some thoughs

 
some thoughs about the current events passing through lebanon right now
first of all everything began the 14 of february , i was in france at that time, in paris more exactly and i wanted to come back to lebanon , to be next to the people i cherry , to be next to the people i do love , that were always protecting me and i was feeing my turn is now to protect them.i came back on the 19 of february and since that time i m discovered i m proud for once to be lebanesewhy is that?well for few reasons among thoses stated herei am first admiring people who said no to the defeat , people such as De Gaulle who was alone and fighted for the idea of a nation called france , he was alone and he incarnated the freedom when everything seem to be lost i m also admiring thoses 3 remaining soldiers of the Deaumont fortress during the 1914-1918 war that fighted against 10 000 germans , all of them died except 3 , their fighted till the end , they never gave up even if their situation was lost. the germans recognising their courage gave to the 3 remaining soldiers are defilé honoring them , we are calling that defilé "le defilé des flambeaux", it is the only time through germany history that such defilé was organised by the german troops for foreigners
i would say also no because of my genes , my father is a surgeon , during the war he was leaving our house , our home to save life , my grand father was in nazi camps because he said no to some gestapo officers that were proposing him to become german again.
i would also that i would desobey because i m not afraid of death, i saw death from my childhood , i was visiting my father while he was working in hospital and many times car bombing were happening bringing wounded and dead people by myself , many time i could have been dying but i m believing in my chance , i m believing in fighting if something that i m cheering is taken from me even if i would be deadying i know i ll be fighting till my adversary is also severily wounded it already happen and i m proud of it
also i m following few famous sentences in my life such as : faire face (st cyr) , such as honor , duty country (wespoint)
also i know i m of those that like to act when everything is lost , i like to be the one saving , acting pushing back and not believing in the defeat when i m believing strongly to thoses causes
about now the special circonstances in lebanon . to be honest i never felt myself to be lebanese and this is why i always refused to learn arabic how can we be proud of being lebanese , citizens of a country where every 50 years there is a civil war on community issues , where corruption, feodalism , clientelism are a common fact. How can we feel lebanese when most of people are trying to show off what they are but it s faked , when most of the elite left and the new rich , those who stealed , who assassinated are now in power , are now having the republic honors and they are not recognising the efforts of thoses who saved lifes during the worst parts of the war , and of thoses who believed so strongly in their country that they stayed (such as my father) when everyone else was leaving how can we be proud of being a citizen of a country when most of the citizens are talking about themself not as lebanese but as muslims, christians etc... how can we be proud of being a citizen of a country when the young people didnt still find that there is a peace in their mind ? well i think this is the time we can be proud of what is happening in downtown beirut, most of the people are not awaken , they are now united maybe with a negation , syria out , i hope , i think it s an opportunity now to build a nation , and not only a convergence of communities interest , i think it s now time to act to change all the bad sides of this country, and this hope would lead me to desobey also to that order. i think also that we do not only to desobey now because we are fighting not only for our parents but for the future generations , giving them back freedom , finaly erasing the idea of war that we lived through in our childhood , i do not want my child to grow in a country that would face in 50 years a new war , i dont want them to see what i saw during my childhood , i dont them to see burned bodies and bloodies bodies , cries du to the pain as i did
now what can happen in lebanon?
all what happened till now is that syria and its allies gained timethe PM was dismissed just for them to gain time by the constitution of a new governmentthe syria withdraw is to gain time as the bekaa valley is not yet concerned as well as till now the withdraw didnt concern the syrias secret services as well as the dismisal of their lebanese homologs
i believe that now it s time to manifest as i did since i went back it s time to go to the downtown , it s not the time to shut up but to face the threats as hariri assassination , who ever did it , is an opportunity to liberate lebanon.
to the question who did that assassination , i believe a syrian mafia did it.3 to 4 percent of each economical contract in lebanon is going into the hand of the syrians secret services which means that without that financial inflow , theses services wont be able to control the adversary of the syrian regime.the policy that hariri aimed to persuie was against this kind of bribery .Most probably syrian hand is involved as the chief of the SR of that country in lebanon went into hariri's place 2 days before he was killed and have put his gun on the face of that guy.at that level i want to say i m not pro hariri as i believe he could have been asking for the syrian withdraw when he was a PM and he didnt but as he death is leading to the current events i m seeing into that an opportunity to catch in order to unite lebanese around one flag , the lebanese one , to unite lebanese in a nation concept and no more into a community concept to end the war in the mind of the young people.this is what happening in downtown beirut.this is why i m going there at least 3 times a week , sometimes even more
now i believe also lebanon will have to face hard time first of all hezbollah lost its concensus status to become a pro syrian party as all the shiits parties. the shiits i believe will have to find a equilibrium to be back as a resistant party hezbollah , seens as sunnits , christians , druzes , was a resistant party , it lost this image and therefore the support of the others.what ll be the reaction ? i dont know yetsecond , syria will of course try to destibilize lebanon syria cant leave without lebanon and the lebanese economy 37% of foreign accounts in lebanon are hold by syrian citizens , its economy is maybe 40 years late.1 000 000 non qualified syrias are working in lebanon. in case of withdraw the unemployement will rise in syriathe SR as i already stated are financed by lebanese economical contracts , therefore without this they will be no more able to control internally syria.
the syrian regime needs lebanon to survive and will do everything to be able to stay in power in lebanon it can be by assassination as they might have already choosed by killing hariri it can be by threatening as we noticed lately many incidents that happened by people coming from the area of the syrian HQ in beirut , shooting in the air etc...but the time of threats are not over , people are no more afraid
it can be by manifestations as they had "1.6" millions people in the street last tuesday. I dont believe there was 1.6millions when paris was liberated there was a huge crowd in the champs elysée avenue , only 1 millions but all the champs elysée were full ,
the manifestation in beirut was only on 78 000 square meters , let them be only 300 000 , no more among them , some lebanese that went there were threatened in case they were not coming among them many syrians as the local channels and media showed
since the 11 september , the pentagone hired many lebanese in its arabic department , theses people are stating that everything ll be over for april by which means i dont know pacific or strengh i dont knowbut what i know is that whatever ll be happening in lebanon will make lebanese proud
that is it for the moment :)
posted by francois at dimanche, mars 13, 2005