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Everytime an assasination happens, a war occurs or any incident that puts Lebanon’s existence in question and its Christians, i cannot but recall Emile Edde’s article, i have posted it twice already and thats the third time in less than a year i think.

A man with a vision that Christians laughed at, and thats making them cry now .
Enjoy this article Emile Edde wrote after announcing the Greater Lebanon in the 1920s.

Note sur Le Liban

La France a la plus grand intérêt économique à consolider sa situation .au moins. Sur la côte syrienne .Son intérêt économique réside principalement dans le fait que la côte syrienne constitue le port méditerranéen et la voie d’accès la plus courte de la Mésopotamie, de la Perse et des Indes . Son intérêt politique consiste notamment dans le fait que la côte syrienne lui offre un observatoire unique pour surveiller et contrôler le cerveau et le cœur de l’Islam . Qui se trouvent dans les pays arabes .
Pour obtenir cette consolidation il convient de maintenir et développer l’administration française à Alexandrette et aux Allauites et de procéder sans retard à la réduction territorial du Liban pour permettre à cet état d’avoir une majorité Chrétienne plus consistante .
A cet effet il y aurait lieu de faire de Tripoli, qui possède un aéroport et qui va être l’aboutissement du pipe- Line, une ville libre également placée sous une administration directe française. Les habitants de cette ville auraient la nationalité libanaise en ce qui concerne les chrétiens. Et la nationalité syrienne en ce qui concerne les musulmans. De cette façon. Le Liban compterait 55000 Musulmans en moins. ce qui constituerait un premier résultat appréciable .
Il y aurait bien également lieu de faire de toute la région du Liban-Sud qui est composé dans sa très grande majorité de Musulmans chiites. Un état autonome.
Ayant à sa tète un administrateur français comme à Alexandrette aux Allauites et àTripoli.
Grasse à cette deuxième amputation. Le Liban serait débarassé de prés de 140000 Musulmans chiites et sunites et resterait avec une majorité chrétienne égale aux 80% environ de l’ensemble de sa population.
A l’heure actuelle. Le Liban compte 405000 Mahomédans ( sunites, chiites et druzes) contre 425000 Chrétiens seulement. Cette majorité chrétienne est beaucoup trop faible pour défendre contre l’attraction exercée sur lui par la Syrie en vue de son unification avec elle. Et si l’on n’y prend pas garde. Il ne se passera pas longtemps encore avant que le Liban ne réclame lui-même sa fusion avec sa voisine.D’ailleurs les événements qui se sont passés à l’occasion de l’élection du Président de la République offrent à ce sujet un sérieux avertissement. Un Musulman a posé sa candidature à cette haute charge et devant les chances du succès qu’il avait. L’autorité mandataire est allé jusqu’à suspendre la Constitution.
En adoptant la formule qui vient d’être preconisée , aucun danger semblable ne saurait être à craindre à craindre à l’avenir. Et le Liban devenu ainsi homogène serait à même de prendre sa véritable évolution et d’apporter à la France. Dans tous les domaines. Un concours des plus intéressants. Au moment où la France semble d’avoir jeter du lest en Syrie. Il convient qu’elle se fortifie de plus en plus au Liban et le long de la côte.

History appears to be repeating itself, and not only in Lebanon. Syria and Iran have been fighting U.S. plans to re-make Iraq and the wider Arab world, and as America struggles, they are emerging as the winners. And once again, the casualties include pro-U.S. Arabs like the Gemayels.

Read rest of the article from the Times here :

I’ve been listening to Sarkhet Majd all day, such a great song.

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USA & Canada

Los Angeles
Our Lady Of Mount Lebanon, Beverly Hills
Sunday November 26th, 2006 at 1:30 PM
333 S San Vicente Blvd - Los Angeles, CA 90048

Boston
Our Lady of the Cedars of Lebanon Church
Sunday November 26, 2006 at 12:30pm
61 Rockwood Street - Jamaica Plain, MA

Michigan
St Charbel Church
Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 11:30 AM

Toronto - Canada
Our Lady of Lebanon - Maronite Church
Sunday November 26, 2006 at 12:30 PM
1515 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON. Canada

Europe

United Kingdom
Vigil at 7:00 PM for Martyr Pierre Gemayel
Thursday 23rd at Lebanese Embassy.
Please Bring Candles and Lebanese Flags only

Write your sylmpathy in a book in the Lebanese Embassy
Friday 24th and Monday 27th between 10:30 till 15:00

Mass in Our Lady of Lebanon followed by a meeting in the Church Hall
Sunday November 26, at 12:30
17 Cirencester Street, Paddington, London, W2 5SR
Nearest Tube Station : Royal Oak, Bus 36

Swedenنهار الجمعة الواقع في 24 تشرين الثاني وفي تمام الساعة السادسة مساء في كنيسة فوربي كورد في ستوكهولمVårby Gård

France
Paris

Veillée de recueillement
le jeudi 23 décembre à partir de 19 h.
Place Victor Hugo

Notre Dame du Liban
Le dimanche 26 novembre 2006 à 11h précises
17 rue d’Ulm – Paris 5ème

Rennesاعتصام صامت حاملين الشموع والأعلام اللبنانية للتنديد بالجريمة الإرهابية والتضامن مع لبنان.و ذلك نهار السبت 25/11/2006 تمام الساعة الخامسة عصراَ مقابل ساحة بلدية المدينة

Troyes
Eglise Notre Dame des Trévois
97, rue Jules Guesde, 10000 TROYES
Jeudi 23 novembre à 19h00

Toulouse
Sit-in à la Place du Capitole
Jeudi 23 novembre à 20h00

Nantes
Sit-in devant la Préfecture de Police du département
Jeudi 23 novembre à 19h30

Belgique
Sit-in devant l’ambassade du Liban
Mardi 22 novembre à 19h00

Messe à l’Eglise Notre Dame du Liban
Dimanche 26/11 à 11h30
Bruxelles

Germany

Sit-in in Front of the Syrian Embassy
Friday November 24, 2006 from 10:00 to 12:00
Berlin
مزيد من التفاصيل تضاف لاحقا

Australia

تشارك القوات اللبنانية في سيدني اوستراليا حزب الكتائب في تقبل التعازي بالشهيد الشيخ بيار الجميل التي تقام في كنيسة سيدة لبنان ابتداء من اليوم وتستمر حتى الجمعة على ان تشارك القوات اللبنانية مع كل قوى 14 اذار في قداس عن راحة نفس الشهيد في الثانية والنصف من بعد ظهر الاحدفي كنيسة السيدة ايضا حيث ستلقى سلسلة كلمات ومنها كلمة باسم مكتب قوات سيدني

Sukleen decided to use Lahoud posters to keep the floor clean in yesterday’s funeral. It seems that the people like cleaning their shoes on those posters than on normal papers.

Who killed Sheikh Pierre?
All sides locally and internationally ( except Hezbollah & Frangieh) are pointing to Syria.
The ‘cliche’ answer i am getting from those sides and other neutral ones is that Syria has no interest in doing so.

Did Syria have any interest in killing Hariri ? it was a political suicide and costed Syria very heavily, in fact it destroyed Hafez Assad’s dream forever, and dont come telling me Syria didnt kill Hariri, we have 4 UN reports already pointing at Syria and its agents in Lebanon.
Even if Syria was not involved directly, there is no way they were not aware of the presence of 1 ton of explosives in the middle of Beirut.

After Hariri, came a long list of bombings and all using the same methods and Brammertz linked them in his report and this list ended sadly 2 days ago with the assasination of Sheikh Pierre.

The international tribunal is the key to all answers here, Syria is refusing this tribunal and announced it publically on several occasions, the latest yesterday, and it knows that the only way to refute this tribunal is by weaking the majority in Lebanon.

And in order to weaken this majority, it can only eliminate them physically after it failed during elections to weaken them politically, however killing them is only strenghening this majority and the Lebanese people’s support to this majority.

Everytime they kill one of us, we become stronger and more determined and today was the proof.

Syrians are falling in their own trap, and are losing control in Lebanon. Their secret agents are acting in a barbaric way and are worsening Syria’s situation towards the world.
The US is negociating with Syria concerning Iraq, but i am sure it will not trust this regime specially after what it has caused in Iraq, and therefore our government will maintain its American and international support.

No one is realizing the importance of this tribunal that managed to put Syria and its agents in Lebanon in the corner.

Let us wait and see what happens on Saturday since Sanioura called for a session to vote for the protocol of the tribunal and asked resigned ministers to come back.

It was reported on TVs a while ago that Hezbollah are demonstrating on The airport highway and trying to close roads by burning tyres. It seems this was started after a small fight with Ain el Remmaneh guys.

Let us remind everyone that Hezbollah demonstrators were happily firing shots in the air to celebrate Sheikh Pierre’s death yesterday, and HA security stopped them.

Let us hope the police and army control the situation before it degenerates.

I just came back from the demonstration, i didnt think we could make another March 14th, but i was proven more than wrong. Over a million easily were down there, the people kept coming till 2 pm from all regions and the roads of Beirut were all filled.

Today’s slogan was “We love life” and “We want to live” and expressed the feeling of those downthere at Martyrs’ square. We, the Lebanese people, want and deserve to live in dignity and freely.

Lebanon mourned one of its young and brilliant leaders, and gave him a last goodbye worthy of kings.

Sincere Condoleances to the Gemayel family who lost another of its sons and the Chartouni family as well, but Our Cause will and must prevail as along as our people have the strong will and determination and unity that they showed today.

Long Live Lebanon.

Former chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis accused on Wednesday “pro-Syrian forces in Lebanon” of involvement in Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel’s assassination. The German prosecutor who led the investigation into ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s murder before handing over the U.N.-backed probe to Belgian prosecutor Serge Brammertz in January also said Tuesday’s killing was an attack on the United Nations.

“It is an attack on the Lebanese government and the planned international tribunal (to examine Hariri’s murder) and it is also an attack on the U.N.,” Mehlis told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily newspaper to be published on Thursday.

“It is apparent to anyone who is unbiased that all the clues after this attack clearly point to the forces who want to bring down the Lebanese government and get in the way of the tribunal.

“These are the so-called pro-Syrian forces in Lebanon. They have an obvious motive.”

Read the rest of the article here

Cars have been going down to the Martyrs Square since the early morning and Sheikh Pierre’s convoy left Bekfaya at 9:30 am and will go through several spots in Matn before reaching Beirut.

This promises to be a big day, i urge everyone to go down and give Sheikh Pierre a memorial goodbye.

And by everyone, i mean everyone specially the Christians ..
It is unacceptable that FPMers dont attend the mass … i dont care whether Aoun is welcome or not, Fpmers must go.

I will be leaving now.

Just for history,
Hezbollah had to calm his supporters after they were shooting in the air celebrating Sheikh Pierre’s assasination. Jumblatt mentioned it yesterday as well during his interview and FTV filmed them.

I have no comment for those people, i feel ashamed that they are Lebanese.

On the 14th of March 2005, the Lebanese people made history and started the Cedars Revolution after Hariri’s assasination and threw the Syrians out.

On the 14th of February 2006, The Cedars Revolution was revived after a list of assasinations targetting the 14th of march leaders.

Today, we have another chance of reviving the Cedars Revolution, not in numbers since what happened on the 14th of March 2005 will never be repeated, but in it spirit.

We need yet another martyr for us to realize our division is our only ennemy.

Let us hope he will be the last martyr and i hope the next 14th of march will be one celebrating our unity, not mourning another Lebanese.

Latest reports are saying that Pr.Lahoud didnt leave his chair at the palace since Sheikh Pierre was announced killed and accusations started pointing at him.He is too scared to leave his chair he even glued himself to it.

Added to that, he ordered his presidential guards and units from the army to close all roads leading to Baabda and the place is more like a war zone right now.

No cars are allowed in and no people as well.

It is gonna be an interesting day.

Another martyr falls in the most brutal and barbaric ways, another 14th of march leader, another young Lebanese leader, another Christian leader.

Sheikh Pierre Gemayel was shot dead in the middle of the day in a Christian city in the middle of the road and yet his criminals ran away. It is unthinkable that no one saw those men, no one saw followed them, no one took their cars pictures. Those criminals must be found at all price, even if it took a UN resolution to find them, we want the truth for his murder as much as we want it for Hariri’s murder.

Our leaders and young men and women have been the prime targets of the Syrian regime for over 25 years, we are losing our elites one after the other, our ‘quality’ leaders are getting killed and we still have no answer.

Some people are blaming Syria, others Israel and the US and others allow me to say stupidly accusing the government and 14th of march.

But we have to blame ourselves, us the people who started the Cedars Revolution, who went to the streets defying the invadors and the ‘dark’ forces and triumphed, we gave up this victory to our leaders who did not deliver as we expected, yet i refuse to blame them .. it is our fault first and foremost …

Tomorrow is Sheikh Pierre’s day, just like almost a year ago Gebran Tueni’s day, and before that Samir Kassir, and before it Rafiq Hariri and way before that Bashir Gemayel etc etc …

We are all frustrated, boiling from the inside, and we should all attend tomorrow’s mass, for Sheikh Pierre and all our martyrs only, not for the international tribunal and not for Lahoud .. just for Pierre.

Tomorrow, you will hear speeches from all 14th of march leaders, but its young leaders wont be there, Gebran Tueni wont be there and god knows how much we miss him.

Everytime someone dies, i tell myself it is not worthy even living in this country, but something inside keeps me attached, i rethink of Bashir and the thousands of martyrs who died for us to stay and i regain hope, but i dont know how many times i can do that.

I regained hope this time, and am waiting impatiently for tomorrow to see where the crowds will take us, the Party of Lebanon, as Gebran said, that will be regrouped in Martyrs’ square will decide to go.

R.I.P Sheikh Pierre Wou Sallemlna 3al Bashir wou 3ala Gebran wou kil chaheed.

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