i wonder what do you call war. it seems we have different interpretations for the same word.
are you aware of what is happening about a couple of kilometers further than your neighborhood in beirut? do you watch tv by any chance? are you hearing about villages burned with phosphor bombs in the south? and more than a hundred thousand people deplaced to beirut in 5 days? and more than 200 killed in 6 days? are you reciving these news? or they do not pass them on mtv? and all the infrastructure of the country? did you think about it? who do you think will have to pay for it? and reconstruct it? should they drop a bomb on your head to realize that is a war?
as for the elctricity, internet, phone, bread and fuel you're still finding, i advise strongly that you buy a lot of them. soon enough you'll be happy to find canned tuna in beirut. also, you should be aware that a lot of people don't have the luck to live in your neighborhood.
i didn't leave beirut and i'm not intending to leave. i am waiting to see if the price of salmon will go down because all the lebanese "bourgoisie" has left the country. if it does, it's great, i'll finally be able to taste it. even if it expired.
sorry to be "harsh", but i think we should all be aware of the massacre that is going on right now. i wish you safety for you and your family, and i hope your neighborhood like all the ones that are still "safe" will be spared by the 500 kilos bombs getting down on the southern suburbs.
Amazing blog. Reading your words, viewing your art, made the situation in Lebanon real for me in a way that the newspaper headlines never could. Perhaps blogs like yours are the answer, a way for us--people all over the world--to see each other *as* *people*, human beings who live and love and breathe and bleed. Not as Other, not as casualties of war or collateral damage, but people just like ourselves. Thank you for lighting a tiny candle in the darkness. Your work has touched me, moved me, educated me. And now I must think of what *I* can do. You have given me much to think about.
Hi Mazen, You probably won't remember me, I'm Francisco Lopez, from Argentina, and we had a little e-mail contact some time ago, over at the improvised music mailing list... Anyway, I just wanted to drop a line, but I don't really have anything to say. I would love to get there to play some music with you and the bombs...
I`m an argentinian cartoonist (yes, Lopez gave me your blog data)...I`m so sorry about this whole situation. In my case, I feel so bad as I`m part jewish and I have a lot of family in Israel. I hate politics that forces people to hate each other. I dont like Hezbolla (they have responsability in a bomb attack to a comunity jewish building in Buenos Aires, in 1994 where 86 argentinians died and noone was responsible for the bad situation of the palestinians in the west bank). Anyway, I dont like Israel policies either. And a lot of humans are in the middle of this chaos. Stop War, stop hezbollah, stop Olmert, stop bombs!!! I liked the blog very much!!
I`m an argentinian cartoonist (yes, Lopez gave me your blog data)...I`m so sorry about this whole situation. In my case, I feel so bad as I`m part jewish and I have a lot of family in Israel. I hate politics that forces people to hate each other. I dont like Hezbolla (they have responsability in a bomb attack to a comunity jewish building in Buenos Aires, in 1994 where 86 argentinians died and noone was responsible for the bad situation of the palestinians in the west bank). Anyway, I dont like Israel policies either. And a lot of humans are in the middle of this chaos. Stop War, stop hezbollah, stop Olmert, stop bombs!!! I liked the blog very much!!
It is nothing but a mere slogan to say "Resist" or "Resistance" without making it clear whom or what one is "resisting".
The people of Lebanon must clearly put the blame where it really lies - Hezbollah, and their Syrian and Iranian backers. If the Lebanese government and people either will not or cannot confront Hezbollah, then Israel has no choice but to go after Hezbollah itself in Lebanon, because the Lebanese government has proven to be a useless fiction which doesn't even have the minimum requisites of sovreignty, i.e. a monopoly of military force within it's own territory, since Hezbollah is apparently more powerful than the Lebanese government.
It is also important to distinguish morally between those organisations like Hezbollah, Hamas, etc., whose fundamental policy is to kill as many innocent civilians as possible, and the Israelis, who go out of their way to avoid civilian casualties at the risk or increasing their own military casualties. If the Arab and Islamic countries would clean up their own societies and quit allowing terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas to operate within their territories, then Israel wouldn't have to come in and do their clean-up work for them. Of course, since the Palestianian Arabs recently became the first people to voluntarily elect a terrorist organisation to lead them, one doesn't have much hope.
we shall try to resist also, resist forgetfullness, resist indiferance, resist intolerance, resist ignorance. and we hope you do feel us resisting... with you
all your comments but the political ones are welcome on this blog.
i think there is enough blogs where people are trying to kill each other with arguments. try to find one of them. for my part, this is -sadly for you- not my style.
if you're looking for ahmadinejad, this is not his blog. this blog is MY fucking blog. where nobody was arguing (until you appeared) about the right of israel to exist or not. to tell you more about MY style, shortly, I'll continue erasing all comments that I don't find appropriate on this blog.
if you're sad about it, go on blogger.com and open a blog. it is easy, you'll see. 3 easy steps that doesn't hurt the brain. i promise to post a link to it on my blog.
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dear tony s,
i wonder what do you call war. it seems we have different interpretations for the same word.
are you aware of what is happening about a couple of kilometers further than your neighborhood in beirut? do you watch tv by any chance?
are you hearing about villages burned with phosphor bombs in the south? and more than a hundred thousand people deplaced to beirut in 5 days? and more than 200 killed in 6 days? are you reciving these news? or they do not pass them on mtv?
and all the infrastructure of the country? did you think about it? who do you think will have to pay for it? and reconstruct it?
should they drop a bomb on your head to realize that is a war?
as for the elctricity, internet, phone, bread and fuel you're still finding, i advise strongly that you buy a lot of them. soon enough you'll be happy to find canned tuna in beirut.
also, you should be aware that a lot of people don't have the luck to live in your neighborhood.
i didn't leave beirut and i'm not intending to leave.
i am waiting to see if the price of salmon will go down because all the lebanese "bourgoisie" has left the country. if it does, it's great, i'll finally be able to taste it. even if it expired.
sorry to be "harsh", but i think we should all be aware of the massacre that is going on right now.
i wish you safety for you and your family, and i hope your neighborhood like all the ones that are still "safe" will be spared by the 500 kilos bombs getting down on the southern suburbs.
mazen
Amazing blog. Reading your words, viewing your art, made the situation in Lebanon real for me in a way that the newspaper headlines never could. Perhaps blogs like yours are the answer, a way for us--people all over the world--to see each other *as* *people*, human beings who live and love and breathe and bleed. Not as Other, not as casualties of war or collateral damage, but people just like ourselves. Thank you for lighting a tiny candle in the darkness. Your work has touched me, moved me, educated me. And now I must think of what *I* can do. You have given me much to think about.
Hi Mazer,
It is said in the IRA anthem: "No surrender is the warcry of the belfast brigade".
As i see this: "NO SURRENDER is the warcry of the Beirut Citizens".
Keep on playing, keep on resisting.
i have a dream,
if all resistants were like you,...
we would have had drawings all over the world...
MAGIC!
Rafaella
i have a dream,
if all resistants were like you,...
we would have had drawings all over the world...
MAGIC!
Rafaella
Keep it up
I hope for your great country peacefull future again
fakhere.Iran
Hi Mazen,
You probably won't remember me, I'm Francisco Lopez, from Argentina, and we had a little e-mail contact some time ago, over at the improvised music mailing list...
Anyway, I just wanted to drop a line, but I don't really have anything to say.
I would love to get there to play some music with you and the bombs...
our thoughts are with you all the way from bloomington, in, usa
what I see is a man saved by a nation's catastrophy.
I`m an argentinian cartoonist (yes, Lopez gave me your blog data)...I`m so sorry about this whole situation. In my case, I feel so bad as I`m part jewish and I have a lot of family in Israel. I hate politics that forces people to hate each other. I dont like Hezbolla (they have responsability in a bomb attack to a comunity jewish building in Buenos Aires, in 1994 where 86 argentinians died and noone was responsible for the bad situation of the palestinians in the west bank). Anyway, I dont like Israel policies either. And a lot of humans are in the middle of this chaos.
Stop War, stop hezbollah, stop Olmert, stop bombs!!!
I liked the blog very much!!
I`m an argentinian cartoonist (yes, Lopez gave me your blog data)...I`m so sorry about this whole situation. In my case, I feel so bad as I`m part jewish and I have a lot of family in Israel. I hate politics that forces people to hate each other. I dont like Hezbolla (they have responsability in a bomb attack to a comunity jewish building in Buenos Aires, in 1994 where 86 argentinians died and noone was responsible for the bad situation of the palestinians in the west bank). Anyway, I dont like Israel policies either. And a lot of humans are in the middle of this chaos.
Stop War, stop hezbollah, stop Olmert, stop bombs!!!
I liked the blog very much!!
tony s: get a grip.
Mazen: Wonderful work. My thoughts with you and your family, and everyone else in Lebanon.
It is nothing but a mere slogan to say "Resist" or "Resistance" without making it clear whom or what one is "resisting".
The people of Lebanon must clearly put the blame where it really lies - Hezbollah, and their Syrian and Iranian backers. If the Lebanese government and people either will not or cannot confront Hezbollah, then Israel has no choice but to go after Hezbollah itself in Lebanon, because the Lebanese government has proven to be a useless fiction which doesn't even have the minimum requisites of sovreignty, i.e. a monopoly of military force within it's own territory, since Hezbollah is apparently more powerful than the Lebanese government.
It is also important to distinguish morally between those organisations like Hezbollah, Hamas, etc., whose fundamental policy is to kill as many innocent civilians as possible, and the Israelis, who go out of their way to avoid civilian casualties at the risk or increasing their own military casualties. If the Arab and Islamic countries would clean up their own societies and quit allowing terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas to operate within their territories, then Israel wouldn't have to come in and do their clean-up work for them. Of course, since the Palestianian Arabs recently became the first people to voluntarily elect a terrorist organisation to lead them, one doesn't have much hope.
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we shall try to resist also, resist forgetfullness, resist indiferance, resist intolerance, resist ignorance.
and we hope you do feel us resisting... with you
So, those who support Israel's right to exist and defend itself are accused of "not being able to think" and are censored.
Why am I not surprised at this all too typical attitude?
I guess only comments giving three mindless cheers for Mazen and "Resistance" are allowed?
Pathetic.
dennis,
all your comments but the political ones are welcome on this blog.
i think there is enough blogs where people are trying to kill each other with arguments. try to find one of them.
for my part, this is -sadly for you- not my style.
if you're looking for ahmadinejad, this is not his blog.
this blog is MY fucking blog. where nobody was arguing (until you appeared) about the right of israel to exist or not.
to tell you more about MY style, shortly, I'll continue erasing all comments that I don't find appropriate on this blog.
if you're sad about it, go on blogger.com and open a blog. it is easy, you'll see. 3 easy steps that doesn't hurt the brain.
i promise to post a link to it on my blog.
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