A painter should paint and a singer should sing......

Should we dislike Vincent Van Gogh
because he has cut off his ear ??

Should we disregard Alexander the great
because he was bisexual ??

Should we disrespect Napoleon
because he was the shortest playboy ??

Should we exclude Georges Sand
because he was a woman ??

Should we dishonour Salah el Deen
because he was a Kurd ??

Should we hang  Bashar Al Assad
because he is a dictator ??


Give me Jerusalem, first
and then I shall give you Bashar !!

(and who ever wants to teach democracy
must be , first of all , a democrat
or at least act democratically )

Raja
anti-false-spring-writer

Where to put it ???

The UN has its own priorities




 

I am not a professor in international law
nor I am a cartographers.

But if and when Mahmoud Abbas , by miracle,
shall get a Palestinian State ,
where shall he put it ?? ( or where to squeeze it /)
The only place available would be:
only between two Israeli-illegal-settlements.

Is it not correct that any description of any state,on this planet,
would start by defining its   borders ??
and secondly defining its political shape , or form.


Where shall we place The State of Palestine ,
when all places are occupied,or shrinking  or simply stolen ??

I would suggest to place it ,somewhere,
inside the building of the United Nations,
between the personnel-entrance and the parking garage.
(that is,  if it would not disturb much the Israelis)


Never mind what I write ,
after all the State of Israel, in 1948,
has started only with 11% of what it is today.

Sherlock Hommos

The children of Israeli-pilots

A faceless murderer

As I wrote recently ,
I am still spending vacations in my Hometown
up in the mountains of Lebanon......Bhamdoun.

Among our numerous vineyards and the fig trees
we still find CLUSTER-Bombs spread around,
by the Israeli Army.

I got ,suddenly , one of my bright ideas :

I shall seek the help of an expert
and pick up 3 or 4 of those Cluster-bombs.

I shall pack them very-well and then smuggle then
into Israel and plant them in some school
where the children of Israeli-pilots do attend.

Would that be unfair ??
I think not , and I shall leave a note saying
" please return those bombs to your fathers 
which they have left back, in our  vineyards "

I might be arrested for writing this,
but, I do not mind if one would also arrest ,as well,
the Pilots who dropped those same bombs.......

Raja Chemayel

Some things do not exist but some thing you do not see

The NATO nor the US
did not stop the massacre of SABRAS+CHATILLA

How often , we heard
that NATO is operating in Libya ?

Did you see any of NATO' s planes or soldiers ??
Try to recall any time you did see any footage of such.
My question is :
what if it were only the USA bombing Libya ??
how can we tell the difference , if any ??


How often , we heard
about MASSACRES in Libya or in Syria ??

Did you see any ??
I did not...............

What if those " Massacres " never took place ??
and what if ,
the NATO is only there to refuel the US War Planes ??


I can speak about what I see
and not of what I have heard !!

Raja Chemayel
 

Who would not like to replace him ??

The most likely candidate to replace him.

Colonel Qaddafi ,
has had 136 Billion ( Milliard ) US Dollars,
in cash , deposited in several banks..........

Who would not like to take his place ???


Mother Teresa ?
or
Nicolas Sarkozy ?
or
Al Capone ?
or
Bob Geldorf
or
David Cameron ??
or
 Bernard Madoff

It is not a religious comflict !!

Christian-Arabs also wear a veil
it is our culture....!!

There are more Arab-Christians than there are Israelis
There are more Arab-Christians than there are  Jews , world-wide.

The Western-Christians who anyhow support Israel , are practically
supporting Jews against Christians or even Jews against Christianity.


The rare cases when the Western-Christians
did help the Arab-Christians , is when they ask from the Arab-Christians
to become sand-bags to protect Israel.(Lebanon' s war 1975-1995)

Therefore my dear readers ( and moles, also ) :
it is not a religious conflict,
as much as it is a Clash-of two civilisations.


The latest example would be Syria,today,
where the Christians who are siding with that anti-Israel-regime
and those opposition being fanatic-Moslem's who are ultimately
serving the (Christian) West which serves ultimately (Jewish) Israel.
And all this is charade is called "Democracy" or the Arab-Spring.....


We the Christians of the East , were already Arabs
before Mohammad , Omar , Ali ,  before Richard Lion' s hart ,
and before Lawrence of Arabia.

We shall not erase our identity , just to please
religious fa naticism helped by Wertern-pseudo-democracy.

Syria with all its shortcomings, is a fortress,
our fortress................and democracy can wait !!


Raja Chemayel
an Arab-christian who is a christian-Arab
 

Between cluster bombs and my childhood

a warning sign for cluster-bombs in my fields

I am on holidays in Lebanon
in my hometown of Bhamdoun.

I go down the hill terraces to pick up
the grapes and the figs,
for which Bhamdoun always was famous.

In 1982 and 1983 the Israeli army occupied us
with the help of the fascists-forces (so called-Christians)
and after Israelis left , they handed it over to the
other fascists-forces (so called-Druzes).

The result was a whole scale massacre in
my hometown........
That is history now, .............I hope,

Nonetheless I pick up each sunrise my fresh grapes
among Israeli-cluster-bombs.

We own a small vineyard ,
in front of which are the cluster-bombs (still to be removed)
and behind it is a villa built by a Kuwaiti rich-man......

This seems as an absurd and surreal picture,
but it is true and I am standing in the middle of it.

The Israelis have left 4 million cluster bombs in the Lebanon
and about a couple of hundreds are still in my hometown-vineyards.

Raja
on vacation....in my Paradise
15.09.2011

PS :
Since 2006 about 400 victims lost their lives because
of those left over cluster bombs.....all over Lebanon.
That is 7.5% of the victims of 911
If you add the other victims of the 2006 war,
the total would be 50% of  the 911.....