M,

You should have put the warning up top. It was too late when I read it and now I have to buy a new keyboard… and carpet and repraint the walls :)

I say to the Syrians, leave us alone. We endured your occupation for 30 years and we are fed up! We don’t need your help and you caused enough damage in our country. We will not forgive you unless you change regime and become democratic.

this is sick on so many levels!!!!

You can’t but to wonder how these people think and behave…I could never answer that…

As for the son…well there are lots of candidates…but my favourite would be Weaam Wahhab, don’t you think?

Faylasoof, you mean comical Wi’am, check this video from La Youmal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWITzGAtGg&mode=related&search=

I vomitted….

I’d argue that Syria is more like an abusive mother who’s been beating the crap out of her daughter for years, and who can’t understand why the daughter, now an adult, wants to break free.

But whatever…

Well, this guy should have said: “Lebanon is like a free at last daughter from her abusive mother, Syria who molested her and treated her like a sex slave and a milking cow she was young. But when she became an adult, Lebanon broke the chain around her neck and run away from her devil mother.

Who now is going to protect her? She is a hard working young woman who’s willing to work hard to support herself while getting her education. If only she can take her mother to court to face justice, the mother who abused her own daughter before she became a strong woman and run away from this dysfunction family! But the mother keeps denying that she abused her daughter. Sooner or later the daughter will face justice when her other children will say we had enough of oppression, injustice and dictatorship!!!”

Damn it Mustapha why didn’t u put that warning up before the translation…

…now I’ve gone and ruined a perfectly fine keyboard.

Why is everybody puking I dunno…

Me, I was quite happy.

As a matter of fact, I hope they’ll stay that stupid fore as long as can be.

M, BJ, BV
Sorry, my fault! I should have warned you before.. Your next keyboard’s on me :) (sorry, The Beirut Spring will assume responsibility for no other Items)

Kheireddine & Failasoof,
If only they’d understand. That’s their problem. They’re brainwashed beyond redemption. But like Ibrahim said: Their stupidity will herald our salvation..

Ghassan,
Yeap, you’re analogy is much more like it :)

So…mustapha

Who is the obeying son ?

Hmmm - Jordan ?

Please answer ;-)

thanks
Andrew (The Zionist)

The letter seems so juvenile, if the newspaper hadn’t published it, I would have thought it would be ignored completely.

Solomon,

It’s just a comment on a website, but a fairly common one. Many Syrians really do believe this stuff

Check this speach of Mustapha Tlass on Yasser Arafat,it is very revealing about the syrian leadership mentality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzxdumcAqcQ

I bet you that they say worse about the Lebanese leaders who are not on their side.
Sorry Mustapha, but you only share the first name with him…

sorry, forgot the disclamer:

Viewer discretion is advised due to coarse language.

Many Syrians do believe in this stuff …

Statistics, please.

Though I do not disagree that “some” believe in the truth of the comment, if we are to make any progress in discourse whatsoever, we need to be careful in our language. How much is “many?” 1%? 10%? 90%?

I found a Syrian Joke, enjoy!

http://www.desert-voice.net/syrian_joke.htm

(sigh) The pernicious thing about Big Lie propaganda is that even though the targeted populace may know that it’s a lie, after a time they still believe enough of it to suit the perpetrator’s purposes.

Furthermore, what psychologists call displacement really works in this case: instead of fretting that they live under the thumb of an Alawite dictator, the Syrian populace is supposed to enjoy the fact that Lebanon exists under the thumbs of the Syrians.

Finally, you have a local power (Iran) supporting disruptive gangs here there and everywhere to disrupt governments and create ready-to-fill power vacuums.

This is the stuff barbaric, aggrandizing empires have been made of in the middle east for thousands of years, and precisely the situation European statesmen wished to avoid when planning the inevitable break-up of the Ottoman Empire. That’s why they pushed for the establishment of such states as Greece, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel in the first place.

You do understand that it is all the same fight, don’t you? The battle to be citizens, not subjects? More people need to understand this and not fall prey to hatred and envy as excuses not to seek freedom for themselves and their neighbors.

In relation to what you are all saying here about the Syrian occupation:

I saw some these video clips, in which former or natural Lebanese allies of Syria make some very interesting remarks:

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480×360.asp?ai=214&ar=1473wmv&ak=null

http://www.memritv.org/View.asp?P1=1489

Can anyone here confirm that the translation provided by MEMRI is correct? Since the first clip was broadcast by Al Manar, and I can hardly imagine that this is being said on Al Manar. Does anyone know more about the context of this video clip, when was it broadcast and what was the setting?

Any comments will be appreciated.

P.S. As an outsider to the region but lover of Lebanon I do hope that you will continue to distinguish between the Syrian regime and the Syrian people. The Syrian people are also victims themselves of the regime. They are not your enemies. They are only kept ignorant and are being brainwashed by the Assad regime.

I find this whole “mother” “daughter” metaphor sickening to say the least (albeit normal and expected in view of Syria’s age-old thuggish possessive fixation with Lebanon; e.g. the Lebanon having been part of Syria canard, etc..)

But what was more sickening to my palate was how ALL OF YOU (who were ostensibly offended by the metaphor) went along with its faulty premise and terminology and started this whole silly mental gymnastics about it being high time for this battered “daugther” to break free of her abusive “mother’s” stifling embrace, etc…)

Pardon me, but you guys are SICKER than the Syrian louts who, after all HAVE AN EXCUSE for indulging in such depraved fantasies; they are uncouth superstitious baboons, who live under repressive obscurantist systems where history is no more than obscene demagoguery and Orwellian universes of inverted realities! But you Brutus?? Syria’s DEPRAVITY is NOT sickening!!!! YOUR BUYING INTO IT and grappling with its “logic” IS!!!!

Have the Syrian fables and fabrications become so real to the point that EVEN YOU are buying? késs ékhta guys!!! If this is not mental, moral, and intellectual abdications, I don’t fucking know what is!

I read Mustapha’s post and I smiled a little! I didn’t begin puking until I started reading your flimsy comments…

Sorry to offend guys! But seriously, re-read some of the gibberish some of you have written and tell me how is it not sickening!

Lebanon is someone’s daughter?
Lebanon is a sui generis spontaneous generation, 6000 years old and counting
THIS is Lebanon:

فعل إيمان شهادتنا بلبنان

أؤمن بلبنان واحد، هو أبي وأمي، سرمدي، مستقل، موئل للحرية، متبوع غير تابع، حضاري الانتماء، لبناني الهوية، غير موصوف ولا منعوت، قائد غير مقود، منبثق من جوهر الوجود الإلهي، ذي تراث أصيل، وحضارة فاعلة، وتاريخ مجيد، وشخصية فريدة، ورسالة خالدة، وإشعاع ثقافي، وإنتشارعالمي، عامل للقيم الروحية والمثل العليا الإنسانية، متجند للعدالة، ممارس للحرية متمسك بميراثه، متطور أبداً، مناضل للحقيقة، مساعد كل مظلوم، مقاوم كل أنواع الطغيان والتسلط والهيمنة والخوف والعنف والإرهاب، منفتح على كل التيارات والمدنيات والمعتقدات، محاور الى أن لا يجدي الحوار، محارب حيث لا بد من حرب للدفاع عن حقه والمحافظة على وجوده، قائم على وحدة وطنية عضوية صادقة، سيّد مصيره وقراره الوطني المستقل، عنفواني، متحرر من كل مرّكب نقص، عدّو كل استعمار واحتلال واستثمار الإنسان للإنسان. وأؤمن بأن لبنان حي بجوهره لا يموت ولا يخون نفسه، وبأنه باق كما هو الى نهاية العالم . بقلم المفكر سعيد عقل

oh my God! it is appalling, but then again at least we know thats what a regular Syrian citizen thinks of Lubnan; still how in the world can anyone sane write such stupidities?!

LOlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll… But I agree with Ibrahim (#8) that I hope they just stay that stupid…