ما تخافي يا ماما
في حديقة الصّنائع في بيروت، حيث النّازحون ينامون في العراء، يجلس أطفالٌ في فيء شجرة، يرسمون طائراتٍ سوداء وقذائف.
في حديقة الصّنائع في بيروت، يركلون كرةً ويلعبون "اللّقيطة"، كي ينتقموا من الذّباب الذي يتآكلهم ليلاً.
في حديقة الصّنائع، صبيّ صغير رصدته الكاميرا. يصمت. يشيح النّظر. ينظر ثانيةً. ثمّ يتكلّم بخجل.
- وين الماما؟
- هونيك. عم تبكي.
- ليش عم تبكي؟
- لأنّو الطّيارات قصفت البيت. بيتنا وقع...
يطأطىء رأسه نحو الأرض ويضيف: "هي مفكرة إنو بطّل عنّا بيت."
ثمّ يدّس يده في جيبه، يخرج شيئاً، ويعلن بانتصار:- بس أنا قلتلها ما تخاف... أكيد رح نرجع عالبيت. أنا جبت معي المفاتيح. حتّى شوفي!
Robert fisk new article!
Robert Fisk
- The Independent
They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds.
"Mehdi Hashem, aged seven - Qana," was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy's body lay.
"Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 - Qana"
"Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one - Qana." And when the Lebanese soldier went to pick up Abbas's little body, it bounced on his shoulder as the boy might have done on his father's shoulder on Saturday. In all, there were 56 corpses brought to the Tyre government hospital and other surgeries, and 34 of them were children. When they ran out of plastic bags, they wrapped the small corpses in carpets. Their hair was matted with dust, most had blood running from their noses.
You must have a heart of stone not to feel the outrage that those of us watching this experienced yesterday. This slaughter was an obscenity, an atrocity-yes, if the Israeli air force truly bombs with the "pinpoint accuracy" it claims, this was also a war crime. Israel claimed that missiles had been fired by Hizbollah gunmen from the south Lebanese town of Qana-as if that justified this massacre. Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, talked about "Muslim terror" threatening " western civilisation" -as if the Hizbollah had killed all these poor people.
And in Qana, of all places. For only 10 years ago, this was the scene of another Israeli massacre, the slaughter of 106 Lebanese refugees by an Israeli artillery battery as they sheltered in a UN base in the town. More than half of those 106 were children. Israel later said it had no live-time pilotless photo-reconnaissance aircraft over the scene of that killing-a statement that turned out to be untrue when The Independent discovered videotape showing just such an aircraft over the burning camp. It is as if Qana-whose inhabitants claim that this was the village in which Jesus turned water into wine-as been damned by the world, doomed forever to receive tragedy. And there was no doubt of the missile which killed all those children yesterday. It came from the United States, and upon a fragment of it was written: "For use on MK-84 Guided Bomb BSU-37-B". No doubt the manufacturers can call it "combat-proven" because it destroyed the entire three-storey house in which the Shalhoub and Hashim families lived. They had taken refuge in the basement from an enormous Israeli bombardment, and that is where most of them died.
I found Nejwah Shalhoub lying in the government hospital in Tyre, her jaw and face bandaged like Robespierre's before his execution. She did not weep, nor did she scream, although the pain was written on her face. Her brother Taisir, who was 46, had been killed. So had her sister Najla. So had her little niece Zeinab, who was just six. "We were in the basement hiding when the bomb exploded at one o'clock in the morning," she said. "What in the name of God have we done to deserve this? So many of the dead are children, the old, women. Some of the children were still awake and playing. Why does the world do this to us?"
Yesterday's deaths brought to more than 500 the total civilian dead in Lebanon since Israel's air, sea and land bombardment of the country began on 12 July after Hizbollah members crossed the frontier wire, killed three Israeli soldiers and captured two others. But yesterday's slaughter ended more than a year of mutual antagonism within the Lebanese government as pro-American and pro-Syrian politicians denounced what they described as "an ugly crime".
Thousands of protesters attacked the largest United Nations building in Beirut, screaming: "Destroy Tel Aviv, destroy Tel Aviv," and Lebanon's Prime Minister, the normally unflappable Fouad Siniora, called US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and ordered her to cancel her imminent peace-making trip to Beirut.
No one in this country can forget how President George Bush, Ms Rice, and Tony Blair have repeatedly refused to call for an immediate ceasefire - a truce that would have saved all those lives yesterday. Ms Rice would say only: "We want a ceasefire as soon as possible," a remark followed by an Israeli announcement that it intended to maintain its bombardment of Lebanon for at least another two weeks.
Throughout the day, Qana villagers and civil defence workers dug through the ruins of the building with spades and with their hands, tearing at the muck until they found one body after another still dressed in colourful clothes. In one section of the rubble, they found what was left of a single room with 18 bodies inside. Twelve of the dead were women. All across southern Lebanon now, you find scenes like this, not so grotesque in scale, perhaps, but just as terrible, for the people of these villages are terrified to leave and terrified to stay.
The Israelis had dropped leaflets over Qana, ordering its people to leave their homes. Yet twice now since Israel's onslaught began, the Israelis have ordered villagers to leave their houses and then attacked them with aircraft as they obeyed the Israeli instructions and fled. There are at least 3,000 Shia Muslims trapped in villages between Qlaya and Aiteroun- close to the scene of Israel's last military incursion at Bint Jbeil -and yet none of them can leave without fear of dying on the roads.
And Mr Olmert's reaction? After expressing his "great sorrow", he announced that: "We will not stop this battle, despite the difficult incidents this morning. We will continue the activity, and if necessary it will be broadened without hesitation." But how much further can it be broadened? Lebanon's infrastructure is being steadily torn to pieces, its villages razed, its people more and more terrorised - and terror is the word they used - by Israel's American-made fighter bombers. Hizbollah's missiles are Iranian-made, and it was Hizbollah that started this war with its illegal and provocative raid across the border. But Israel's savagery against the civilian population has deeply shocked not only the Western diplomats who have remained in Beirut, but hundreds of humanitarian workers from the Red Cross and major aid agencies.
Incredibly, Israel yesterday denied safe passage to a UN World Food Programme aid convoy en route to the south, a six-truck mission that should have taken relief supplies to the south-eastern town of Marjayoun. More than three quarters of a million Lebanese have now fled their homes, but there is still no accurate figure for the total number still trapped in the south. Khalil Shalhoub, who survived amid the wreckage in Qana yesterday, said that his family and the Hashims were just too "terrified" to take the road out of the village, which has been attacked by aircraft for more than two weeks. The seven-mile highway between Qana and Tyre is littered with civilian homes in ruins and burnt-out family cars. On Thursday, the Israeli Army's Al-Mashriq radio, which broadcasts into southern Lebanon, told residents that their villages would be "totally destroyed" if missiles were fired from them. But anyone who has watched Israel's bombing these past two weeks knows that, in many cases, the Israelis do not know the location in which the Hizbollah are firing missiles, and - when they do - they frequently miss their targets. How can a villager prevent the Hizbollah from firing rockets from his street? The Hizbollah do take cover beside civilian houses just as Israeli troops entering Bint Jbeil last week also used civilian homes for cover. But can this be the excuse for slaughter on such a scale?
Mr Siniora addressed foreign diplomats in Beirut yesterday, telling them that the government in Beirut was now only demanding an immediate ceasefire and was not interested any longer in a political package to go with it. Needless to say, Mr Jeffrey Feltman, whose country made the bomb which killed the innocents of Qana yesterday, chose not to attend.
Message from Lebanon!!!
J'ai trouvé ce passage dans un autre blog libanais
Israel proved it again; the forces of Armageddon took over the forces of God. They came, flew over our heads, targeted our bridges, violated our privacy and killed; they killed those who never killed a cat, they killed our children. In 1996, Israel bombarded UN base in Qana and killed tens of innocent people that looked for shelter.
Back then, it was considered as a strategic mistake and Israel stopped its attack. Now, ten years later, Israel is proving to the whole world that, what was a strategic mistake ten years ago, is now a phase in a pseudo-unstoppable attack. Qana is back.
The "brave" Israeli soldiers killed 37 children. We say "brave" because killing a child is hard; when u think of those innocent helpless faces wishing only to eat play and sleep, killing inoffensive children becomes a hard target. To kill a child you should be heartless, and being heartless is an excellent quality of a brave soldier. Brave soldiers are those who act with no regret, killing is an act of no coming back, thus an act of no regret. They killed the children of Lebanon, the "Lebanon", the small but huge country, the country of trade and goods, the country of tourism and leisure, the gate to the middle east, the cradle of civilization.
Killing children in our society is not an act of bravery, killing women is no act of manhood, killing elders is out of our ethics.
We say to Israel, you will never kill us, you cannot frighten us, you will never conquer us, you will always be looked down-on as cowards. Leave your planes and weapons, and like in the old times, fight like men. Body to body, spear to spear, shield to shield; then, only then you will realize how weak you are. But you will never take that risk, you will never jeopardize your souls, you are a bunch of cowards. A clay footed giant...
Every child you killed is a curse upon your heads; every curse is an enemy you made. Like for the battle between heaven and hell we say that men are the ones who created evil on earth it is the choices they make that enslaved their souls forever, life is the test and you failed.
As for us, people of Lebanon, we are asked to stay united, to free our souls from hatred, to forgive our mutual mistakes, to forget our minor differences and always remember that we are Lebanese… and only Lebanese. Together we stand, divided we fall.
loubnan sayabka! Lebanon will stay
non seulement il restera mais en plus il vaincra!
A l'heure de ce carnage et de cette guerre aveugle qui s'est abbatue sur nous, nous tenons à affirmer, à répeter que le Liban, par la force de ses citoyens, de sa résitance se lévera plus fort et plus déterminé que jamais!
Pour le Liban, nous résistons! Samidoune
Voilà 21 jours déjà que le Liban, son peuple, et surtout ses enfants subissent de plein fouet une attaque des plus sanglantes, des plus meurtrières…
Jamais dans l’histoire de tous les conflits, récents comme anciens, la communauté Internationale n’a mis autant de temps pour parvenir, du moins formellement, à un cessez le feu.
L’ONU, présentée comme la voix des sans voix à la fin de la 2e GM, gardienne de la paix dans le monde, paraît inerte…elle est devenue elle même une sans voix, victime de son excès de zèle et de sa soumission à une bande d’illuminés qui dirigent la plus grande puissance de ce monde !!!
Sa voix, si jamais elle s’exprime, ne parvient même pas à dépasser le mur du silence qui hante et qui hantera pour toujours sa tour de verre… et de honte…
Les enfants tués, ceux qui seront tués dans les jours avenirs, ne pourront jamais pardonner ce silence pesant qui a conduit à leurs morts sans aucune raison. Ils hanteront à jamais nos esprits, nos jours et nuits. Nous les garderons dans nos mémoires, et jamais, o que jamais, nous ne les oublieront… comment peut-on oublier ces jeunes enfants qui, hier encore remplissaient notre pays de joie et de bonheur, comment pourrait on oublier leurs sourires innocents, leurs rêves (comme celui des gens qui les ont précédés) d’un Liban meilleur. D’un Liban vert, d’un liban joyeux, regardant l’avenir mais sans jamais oublier son passé glorieux par ses citoyens, macabres par les actions des barbares qui l’entourent…
Triste journée que de voir le pays des cèdres de Dieu en ce début août… pauvre Liban, tu es, tu étais et tu seras toujours victime de ta différence, de ta grandeur, de ta splendeur…
O mon liban,
On cherche une nouvelle fois à t’asphyxier en assassinant ta seule richesse, ta seule fierté, ton seul atout… tes enfants !!!!!
Mais sois sure, tes enfants, malgré la barbarie de l’ennemi et l’indifférence des amis, ne t’abandonneront jamais. Ils vivront ou mourront à tes cotés… Pour eux, la vie dans toute sa splendeur n’a ni goût ni saveur…
N’est pas peur mon liban, le jour viendra ou tu te lèveras, tu t’en sortiras de ce combat macabre plus fort, plus déterminé que jamais.
Qu’ils sont cons ces israéliens ! qu’ils sont cons ces américains ! qu’ils sont lâches ces arabes !!!!!
En 1982, ils ont essayé de te détruire et c’est la génération 68 qui étais là pou leur faire face… en 1996, ils ont fait de même et c’est la génération 1982 qui étais là pour te défendre…. En 2006, ils essaient de nouveaux de te détruire et c’est la génération Qana 1996 qui, nchala, les vaincra !!!
Qu’ils sont cons ces israéliens ! Qu’ils sont haineux ! tous les 10 ans, ils s’acharnent sur toi et tous les 10 ans c’est la génération de leur dernier acharnement qui se lèvent, tel ton cèdre, pour te défendre.
Nous te défendrons jusqu’au dernier souffle, car sans toi, sans le sourire et les cris de tes enfants qui remplissent chacune de tes petites ruelles, la vie, toute la vie n’a vraiment aucun sens pour nous !!!!
Alors lève-toi !
la liste des terroristes!!!!
Caricature publiée dans al Nahar
Va Comprendre....
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J'ai adopté le cèdre du Liban
Arbre de Beyrouth agrippé au cratère
Où la bombe fissura les ruines et les pierres,
Broyant les roses du Liban, je te nomme prière,
Témoin des décombres de cette triste Terre.
A nouveau l'étoile du peuple élu
A élu domicile dans ton ombre suppliciée.
Ce soir, les explosions des cieux perdus
Secoueront le croissant fertile et dru.
Terre des druzes, terre des maronites,
Champs de sunnites et des chiites,
Ton cèdre a penché sa tête devant l'épée
Qui périra par le glaive ensanglanté.
J'aime le Liban dit l'enfant perdu,
Suppliant la nuée de nuages orphelins.
La goutte d'eau a renoncé à naître rosée -
Arbre de Beirut, le silence s'est renversé.
Je pleure pour le Liban dit l'enfant égaré,
Mon été s'est appauvri au seuil de la mort.
Mes mains ont campé devant le péril imminent,
L'envahisseur tout-puissant sur la flaque de mon sang.
Liban aimé, dit l'innocent, j'ai adopté ton cèdre arraché
Par le semeur des maux ; j'ai confié mon avenir à la Bekaa.
La Palestine s'est élargie en génocide et le Liban en holocauste,
Le vent s'est tranché sur la faux des damnés.
L'amour de ma terre s'est emparé de tes racines,
Le cèdre centenaire s'est confié à l'olivier.
L'enfant triste court dans ton jardin oublié,
Les monstres conjuguent le verbe sécuriser pour tuer les jardiniers.
J'ai adopté le cèdre, ô pays libanais,
Répondit l'olivier, et je serai le garant de ta paix !
Israel attacks the UN...again.
An Israeli airstrike hit a United Nations post in southern Lebanon late Tuesday, killing at least two of the agency's observers, according to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon. Two other missing observers are feared buried in the rubble of the building.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was "deeply distressed" by the "apparently deliberate" strike.
"This coordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long-established and clearly marked U.N. post at Khiyam occurred despite personal assurances given to me by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that U.N. positions would be spared Israeli fire," he said in a statement.
"Furthermore, General Alain Pelligrini, the U.N. force commander in south Lebanon, had been in repeated contact with Israeli officers throughout the day on Tuesday, stressing the need to protect that particular U.N. position from attack."
(Source: CNN)
Did the international community got it at last? Did they understand the nature of this horrible agression?
Maybe civilian Lebanese blood was not loud enough...maybe UN blood is louder?
Now more than any other time, Israel is losing this war.
Qana par Nizar Abeni
By Nizar Qabbani (written in 1996)
1.
The face of Qana
Pale, like that of Jesus
and the sea breeze of April…
Rains of blood.. and tears..
2.
They entered Qana stepping on our charred bodies
Raising a Nazi flag
in the lands of the South
and rehearsing its stormy chapters
Hitler cremated them in the gas chambers
and they came after him to burn us
Hitler kicked them out of Eastern Europe
and they kicked us out of our lands
3.
They entered Qana
Like hungry wolves
Putting to fire the house of the Messiah
Stepping on the dress of Hussain
and the dear land of the South
4.
Blasted Wheat, Olive-trees and Tobacco
and the melodies of the nightingale
Blasted Cadmus in his bark
Blasted sea and the gulls
Blasted even hospitals
even nursing moms
and schoolboys
Blasted the beauty of the Southern women
and murdered the gardens of the honeyed eyes
5.
We saw the tears in Ali's eyes
We heard his voice as he prayed
under the rain of bloody skies
6.
Who ever will write about the history of Qana
Will inscribe in his parchments
This was the second Karbala
7.
Qana unveiled what was hidden
We saw America
Wearing the old coat of a Jewish Rabbi
Leading the slaughter
Blasting our children for no reason
Blasting our wives for no reason
Blasting our trees for no reason
Blasting our thoughts for no reason
Has it been decreed in her constitution,
She, America, mistress of the world,
In Hebrew .. that she should humble us al-Arab?
8.
Has it been decreed that each time a ruler in America
wants to win the presidency that he should kill us ..
We al Arab?
9.
We waited for one Arab to come
pull this thorny prick from our necks
We waited for single Qureishite
A single Hashemite
A single Don Quixote
A single local hero, for whom they did not shave the moustache
We waited for a Khalid .. Tariq .. or Antara
We were eaten chatter (while engaged in vain talk)
They sent a fax
We read its text
after paying tribute
and the end of the slaughter
10.
What does Israel fear from our cries?
What does she fear from our faxes?
The Jihad of the fax is the weakest of Jihads
It is a single text we write
for all the martyrs who left
and all the martyrs those who will come
11.
What does Israel fear from Ibn al-Muqaffa'?
Jarir and .. Farazdaq?
And Khansa throwing her poems at the gates of the cemetery
What does she fear if we burn tires
Sign communiqués
And destroy shops
And she knows that we have never been kings of war
But were kings of chatters
12.
What does Israel fear
from the beating of the drums
the tearing of clothes
and the scratching of cheeks
What does she fear
when she hears
the stories of `Ad and Thamud?
13.
We are in national comma
We did not receive
Since the times of conquest
a single mail
14.
We are a people of made of dough
The more Israel increases in her killing and terrorism
the more we increase in idleness and coldness
15.
A Smothering Dominion
A regional dialect that increases in ugliness
and a green union that grows in isolation
Summer trees, growing barren
And borders .. whenever the whim strikes
erase other borders
16.
Israel should slaughter us, and why not?
She should erase Hisham, Ziyad and ar-Rashid, and why not?
[Why not?] and the Banu Taghlab lusting after their women
[Why not?] and Banu Mazen lusting after their slave boys
[Why not?] and Banu Adnan dropping their trousers to their knees
debating .. necking and .. the lips!
17.
What should Israel fear from some of al-Arab
When they became Yehuda???
QANA. la barbarie frappe à nouveau!
..who chooses to stay, when all the rest have left
to the brave men and women who lend a helping hand for nothing in return
to the volunteers who risk their lives every hour of every day to rescue what remains
we say
THANK YOU.
you are our true heroes.
Olmert : killing UN monitors a mistake
