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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Fairouz du Jour.

Cant get any better!

Fairouz du Jour.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The symbol of Lebanon!

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Liban • Tripoli • juin 2011 by du bruit dans la tete on Flickr.

Out of Venice
58.5 x 76”
ink, watercolor pens and acrylic on canvas

(loc: Lebanon)

The symbol of Lebanon!

Monday, June 27, 2011

Deir el Qamar, Lebanon

El Tanoura - Fares Karam

Beirut, Lebanon Junior Girls’ College library in 1946.

From the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress.

Via the Wikimedia Commons.

Deir el Qamar, Lebanon

Martin Van Creveld on Lebanon War

I suspect this will come to be the dominant interpretation from now on:

….Though the decision to retaliate in force was inevitable, it also meant that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) was taken by surprise and did not have time to prepare properly. Of the entire vast order of battle, only five regular brigades were immediately available. Moreover, these brigades had spent years doing little but carrying out counter-insurgency operations in the Occupied Territories. As a result, they had almost forgotten how to fight a real enemy; he who fights the weak will end up by becoming weak. Some of the burden fell on the Israeli Navy which shelled Lebanon’s coast, imposed a blockade, and cut the country off from the world. In doing so, one of its modern ships was hit by an Iranian-built surface to sea missile, suffering damage and taking some casualties. Since this was the first time in thirty-nine years anything of the kind had happened, it was a considerable propaganda victory for Hezbollah. At the same time it proved how much the crew had underestimated the enemy, since they (perhaps acting on their superiors’ orders) had not even switched on the vessel’s electronic defenses.….
”Stark raving mad” (majnun, in Arabic) was, in fact, the way many people in Lebanon and the rest of the Arab world reacted to the Israeli attack. As the statements of several of Hezbollah’s top leaders indicated, they too were surprised by the strength of the Israeli reaction. None of the organization’s original objectives were achieved. Its fighters remain in prison; the Israeli “occupation” of Shaba Farm continues; and Jerusalem, which it set itself as its ultimate objective to liberate, remains as firmly in Israeli hands as it has been during the last forty-four years. What the war did do was to show that, in case of war, neither Syria nor Iran would necessarily come to Lebanon’s rescue. The country’s infrastructure was left in ruins. Thirty thousand dwellings were destroyed or damaged, and dozens of bridges, underpasses, and gas stations demolished. Hundred of thousands of people were forced to flee, and as many as 2,000 killed.

I wrote a piece with a similar message last year. Looked strictly from the framework of their objectives, both 2006 and Cast Lead achieved a narrow sort of deterrence. Given the duty of the government to protect its citizens from harm, this is appropriate and should be considered a success.

This isn’t to say that there aren’t larger problems with Israeli grand strategy and defense policy, but the success or failure of Israel’s wars should be judged on the basis of the policy objectives that these Israelis set themselves.

“More than 35 years after the rise of the Lebanese left...

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“More than 35 years after the rise of the Lebanese left and the start of the civil war, people across Syria have risen up against decades of oppressive Baath party rule in their own country. Since demonstrations began in March, rights groups estimate that security forces have killed more than 1,000 protesters, and rights abuses are believed to be widespread.

President Bashar al-Assad and his Baathist regime have drawn global condemnation for the brutal crackdown on demonstrators. However, Beirut-based activists, many who have worked together against issues like sectarianism and in support of Palestinian and other Arab revolts, now find themselves split over their positions on the protests in Syria.”

Sunday, June 26, 2011

im leaving on friday. thats in like 4 days o:

Mohammed Al-Amin Mosque by sonofwalrus on Flickr.

that went by fast affffff

Aroussa Baladi (Lara Baladi)

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Aroussa Baladi (Lara Baladi)

we came come quite a while from the concrete boxes of...

we came come quite a while from the concrete boxes of “modern housing”. i hope that in 10-15 years this will have proven to work.

a larger version of my icon. lebanon: under construction.

but its not just Palestine that is / was affected by Israel’s murderous acts….

The Lebanon War

Destruction in the wake of Israeli bombs that targeted Beirut. Since June 6, the Israeli army launched a major offensive in South Lebanon, aimed at destroying Palestinian camps.

IMAGE:
© Patrick Chauvel/Sygma/Corbis

DATE PHOTOGRAPHED
June 24-25, 1982

Too excited for Lebanon, it’s getting ridiculous. Summer really starts when I’m there, then I finish it back home. Ahhhh too much happiness.

Electricity of Lebanon building shot from down under; #beirut #Lebanon (Taken with Instagram at EDL)

Driving to the Cedars a few months ago.

A few months ago, driving near The Cedars.

a larger version of my icon. lebanon: under construction.

Lebanon

The word Beirut tagged in Arabic - #arabicgraffiti #Lebanon (Taken with Instagram at Dora Region)

District: Clinch Mountain

Division: 2 (West)

Enrollment: 553

Last Season: 5-5

Mascot: Pioneers

8/12: at Marion (Scrimmage)
8/19: Benefit Game
9/2: at Grundy
9/9: at Union
9/16: Gate City
9/23: Clintwood
9/30: at Tazewell
10/7: OPEN
10/14: Abingdon
10/21: Lee
10/28: at Virginia
11/4: at John Battle

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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Nancy Ajram- Wahshany Ya Masr

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Pearl Beach in Batroun, Lebanon

West Beirut

Ugh Omar and Tarek be my boyfreinds.

Pearl Beach in Batroun, Lebanon

In the mountains of Lebanon

“People whom you will meet and, by saying nothing, will approve of their actions are responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. You will be remembered as someone who did collaborate with Apartheid.”

- Joey Ayoub to the co-founder of WikipediaHezbollah moving missile stock from Syria to Lebanon

Martyr square in 1991.

In the 19th century, the square was known as Place des Canons. During World War I, Lebanon was under Ottoman rule. In 1915, Beirut suffered a blockade by the Allies, which was intended to starve the Turks out. The effect was a famine, followed by plague, which killed more than a quarter of the population. A revolt against the Turks broke out which resulted in hanging of many nationalists on 6 May 1916 in the renamed Martyrs’ Square. Among them were Said akl, Father Joseph Hayek, Abdul Karim al-Khalil, Abed al-Wahab al-Inglizi, Joseph Bishara Hani, Mohammad and Mahmoud Mahmassani, Omar Hamad, Philip and Farid el-Khazen, and Sheikh Ahmad Tabbara.

Currently some remains of the old Cinema Opera building (now a Virgin Megastore) and the bronze Martyrs statue are the only features left of the Martyrs’ Square. The statue, riddled with bullet holes, has become a symbol for all that was destroyed during the Lebanese Civil War.

The Martyrs’ Square is a common location for protests and demonstrations, among the more notable demonstrations were the 2005 anti-Syrian protests of the Cedar Revolution and 2007 anti-government opposition protests led by Hezbollah and The Free Patrotic Movement.

I do not own these pictures, only found them at work in an old film.