Comments on Arabdemocracy: We Can Be Heroes... Just For One Day

Dear MoIve heard this one before.So is this how yo...

2008-07-17T14:32:09.475+01:00

Dear Mo

Ive heard this one before.

So is this how you envisage the future?

A mighty military confrontation between the IDF and the brave guys of the Hezb! This is video games stuff my friend.

Life is more complex than this. National liberation struggle is much more complicated than this.

just this morning Saud El-Mawla, a Lebanese political analyst made paralells with Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouges fought a wonderful battle against colonial powers only later to enslave their own people.

Also, who is supposed to build this state you speak of if it is not the Lebanese themselves? We will have to choose sooner or later between the militia and the state.

Lets make tha choice sooner rather than later and find a way to integrate the Hezb into the state, not the other war round.

Regards

Joseph

every justification? Personally I only need one an...

2008-07-17T12:37:47.255+01:00

every justification? Personally I only need one and that is the defence of the country. I know the West and the East won't come to Lebanons aid. And I know the army would be commiting suicide if it tried to fight the IDF. So they are our only defence and no amount of rationality, perspective or strategical thinking can alter that fact.

When the state can do its job in defence of the nation then we can talk about the Resistance's weapons.

Sirinei know what 'their' dogma is and where 'they...

2008-07-14T22:07:44.095+01:00

Sirine

i know what 'their' dogma is and where 'they' draw their moral , ideological and ethical motivation from.

I am interested in what YOU think. And I mean by you the secular supporters of the Hezb who seem to find 'them' every justification to decide our fate.

You ask what we can do about it? We can provide alternatives. Ones based in Rationality, perspective, strategical thinking and universality.

Joseph

Dear Joseph, the thin line between "self-destructi...

2008-07-13T15:31:42.086+01:00

Dear Joseph, the thin line between "self-destruction" and "self-sacrifice" is ethical, ideological, religious. Bass ya 3ayneh, when it comes to the Resistances' Guerillas in general, and the Islamic ones in particular, what u chose to call "self-destruction", what they like to call "self-sacrifice" is intrinsic to their dogma, they're ecstatic abt it, what can u do abt it? Now the question is , do u think that the political & military actions of Hezbollah, let's say, r pushing Lebanon towards the "Forces of Darkness" or towards the " Light "? I wish u heard what M. Ziad Baroud had to say abt "Resistance" around 2 months ago on OTV…
Sirine.

SirineThe overwhelming majority of successful nati...

2008-07-13T09:22:28.760+01:00

Sirine

The overwhelming majority of successful national liberation struggles relied on a combination of military pressure and public opinion sympathy. This applied in Vietnam, Algeria, South Africa to name a few. Israel does not have unconditional support in the West but it has played a very intelligent game in establishing parallels between their 'situation'and the war on terror.

Although I agree with you that so far public opinion support has not been very fruitful to the Palestinian cause I would be very reluctant to take the path of fighting an isolated military war with disregard to the broader international context. This militant rethoric, lately adopted by the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah is self-destructive.

Joseph

this is really funny Joe, this is the same "lectur...

2008-07-12T14:07:00.000+01:00

this is really funny Joe, this is the same "lecture" that everybody has been repeating: Ya jame3a, el-ajeneb battalo ma3na, minwa2t ma riji3 el-kife7 elmousalla7 bi Filastine... what did their so-called "empathy" do during the years of "Flower Power", and the "Age of Aquarius", B. S… it was an allusion…
Joe 3azizi, el-ajeneb ma b7ayeton keno ma3na.period.
what "media battle" ?The "West" and its "public opinion" couldnt care less abt our region, if u put aside few human rights activists and some members of their intelligentsia (all together, they have no impact on the"main stream") , that's a fact ...
Israel was always a winner, not because its a "media" monster...it's gullible to think that way... No depth is needed here dear .
Sirine.

SirineIsrael has been winning the media battle sin...

2008-07-11T15:55:48.608+01:00

Sirine

Israel has been winning the media battle since the beginning of the second intifada in contrast to the period in the late 70s until the Oslo agreement.

I suggest that we look at that problem in depth because despite what many believe the Western public perception of the events in our part of the world is important to the resolution of the conflict.

Joseph

Dear Bachir,Ehud Olmert did describe this "deal" a...

2008-07-10T23:28:41.956+01:00

Dear Bachir,
Ehud Olmert did describe this "deal" as "humiliating", may be if he were to be acquainted with the Arabian culture and language, he would have said "sharr la boudda minhou"… As for Hezbollah & Lebanon, in a matter of fact, it's one of the manifestations of Victory, a pricy one…

It's interesting how u highlighted the "counter-psychology" of Israel (the Proteus polyvalence: the suppleness of reversibility executioner/victim), a trial to turn the negative into positive: if we're not able to promote the superior figure of Force, let's be content with the passive western-media-friendly figure of Humanitarianism (yet, on that matter, they need to be really convincing)…

Sirine.