KHALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSS !!!
We are ALL guilty. ALL OF US. Emergency hiwar watani session??? I am not sure if I should laugh or puke my guts out on the table. Let it be known to all. We are scared, our lives are on the line, our country is history, but it's all our fault. Each and every one of us. These are the people we elected, these are the people we let freely thrive in their little haven of hatred and murderous ideals, and this is us, scared and incapacitated, failing but to point fingers and complain. Well let me tell you this folks, we pulled our pants down and stuck our naked asses out, and now that we're fucked, we really don't have jack shit to complain about.
Addendum in lieu of comment.
To all those who sympathize with us, thank you for your kind thoughts whoever you are. But let me make one thing clear. Yes it is our fault for not being strong enough or united enough to establish the rule of law and spread the lebanese army on all lebanese territory. But there is no love lost between the lebanese people and the israeli leadership. We have been invaded, abused, bullied, and humiliated by israeli occupation forces for many years. Entire families were butchered by israeli artillery. And now this? do you seriously expect us to believe that leveling this country's frail infrastructure is going to bring you your soldier and bring hizbollah to its knees? we might be weak and divided, but we're not stupid. We are being punished, that is all. Punished twice, by our own ineptitude, and by your ruthless retaliation. Hizbollah is screwing us over, but so are you. Now do I still want peace with you? yes. Peace not alliance. Peace not friendship. Not because I can't wait for us to hold hands, but because I can't wait for Lebanon to be out of harm's way. We've suffered enough, we've bled enough, we've built and rebuilt enough, and it's time for us to take a break and just live. For a change.
posted by Fouad at 1:20 AM
51 Comments:
If this khalass is for the board, it is okay (congratulation!). If for something else, no it is not. I would always like to see you or read your work. Wish you the best of luck ya Fouad. Yassar.
Is anyone (of importance) listening?
Yes Khalas.
Go find an isolated island and practice ur hobbies of fighting there. Or please play Playstation but leave us, khalasssss :'(
This painting reminds me of "the Scream" (or the cry) for Edward Munch....
Let's pray... what can we do
As eloquent a statement about a world seemingly without pity and sense as I have heard or read in a long time . . . khalas indeed.
so true. so shameful. i'v already puked my guts out.
I might not like the nest of wasps but I must be mentally challenged to put my finger in it.
wow....
I really feel sorry for you guys. I do. You're between a rock and a hard place for sure. Harboring terrorists is not a good business to be in these days, but look at Afghanistan- they're doing quite well post-Taliban. They still have a ways to go, but things are looking up for the Afghan citizens.
I feel for you guys. You guys rocked last year when the Syrians were forced to leave. But with Hizbollah left, I knew there would be problems.But I have a thought.
It's a crazy plan but crazy enough that it might work. Hizbollah & Syria are the root of the problem. How about Lebanese forces joining with Israeli forces and kicking the sick bast*rds out of your beautiful country.
Saad al Harrei is outside Lebanon and the pope of the church is in the US!!!…the ppl getting fucked are the civilians and the ppl of Hezballah ….wutever happens some Lebanese politicians just put Syria and Iran in the middle….wondering why? Why don’t u leave Syria alone!!! The losers such as Jomblat are the source of problems and gangs of march 14 instead of solidifying their position they raise silly issues as how Syria will benefit from hezballah operation…..Hezballah never knew that the barbaric Israelis would reach this limit …at any rate Israel doesn’t want any excuse to justify its dirty work in the region…. Sham on u keep ur HEADS UP…….our hearts with u and our prayers go to all LEBANON !!!!
"Hizbollah & Syria are the root of the problem"
seawitch why dont u go to hell
It is amazing how people can be blind. Some guys think that Hizbullah is the problem, but I will tell you that people like Jaajaa and Jounblat are the problem. Some Lebanese people if they have to choose between Muslim (hizbullah) or Israel they will choose Israel. Ya 3ayb el shoum 3alaykoum. Sorry Fouad for this comment but I couldn't keep it to myself. Thanks. Yassar.
Best of luck to all good people. I was refered to this from an Iraqi site.
Jon
We all of us get the governance we acquiesce to, so yes, "we are all guilty." But when a militia is stronger, better eqipped and more motivated than a nation's army, chaos is bound to ensue. Yet, if a people do not have conrol over their army, a dictatorship waits in the wings.
Welcome, Lebanon, again, to the fruits from acquiescing to the eternally nihlistic politics of extremism.
'Be free.'
Yes, bismallah .. khalass.
It has been forty years since I last visited the Paris of the Mideast. 'Twas friendly and beautiful and a vibrant center of commerce.
Yet I have glanced that way ever since and watched friends turn into enemies ... one set against another ... not for any good reason, but because this leader or that wishes some temporary advantage. Not for the nation, not for the people, but for themselves.
So ... strife comes in on the heels of leaders who never loved Lebanon ... and the people acquiesce. Neighbors who once loved (or at least tolerated) one another let strangers tell them what to do. Khalass is all that can be expected.
Fouad:
Your pictures remind me of the Lebanon I once knew. Perhaps the people can solve this for themselves, if they awaken. Perhaps your Lebanon can return to be the shoulder of heaven, should the people shake the demons off.
Inshallah ... my hopes and good wishes are with thee.
Very well said, Fouad. However, this is the beginning of beautiful and lasting peace with Israel. The future is bright. Hizballah will be no more very shortly. Bear with Israel as it eradicates the Iranian-backed terrorist occupiers who have hijacked your once-proud nation. Understand that collatoral damage is inevitable as it is unfortunate. Stay safe, stay away from Hizballah controlled areas, don't be their human shields! This will be over soon. Israel is not after Lebanon and wants a sovereign nation with which to make peace -- not a nation occupied by Syria and Iran. Hang in there.
Arablady and Yassar, please do us all a favor and don't add insult to injury.
Arablady, we will leave Syria alone the instant that it leaves us alone.
Ya Yassar Ya 3ayb el shoum 3alek inta, NO we don't choose Isreal but yes we will choose for our contry to be independent and free from militias who wish to replace the government. So shame on you and you alone for placing the security of our land and people in the hands of people who wish to liberate the whole bloody Arab world at our the expense.
WE support Lebanon PERIOD! we don't need brainwashed people like yourselves coming in here and spreading your propaganda. We have had enough of your hate, of your Hezballah's, of your Jumblatt's, of your Geagea's, of your Syria ... wake up for the love of Lebanon wake up! we just want to live.
So like Fouad said KHALLASSSSSS
Globular cluster,
A "beautiful and lasting peace" should start with a warm embrace not beating the shit out of innocent civilians! I wonder if you would be saying the same if your airport was being bombed ? if 50 Israelis were just murdered? if your infrastructure was being destroyed?..etc
If you think this is the way to stop Hizbullah then you are saddly mistaken. This will only help their recruting and will only give them another pretext for why they should not be disarmed.
Collateral damage you say eh? All I see is ruthless killing and flexing of your muscles!
i cant beleive how everybody is blaming each other, blaming hizballah, blaming there selves for voting, blamimg syria, blaming Jonblat and the lebanies blaming lebanon, n no one had a word to blame isreal n america for the deep shit we arabs are in, dont forget this war isn't only against lebanon, there's palestine,iraq,syria, iran, somalia, and every single arab that is watching how far israel is going in a universal silence.
we feel yr scream n we have swallowed it a thousand time and i know if i was in lebanon i will scream the same as u fouad, but dont blame yrself.
its all isreal to blame.
My thoughts and prayers are with the civilians on both sides who do not deserve to be killed no matter who they elect or don't elect. Just like the israeli woman tanning on her balcony doesn\t deserve to be struck by a Hizbollah missilie, wether or not she elected the current `government or not nor does the family of ten (with children) in Lebanon deserve to be killed because they happened to live in an area that hosted many `hizbollah sympathisers.
My prayers are with you fouad, and I can't begin to understand your frustration. I hope you and your family are safe and unharmed.
Rabbana yekon fi awnak
Presently I am speechless, or at best I stutter inaudibly ... but hopefully my prayers for peace will be heard!
Fouad, you did send me a personal mail once when I was in rage - that mail of yours contained some description of the roots of this problem. It is a curse to be an artist these days, because true artists are visionaries!
Hang in there!!!!
A good idea would be to kidnap a few syrians in lebanon and ask for the lebanese in syrian prisons in return. I guess there are more of those than in israelli prisons. Maybe a few katyoushas towards syria will help.
ya 7ayete..the best Addendum I've ever read.
very well said! thank you.
anon 2:49 said...
A "beautiful and lasting peace" should start with a warm embrace not beating the shit out of innocent civilians!
There can be no embrace as long as Hizballah is entrenched in southern Lebanon with the tacit consent of the Lebanese. If you had to have a civil war with Hizballah in order to purge them from your soil, how many more lives would be lost as opposed to the current collatoral damage?
Sovereignty involves more than building a cafe in Beirut and sipping cappucinos. A nation that tolerates a foreign-backed militia as its chief military power is not sovereign. Israel has never wanted your land or control of your country. The sooner you assist Israel in destroying Hizballah the sooner reconstruction can begin. Dollars are available -- the hard part is getting rid of the Islamist scumbags.
The interesting thing is globular cluster that Islam being the "youngest" religion from all is also being the first one to self-destruct.
"do you seriously expect us to believe that leveling this country's frail infrastructure is going to bring you your soldier and bring hizbollah to its knees? " - yes. you will see, pretty soon.
but if you know a better way, let us know, we'd be happy to try it.
Poul,
extreme measures distinctively breed extremism.
I was waiting for Israel to "become itself" since day one ... before I was born.
With some exceptions the Israeli experiment was a big disappointement.
Was it not for Hitler and the Nazis, Israel wouldn't even exist today - think about it.
Now that Israel is using "Nazi tactics" on others, tactics they once so much condemmed when burdend on themselves in the past I wonder what will come about of all of this.
And the US is standing by and sucking dick and putting a blindfold on for every move Israel does.
So to answer your statement Poul, Hizbollah will not be defeated - ever. Not from forces from outside of Lebanon. Only the Lebanese people will decide and act on this ... and perhaps be succsessful to arise to new life without fear and special intrest groups will cease to exist to give way to the common good.
Iran, Syria and others have poked at Isreal for 32 years using you as a door mat.
You are not happy with Hezbollah shooting at Israel and so they return fire upon Lebanese people and their homes and businesses.
Hezbollah should attack from Iran and face the music like men.
Instead it is Lebanon who suffers the backlash of Hezbollah attacks and not Iran and Syria.
Time to send Hezbollah back home where they can fight at their, not your expense. TG
Zee,
Your extreme ignorance of Israel, Naziism, and history really shows. Your logic is actually typical of neo-nazi websites and leftist radicals.
"Peace not friendship"
I doubt that anyone cares at this point.
Global cluster,
we do not need any lessons or advice from the israeli state of terror, a state drenched with blood that was created on stolen land so please spare us.
To be honest i quite agree with you, my country may be punishing you, but it is punishing you four your own mistakes.
you say you want peace but not alliance.
but i do want allience, and so are many people here.
now i am not a lefty, i support this oporation on the lebanese lands.
and once (and if) the goals of the oporation will be accomplished,
if it was up to me, i would have helped you rebuild your country, without Nassralah the fucker and without his litle Hessbalah followers.
we will help you rebuild your country, and then perhaps you will want to go somewhere else then a peace-offer.
wow,i guess i`l be flames for this comment,but i had to comment.
this was a honest,heart touching post...i`m an israeli,yeap,the enemy from the other side,YOUR enemy from the other side...we`re scared as shit in here aswell...
israel is punishing you because you guys letted a terrorist empire in your country...this guys dont want peace,they want war,they want death,they want...hell,i cant even understand what they want-they are acting in a illogical way..i mean-why in god`s name did they attack our soldiers in the first place?didnt you already have peace?didnt your country start going back to life?
i can`t understand why you letted this crazy dogs rule you,but you certainly should make a dramatic change...we want peace as much as you do...not to become friends,but just because we want to live.
and because of that-we MUST destroy hizbollah..its the son of the devil in a form of an organization...it should`nt exist-it should be burried 100 meters under the ground and sealed behind a metal door with 1000 unpickable locks.
and those who were in charge for killing our soldiers-they also must die.
only then,and only then-we`ll start thinking about peace.
Anonymous wrote:
Global cluster,
we do not need any lessons or advice from the israeli state of terror, a state drenched with blood that was created on stolen land so please spare us.
Israel exists and your endless rage cannot change that. Why do you waste your lives on this perpetual hatred?
Like the good people of Lebannon, Israelis would just like to be LEFT ALONE. None of this would have happened without an unprovoked attack from Hezbollah last week.
Fouad, my heart goes out to you and your people.
"...it's time for us to take a break and just live. For a change."
That is a wonderful sentiment and I hope you achieve this goal. Unfortunately to 'just live', every person in Lebanon has to agree to 'live and let live'. Hezbollah has no interest in this position. It's clear that Lebanon does not have the ability to destroy Hezbollah with their large numbers and support from Syria and Iran.
It's also pretty damned likely that Israel can't do it for you. But Hezbollah is attacking Israel, so they don't really have any other choice than to respond. Let's all hope this Israeli attack destroys Hezbollah, however unlikely that result may be.
Lebanon cannot exist in peace while Hezbollah remains. Israel can't either. It is my most sincere wish for you that Hezbollah is destroyed permanently and Lebanon and Israel can co-exist in peace.
You harbor terrorists. That makes you a terrorist state. If Israel has to bomb you out of existence to rid the world of the hezbollah cockroaches, so be it.
That's the price you pay for letting them overrun your country and stay there. If you don't like it, take up arms and get them out of your nation. But shut up your whining. You have nothing to whine about. You brought this on yourselves. Period.
Wow. We are further from peace then i could have ever imagined. Just look at these comments. How can we difuse this anger and simply live our lives?
Some people here are way too angry to be effective. If you truely want peace than another way of thinking must be used, if not than you must be enjoying this random carnage.
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halla said...
I always wanted to return to Lebanon and work there once i received my bachelors degree in Toronto in 2004. How? Work as What?? My father laughed at the fact that i wanted to use my degree to find a job in Lebanon..i guess being female, lebanese and a poli sci graduate was not such a good idea for my father and hence he insisted I create my path in the US instead...I have interned with amnesty international for the last 3 years..deep in my heart i long to go back and yes i still long to work in my own counrty..neither am i an american citizen nor any other citizen by paper besides Lebanese and yet im struggling to be a Lebanese in New York..to find some stability..i long to smell the rose water, and to salute a Lebanese soldier (hell maybe even marry one!)..
I pray that other Lebanese across the diaspora acknowledge the reality of ur words in KHALAAAS, for after reading your cry of frustration, i have realised the grave danger we as a nation have put ourselves into...a kind of KHAZOUK if u will....it is so easy for us to point the finger of blame in the opposite direction...however, when ones hands are tied there is no other way is there....but allas the time has come and hopefully this second time running should give us a much needed wake up call!!
In Solidarity with Abso-f$%% ing-lutely EVERYTHING U SAID,
Halla, New York!
You let an outlaw criminal gang set up shop in your living room and you fed them in your kitchen. The police get into a fight with the gang and you are mad at the gang and the police.
Had you made friends with the police and called them in sooner the damage to your house might have been much less.
And yet here you are mad at the police.
If you want your country to be sovereign you must take up arms to defend it. You must be your own police.
I am sorry for your predicament. I am sorry for your losses.
If you love Lebanon be ready to fight and die for it. You live in a tough neighborhood. Act accordingly.
There are some out there with a vision. Driving from Beirut to Tel Aviv on a tourist jaunt. When you stop hating it might just be possible.
I think it is a lovely vision. May it come to pass.
The main impediment besides hate is Hizbollah. Fortunately the Israelis are fighting the civil war you won't fight for you. You ought to be grateful the Hizbollah rockets are going south instead of north.
zee,
What Nazi tactics do you refer to? Armored warfare? It turns out that the Americans are masters of it. As are the Israelis.
What is different is that the Israelis have no designs on Lebanese territory. The have not set up camps to kill its residents. And I might add that Mein Kampf is not a best seller in Israel as it is in the arab world.
Who wants to kill all the Jews? Hizbollah. And Hamas.
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Hamas Charter concludes with a verbatim reiteration of the apocalyptic hadith alluded to earlier:
“The Last Hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: `Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him’; but the tree Gharkad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 40, Number 6985).
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Tolerance of murderous hatred is not a good use of tolerance.
Wow. What contrast between your first post and this addendum. I guess you decided to blame Israel for your troubles after all.
You are suffering at the hand of Israelis? You have been invaded? abused? bullied? humiliated? Israelis have been slaughtered in the streets and in their homes by your hezbollah terrorists, women, children, entire families.
Americans have been slaughtered by your terrorists as well, 241 Marines, two embassies, and planes hijacked by your people.
I wonder how you would feel if a bunch of your friends were blown up by a suicide bomber at the local pizzaria or your mother was blown to bits by a suicide bomber while shopping for your families' groceries? How would you feel if your father was blown up on a bus by a suicide bomber on his way to his job?
You point your finger at Israel for your suffering but Israel is not the aggressor in this situation. A terrorist regime supported by and nurtured by the Lebanonese people is the aggressor, and you have supported the supported, nurtured and tolerated that terrorism for years, in defiance of the rest of the world.
Israel has reached her hands out in friendship many times, only to be rejected by your hatred. She has sought friendship, tolerance and peace, and today, you again reject this and refuse to give up your hatred.
As long as you hold on to your hate of Israel, you are doomed to a cycle of violence and death as a result.
Consequences suck Fouad.
The only way to your heart is with a gun.
Some of you are blind to the other side, not seeing what's happening there and some are just stupid or just full of hate - that is why you and the rest of the arab countries look like a pile of mud.
Here's a country like Iraq with a brutal nazi dictator, the US went in, cleaned up the ground and the Iraqi people just like you don't see it, blind as a bat, divided, and trying to kill the people that GAVE them HOPE?!! once you will be all united and with a positive cause you will have a fluorishing country with a strong base not a rotten one.
Do yourself a favour and stop hating so much, get rid of the deseased monkey called Nasrallah, cut ties with Syria (which is more of a mafia than a country)
and become a healthy flourishing country just like the rest of the world.
First I want you to know that every one i've talked to in israel have simpaty to you and wish we could thoght of a diffrent way to solve this problem.
What options do we have?
In the year 2000 'hissballa' (what god this party serve? the Iranian god?) entered Israel and killed and kidnapt our soldiers - we did nothing, we foolishly hoped that we need to give you time to solve your internal problems.
But instead of that you gave 'hissballa' the option to creat an army - It was you, each and every one of you! The last attack on Israel (before that we did nothing) was done by lebanon's citizens that seat in the lebanon govrement!
If I would tell you now that Israel don't have any connection to the attacks of the IDF on Lebanon and that the IDF is an independent organization that no one in Israel have any control over it, would you belive me?
will that kind of a statment take our respnsability off?
We want our soldiers back and we want that Lebanon army will take responsability over your borders. the second this will happen we will stop all our attacks.
Is it too much to ask for? Are you a contry or not?
And don't try to sell me that 2 million people can't take hold over 2000 gang-boys. If this true then you dont deserve a state and if it's not true (and it's not!) then your faith (and ours) is in your hands.
all of us are guilty. your goverment is guilty of weakness, my goverment is guilty of occupation toward palestinians, and above all, hezbollah is guilty of terror and horror.
we are all terribly wrong but if there is anyone you should point a finger at as most guilty of what is happening are nasrallah, Syria and Iran. what good did the capturing of those two soldiers do to anyone? lebanon was on it's way of becoming paradise. the paris of the middle east, if only your goverment was smart enough to unarm hezbollah many years ago.
we left lebanon 6 years ago, but it never left us.
i just fear we're too late to fix the situation now. this maybe the most uneeded war in history, but both nasrallah and olmert, as well as bashar el-asad, are to macho to give up now. i fear alot more blood of both sides will shed before this war will end.
as far as the reactions by israeli citizens go, George Orwell had the best way of putting it:
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
sincerely Yours,
Ben, Israel
You should know that we are all sorry that it has to be that way. When people die it hurts to both Jews and Muslims. War will always bring death and destruction and we should always do our best to avoid war!
Understand, people in Israel does not have anything against Lebanon or the Lebanese people. Most Lebanese I personally met were nice and educated people. We do not wish to harm your people in any way.
Please explain that to your people. Explain that if you will unite and get the control of your country, we will become your best friends instead of your enemy.
I really hope your guys can make a difference. Know that since we do not have many friends around we will welcome you as friends if you can just get yourselves together.
Till then I wish you all the best and let god (both yours and ours) and especially us, stop this as soon as possible.
Israeli guy in Amsterdam.
It's like I didn't go through your blog. But this part was an OUCH! Am a girl from Palestine, and it aches me to see so many Lebanese people killed cause their one and only fault was "politics" we are normal people, we breathe, we sleep, we study, we go to work, and I don't get the fact that a normal person (Palestinian, Lebanese or even Israelian) a civillian who used to be a brother, a father, a friend or a husband and suddenly BAM! He's a corpse to his family. We don't care if bush, nasrallah or whoever don't agree. There is blood that was lost because of their own "arguments".
Sigh. Trust me. 2 weeks from now and this whole thing is going to be history. We only get this rage and grudge for a period then go back to our "perfect life".
There are 51 comments in here so who's gonna read mine anyway?
God save Lebanon
i always watched beirut from my balcony,it was fantastic ..its beauty reflecting everywhere..i culd imagine my children playing in one of its pulic gardens ..i used to say everything's over and the comig generation will not be called as "jeel el 7arb"..i was wrong!today we're seeing beirut in ashes..and its hard to accept my only and one beloved country turn to ashes..all we hear how many bombs each threw on other,all we can hear what srategy they both seeking to destroy each other ...shame on them!i could never imagine that the human race could be harsh and vulgar this much!!khalassssss its enough for us both israeli and lebanese...we have the right to live and survive we have the right to fullfil our hopes and realise our dreams ..now all i can hope is PEACE...and no matter what LEBANON WILL REAMIN .LEBANON WILL STILL STAND HOW MUCH HARD THEY TRY...o mahma sar lebnen bedu yib2a lebnen bado yib2aaaa i love u my beloved country...
i've never been as vulgar as this era...fuck u huzzballah its all becozzzzzzzz of u mother fuckerssssss we need to live we need to breath its enough!!!!!!wake up!!!!wake up!!!!!no one can make an agreement in this fuckin way!!!!!!kos ekhtkoun akhou shramiittttttt leave us alone go to syria or iran or elsehwere leave usalone we need peace!!!!!terrorist mother fuckerssssss (i a lebanese and pure lebanese and i hate this terrorist movemnets and many millions like me here...we hate uuuu go elsewhereeeeeeeeeeeeeee ENOUGH!!!!!!!!! WE NEED TO LIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Lebanon: You and your people are in our prayers, unfortunately you reape what you have so foolishly sown. May Allah have mercy on you!
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