HEY Mustapha stop promoting sectarianism in your blog (it is abundantly clear you belong to the Saudi-funded ‘nawasib’) and write about postive things in Lebanon for once.

dear anonymous,

i dont think moustafa is promoting sectarism, sectarism is an unfortunate reality in lebanon.
we need to deal with reality in order to build a better future and not just hid ourselves from this sad reality

“We will not respond to their bullets with roses”
Except Hizballah said for a million time if there will be a demonstration there will be no bullets and no violence and no destruction of public or private property.

But the way March 14th group make it look like is that Hizballah is threatening with violence and they are studying if they respond with a rose or with guns.
No one in lebanon is talking about violence and confrontation in demonstrations except Mustaqbal media and 14 March of course to scare their constituency. And when they run out of conspiracy theories “Nasser el Asaad” gets new havenly visions from anonymous sources :-)

It would be funny if those were not the people running the country.

In all cases the point you raise is valid, the government should set up a couple of misters of petty politics to handle what the whole gvnmt is doing now, and let the rest of them work, instead of having the whole country stand still while they debate if they can allow Aoun into the government or if that will bring Syria into Lebanon and kill Hariri a second time and trigger floods for the coming seven years.

Mustafa has done well to report this fact. After all, enough IS enough. If the thugs belonging to the Hezb want to “invade” civilian areas in a show of force, well someone has to respond in kind. No more appeasement.

mustapha,

there are a few mainstream lebanese newspapers that DO write about global warming et al.

Many governments around the world are composed of partisan political groups without mass murders occurring daily within their borders or attacks on the civilians of neighboring countries. Death squads in Iraq and the idea that some so-called Political Party members in Lebanon are armed with RPGs, with missiles and missile launchers stored in party member garages or weapons stored in mosques is not democratic—that is anarchist. As in Iraq the problem in Lebanon is essentially tribalism with independently armed militias. Civilians always suffer the consequences of such conditions.

Per one of your previously posted suggestions: Why would the Canadian military better serve to maintain peace within Lebanon than the LF? Answer: Because the Canadian military are not associated with any tribes or tribalism and do not enforce any particular kind of religion. By the way, the Canadian population is some 33,000,000, the population of Lebanon close to 3,900,000, yet these two countries each have a military with about 75,000 forces. Candadian forces actually have little or nothing to do to keep peace within Canada whereas apparently the LF actually does little or nothing to maintain peace within Lebanon or with neighboring countries. Isn’t the latter condition the very meaning of worthless?

anon- Putting aside the right or wrong of your argument for a second, LF is usually used in the Lebanese context to refer to the Lebanese Forces militia/political party. That is all!

If you want to know the truth, check this out:
To find this article, go to http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
(Ctrl F _____ enter Hariri, it will take you there)

October 24, 2006 — A senior French DGSE — Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure — intelligence officer has told WMR that Lebanon’s ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in a car bombing arranged by Israel’s Mossad. The revelation from French intelligence is significant as the French government of Jacques Chirac joined the Bush administration and the neo-con policy establishments in Washington and Israel in blaming Syria for the attack. According to the DGSE officer, Israel and its American backers wanted to blame Syria for the assassination of the popular Lebanese leader in order to blame Syria for the attack thus forcing the popular Lebanese revolt that saw the withdrawal of Syrian forces. That left Lebanon defenseless for the “Clean Break” attack launched by Israel, with US support, against Hezbollah and Lebanon’s infrastructure.

Assassination of Hariri — French intelligence reports Mossad was behind it.

WMR was one of the first to report Israeli and American involvement in the assassination of Hariri, as well as those of Elie Hobeika, George Hawi, and other Lebanese politicians.

anon,
seen this article in the past, seems that the argument is made without anything to back it up. if the french have the evidence, then they should pony up. this is not to say that they were not behind it, just show the evidence of those behind the killing. also, even if the mossad was behind the killing, it still could not be carried out without inside help. the article failed to note that hobeika’s killing and the other political figures’ killings differ. hobeika’s killing, for one, was never disputed as to who carried out the killing and that was settled immediately in accordance with the findings and the timing of his death (he was going to sing like a bird against sharon). to say that the mossad single handedly killed ALL THE POLITICAL FIGURES after hariri and the attempt of marwan hmadeh prior is laughable at best.
and to the first anon, mustapha does a good job on posting on the reality of what is lebanon. The hez is using the same politics as the current U.S. govt. you are either with us or with the enemy which are bullying tactics. they want to do what they want and how they want without any regard for the WHOLE population and they don’t want to take responsibility. Thanks to hez, they took an already shaky sectarian situation, and divided the country. lastly, nasrallah was blowing hot air about how the hez is going to rebuild all that was destroyed, funny how on the news today, the dahyi is going to be rebuilt by somebody other than hez, not that surprises me. I don’t want nasrallah to be the defender of the land, rather, to act like part of a team and not like the bush clan.

sincerely,
buckeye

We would have power enough to light the Middle East if we put sustainable dance floors down in Monnot.

Even better, they should build platforms before every rally or commemoration. Nasrallah could power Dahieh for years if he held his next rally on a sustainable dance floor.

Cool idea!

It is not about those few newspapers that do talk about all the other important topics that are happening in the world nor it is about sectarism as much as it is about something very important that Mustapha has raised, which is the narrow-minded Lebanese mentality that is mostly focused on the political game and its vicious circle. Lebanese people have nothing to talk about but politics and then end up fighting with each other because of some “leaders” who claim that they are working for the best of the country while all they are doing is pursuing their personal interests. Lebanon would be a much better place if the Lebanese would stop for a moment and think about what is more important in life and the potential they as well as their country have. Such a shame…

Hi Mustapha

Im so glad you think the way I do

Imagine Arab and Israeli scientists working together to create a “Green Middle East” - water flowing everywhere.

Using the power of the ocean waves to generate electricity (being done all over now)

Taking all of our energy in putting it into the things that create life

Here is a great article - about things being done now - please allow it to post

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/12/MNGJND7G5T1.DTL