Welcome friends

Hello, Salem, Shalom, Namaste,...

This is my 1st blog, ever, just couldn't shut up anymore, hope it will make a difference.

This blog is dedicated to all the Lebanese bloggers out there, especially lebanesebloggers.

I want to thank you bloggers for clearing my mind from the fog of war, without your humor, and humanity, I might have still supported this stupid war.

Yes, shamefully admitted, 2 days into the war I was still convinced that if we kick hard enough, the Lebanese government would finally get it's act together and remove the Hezbollah and their rockets form our borders, and the rest of the blah blah blah ... provided by the Israeli government and media.

Since then I read in the Lebanese blogs (my favorite past time the last week). And could see the shift from a week ago when the blogs were against Hezbollah and understood Israeli position; some actually were pro-Israelis. A week later, most hate us, and want HA to kick our asses. I've learnt a lot about Lebanon, about March 14, about a fledgling democracy, about ethnic division, about the fear of civil war.

The only metaphor I am left with for the “war” is of beating a raped woman on the pretext that she cheated on you. It is an ugly metaphor, but reality is uglier still.

I am still angry with the Hezbollah, as by attacking us the last 6 years after we left Lebanon they gave every right wing Israeli demagogue the perfect rhetoric answer on why we should never leave Gaza and since the Hamas is now busy playing Hezbollah B with the sending rockets at civilians it ruins years of effort convincing the Israeli public opinion to retreat to the 67 border and the removal of the settlements in the process. The option of having daily rockets thrown at Tel-Aviv is simply shadowing everything achieved so far.

Let’s stop this war together

Gig