What a way to begin a blog.
I've been reading about the attacks on Lebanon for the past couple days now, my reaction going from shock to denial to anger, back to shock, denial and anger about the UN Security Council's refusal to do anything that would resemble them doing their job. I'm deeply worried about friends and family of friends in Lebanon and Palestine, furious at what was probably the U.S.'s call to do nothing while homes are destroyed and people are maimed and killed. The fact that there is nothing that citizens can do, it seems, to help, to protest, is the most infuriating part. There are no petitions to sign, no charities to give to, no protest songs to sing, only dirges to mourn the destruction of the land of cedar and Fairuz.
If anyone knows of something that can be done, short of impeachment (Lord knows I'm down for that one, make du'a, people), let me know, I'll happily do it if I can, and beg all in the blogosphere to do the same. Creatively, I'm a bit worn out (working on a book, more on that later), so I need ideas, I want a way out of feeling sorry for people, but not being able to help. I just hate this sitting by when a beautiful land is being destroyed for the sake of one man. ÂÂ
We've gone from an eye for an eye to a thousand eyes for an eye. And we wonder why no one can see. ÂÂ
I wonder what cedar trees smell like when they burn.
Are you ok with Syria-backed militia (Hizbollah) lording over the Southern border of another nation-state (Lebanon)?
I'm not. As such, Hizbollah needs to be removed.
I don't agree that Israel's tactics are working, or even make sense. Hitting Lebanese civilians (and not attacking Hizbollah lands directly) is assinine. It makes no sense to me.
Anyway aside from Lebanon, welcome Nakia. I feel that I'm a refugee from other Muslim sites that I feel comfortable with. MWU went down, AltMuslim is on a slowdown...hopefully the reader blogs here will keep PI going with lots of steam...and permanent, too. I look forward to more writing from you!
- A Salafi in worship, a Sufi in society, a Secularist in government.
Ali, my sentiments exactly. Hezbollah needs to be removed, but bombing civilians and infrastructure is never OK. I'm afraid that the bombings would create a great recruting tool for Hezbollah, only continuing the cycle of official terrorism leading to unofficial terrorism, and around again.
Ginan Rauf
That is a fantasy. Nothing will change until the Palestinian issue
is solved. They removed the PlO and got Hamas. They got Hizbullah
in Lebanon. This looks like it's going to be a long protracted colonial
war as Tariq Ali writes in the Guardian. You seem oblivious of what is going along with Hizbullah, you might want to check out the number of civilians slaughtered compared to militants. This is not
merely savage. It is short sighted and ineffective.
Are you suggesting that Hezbollah is a benign force in Lebanon, Ginan? That they be left in place? I would say civilian attacks need to stop NOW, and the removal of Hezbollah should take high priority. It's possible that things could change without a full resolution of the Palestinian conflict, but you're right, a permanent resolution would require solving the "Palestinian issue".
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