Tell him to go home !!

Philip the Arab,
Emperor of Rome

What is an Arab ?
Who are the Arabs ?

Today we are 21 countries-states-kingdoms and Princedoms

None of them has drawn its own borders
and not even two adjacent Arab-states have drawn
their in-between-common-borders.
All and each Arab-border-line was drawn
by France or by Britain .

The exception is Bahrain,
whose borders were drawn by nature itself .

The next-exception would be Palestine
where Israel is playing and cheating with the border-lines
which were originally French-English, anyhow.

Otherwise everywhere it is a classical case of
post-colonialist-border-lines.

My grand father would have used a Turkish-passport,
but there were no passports in his time ,
neither did he travel anywhere.

My father went to study in the USA as a Syrian-citizen
and by the time he finished his studies, Lebanon was born
out of our mother-Syria ,
so my father became a Lebanese-citizen.
My father served in the Free-French-Army in Beirut
and my mother was born in 1921 in the Lebanon
so she has the right to a French-citizenship.


What ever passports we carry , we are all Arabs !!
and my broad-family carries 8 different passports
and live on four continents............
My children have 3 different passports.....
and I have 2.

But , what is an Arab and who is an Arab ??

You may read 10 books explaining what is Arab.
or simply see what I say , very shortly hereafter :


Arabs existed before Islam and even before Christianity
they share the three monotheistic-religions
they share common borders ( which they never did draw)
they share one language
they share one history
(since the seventh century ,the same enemies and same invaders)
they share one culture
(which they made by themselves and adapted from others)

You may call us :

one People , one culture, one Nation, one Land
and Palestine is our Geographical-hart
and Jerusalem is the first-capital of our faith.....


Should you meet an Israeli-citizen
who was only yesterday a Polish-citizen or a Russian
or a Peruvian or an Ethiopian-citizen,
tell him , please , to go home !!!



Raja Chemayel
an Arab
11 July 2008


PS.
We invaded Spain ........and left it 500 years later
better, wiser, richer, more tolerant and more enlightened.