Lebanon
(cartoon by Mazen Kerbage)
I haven’t watched a news channel in a very long time, I usually stick to reading the news online. But today my dad had the TV on Al-Jazeera, and I couldn’t believe how much more horrible the situation in Lebanon looked than it did in photographs.
Masked gunmen… Blockades in the middle of the streets… It’s really horrible.
I can’t believe that Lebanon is still heavily divided- “Sunni living quarters”, “Shia living quarters”, “Christian living quarters”, “Druze living quarters”… they seem to have a million divisions. And I cannot relate to that.
I was young when the Lebanese Civil War ended, but the thought of it still really scares me. Beirut still has bullet wounds in its buildings… it isn’t time again for another civil war. It’s never time again for that. Let’s hope this passes “3ala kheir”.
Hareega
May 9, 2008 @ 2:40 am
The Lebanese have not learned the lessons from the civil war. Those who were leading the militias during civil war continued to lead the country afterwards. They did not forgive or forget.
Talal
May 9, 2008 @ 3:29 am
Everyday I become prouder and prouder of being an Arab