" صباح الخير لكل ماروني في وطنيته، وأرتذوكسي في إيمانه ، وشيعي في محنته وسني في حياته، ودرزي في صموده وأرمني في مثابرته ..."
"صباح الخير أيها اللبنان ..."، الجميع حاقد ومتعصب ،فجميعنا معا نصلب المسيح كل يوم بكره لندافع عن المسيحية ، وكلنا ننقسم على القرآن بإسم نصرة المسلمين ... فلا وحدة تجمعنا ولا إلفة تحضننا حتى بات لبنان اليوم " يكفر" والانبياء نادمون على نبوتهم وكلنا يُنشد " أنا لبناني "...
ونحن ايتام هذا الوطن..كاللقطاء تائهين ..ترى ما هو ذنبنا؟؟
ذنبنا أننا حالمون ، نعشق الحرية ، نثور على الباطل ، ونحن غارقون بين الظلمة والنهار...
ذنبنا أننا نحلم بوطن ..لا ليس كوطن " أفلاطون" ولكن وطن العيش بكرامة ولو بحدها الادنى وطن نسعى من اجله
وطن الحرية حرية الرأي والتعبير حرية الفكر والتفكير... ذنبنا ان حلمنا هو لبنان لبنان الرسالة لا الحصص والمحاصصات...
لبنان الوحدة لا التفرقة ذنبنا اننا نرفض التبعية ووراثة التبعية السياسية ذنبنا اننا لا نستطيع منعكم من توريث زعاماتكم ولا نملك حتى منعكم من جعلنا ارثا لورثتكم ذنبنا اننا نحلم بالعيش احرار فأنا مازلت مقتنعة بأنني ولدت حرة فما اعظم ذنبي ذنبنا أننا نعيش كل يوم من " حلاوة الروح"...
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Lebanon is best in the region – that is the record.
It has by far the best record in terms of openness and ability to participate in the Middle East in terms of record over the past 60 years. Turkey is ahead to day – but it had years under military dictators – and heavy media censorship – for significant periods over the last 60 years.
Lebanon leaves in the dust the apartheid states of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Bahrain, the ”Jewish state’ in the south or anywhere else you care to mention.
Just consider the ‘Jewish state’ (in the geographic region to which equally valid claims exist for at least 3 significant communities – Orthodox Christian Palestinians, Jews & Sunni Palestinians: That is a state that says that those born in the country but of the “wrong” community are barred – yes barred! – from living in their own country and are confined to refugee camps in neighboring states.
The equivalent scenario would be were Lebanon to have barred large parts of its shiia or Druze or Sunni or Orthodox community to neighbor-state refugee camps – because they were the “wrong” race/religion/community.
That is a repulsive thought.
When Israelis (of Orthodox or Sunni background) try to walk back home, they are shot at by the IDF. Killed for trying to return home! And it isn’t even news – its been going on since the 1940s and getting no better. In Nazareth and Haifa and Jaffa – senior officials openly strategize in terms that may have made sense in 1890s Europe, make no sense in the global society of the 21st century.
If the Orthodox and Sunni subjects of the ‘Jewish state’ happen to live in the Israeli territories of Judea, Samaria, alquds and Gaza, they collectively put behind walls bigger than the Berlin Wall and are searched and humiliated daily if they want to travel five kilometers from Beit Lahem or Beit Jalla to attend church in Jerusalem.
Totally repulsive. Lebanon has by far the best record in the region – but the region’s record is so poor. The challenge in the wake of Tunisia and Egypt, is for Lebanon to stay up with the best in the region...
