In his book, the Rustling of the Cedars (a collection of
articles written during the World War I period, both in his Brazilian exile and
then after returning to join the emerging Greater Lebanon), the patriotic
Lebanese journalist, Youssef Ayoub Hitti, scolded his fellow Lebanese for going
to the streets in 1919 and chanting the praises of the newly installed French
High Commissioner, General Gouraud, as the liberator of Lebanon from the
Turkish Ottoman occupation. But Gouraud was no liberator; he was merely the arm
of French colonialism that uses Lebanon’s Christians when it is suitable to
their interests but dumps them when necessary. And Youssef Hitti understood
this tare in the Lebanese people, and he reminded them that in 1914, when the
Turkish forces re-occupied Lebanon (free from direct Turkish rule since 1864),
they hailed the Turkish Governor Jamal Pasha “the Butcher” as the savior of
Lebanon.
In Lebanon and during the US election campaign, love for Trump was
skyrocketing. When queried, the Lebanese repeated all the lies, fake promises,
inanities they heard on Fox News – and fed to them by the Lebanese-American
diaspora in the US, the visionless rightwing Maronite Church, and Russian
propaganda: Trump will bring peace to the world. He will fix the economy (as if
the decrepit Lebanese economy was somehow connected to the US economy), he’ll
fix the Middle East and make Lebanon great again (which implies in their
impoverished minds resuming the sectarian domination of one tribe over
another), etc. They swallowed every stupid slogan of returning glory to
America, which never really needed to be returned, but which only enlightened
minds understand it to consist of more than the military and economic bullying
that have become the trademark of US foreign policy since 1945.
The Lebanese in general, and the abysmally ignorant Christians among them,
share with Trump an obsession with superficial ostentation, flashy cars,
botoxed and otherwise enhanced women, money, etc. – and they love him because
they see themselves in him. More than that, they think Trump is going to save
them out of their miserable marriage with their Muslim counterparts whom they
greedily invited one hundred years ago to join the Greater Lebanon monstrosity,
but for which they lack the balls to stand up united and declare they no longer
want to be a part of.
Rather, over the decades, they invited the French (pre-1943), then the
Americans (1958), then the Syrians (1970s-1980s), then the Israelis
(1980s-1990s), then the Saudis (1990s-2000s), and since then they’ve been
indirectly ass-kissing the Iranians, and now again the Israelis and the
Americans. They do not understand that only unity, self-reliance and planned
purpose is what makes a strong nation. The Christians hate the Muslims, but
they hide their real feelings because they fear upsetting the fountains of
money located in the Arabian Gulf. Just like their Phoenician ancestors, they
wallow in division, worship money, and rely on foreign powers (Assyrians,
Persians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders) to stab one another in
the back and gain power.
These days, drive around Beirut and you’ll see newer giant portraits of the new
“savior strong man”, president Joseph Aoun. To them, he is going to fix all of
Lebanon’s chronic problems and take them back to a time of nostalgia where
bribes, corruption, and outsmarting the laws was such a cute tradition of
Lebanese culture. They don't like corruption that involves foreigners (Iran,
Syria etc.) but they love patriotic nationalist corruption.
If Aoun turns out to be a true reformer, the cretin Lebanese
will quickly be disappointed and will try to bring him down because true reform
in Lebanon means an overhaul of the rotten culture itself. They did it with
Fuad Shihab (1950s-1960s) who enacted several reforms using a military iron
hand (he too was a former general) to fight the endemic corruption and tribal
and sectarian identities. In his honesty and integrity, he refused to seek a
second term, which the Lebanese interpreted as weakness (kindness, gentility,
honesty etc. in Lebanon mean weakness, vulnerability, exploitability, etc.).
His successor, Charles Helou, was essentially booted out of office in 1970 by
the tribal leaders who, a few years later in 1975, became the warlords and
criminals that have since savaged the country with their brutality and are
still in power today.
Meanwhile, Arab and Lebanese American idiots who voted for Trump are now
beginning to take stock of the nightmare they have invited on themselves and
their region of origin. Trump’s blatant bias for Israel and his impending plans
for completing the ethnic cleansing of Palestine is already raising the ire of
the so-called moderate Arab allied countries of the US. This will have a
negative impact on Lebanon. Now rid of the Shiites of Hezbollah, Lebanon is
likely to become the target of their current allies, the Sunnis of Saudi Arabia
and the Gulf countries, especially if Trump persists in raping Palestine for
the dark eyes of his Zionist friends. Lebanon is always the scapegoat of the
conflicts in the region. All of the political protagonists on the world stage
have to be happy in order for Lebanon to be happy. But as soon as one of them
is unhappy, Lebanon falls into chaos, instability and war. If the Americans are
unhappy, Lebanon’s economy crumbles and Israel bombs and invades. If the Sunnis
are unhappy, they brandish their ISIS and Al-Qaeda types. If the Shiites are
unhappy, they raise the Hezbollah threat against everyone else and invite Iran.
The Christians, in their utter incompetence, end up the losers and the unhappy
ones: They are never united enough to lay down a plan for what they really want
and execute it without fighting and carnage.
In the US, Arab Americans who love the “strong man” Trump, and also to spite
Biden for allowing Israel to devastate Gaza, are now realizing that Trump is
much much worse than Biden. They somehow missed the obvious signs of Trump’s
dual Moronity-Criminality character and trusted that he will make peace in
Palestine. Now they are discovering that his idea of peace is to solve the
problem by erasing, deleting, wiping out Palestine altogether to the joy of the
colonial Zionists. For Trump, problem solved.
For example, a pro-Trump Arab American organization, which performed voter
outreach on Trump’s behalf to the Arab American communities in Michigan during
his 2024 campaign, has now changed its name. After learning of Trump’s plan,
which any idiot who can read could have guessed, of taking over Gaza, this
organization has announced last week it is changing its name from “Arab
Americans for Trump” to “Arab Americans for Peace”.
The group’s leader, one Bishara Bahbah, initially credited Trump for being
“able to enforce” the Gaza ceasefire reached last month between the Palestinian
militant group Hamas and Israel. But now that Trump and Netanyahu agreed over
the weekend to scuttle the agreement in order to pursue their joint venture of
not only raping, but also sodomizing then killing Palestine and dumping it by
the wayside, the group wants “peace”. They might want piss instead because it
is too late.
Hence, Mr. Bahbah, the group’s scintillating chair said while “the group values
the support of Trump and its relationship with him … it categorically rejects
the whole notion of displacing or removing or transferring the Palestinians in
Gaza. There is no place for Palestinians to go.”
Poor Mr. Bahbah!
Entre les deux, mon coeur balance. On one hand, they like the Hitlerian
dictator that Trump is, the strong man so adulated in illiterate backward Arab
countries and cultures, and on the other hand, they also like Palestine. And
now, Arab-Americans know that Trump has impaled them where the sun don't shine.
He lied to them to get elected. Just like that poor Lebanese-American ennuch,
Massad Boulos, who got the ceremonial title of Trump's Senior Adviser on Middle
East Affairs because his son sleeps with Trump's daughter. Otherwise, Boulos is
a useless decoy duck who watches Zionist Americans being dispatched as
"real" envoys to the Middle East while he himself is being dragged
into supporting the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and accepting that 400,000
Palestinian refugees permanently settle in his home country of Lebanon.
Thanks to Bahbah’s organization, Trump won Dearborn, Michigan, the largest
majority Arab American city in the country. Bahbah’s idiotic tightrope walking
makes him say things like, “We appreciate the president’s offer to clean and
rebuild Gaza. However, the purpose should be to make Gaza habitable for
Palestinians and no one else.” Oh, Bahbah doesn’t want the Zionists in Gaza?
Didn’t the idiot know that Trump is like a hand puppet for Netanyahu? Didn't
Bahbah see Netanyahu's smile every time he meets Trump who lies flat on his
back at the feet of Netanyahu and accede to all his demands? “We strongly
believe that the only lasting solution to the Israel-Palestine and the
Israel-Arab conflict is a two-state solution — Israel and Palestine — living
side by side in peace,” Bahbah said, adding that “he hoped the president would
meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the 90-year old senile
and corrupt Palestinian dictator in his own right, who has said he “won’t allow
Palestinian rights ‘to be infringed upon’ and characterized Trump’s calls as “a
serious violation of international law.” Case closed.
How pathetic. Arabs and Lebanese are still operating just like they did in the
1940s when they lost Palestine.
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