By: Elias Bejjani
What should the Lebanese people, the Arab countries, Israel and the free world do with Hezbollah, the Iranian terrorist militia and its armed ministate, when the Syrian Assad regime falls? Some ignorant and short-sighted leaders in Lebanon are proposing that the government should buy Hezbollah’s weaponry and recruit most of its mujahedin fighters into the Lebanese army. In fact this is the most stupid, sickening, evil and fatal formula for Lebanon.
In case such a proposal is executed, Hezbollah will simply take over Lebanon, enslave its people and remain a serious threat not only to neighboring Israel and to peace and stability in the Middle East, but a cancerous ongoing threat to each and every Arab country and to the global war against terrorism and terrorists.
The thousands and thousands of Hezbollah's fighters, the mujahedin were physically, psychologically, mentally, militarily, ethically, socially, religiously and dogmatically trained by Iran and turned into Iranian mujahedin that have nothing, completely nothing in common with Lebanon, the Arab countries and the free world.
What all the Lebanese and worldwide strategists and politicians must be aware of is that Hezbollah's leadership and fighters including its General Secretary, Hassan Nasrallah, have no respect for human dignity, human rights, democracy, freedom, judiciary or even the human mind. Nothing in their thinking and minds is Lebanese or Arabic or human at all because of their extensive Iranian kind of training and breeding. They are all entrapped psychologically in a very sickening mentality that sees no one, respects no one and recognizes no one but the Iranian mullahs' leadership.
Hezbollah's leadership and its mujahedin are totally entrapped in their own world of Iranian denominational fantasies and dogmas. Accordingly, the criteria and standards of what is right and wrong to which they abide, honor and follow are totally set up and shaped by the Iranian mullahs. These anti-democratic and oppressive criteria and standards are continuously manipulated, changed, adjusted and shuffled by the Iranian mullahs to suit their dream of reviving the Persian Empire.
Due to this twisted psychological and radical Islamic religious training and breeding, Hezbollah's leadership is unpredictable and cannot be trusted by any means. They are blood merchants and sadly their merchandise is the people of Lebanon, including their own community members. They do not care who starves or even who dies. They have no actual or permanent allies or friends, only hired and temporary followers and mercenaries, who have been bought with the Iranian petrodollar "Clean Money".
In reality and actuality and based on the scientific and strategic vision and studies of numerous well respected worldwide think tanks, Hezbollah is the most dangerous terrorist militia in the world, much more lethal than even Al Qaeda.
Based on all of the above, the 14th of March Lebanese coalition must not compromise on any basic issue with Hezbollah on the account of Lebanon's constitution, human rights, multiculturalism or the country's ties and relations with the UN, Arab countries, and free world.
Hopefully the leadership of this pro- Lebanon independence, freedom and sovereignty coalition by now has learned from its previous naive, short-sighted and fatal mistakes and miscalculations that ultimately put Hezbollah and its puppet allies in power with full control over the Lebanese government, parliament, presidency and armed forces.
Logic, reason, past experience and facts must teach this coalition not again to come to Hezbollah's rescue when the Syrian regime falls as was the stupid situation in 2006 in the aftermath of the Hezbollah-Israeli war. This coalition obstructed in 2006 the UN General Assembly from Implementing UN Resolution 1701 under chapter seven, leaving Hezbollah to rearm and control the whole country.
When the Syrian Assad regimes falls, Hezbollah's fighters and leadership on all levels must be deported with all their weaponry caches to Iran and never ever integrated into the Lebanese armed forces.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese army itself needs to be shuffled and reconstructed due to the fact that Hezbollah, Syria and Iran have turned it into a mere useless and helpless militia that they use and abuse.
The model for dealing with Hezbollah when the Syrian Assad regime falls has been created in 1982 and in 2000.
In 1982 the free world, UN and Israel forced Arafat and his PLO fighters and terrorists to leave Lebanon to Tunisia, Yemen and other Arab countries.
In 2000 Israel took with her the South Lebanese Army Soldiers when it implemented UN Resolution 525 and withdrew unilaterally from South Lebanon.
In conclusion, these two already accomplished examples must be taken into real and serious consideration when the time comes to end Hezbollah as a state inside the state and disarm its militia.
Elias Bejjani*
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
Email phoenicia@hotmail.com
Web sites http://www.10452lccc.com & http://www.clhrf.com
Elias Bejjani's Face Book site http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602442765#!/
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Lebanon's Confiscated Independence
By: Elias Bejjani
This morning, Lebanon sadly celebrated its 68th Independence Day. The celebration was for some thing that actually does exist at all, because Lebanon is not independent by any standard or criteria. The country unfortunately is fully and totally occupied by the Axis Of Evil powers, Syria, Iran and their militant terrorist organization, Hezbollah.
Meanwhile all the current Lebanese officials, on all levels, and in all positions, especially the high-ranking ones; The President, The Prime Minister, the House Speaker, and the army and internal Security Chiefs are all either Syrian-Iranian puppets, or cowards who have no guts to execute their duties and national obligations.
The present Lebanese government headed by Mr. Najeb Mikati has nothing at all to do with Lebanon or its people. In reality it is Hezbollah's government no more, no less, and came to power through a series coupe of intimidation, terror, criminal acts, assassinations and savage military invasions.
In this context those Lebanese subservient officials who celebrated the independence event today and accepted congratulations in the country's presidential Palace, are in fact mere mercenaries who have sold Lebanon, its people, and its independence to Syria, Iran and their proxy Hezbollah. With no shame or dignity, they openly take their orders directly from Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah and from his both masters, Iran and Syria.
These low class Lebanese officials were not the right ones to be congratulated as the sad and disgusting situation today, but the ones that must be arrested and put on trial for being actual obstacles for reclaiming the confiscated independence and sovereignty.
The congratulations must have gone to Lebanon's martyrs and their families who offered themselves on the country's alter so the Lebanese people can still live with dignity, freedom and not enslaved.
Yes, celebrating the Independence Day is a must and surely a national obligation, but only, and only, when occupied Lebanon is again free, independent and Sovereign. Until this day comes, the day of liberation, and definitely its coming, all celebration like the ones that took place today in Lebanon's capital Beirut are evil charades for puppets, traitors and mercenaries.
In this realm of treason, sin and camouflage, it is worth mentioning that the current Lebanese governing bodies with no exception are all under the full control of Syria, Iran and Hezbollah. Accordingly all countries who really want to help Lebanon and the Lebanese people to reclaim their confiscated independence need to exert all available and possible pressures on Syria and Iran to leave Lebanon and put an end for their evil hegemony and atrocities that they are inflicting on the free Lebanese people.
Because of Lebanon's Martyrs very generous sacrifices, we the Lebanese people remained and Lebanon remained and by God's will we shall remain till the last hour as long as our patriotic and faithful women and men are always ready to defend Lebanon and its freedom. God bless the Souls of all Lebanon's martyrs and safeguard Lebanon and its people.
*Elias Bejjani
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
Email phoenicia@hotmail.com
Web sites http://www.10452lccc.com & http://www.clhrf.com
Elias Bejjani's Face Book site http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602442765#!/
This morning, Lebanon sadly celebrated its 68th Independence Day. The celebration was for some thing that actually does exist at all, because Lebanon is not independent by any standard or criteria. The country unfortunately is fully and totally occupied by the Axis Of Evil powers, Syria, Iran and their militant terrorist organization, Hezbollah.
Meanwhile all the current Lebanese officials, on all levels, and in all positions, especially the high-ranking ones; The President, The Prime Minister, the House Speaker, and the army and internal Security Chiefs are all either Syrian-Iranian puppets, or cowards who have no guts to execute their duties and national obligations.
The present Lebanese government headed by Mr. Najeb Mikati has nothing at all to do with Lebanon or its people. In reality it is Hezbollah's government no more, no less, and came to power through a series coupe of intimidation, terror, criminal acts, assassinations and savage military invasions.
In this context those Lebanese subservient officials who celebrated the independence event today and accepted congratulations in the country's presidential Palace, are in fact mere mercenaries who have sold Lebanon, its people, and its independence to Syria, Iran and their proxy Hezbollah. With no shame or dignity, they openly take their orders directly from Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah and from his both masters, Iran and Syria.
These low class Lebanese officials were not the right ones to be congratulated as the sad and disgusting situation today, but the ones that must be arrested and put on trial for being actual obstacles for reclaiming the confiscated independence and sovereignty.
The congratulations must have gone to Lebanon's martyrs and their families who offered themselves on the country's alter so the Lebanese people can still live with dignity, freedom and not enslaved.
Yes, celebrating the Independence Day is a must and surely a national obligation, but only, and only, when occupied Lebanon is again free, independent and Sovereign. Until this day comes, the day of liberation, and definitely its coming, all celebration like the ones that took place today in Lebanon's capital Beirut are evil charades for puppets, traitors and mercenaries.
In this realm of treason, sin and camouflage, it is worth mentioning that the current Lebanese governing bodies with no exception are all under the full control of Syria, Iran and Hezbollah. Accordingly all countries who really want to help Lebanon and the Lebanese people to reclaim their confiscated independence need to exert all available and possible pressures on Syria and Iran to leave Lebanon and put an end for their evil hegemony and atrocities that they are inflicting on the free Lebanese people.
Because of Lebanon's Martyrs very generous sacrifices, we the Lebanese people remained and Lebanon remained and by God's will we shall remain till the last hour as long as our patriotic and faithful women and men are always ready to defend Lebanon and its freedom. God bless the Souls of all Lebanon's martyrs and safeguard Lebanon and its people.
*Elias Bejjani
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
Email phoenicia@hotmail.com
Web sites http://www.10452lccc.com & http://www.clhrf.com
Elias Bejjani's Face Book site http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602442765#!/
Sunday, November 13, 2011
History shall have no mercy for Al Assad and his puppet Lebanese Mercinaries
Elias Bejjani
The end of the criminal Syrian Al Assad regime is looming and it is only a matter of time before it is toppled by the Syrian people.
Meanwhile all those Syrian and Iranian Lebanese puppets, mercenaries, merchants of fake libration, obstruction and resistance including Hezbollah, Aoun, Mikati, Suleiman and all the other cheap and mean subservient evil creatures will experience the same end as their master Al Assad and dictatorship regime.
History shall have no mercy for them and their ultimate rest will be in its dust bin with disgrace and shame.
No matter what Lebanon will be liberated and its peace loving people by God's will shall again enjoy independence, Freedom, and sovereignty.
With Profit Isaiah (33-01) we loudly remind the oppressors with their definite end: " Our enemies are doomed! They have robbed and betrayed, although no one has robbed them or betrayed them. But their time to rob and betray will end, and they themselves will become victims of robbery and treachery".
لبنان دولة مارقة وفاشلة وحكامه أوباش ومرتزقة
الياس بجاني/14 ت2"/11/مؤسف ومحزن أن يصل حال وطننا الأم لبنان إلى هذا الدرك الميليشياوي والفوضوي والمأساوي والخطير على كل الصعد وعلى مختلف المستويات حيث أصبح بحكمه وحكامه ومسؤوليه وسياسييه ورجال دينه ومؤسساته غريباً عن أهله ولم يعد يشبههم بشيء ولا عاد على صورتهم ومثالهم بعدما تفشى سرطان حزب الله الإيراني القاتل والفيرس البعثي الفتاك في مؤسساته الحكومية والمدنية ونخر عظامها وحولها إلى هياكل لا حياة ولا روح فيها. مؤسف ومعيب ومخجل أن يصوت لبنان الحكم ضد ثورة الشعب السوري في الجامعة العربية ويقف إلى جانب الطاغية الأسد ويناصر المجرمين وفرق الشبيحة. مؤسف أن بتبجح كل من ميشال سليمان والميقاتي والساقط ميشال عون وباقي ربع المعالف والتبن والمال النظيف والحلال بتأييدهم لنظام لا يعرف غير لغة القنل والدم ولم يجلب للبنان غير المآسي والمصائب منذ العام 1975. من هنا نعلنها مدوية ونقول إن لبنان الوطن هو رهينة مخطوفة ودولة مارقة ومحتلة من دولتي محور الشر والإرهاب سوريا وإيران والمنظمات الإرهابية التابعة لهما مباشرة مثل حزب الله وغيره من أدوات القتل والفجور والمكر والجحود. إلا أن زمن المحل هذا أشرف على نهايته وكذلك نهاية أهل الظلم والفجور وهز الأصابع وأصحاب الحناجر المؤجرة في سوريا ولبنان، ومع النبي اشعيا (33-01)نردد: "ويل لك ايها المخرب وانت لم تخرب، وايها الناهب ولم ينهبوك. حين تنتهي من التخريب تخرب، وحين تفرغ من النهب ينهبونك".
The end of the criminal Syrian Al Assad regime is looming and it is only a matter of time before it is toppled by the Syrian people.
Meanwhile all those Syrian and Iranian Lebanese puppets, mercenaries, merchants of fake libration, obstruction and resistance including Hezbollah, Aoun, Mikati, Suleiman and all the other cheap and mean subservient evil creatures will experience the same end as their master Al Assad and dictatorship regime.
History shall have no mercy for them and their ultimate rest will be in its dust bin with disgrace and shame.
No matter what Lebanon will be liberated and its peace loving people by God's will shall again enjoy independence, Freedom, and sovereignty.
With Profit Isaiah (33-01) we loudly remind the oppressors with their definite end: " Our enemies are doomed! They have robbed and betrayed, although no one has robbed them or betrayed them. But their time to rob and betray will end, and they themselves will become victims of robbery and treachery".
لبنان دولة مارقة وفاشلة وحكامه أوباش ومرتزقة
الياس بجاني/14 ت2"/11/مؤسف ومحزن أن يصل حال وطننا الأم لبنان إلى هذا الدرك الميليشياوي والفوضوي والمأساوي والخطير على كل الصعد وعلى مختلف المستويات حيث أصبح بحكمه وحكامه ومسؤوليه وسياسييه ورجال دينه ومؤسساته غريباً عن أهله ولم يعد يشبههم بشيء ولا عاد على صورتهم ومثالهم بعدما تفشى سرطان حزب الله الإيراني القاتل والفيرس البعثي الفتاك في مؤسساته الحكومية والمدنية ونخر عظامها وحولها إلى هياكل لا حياة ولا روح فيها. مؤسف ومعيب ومخجل أن يصوت لبنان الحكم ضد ثورة الشعب السوري في الجامعة العربية ويقف إلى جانب الطاغية الأسد ويناصر المجرمين وفرق الشبيحة. مؤسف أن بتبجح كل من ميشال سليمان والميقاتي والساقط ميشال عون وباقي ربع المعالف والتبن والمال النظيف والحلال بتأييدهم لنظام لا يعرف غير لغة القنل والدم ولم يجلب للبنان غير المآسي والمصائب منذ العام 1975. من هنا نعلنها مدوية ونقول إن لبنان الوطن هو رهينة مخطوفة ودولة مارقة ومحتلة من دولتي محور الشر والإرهاب سوريا وإيران والمنظمات الإرهابية التابعة لهما مباشرة مثل حزب الله وغيره من أدوات القتل والفجور والمكر والجحود. إلا أن زمن المحل هذا أشرف على نهايته وكذلك نهاية أهل الظلم والفجور وهز الأصابع وأصحاب الحناجر المؤجرة في سوريا ولبنان، ومع النبي اشعيا (33-01)نردد: "ويل لك ايها المخرب وانت لم تخرب، وايها الناهب ولم ينهبوك. حين تنتهي من التخريب تخرب، وحين تفرغ من النهب ينهبونك".
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Honor Your Father And Mother
By: Elias Bejjani
One very important concept and an extremely wise approach MUST apply and prevail when reading the Holy Bible in a bid to understand its contents and observe the Godly instructions and life guidelines that are enlisted. The concept needs to be a faith one with an open frame of mind free from questioning and challenges.
Meanwhile the approach and interpretation both MUST be kept within the abstract manner, thinking and mentality frame, and not in the concrete way of thinking and interpretation. The Biblical quote (Matthew 15/04"For God said, Respect your father and your mother, and If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death), must not be read concretely and taken merely in its verbatim content. I posted this verse in both English and Arabic yesterday on my Face Book page and was moved by the kind of comments that it generated.
Below are three of these comments:
1-"I pray that this does not apply to teenagers?"
2-"Who else would it apply to? From teenagers to adults to married to parents...Until their own parents die; then they weep and wail"
3- "Thank goodness because I think we would all be dead if it applied to teenagers at some point, just learning about the "teenage years" with my oldest"
This verse simply dwells on The Fifth Biblical Commandment: "Honor your Father and Mother". To grasp this verse rightfully and put it in its right faith content one should understand that death in the Bible is not the death of the body as we experience and see on earth. DEATH in the Bible means the SIN that leads to the eternal anguish in Hell.
The Bible teaches us that through His crucifixion, death and resurrection Jesus defeated death in its ancient human, earthly concept. He broke the death thorn and since than, the actual death became the sin. Those who commit the sin die and on the judgment day are outcast to the eternal fire. Death for the believers is a temporary sleep on the hope of resurrection.
Accordingly the verse "If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death", means that those who do not honor their parents, help, support and respect them commit a deadly sin and God on the Judgment Day will make them accountable. God is a Father, a loving, passionate and caring One, and in this content He made the honoring of parents one of the Ten Commandments.
Below are three Biblical verses that documents the Fifth Commandment
1-“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.” (Exodus 20:12)
2-“Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.” (Deuteronomy 5:16)
3-“You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.” (Leviticus 19:3)
In conclusion: The abstract and faith interpretation of the quote in question, (Matthew 15/04"For God said, Respect your father and your mother, and If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death), must not be related to children or teenagers who because of an age and maturity factors might temporarily repel against their parents and disobey them.
Hopefully, each and every one of us, no matter what religion or denomination he/she is affiliated to will never ever ignore his parents and commit the deadly SIN of not honoring them through every way and mean especially when they are old and unable to take care of themselves.
في أعلى تفسير للوصية الخامسة من الوصايا العشرة التي تقول باحترام وتكريم الأب والأم. كما تشرع معنى الموت في المسيحية. الموت هو الخطيئة وليس موت الجسد فنحن لا نموت بل نرقد على رجاء القيامة. المسيح بصلبه وموته وقيامته قهر الموت وكسر شوكته.
Elias Bejjani
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
Email phoenicia@hotmail.com
Web sites http://www.10452lccc.com & http://www.clhrf.com
Elias Bejjani's Face Book site http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602442765#!/
One very important concept and an extremely wise approach MUST apply and prevail when reading the Holy Bible in a bid to understand its contents and observe the Godly instructions and life guidelines that are enlisted. The concept needs to be a faith one with an open frame of mind free from questioning and challenges.
Meanwhile the approach and interpretation both MUST be kept within the abstract manner, thinking and mentality frame, and not in the concrete way of thinking and interpretation. The Biblical quote (Matthew 15/04"For God said, Respect your father and your mother, and If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death), must not be read concretely and taken merely in its verbatim content. I posted this verse in both English and Arabic yesterday on my Face Book page and was moved by the kind of comments that it generated.
Below are three of these comments:
1-"I pray that this does not apply to teenagers?"
2-"Who else would it apply to? From teenagers to adults to married to parents...Until their own parents die; then they weep and wail"
3- "Thank goodness because I think we would all be dead if it applied to teenagers at some point, just learning about the "teenage years" with my oldest"
This verse simply dwells on The Fifth Biblical Commandment: "Honor your Father and Mother". To grasp this verse rightfully and put it in its right faith content one should understand that death in the Bible is not the death of the body as we experience and see on earth. DEATH in the Bible means the SIN that leads to the eternal anguish in Hell.
The Bible teaches us that through His crucifixion, death and resurrection Jesus defeated death in its ancient human, earthly concept. He broke the death thorn and since than, the actual death became the sin. Those who commit the sin die and on the judgment day are outcast to the eternal fire. Death for the believers is a temporary sleep on the hope of resurrection.
Accordingly the verse "If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death", means that those who do not honor their parents, help, support and respect them commit a deadly sin and God on the Judgment Day will make them accountable. God is a Father, a loving, passionate and caring One, and in this content He made the honoring of parents one of the Ten Commandments.
Below are three Biblical verses that documents the Fifth Commandment
1-“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.” (Exodus 20:12)
2-“Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.” (Deuteronomy 5:16)
3-“You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.” (Leviticus 19:3)
In conclusion: The abstract and faith interpretation of the quote in question, (Matthew 15/04"For God said, Respect your father and your mother, and If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death), must not be related to children or teenagers who because of an age and maturity factors might temporarily repel against their parents and disobey them.
Hopefully, each and every one of us, no matter what religion or denomination he/she is affiliated to will never ever ignore his parents and commit the deadly SIN of not honoring them through every way and mean especially when they are old and unable to take care of themselves.
في أعلى تفسير للوصية الخامسة من الوصايا العشرة التي تقول باحترام وتكريم الأب والأم. كما تشرع معنى الموت في المسيحية. الموت هو الخطيئة وليس موت الجسد فنحن لا نموت بل نرقد على رجاء القيامة. المسيح بصلبه وموته وقيامته قهر الموت وكسر شوكته.
Elias Bejjani
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
Email phoenicia@hotmail.com
Web sites http://www.10452lccc.com & http://www.clhrf.com
Elias Bejjani's Face Book site http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602442765#!/
Monday, November 7, 2011
Everlasting Peace in the Middle East requires tolerance and acceptance of others
By: Elias Bejjani
Unless the Arab countries and Arab people give up on their deeply rooted education of hostility, hatred, terrorism, and rejection of others who belong to different religions, denominations, cultures, ethnicities, and minorities, they will remain living in the stone age era and isolated from the rest of the civilized and free democratic world.
The Arab countries and people are required to immediately start amending their educational curriculums and media regulations to begin peacefully and seriously raising their new generations on a set of principles that respect those different others without persecuting and apartheid mentality as the on going shameful status quo is in Egypt where Coptic Christians are not treated as second class citizens and savagely persecuted.
All actual realities and facts indicates clearly that there will be no revolutions or uprisings that can help the Arab countries to be free, democratic and take their respectable place among other free nations if they do not pursue real change.
If they do not do so they will keep on getting out of one devastating trap and falling into another, toppling one dictator and endorsing another.
Education tolerance, peace and acceptance of others are the kind of revolutions and uprisings that the Arab world and people need urgently.
In order for the Arab world and people to actually and practically move on successfully to the twenty-first centaury and live in peace and harmony among themselves and with their neighbors, especially with Israel, they must first free themselves from the deadly education of hostilities and unequivocally, completely and without any conservations honor, abide by and practice The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
*Elias Bejjani
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
Email phoenicia@hotmail.com
Web sites http://www.10452lccc.com & http://www.clhrf.com
Elias Bejjani's Face Book site http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602442765#!/
Below is the Arabic summary for the editorial
ثقافة الحقد ورفض الآخر هي المشكلة الأساس في الدول العربية
الياس بجاني/06 تشرين الثاني/11/إن السلام الدائم والعادل في الدول العربية نفسها ومع بعضها البعض ومع جيرانها بمن فيهم إسرائيل لن يتحقق قبل أن تتخلص الشعوب العربية كافة من كل عاهات ثقافة الكراهية والعداء والتمييز العنصري ورفض الأخر المختلف بدينه ومذهبه ووضعه الاجتماعي والعددي وتبدأ كل تلك الدول ودون استثناء بتغيير مناهجها التعليمية الرسمية وسياساتها الإعلامية بقناعة تامة بهدف تربية وتنشئة الأجيال الجديدة على مبدأ قبول الأخر واحترامه وتقديس كل حقوقه وحرياته دون اضطهاد وكراهية وفوقية كما هو للأسف الحال المعيب في مصر حيث يُضطهد الأقباط المسيحيون ويعاملون معاملة دونية. إن ثقافة العداء ورفض الآخر هي مشكلة الدول العربية الأساسية وطالما لم تتغير هذه الثقافة لن تجدي كل الثورات والانتفاضات وسوف يرحل طاغية ليحل مكانه آخر أسوأ منه وهكذا دواليك. المطلوب من هذه الدول الدول ومن شعوبها أن تحترم كرامة الإنسان قولاً وفعلاً وتصون حقوقه وتؤمن له حريته وتلتزم في دساتيرها شرعة حقوق الإنسان العالمية وإلا "فالج لا تعالج"
Unless the Arab countries and Arab people give up on their deeply rooted education of hostility, hatred, terrorism, and rejection of others who belong to different religions, denominations, cultures, ethnicities, and minorities, they will remain living in the stone age era and isolated from the rest of the civilized and free democratic world.
The Arab countries and people are required to immediately start amending their educational curriculums and media regulations to begin peacefully and seriously raising their new generations on a set of principles that respect those different others without persecuting and apartheid mentality as the on going shameful status quo is in Egypt where Coptic Christians are not treated as second class citizens and savagely persecuted.
All actual realities and facts indicates clearly that there will be no revolutions or uprisings that can help the Arab countries to be free, democratic and take their respectable place among other free nations if they do not pursue real change.
If they do not do so they will keep on getting out of one devastating trap and falling into another, toppling one dictator and endorsing another.
Education tolerance, peace and acceptance of others are the kind of revolutions and uprisings that the Arab world and people need urgently.
In order for the Arab world and people to actually and practically move on successfully to the twenty-first centaury and live in peace and harmony among themselves and with their neighbors, especially with Israel, they must first free themselves from the deadly education of hostilities and unequivocally, completely and without any conservations honor, abide by and practice The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
*Elias Bejjani
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
Email phoenicia@hotmail.com
Web sites http://www.10452lccc.com & http://www.clhrf.com
Elias Bejjani's Face Book site http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602442765#!/
Below is the Arabic summary for the editorial
ثقافة الحقد ورفض الآخر هي المشكلة الأساس في الدول العربية
الياس بجاني/06 تشرين الثاني/11/إن السلام الدائم والعادل في الدول العربية نفسها ومع بعضها البعض ومع جيرانها بمن فيهم إسرائيل لن يتحقق قبل أن تتخلص الشعوب العربية كافة من كل عاهات ثقافة الكراهية والعداء والتمييز العنصري ورفض الأخر المختلف بدينه ومذهبه ووضعه الاجتماعي والعددي وتبدأ كل تلك الدول ودون استثناء بتغيير مناهجها التعليمية الرسمية وسياساتها الإعلامية بقناعة تامة بهدف تربية وتنشئة الأجيال الجديدة على مبدأ قبول الأخر واحترامه وتقديس كل حقوقه وحرياته دون اضطهاد وكراهية وفوقية كما هو للأسف الحال المعيب في مصر حيث يُضطهد الأقباط المسيحيون ويعاملون معاملة دونية. إن ثقافة العداء ورفض الآخر هي مشكلة الدول العربية الأساسية وطالما لم تتغير هذه الثقافة لن تجدي كل الثورات والانتفاضات وسوف يرحل طاغية ليحل مكانه آخر أسوأ منه وهكذا دواليك. المطلوب من هذه الدول الدول ومن شعوبها أن تحترم كرامة الإنسان قولاً وفعلاً وتصون حقوقه وتؤمن له حريته وتلتزم في دساتيرها شرعة حقوق الإنسان العالمية وإلا "فالج لا تعالج"
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Crucifying Dr. Walid Phares and the Facts
By Elias Bejjani*
It was very sad, extremely annoying and so frustrating to myself as a proud Lebanese Christian activist and to many, many of my own people all over the globe to observe that our honest and genuinely "patriotic Lebanese Christian Resistance Forces" (1975-1990) were unfairly blemished, and wrongly portrayed as an organization of terrorism and massacres in the heated debate that has been raging for weeks in the USA media between supporters and opponents of Dr. Walid Phares, the renowned American Lebanese Christian intellectual who immigrated to the USA in 1990. Phares's opponents are trying to crucify him on the basis that he was a member in our resistance after he was appointed as the Middle East Adviser for Mitt Romney.
While it is a given right and a legitimate practice for those who oppose or support Dr. Phares's appointment to this very critical and influential position to debate the issue and use all arguments, reason and defaults to advocate for their own stances and views, we strongly believe that it is not ethical, fair, legal or even humane in any way to falsely portray our Lebanese Christian Resistance Forces as a terrorist group and tag its previous or current supporters, members and leadership accordingly as terrorists or advocates for terrorism.
The issue here is not if Dr. Phares was a member in this resistance or not because basically there was no membership in this public resistance, but as far as we are concerned the issue goes much further than that when unjustly and viciously the Lebanese Christian Resistance is attacked in the USA media and falsely portrayed as a bunch of brutal murderers who committed massacres. No, No, these mere lies are actual atrocities against our people, and are not acceptable and have no ground in reality whatsoever.
It is worth mentioning that the ongoing Lebanese crisis and dilemma since the early seventies are so complicated even for the Lebanese intellectuals themselves to understand and explain due to the sophisticated fact that it is so interwoven and tied to the Israeli-Arab conflict, as well to regional, sectarian, cultural, educational and religious historical enmities, difficulties and contradictions. Also because of the expansionism and savage ambitions of many Middle East dictators and fanatics spearheaded by the Syrian Baathist regime, the mullahs of Iran, the terrorist group Hezbollah, the Palestinian armed militias, and many others.
In this piece I will refute and strongly criticize the rhetoric of both opponents and supporters of Dr. Phares's appointment for the superficial and naive manner in which our resistance was portrayed and dealt. The opponents tried to criminalize Phares for being a member in our resistance and the supporters fell in this trap and tried stupidly to cosmetically justify his involvement instead of explaining the reality of this great resistance.
Below are some facts that hopefully all those involved in the debate will grasp and accordingly correct their fallacies and wrong information about our resistance:
1- Our resistance was not an organization, a party, a militia or an army. It was all our people; yes merely all our people, men, women, children and the clergy. It was in every village and city where our people lived. The Lebanese Christians were forced to defend their own lives, faith, freedom, entity and the core of their existence after the PLO, Syria, the Arab regimes, many Muslim countries, and 10th of Islamic and Arabic extremist organizations militarily invaded Lebanon and waged a holy war against the Christians in a bid to erect a substitute state for the Palestinians and then use it as a base to attack Israel and fight the West.
2-The Lebanese army as well as the rest of the state institutions were either controlled by the invaders or helpless and unable to execute their obligations. Our people were faced with two choices: either to be killed and slaughtered like sheep, or to defend themselves and stand tall like their Holy Cedars. They did defend themselves and because of their faith, love for their country, dignity, sacrifices and heroism, were able to hold and remain in their country. Our resistance was always in the defensive and never ever in the offensive status.
3- Our people had to buy their own weapons and ammunition from their own pockets; not even one country in the world came to their rescue. Up till 1990, there was no membership in this resistance because all the residents of the Christian villages and cities, including the clergymen and nuns, were the resistance. Accordingly, every Christian residing in the regions that were not conquered by the invaders was an active fighter and a resistance member, each individual in his/her own capacity.
4- Due to a drastic lack of finances, Arab attacks on all levels, intimidation, imprisonment, forced displacement and exodus, persecution and ethnic cleansing, our resistance was not able to advocate for its holy and patriotic cause in any country, while our enemies who are now officially recognized and listed as terrorists in the Western and Free World and with their petrodollars (Wahabists, Kaddafi, Sadam, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, PLO, etc.) were able to exert a tremendous influence on world media facilities, governments and thinking tanks, especially in the USA, Canada and many European countries. They distorted and falsified facts and attributed to our resistance crimes and massacres like Sabra and Chatila, while covering up the hundreds of brutal massacres that they inflicted on our people and still do.
5- It is worth mentioning that the Sabra and Chatila massacre was not committed by our resistance nor by the Israeli Army, but by Mr. Elie Hobeika, a Lebanese forces military leader, and his men. Hobeika's stinking reality was unveiled after the Syrian army invaded and conquered all of Lebanon in 1990. He was a top notch Syrian agent, which simply means that the Syrian regime was fully responsible for this terrible crime. Seeing what the Syria regime is inflicting on its own people during the last months explains the identity of this butcher.
6- Christians in Lebanon are peace loving people, faithful, respect coexistence, honor human rights, and are enriched with a deeply rooted history of 7,000 years. More than two million Americans are Christian Lebanese descendents while 12-14 million Lebanese Christians are living peacefully, productively and honorably in almost every country in the world. Dr. Walid Phares is one of those people who carry the Lebanese message of peace wherever they go or settle. We honestly believe that he is a great asset to the position that is debated and not the contrary.
In conclusion, if we can tag our troops in Afghanistan who are fighting terrorism as dangerous to hold any position when they return home, than we can crucify Phares for being a Lebanese Christian who with his people were forced to defend themselves against all those who are now recognized worldwide as terrorists and our troops are fighting them all over the world.
Hopefully this explanatory message will make some difference for those involved in the Phares's appointment debate because our Lebanese Christian Resistance Forces are as noble and genuine as was the patriotic French Resistance and even more.
*Elias Bejjani
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
Email phoenicia@hotmail.com
Web sites http://www.10452lccc.com & http://www.clhrf.com
Elias Bejjani's Face Book site http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602442765#!/
It was very sad, extremely annoying and so frustrating to myself as a proud Lebanese Christian activist and to many, many of my own people all over the globe to observe that our honest and genuinely "patriotic Lebanese Christian Resistance Forces" (1975-1990) were unfairly blemished, and wrongly portrayed as an organization of terrorism and massacres in the heated debate that has been raging for weeks in the USA media between supporters and opponents of Dr. Walid Phares, the renowned American Lebanese Christian intellectual who immigrated to the USA in 1990. Phares's opponents are trying to crucify him on the basis that he was a member in our resistance after he was appointed as the Middle East Adviser for Mitt Romney.
While it is a given right and a legitimate practice for those who oppose or support Dr. Phares's appointment to this very critical and influential position to debate the issue and use all arguments, reason and defaults to advocate for their own stances and views, we strongly believe that it is not ethical, fair, legal or even humane in any way to falsely portray our Lebanese Christian Resistance Forces as a terrorist group and tag its previous or current supporters, members and leadership accordingly as terrorists or advocates for terrorism.
The issue here is not if Dr. Phares was a member in this resistance or not because basically there was no membership in this public resistance, but as far as we are concerned the issue goes much further than that when unjustly and viciously the Lebanese Christian Resistance is attacked in the USA media and falsely portrayed as a bunch of brutal murderers who committed massacres. No, No, these mere lies are actual atrocities against our people, and are not acceptable and have no ground in reality whatsoever.
It is worth mentioning that the ongoing Lebanese crisis and dilemma since the early seventies are so complicated even for the Lebanese intellectuals themselves to understand and explain due to the sophisticated fact that it is so interwoven and tied to the Israeli-Arab conflict, as well to regional, sectarian, cultural, educational and religious historical enmities, difficulties and contradictions. Also because of the expansionism and savage ambitions of many Middle East dictators and fanatics spearheaded by the Syrian Baathist regime, the mullahs of Iran, the terrorist group Hezbollah, the Palestinian armed militias, and many others.
In this piece I will refute and strongly criticize the rhetoric of both opponents and supporters of Dr. Phares's appointment for the superficial and naive manner in which our resistance was portrayed and dealt. The opponents tried to criminalize Phares for being a member in our resistance and the supporters fell in this trap and tried stupidly to cosmetically justify his involvement instead of explaining the reality of this great resistance.
Below are some facts that hopefully all those involved in the debate will grasp and accordingly correct their fallacies and wrong information about our resistance:
1- Our resistance was not an organization, a party, a militia or an army. It was all our people; yes merely all our people, men, women, children and the clergy. It was in every village and city where our people lived. The Lebanese Christians were forced to defend their own lives, faith, freedom, entity and the core of their existence after the PLO, Syria, the Arab regimes, many Muslim countries, and 10th of Islamic and Arabic extremist organizations militarily invaded Lebanon and waged a holy war against the Christians in a bid to erect a substitute state for the Palestinians and then use it as a base to attack Israel and fight the West.
2-The Lebanese army as well as the rest of the state institutions were either controlled by the invaders or helpless and unable to execute their obligations. Our people were faced with two choices: either to be killed and slaughtered like sheep, or to defend themselves and stand tall like their Holy Cedars. They did defend themselves and because of their faith, love for their country, dignity, sacrifices and heroism, were able to hold and remain in their country. Our resistance was always in the defensive and never ever in the offensive status.
3- Our people had to buy their own weapons and ammunition from their own pockets; not even one country in the world came to their rescue. Up till 1990, there was no membership in this resistance because all the residents of the Christian villages and cities, including the clergymen and nuns, were the resistance. Accordingly, every Christian residing in the regions that were not conquered by the invaders was an active fighter and a resistance member, each individual in his/her own capacity.
4- Due to a drastic lack of finances, Arab attacks on all levels, intimidation, imprisonment, forced displacement and exodus, persecution and ethnic cleansing, our resistance was not able to advocate for its holy and patriotic cause in any country, while our enemies who are now officially recognized and listed as terrorists in the Western and Free World and with their petrodollars (Wahabists, Kaddafi, Sadam, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, PLO, etc.) were able to exert a tremendous influence on world media facilities, governments and thinking tanks, especially in the USA, Canada and many European countries. They distorted and falsified facts and attributed to our resistance crimes and massacres like Sabra and Chatila, while covering up the hundreds of brutal massacres that they inflicted on our people and still do.
5- It is worth mentioning that the Sabra and Chatila massacre was not committed by our resistance nor by the Israeli Army, but by Mr. Elie Hobeika, a Lebanese forces military leader, and his men. Hobeika's stinking reality was unveiled after the Syrian army invaded and conquered all of Lebanon in 1990. He was a top notch Syrian agent, which simply means that the Syrian regime was fully responsible for this terrible crime. Seeing what the Syria regime is inflicting on its own people during the last months explains the identity of this butcher.
6- Christians in Lebanon are peace loving people, faithful, respect coexistence, honor human rights, and are enriched with a deeply rooted history of 7,000 years. More than two million Americans are Christian Lebanese descendents while 12-14 million Lebanese Christians are living peacefully, productively and honorably in almost every country in the world. Dr. Walid Phares is one of those people who carry the Lebanese message of peace wherever they go or settle. We honestly believe that he is a great asset to the position that is debated and not the contrary.
In conclusion, if we can tag our troops in Afghanistan who are fighting terrorism as dangerous to hold any position when they return home, than we can crucify Phares for being a Lebanese Christian who with his people were forced to defend themselves against all those who are now recognized worldwide as terrorists and our troops are fighting them all over the world.
Hopefully this explanatory message will make some difference for those involved in the Phares's appointment debate because our Lebanese Christian Resistance Forces are as noble and genuine as was the patriotic French Resistance and even more.
*Elias Bejjani
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political commentator
Email phoenicia@hotmail.com
Web sites http://www.10452lccc.com & http://www.clhrf.com
Elias Bejjani's Face Book site http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602442765#!/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)