Help the Shami people by preventing the passage of the retrogressive "Pesonal Satus draft" into a law

The endorsement of the "Draft of Personal Status) by what is referred to as "Council of Ministers", which is a body of the Shami government, is an absolute disgrace to this body and to all those involved in producing or supporting this draft in one way or another.  The mere suggestion of such a draft shows the very retrogressive nature of the Shami government.  We strongly appeal to Mr President Bashar Al Asad to personally interfere in this issue and  put an end to this Draft.  We believe that Mr Bashar Al Asad is very aware of the detrimental implications and consequences of this Draft on our people in Sham (present day Syria) in case it becomes a law.  Passing such a draft into a law would be a black and ugly page which would tarnish the book of the Baathist regime and the book of the Asad Family who have been the sponsors and icons of this regime.  We believe that Mr Bashar Al Asad has all the power to prevent such a shameful disgrace from taking place under his reign and sovereignty.  We absolutely believe that Mr Bashar Al Asad has all the credential to putting an end to this draft.

Following is an aritcle which sheds more light on this issue by Mr Bassam El-Kadi

Antoun Saadah's response to patriarch Areeda's speech

 Protest in Sydney against the war on Gaza

More photos of the atrocities, massacres and crimes that the Israeli Nazis are committing against Palestinians in Gaza:

 
http://www.elfarra.ps/gallery/gaza.htm# 
 

PALESTINIANS: THEIR HISTORY FROM BEGINNING TO END

By Rev. Ted Pike

Palestine Street - The Lost Bride

A discovery of a 4 000-year-old Canaanite warrior

Greater Syria: Realization of an ambition

 By Robert Ayan

Choueifat Bloody Pentecost

By Franklin Lamb

"I tried to change the subject and I mentioned my 12 year old daughter in the States. I told Aya how much I missed her and wished she could come to Lebanon and the girls could be friends. “And you could teach her more Arabic and show her around your beautiful country and you could do fun stuff.”

“I have a better idea,” Aya said. “Why don’t I just go to America and stay with her for awhile?”(More)

Did Hezbollah Thwart a Bush/Olmert Attack on Beirut?

By Franklin Lamb

 Mr Bush and the Goat

By Antoun Haddad

It’s a goat”, says Mr Bush. “You’re mistaken Mr Bush!” Responds the rest of the world.  “How could this damn thing be a goat when we all can see that it’s flying?” They add in anticipation of some convincing answer.  “A goat cannot fly Mr Bush!” They continue after waiting to no avail for an explanation from Mr Bush, as he keeps insisting that flying thing is a goat and keeps trying to convince the whole world that a goat can fly indeed!

How can Mr Bush be so paranoid and so delusional?  Isn’t he the president of the United States?  Don’t they call him “Mr President”?  Hasn’t he been elected by the people of the United States? How can the American people choose to the first job a person who is as delusional and paranoid as Mr Bush?    Are delusion and paranoia pre-requisite characteristics of those candidates for the first and most important job in the USA?  Or, do candidate become delusional and paranoid after they are elected to this job?

Resorting to the history of the United States and the history of its successive presidents to find some answers to our questions, we have failed to compare Mr Bush to any of those presidents except his father perhaps.  We concluded that Mr Bush is a stand alone president of the USA.  Only time will tell if the Americans, and the rest of the world for that matter, will be “endowed” (ravaged is a better verb) with a like of Mr Bush ever again.

When there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the whole world could see that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, sadistic Mr Bush insisted otherwise and as a result initiated an aggression which destroyed Iraq, claimed about one million Iraqi victims so far, killed about 5000 US soldiers and many thousands wounded and put the United States in unenviable situation.

Yet Mr Bush insists that he brought democracy to Iraq and the dying and devastated Iraqis can practice democracy now, the democracy of death to be precise.  (More)

The Tent - Part 4

By Jawad N. Adra

What went in the mind of Sa’id Jumblat in 1860, when he was imprisoned at the Grand Serail, awaiting trial and being “persuaded” by the British to accuse Khorshid Pasha ⁽¹⁾ of instigating the massacres in the Chouf? (More)

An article and a comment

The comment:   By Antoun Haddad

The article below, titled “The Lion and the Gazelle” is written by Uri Avnery ....(More)

The article:   The Lion and the Gazelle

By Uri Avnery

Every year I marvel again at the genius of this ceremony. It unites the whole family, and everyone - from the venerable grandfather to the smallest child - has a role in it. It engages all the senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching.  (More)

  A massacre in Akkar (North of Lebanon)

Is it Lebanon or Rwanda?!! (Details of The Halba Massacre)

I've been trying to sum up the words to write this post for over an hour now, and honestly...no words can sum up what happened yesterday and all the events that followed in Halba, Akkar. 

On friday night, mosques across Akkar, called for demonstrations in Halba. At the time, I was with a bunch of friends from different political parties (pro-government and opposition).  Everybody present knew what was going to happen at that demonstration. They all knew because it had happened before.

Almost a year ago, Future movement called for a demonstration that soon turned into an attack on the SSNP headquarters in Halba, the result was 5 FMers (Hariri Militia ) injured and the attack was repelled. 

( Huh, on that day, I was arrested for several hours on suspicion that I was between the SSNPers that fired machine guns, even though I wasn't even in the same area at the time of the clash, a fact that the police knew, since I WAS THEN all day long taking pictures of the demonstrations and I even arrived with them to the scene). (More)