[LCM Articles] From Lebanon- Re:What is wrong with you people?

[Hiba Bou Akar]

You know what Jimmy, I have been living under the bombs for the past 7 days,
running from one place to another. I am not going to scream and shout on you
while you are living in the "peaceful" United States while I am living in the
"raped and destroyed" Lebanon. No, I don't agree with you that if I die now
that my death is worth it and people like you will be happy. It is my honor to
die for my country but for the sake of saving and rebuilding it my dear and not
for destroying it. Maybe you should come here for 1 day, since maybe 7 or 10 or
months is too much for you to take, this way you can get perspective. And the
fact that your house was destroyed does not give you any legitimacy to announce
me as martyr for the sake of your own and the Israeli cause. Well, my house is
being destroyed for the sixth time, is this a competition on whose house in
Lebanon get destroyed the most?
Please be sensitive.


----- Original Message -----
From: Jimmy Kassis
To: leb-students at lists.stanford.edu ; lebanon-articles at MIT.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [LCM Articles] What is wrong with you people?? One more thing...


Instead of replying with emotionally charged responses, full of personal
attacks, I would appreciate if you actually come up with alternative ideas of
disarming Hisballah, i.e. curing the deadly cancer, rather than giving it a
Tylenol by saying STOP THE WAR!!  I want to know what is next?? spend the next
20 years negotiating with them while they build up their capabilities again?






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From: kingkassis at hotmail.com
To: philippesaad at gmail.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:22:38 -0400
CC: leb-students at lists.stanford.edu; lebanon-articles at mit.edu
Subject: Re: [LCM Articles] What is wrong with you people??


Rania,

I don?t think I am stating the obvious.  After reading all the comments sent
out, the ?obvious? is that no one seems to have the balls to speak out
against Hezbollah for fear of being labeled unpatriotic.  For a condemnation of
Hezbollah is perceived as support for Israel which in itself is unpatriotic



Farrah

I don?t condone Israel destroying all of Lebanon.  95% of the bombing has been
targeted to Hezbollah strongholds.  Hezbollah chooses to operate from within
civilian areas. That in itself is outrageous; the people supporting Hezbollah
should not allow them to launch attacks form hospital rooftops.  We should all
rise up and speak out against that.  Again I don?t condone the destruction of
my own country, but I understand the other 5% of the bombing that Israel is
doing to send a message to the Lebanese government.



Elias

Israel may not defeat them completely but they will sure weaken them to the
point where just maybe the Lebanese army can dare to venture to the south and
do what is supposed to do and patrol the border.

Israeli exacting revenge on the Lebanese??   Why? For what?   You and I both
know that Israel only want security on its northern border.  They have proven
that when they COMPLETELY withdrew in 2000.



Maurice

I won?t disappear. Deal with it.

I don?t agree with taking the country back 20 years.  But I want a solution a
permanent one.  I am sick and tired of holding Hezbollah?s hand begging them
to disarm.  At the rate we are moving with Hezbollah and Syria they would have
taken us back 20 years anyways.





Philippe

Before you go questioning my Lebanese identity, my patriotism, and calling me a
coward let me tell you something about myself.  My house was burned to the
ground by the Druze in 1981; my house was then leveled to the ground by the
Israeli invasion in 1982 in the mountains.  My house again destroyed in Beirut
and my mother badly injured from Syrian shelling in 1989.  And some more
destruction was piled on my house and family from the Lebanese Forces with
their war with GMA.  Despite all that, I love Lebanon, I love the people, and I
believe in a united Lebanon with Christians and Muslims living together as one
people. I truly believe in that vision.

I don?t believe us as Lebanese have united enough to disarm Hezbollah. 
Hezbollah being the undisputed puppets of Syria and Iran, I hold them
responsible for the death of some of the finest people that Lebanon ever
produced from Hariri and Tueini to the rest you know the list I won?t repeat
here.  After what round of talks were you expecting Hezbollah to disarm? 
Hezbollah wanted every Arab and Iranian issue resolved before they did
anything.  Is that what you want? I am tired as stated of listening to their
lame ass excuses of why they need to be armed.   Yes the death of 250 civilians
is horrible, but if the end result is a country free of militias in peace with
ALL its neighbors working to build a bright future for its children, then their
death is well worth it.





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