Gracias Companero Jade and Greetings to All My Family ~
Thank you for your response and your great summary of highlights of recent Lebanese history. I know that current events in the Middle East have been developing for centuries and there has long been a lot of imperialist interference by both the former British Empire and now the Amerikan Empire.
I do what little I can to help raise consciousness with my meager resources. I am an ol' fart of 54-Earth years, have been involved in Movement activities since I was sweet sixteen and thus I have been around the block and up the alley a few times in a few battles myself.
We may never meet face-to-face but we can meet mind-to-mind. As for me, my life is pretty much an open book. My health program requires me to be Honest, Opening and Willing to change. I have no fear of self-exposure and feel sorrow for fools who are frozen in fear in the ugly face of the Fascist Minotaur and stupid in their silence as innocents die day and night, especially our children.
Nowadays I work as a Health Care Worker and am returning to Junior College to keep my brain busy. I know I ain't brain dead if I am still alive and learning!
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In our struggles for liberation, the harvest is bountiful but the laborers are few. My main agenda is the humane rights agenda and relatged social issues. I know that al dimensions and all existential realities are ultimately connected reality.
The basics are the basics. The people's basic survival needs are the common denominators that form the basis for our collective solidarity: food, clothing, shelter, medical care, safety and liberating education. Let us reach out to each other now instead of searching for each other over the ruins.
We know that where there is a good will there is a good way. I hope you will have the continued will to keep your group going, expand it and reach out to others. It is vitally needed to help let other peoples outside of Lebanon know what is going on there in general.
I strongly suggest you check out and join other Yahoo Groups and create a Liberation for Lebanon Blog:
http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups
http://www.blogger.com/home
Check out Today In Iraq as a model blog:
http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com/
If you have not done so already Join the Humane-Rights-Agenda Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/ + Join Issues Online Worldwide Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/issuesonline_worldwide/ In relation to Latino-Indigenous people check out:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aztlannet_news/ It has not escaped my attention that in physical characteristics many people of the Middle East look like my people! Between here and death we should all see that we are really all one people upon one Mother Earth. It will take time, patience and understanding to prevail over the dark forces that are in power and secure for now. Our enemies are indeed dinosaurs fearing their eventual extinction.
Recent News Items:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/04/1418253
Friday, August 4th, 2006
Hundreds of Thousands Rally in Iraq Against the War in Lebanon: Middle East Analyst Juan Cole on War in the Middle East - from Baghdad to Beirut
http://hrw.org/campaigns/israel_lebanon/
Israel - Lebanon Conflict
This page pulls together all the work done by Human Rights Watch on the latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, including reports, news releases, a Q and A on the hostilities, and opinion articles. Human Rights Watch has an important role to play in meticulously documenting the actions of all parties to the conflict and evaluating them with objectivity under the requirements of international humanitarian law (the laws of war). Human Rights Watch began its investigations shortly after the fighting broke out on July 12. Human Rights Watch has researchers in Lebanon and Israel so as to be able to research and document the conduct of all parties to the conflict.
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We can wisely utilize Internet Power in conjunction with our local community education as we know we must educate to liberate! The truth is our greatest weapon!
Venceremos! We Will Win!
Brother Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Email: sacranative{at}yahoo.com
Sacramento, California, Amerika
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Jade Khalife <gi_jade25@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi All,Welcome Peta to the group and thanks for spreading the word! I'm not sure how much some posts might interest you, but we try our best. The group was mainly created to update ppl on the situation in Lebanon, on diff. levels.Maria thanks so much for your mail! It's been a crazy month so far. In Lebanon people are very frustrated because all our history is filled with paying for other people's conflicts. I don't know what the ppt. at the GA was like, as I haven't seen it.What you shouldn't worry about is us having hate against other people;) We know that war is not made by people, but by governments and parties. Otherwise, the Lebanese would hate the Syrians, Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, French, Turks,..the list is long;). But Lebanon has always been made to suffer because of the conflicts of others. I thought I'd write a few words about what many Lebanese feel about their suffering.In the 1970s we suffered when some of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon formed armed militias and began terrorizing the Lebnaese streets, and eventually the south of Lebanon. That errupted in a war in 1975. We suffered when the Israelis invaded Lebanon in 1982 to fight the militias, but killed x10 times more Lebanese civilians. And again with Israel's 18-year long occupation of South Lebanon. And again in the 15+ year occupation of the rest of Lebanon by Syria.We've seen the 'free world' turn its back to us before. In 1989, the interim prime-minister of Lebanon General Michel Aoun, declared the Lebanese Liberation War, in which he asked all foreign forces, Syrian and Israeli, to leave Lebanon. At that time the Syrians controlled most of North Lebanon, the Israelis most of the South, and 'Free Lebanon' was around the capital Beirut. It was a defensive war, with the Syrian army attacking many times unsuccessfuly. But with the Gulf War in 1990, Bush Sr. agreed to allow the Syrians to use their air force to bomb the 'Free Lebanese Govt.', in exchange for Syrian support for Gulf War I. And with that, ended the last 'Free Republic'. That was supposedly the end of the war.From 1990-2005, Lebanon was under the Syrian occupation, no war, but occupation. During this time thousands of those who still dared to cry out for freedom, mostly youth and university students, were harassed and tortured in Syrian jails. But we rebuilt the country despite that. In 2005 the Syrians finally withdrew from Lebanon, after a lot of international pressure and the 'Cedar Revolution' where more than a million Lebanese protested in the streets of Beirut (that's 1/4th the population). Since then we have struggled to get rid of some of the corrupt politicians who remained from the time of the Syrian occupation, and a series of 'National Dialogues' began among Lebanese Leaders to solve the issues of regaining the Lebanese land still occupied by Israel, disarming Hezbolla, Fixing relations with Syria and Israel, Return of POWs, disarming of Palestinian militias in the refugee camps, etc. We started making real progress on these issues.Now we're caught in another war we never wanted. And it's always the innocent civilians that are killed.What I am trying to say is that Lebanon has always payed the price for the conflict of others. Despite all of this, we do not have any hate towards any people. We are educated enough to know that governments and parties are the ones who make war, not people. But what happens very often is that the people are influenced by the propaganda that is 'sold' to them by their governments. What is happening today is exactly that. With the US,UK and Israel the only countries whose governments are with the aggression against Lebanon, and the rest of the world can do nothing but sit and wait.It is incredibly frustrating. And the best thing we can all do is spread awareness.The days of 'just' wars and glory are long gone, and nothing justifies the killing and suffering of fellow humans.In Lebanon, I do not know what awaits us. What I do know is that we Christian, Muslim, Druze and Jewish Lebanese are all united against this Israeli aggression.We do not believe that this is a war about religion or extremists or anything of the sort, as we, our own society, is a testament to peaceful co-existence.I know that a lot of Israelis back in Israel also support peace, even PM Olmert's own daughter is in the peace movement. This is one of the reasons why I know peace will come one day when people such as those govern their country. What is for sure is that the Lebanese will never be pressured to fight among each other, and that we will never allow an occupation of Lebanon...that's why the world's 5th most powerful army has only managed to advance a 1km or so into south Lebanonin 20 days, but unfortunately has resorted to killing civilians and destroying our country's infrastructure by air raids. The UN High Commissioner on Human Rights declared that both Israel and Hezbolla are committing War Crimes by targetting Civilians on both sides. But it was Israel that turned a kidnapping of 2 soldiers into a war. While 20 civilians have been killed in Israel, over 1,000 are dead in Lebanon. What we re-constructed in the last 15 years since the end of the last war, Israel has destroyed in 20 days.I believe that 'big changes' were planned by some people on different sides. But we are sick and tired of being the land that burns for the Israel-US/Syria-Iran proxy war. What gives me hope is the patriotic leaders that we have today, that there will a bright future, with a Free Lebanon. We'll get there, it's only a matter of time, and what is sad is that it is also a matter of more deaths and suffering. We did not choose to live this war, it came to us. But peace will come. I send you all BIG HUGS!Jade+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
maria romera montero <cadiz_maria@yahoo.es> wrote:hi...i have not written a lot this time cause i'm not too sure for my english, but i want to do it now...i really cannot understand, i cannot hear the bombs from here, i cannot feel that u are feeling............ i can only say sorry. sorry so much... i can imagine only a little what i feel if this happens in my country... and then i'm sad.............. very very sad. yesterday we watched ifmsa-lebanon's power point in GA... was very emotional, was really sad... i imagine how u are... i'll try to imagine why, but i dont now.... i cannot find a reason for all that violence.i'm sorry also for inocent people in israel........ i have a wish, 2 wishes....first: all this terror stop soon,second: please, dont hate... dont hate each other... i know must be difficult after all this, but... u have to try it... nobody of us, young people, ifmsa people, have the fault for our goverments do...i dont know how to tell all i feel, i can only say sorry sorry sorry............... i'm sure it's not enough... but... i dont know what can i do. i hope all stop soon and u can have ur safe life.take care.maria
gi_jade25 <gi_jade25@yahoo.com> escribió:
7:04am: I woke up today to the sound of 2 loud 'Booms'...followed a second later by a 'Bang'. I could tell they were close as the glass vibrated.
I jumped out of bed, finding my mother and brother in the corridor, looked to our right through the balcony, and saw a huge column of smoke rising just about a km away from us.
The first thought was that it had to be the bridge. And sure enough, when the generator came on a few minutes later, TV was showing the huge crater in the middle of the bridge, with a car and a van also being hit, and many being taken injured... nothing else was clear except for the big wide hole of twisted metal and concrete.
Another 1/2 hr later...another 2 loud 'Boums' and we were on our way to the basement at this point. I told them wait, it's probably the 'Casino du Liban' bridge, just a little bit further from the first one. Sure enough, a few min. later they show it being completely destroyed.
Pffffft it is so incredibly frustrating. Israel is hitting everything in the country except Hezbolla. So much so that even the people who hated Hezbolla and those working on their disarmament now hate Israel.
Today is a very good example. Because of the above, the Lebanese have remained united against the Israeli aggression, of course not with Hezbolla per se, but certainly with anyone standing in their way. Israel is targeting the unity of the Lebanese.
The bridges bombed today are in Jounieh as well as other targets in Jbeil(Byblos), which are Christian heartlands in Lebanon. There is no Hezbolla for hundreds of km from here. The only reason Israel hits here is to turn the people, esp the Christians against Hezbolla, laying the seeds for internal conflict and even civil war. That will never happen,
as the people are not dumb enough to fall for this.
Its just frustrating that this is happening to so many innocent
civilians all over the country. I don't know where this is leading to. Oh, and btw, Bush is now off on a 9-day vacation. sweet.
I hope it ends soon. I am almost sick of saying that so much! lol But it will. The bridges will be rebuilt, the buildings as well, but the human loss can never be compensated. And all of this in the name of Politics.
Humanity really has a lot to learn.
They say that Lebanon is like the Phoenix...it rises high from its own ashes. We'll see to it.Maria Romera Montero+34.654.470.278/ 625.573.912 bichitomaria@hotmail.com
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