@Sachinettiyil And that is exactly what every Christian on this planet should do. When you are fortunate enough to have such a blessing, you should never let it go.
@BecharaGerges أحدُ أفضل المهرّجين في صفوف "المقاومة" المزعومة التي لا يستطيع أحدٌ هزيمتها. مهرّجٌ حقيقي، شأنه شأن جميع أفراد هذه العصبة من الحمقى الذين لم يدركوا بعد أن كبيرَ حمقاهم يرقد تحت التراب على عمق ستة أقدام.
@GermanosPeter بيتر، لقد انتهى أمرهم تمامًا، ولا أمل لهم في العودة. لقد استقرّ بهم المطاف في مزبلة التاريخ حيث مكانهم الطبيعي. أما حالهم اليوم فمزيج من البؤس والعبث، إلى درجة تبدو معها تصرفاتهم وكأنها مقتطفات من كوميديا هزلية رخيصة.
@karimbitar Monsieur Bitar, juste pour vous éclairer, Joshua Landis était un fermant admirateur de Bachar El Assad et surtout de Asma et l’un de leurs "portes paroles" officieux.
@NataliaInMotion It has been hundreds of years that these barbarians have come and gone, while we have remained here all along—and in the end, history has relegated them to its own trash heap.
@NataliaInMotion And above all—above all—what you forgot to mention, and what is most important in this devastation that we endured, is that we remained for 100 days under shelling, under bombs, and under destruction, and none of us accepted to leave Achrafieh. This is the meaning of resistance.
On this day, we remember the Hundred Days War (July 1–October 8, 1978)
For nearly 100 days, Christian areas of East Beirut endured relentless shelling and siege as Lebanese forces fought against Syrian military forces operating under the Arab Deterrent Force. Homes, churches, hospitals, and neighborhoods were devastated, and countless civilians paid the price.
Their resilience became a symbol of the determination to defend their communities despite overwhelming odds.
#NataliaInMotion
@hesamorouji Vice President Vance’s geopolitical horizon seems to end at the Ohio state line. Fortunately, Marco Rubio appears to be one of the few adults left in the room. Considering what’s at stake for America and the free world, may the Lord protect him.
@clashreport Vice President Vance’s geopolitical horizon seems to end at the Ohio state line. Fortunately, Marco Rubio appears to be one of the few adults left in the room. Considering what’s at stake for America and the free world, may the Lord protect him.
Only six days after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Alexander Haig, then U.S. Secretary of State, wrote a letter to President Ronald Reagan outlining what America's objectives in Lebanon should be.
And what were those objectives? Encouraging Israeli domination? Fomenting civil war? Further weakening the Lebanese state? That is what leftist and Islamist propaganda would have us believe.
Except there was nothing of the sort. This is what America's top diplomat had in mind: (1) creating a strong Lebanese government; (2) linking an Israeli withdrawal to a Syrian withdrawal in order to secure both; and (3) ending the PLO's position as a state within a state and making it accountable to Lebanon's legitimate authorities.
That was essentially it. In a nutshell: All foreign forces should leave, and Lebanon should have a functional, sovereign state.
Darn, these imperialists are evil! Right? Right.
@karimbitar You cited Michael Young, so expectations are now appropriately calibrated. No wonder the conversation can’t rise above clichés when archaic leftist ideology is still doing the thinking. Reality remains available, should you wish to visit it.
In 17 years, 2006-2023, Israel almost didn't kill a single Lebanese civilian, while Hezbollah killed more than 800 of its own people. Read that twice.
Israel is not in the business of killing Lebanese for the sake of killing Lebanese.
Between the end of the 2006 war and October 7, 2023, while Hezbollah held its fire on that front, 20 to 30 Lebanese died from leftover cluster duds, in addition to 3 soldiers and 1 journalist in a single unnecessary boarder incident between LAF and IDF.
17 years, and Israel barely touched a Lebanese civilian.
Then Hezbollah broke its own restraint on October 8, 2023, dragging the country into a war nobody voted for, and the doors of hell opened. Everything that followed traces back to that single unilateral decision, including the latest deaths.
Tragically, the 17 years restraint was never Hezbollah protecting Lebanon from Israel. It was Hezbollah occupied elsewhere, killing Lebanese for their own ideological and strategic reasons.
In those same 17 years of calm on the Israeli front, Hezbollah killed more than 800 Lebanese civilians at home, through assassinations, car bomb attacks, and engineered clashes in Tripoli, Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and the northern towns and villages of Akkar. I’m counting only civilians, and I’m not including the hundreds who were killed in the explosion of Beirut Port in Aug, 2020.
Israel held its fire for seventeen years and Hezbollah still managed to kill its own people at 25 to 30 times the rate.
Hezbollah's weapons have killed Lebanese twice over. Once when they dragged the country into wars with Israel it never chose, and once when they turned those same weapons inward to impose civil war and political bloodshed on their own people.
Precision matters as much as grief, especially when grief gets weaponized into a casus belli.
Lebanon and Lebanese need to stop grieving in the dark and start looking at the numbers, because the math is not complicated.
Hezbollah is the problem. It always was.
@Hbounassif الإستاذ اكثر شي مشتاق يغرّد بعد مرّا شي قصيدة لَ حافظ الاسد أمام مؤتمر البعث القطري. بُكاء على الأطلال، و لحسن حظ هذا البلد الجميل لم يبقَ لهؤلاء الحثالة إلا الدموع والحسرة.