Lebanon After Cease Fire
Only an hour after the cease fire went into force at 8 a.m. today, thousands of Lebanese started their march back to their homes in southern Lebanon, Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa.
They were all happy even though many feared that they will not find their homes the way they left them. Israeli bombings not only killed more than 1,000 Lebanese and wounded thousands others but also destroyed many villages around the country as well as large parts of Beirut' southern suburb that is the home for about half a million people.
Now that the war has ended, other problems will surface especially that Ramadan is a month a way, schools should begin early September and winter is coming.
People who went back Monday were defiant and many of them said that Israel's bombing only made them respect and love Hezbollah and its leader more and more.
This was not the first time that large parts of Lebanon were destroyed but as it was rebuilt in the past it will again. Homes, bridges, power stations, airports and ports can be rebuilt but what breaks the heart are those who lost their lives, became handicap or turned orphans by the war.
When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert launched the wide war under the pretext of the capturing of two Israeli soldiers on the border, it was clear to many here that Israel is not going to win this war despite having the strongest army in the Middle East.
Most Lebanese who were in the country during the previous Lebanon-Israel wars know well that Israel made the mistake in 1982 but officials seem not to learn that Lebanon can always become a quagmire.
Now that the war has ended, what happened in the Israeli parliament this afternoon tells the story of what a bad decision it was to attack Lebanon. Israeli politicians are saying that Olmert's government did not achieve its goals.
Olmert claimed that he launched the war to win the unconditional release of the two soldiers. Today, 34 days after the war began, Israel wants to negotiate a prisoners exchange with Hezbollah.
No one in Lebanon believed that the war was launched because of the soldiers but its main aim was to destroy Hezbollah, a matter that also ended with a failure.
Now that there is a cease fire and hostilities have stopped, everyone hopes that war is over for good.
After 58 years of violence in the Middle East, war has proven not to be the solution.
During an Arab summit in Beirut in 2002, all Arab countries offered Israel full peace in return of lands occupied in 1967.
Most Arabs believe that setting up a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital is the shortest way to bring peace to region.
Bassem Mroue
Beirut August 14, 2006
7:45 p.m.
They were all happy even though many feared that they will not find their homes the way they left them. Israeli bombings not only killed more than 1,000 Lebanese and wounded thousands others but also destroyed many villages around the country as well as large parts of Beirut' southern suburb that is the home for about half a million people.
Now that the war has ended, other problems will surface especially that Ramadan is a month a way, schools should begin early September and winter is coming.
People who went back Monday were defiant and many of them said that Israel's bombing only made them respect and love Hezbollah and its leader more and more.
This was not the first time that large parts of Lebanon were destroyed but as it was rebuilt in the past it will again. Homes, bridges, power stations, airports and ports can be rebuilt but what breaks the heart are those who lost their lives, became handicap or turned orphans by the war.
When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert launched the wide war under the pretext of the capturing of two Israeli soldiers on the border, it was clear to many here that Israel is not going to win this war despite having the strongest army in the Middle East.
Most Lebanese who were in the country during the previous Lebanon-Israel wars know well that Israel made the mistake in 1982 but officials seem not to learn that Lebanon can always become a quagmire.
Now that the war has ended, what happened in the Israeli parliament this afternoon tells the story of what a bad decision it was to attack Lebanon. Israeli politicians are saying that Olmert's government did not achieve its goals.
Olmert claimed that he launched the war to win the unconditional release of the two soldiers. Today, 34 days after the war began, Israel wants to negotiate a prisoners exchange with Hezbollah.
No one in Lebanon believed that the war was launched because of the soldiers but its main aim was to destroy Hezbollah, a matter that also ended with a failure.
Now that there is a cease fire and hostilities have stopped, everyone hopes that war is over for good.
After 58 years of violence in the Middle East, war has proven not to be the solution.
During an Arab summit in Beirut in 2002, all Arab countries offered Israel full peace in return of lands occupied in 1967.
Most Arabs believe that setting up a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital is the shortest way to bring peace to region.
Bassem Mroue
Beirut August 14, 2006
7:45 p.m.
Comments
Enjoy the terrorist dogs in your midst.
Of course you say nothing about the indiscriminate murdering that your palls Pissbollah commit. At least be honest and admit the side you're on.
How the hell did you get your job, are you on the UN payroll? Scumbag.
Hey kike atrocity lovers, I'm one of those "satanists" who subscribes to "replacement theology"! OoooOOOoooOOoo!
Death to LGFers!
STOP ISLAMIC FASCISTS NOW!!!
Bassem Mroue = terrorist supportin', Hezbollah lovin proud card-carrying member of the anti-Israel al-AP.
Were onto you lying liars. The jigs up. (And would you please, for the love of God, stop fornicating with your farm animals.)
Most Arabs believe that setting up a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital is the shortest way to bring peace to region.
Isn't that what was offered at Oslo? As I recall, Arafat declined that offer.
Unite in the Love of Islam!
We hate niggers, hate spics, hate wops, slopes and gooks!
Death to the kuffar, cut the heads off of infidels!
Islam is the Religion of Peace!
Come on. You can tell us. Your anti-semitic rants show us all you are.
…evil is evil…Hezbollah is an ideology of hate. ‘Journalists” that promote this hatred have a lot of explaining to do. Smug, you think you are really giving it to the Israelis (damn Jews, how dare they create a prosperous, democratic nation among us – and challenge us everyday with their happiness). The sick in the head Europeans will eat this stuff up. Yes, but the clock is ticking. The end results are not going to be pretty. Evil will consume itself and the goodness in Lebanon will be destroyed – and another generation will be condemned to live in ignorance and despair.
Sit in the café and chortle with collogues, for now. Your sins will catch up to you.
Most Arabs believe that setting up a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital is the shortest way to bring peace to region.
Wow that's really fair too. I mean, every other country in the world who gets repeatedly attacked (for no other reason than wanting to live) and then repeatedly kicks the ass off the inept corrupt governments attacking them usually does have to give back the land they won in battle in exchange for those countries to stop teaqching their kids the most hateful racist lies possible. Good call. This probably isn't antisemitism... on a completely unrelated matter, I was watching a kick ass movie on Egyptian state run TV the other day, it's called The Protocols of the ELders of Zion. So awesome. It makes The Matrix look like... a non-racist sci-fi movie. And Egypt's one of he countries that has made peace with Israel. What'd that translate to for them? The biggest cultural, economic boom in their history, and they still can't let go of the hate. Same goes for Jordan. Same goes for every country who decides maybe after 60+ years of behaving like barbarians, that it's time to start taking care of their own citizens... Here's a nutty idea, don't get 1000+ people killed over a piece of worthless land that technically belongs to Syria anyway. Try bringing the society into the modern era. Try laying off honor killings, female genital mutilation, and other things that were inexcusable in the year 1006, let alone 2006. Here's a crazy hint for you Bassem, if you have to lie and mangle the truth to fit your pre-conceived motivations toward Israel, maybe it's time to reconsider those motivations. You're a friggin' journalist for cripe's sake. Aren't you ever ashamed when you think of how you've been led around by your nose by a lying corrupt entity (read: every Arab government + Iran) that has no interest in their people becoming educated, or them living at a decent standard, because then the people might want some freedoms. Have you ever wondered why the beset upon Palestinians who live in Israel proper never have even the slightest inkling of leaving this so-called "apartheid state" where they are supposedly, "second class citizens?" It's because they enjoy the highest standard of living of any Arabs in the Middle East. They enjoy civil liberties, ever hear of those? They totally rule. I'm using one of them right now, it's called freedom of speech, to call you a lying, hypocritical scumbag. You perpetuate the lies that keep your own people down. There's blood on your hands too.
Dude, Klansmen like you are so pathetic it's not even offensive. You guys are a complete joke. Although I'd be sore if I was as marginalized as you guys are.
It sounded better in the original German, though.
Seig Heil!
One of the unanticipated casualties of this conflict is the credibility of Reuters, AP, et al.
And it is the new media - the Internet - which is bringing them down. They no longer hold a monopoly on public voice.
You sound like a moderate Muslim.
You also sound like a goat humper.
1. Isreael and the west is fighting this war with a small fraction of their full potential. Their hearts are not now in teh fight.
2. The radical islamicists are fighting with all they have. Their hearts are completely in the fight.
3. The radical islamicists are barely able to eek out a draw using everything they have, while one side allows a draw using a fraction of what they have.
4. The USA can stay in Iraq or go, and it doesn't matter much to the average person back in the US. For now, the US is staying to reduce the number of muslim deaths, at the cost of US deaths. If the US leaves Iraq (which is coming close) the muslims will cheer for the great vicrory of driving out the Americans, and the country will devolve into civil war, the economy will tank, the jobs will dry up, the money will vanish, and it will be muslims that will feel the brunt of the muslim radicalism. The Americans will be safe back home. Would that be a victory for the middle easterners? Are they happier in poverty without the Americans? Maybe so. Fine then. Let's leave them to themselves.
5. Then if the radical islamicists (Iran, Syria, et. al.) actually do something stupic and pull off a single or even a few large scale attacks in the west, they will cross a line that will result in their being leveled. (Observation and not threat). Do the Islamic Fascists really want to push the US citizenry to the point that they unleash the full dogs of war? What do you think a full out warring USA would look like? If you don't know, you'd better think about it. Does Iran and Syria and Hezbollah really believe that they could stand in the wind that would then blow?
The irony of it is that it will be as a result of another terrible attack on the United States, thus ensuring your own demise. I would hate to be an arab muslim after that.
Make no mistake, we are going to cut out your black hearts this time, my islamofascist friends.
We will be coming for you, and, as another said, that's not a threat, but an observation.
You will finally go too far, the left in the West will be silenced overnight like the isolationists after Pearl Harbor, and we will level you.
No more radical islamist problem. No more hesbollah, no more iran, no more syria, no more...
Don't harbor a terrorist group in your country, don't let them run your government, don't let them attack their neighbors and don't be surprised when your neighbor fights back.
Maybe Golda Meir was right when she said that peace will come only when Muslim parents will decide that they love their children more than they hate Jews?
Until then, there are no victories to the dead and Mroue will enjoy his 72 raisins?
Deluded or more probably lying. What they are successfully attempting is war in the region. The sentiment being ascribed to "most Arabs" is a vile obsession.
Ryan, not everyone loves Hezbollah. They are only 35% of the population. Should Americans have all loved the KKK? It's the same thing.
Ryan, I think the problem here is that Bassem Mroue is an AP reporter, and AP is spraying his Arab bias all over the world.
I had to laugh!
You negelect to mention that Israel offered back all the land it won in 67 - only to have that offer rejected. In 1968, the Khartoum Declaration made the rejection official.
Instead, 'ITBACH AL YAHUD!' became Arab political and religious ideology.
A very good Syrian friend of mine once noted bitterly, that 'the real naqbah was vidoe and audio tape. We can no longer hide who we are and what we have become, from the world and from ourselves.'
Do you really think the civilized world doesn't know?
I am an American, and the Lebanese mindset, as reported to us, seems completely insane. What os the benefit to Lebanon of having Hezbollah pick a fight with Israel from within Lebanon? The downside is pretty obvious. I don’t understand what the upside is?
This guy is supposed to be a journalist.
Sadly, until the Arabs decide they can live in peace with Israel we wil always be at war with them.
Imagine what woulod have happened to the Middle East in '48 if the Arabs said "Yes" to peace and decided to live alongside us as Yitschak and Yishmael did after they had buried their father in Hebron?
http://www.iconoclast.ca/databases/images/NYTspoofWarsawGhetto.jpg
"During an Arab summit in Beirut in 2002, all Arab countries offered Israel full peace in return of lands occupied in 1967".
The fact is, that Hezbollah and Hamas did not want to come along with this and since Syria uses Hezbollah as its proxy, they can openly say they want peace but still endorse and actively support Hezbollah, under or above the ground.
Fact is also that those peace offering countries were not willing to cut down on militias and they were able to survive and become stronger.
The offer of the Arab world in 2002, and still, has no value what so ever.
This guy is a journalist, and he's carrying water for one side. We saw so much fakery in the "news" from this most recent conflict, as the arabs and hezbolla have learned to use the media to their advantage.
The victim? THE TRUTH.
If you really want to know what's going on in the world, then you want the truth without spin. No faked photos, no posed photos, no biased stories (hezbolla fired thousands of rockets indiscriminately at Israel without regard for civilians), no BS.
You should demand of this man that he tell the true story, and not spin for political outcome. You should ask yourself why the world media couldn't give a fig for Israel.
Let us not forget that Israel has been mercilessly denying Arabs their HUMAN RIGHTS for almost sixty years and that is the root of the regional problem.
I do not support violent means. I wish we could just all hold hands. But for a variety of reasons, war is big business, and superpowers and their allies remain hell bent on convincing us that terrorists want to destroy Westerners for no other reason than they were born full of hate and ready to kill.
The facts are missing here. The creation of the state of Israel was based on violence - taking over someone else's country. As a moderate Arab-American, I fully recognise the state of Israel and believe in peace, but there have been no good faith gestures from the Israeli side. Nothing but bellicose rhetoric which only brings them closer to their US allies and that war on terror, while distracting people from the real injustices they are commiting. With the month-long war on Lebanon, the world forgot about the second front on Gaza.
Wake up, fellow Americans, sell your IPOD and make a donation to a charity trying to provide a blanket for an elderly woman trapped in a house for eight days with dead relatives after her village was destroyed by a country that calls state-sponsored terrorism "self-defence".
Well it's nice your entire view of the Middle East is based on a falsehood.
If the arabs disarmed tomorrow there would be no more war. If the Israelis disarmed tomorrow there would be no more Israel.
That says it all. Anyone who denies it as fact is either dishonest or a moron.
The Israelis took that territory in a war that was started by the other side. That means, by rights, they don't have to give up the land at all. But they have tried, and it doesn't stop the other side from attacking them.
Why?
Because when your power is based on cries of war and oppression, how can you make peace? Arafat knew that.
This whole problem is the fault of the arabs.
If they wanted to make peace, peace would be made in short order.
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