Un panel organisé par La Fondation Rachel Corrie,jeune bénévole tuée dans la Bande de Gaza, avec Diana Buttu et Amira Hass.
Un texte de Ze’ev Sternhell retransmis par Miftah et Day of darkness de Gideon Levy de Haaretz
From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State
30 dimanche Juil 2006
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Once again, thanks for sharing Loula. So many great women out there! I remember when Rachel Corrie was killed, ran over by an Israeli tank. I was living in CA back then. My husband and I stopped at a friend’s house to say hello. We were standing in their kitchen talking about our move, the newspaper was sitting on the counter in front of me… so my eyes started browsing through the headlines, then the article on Rachel’s funeral caught my attention..my eyes filled with tears, I started crying, I was embarrassed that I couln’t contain my emotions. But how can we contain emotions before such evil? How can human beings not empathize? How can we be humans if we don’t? Where the logic of war starts, logic simply quits. I hope/pray/I am sure that humanity, led by peace activists worldwide, will triumph.
Excellent input from both… j’ai tout regadé accroché a l’ecran entre la nuit dernière et ce PM…Merci pour le partage!
Bonjour,Zalamoka and Amine, here is another one with Amira Hasshttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1698401720504600023Hope you are both doing fine.Mwah
I will re-watch Amira and Diana when I have more time ( as well as the new link) as I learned a lot from them and again, thank you. I especially liked Amira’s comment on the closure policy. I also liked how she described the different approaches taken by Israel and the Palestinian resistance: « Israel plays chest and the Presistance plays ping pong and they think that Israel is also playing ping pong. »
This is an e mail from my friend Basma Barakat. As the majority of lebanese population, the resistance to the aggression continue.Salam, Paix, Peace, Pace, Paz, ShalomDearest Family and Friends,,,I can’t believe it’s been more than 20 days since this nightmare started! Wow,,,, how time flies when you put your plans for the future on hold 😉 Yeah well,,, it’s been an interesting 9 days for me,,,, I don’t know where to begin,,, with the weird, the beautiful or the ugly?? Well, let’s start with the weird. I was sleeping in on Saturday, which is a privilege in the summer as our weekend during the rest of the year is usually Sundays off only L So here I am sleeping in and I get woken up by a call on my cell-phone,,,, I see it’s 000000 and I wonder if there is an emergency with one of our family members abroad. When I answer,,, It felt like I entered a twilight zone where a voice saying in scary written (i.e. formal) Arabic « this is the Israeli government, there is a spider web, and we will remove it, fight against it with us,,, blah blah blah blah blah » I hanged up and slept again, like a baby. I heard of these calls from friends. People here are calling them Terror calls, where they warn of total destruction of the spiderweb, which technically mean Lebanon, doesn’t it? Well,,,, I got two of those calls, the other one I got at night. I blocked both calls out of my mind, I’m really not interested in anything my « esteemed and civilized » neighbor has to say to me. But tonight, while sitting having coffee with my friend in one of the few places open for business in Beirut, I heard a guy on the table next to ours say « spider web . spider web » in that weird voice, and it clicked where I heard that from! So I look at him and say « oh, you got one of those calls too? » and all the people on his table started to laugh along with me and my friend. This is a shared joke among Lebanese now?. How stupid are they! They think to terrorize the people of Lebanon using stupid phone calls??? It really doesn’t work that way? I am proud to say there is more unity in the streets of Lebanon now then there was three weeks ago. No matter what religion or political party you come from (even huzballa) we are all in it together. Maybe the plan was to keep on bombing until the people of Lebanon turn against the Huzballa and the South (there are mixed religions in the south by the way, it’s not Shiite only) but the outcome is completely opposite, especially after the Qana massacre that took place at around 2AM Sunday. So many kids killed, some of them handicapped, and all we got was « we’re sorry, but it’s your fault » ha ha ha,,, it’s shameful how leaders believe that the means justifies the end. It doesn’t you know, not to my way of thinking. It’s only cultivating more hatred. I feel so relieved that I live in a « third world » country. At least I KNOW that none of the taxes I pay go into making weapons, Thank God! It’s horrible what weapons do, especially some of the illegal ones used here. They are causing severe burns that the Swiss Red Cross has never seen before! Oh what crimes, that’s the ugly part of my week,,,But I am glad to say there is always a silver lining. I am walking three times a week,,,, and every time my feet take me to a different place. Last week, after a set of heavy bombardment on the South of Beirut, I decided to take my walk along the beach. It was late afternoon, and I started my walk from Verdun, which was so deserted for a major shopping hub, with its empty cafes?. But as soon as I hit the Raouche (beach) area, I started to see other people. The Raouche is actually a large rock that jots out of the Mediterranean, it’s a « tourist attraction » and it’s also where a lot of my mom’s family, historically, done diving contests from. It’s on a lot of postcards. It’s a ‘hilly » area where you walk on the sidewalk and the sea is 10m or so below you. So basically, you’re walking on a cliff,,, It’s also what a foreign friend of mine called « where a lot of muslims walk » ;);) and this is truer now when all the displaced people have no other recreation for their children but to take them for a walk on the cliffs JJ During that time of the day, while the sun is setting, the view is amazing. The blue of the sea, and the multiple colors of the sky (blue, red, orange?) it’s all indescribable really. I had my Ipod on, and with the music playing in my ears, it all looked so peaceful?. Then I glanced in the horizons and saw, faintly, an Israeli barge, and I remembered how unpredictable they were. I mean, they could just send a rocket my way if the saw « a suspicious truck » around. But then I was passing the Movenpick Hotel, a Swiss franchise, and I hoped they didn’t want to « anger the swiss » (ok ok, at the time they didn’t bomb the UN headquarters in Tyres, so I was naïve :P:P) Right after that hotel, comes a large uninhibited stretch of land and I stopped in my track and remembered?. I remembered that at one time, my grandfather (my mom’s dad) owned a piece of this land in the 20s?. (he was born in 1889 in Beirut and lived to see lots of wars and starvations) When he bought the land, there was NOTHING around, and my grandmother, at the time a bride, told him « you expect me to live with the hyenas?? » oh what these words cost him ;);) I would have been a millionaire if he kept it, but he didn’t. He sold it for the peace of mind of his wife?. J but not before he left his mark there?he actually planted some sugar canes on that land,,,, which EXIST until this day. It was never an easy task to commercially develop this stretch of land. The land is owned by so many people, most of them Itani family (my mom’s maiden name) and it has always been hard for all of them to agree on one price and one seller, so the land is still raw and the canes are still there.As I looked at these canes, I felt such a sense of belonging to this land? This is my home, my country, my roots,,,, These canes have survived so many years?. And will be there for years to come and so will I (I hope;) My cousin, Siham, who lives in California, sent me an email urging me and my family to « leave and come to the states » because she wants us, the people she loves, « to be safe »? Well, I love you too coz?. And thank you for being there,,,, but really, I think safety is relative,,, and during that walk that day I realized that if I die drowning, then I want to drown in the blue waters of Beirut,,,,, and if I die in a plane crash, then I want to crash in the green mountains of Lebanon,,,, and if I die from an Israeli shell, then I want to be shelled with the courageous people of the South of Lebanon. God bless this country and all of its people, the bad, the good and the ugly ;)Miss you all,Basma
Thnkas a lot for sharing guys.What is left to say?Y a t’il encore une once d’espoir sur cette planète débile.Tout ce que j’espère que le peuple libanais demeurera uni face à la barbarie et à l’injustice flagrante.
“Journal de guerre”, par Etienne, un enseignant franco-libanais habitant Baalbek, site maintenu au jour le jour malgré les bombardements et autres problèmes subséquents d’électricité…http://guerreliban2006.blogspot.com/Encouragez-le avant que son immeuble ne soit rasé…
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