Far from dangerous and radical, I consider your views to be progressive and enlightened and should serve as the remedy to solving Lebanon’s problems.
We are in the same ditch buddy; I have come under fire many times before in this forum because of my criticism of Lebanese society and its sick Sectarian mind that is destroying this beautiful little country.
Being half Lebanese, I have not much to be proud of when I speak about Lebanon. The one thing I am very proud of and that is the Lebanese resistance made up by Hezbollah; seems to be a curse for other fellow Lebanese citizen.
Although I disagree with Hezbollah on ideological grounds, as I patriot, it is my unquestionable duty to stand beside such a heroic movement that liberated our country form Israeli occupation and has freed Lebanese prisoners from Israeli jails. As long as the Lebanese army can not protect my country from our historical enemy Israel, Hezbollah remains our only option to counter this constant threat. It is sad to see that after “only” 3 days of shelling Fatah al-Islam in Nahr al Bared, the Leb. army ran out of stocks and had to wait for another delivery form Europe or the US! Can you imagine how they could fight Israel?
You are 100% correct, by pointing out to the deliberate flaws in the Lebanese constitution and I would also add the Taif agreement (even worse than the constitution!). Unlike other confessional systems that existed in Europe (Netherlands and Switzerland), the Lebanese confessional system is an end point in itself and until now most Lebanese do not want to progress form this discriminating sectarian system into a complete democratic one. The various civil wars are always blamed by us on outsiders and never have we taken the responsibility for these horrible wars. Instead we promote the Lords and Masters of Lebanese civil wars, to Parliamentarians, Ministers and Presidents.
I absolutely believe that the International Tribunal will be used as a political bargaining ship by the US to extract concessions from Syria in Iraq and Palestine and may be also to force Syria to cut its good ties with Iran.
The Tribunal can not be effective unless it has a strong and unbiased police man. Well, we all know that the US is strong. But we also know that the US is strongest in being biased to Israel. I am afraid we will never ever know the truth about the assassination of Rafik Harirri or all the others. Lebanon is a labyrinth that is infiltrated by many secret services. Instead of putting all our efforts into blaming Syria, US, Israel, etc. we Lebanese should put all our efforts to become united and abolish the sectarian/confessional system.
So far nobody, except for the two of us, seems to be interested in this topic! Where are all the other lebanese?
Hi Ragnarock Raider,
Far from dangerous and radical, I consider your views to be progressive and enlightened and should serve as the remedy to solving Lebanon’s problems.
We are in the same ditch buddy; I have come under fire many times before in this forum because of my criticism of Lebanese society and its sick Sectarian mind that is destroying this beautiful little country.
Being half Lebanese, I have not much to be proud of when I speak about Lebanon. The one thing I am very proud of and that is the Lebanese resistance made up by Hezbollah; seems to be a curse for other fellow Lebanese citizen.
Although I disagree with Hezbollah on ideological grounds, as I patriot, it is my unquestionable duty to stand beside such a heroic movement that liberated our country form Israeli occupation and has freed Lebanese prisoners from Israeli jails. As long as the Lebanese army can not protect my country from our historical enemy Israel, Hezbollah remains our only option to counter this constant threat. It is sad to see that after “only” 3 days of shelling Fatah al-Islam in Nahr al Bared, the Leb. army ran out of stocks and had to wait for another delivery form Europe or the US! Can you imagine how they could fight Israel?
You are 100% correct, by pointing out to the deliberate flaws in the Lebanese constitution and I would also add the Taif agreement (even worse than the constitution!). Unlike other confessional systems that existed in Europe (Netherlands and Switzerland), the Lebanese confessional system is an end point in itself and until now most Lebanese do not want to progress form this discriminating sectarian system into a complete democratic one. The various civil wars are always blamed by us on outsiders and never have we taken the responsibility for these horrible wars. Instead we promote the Lords and Masters of Lebanese civil wars, to Parliamentarians, Ministers and Presidents.
I absolutely believe that the International Tribunal will be used as a political bargaining ship by the US to extract concessions from Syria in Iraq and Palestine and may be also to force Syria to cut its good ties with Iran.
The Tribunal can not be effective unless it has a strong and unbiased police man. Well, we all know that the US is strong. But we also know that the US is strongest in being biased to Israel. I am afraid we will never ever know the truth about the assassination of Rafik Harirri or all the others. Lebanon is a labyrinth that is infiltrated by many secret services. Instead of putting all our efforts into blaming Syria, US, Israel, etc. we Lebanese should put all our efforts to become united and abolish the sectarian/confessional system.
So far nobody, except for the two of us, seems to be interested in this topic! Where are all the other lebanese?