ImaginaryArab

why is it so easy for Israelis to kill palestinians.. i wonder ..

2009-01-15T02:55:00.000-08:00

2009-01-15T02:54:00.000-08:00

2009-01-15T02:51:00.000-08:00

الاعلام البديل او كيف تكتب عن ثقافة اخر مستعملا وجهات نظر سياسية حتي تصبح غنيا.

2008-09-18T01:28:00.000-07:00

ما فبل حرب تمّوز والبلاد تعجّ كيوم الدين، بالناشطين السياسين الراغبين في التضامن مع شعب لبنان ما بعد الحرب الاسر ائيلية. كما تعجّ البلاد بالصحافيين االمعتمدين او الذين يعتاشون من القطعة الاساسية و الذين قضوا مضجع العباد في اسئلتهم التي قد يكون فيها من الغباء ما يضطر المرء لتهدئة اعصابه، غير ان كثرة الصحافيين البيض الطامحين في سبق ومدفوعات السبق الصحافي ووفرتهم ، اثرت على نوع المعلومة /الخبر الصحافي الذي يخرج الى الحيّز العالمي، فكل مواطن يصبح ناطق بأسم، وكل فاقد احدى الاطراف يصبح الصورة التي تمثل الضحايا، وكل صحافي يصبح هو المقرر بنوع المعلومة والتي غالبا ما تبدأ بالمشقة والخطر الذي واجهه الصحافي، ومن ثم وصف الحالة او الشخص " المحلي " الذي يعاني. و يخرج دائما الصحافي بأستنتاجات بدهية يختم فيها مقالته.

ما يثير فضولي في مسألة وجود الصحافيين الاجانب هو ما يمثله وجودهم في هذا البلد، فوجودهم هو دليل قاطع على اعتبار هذه المنطقة لبّ الاهتمام العالمي اي البلدان التي تنتج اكثر نسبة مشاهدين وقراء، كما ان اهتماهم في هذه المنطقة في وقت تعاني بلدانهم من اخبار يجدر بأحد اي يغطيها هو امر جد مستغرب، هل العنصرية الفقر والتطرف الديني الزائد لم تعد تشكل مادة لهؤلاء الصحافيين الذين ما يلبثون يبرورن وجودهم في كونهم من اتباع الصحافة البديلة والتزامهم الاخلاقي في نقل الخبر الصحيح الغيّر محرّف، هل الاعلام البديل اصبح المبرر الذي نتحول نحن مادة من خلاله . مادة تحكم علينا "العين" التي تفترض ان قرائتها لروبرت فسيك و كرهها للسي ان ان وقضاء اجازتها الصيفية في بلدان في الجنوب هو المعيار الذي يؤهلها ان تبحث في امورنا بصفتها خبيرة ذو دافع اخلاقي . هناك حاجة اخلاقية لمراجعة ما يقال و ما يكتب واين. فالصحافي الذي يستطيع الذهاب الى اسرائيل لأجراء المقابلات مع اسرائيلين حول الحرب، و كتابته حول الحرب على لبنان لا تتعدى ثرثرة شخصية هو امر يدفع للتسأول عما يفعله هذا الصحافي هنا، بالتأكيد فعل اقبح من عذر.

موت محمود درويش

2008-08-10T04:01:00.000-07:00

اريد الرحيل الى قصيدته.

اريد من يؤنس وحدتي في فلسطين. ان يموت محمود درويش، ان يخف نجمنا. في رحيله لا شك ان فلسطين ترحل عن المتخيل.أمست فلسطين الغريبةلا تشبهنا و لا تشبه. تبقى هي.و نبقى نحن على حالنا التي لا ندركها. بشرا في مأساة، يصارعونها و تصرعهم.

لا برتقال لذاكرتنا يصبرنا على المأساة بعد الان. لا قوت من اللغة يخفف ثقل مستقبلنا.

الان سنعلم ماذا يصيب البلاد حين يموت ابطالها. البلاد ملك ابطالها.ترحل معهم. ونبقى نحن في عرينا، رصاص يطلق على رصاص و الجندي الذس يشرف على المعركةيبتسم.

في بيروت صمت غريب،لم تدرك الواقعة بعد، مشغولة في قضايها. اشتاق اليهما، ثنائياجميلا تطلقا منذ زمن، هو اصبح شاعرا،و هي اصبحت مواطنة دائمة الانشغال. لا وقت لديها. قد مضى ما مضى.

يرثي اللاجئ شاعره. و ينصرف الى اموره العادية .

ملل

2008-07-31T05:22:00.000-07:00

لم تصدر الجرائد اليوم. الإسراء والمعراج يوم تحتجب فيه الصحف عن الصدور. ويقوم الصحفيون في لعب السولتير في مكاتبهم، يوم تحتجب فيه الجرائد عن الصدور لسبب اجهله.

هل الامتناع عن الصدور هو بمثابة اعتبار الإسراء والمعراج الخبر الذي لا يعلى عليه أي خبر ؟ او ان هنا حرص ان لا يقرأ المسلمون اخبار قد تلهيهم عن الإسراء والمعراج. لا يهم فعليا. لا اعتقد انته سيفوتنا الكثير، الا اذا قرر فؤاد السنيورة و سعد الحريري ان يقبلا بعض ويفصحا ان حبهما العميق.

2008-07-28T05:35:00.000-07:00

حاولت في الماضي أن أقوم برعاية وتغذية هذه المدونة، غير أن كل محاولاتي فشلت فشلا لا شك ولا حيرة فيه. بعد هذا، توصلت الى قناعة شخصية، ربما يجب تكون هذه المدوّنة في اللغة العربية ، رغم ان اللغة العربية ليست "كوول" . ألا إني اشعر بحماسة شديدة للكتابة.

الكتابة في هذا الوقت وفي هذه المدينة ( بيروت) تعني تمارين على السوية.

في هذا المكان الافتراضي أريد أن افرغ يومياتي وحماقتي. ليس لانني بطلة خارقة، او ان حياتي لا تخلو من الإثارة والتشويق، بل كي أنافس الإعلام السائد والغير السائد، إذا يحق لمن قرأ الأبجدية ان يكوّن رأي، فلماذا لااقوم بالأمر عينه. انا لست ابنة الغسالة في هذا الوطن. إذا استطاعت مي شدياق و هي النصف إنسانة ( باعترافها ) ان تحتل حيزاً على الشاشة، وزين الاثات الذي سيستطيع ان يشفي داء السرطان في القريب العاجل ان يكون له برنامجين، استطيع انا ان افتح مساحة اعلامية خاصة بأرائي و نظرياتي كخطوة اولى قبل ان استطيع ان اسيطر على العالم كله.

هذه المساحة لا تمت بصلة لأي حزب او تيار او عمامة او دكان او جمعية او فنان او قاتل مأجور. هذه مساحة خاصة بي " العربي المتخيّل"، رغم إنني كنت أفضل ان يكون اسمي " العربي الغاضب " غير ان اسعد ابو خليل قد استولى على الاسم رغم ان حدة غضبه لا تزال في مستوى " عاطفي بسبب الغربة".

إذن ترقبوا المزيد ..

الحر الذي لا يطاق: من يقاوم الصراصير !!!

2008-07-28T02:55:00.000-07:00

ملاحظات هامشية
الحر الذي لا يطاق قد يكون الموضوع الافضل للوحدة بين اللبنانين، فعدونا الوحيد المشترك الان هو هذه الشمس اللعينة. لماذا لا يكون هناك بيان وزاري مخصص للحر؟ كيف يستطيع المواطنين التركيز على الفتنة الداخلية في وجه هكذا حرارة ؟

لا ادري ان كان الارتفاع في عدد الصراصير هي احدى حيّل وليد جنبلاط حتى يجبر حزب الله على القبول بنزع سلاحه؟

وصلة للتسلية !
http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/82892

why palestinian can not defend them selves, again ?

2008-03-07T07:50:00.000-08:00

While everyone is rushing to condemn the Palestinian action against the seminar in Israel that resulted in death of few Israelis and the wounding of many others they would be admitting that Palestinians are an not equal other to the Israelis that have been killing and murdering the Palestinians for over a 6o years now. Which is of course logical conclusion, given the fact that the war taking place, is between a nuclear bomb owning state and the Palestinian people that reminds Israel how and why does it exist.

So when Israelis kill 128 people a week of which most of those dead are civilians, its self-defense, against the hand made rockets being launched at the settlements built on Palestinian land. This exaggerated act of self-defense allows one question how easy Palestinian targets is for Israelis, and to the rest of the world as a matter of fact, and how for example Syrian or Lebanese blood is not, especially after the July war 2006.

While everyone is running to condemn the Palestinian action, they also are acknowledging that Palestinians taking decisions on their own lead to a result that is related to the Arab-Israeli relations, more specifically the image that Arabs are trying to move of their shoulders as cold-blooded terrorist. This also means that they agree that self-defense strategies for Israelis and for Palestinians are different, as if the violence being produced is not an equal one. Palestinians have no right to defend them selves in means that they see fit, but Israelis do, although it is a fact that Israelis own more sophisticated means to do that and Palestinians don’t, along with the fact that Israelis are occupying Palestinian land not vice versa. This Arab logic is and has been the main reason of making the Palestinian suffrage more painful and certainly lonelier!

Palestinians need re separate them selves from the Arab –Israeli struggle or more frankly, from the Syrian –Israeli negotiation about the future of this area. They need to understand that Hezbollah’s resistance against Israel transitioned from an act of resistance to a key player with in the struggle, serving geopolitical sides, after the almost complete liberation from the south and after the Iranians have decide to reveal that they do have thing for Arabs after all.

who invited the islamist?)( work in progress )

2008-01-24T07:19:00.000-08:00

I really do not know what to comment on what’s going on in Gaza, with out sounding so helpless and pointlessly angry and with out repeating statements and positions that have already been said. Yes of course free Gaza, and yes of course against occupation.. Some how I feel these statements as enthusiastic they are and energetic have became null, in terms of what do they really mean.

Gaza’s siege, crises in Lebanon, occupation in Iraq, dictatorship in Syria and Jordan, the hegemony of royal tribes on the gulf region and the unbelievable climate change with in this region makes me wonder where do one began to resist. Where do we start and not become individual “activists”, but not also an activist with in a frame that the battle on structure takes over the work and with out being blinded by the myths of having common enemies and common battles.

Yesterday, I went to participate in a direct action in front of the Egyptian embassy, it was organized by some activists that have roots in both “ humanitarian aid “ of July war and Naher Al Bared crises. I have been calm and forgiving with these people because they are active and I do respect them for that. Yet my problem with them is that they do it under “romantic” political slogans, with credulity about working with Islamits - they do not want to be accused of being Islam phobic- they justify it in saying that there is a common enemy, and then they are in a common battle fighting imperialism, Arab regimes, and Zionism (occupation of Palestine). We stood facing the police that was ready for a battle, holding flyers and posters. We were few, nearly 18 person.

But then the Islamic Brotherhood showed up, and to my surprise with full gear, speakers, flags, and men with beard.. And a little, boy that was dressed as suicide bomber. That was my queue to get out of there. Not happy with religious chanting. Not happy of standing shoulder to shoulder to a group that is always trying to control. Disappointed and leaving, a friend that shared that disappointment said: “may be we are born in the worng time”. May be we are.

The same friend, who saw the demonstrators, said that some objected but it did not take out the fact that the organizer invited them.

if ever both leftist, anarchists and liberal activist that are coordinating and working so closely with islamist ever win ( because it is a battle), what would happen, would they then do a second round and see who gets second and first place ? I do not think so.

Then what, some how I do agree with this friend, that yes, this is a wrong time if I had to work with islamists that are thirsty to power and control, where this difference in ideology is undermined just because we have a common adversary that is of course imperialism and, then our list extends more, to capitalism, antagonism ect.. We want to reach different ends and that mean we can not have the same ground. If we stand against the Iranian regime, and the US government stand against it, does that mean according to “having common enemy theory” that we are with the US government at their attempt to usurp the Iranian regime. I do not think so.

This is exists also in the Lebanese politics. The enormous split that can be symbolized in imperialism represented in the 14^th of March interests. And the islamist represented in the 8^th of march approach, I would not assume that the 8^th of march have an islamist interest, because the coalition that forms the 8^th of march is made of diverse political power that they market as a representation of a national interest. Then, it is made of political powers that are not islamist (Free patriotic movement, and Marada Current, Amal movement etc.) together with Hezbollah. This is a the same maneuver, having common enemies and believing in transient coalitions. That has never led anywhere, not in Egypt, not in Iran.

Why do we always assume that islamists are national or want to work for nationalist interests, is it because they overly accuse the other all the time in the lack of having national loyalties. Or is it because the US war on terrorism, was cleverly used by islamits, it is a war on Islam, and who would fight on the behalf of Islam then Islamists them selves. It is a tricky business to know how to separate between battles and ends.

Who invited the islamist ?

2008-01-23T08:16:00.000-08:00

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I don't understand why do we always allow islamist to come to secular actions and let them take it over, why do we tolerate their existence, while as everybody knows, they do not tolerate ours?
photos taken by Fadi Youssef

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2007-11-20T23:26:00.000-08:00

A scene of pedestrians walking quickly through out the streets of Beirut
to their preset destination is a warning sign. As if the arriving horizon
is covering the city with dark promises, bringing back a nightmare that
lasted 35 years.

Their destinations are their homes of safe spaces, but soon when the
flying bullets and the snipers deadly jokes performing a symphony of
sporadic noise to the silent city outside, then these homes will turn into
graveyards, of living bodies waiting in despair.

This is the tension of uncertain memories. In a present resembling stories
told by a former militia soldier, once, while finishing his fourth beer
bottle, in an epiphany of regret, that tragically fades in the next
morning.

What Lebanon is currently undergoing is not limited only to the
presidential elections; it would be foolish to pretend that. An
existential and spatial crisis that generations of the Lebanese people
have been going through cannot be limited and solved only by finding a
suitable president.

Portraying the presidential election as the key knot of all these
never-ending conflicts, means that we are procrastinating again the
inevitable tasks of naming the factual reasons of these conflicts as they
truly are. Thus, we again are creating an imaginary setting to hide the
real reasons that would explain the logic of this steadfastness and
yearning to war.

If some Lebanese believe that the Syrian regime is the foe, and some
others believe it is Israel. How would the presidential election be a step
towards bridging this difference? Could the president determine who is the
vital other for the Lebanese, and by identifying this other the Lebanese
would be able to understand the true meaning of sovereignty. Such a
president must be an instant messenger from god and with holy powers, the
kind of leader that the Lebanese people fall for head over heels.

The vacancy of the presidential seat fools no one; this sort of vacancy
becomes an embarrassment in front of international diplomatic presence. A
president needed for a country’s prestige. As unacceptable as this idea
might be for some, it remains a popular perspective that Lebanese share
among them selves. The Lebanese president has no say in war, or in peace,
the Lebanese president decides no allies or foes. A candidate for the
presidency should be neutral; he must be objective to the extent of
detachment. Who will be seated on the chair in Baabda place? Who will be
representing the dominatrix of the Lebanese inter relationships? Questions
that can be avoided at no cost if we would replace them with different
questions, what should a Lebanese president stand for? How close should
this position be to the actual Lebanese politics?

A magnet is pulling people to war. A magnet of sectarian insecurities and
international loyalties, a broken bridge with the past keeps manifesting
it self in the so-called arbitrary acts of violence. If we have never
admitted that we have killed each other for reasons of antagonism, then we
cannot say we might repeat these killing. All records have been cleared,
and rewritten. A new Lebanese identity created in the post Rafik Al Hariri
Lebanon; pre-produced identities sold through Image consumption.

If this war breaks through, we should not complain. We should not run
around and blame people or increase our xenophobia by enslaving more
Syrian workers, Africans, Asians and Palestinians. This time if the war
breaks through we should accept that this is who we are. A group of lost
zealots with self-hatred issues committing crimes in the name of freedom,
resistance and enlightenment. We are our own fear.

If this war must break through, let it be out in the area of Solidere and
let be destroyed again. Let this war if it must break through; erase all
false visions of any future we fool our self to embrace. If this war must
break through then surely, the resistance true face will fall down, and
the men of god could fight openly the men of capitalism.

Bombings and the Lebanese Security tactic

2007-06-13T02:21:00.000-07:00

Background:

Most of the pedestrians in Beirut are used to by now to the spectacular presence of the military with in their streets. A presence that the Lebanese themselves had always missed until they got accustomed to its absence, and got over this yearning for law enforcement since the civil war, where a law enforcement was a gun attached to your belly side, and a grenade in your hand.

The civil war ended, and the Lebanese dropped the “manual”id self law enforcement, and handed it out to the Syrians that had their own law explanations, and surly implementations.

This excessive presence of the military spreading around, with tanks, and military jeeps, soldiers at guard with gear and weapon, does not fool fellow Lebanese citizens and co. that they are being protected. The Lebanese unlike any other nation do not respect their army, in fact most of the Lebanese males spent more time thinking about how to escape the military service, then the actual service time. They have a developed a strange practice towards “ the state missionaries that should protect, save and punish counter state activities, such as steeling electricity, that ranks in the same problematic frame as bombing and terrorism for examples.

These tow practices are related to each other, and cannot be separated. The most general practice is to ignore their existence, from the complicated military presence to the simpler from of it the Darak (the men in blue, drive white or black Ford jeeps, and listen to Haifa Wehbe, and they never show up at emergencies or when they are actually needed). This ignoring might be misleading to the army officers and soldiers, and could give the impression that they (the Military) are feared and respected, which is not the case. This leads to the second practice, to refuse and repel against them, like the “Hay El Solom “incident.

The Lebanese Security Tactics

Imagine that there is a “terrorist that is going to place a bomb under some politician’s car; I believe this could happen.

The terrorist is in his can, where in the back he has 20 kilos of TNT, and few gun, and grenades; he is stopped at on one to the checkpoint:

Military officer: ween raya7? Ma3ak shi bel sayara ? (Where are you heading to, do u have something in car?)

Terrorist: in a very typical Lebanese attitude “ 7ad bet walid jomblat, la2a ma3i shi mehem , shwayet metfejrat,heheh” ( next to Walid Jomblat house, nothing important, few explosives, hehehe)

Military officer: bala hadam, het wora2ak. ( it is not funny give me your papers )- looks at the papers, “ ah intah min beit flen, bet3refo la flen flen”

Terrorist” lik sho bek ya zalmeh , ma howeh ibn 3ami il lazam- ( what are talking man, he is my cousin”

Military officer: :”tab head wora2ak wo salemleh 3alih , ilo a7la 2yem walla kenet be il ejbereh, bas neylo faraka, wala sheghel bel jeish metel 2lto“( ok , take your papers, and give him my best regards, we spent our best time in the service together, he is lucky he ran away.. working in the army makes no difference ”

Terrorist: shokran . yalla ntbeh 3a 7alak , ya zalameh il wade3 she bekhwef , kil youm infijar .. (Thanks, take care of your self man, every other day we have a explosion..) .END

Ps :Walid Jomblat was just an example, any incident that my occur has nothing to do with the scenario above, and the imaginary Arab was or will be not a part of it, or even thought about out it, or know somebody who did. The imaginary Arab claims no responsibility of what happens or will happen to Walid jomblat. ( it is the Syrians)