As you all probably know, Hekmeh beat the Riyadi Club and then the Kuwaiti team in the Pan-Arab Championship being held in Jordan and booked a ticket to the final to play The Jordanian team Zein ( Known as Fastlink previously) tomorrow at 8:40 pm.

Buses will be available for all fans who wish to attend the game.

Place: Sagesse-Achrafieh
Date & Time: Tomorrow at 10 am.

I was informed that almost 200 fans are on their way to Jordan as we speak to cheer the Sagesse team.

Best of luck lal Hekmeh !

Whats great about this blog is that it brings different LF members with different opinions all under one roof to discuss and share what they feel is right and wrong with the LF and Lebanese politics in general today. With the recent issue of the two official sites it was clear there were two different opposing opinions on the subject being discussed here by two different writers. Its that sort of thing that makes this blog such a great place.

To be able to bring the different views together in one place this blog will always have to remain a neutral tool. To further enforce this neutrality it wouldn’t be fair to link to only one official LF site and it would be confusing to link to both. This is why starting today none of them will be linked on this blog.

Different writers will always have different opinions but this blog will always remain right in the middle. For all the writers who post on this blog thanks for making it a wonderful place.

The LF official website, www.lebanese-forces.org is undergoing some minor changes since some jerks, idiots and low-lifes which we will not name tried to hack it but in vain, it was down for 3 minutes and will be back on in few hours time hopefully.

(From Le Monde, today:
http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/03/06/wajdi-mouawad-seul-sur-scene-loin-du-liban_1019517_3246.html) 

Il est des moments, dans la vie, où s’impose un retour sur soi. A 40 ans, Wajdi Mouawad en traverse un, qu’il met en scène, de manière très émouvante, dans Seuls. Le spectacle sera présenté en juillet au Festival d’Avignon. Mais c’est à Chambéry qu’il est créé, à l’Espace Malraux, où Mouawad a déjà créé Forêts, en 2006, et où il est artiste associé jusqu’en 2010.

Forêts s’inscrivait dans la lignée des spectacles qui ont fait aimer en France ce Libanais d’origine, installé au Québec après avoir vécu six ans à Paris, de 1978 à 1986. Sa famille fuyait la guerre du Liban, qui n’a jamais quitté l’enfant qu’il était ni l’adulte qu’il est devenu. Comment recoller les morceaux ? Se construire une identité ? Vivre l’exil ? Ces questions hantent les pièces de Wajdi Mouawad, comme Littoral, qui lui a valu, en 2005, le Molière du meilleur auteur dramatique francophone.

Auteur, Mouawad l’est avec générosité. D’un mouvement ample, il sait tisser des fresques qui vous emmènent là où l’odyssée de l’histoire rejoint celle de chacun, dans la quête sans cesse recommencée de l’amour, de la mort et de la vie à apprivoiser avant qu’elles ne filent leur chemin, et ne vous perdent en route. Il y a un goût indéniable de l’absolu dans cette écriture, qui, avec Seuls, efface beaucoup des majuscules qu’elle contient, pour serrer au plus près l’intime.

CROISER DES HISTOIRES

Seuls est un solo - joué par Mouawad lui-même. Celui d’un homme, Herwan, un Libanais exilé au Québec, qui prépare une thèse sur Robert Lepage, la grande figure du théâtre québécois. C’est l’hiver, il tombe des tonnes de neige, et Herwan n’arrive pas à travailler. Il tourne en rond dans son nouvel appartement, nu ou presque, comme s’il se protégeait des couches de vêtements qu’il doit enfiler quand il sort.

Le téléphone fixe marche mal, et quand il sonne, c’est soit sa soeur, soit son père, qui ne le lâchent pas, soit le directeur de thèse, qui lui demande de terminer son travail au plus vite pour obtenir le poste d’un professeur qui vient de mourir. Mais pour terminer, Herwan veut revoir Robert Lepage, qui prépare un spectacle à Saint-Pétersbourg.

C’est là que Seuls réserve une surprise. On s’attend, comme toujours avec Wajdi Mouawad, à partir loin, à rencontrer des gens, à croiser des histoires. Et l’on se retrouve face à un homme seul, qui se dépouille peu à peu des peaux d’oignon de la parole, pour entrer dans le monde de la performance, en peignant sur son corps autant que sur les murs ce qui l’habite et lui pèse : la vacuité des jours qui se suivent en boucle, le désir d’être soi et autre, l’appel, nourri des souvenirs d’enfance, à une vie qui échapperait à la pesanteur. Une vie d’”étoile filante”, comme Herwan rêvait d’en être une, quand il était dans l’instant de la nuit, au Liban.

Herwan, c’est évidemment Wajdi Mouawad. Mais c’est chacun, et Seuls le dit bien, jusque dans ses maladresses, qui étaient incroyablement touchantes, le soir de la première, mardi 4 mars. C’étaient celles de la vie comme elle va, quand on se demande où elle va.

The Lebanese army surprinsingly are storming the buildings where some armed people were spotted and firing at them and arresting them ..

They entered ‘restricted’ areas and are taking control.

This is the army we want.

I just heard that lousy comment from an FPMer and the only thing that came to my mind was :

“the clashes is not between Christians and Shiates…..People were protesting against the shut down of electricity and some thugs from ain el remeneh shot them…….no Christian area is being attacked…..”

For the price of those tyres they are burning and hand grenades and bullets they are using, they could feed their families for months if not more ..

Tfeh 3a hek cha3eb wou 3al hebel li le72eenoun ..

Hezbollah & Amal thugs attacked Ain el Remmaneh tonight and caused 7 injuries so far.

They burned cars, threw stones at houses and threw a hand grenade at a group of people asking them to leave.

7 were injured, two with serious injuries and the others light injuries.
As reported on LBC, the group was holding Amal & Hezbollah flags and the local residents were asking the army to interfer but they did not on time.

I am happy that Ain el Remmaneh residents are acting responsably, this is not the first time such a thing happens, but in the same time, it is becoming intolerable ..

Shiite organization launches Hebrew website featuring images of IDF soldiers’ body parts, which its leader claims to be holding since Second Lebanon War.

Hizbullah on Tuesday launched a website in Hebrew featuring images of IDF soldiers’ body parts, which the Shiite organization’s leader Hassan Nasrallah claims to be holding since the Second Lebanon War.

I did not find the body parts pictures yet though, even if the thought of someone posting body parts and being proud of it sickens me !

But its Hezbollah .. they wouldnt know anything about ethics or human values ..

I have been reading the blog for the past week or so and the level of discussion is unacceptable.
I reviewed most of the recent comments today and i removed all inappropriate ones i found.

I ask you to remain respectful in your replies .. express yourselves as you wish but stay decent !

Thank you.

I just loved it !
It is a logo that resembles the Hezbollah logo, yet consists of a student holding a pen.

Reference to the post i made yesterday about the facebook group that was founded by FPMers & co insulting the patriarch ..
Seems it was hacked today by some LF guys ..

Good job guys ..

Most papers today and the M14 politicians and even Berri seem optimistic about today’s session ..
Apparently a ‘deal’ was reached late last night in order to get Suleiman to presidency without passing by the government or even a constitutional amendment ..

I must say i dont support Suleiman still, but having him as a president is least worse than having a president ‘bala rass’ ( Aoun) or no president …

We will see what happens.

Nahar Ashabab made a special edition for Gebran Tueni today, it was included in Annahar’s newspaper ..

For those who missed it, you can still get it from all libraries or selling points ..

It is an edition worthy keeping ..

I think it’s quite strange that the day went by and no one on the Lebanese blogsphere mentioned anything about the International Day of Human Rights and the prominent role played by Dr. Charles Malik.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proclaimed on December 10, 1948. NOW Lebanon has published an article about Dr. Malik’s early career as a philospher and diplomat.

For an official description about Dr. Malik’s “driving force behind the document’s arrangement”, you can find his biography on the official website of the UDHR.

Majida Biel 2007

You can find the transcript of her speech translated in English here. 

Arabic Version ( from Naharnet)

English Version ( From Daily Star)

Brief Summary:
The criminals are still out there and more capable than ever

LF Official site is upgrading to a new server and will be back online within few hours hopefully.

Thank you for your patience.

Aoun in january 1990, in January 2005 …and in 2006 sob7an li bi ghayir  click here

now come tell me he has not changed his stances…

From al tayyar website:

CBN.com � Syria is a nation which is known to support terrorism, but for years its agenda of subversion in Lebanon, Israel, and elsewhere has gone unchecked. Now Congress may vote on the Syria Accountability Act. To learn more about the persecution of Christians, and the threats posed by Syria, Pat Robertson spoke with General Michel Aoun, the elected Prime Minister of Lebanon who was forced from power when Syrian forces seized control of Lebanon.

PAT ROBERTSON: Just think, Lebanon was a model country, a beautiful country, and the Christians elected the president. The Christians have roughly half of the population of Lebanon, it�s a little less than 50 percent now. But they are second class citizens, they�re being trampled underfoot by the Syrians, and nobody seems to be doing anything about it.

With me is General Michel Aoun who is the former prime minister of Lebanon and the former commander-in-chief of the armed forces. General Aoun, delighted to have you with us on The 700 Club, welcome. Tell me about Hezbollah. We hear about the terrorist group Hezbollah. What relation do they have to Syria?

GENERAL AOUN: Hezbollah is not a separate entity from Syria. It is under the Syrian operational control.

ROBERTSON: The so-called terrorist group is under the operational control of Syria?

AOUN: Yes, 100 percent, no question about that.

ROBERTSON: I understand that Damascus is the headquarters of a number of other terrorist organizations that have received aid and assistance from the Syrians. Can you tell us what they are, those other terrorist organizations?

AOUN: There are about 11 organizations of terrorism in Damascus. Among them, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Democratic Front and the General Command Front of the Palestinians [Liberation Army], all of them are listed in the United States as classified as terrorist organizations.

ROBERTSON: I understand that there were estimated as many as 10,000 Katyusha rockets that were moved from Syria into Lebanon to reinforce Hezbollah against Israel. Is something like that the case?

AOUN: Yes, since Lebanon was occupied by Syria, they extended the base of their terror operations to Lebanon, and they are stationed in Syria, but they act from the Lebanese territory.

ROBERTSON: Bashir Assad [leader of Syria] made a shocking statement that you called into account. He said that all Israelis are combatants and therefore there�s no such thing as an innocent civilian in Israel. Could you comment on that?

AOUN: Yes, during the Arab Summit in Beirut last March, I think, he made this declaration that there is no civilian in Israel, all of them are military.

ROBERTSON: So you can shoot any one of them you want to as a combatant?

AOUN: He did not say it like that directly, but it means that.

ROBERTSON: All right. What happened and how did Syria get control of Lebanon? Lebanon was essentially a Christian country. How did they gain this dominance in the country?

AOUN: They first destabilized the country by opening the Syrian borders to the Palestinians and they came from Syria with the refugees who were stationed in Lebanon. Together they destabilized Lebanon and called it a civil war, but it was not a civil war.

ROBERTSON: Then they came in to stop the so-called civil war that they engendered?

AOUN: They created it. That’s what we call in military terminology “indirect strategy.” You make a problem and then you come to solve it.

ROBERTSON: What is the danger to world peace? We are engaged in a war on terror and yet the Syrians are in the United Nations Security Council how can that be?

AOUN: It�s a big contradiction that we have to solve in the world. Because people, the terrorist regimes, they are still, you know, having good stature in the world. And there are terrorist regimes like Syria that are generating terrorist organizations. Therefore, I propose a plan that first, to disarm the organizations; second, to democratize the regimes; and then to help them to develop their country.

ROBERTSON: What do you think of President Bush’s initiative to go against Saddam Hussein to help democratize Iraq? Is that a wise course or not?

AOUN: I would like personally to see that all of the United Nations resolutions be implemented. And if Iraq complies with these resolutions, maybe it would be a happy end for everybody.

ROBERTSON: Okay. What is happening to the Christians? When I was there in 1972, Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East, a beautiful city, and then little by little it�s been torn asunder. What is the role of a lot of the Christians now? What is being done to them in Lebanon?

AOUN: They are rejected as second class citizens and they don’t enjoy liberty and freedom. And they are threatened.
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ya general if you and your followers have forgotten history has not…

you claim to represent the Christians?

is this who the Christians want as leader??? –> click here

Is this what you preach ya general el rabieh???

is this what you aim at??

Shame

I hope those kids that follow you these days wake up soon and find out what you really are before the damage grows bigger to this already threatened community of ours.