I learnt that it takes 15 hours to clean and carve 25 pumpkins.

Since I lately have been attacked by most sects and parties, maybe I should add another one

My cousin emailed me the following image.

One of the posts i wrote during the war is published in Michael J. Totten’s Blog Digest # 1 : The Hezbollah war.

This blog digest is one of a three series anthology entitled “Lebanon who won, who lost, who suffered”.

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It would be very interesting to see Schumi next to Jean Todd leading Ferrari and i hope Ross Brawn will come back from his retirement if Schumi agrees.

Schumi Offered New Job

Now that Ramadan is over, the plot against the government is starting to take its shape.

Who are the teams behind this plot and what are their incentives? Is the government the prime target or the Resolution 1701 and the international court?

Lebanon and the 14th of march are facing a serious plot organized by the FPM and Hezbollah and Pro-Syrian groups and sponsored by Iran & Syria. Phase 1 of the plot started early this week by several attacks on the government and threats of demonstrating ‘peacefully’.

Of course there is nothing wrong with demonstrating peacefully, but when you are faced to an armed militia backed by Syrians who are grasping any opportunity to come back to Lebanon.
But enough with the theories, i monitored last week’s papers and saved the articles that were related to this topic.

Aoun has been attacking the government since months but now started talking about demonstrations on bridges and giving the government deadlines before taking actions.
“وقال: “نحن شعب حوار ولكننا نعرف أيضاً كيف نعبّر عن أنفسنا ومستعدون لـ”الكباش” بالطرق القانونية”. ( Quoted from AlBalad).

This hint about demonstrating came after Hezbollah threatened of demonstrating as well 2 days ago, but this time, and as revealed by Nasser El Ass3ad in Mustqabal newspaper , what both teams are planning is far from being a peaceful demonstration and could reach armed confrontations and Civil disobedience.

In fact, Hezbollah has been deploying all over Beirut and its surroundings in an attempt to trouble the security and therefore put the government in a weaker position since it cannot face the demonstrators with the army that is formed of a large percentage of shiites.

Hezbollah’s aim of creating chaos will certainly benefit him since he is in control of his region and is fully armed to protect himself and has Syrians backing him up.

Aoun’s aim is to get to presidency at any cost and i fear he is playing Hezbollah’s game without even realizing the consequences.

The other groups supporting this plot are purely Syrian puppets, doing the impossible to get Assad back to Lebanon, from El Hoss to Naja7 Wakim to Wi2am Wahhab etc etc ..

Dr.Geagea has warned of this plot earlier today as well as Hariri and Jumblatt, and all precautions are being taken to prevent this criminal plot against Lebanon.

The Cedars revolution must be preserved and all those threatening it severly punished. We have reached a point of no return with Hezbollah, Syrians & Iranians and i sincerely hope that all Lebanese be aware of this plot and its consequences.

I uploaded the pictures from my trip here.

Enjoy!

Until I manage to find some time to write up a detailed post about my trip, below are some funny (in my opinion) pictures I took in Lebanon.

Sanglier Season is here, i always wanted to taste it and i found the right place to do so , La Gargotte in Broumanna. It s not gonna look like that picture but still.

…and miss Lebanon already.

*sigh*

Expect a lenghty post soon and pics to go with it about my trip to Lebanon.

VIDEO 

Israeli activists have uploaded a video of the shooting of Lymor and the initial violence of the Israeli military in Bil’in on Friday, August 11th.

The video clearly shows the Border Police unit firing on the demonstrators from close range. There is no evidence that the soldiers were in danger. Typically, the military spokesperson has claimed that “activists threw stones” and Haaretz’s article yesterday reiterating the same false information. The video also clearly shows the commander of the unit saying, “This is Lebanon!” as he orders his force to fire on retreating demonstrators, and “I will not allow a demonstration during wartime!”

The commander, Majdei, made this decision despite a military court decision in August 2005 that people in Bil’in have the right to protest on their land on the village-side of the apartheid wall. Every week since the wall was finished in March 2006, the Israeli military has also denied them the right to protest on their farmland on the other side of the wall. The wall separates villagers from 60% of their farmland, half of which has already been annexed and developed by Jewish settlements.

In addition many villagers have been arrested in the night during army raids for participating in the demonstrations in Bil’in. Two villagers are still in prison: Esaam Matar, 29, has been imprisoned eight months and the military has ruled he is to be deported to Jordan; and Muhammad Burnat, 19, has been imprisoned for 3 months and has not yet had a trial for his alleged crimes.

According to official military regulations, which were reported in the Hebrew version of Haaretz today, soldiers are not allowed to fire from a distance closer than 40 meters. They are instructed not to fire at vital areas of the body and only to fire when they are in immediate danger. Each week during demonstrations in Bil’in, many non-violent demonstrators are injured in the head, neck and chest.

The Israeli who was shot in the head and a Danish woman beaten with a gun on Friday are the most serious injuries the army has caused since Ramzi Yassin, who was shot in the head with a plastic-coated steel bullet. Ramzi, from Bil’in, was handing out ****r during a demonstration in Bil’in on July 8th 2005, when he was shot in the side of the head. The bullet caused severe bleeding of his brain and he was left unconscious for 7 days and with permanent brain damage. Haitham al Khateeb of Bil’in, Yonathan Pollack, an Israeli, BJ from Denmark, and Phil of Austrailia were hospitalized at different times all for rubber bullets injuries to their heads at close range at Bil’in demonstrations, except for Haitham who was hit by a tear gas canister fired at his head.

Lymor, who was shot on Friday, is currently in a stable condition at Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv. It took the ambulances about an hour to get from the site where he was shot to the hospital. He was taken in for immediate surgery which took 3 hours, and a rubber bullet as well as shards of bone and damaged brain tissue were removed from his head and an internal heomorage was stopped. Before the surgery he was totally clear and aware even though he was in a lot of pain. After the surgery he was moving his arms and legs while he was under sedation. He was taken off sedation around 7pm yesterday evening. He can move his limbs and can talk but is having trouble with his vision.

Rina, from Denmark, is also currently in the hospital in Hebron, suffering from severe concussion caused by an Israeli soldier beating her with his gun. She is stable, but is still having trouble walking on her own