Happy Birthday !! to Sherlock Hommos

Today ,
I became sixty and my grey-hair too….

Two consolations I have still kept :
that I am 6 weeks older than the state of Israel
and I am about 5 years younger than Mick Jagger,
than Bob Dylan and Nayef Hawatmeh......


In 1956…… when I was 8 years old,
I heard the name of Port-Said,
so I asked my father where Port-Said was ?
and he told me , in Egypt
and that France, England and Israel have attacked it,
because they wanted to re-occupy the Suez Canal.
So I asked my father where the Suez-Canal was ??
and he answered “ also in Egypt”.

At that age of 8,
I had already concluded that this world is not perfect,
and that some countries want to devour the others.
and they called all this " the human nature " .


At the age of 10,
The US-Marines landed in the Lebanon to stop the (re) union
of Lebanon with Syria and Egypt…….
Eisenhower and Golda Meier did not like this (re)union.
And they called it "intervention on behalf of a friendly-regime "

At the age of 20,
Israel attacked Jordan, Syria and Egypt
and stole Jerusalem with Bethlehem.
And called it “self-defence”.

At the age of 27,
The dogs of Israel and of the USA , created a civil-war
in the Lebanon just to physically get rid of the Palestinians-refugees.
And called it “defending the identity of the Lebanon”

At the age of 34,
Israel invaded the Lebanon bombed and encircled Beirut
and sent the Palestinian out of Lebanon towards Syria,
Yemen and Tunisia.
And called it “operation safe-Galilee”


At the age of 40,
The pro-Israel and fascists militias in the Lebanon
fought against each other because they could not
find any Palestinian to slaughter anymore .
And called it “the war of Liberation from Syria ”

At the age of 55 ,
George Bush went to my Iraq looking for
the "Weapons of Mass Distraction"
and found only " the Mother of all Battles".
and they called it "operation Iraqi-Freedom"

At the age of 58
Israel has bombed my Beirut because
the Lebanese-freedom-fighters
did kidnap 2 Israeli-soldiers in uniform……and on duty.
And called it “global war on terrorism”


Today at the age of sixty,
I ask you , whether there is any difference between,
being a Lebanese or being a Palestinian , an Iraqi
or being simply any other Arab ??.

Since the Seventh-century ,
all the Arabs are sharing the same fate ,
and I also shared it……..for the last sixty years, only.

Raja Ibrahim Khalil Chemayel
an Arab

PS:
Must I think and act differently
for the next sixty years ???