violence and decline from which it never recovered. To this day, the Lebanese continue to be pushed and dragged into fighting Quixotic wars against Israel despite themselves.
Today, Syria continues to play the puppeteer in Lebanon. Instead of the PLO and the Sunnis of the 1970s, it now has the "Hezbollah Club": The Iranian terror organization Hezbollah, plus some Christians like the Frangieh clan of Zghorta and the Free Patriotic Movement of the demented traitor Michel Aoun, the Druze fence-sitter Walid Jumblatt and thy Syrian dummy Wi'am Wahhab, many Sunnis like the Karamis of Tripoli and the current Prime Minister Miqati, and a horde of Palestinian terrorists groups and Islamist radicals which it manipulates at will. With the Hezbollah Club, the tune of the anti-Lebanon conspiracy was modified from "liberating Palestine" to "liberating the Shebaa Farms": a fabricated Israeli occupation of a hill in the Lebanese south, which in fact was annexed by Syria from Lebanon in the 1950s, but which Syria's puppets today claim it is occupied by Israel as a pretext to keep Lebanon as the only Arab war front against Israel, and the reason why Hezbollah and Syria have amassed 50,000 missiles pointed at Israel in the Lebanese south.
Supposedly opposing the Syrian influence are the "reformed" Sunnis like the Hariri clan, the Siniora poodles of Saida, and others.... who actually used to be Syria's main puppets until the Syrian regime killed one of them, Rafik Hariri, in 2005. The main genuine opposition to Syria's hegemony remains in the hands of a few Christians who, unfortunately, were the warlords that ran the Lebanese War of 1975 with their criminality, their feudal allegiance to the Maronite Church, and their attachment to traditional antiquated forms of government that keep the country even more backward. Even if one believed in the cause of a Lebanon free from Syrian hegemony, it is difficult to support the standard bearers of that cause because of their background. And US foreign policy continues on the tracks of the Kissinger Plan: It continues to support the traditionalist warlords like Amin Gemayel and Samir Geagea on the Christian side, and the traditionalist former pro-Syrian Sunnis on the Muslim side. Instead of promoting secularism and those Lebanese on the ground working for secularism, human rights, etc., the US and the West are perpetuating the sectarian division of the country and keeping real change from happening. Why? The US continues to believe that Lebanon should become a substitute Palestine where Israel can bury the Palestinians' Right of Return claim.
That is the curse of Lebanon: The Syrian enemy regime acting at the behest of a Western-Israeli alliance to continue undermining Lebanon until such time as the Palestinian refugees, the PLO terrorists and their appendages of Sunni Islamist radicals take control of the country and settle the Palestinians for good in it. No wonder that the Western alliance and Israel continue to say that there will be no military intervention in Syria, that Syria is too "complicated" unlike Libya... All reasons for insidiously supporting the Baathist regime in Damascus, even as it commits the worst ever atrocities against it sown people and threatens once again to send Lebanon into a downward spiral of violence. What "complications" could there be in the Syrian situation, other than protecting Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights, gobbling up Palestine with everyday facts on the ground (settlements, home confiscations...), and ensuring the permanent settlement of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to abort the Palestinian claim of the Right of Return. All that would left for Israel to deal with is the Jerusalem question, which is virtually settled: The PLO is ready to accept East Jerusalem as its capital of a future Palestinian Banana Republic, while Israeli encroachments on whatever is left of the other Jerusalem have been completed.
Hanibaal
In the 1970s, the Palestinian criminals of the PLO were the Trojan horse used by Syria to destabilize Lebanon and use it as the war front against Israel. There were - and the evidence to date is that there still are - at least two motives for the Syrian enemy regime to do so.
One was that Syria's defeat in the 1967 War with Israel was of such magnitude that the "honor" and "dignity" of the Arab Syrian Baath Socialist Party had to be restored by all means. And so Syria, in its military weakness and incompetence at ever defeating Israel, made the strategic decision to drag Lebanon along into a fight with Israel that Lebanon had managed to escape since the only war it fought against Israel, the 1948 war in whose aftermath Lebanon and Israel signed the 1949 armistice that to this day both countries agree defines their relationship, despite the many other wars between them since 1949. I remember the 1967 war vividly: We knew the Syrians (and the Egyptians too) were losing and lying to their people about who was winning. We painted our windows and car headlights blue, supposedly for camouflage against a possible Israeli attack. But the vast majority of the Lebanese sided with Israel publicly, knowing from the experience of the previous three decades that Syria hated Lebanon, that Syria had attempted several times to topple the Lebanese government in coup after coup attempt executed by the Fascist Syrian Socialist National Party (الحزب القومي السوري), and that both Syria and Egypt were trying to force Lebanon into an ill-fated Arab Union spearheaded b Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Lebanese hated Syria in return, as they still remembered the relatively recent 1958 troubles caused by the Syrians and Nasser's attempts at derailing the Lebanese National Pact that defined the structure of government in Lebanon, for the sole purpose of dragging the country into a confrontation with Israel that Lebanon knew it could never win.
The second motive for the Syrian enemy regime's attempts to destabilize Lebanon followed shortly after the 1973 October War, when a second defeat and humiliation of the Syrians on the Golan Heights convinced the Baathists in Damascus, now led by Hafez Assad, to acquiesce to Henry Kissinger's plan. Kissinger, then the US Secretary of State, had negotiated the truce on the Golan Heights after the 1973 War, which led to the positioning of UN observers in 1974 between Syria and Israel. The Kissinger Plan, to which both Syria and Israel subscribed called for:
1- Keep the Golan Heights front calm at any cost. This has been very successful since to date not one bullet was ever fired between Syria and Israel, even though Israel eventually annexed the Golan Heights, and Syria has continued its warmongering against Israel via the Lebanese War as a proxy. Indeed, the destabilization of Lebanon by Syria for the next 50 years - and to this day - remains the means by which Syria claims to be "resisting" Israel, because in Syria itself no such resistance or effort at liberating the Golan ever materialized other than by yelling and screaming through the media.
2- Focus any hostilities between Israel and Syria to the Lebanese arena, which both the Americans and the Israelis also hoped would have another windfall: As the Anglo-Saxon West considered Lebanon a French Mandate vintage country (as opposed to Israel which was a British Mandate vintage country), then a failure of Lebanon as a state would be an indirect good mark for the American-British line of western diplomacy and a downgrade of the French line of diplomacy. Remember that these were times still very close to the end of World War II and the French-British duel persisted. A failure of Lebanon as a state was already cooked up with the major ingredient being the defeat of the PLO by the US-British vintage Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the 1970 Black September Palestinian genocide conducted by King Hussein of Jordan against the Palestinian population. As a result, the PLO and its hordes of terror groups moved their headquarters from Amman to Beirut (not Damascus, mind you), and the Kissinger Plan called for surrendering the soon-to-fail State of Lebanon to Yasser Arafat who would then be satisfied with Lebanon as a substitute homeland for his lost Palestine, and Israel would be off the hook when it came to the Right of Return and other Palestinian claims to Mandatory Palestine.
Thus, since the 1970s the Syrian enemy regime's mantra became to make Lebanon the ONLY war front against Israel, thus sparing Syria itself all the consequences and calamities of the same "Resistance" and "Steadfastness" and "Liberation" that were to be the hallmark of Lebanon's predicament for the next 50 years. In fact, all the other Arab countries - mainly Jordan and Egypt, and eventually the Palestinians themselves - regulated their relationships with Israel: Egypt signed the Camp David Accord in 1979. Jordan followed suit in the mid-1980s by surrendering its claims to the West Bank to the PLO who, in in turn signed its own treaties with Israel (Oslo and Madrid). Of course, the Syrian enemy regime regulated its relationship with Israel through the 1974 truce agreement to which it adhered to this day like a religion. To all these people, however, their war against Israel continued in Lebanon, via Lebanon, with Lebanese blood and treasure, sending the country into a spiral of violence and decline from which it never recovered. To this day, the Lebanese continue to be pushed and dragged into fighting Quixotic wars against Israel despite themselves.
Today, Syria continues to play the puppeteer in Lebanon. Instead of the PLO and the Sunnis of the 1970s, it now has the "Hezbollah Club": The Iranian terror organization Hezbollah, plus some Christians like the Frangieh clan of Zghorta and the Free Patriotic Movement of the demented traitor Michel Aoun, the Druze fence-sitter Walid Jumblatt and thy Syrian dummy Wi'am Wahhab, many Sunnis like the Karamis of Tripoli and the current Prime Minister Miqati, and a horde of Palestinian terrorists groups and Islamist radicals which it manipulates at will. With the Hezbollah Club, the tune of the anti-Lebanon conspiracy was modified from "liberating Palestine" to "liberating the Shebaa Farms": a fabricated Israeli occupation of a hill in the Lebanese south, which in fact was annexed by Syria from Lebanon in the 1950s, but which Syria's puppets today claim it is occupied by Israel as a pretext to keep Lebanon as the only Arab war front against Israel, and the reason why Hezbollah and Syria have amassed 50,000 missiles pointed at Israel in the Lebanese south.
Supposedly opposing the Syrian influence are the "reformed" Sunnis like the Hariri clan, the Siniora poodles of Saida, and others.... who actually used to be Syria's main puppets until the Syrian regime killed one of them, Rafik Hariri, in 2005. The main genuine opposition to Syria's hegemony remains in the hands of a few Christians who, unfortunately, were the warlords that ran the Lebanese War of 1975 with their criminality, their feudal allegiance to the Maronite Church, and their attachment to traditional antiquated forms of government that keep the country even more backward. Even if one believed in the cause of a Lebanon free from Syrian hegemony, it is difficult to support the standard bearers of that cause because of their background. And US foreign policy continues on the tracks of the Kissinger Plan: It continues to support the traditionalist warlords like Amin Gemayel and Samir Geagea on the Christian side, and the traditionalist former pro-Syrian Sunnis on the Muslim side. Instead of promoting secularism and those Lebanese on the ground working for secularism, human rights, etc., the US and the West are perpetuating the sectarian division of the country and keeping real change from happening. Why? The US continues to believe that Lebanon should become a substitute Palestine where Israel can bury the Palestinians' Right of Return claim.
That is the curse of Lebanon: The Syrian enemy regime acting at the behest of a Western-Israeli alliance to continue undermining Lebanon until such time as the Palestinian refugees, the PLO terrorists and their appendages of Sunni Islamist radicals take control of the country and settle the Palestinians for good in it. No wonder that the Western alliance and Israel continue to say that there will be no military intervention in Syria, that Syria is too "complicated" unlike Libya... All reasons for insidiously supporting the Baathist regime in Damascus, even as it commits the worst ever atrocities against it sown people and threatens once again to send Lebanon into a downward spiral of violence. What "complications" could there be in the Syrian situation, other than protecting Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights, gobbling up Palestine with everyday facts on the ground (settlements, home confiscations...), and ensuring the permanent settlement of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to abort the Palestinian claim of the Right of Return. All that would left for Israel to deal with is the Jerusalem question, which is virtually settled: The PLO is ready to accept East Jerusalem as its capital of a future Palestinian Banana Republic, while Israeli encroachments on whatever is left of the other Jerusalem have been completed.
Hanibaal
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Down with Primitive Religions in Lebanon. Down with Primitive Sectarian Form of Government
Lebanon - like many Arab and Muslim countries - is still trapped in the 19th century form of government inherited from the Ottoman Turkish Muslim occupation that lasted 400 years. The Ottoman Sultan in Istanbul was also the Caliph of the Islamic State, hence no separation of religion and state.
The Lebanese are a bunch of stupid religious minorities, each led by a neanderthal man dressed in a robe and a funny hat who claims that only his sect or his religion is the correct one because - of course - God told him that, and that all the other sects and religions are just trash. The Ottoman Turks ruled like the British - Divide and Rule. So they continuously pitted the sects against one another, with pogroms, massacres, deportations and lynchings. So, for example, a Christian was considered a Dhimmi (i.e. a protected second class citizen) and under Ottoman rule, Christians had to dress differently from Muslims. Whenever a Muslim encountered a Christian walking down the street, the Christian had to move to the left to let the Muslim go unhindered by the presence of this filthy Christian - أشمل يا كلب - was the invective hurled at the Christian - Move to the left, you dog.
It was only with the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I that the Middle East ushered into a new modern age, Arabic literature was reborn after 4 centuries of ignorance and abject cultural decay under the fucking Turks, and European States created state institutions for the religious tribes across the region. They may not have done a great job - Britain created the filthy cesspool called Palestine-Israel conflict, it also created the Pakistan-India division which continues to threaten world peace to this day... France, on the other hand, was more secular and tried to get these feuding tribes to move toward a more secular form of government, but hard as it tried, France was unable to get the primitive Muslims of Lebanon to shed religion from the affairs of State, and a compromise was made. While the Lebanese constitution that the French helped us write did not make any mention of religion, the Lebanese religious cavemen insisted on religion as the basis for government: After the French withdrew in 1943, the Lebanese came up with the unwritten agreement, the so-called National Pact - الميثاق الوطني - in which they assigned government posts on the basis of religion.
It took another 50 years of civil wars, massacres, and absolute barbaric killings between each other and with other similarly primitive Arabs like the Syrians and the Palestinians, for the Lebanese - instead of moving forward and putting religion where it belongs - in the toilet - they now enshrined the religious division of power into the constitution thanks to - hear this - AMERICAN (George W. Bush Senior and his lapdog James Baker) backing - in the so-called Taif Agreement of 1989. So, Lebanon, since the French left in 1943, has been receding backwards into its Ottoman past, instead of moving forward into the modern world. Just listen to the neanderthal asshole who leads the Maronite Church - PatriArse BiKhara 3amteraani Tizi Ra3i - only yesterday in Montreal calling for a return to the 1943 compromise that would even further take us backwards (see below). He and his ilk will not give up power easily. Their solution to Lebanon's structural and constitutive problems is not to move away from religion and more toward a secular state, but to sink deeper into the cesspool of barbaric religions.
The demonstration by the Secular Lebanon movement (see below) is a glimmer of hope that the new generation is sick of all the divisions, the killings, the religious pogroms and massacres of every generation... The new generation is tired of the corruption at whose roots is religion and nothing but religion. Here is how it works: The local politician is beholden to the religious leader. They collude together to keep their hold on power: The religious leader controls the politician and thus has control over social and economic policies, and the politician runs his business with clientelism, cronyism and patronage, whereby he provides all kinds of extrajudicial services to the people as long as they vote for him. The system is rigged such that you vote based on your religion, you drive based on your religion, you get jobs based on your religion.... You have to go to a priest or a Sheikh to marry, divorce, inherit or for any other little detail of your personal private life.
A few years back, the Lebanese had a brief and puny aha moment when they made a big deal by obtaining the right to delete the mention of their fucking religion from their ID cards, drivers licenses, passports, and every bureaucratic paper that controls their lives. That was - according to the assholes who bragged it at the time - the demise of sectarianism in Lebanon. Now, they are discovering that if you do that - delete religion ftrom your ID card, the powermongers - who are still based on a religious division of power - will not let you vote because the law still requires you to vote based on your religion.
The solution is that the entire system has to be overhauled, religion discarded in the trash, priests, sheikhs, muftis and patriarses should be locked up in their churches and mosques, and let people live and breathe free from the myths and absolute lies of religious stories of the bible and the koran and their fanatic followers.
To the 1,000 people who demonstrated yesterday in Beirut for secularism: Bravo. keep working. It is a difficult battle, but we will win one day. Lebanon should be the first Arab-fucking-Muslim country to separate religion from government.
Turkey did it, but not one Arab fucking country has done it. Lebanese Muslim brains are still glued by the Koranic bullshit of Islam being the only true religion and Mohammad being the last prophet (thank God he is.... I cannot imagine the untold misery and bloodshed that another monotheistic cult arising out of the desert would do the human race), and the Lebanese Christian brains are still mishmashed by Biblical and Gospel crap and their fantastic stories of resurrection, miracles, virgin births, immaculate conceptions and other idiocies from the Stone Age of humanity. Do the Greeks still believe that Aphrodite was born from the ass of Zeus? No. They stopped believing this stupid story when they began believing the other stupid story that Jesus was born of a virgin. Imagine: Mary was impregnated by the angel of God who deposited God's sperm in her while she was sleeping... Now that is VERY believable! Then, after she gave birth - blood, placenta, and all the disgusting stuff that happens during labor, she was still a virgin! Again, a VERY VERY believable story in the modern world. I guess the Greeks are as stupid today as they were 3,000 years ago. So do the Lebanese, because back when they were Phoenicians, they believed in sacrificing babies, women prostituting themselves for Adonis by sleeping with total strangers... you know those unbelievable irrational stupid stories that only primitive religions come up with and primitive idiots believe as true.
Hanibaal
__________________________________________________________________________
More than 1,000 people marched in the Lebanese capital on Sunday calling for the establishment of a secular state in the country which is ruled by a system of power-sharing along religious lines.
"Secularism is the solution," and "The people demand a civil state," the crowds chanted as they marched in Beirut streets waving Lebanese flags, an AFP correspondent said.
Many Lebanese blame the current power-sharing system along religious lines for the majority of problems facing the small Mediterranean nation, home to 18 religious sects.
Lebanon's system of government is rooted in a 1943 power-sharing agreement adopted after the country won its independence from France.
Aimed at maintaining a balance between the 18 religious communities, the agreement calls for the president to be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister to be Sunni Muslim and parliament speaker a Shia.
Other government jobs are also allocated according to religious affiliation.
Many Lebanese believe that this power-sharing arrangement is responsible for most of the country's problems, including corruption, cronyism and the devastating 1975-1990 civil war.
_____________________________________________
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai called for the adoption of a new “social contract” in Lebanon and criticized the way politics is practiced in the country, the National News Agency reported on Monday.
“We call for a patriotic stance that we are labeling ‘a [new] social contract’,” Rai was quoted as saying during a pastoral visit to Montreal, Canada.
“It is time that we worked on a new social contract based on the [1943] national pact, because loyalty to Lebanon is lacking,” Rai added.
The patriarch said that his proposal was “not a reinterpretation” of the old national pact but rather a return to that pact “where it is said that [the Lebanese] should be only loyal to Lebanon.”
The Lebanese are a bunch of stupid religious minorities, each led by a neanderthal man dressed in a robe and a funny hat who claims that only his sect or his religion is the correct one because - of course - God told him that, and that all the other sects and religions are just trash. The Ottoman Turks ruled like the British - Divide and Rule. So they continuously pitted the sects against one another, with pogroms, massacres, deportations and lynchings. So, for example, a Christian was considered a Dhimmi (i.e. a protected second class citizen) and under Ottoman rule, Christians had to dress differently from Muslims. Whenever a Muslim encountered a Christian walking down the street, the Christian had to move to the left to let the Muslim go unhindered by the presence of this filthy Christian - أشمل يا كلب - was the invective hurled at the Christian - Move to the left, you dog.
It was only with the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I that the Middle East ushered into a new modern age, Arabic literature was reborn after 4 centuries of ignorance and abject cultural decay under the fucking Turks, and European States created state institutions for the religious tribes across the region. They may not have done a great job - Britain created the filthy cesspool called Palestine-Israel conflict, it also created the Pakistan-India division which continues to threaten world peace to this day... France, on the other hand, was more secular and tried to get these feuding tribes to move toward a more secular form of government, but hard as it tried, France was unable to get the primitive Muslims of Lebanon to shed religion from the affairs of State, and a compromise was made. While the Lebanese constitution that the French helped us write did not make any mention of religion, the Lebanese religious cavemen insisted on religion as the basis for government: After the French withdrew in 1943, the Lebanese came up with the unwritten agreement, the so-called National Pact - الميثاق الوطني - in which they assigned government posts on the basis of religion.
It took another 50 years of civil wars, massacres, and absolute barbaric killings between each other and with other similarly primitive Arabs like the Syrians and the Palestinians, for the Lebanese - instead of moving forward and putting religion where it belongs - in the toilet - they now enshrined the religious division of power into the constitution thanks to - hear this - AMERICAN (George W. Bush Senior and his lapdog James Baker) backing - in the so-called Taif Agreement of 1989. So, Lebanon, since the French left in 1943, has been receding backwards into its Ottoman past, instead of moving forward into the modern world. Just listen to the neanderthal asshole who leads the Maronite Church - PatriArse BiKhara 3amteraani Tizi Ra3i - only yesterday in Montreal calling for a return to the 1943 compromise that would even further take us backwards (see below). He and his ilk will not give up power easily. Their solution to Lebanon's structural and constitutive problems is not to move away from religion and more toward a secular state, but to sink deeper into the cesspool of barbaric religions.
The demonstration by the Secular Lebanon movement (see below) is a glimmer of hope that the new generation is sick of all the divisions, the killings, the religious pogroms and massacres of every generation... The new generation is tired of the corruption at whose roots is religion and nothing but religion. Here is how it works: The local politician is beholden to the religious leader. They collude together to keep their hold on power: The religious leader controls the politician and thus has control over social and economic policies, and the politician runs his business with clientelism, cronyism and patronage, whereby he provides all kinds of extrajudicial services to the people as long as they vote for him. The system is rigged such that you vote based on your religion, you drive based on your religion, you get jobs based on your religion.... You have to go to a priest or a Sheikh to marry, divorce, inherit or for any other little detail of your personal private life.
A few years back, the Lebanese had a brief and puny aha moment when they made a big deal by obtaining the right to delete the mention of their fucking religion from their ID cards, drivers licenses, passports, and every bureaucratic paper that controls their lives. That was - according to the assholes who bragged it at the time - the demise of sectarianism in Lebanon. Now, they are discovering that if you do that - delete religion ftrom your ID card, the powermongers - who are still based on a religious division of power - will not let you vote because the law still requires you to vote based on your religion.
The solution is that the entire system has to be overhauled, religion discarded in the trash, priests, sheikhs, muftis and patriarses should be locked up in their churches and mosques, and let people live and breathe free from the myths and absolute lies of religious stories of the bible and the koran and their fanatic followers.
To the 1,000 people who demonstrated yesterday in Beirut for secularism: Bravo. keep working. It is a difficult battle, but we will win one day. Lebanon should be the first Arab-fucking-Muslim country to separate religion from government.
Turkey did it, but not one Arab fucking country has done it. Lebanese Muslim brains are still glued by the Koranic bullshit of Islam being the only true religion and Mohammad being the last prophet (thank God he is.... I cannot imagine the untold misery and bloodshed that another monotheistic cult arising out of the desert would do the human race), and the Lebanese Christian brains are still mishmashed by Biblical and Gospel crap and their fantastic stories of resurrection, miracles, virgin births, immaculate conceptions and other idiocies from the Stone Age of humanity. Do the Greeks still believe that Aphrodite was born from the ass of Zeus? No. They stopped believing this stupid story when they began believing the other stupid story that Jesus was born of a virgin. Imagine: Mary was impregnated by the angel of God who deposited God's sperm in her while she was sleeping... Now that is VERY believable! Then, after she gave birth - blood, placenta, and all the disgusting stuff that happens during labor, she was still a virgin! Again, a VERY VERY believable story in the modern world. I guess the Greeks are as stupid today as they were 3,000 years ago. So do the Lebanese, because back when they were Phoenicians, they believed in sacrificing babies, women prostituting themselves for Adonis by sleeping with total strangers... you know those unbelievable irrational stupid stories that only primitive religions come up with and primitive idiots believe as true.
Hanibaal
__________________________________________________________________________
More than 1,000 people marched in the Lebanese capital on Sunday calling for the establishment of a secular state in the country which is ruled by a system of power-sharing along religious lines.
"Secularism is the solution," and "The people demand a civil state," the crowds chanted as they marched in Beirut streets waving Lebanese flags, an AFP correspondent said.
Many Lebanese blame the current power-sharing system along religious lines for the majority of problems facing the small Mediterranean nation, home to 18 religious sects.
Lebanon's system of government is rooted in a 1943 power-sharing agreement adopted after the country won its independence from France.
Aimed at maintaining a balance between the 18 religious communities, the agreement calls for the president to be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister to be Sunni Muslim and parliament speaker a Shia.
Other government jobs are also allocated according to religious affiliation.
Many Lebanese believe that this power-sharing arrangement is responsible for most of the country's problems, including corruption, cronyism and the devastating 1975-1990 civil war.
_____________________________________________
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai called for the adoption of a new “social contract” in Lebanon and criticized the way politics is practiced in the country, the National News Agency reported on Monday.
“We call for a patriotic stance that we are labeling ‘a [new] social contract’,” Rai was quoted as saying during a pastoral visit to Montreal, Canada.
“It is time that we worked on a new social contract based on the [1943] national pact, because loyalty to Lebanon is lacking,” Rai added.
The patriarch said that his proposal was “not a reinterpretation” of the old national pact but rather a return to that pact “where it is said that [the Lebanese] should be only loyal to Lebanon.”
Friday, May 4, 2012
Kangaroo Lebanese Justice at the Service of the Syrian War Criminal Dictator
Here is another example of the Lebanese political establishment defending with fake, corrupt justice, the Syrian Baathist enemy dictatorship and supporting the Syrian regime's genocidal war against its own people, for the simple reason of maintaining its criminal grip on power in Syria. Lest it be forgotten, Syria is an artificial entity created by colonial France in 1946 out of a patchwork of incompatible religious tribes of Sunni Muslims in the center around Damascus, Druze in the south, Alawites in the West, Kurds and in the northeast, and Turks and Armenians in the northwest. For decades the Social-Nationalist Fascists (i.e. Nazis) of the Baath Party tried to impose a fake "Arab" identity on all these people, and today's revolution is just a rejection of that identity. Syria should be broken apart as follows:
- The Kurdish region should be attached to the semi-independent Kurdish homeland in Northern Iraq.
- The Sunni regions should merge with either Jordan or the Sunni third of Iraq
- The Druze of the south (Golan and Hauran) should be attached to the Druze areas of Lebanon.
- The Alawites along the Mediterranean coast should set up their own little country as a continuum of the non-Arab, non-Muslim, Jewish island of Israel and the Christian island of Lebanon.
Since the 1970s and following the invasion, occupation, and genocide committed by the Syrian enemy Baathist regime against the people of Lebanon, Lebanon's political establishment, religious establishment, security apparatus, army, and most political parties became beholden to the Syrian dictatorship for maintaining its own power inside Lebanon.
After decades during which Syria smuggled killers and criminals, terrorists and saboteurs, truck bombers and suicide bombers, weapons of all kinds, including the 50,000 missiles that the terror organization Hezbollah maintains in the south, into Lebanon, all with the acquiescence, collusion and complicity of the political parties and the Lebanese State.
Now, as the Syrian regime is chocking in its own vomit and excrement, the dinosaur feudals and religious powermongers in Lebanon are doing everything they can to help the Syrian regime overcome the popular uprising in the deserts and cities of Syria. Every other day, Syrian refugees who fled persecution in Syria are arrested in Lebanon, imprisoned, tortured, and returned to Syria to face certain death. Innocent people are accused by the corrupt and sold-out Lebanese judiciary, led by the mercenary Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr (long a stalwart defender of the Syrian regime and one of the most corrupt judges Lebanon ever had) on trumped up charges of "smuggling weapons from Lebanon into Syria", at a time that the traffic of weapons between the two countries is overwhelmingly from Syria into Lebanon to fund terrorism and car bombs and assassinations of anti-Syrian politicians.
The latest such kangaroo justice in the banana puppet republic of Lebanon is described below. I am ashamed every time I read these stories for what Lebanon has become. Even the Maronite PatriArse BiKhara Ter3aane Tizi has defended Syria as the only democracy in the Middle East!
Long gone is the time when Lebanon was a respectable independent liberal country. Today the Lebanese people have become prisoners and hostages of their own tormentors: their mercenary politicians who would serve the artificial enemy entity of Syria before they serve their own people, and who would violate every human right to serve the regime in Damascus.
I strongly urge foreign tourists - Europeans, Arabs and everyone else NOT TO COME TO LEBANON as tourists. You might end up in jail for your political opinions, for carrying the wrong book... Please help the Lebanese people by starving the corrupt monster that runs the country on behalf of the Syrian dictatorship. Remember the 7 Estonians who were kidnapped last year and taken into Syria?
Hanibaal
_______________________________________________________________
Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr indicted 21 people, including customs agents and crew members of the Lutfallah II
vessel, for “buying and shipping large quantities of weapons, munitions
and explosive supplies from Libya to Lebanon for the purpose of using
them in terrorist acts,” the National News Agency reported.
The report also said that 13 of the detainees were Syrians, four Lebanese, two Egyptians, one Indian and one Libyan.
Last week, a security official said that Lebanon intercepted a ship off the coast of the northern city of Batroun, which was suspected of carrying weapons destined for Syria's rebel army.
Syrian authorities have repeatedly charged that weapons were being smuggled from Lebanon into Syria to assist rebels seeking the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.
The report also said that 13 of the detainees were Syrians, four Lebanese, two Egyptians, one Indian and one Libyan.
Last week, a security official said that Lebanon intercepted a ship off the coast of the northern city of Batroun, which was suspected of carrying weapons destined for Syria's rebel army.
Syrian authorities have repeatedly charged that weapons were being smuggled from Lebanon into Syria to assist rebels seeking the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)