The Wakeup
On the morning of September the 11th 2001, as the three planes slammed into the WTC, Virginia and Pennsylvania the entire world seemed as if it had stopped rotating; things were never the same since. The term “War on Terrorism” was suddenly the new phobia taking over millions around the world.
Now that I take the time to think of it, the winners may be the good people of Iraq and Afghanistan, the people of oil rich nations; the losers list extend to include the millions of tax payers around the US, the people of Iraq and Afghanistan that had to pay their blood for their freedom, the Arabs world wide that are doomed to be stereotyped as terrorists and blood thirsty animals for the rest of their lives, and even the families of the brave American soldiers that were rushed into a poorly planned war without adequately studying the consequences.
The way I see it, what is going around now in Lebanon throughout the passed week isn’t of any less importance, the ongoing war between Hezbolla and Israel is doomed to re-write history, this very past week made many things much clearer to me and many Arabs throughout the globe, and I assure you.. more and more terroristic minds were born.
Let’s just go over some of the facts that floated up to the surface after the drastic events of last week:
- Hezbollah’s Military Power: 1,500 Rockets were fired into the depth of Israel by Hezbollah in less than a week’s time; local TV stations are broadcasting news of retreat and withdrawal after Israeli tanks crossed the borders into the southern part of Lebanon. Who would even imagine that a militia force will stand in the face of Israel alone and without help and still manage to cause it such damage.
- The Arabian Silence: Not surprisingly the Arab coward regimes stood still to witness the butchery of the Lebanese people, the amazing silence still manages to capture my attention. Hezbolla doesn’t need money or artillery but we Arabs still fail to even support them sensitively.
- The Powerless U.N: the UN was supposedly created to preserve peace world wide; I wrote something about this before, it miserably failed to accomplish the main goal it was put there for in the first place in putting pressure on the US to avoid the invasion of Iraq, now.. it shows its inefficiency yet again after the US used the veto against the UN resolution urging end to Israeli attacks in Gaza.
I seriously can’t get my eyes off AlJazeera couldn’t help but get back to my beloved blog again. 
I would say the Arab regimes are silent because Iran is behind this. Iran is Shiite, and most Arabs are Sunni. No one wants a Shiite power in the region.
The Palestinians are their own worse enemies. They got the Israelis out of Gaza and out of Lebanon. Now they provoke Israel into going back in again. Dumb.
The Arabs were also silent about the butchery of Israelis by Hezbollah but they’re Jews so that’s not surprising.
I think that most of the arab regimes “see where the wind is blowing”, meaning that they understand that supporting hizballah will only picture them as terrorist-supporters to the western world and nothing else.
Hello
Regarding point 1, the answer is simple. They are not alone. Hizballah is trained, finnanced, and armed by Iran with help of Syria. Their civilian activities (social aid, health, education) is also finnanced by Iran.
The Hizballah fired a c-802 ground-to-sea missile that hit an Israeli ship a few days ago. A few countries in the world have such capabilites. No militia fighting on its own can even dream about them.
That said, they are also brave, highly motivated and very skilled ground fighters.
best,
David, Israel
Not alone in your feelings you are, I must say, for I have been feeling the exact same ones- following news day by day- and for once, living the war, instead of hearing about it in history books. The last significant war against Israel was in 1967, a year that has indeed changed a lot. I used to take it as a joke every time someone said “our thoughts are changed”, but they were. For so long I lost attachment to the case. As Arabs, we were forced into being detached: talks of peace that has never materialized, and world wide terror propaganda and false peace hopes. It was only the week of Gaza bombings that has triggered it, but it’s wholly the recent Hizbollah case that has got me all back on track. It’s a shame how history can be easily manipulated, by stakeholders, and we need a lot of history reading indeed.
Not even words of condemnation, not anymore can Arab leaders say such things. I bow low to a militia that can face one of the world largest power and still stand strong. A war that I feel is not only theirs, but also ours. Beirut, the city I wasn’t lucky enough to visit, carries so much that views of its destruction never fail bring tears to my eyes. The killing of its civilians does not classify as “terror”, but rather “self-defence”.
Love to Lebanon and its people…
When I read essays such as your’s I realize how far apart our cultures are. From this side of the fence, when militaries use civlillians as shields, the moral consequence is on them. When possible our militaries try to shoot around the captives and minimize the casualties. But when the tactic of the other side is to use cilivilians and sympathizers as sheilds and willing “casualty news props” it’s just hard to sympathize.
Hez, Hamas, Palestinians, cultivate victims to film for the mass media. They brag how they love death more than the joooos and the west love life. So why do you now lament that these people achieve their stated goal of martyrdom? I feel sorry for them for being decieved into that goal, but that’s the destiny they chose.
It’s also tough to lose a battle. but that’s the nature of war. Kill or be killed. And no one except the “body parts camera props” want to die befor the lord calls them home. So while it would be convenient if the Jooooos cooperated and just threw themselves into the sea, you can’t realistically expect them to do so.
To win the battle and the war, you have to be smarter and tougher than you’re adversary. Much like the arab janjaweed in Darfur. they’re stronger, smarter, more well armed and more ruthless than people they’re killing. I resent what the Janjaweed are doing. I wonder where the world is. I would like my government to arm the victims of the Janaweed so they can fight back. but I guess the US doesn’t have a strategic intrest in the area.
I don’t like it that christians are being killed by isreali bombs in Leb. I don’t like it that Muslims are being killed by Israeli bombs. I don’t like it that Jews and christians are being killed by muslims in the mid east, in africa, in europe.
I don’t like the real politics of any of this. Life is very unfair; or that’s just what happens when poeple see themselves separate from the other; or perhaps it’s just satan being very successful at his work.
If you have studied the middle east history, any one would conculde that war is the only eventual course of action.
Don’t let israel’s might deceive or intimidate you, God has taught us many times over in all the holy revelations that the rightful always win, remember the story of David and Golaith.
“God has taught us many times over in all the holy revelations that the rightful always win”
Wrong way round. The winners make up stories to prove they were in the right and were the chosen of God.
Regarding “The Wakeup”
For more then a half-century the Axis of Chutzpah flags as the union of two morally failed states. For more then half-century Americans gawk as juiced rabble at the rape of Palestina. When moral specters contest the ruination of Palestina: Israel’s frenzied tentacles flare. Most recently: In a snap and crack…Gaza, Lebanon, and the United Nations is scorched. “Beware all of Arabia,” snarls the Axis of Chutzpah. Yet the looming specters, innate moral senses, persist.
The Axis of Chutzpah, invincible, implacable, self-righteous, sulphureous coils do not withdraw. The rape of Palestina exercises unabated. Modern cities lacerate her breasts a wall scars her neck.
Laments the splayed Plaestina: “No specter on the earth can quell the atrocities of the Judeo-Christian’s fearsome technological armies. Their children scribble prayers on bombs of steel, their parents teach thou shall steal and all the time and after the rape, death will be Plaestina’s ordeal.”
Yet the Axis of Chutzpah, self-righteously decorous, with biblical imprimaturs, does not dissipate the specters of condemning consciousness. Rather the tattered, in shirts and sandals, out of the dusts of Arabia stream, giving embodiment to the specters, and interweave as the such that is Hamas and Hezbolla. The hardscrabble sons and daughters of the desert boldly proclaim perhaps naively, but certainly chivalrously… “We rise to return Palestina to wholeness.”
Hezbollah and Hamas are in the toughest terms…it seems to this reader, movements born to stopping the simple dirty rape of minds, and the rape of a culture. These organizations impress this reader as inspired neighborhood toughs, trying to establish the foundations for their future freedoms. Humanity’s moral specters inspire eternal.
These are the musings of a USA (non-Christian, non-Muslim, non-Jewish, non-Semite non- Arab). It seems these disclaimers are called for in discussions of this sort.
D. J. Gregor
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