This is the president who we want. a president that can be responsible on the 10452km2, not an ass licker
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Too Many Lebanese Citizens are Already Wearing Black
25-11-06 07:59 BY: DAILY STAR
Justice will not be allowed to elude Lebanon. With the cowardly silencing of every freethinking, outspoken voice in Lebanon, the obvious goal is to try and push justice farther and farther away.
The murderers seem to have the courage to kill, but not enough courage to show their faces and claim responsibility for their actions. Why don't they have the courage to allow Lebanon to be free and sovereign? Why don't they have the courage to let men speak their minds? Why don't they have the courage to let justice take its course?
We, as Lebanese, should have no fear of justice. The actions of those who are vainly trying to bury justice betray their fear and cowardice.
Their fear that they will lose power and control has driven them to kill. These cold-blooded murders have changed our nation forever. But we humans have a remarkable ability to forget our pain and our struggles with time.
Even though our physical body has been designed with eyes facing forward, giving the impression that we should always look ahead, we must not forget the past. If we stop learning from the past, we lose the lessons that have been hidden there. So far, that lesson is that violence cannot solve any problems. And as this cycle of violence perpetuates itself, is hope fading for true unity and genuine peace? We can keep hope alive, and reach our goal through our words, actions and our determination to bring justice to all Lebanese. Is our purpose on this earth to destroy violence through enlightenment, education, vision and evolution or are we destined as a nation to continue to destroy ourselves with violence?
My husband Basil died because he believed in Lebanon. Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Samir Kassir, George Hawi, Gebran Tueni and now Pierre Gemayel and our Martyrs have all suffered the ultimate punishment for having the courage to raise their voices for unity on behalf of their beloved Lebanon.
Are we now facing a future where we will have to tell our children that their fathers died because they believed in a lost cause? Too many citizens are already wearing black, let us see no more of them, or else Beirut may turn into a city of ghosts.
Some would try and split the trunk of the majestic cedar, but we must not allow ourselves to fracture. Instead we should stand firmly together, with courage to heal this tree and not allow any more branches to die.
It is said that those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it. Let's not repeat history at the expense of any more Lebanese martyrs.
Yasma Fuleihan is the widow of late former Economy Minister Basil Fuleihan, who was killed alongide...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Stop Killing Our Free Independent Leaders...
Gunmen opened fire on the industry minister's convoy as it drove through a Christian area of the city on Tuesday, security sources told Reuters. Gemayel, who was in his 30s, was taken to hospital where he died of his wounds.
Lebanese television showed angry and distraught supporters gathering outside the hospital, the news agency said.
Gemayel was a member of the Christian Phalange party and supporter of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority.
The killing is set to deepen the political crisis in which the Lebanese government is currently locked in a power struggle with pro-Syrian factions led by Hezbollah.
"We believe the hand of Syria is all over the place," Lebanese parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri told CNN Tuesday, shortly after the shooting. Hariri is the son of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The United States described Tuesday's killing as an "act of terrorism," a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
"This is a very sad day for Lebanon. We were shocked by this assassination. We view it as an act of terrorism and we also view it as an act of intimidation," U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said of the assassination.
In the ongoing political crisis, all five Shiite Muslim ministers and one Christian in Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's 24-member Cabinet resigned over the creation of an international tribunal to probe the assassination of Hariri.
U.N. investigators linked Syria to the death of Hariri and 22 other people on February, 14, 2005, when an explosion was set off near his motorcade. Damascus denies any involvement, and Hezbollah says Syria's accusers have no evidence to back up their claims.
Hariri's assassination led to a wave of anti-Syrian protests, dubbed the "Cedar Revolution," and the withdrawal of Syria's military from Lebanon. Syria had dominated Lebanon since 1976, when Syrian troops entered in the early days of Lebanon's civil war.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Il Divo - Mama
Mama, Il Divo : lyrics
I didicate this song to the soul of my Mum and to all the mothers of the world, an awsome song that makes me cry the 1st time i heard it...
Mama, thank you for who I am
Thank you for all the things I'm not
Forgive me for the words unsaid
For the times I forgot
Mama remember all my life
You showed me love, you sacrificed
Think of those young and early days
How I've changed along the way [ along the way ]
And I know you believed
And I know you had dreams
And I'm sorry it took all this time to see
that I am where I am because of your truth
And I miss you, yeah I miss you
Mama forgive the times you cried
Forgive me for not making right
All of the storms I may have caused
And I've been wrong, Dry your eyes [ dry your eyes ]
And I know you believed
And I know you had dreams
And I'm sorry it took all this time to see
that I am where I am because of your truth
And I miss you, I miss you
Mama I hope this makes you smile
I hope you're happy with my life
At peace with every choice I made
How I've changed along the way [ along the way ]
And I know you believed in all of my dreams
And I owe it all to you, Mama
May God rest your soul in peace my mum, i'm missing you.
peace
G.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Why dont we sue the martyrs?
I dont recall reading such an aggressive and “angry” post by Ghassan Tueni, but he had every right to be angry and his editorial today in Nahar was beautifully written !
The title : Why dont we sue the martyrs ?… ولماذا لا نحاكم الشهداء؟
I will attempt translating the article or sort of resume the contents.
” I dont wanna go into a debate with the president concerning his sudden position opposing the International tribunal memo that the UN proposed, knowing that he is illegitimate locally and internationally …
What Lahoud did today was never done before, and his position i fear could be the first step towards putting an end to protecting HR in Lebanon and the invididual freedoms by bringing back the Syrian regime !!!
Lahoud has become the symbol of this rotten regime and his last guardian, and has been trying in a very filthy and direspectful way to the victims, defending the innocence of the four generals in jail ..
But what was even worse was Lahoud’s attack on the UNIFIL and the UN, disregarding the latest incident between the Germany navy and the Israeli air force.
What Does Lahoud want ? get Lebanon back to total isolation ? make Lebanon yet again a playground for the wars of others and a base for terrorism ?Does he want us to think that the martyrs who were killed during his mandate committed suicide … and not just Rafic el Hariri, but Bassel Fleihan and Samir Kassir and George Hawi and Gebran Tueni ??Or Does he want us to adjust the international tribune text in order to sue those martyrs for killing themselves ?
NO & NO, the international justice shall stay the strongest and most capable, and no one can escape justice ..
Our biggest concern remains that the blood of our martyrs wont be wasted, and let them know that the country that they sacrificed for will punish harshly anyone trying to threaten its sovereighty or trouble its peace and most of all dishonor its martyrs.
Thank you Ghassan Tueni