[LCM Articles] Sahar Khateeb's Outcry

[ayah bdeir]

Jad,

The outcry is not about the TV station, nor what the TV station stands  
for. For once, a video who has circled the world in a mere 24 hours,  
is about the people, not the parties and the agendas. Even if Sahar el  
Kahteeb is part of Future TV, Sahar represents a lot of people who are  
not political, and have never taken political stances in Beirut, and  
have always played devil's advocate on behalf of all parties involved,  
and trust me, these are many. Unfortunately, these people have now  
been forced into a corner.

How do you "look through the hatred" when your parents spent 2 hours  
sitting in the bathroom in Verdun, because they are scared sh*tless of  
their fellow compatriots, turned gunman on their streets. How do you  
look through the hatred when our family turns on all the lights and  
sits by the door and prays that no one breaks into another home. How  
do you look through the hatred when you live abroad, and you have to  
look at pictures online or on tV of your own neighborhood turned into  
a warzone, not because of a war, but because of a show of force. They  
did not choose to have a show of force between parties, and just take  
a hold of government buildings or just block roads or just speak to  
the parties, they chose to scare the people of their own country, and  
when you do that, it's true, this is another era.

Lots of people didn't even have any hatred to look through, and did  
open heir homes in July, and did cook for the refuges, and did make  
donations, and did play devil's advocate all this time with all their  
heart, but even if they never took a stand, now they have been forced  
into one.

Ayah


On May 10, 2008, at 5:15 AM, jad mezher wrote:

> Although I totally condemn what's going on, including the occupation  
> of "Future" TV, regardless of my personal opinion of the station, no  
> TV in Lebanon is unbiased, not even close to that by the slightest  
> distance, including the journalists that work at those stations.  
> They are all propaganda tools in the hands of their parties.  
> Reiterating my total condemnation of the occupation, I believe we  
> all know that what happened has nothing to do with how Sahar behaved  
> towards the opposition but with what the station that she works in  
> stands for, which is basically a Hezbollah bashing machine. Same  
> thing applies to Manar, LBCI, OTV etc. All, bashing machines.
> And, what do you expect when people bash each other?!?!
> Increased tension of course.
>
> I just want to quote something that Jesus Christ said:"He who is  
> without sin, let him cast the first stone".
> All are guilty. So easy on the ego guys. Hopefully, through all your  
> hatred, you're gonna be able to see at least that.
>
> Peace.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Loai Naamani <loai at MIT.EDU>
> To: LCM Articles <lebanon-articles at MIT.EDU>
> Cc: Hazem Zureiqat <hazem at zureiqat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:12:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [LCM Articles] Sahar Khateeb's Outcry
>
> Thanks Hazem. The full version is here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sfCkdbANYlE 
>  – Best, L.
>
> From: Hazem Zureiqat [mailto:hazem at zureiqat.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:05 AM
> To: Hazem Zureiqat
> Subject: Sahar Khateeb's Outcry
>
> http://www.nowlebanon.com/Arabic/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=41980
>
> --
> Hazem
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