A recent photos of the beautiful clear horizon of Ain-el-Mraisseh locality before the invasion of the balustrade and Disneyland Sickles black the''culture of life''.
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Dr. Strangelove, the cinematic masterpiece Stanley Kubrick, will recall the crucial final minutes when the H-bomb ridden by Major Kong''''U.S. Air Force struck the ground at the same time Russian triggering the infernal machine of the late Soviet time.
I will never forget the horrible feeling of unpardonable which took me by the throat before the ballet apocalyptic nuclear mushroom SCREEN which succeeded in a quiet idle and evil in an unstoppable chain reaction punctuated by the syrupy melody of nostalgic''We'll Meet Again .''
was in 1964.
At that time, the Cold War was in full swing, and the specter of nuclear holocaust hung over the unconscious of every person on the planet.
With almost half a century apart, I found the same painful feeling when the tires of the presidential aircraft Syrian Michel Naim Aoun came on board towards a destiny that has no known geographical destination, touched the runway landing at Beirut airport.
The heavy heart, I watched the frenzied choreography Ba'athist rise Nationally, the cornaquer''pilgrimage''General Brown to the grave of Saint Maron, and the unprecedented deluge of honors he was discharged, and culminating the mosque has happened Damasquine of Al Oumawi with the Mufti of the nation girding our national raven like a new Saladin of the abaya (cloak) of the Umayyads, in the purest tradition of fox La Fontaine, unless it is a brainless turkey plump they must fatten well for the pin ... or stuffing. That irresponsible megalomaniac
choose his way is his business, but it brings in its wake a major slice of Christians mystified, let alone the rest of the Lebanese is another ... These
Lebanese whose third word is at the bottom now recognized to authority than the absolutism of the Supreme Faquih , dooming him a fanatic and unconditional obedience, up to the completion of a collective Harakiri if Fatwa of His Holiness Ali Husseini Khămene'il'exige, happen after she has a revelation that would have been revealed during a dream of a summer night Persian.
On the other side loom the donkeys of 14 Brumaire, who gave the prodigious windfall from a combination of global that points only from one century on the altar of mediocrity, are the sad balance state disintegrated and its knees despite all signs mindless run for gold by Andy Warhol Sunday, tons of petitions parties can feed the braziers of custody of the Grand Serail, the ways media mercenaries and stale, and moult procession with flowers, streamers, banners, balloons or candles blessed memory of those killed or those intended al'être.
Marikka Ave, Morituri Te salutant
Or the pitiful utopia (or hoax) of a''national dialogue''table; unnecessary ersatz parliament marginalized and stripped of a nation substance.
That said, I confess I do not really grasp the substance of the dispute between the two Lebanese camps'',''especially when some of their''theorists''bring this dissension has levels''cultural''( culture life against the culture of death ) !?
Like it or not, between Iran (wild and obscurantist) and Saudi Arabia (wise and moderate) analogies are much more fundamental than the differences, since both are Muslims, rich and oil, and their two cultures''outlaw''unison the flower of human thought, beginning with Darwin, Marx and Freud, has led a long list including the most recent addition is found to be none other than illustrated Mickey Mouse. Fortunately
universal knowledge seems not to have been completely banned under our skies since the line of our''leaders''reveals unmistakable admiration for the thought of Carl Schmidt, otherwise how to explain the reduction of our constitution and all our laws to the maze of dusty archives, definitely replaced by a continuous string of resolutions enacted " exception, for once !
عيش كتير بتشوف كتير ... و بتضحك أكتر
In the light of events drastic shake the current world scene, starting with the economic disaster that nobody has been able to measure accurately the extent or the consequences, a new international momentum generated by the force of change has created almost spontaneously with immediate political effects including the collapse of the theory axes who had authority over the previous decade.
Unable to escape this new state of affairs, the Iranian-Syrian axis and the Egyptian-Saudi are already losing ground on our local scene, to the chagrin of nos''leaders'' Local attributes whose parameters cover all located between the elementary stupidity and amorality pervert.
we deduce provided near one end to the Lebanese ordeal?
Not at all, unfortunately, quite the contrary !
However, it would be interesting just for the finding, identical, Lebanese market open without restriction to local and international suppliers without a shred of oversight, the Lebanese political scene remains in its turn a land equally favorable for the flow of any''ideological''unsaleable goods elsewhere because qu'avariée or outdated.
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An incredible sky late afternoon of December Ain-el-covered Mraisseh locality of an intense blue translucent like a huge dome of a crystal found.
the horizon, the silent symphony of purple light and deployed its first steps majestically above the serenity of a mystical Mediterranean unreal.
Wrapped in my parka, I tasted in small sips of well-being the wonderful contrast between the sharp cold of December and the wonderful brightness be the envy of a blazing July.
Mentally I gave up on my bench stone to my old friend that I would have liked to have Bashir near me in those magical moments, facing Mare Nostrum in all its splendor, to discuss with him this Marginality Glorious of the intellectual face of barbarism and terror, despotism and deceit ...
Ibrahim Tyan.
