Philip,<br>
<br>
I was being sarcastic.<br>
<br>
The point of my email was to show how much racism is part of the big
picture in how the West deals with the middle east, and who present it
is (whether consciously or unconsciously) in the discourse of the West,
to the point where even someone like Robert Fisk, whom we consider a
champion of the Arab cause, can utter such idiocies.<br>
<br>
-rabih<br>
<br>
<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Philippe Charles Saad</b> <<a href="mailto:philippesaad@gmail.com">philippesaad@gmail.com</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>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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10c8f3453e222972_1"><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rabih Zbib</b> <<a href="mailto:rabih@mit.edu" title="mailto:rabih@mit.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
rabih@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span></span></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"></blockquote></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10c8f3453e222972_3">
<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>
<br>
<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;">
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/19/1345257" title="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/19/1345257 (http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/19/1345257)" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/19/1345257</a></span><br>
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