message to the people of israel who are reading this blog
for the israeli people who commented on the drawing "we resist" below,
did you notice that i am drawing on the light of a candle under the bomb in the drawing that shocked you?
did you try to analyse this (highly complex) metaphore of resisiting the bombs with the pen?
did you notice by the way that almost all the posts of this blog are drawing?
do you think it is funny to draw under the bombs? do you suspect me to like it?
after knowing me for 7 days, do you really think that i have nothing better to do than "resisting"?
i have to admit that i have a long beard (frightening, isn't it?), but do you imagine me with an explosive belt?
do you have a sense of humour?
did you think for a second that i might be "resisting" to talk about politics since i began this blog?
do you think it is the right moment to find out who's fault it is?
do you know the smell of a burning kid?
do you have decency?
please do not reply to this email and post more comments.
IT IS NOT A POLITICAL BLOG.
if you insist to try to explain to me the reasons of what's happening (did you hear of 1948 by the way?), i am sorry but i'll have to block your comments.
if you're not happy, write a complaint to the UN.
for the israeli musicians, painters, writers, thinkers, intellectuals and for all the israeli in israel and around the world who sent us supportive emails and comments,
we know you are here.
we know you are hearing us.
we know you are hearing the bombs getting down on civilians and kids.
kids from lebanon.
kids from israel.
kids from al over the world.
we know that like us, you feel ashamed.
we know you are not a lot.
but we shall meet one day.
when our people will wake up.
in 10.000 years.
please continue sending us your emails and comments, here and wherever you can. we need to know you are here. and that you are more than what we expected.
WE NEED YOU TO RESIST.
did you notice that i am drawing on the light of a candle under the bomb in the drawing that shocked you?
did you try to analyse this (highly complex) metaphore of resisiting the bombs with the pen?
did you notice by the way that almost all the posts of this blog are drawing?
do you think it is funny to draw under the bombs? do you suspect me to like it?
after knowing me for 7 days, do you really think that i have nothing better to do than "resisting"?
i have to admit that i have a long beard (frightening, isn't it?), but do you imagine me with an explosive belt?
do you have a sense of humour?
did you think for a second that i might be "resisting" to talk about politics since i began this blog?
do you think it is the right moment to find out who's fault it is?
do you know the smell of a burning kid?
do you have decency?
please do not reply to this email and post more comments.
IT IS NOT A POLITICAL BLOG.
if you insist to try to explain to me the reasons of what's happening (did you hear of 1948 by the way?), i am sorry but i'll have to block your comments.
if you're not happy, write a complaint to the UN.
for the israeli musicians, painters, writers, thinkers, intellectuals and for all the israeli in israel and around the world who sent us supportive emails and comments,
we know you are here.
we know you are hearing us.
we know you are hearing the bombs getting down on civilians and kids.
kids from lebanon.
kids from israel.
kids from al over the world.
we know that like us, you feel ashamed.
we know you are not a lot.
but we shall meet one day.
when our people will wake up.
in 10.000 years.
please continue sending us your emails and comments, here and wherever you can. we need to know you are here. and that you are more than what we expected.
WE NEED YOU TO RESIST.
posted by mazen (old profile) at 21:14
30 Comments:
I haven't hear the comments from other Israelis, but just wanted to say that like any other people, we have our idiots and our more intelligent folks.
I hope and believe that we have more smart, thoughtful and good hearted people on both sides and that we shall meet sooner than in 10,000 years. Peace - Ma'asallame.
An Israeli mom who can't sleep now, too worried about her kids.
Mazen - in the cellar!
I was truly moved by your blog - as much as I got angry at comments here explaining you very elaborated and eloquent why they are sorry having to kill you (as a collateral or direct hit) as well as trashing the whole (with Israel economically and culturally very well competing) infrastructure of your country.
Bomb as a collateral benefit a competitor away.
Its shivering how brutal-cool-nazilike some have become whose forbearers suffered so painstakingly under the terror.
The (de facto) non-religious fanatic zionist dead-enders (in Israel and elsewhere) as well as the criminal muslim fundamentalists, doomed like the Tyrannosaurus rex, blinded by their sharing prime motives - greed & hate.
Both backward thinking stone agers from different companies (same wine in different bottles) are unable to look in the mirror and see that they became more and more a exact mirror of their counterparts - enemies.
My hope is that worldwide a modern and educated youth on all sides of any river or mountain (Israel, Christians, Muslim, Budukudo, Agnostic - whatever) will overcome the current old military juntas and send the fascists in all entities to where they belong - in the trash-can of history.
In the young people and artists there is our only hope.
The rest of society as succumbed to dumb stomping and getting along with whatever there served.
YOU - artists of all branches can wake our dump peoples up.
You are a part of that hope.
Stay alive!
Keep your resistance & happiness - dont let hate towards anybody blinding your thinking.
take my apology (to Israelis & Lebanese alike) to the appalling cowardly reactions of our EU representatives (dwarfs) towards the killing and atrocities going on.
My condolences - a lot of folks, intellectuals and artists are with you Mazen!
I'm sure we shall meet once in Vienna - or "next year in Jerusalem" - if not exactly next year - soon in this life.
No way it will take 10.000 years
- and keep your beard - :-)
hello
iam writting you from a shalter in haifa because ... (you know why)
i know and i anderstand your pain BUT you need to understand that we NEVER WANTED this to happen .but becouse of the kidnaping of the 3 soldiers with out no reason, it is no right to tell that the israelis is bad!
for almost 60 years the Arab States and the terrorist organization making a hard life to us and to the PEACE that we all need!
the israeli gavermant can only to talk diplomatic with the Arabs but the real solution is need to come from the inside and not from the outsinde.
and the last that i wont to say is I HOPE FOR THE PEACE TO COME QUICKLY that we all could sit down and talk like a human beens. i hope you all well and be carfull!
dear eran,
i already answered your post by saying at least 3 times on this blog that I DO NOT WISH to talk about the conflict of the middle east. this is not my purpose and I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS KIND OF ARGUMENTATION RIGHT NOW. i have other priorities for the moment. sorry.
dear other israeli surfers,
thanks for your comments.
i am receiving a lot of supportive emails also.
we know you exist. we know that you know we exist.
dear israeli mom,
let's hope both our kids will grow up to see a peaceful land one day.
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
Hi eran & New World!
Who would want to argue with anybody sitting in a shelter?
We pray honestly for your well-being - but I cannot resist:
If you really think that the ongoing atrocities perpetrated by a Israely army towards totally helpless innocent civilians, intentionally bombing their escape routes. destroy grandmas water suppy & eletcricity for papa, is proportionate?
Do you honestly believe creating about 500.000 homeless in 72 hours and laying a sovereign country with hundered of tons of bunkerbluster bombs in ashes is a a fair deal for the prison taking (in a war that the right terminus for soldiers) of a border guard (in exchange for 11.000 palestinians in prison since more then a century)?
Then - you better do a reality check - as soon as your out of your cellar.
What outcome could have this shoot out - F16 and tanks against kindergardens, water tanks & civilian blocks?
What kind of strategy is this besides creating more hate and more terror? Or is THAT the real strategy - to have a continous population exchange by slow moving earth burning?
And one thing more - if someone dont like the outcome of a democratic election he has to accept it - like I have to accept our current government here I have not elected at all.
I have to find a peacefull, eloquent way (and young Israelis are known for being highly educated & eloquent) to deal with it.
That is how democracy works.
Like it or not.
Much more if elections concerns another country.
If one would bomb bcs. he dont like a voting result he would be rightly named a terrorist - right?
That would be opposite how democracy works.
Look in the mirror &
Take care.
Shalom
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
Thank you for your historic lecturing dennis - we are always happy to learn from the elderly.
Would you kindly elaborate more on the self-creation of modern Israel with the help of the outspoken zionist terror organizations "Stern Gang", the "Irgun", ohamei Herut Israel לח"י - לוחמי חירות ישראל and the rest of the comrades please.
This all leads to nowhere.
ok?
What I would wish much more than an answer from you is, if this kind of discussions would not come up anymore & endlessly by the slowly wearing-of sting of the elderly "never forget" party - forgetting and bending reality deliberately always when appropriate for own goals.
Everybody has its share of dark history - there are no angels neither devils. What is there are different backgrounds, ideas and different means to achieve them.
The time of peace has come. Not because it is logic or even desirable for the profiteers of continuos head-splitting but bcs there is no other way left - except a holocaust on Palestinians - which are the real problem. Not lebanon or the Arabs. You see - its time a young fresh and unbiased generation takes over with a robust will to peace and cooperation - and not endless finger-pointing. One should know when its time to retire - some have to be reminded or forced out. Shalom
Elderly?
Instead of addressing issues, just presume your interlocutor is "elderly"? As if age would invalidate what one says anyway?
For the record I'm 32, and I am not an Israeli. Perhaps in some parts of the world 32 may qualify as "elderly", but really, address the issues please - don't presume to know someone's age and to dismiss them on that basis. Such an illogical method of argumentation.
I am an American citizen, and I am ashamed for the U.S. stance on the war on Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. Not all Americans support Israel unconditionally, and I think the current Israeli government has made a serious mistake in setting the army on a rampage. The whole world is watching, and the rhetoric of the U.S. and Israel do not match at all what is happening on the ground.
It's a dirty shame that the Israeli government has to sacrifice their own people, including their soldiers, for their political unilateral vision of the Middle East. It's a shame because it won't work.
And it's a shame that our administration, in all of its complete idiocy, has supported the Israeli government in its actions.
Because all of us, including U.S. citizens, will pay.
I am Israelian. I am currently abroad, but my parents are scared there near Haifa.
Yes, I feel ashamed and sorrow for what is happening between our countries. And for what is happening to our people.
> do you know the smell of a burning kid? - Our kids are also killed by bands from all over the Arab world.
War is ugly thing. As well as politics.
Good luck to you.
will this argumentation ever stop?
dennis you have nothing better to do than reading my blog? get yourself a book man, it might be more interesting for you. can't you see that I DO NOT WANT to know who's fault it is?
thanks for all the rest, the friends from all over the world and especially the israeli people that i do not know and who are posting these courageous and supportive comments.
a kid is a kid. i do not care for what is written on his fucking passport. stop killing them! the lebanese and the israeli ones. all the kids of the world.
i do not, by any mean, hate israel, like i do not hate any other country in the world. do somebody find it normal by the way to hate a whole country? this would be a too easy argument.
dennis and comrades
You did, as elderly usually do (no matter what age you are - sorry you argue like a old but not necessary wiser person repeating propaganda in times where children are burning under rubble), not read what I wrote and your obviously immune to reality.
Fine.
The issue is:
what determines the statues to become a "terrorist" or a "terror organization" (like Irgun, Stern Gang. Hisbollah, ANC e.g.), is not determined by the actual tools they use (terror as a means) or aims they may have but by rooting in society and determination - the final word has the verdict of later history.
Otherwise Israel would not exist in first place.
As for the Brits would then have decided : "with terrorists we dont discuss." and the land would belong to the rightful poor peasants till today.
I dont want to argue if this would desirable or not or that the Brits have given away what they did not own in first place - its a historic fact that Israel (even thought without defined borders neither having a constitution - two cornerstones of a normal state) exists as it exists.
And from there on one should work to bring peace to the region.
There are thousands of historic examples that terror is a tool only - like a bombing from a F16 is a tool but never a organization. And a tool should be used with a aim - I fail to see the wise strategy behind the current rampage killing and impoverishing civilians on a mass scale.
Terror is the weapon of the poor - F16 of the rich.
Think of the bombing of the King David Hotel in which only civilians died ordered by David Ben Gurion. Both Ben Gurion and Menachem Begin, head of the Irgun, would later become Israeli Prime Ministers.
Same goes for Nelson Mandela, head of the ANC who was featured especially from the USA as fierce terrorist of the purest water - only to become later much applauded South Africans first black president.
Hizbolla is running hospitals, education, feeds the helpless and also has a military arm.
The former is overlooked. If history is any guide and if one is not totally blind he sees that a organization so deeply rooted in several societies (like it or not) makes a suitable partner for a political settlement. One cannot choose a discussion partners out of a children's book suiting him - never - and that is exactly what Israel tries with bombing opposition to the stone-age,
Israel tries to bomb & install the proper partners to their taste (the current president of lebanon was actually a USA approved choice) to and from the political discussion / settlements tables - this will not work - if history provides any lesson.
If Olmert would be real brave he would try to settle for peace - any peace is better then any war - but he is a not very impressive civilian wanting to fit his bug forebear's shoes and sets on the military card without having Sharons charisma or brain - bad for Israel, bad for us and bad for the US.
CNN - not exactly a hizbollah media - today titels:
Lebanese overlooked in evacuations
As nations scrambled to ferry their citizens out of Lebanon, one group of people has been all but forgotten -- the Lebanese.
How deep can a people sink by voting for that crying atrocities...
haflo1
"Have you no decency Sir?"
Hi Mazen,
It's very important for me to tell you and everybody that is suffereing there with you that we support you. We understand you and we can't believe it.
We hate this, and feel disgusted with all the stupid unreasonable killing.
I don't think I have words to explain, just tell you we'll try to help. Just tell you you are not alone.
,,,and to beautifull to be lost.
Lebenese are historiocally known as the fastest recoverers known to mankind & evolution - so -
I plan a visit in autumn this year in Beirut to have a cup of tea with you Mazen.
Servus from Vienna
Solidarity.
Stay alive Mazen.
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
hila!
If you would exchange in your superfluous and primitive remark the words Israel with Hizballa and vice versa then you mirror your virtual enemy by 100%.
Get a mirror and have a good long and hard look.
See?
Then you see what your really fighting,
Simple minded folks living by spilling propaganda like you are the core of all the trouble.
Please go away and get a a more up do date education.
dear servus,
thanks for taking care of answering all this blind, deaf, brainless comments that are posted all day long.
you should try beirut in autumn. i am sure the flights will be cheap!
waitinbg for you,
mazen
Matzen:
servus in Vienna means hello or shalom - and me, the sender is boris - And I instruct you to remain alive so In can have tea with you - and not let misery steer your art.
I really don't want ANYBODY sit in a place they have to worry about a bomb falling on their head. Maybe except for those who throw bombs themselves, unfortunately those rarely find themselves in that spot...
Hope there will be peace in your region sooner than later!
Mazen*
i hope Peace finds U & all the people of Lebanon & Isreal & Palestine & Iraq & everywhere in the World very soon*
We Canadians are so lucky to normally avoid this crap called war*
But even a family from Montreal lost 7 members from their Family in Lebanon who were Canadian*
Only then did we wake up a little from our perpetual sleep*
It's sad*
Peace*
namaste*
My dear friend Mazen, your plight and that of the people of Lebanon pains me.It sends my heavy heart to a place beyond politics, agreements, logic, reasons...... a place of sadness and then beyond sadness to a place of prayer that becomes the language of the heart through poetry. My prayer for you today was written by Pablo Neruda and I hope it speaks to you in this moment that only you can know. All my brotherly love and sincerest wishes for peace, Eliud in New York City
Walking Around , by Pablo Neruda -
It so happens I am sick of being a man.
And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie
houses
dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt
steering my way in a water of wombs and ashes.
The smell of barbershops makes me break into hoarse
sobs.
The only thing I want is to lie still like stones or wool.
The only thing I want is to see no more stores, no gardens,
no more goods, no spectacles, no elevators.
It so happens that I am sick of my feet and my nails
and my hair and my shadow.
It so happens I am sick of being a man.
Still it would be marvelous
to terrify a law clerk with a cut lily,
or kill a nun with a blow on the ear.
It would be great
to go through the streets with a green knife
letting out yells until I died of the cold.
I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,
insecure, stretched out, shivering with sleep,
going on down, into the moist guts of the earth,
taking in and thinking, eating every day.
I don't want so much misery.
I don't want to go on as a root and a tomb,
alone under the ground, a warehouse with corpses,
half frozen, dying of grief.
That's why Monday, when it sees me coming
with my convict face, blazes up like gasoline,
and it howls on its way like a wounded wheel,
and leaves tracks full of warm blood leading toward the
night.
And it pushes me into certain corners, into some moist
houses,
into hospitals where the bones fly out the window,
into shoeshops that smell like vinegar,
and certain streets hideous as cracks in the skin.
There are sulphur-colored birds, and hideous intestines
hanging over the doors of houses that I hate,
and there are false teeth forgotten in a coffeepot,
there are mirrors
that ought to have wept from shame and terror,
there are umbrellas everywhere, and venoms, and umbilical
cords.
I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes,
my rage, forgetting everything,
I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic
shops,
and courtyards with washing hanging from the line:
underwear, towels and shirts from which slow
dirty tears are falling.
thank you all for your words of sorry and shame. this massacre should be stopped for both sides. knowing yesterday that two kids were killed in israel makes me vomit.
stop killing kids you fuckers!!!
stop now!!!
please...
ps: eliud thanks for bbringing back pablo's words. by the way did you ever tried to read fernando pessoa? this is a fucking great poet/writer.
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
Mazen, I hope these words find you relatively safe and sound. Plese tell us how you are doing and what, if anything, we can do to help you personally and beyond.
You've been on my mind as I watch the bullshit American mass media "coverage" of your country's difficult journey. I have photo-bloged an image ( http://static.flickr.com/78/195018478_7374b7dfc2.jpg )with the Neruda poem to call attention to your plight and "resistance". For those Israeli brothers and sisters reading this, I realize that like in America, the "inmates" have taken over the asylum and, sadly, for right now there is no peace or justice for anyone.
By the way Mazen, thanks, I haven't read anything by Pessoa yet......please suggest any particular work of his you’ve liked. Well my brother, stay strong....the world is watching, listening, feeling, praying for the people Lebanon!
Love and Peace to ALL our brothers and sisters in the middle-east......let PEACE reign supreme!
Mazen
I can't imagine how terrifying and horrrible life must be for the Lebanese people now, but it would be presumptious me to even try. Please accept my sorrow and pain that this is happening to you and your people. I am also sad for the Israelis who are suffering. My mother and grandmother were born in Palestine before the 1930's and though I come from a Jewish heritage I am heart-sticken that this has happened to all us who are children of what was once a multi-cultural state. My uncles all attended The University of Beirut. It pulls at my heart to see such suffering on both sides.
YOUR BLOG IS VERY POLITICAL and that is a compliment! your artwork is poliical and that is a good thing. by calling on folks to start a blog and to erase the silence, you are acting politically and as an activist for Lebanon and for social justice.
Post a Comment
<< Home