One of these days we, the Lebanese, need to realize that we must apologize to one another for all the mistakes and “sins” we committed against one another as various groups and sects in the country. This is the one thing no one has really ever done. Today, we continue to live out our fears [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Peace’
We all need to say sorry!
Posted in History, Politics, Society, tagged Christians, Constitution, Democracy, Druze, Hezbollah, Jumblat, Lebanon, Middle East, Peace, Reform, Sectarianism, Sunnis on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No peace so long as Israel continues to play roughshod
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Peace, Refugees, United States on April 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
As long as Israel continues to flaunt the basic rights of the Palestinians and so long as it does not rectify the basic injustice committed when the state was established in 1948, peace in Lebanon and the region will never be. We will always suffer from instability. Why? Because we will have the forces supprting [...]
One day, Israel will pay the price
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Israel, Palestine, Peace on February 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Israel was created by shear shrewdness and utter disregard for the rights of a people, the Palestinians. Zionism found unimagined success in their efforts to create a Jewish state in Palestine. Thanks to a strong PR effort combined with well-organized military plan and international support, today Israel is a powerful country and the Palestinians an [...]
Suleiman’s tight rope and Syrian games!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, March 14, March 8, Middle East, Peace, Suleiman, Syria on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning we read that our new president, Michel Suleiman, has been put in a tight spot following Bashar Al-Assad’s recent remarks revealing that Suleiman informed him that Lebanon would be willing to join direct talks Syria plans to have with Israel as soon as they get underway. The president is now saying behind closed [...]
Hezbollah’s Double Talk on Negotiating with Israel
Posted in Politics, tagged Aoun, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Peace, Qatar, Syria on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hezbollah has a very interesting but hypocritical position regarding talks with Israel. They accuse March 14 of wanting to talk with Israel and to find a peaceful solution with the Jewish state, but say nothing about Syria’s own talks with Israel that have been going on on-and-off since the early 1990s. Its okay for Hezbollah [...]
No land, no peace!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Peace on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The land for peace principle underlying any talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians means, so long as there is no land returned, there will be no peace. And no peace, well that means war. So, as long as the Israelis do not leave the Occupied Territories, Palestinians will continue to fight them, period.
Today we [...]
A just settlement
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Arab World, Israel, Jewish-Arab Relations, Middle East, Palestine, Peace, Refugees on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is with great hope that we receive the recent gesture by Arab states to renew their peace offer to Israel during the recent summit in Riyad and Ehud Olmert’s subsequent invitation to Arab leaders to a peace conference in which all parties can state their vision for peace. I think these gestures represent many [...]
US and Syria… two sides of the same coin!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Peace, Syria, United States on March 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bolton just admitted (see BBC article in Arabic) that the US actively sought to block a ceasefire in last summer’s war until they realized that Israel’s attack was not going to succeed. For the US it was fine to support a policy that was unilateral, did not respect Lebanon’s own political system, and resulted in [...]
Vive la Résistance!
Posted in Politics, tagged Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Peace on August 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I was listening to a program hosted by Gisele Khoury on Al-Arabiya when I realized that Hezbollah is not going anywhere. Whether Israel stops its current war on Lebanon tomorrow or a year from now, Hezbollah will not be destroyed. The reason: Hezbollah is in the hearts of all those people on whom Israel is [...]
Israel Attacks – the Moral View
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Peace on July 15, 2006 | 4 Comments »
To understand Israel’s attack is not to justify it or condone its methods. While Israel has a clear strategic objective in its action, Lebanon suffers from lack of vision and clarity. The Lebanese government has been unable to hold up its side of the bargain when it comes to 1559: disarming Hezbollah and establishing full [...]
