The above picture comes from my set up “No Truce in Beirut, Solely Virgins” (right here). Has Lebanon had a checkered historical past with the Palestinians? Certainly we now have. Have we paid an exorbitant value within the course of? We now have, certainly. Does this deter us from being human? Judging by how the Lebanese (properly, most of them I believe although no statistics can be found) no, it doesn’t. I’ll nonetheless allow you to ponder about that marketing campaign on the streets about Lebanon not wanting struggle (right here and right here) and I ask once more who positioned them and with what cash and who’s funding this.
Nonetheless this doesn’t deter us from straightforward speak and empty gestures and ineffective political discourse. The 2 photographs above come from an manifestation that occurred in Beirut. The story was instructed to us (as a category) by our Arabic trainer. Subsequently I’ve no particular dates for it. However the gist of the story is that the start of the manifestation the slogan being shouted was “fal yaskot wa3d Belfour” (could the Belfour promise be annulled) and on the finish of the manifestation? “fal yaskot wa7ad min fow2” (could somebody from above be toppled). When you say these two sentences aloud, they form of rhyme, particularly by way of an Indian phone {that a} manifestation turns into. The purpose is, individuals simply needed to hitch the motion, not caring what the message was.
And but these are “malayeen” (the tens of millions) that singer Julia Boutros deplored in her music (right here). And once more, Lebanon and Beirut have been the hub of the pro-Palestinian motion. So if this was the hub, what to say of the Others? Those that, not solely didn’t do something, however have been in tacit help.
