I Feel for the People of Kiryat Shemona
I do with all my heart, as I feel for every innocent civilian subjected to unnecessary violence and terror.
But while ONE MLLION of my people are displaced or stranded without food, water, or medication, while HALF A COUNTRY and HALF A CAPITAL are made into piles of rubble, dust, burnt flesh and torn bodies by the friendly liberating Israeli Demolition Forces, while our beaches are inked black with oil and not one bridge is still standing (well, except for the lawziyyeh bridge as per the latest news reports), a YAHOO news story about firefighters battling blazes set in acres of dry grass and bamboo, how they stretched their hoses to their full length, and how "the entire area was covered with thick smoke and dancing black ash", is a tad more than my cool can handle.
Go to the link, and if you're able to stay calm, go on to read the flurry of comments, at your own risk that is. If after that, you're still breathing and haven't poked your eyes out, come back here and please share with me and the rest of us your mantra, for yours is the way of not too many souls.
posted by Fouad at 2:44 PM
6 Comments:
Ya Fouad...
Killo el 7a22 3lek. Lesh bitkhalliyon y2assro hal 2addeh fik?
Ba3rif inno mish hayda elli kint natir tissma3o, bass inno... shoo kint mitwa22a3 ya3ni?!
Sometimes I wonder if some of these articles or TV reports are specifically designed to piss off Lebanese people.
2 pages of comments & I need some fresh air...
I guess I will share my mantra, although to say, "for yours is the way of not too many souls" is too much of a compliment.
You know from my post which you republished here, I am a firm believer that the first step to healing (and I now its too early for that now given all that has happened) is that people on both sides (all sides because I include also the Palestinians) is giving up on the 'pain game'. Or in other words, 'mine is bigger than yours.'
When I read the article you linked, or see similiar reports on the news where a story about what's going on in Lebanon is juxtaposed to one about what is going on in Israel, I think there are three possible reactions.
From the Lebanese side, there's the reaction which you well represent in this post. From the Israeli side, the reaction may be that the news media is hyping what's happening in Lebanon, that the news media is 'left wing arab sympathizers' and not accurately showing how terrible they have it and its all Lebanon's fault anyway that this whole mess is happening.
Then there's maybe my reaction which of course has the benefit of distance and a measure of objectivity. I imagine, I am in a crowded bus, and someone elbows me, by accident or on purpose, because he experiences I am blocking the door with my backpack. I get a bit irritated, and instead of saying something, or giving him an equal push back with a sneer, I take my baseball bat and beat him to a bloody pulp.
In other words, it is so clear to me, that there is no 'proportionality' in what I am seeing. Not because of media bias, but because there is no proportionality in what's happening. And by showing the two sides next to each other, the implicit commentary is that something really f****d up is going on.
Lebanese neighbourhoods and whole villages are being turned to rubble, too often with innocent men, women and children still in them. Israel is suffering brush fires, an occassional death, 1 million Israelis have left their homes but are being pretty comfortably taken care of, and some people have to sweat it out in bomb shelters.
There is no proportionality in what is going on. It's criminal what's going on and its got to stop. I hope that's the message which people around the world take away from these kinds of media reports.
And of course, its logical and reasonable that Lebanese will get totally pissed off, angry, frustrated, even feel like maybe the world thinks they are not even deserving of human treatment. And I realize, at the moment those are legitimate feelings.
My hope remains, that once this stops, hopefully in a day or two (although that is still way way too late) and time passes, that there is still a chance to find reconciliation. And that the damage which has been done doesnt mean that we have to wait another generation until we can move towards some sort of reconciliation.
I am now getting a bit emotional, because the death and pain and suffering is too much. I feel ashamed and guilty that I can take a break from it by turning off the TV and going to do something else. And I know you guys can't.
Peace and love
Hehe, now don't tell me that's the first time you read comments from them! Jeez, where were you all this war?! lol.
Why do you think I feel what I feel? Why do you think I stopped reading the comments and thus replying? I AM TIRED.
PS: Check my blog, it says my feelings better, well that's all I speak about on my blog anyway ;)
I am having a hard time typing,
I poked my own eyes out.
Lennybruce, Llove ya....
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