I really can’t stand people who lie.
Why freaking lie? Sooner or later we’re all going to find out you’re lying!

Oh and when you lie to me, and tell someone else a different lie… we’re bound to talk to each other and found out you lied to us both!

We all know you possibly are a great person, but those lies you keep telling just irritate the hell out of us, and we rather that you stay away from us… until you learn to stop lying.

It really is very simple.  All I ever wanted for Lebanon is for the Lebanese to be able to unitedly live in peace, and their economy to improve.  I have been witnessing the majority of the Lebanese ruining Lebanon with their own hands.

All the Lebanese seem to be good at now is blindly following leaders and barking at each other.  I repeat once again: those people are not supposed to be leaders, they are supposed to be representatives.  Those representatives should not be threatening each other with who has the most arms and they should definitely not be calling each other, or Presidents of other countries a monkey!  Those same representatives should also not be calling for peaceful demonstrations that ironically turn out to be road blockades with environmental harmful tyre burnings, and shoot outs! Those same representatives should come out and call a demonstrations what it is instead of calling it a day of mourning of a fallen martyr… apparently this martyr paid more than the rest of the martyrs, he got an airport named after him and a day of mourning! Oh and speaking of martyrs, not every person who dies in Lebanon is a martyr!

Notice in the first paragraph I said that the “majority” of Lebanese are ruining Lebanon.  The reason I did not say all is because I finally can see new groups emerge who are sick of the situation as much I am.  People who want nothing to do with March 8th and March 14th.  There still doesn’t seem to be anything solid though in that area, or at least nothing noticeable from Kuwait so I can’t comment on those groups much but the idea of such groups emerging is evidence that there is more of me out there.  I said this before and will again… both camps claim that they were capable of gathering 1.5 million people at one go in a square, well regarding the last stats in Lebanon that means there still are 1.8 million people who are uncalled for, hence they make a majority.  I am just hoping they are more people like myself who will one day manage to group themselves and come out to ridden this whole disgusting situation.

I am so close to disabling the comments section.  I am so sick of people calling each other names or traitors.  When will all of you learn to respect each other? Is this all you are all capable of? Insulting each other? Well that reflects on who you are…

Do you all see why I don’t care? If you still don’t get it… I don’t see anything left to care about.

“Rejecting any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part, the 191-member Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution condemning “without reserve” all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, whenever they occur.”

Great! I really admire that… but how about we condemn the denial of the Armenian genocide… actually not just condemn, but punish as well!

Have you realized that after any event in Lebanon for at least the duration of a week, all who hear are people blaming each other for what happened?  They all try to act that they are saints and innocent of any wrong doings… why don’t you all just get it? You are all wrong!

I will refer back to my post, Seriously, what happened yesterday?

How quick we are to brush off the feelings of shock and disgust and go back to our usual ways.

Civil war does not necessarily start the same way every time. For people who are still waiting for the “bus of 75″, it will not pass this time. 3 people were killed on Tuesday and 4 today, until now… It won’t stop. Now it’s in between people; and our leaders didn’t understand yet that they are burning the country. They are still blaming each other and trying to use what’s happening for their political interest.

The war with Israel is easy… we know the enemy. Now the enemy is us.  Welcome to the renewed civil war.

Thirty years ago our parents watched the same thing on TV and said it’s going to stop in few days… And guess what? It stayed for 15! What role everyone of us will play: sit in the shelters, fight with the party/tribe we belong to, close everything and leave the country, sit and argue on who’s responsible… Maybe we need one more war and we deserve it. It seems we didn’t learn enough the last 30 years.

It’s so painful to see our country being destroyed… Our people are killing each other. Now Sunnites and Shiites, tomorrow Christians and Christians and after tomorrow Christians and Druze… Welcome to the jungle of corruption, theocrats, autocrats, war lords, feudalists… Welcome to the jungle of confessions and the consociational democracy, the big lie of the 21 ^st century.

I’m sitting in the office, watching Lebanese TV stations: Fadlallah, Seniora, Karame, Kabalan, Hariri, Berri, Kanaan, Rice and Chirac… How can we even think that this country will go better… when people are killing each other in Beirut, Omar Karame is on TV making a speech and people are shouting: “inta l’mufti ya omar”.

Are we going to argue in 30 years from now if it’s the war of others in Lebanon or if it’s a civil war? Yes, we are responsible of this war. We are responsible of every moment we spent arguing in favor of any of the opposition or March 14. We need to wake up…

When we were able to do something, we didn’t succeed… I’m not sure we can any more. I understand more than ever why youth are leaving the country for good… I’m loosing hope. Can we do something? Can we stop it? Unfortunately, I feel it’s too late. Good luck for all what you will try to do in the first civil war in the third millennium.

Congratulations to all of us for the great work we did to make our country repeat its history.

Congratulations to all our politicians who lead us to this situation. We knew that this is their way to lead and they have no problem repeating the war for the sake of being in power.

Congratulations to us citizens and civil society for still believing that these politicians are still capable of leading this country… and for being divided because of our blind support to them.

If you are waiting for the “Bus” to pass to know that civil war started again… I can assure you it won’t pass again…

Gilbert

January 25, 2007

(posted by reine on The Ouwet Front)