Profound Racism

“For whom do you want to sing?” Lebanese MP Akram Chehayeb asked Fairuz – a prominent and renowned Lebanese singer, “The educated people of Syria were either killed , in jail or have emigrated”.

According to this MP (who is a March 14er, not so surprisingly), all Syrian people who are alive, outside of jail and living in Syria are not educated or civilised, as he goes on to describe them as ‘tyrants’ and ‘jailers‘. Does everyone understand why I do not pledge any allegiance to the March 14 tyrants and renegades? Good.

The US Elections

I must admit, there is no escaping the charade called ‘US Elections’. It’s importance makes you sad when you realise the irony in that the candidates standing for the ‘Most Powerful Person’ job, are the most racist, extremist, dumb and/or ignorant among their faction or party.

Never the less, it is a very entertaining occurrence. Once every 3 or 4 years, in the run-up to the elections, you get to witness candidates from all the spectrum: the desperate (Guilliany), the old (McCain), the odd (Romney) and so on. There are two exceptions this year. They are, ofcourse, Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama.

I think I am being unfair when I call Guilliany the desperate one. Maybe he fits the Rhetoric one. I mean, in some speeches he says the words Terror, 9/11 and Islamist/Fundamentals almost in every sentence, before every full stop and after every comma. He can’t stop it. When Clinton shed a tear (or two – it depends who counted), I was struck by the slyness of US politics in that people will do anything to rise into office – even if that means they make themselves look like wimps.

Obama, on the other side, is inspirational and truly worthy of the leadership post. While Clinton attacks him, he calls for unity. While Clinton sheds her crocodile tears, Obama is inspiring people with his incredibly inspiring and charismatically-said speeches. While Clinton is copying Obama’s message for change (even though she undoubtedly represents the status quo, Obama is busy thinking up new ingenuities to attract the masses and their votes.

By now you have probably guessed where my allegiance lays in this battle. Although, I have to come to terms with reality. Obama, working up the hard way, will fall. Meanwhile,Clinton will fox and cry and copy her way through to the office the easy, cheaters way. I will not give my reasons for this opinion, but lets just say having common sense on foreign policy means your demise after your slight rise.

It really is a shame. The winning candidate will lead the whole world – both free and totalitarian – and decide the fate and course of our little blue marble.

Hezbollah’s Failures

Many would argue that Hezbollah has brought revolutions on two fronts; guerrilla warfare and the political party in the Arab world. One revolution I believe tops both is the way they revolutionised the outlook on Arab and Islamic mentality in the Middle East. You just need to compare the likes of the Taliban and AlQaeda to Hezbollah and you will notice the striking difference.

The biggest failure I believe has been their inability to express these accomplishments to the outside word, especially the non-Arab/Muslim world and specifically the Western world.

A foreigner need only hear the organisations name, Hezbollah, to be instantly erred away from their principles and certainly wouldn’t associate with them when they hear the fake rhetoric of their ambitiouns for an Islamic ‘mini-Iran’ Lebanese State. Hezbollah has transformed and have grown out of their fundamentalist past into a more flexible, lenient and exceptionally modern Islamic principle. Hezbollah will not elevate into the iconic, worldwide symbol it hopes to become and its logical principles and messages will not be loud enough to be heard clearly anywhere outside Lebanon and certainly not outside the Arab world. They could start mending this major flaw by officially declaring a new party platform (manifesto, declaration, party constitution etc).