The history of Palestine and Lebanon has witnessed many events. When I read the name Ariel Sharon, the first thing that came to my mind was the Sabra and Shatila massacre that took place in 1982… and how I used to see the bodies on television in some reports, memoirs, and even in clips of national songs when I was young.
Israel is a cancer in the world, and it should not have been in the Middle East.
Leave aside all agreements, signatures, and normalization.. nothing is useful anymore… Fight Israel and drive it out from here before it finishes us all.
Moses and Jesus 🩸blood line lands. My grandfather “Abou Moussa Girius Nahkleh , from Moses blood line , son of Sabra Levi, from Eyknea Mount Hermon, got married with “ Adla Abujamra” daughter of the last king of Golan 👑
I've known Lebanese Phalangists. I was even friends with one for awhile in college, whose parents sent him to America to avoid the civil war in the 70s. He was Christian, he complained about the Israeli incursion in 78 or so, but four years later I ended the friendship in a memorable manner.
He started dating a Nicaraguan girl, whose parents were exiles of the old Somoza regime. He eventually married her. My Lebanese friend started referring to Palestinians as animals, and then made the mistake of inviting ME to some sort of prenuptial dinner where I met HER family.
He may as well have invited a Sandinista. They sat there, assuming from my white skin and blue eyes that I was a typical Reaganite American, and started saying disgusting things about their own country and people, while my friend chimed in with diatribes about Palestinians.
I flew into a towering rage, literally seeing red, cussed them out in the fluent Mexican Spanish I spoke at the time with lots of colorful English words thrown in, and left. If I'd had an automatic weapon I would have gone to prison.
We know what the answer is to bring peace and sovereignty, and that is to muzzle, disempower or banish Israel. After 8 decades, Israel remains the aggressor. It starts wars, subverts democracy, assassinates at will and grabs land that doesnt belong to it. It is eternally jealous and will never allow its neighbours to prosper. Igniting civil war is its go to strategy - the divide and conquer it learnt all about through its paymasters in the West. Those paymasters have proven their bias and ignorance to this day. US malignancy is the last thing the region needs.
Here we are again, Western wars with Israel as the front guy pretending it acts to stop a Muslim invasion of Europe and beyond. What rubbish! Truth, it is an incestuous alliance of wealthy states who want to keep their fingers in the pie, and retain footholds in former empires. That is the dynamic being opposed by the rightful landowners who are smarter but not as well resourced as the plunderers.
I wish I had all the answers and the power to right all the wrongs. The suffering is too unbearable. We can only hope some of those incestuous allies get too busy in the coming months shoring up their faulty economies, and dont have time to waste on Israel's self-indulgent spats.
Thanks for this Abu Alya, will read later. Ironic that Sèvres was also where the treaty to carve up Türkiye after WW1 was signed, with Istanbul under a regime that would have left it as a sort of Dubai or Hong Kong arrangement, and territory elsewhere given over to Greeks and even Italians. A disaster that was overturned only thanks to the War of Independence and the Treaty of Lausanne. Sèvres Syndrome is still used to some extent as a name for the Turkish concern at neocon ideas to cut it up for whatever latest project these types are into in “Middle East”.
It’s interesting to see you talk about your Lebanese friends. Some of the Christians I knew in the south, they aligned with Hizbollah, at lease in political arenas and tolerated resistance. Certainly it was different in the north w/ more influence of the French Maronite blend. But the United States itself also entered the story for which, when I interviewed the embassy in 2015, I believe, they were direct with me: they give money directly to the Lebanese Army and bypass the political front, therefore they own the Lebanese army, as a result, we see the LAF, instead of negotiating better with Hz to defend Lebanese borders and to protect Palestinians within Lebanon, we see Israel able to do whatever at wants by playing the game you so deftly explain through this piece. It’s a heartbreaking realization, those who are ultimately fighting for the land & yes maybe funded by America’s “enemy,” are considered more of a threat to their own people than the outside forces killing them and experimenting with weapons. The attitudes toward resistance must change.
Yes where we are today came about to a significant extent through the Oslo accords , the betrayal by PLO or rather Al Fatah and Arafat and others , of the 1st Intifada , a genuine fearless revolt by the generation born and grown up after the Nakba. PA is the continuing abomination the very embodiment of that continuing betrayal in most toxic traitorous obnoxious manner till today .
The heart bleeds to feel and know the whole reality.
Read Abu Alya’s searing criticism and the presentation of this reality of many decades since the 1950’s and what leads to the trauma , tragedy and the horror in Palestine- Lebanon and the whole region -west asia in our present , today.
Thank you for sharing this essential piece of the puzzle and for showing a side of history which most have no idea of.
Gaza, Palestine and now Lebanon have shown to the world a reality which for too long had been distorted and obscured, and make it realize the lies which for too long it was made to be too afraid to confront.
Long live Palestine and its glorious people and nation.
The more I learn, the more it seems these Europhiles/Orientalists are everywhere, Iran monarchists, Cuban gusanos, Japanese ultra-nationalists, etc.
I always thought it was only Western infiltration that morphed the Lebanese government. I had no idea that the people in charge were plagued with the same brainworm.
I was in genocide(1999-2013) in my age of since born-13 , it was hard as a kid for me but we passed it now , now there are oppressions towards our community by the majority in my own land, and we are facing it and passing it in our daily life
Reading this and your father’s time and all remind me of my father and grandfather’s time , they must have faced a lot of issues.
It’s hard this in cruel world , no humanity at all , powerful people always sucking the blood of innocence for their own needs!
The history of Palestine and Lebanon has witnessed many events. When I read the name Ariel Sharon, the first thing that came to my mind was the Sabra and Shatila massacre that took place in 1982… and how I used to see the bodies on television in some reports, memoirs, and even in clips of national songs when I was young.
Israel is a cancer in the world, and it should not have been in the Middle East.
Leave aside all agreements, signatures, and normalization.. nothing is useful anymore… Fight Israel and drive it out from here before it finishes us all.
“A war within us” is the perfect title.
Because that’s exactly where the hardest battles tend to happen.
You forgot
#GOLAN Heights UNRes242/67
Moses and Jesus 🩸blood line lands. My grandfather “Abou Moussa Girius Nahkleh , from Moses blood line , son of Sabra Levi, from Eyknea Mount Hermon, got married with “ Adla Abujamra” daughter of the last king of Golan 👑
Hibrahim Afandy Aboujamra
#magdalshames #tnacli
#HibrahimAfandyAboujamra
https://vimeo.com/199853808
The loudest wars don’t always make the most noise.
Sometimes they live quietly inside us in what we accept, what we ignore, and what we’re too afraid to confront.
This felt less like an article, more like a mirror.
Oooffff this line habibi, “Sometimes they live quietly inside us in what we accept, what we ignore, and what we’re too afraid to confront.” —hits
I've known Lebanese Phalangists. I was even friends with one for awhile in college, whose parents sent him to America to avoid the civil war in the 70s. He was Christian, he complained about the Israeli incursion in 78 or so, but four years later I ended the friendship in a memorable manner.
He started dating a Nicaraguan girl, whose parents were exiles of the old Somoza regime. He eventually married her. My Lebanese friend started referring to Palestinians as animals, and then made the mistake of inviting ME to some sort of prenuptial dinner where I met HER family.
He may as well have invited a Sandinista. They sat there, assuming from my white skin and blue eyes that I was a typical Reaganite American, and started saying disgusting things about their own country and people, while my friend chimed in with diatribes about Palestinians.
I flew into a towering rage, literally seeing red, cussed them out in the fluent Mexican Spanish I spoke at the time with lots of colorful English words thrown in, and left. If I'd had an automatic weapon I would have gone to prison.
We know what the answer is to bring peace and sovereignty, and that is to muzzle, disempower or banish Israel. After 8 decades, Israel remains the aggressor. It starts wars, subverts democracy, assassinates at will and grabs land that doesnt belong to it. It is eternally jealous and will never allow its neighbours to prosper. Igniting civil war is its go to strategy - the divide and conquer it learnt all about through its paymasters in the West. Those paymasters have proven their bias and ignorance to this day. US malignancy is the last thing the region needs.
Here we are again, Western wars with Israel as the front guy pretending it acts to stop a Muslim invasion of Europe and beyond. What rubbish! Truth, it is an incestuous alliance of wealthy states who want to keep their fingers in the pie, and retain footholds in former empires. That is the dynamic being opposed by the rightful landowners who are smarter but not as well resourced as the plunderers.
I wish I had all the answers and the power to right all the wrongs. The suffering is too unbearable. We can only hope some of those incestuous allies get too busy in the coming months shoring up their faulty economies, and dont have time to waste on Israel's self-indulgent spats.
Israel 🇮🇱 #Netanyahu just keep stealing and killing for the “greater Israel “
Thanks for this Abu Alya, will read later. Ironic that Sèvres was also where the treaty to carve up Türkiye after WW1 was signed, with Istanbul under a regime that would have left it as a sort of Dubai or Hong Kong arrangement, and territory elsewhere given over to Greeks and even Italians. A disaster that was overturned only thanks to the War of Independence and the Treaty of Lausanne. Sèvres Syndrome is still used to some extent as a name for the Turkish concern at neocon ideas to cut it up for whatever latest project these types are into in “Middle East”.
It’s interesting to see you talk about your Lebanese friends. Some of the Christians I knew in the south, they aligned with Hizbollah, at lease in political arenas and tolerated resistance. Certainly it was different in the north w/ more influence of the French Maronite blend. But the United States itself also entered the story for which, when I interviewed the embassy in 2015, I believe, they were direct with me: they give money directly to the Lebanese Army and bypass the political front, therefore they own the Lebanese army, as a result, we see the LAF, instead of negotiating better with Hz to defend Lebanese borders and to protect Palestinians within Lebanon, we see Israel able to do whatever at wants by playing the game you so deftly explain through this piece. It’s a heartbreaking realization, those who are ultimately fighting for the land & yes maybe funded by America’s “enemy,” are considered more of a threat to their own people than the outside forces killing them and experimenting with weapons. The attitudes toward resistance must change.
Yes where we are today came about to a significant extent through the Oslo accords , the betrayal by PLO or rather Al Fatah and Arafat and others , of the 1st Intifada , a genuine fearless revolt by the generation born and grown up after the Nakba. PA is the continuing abomination the very embodiment of that continuing betrayal in most toxic traitorous obnoxious manner till today .
The heart bleeds to feel and know the whole reality.
Read Abu Alya’s searing criticism and the presentation of this reality of many decades since the 1950’s and what leads to the trauma , tragedy and the horror in Palestine- Lebanon and the whole region -west asia in our present , today.
This is what i wrote restacking your post
Thank you for sharing this essential piece of the puzzle and for showing a side of history which most have no idea of.
Gaza, Palestine and now Lebanon have shown to the world a reality which for too long had been distorted and obscured, and make it realize the lies which for too long it was made to be too afraid to confront.
Long live Palestine and its glorious people and nation.
Free Palestine.
The way you connected us all and the events and what they produce....
The more I learn, the more it seems these Europhiles/Orientalists are everywhere, Iran monarchists, Cuban gusanos, Japanese ultra-nationalists, etc.
I always thought it was only Western infiltration that morphed the Lebanese government. I had no idea that the people in charge were plagued with the same brainworm.
Thanks for this excellent piece.
Excellent piece translated in French with pleasure here : https://zanzibar.substack.com/p/une-guerre-qui-est-en-nous
https://substack.com/@sandrawatfa/note/c-231601842?r=222jc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
This made me pause more than I expected.
The idea that the real conflict lives in our everyday choices what we question, what we ignore feels uncomfortably real.
Such an old history to today!!
I was in genocide(1999-2013) in my age of since born-13 , it was hard as a kid for me but we passed it now , now there are oppressions towards our community by the majority in my own land, and we are facing it and passing it in our daily life
Reading this and your father’s time and all remind me of my father and grandfather’s time , they must have faced a lot of issues.
It’s hard this in cruel world , no humanity at all , powerful people always sucking the blood of innocence for their own needs!
Just sucks😤.
Too tired to write any comment just now , but perhaps tommorow