Day 26

How is it possible that the discursive strategies carried away in order to justify conflicts and their resolutions are on such a low level of consistency? Let us first consider the idealistic notion of human rights and the equality of men. This ideal is theoretically a basis for those who preach justice and justifies the wars that are launched in the name of freedom and so on. I accuse the world of being racist. I accuse the world of repeating Hitler’s megalomania, but the difference is the ‘educational’ aspect of this megalomania.

What I see everyday is a systematic killing of people who are regarded as having lesser importance than those who do the killing. What if the Hezbollah launched a missile on a group of Israeli workers busy with the assembling of fruits and killed 33 of them? Would it be regarded as a crime? Or would it simply be regarded as a mistake and the world will disregard it? Yesterday 33 Syrian and Lebanese workers were massacred by Israeli war planes in two consecutive raids – they were busy arranging peaches.

It is something every Arab asks himself everyday, and until now the world has offered no convincing answer. Nonetheless this silent world is pretentious enough to be ascribing to itself the responsibility of educating and liberating us Arabs from ourselves. I refuse to be taught human rights and democracy by a world that is ruled by racism and tyranny, and which to say the least does not regard the life of an Arab as equal to the life of an Israeli. How come 1000 civilians can die, 4000 can be injured, and 1 million can become homeless without having the right of self defense, and without hearing the condemnation for the crime, or at least calling it so?

How come the world is so blind not to see the pattern of violence that appears in all the offensives taken by the Israeli army whether in Lebanon or in Palestine? Isn’t it obvious that this army is deliberately destroying all the vital structures of a country and deliberately impoverishing its people and killing its civilians (and focusing on women and children by the way)? The number of factories that have been destroyed is striking. Yesterday night 2 fishermen ports were completely destroyed, one of them with more than 30 missiles. Why is that? What good does it make? How come in the Israeli offensives there is always a huge amount of civilian casualties especially children? How come every vital structure has been destroyed knowing that these structures are strictly civilian ones and to say more have no relations whatsoever with Hezbollah?

The Israeli army is supposed to have very high-tech weapons that are supposedly capable of striking very accurate targets – smart bombs and so on. Then isn’t it a normal conclusion for us to say that they are deliberately killing civilians when in less than a month more than 1000 civilians are slaughtered? By the way more than 30% of the people killed are not only children but are less than 12 years old. Were all these killings accidents? And if so, how many accidents does Israel have the right to make before it becomes responsible of its crimes? And how many civilians can it kill before it is labeled a terrorist state?

Is it so hard to get one’s conscience awake? Is it so hard to admit that the western world is capable of criminality? Is it so hard to admit that the human rights are nothing but a farce when it comes to applying them without discrimination or regardless of the balance of power? Is it so hard to see that justice is in the hands of the strongest and therefore admit that humanity is still ruled by the justice of the middle ages only with better discursive trends?

How can one preach democracy and be silent when the chief of Parliament in Palestine is kidnapped by Israeli forces (that is without counting the 8 ministers and 24 deputies that were kidnapped some months ago and are still in captivity – by the way these kidnappings were long before the Israeli soldier was kidnapped by Palestinian militants, and therefore in a logical time sequence the kidnapping of the soldier should be seen as retaliation)? Regardless of being Hamas cadres or not isn’t this much more serious than kidnapping 1 or 2 soldiers? Or at least just as serious? How can one ask for democracy when the choice of the people is banned? How can one praise a free election and accuse the winner of not having the right to win?

How come reality can be portrayed with a simplistic manner that ridiculously assumes good and evil are in conflict? How can one believe that it is a matter of fighting evil? Or that a people can just be evil without a reason? How can one so naively assume that all resistance movements are terrorists?

History says that any resistance stems from a mixture of oppression and popularism. The Hezbollah is one of those instances of history. Another ridiculous debate is whether the Hezbollah is Iranian supported. Of course it is, but does it mean that it is not Lebanese anymore, or that it does not stem from the Lebanese soil? Is there throughout history any movement that was not supported by the opposing force of the dominant force?

Today is the anniversary of another human crime of the Second World War. In a day like today, the most horrific weapon of mass killing and systematic destruction was launched by the United States of America on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. It was another example of mankind’s new ability to kill with indifference and with no affectivity or human compassion. The indiscriminate murder of a city, an atrocity unprecedented by any weapon humanity had seen before. Today this same state which launched the atomic bomb is crowning itself the protector of the world from the potential Iranian nuclear threat. Isn’t it ironic?

Only one nation has ever used the nuclear bomb and it was the United States. Was it terrorism? Or was it also self defense? Until now the destructive force used in Lebanon by the Israeli Army has exceeded the Hiroshima atomic bomb (yesterday alone there were more than 5000 explosions).

The United Nations are holding a session today to pass a resolution that will inflict yet more losses on Lebanon and give Israel legitimacy for its offensive. I am not surprised, only disappointed.