This a shame!<br>
What does this "they don't look like the Arab world" mean? Are Arabs Animals? 2nd degree human being? <br>
what is this racizm?<br>
What's wrong with the Arab world?<br>
If we are sophisticated, educated, cosmopolitan... how does this tie to the fact that "we don't look like the Arab world"<br>
Aren't we tired of those cliches?<br>
Ohh yeah Lebanese are not Arabs... what is all is nonsense! I won't even mention the whole stupid discourse of phoenicians!!<br>
Who cares who we are Arabs, Phoenicians, meditteraneans, Greeks, maybe
we have Romans, crusaders, kurdish or Indian blood! <br>
Guys who cares, trade was all over the place and people were mixing all through teh ages<br>
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If Robert Fiske did a good job reporting about the situation all a long
the years of war, this does not mean that all what he says is sacred!!
come on guys a little critical sense, a little pride.<br>
Stop escaping what you are and mirror yourself to what you are
not because Europeans or Americans have engrained in you the fact that
they are a better race than Arabs, than chinese, than indians. No one
is better than any other one.<br>
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And now instead of all standing together and seeing our differences as
a richness to stop Israel from bombing, we are abiding by the argument
that Lebanese are not like the Arabs.<br>
What a shame, <br>
I am disgusted....<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rabih Zbib</b> <<a href="mailto:rabih@mit.edu">rabih@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>We are infinitely greatful for our dearest friend Robert Fisk for the
privilige of elevating us to the rank of full human beings, much
different than those other Arabs!<br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">It amazes me -- I mean, living here in Beirut, as I have for 30 years.
Here are the Lebanese people, sophisticated, educated, cosmopolitan,
people who don't look like the Arab world, they look like us; I mean,
people who could be quite at home on the streets of Paris or New York
and London, and some of them are; people who read, who are very well
educated; people who speak English fluently, French beautifully, and
fluent Arabic, as well, of course; and who, when they die in such large
numbers, the best we can produce is a call for restraint by the State
Department and a claim by the British, our own dear Tony Blair, that
the Israelis are using disproportionate force. </span><br style="font-style: italic;">
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