The event has been cancelled. We will let you know when it will be rescheduled.
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Humanitarian Appeal for Lebanon
A Gathering For Unity & Support
You are Cordially invited to attend an open house to show unity
and solidarity and to support the humanitarian relief efforts for
Lebanon in this national crisis
on Monday July 31,2006
from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m.
Residence of the Embassy of Lebanon
2841 McGill Terrace N.W.
Washington, DC 20008
This Event is in Coordination with:
(in alphabetical order)
Al Hewar Center
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
American Druze Society / Charitable Affairs
American Foundation for St. George Hospital Inc.
American Task Force for Lebanon (ATFL)
AUB Alumni Association of North America - Greater Washington Chapter
Arab American Institute (AAI)
Council on American-Islamic Relations
International Orthodox Christian Charities
Lebanese Free Patriotic Movement
National US Arab Chamber of Commerce
(in alphabetical order)
Al Hewar Center
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
American Druze Society / Charitable Affairs
American Foundation for St. George Hospital Inc.
American Task Force for Lebanon (ATFL)
AUB Alumni Association of North America - Greater Washington Chapter
Arab American Institute (AAI)
Council on American-Islamic Relations
International Orthodox Christian Charities
Lebanese Free Patriotic Movement
National US Arab Chamber of Commerce
"Nobody knows how many rebellions, besides political rebellions, ferment in the masses of life which people earth."
44 comments:
Hi Fares,
My name is Shirin, i was born in Beirut on 1984, and live in Berlin nowdays. I can't agree more with the appeal. I wish i could be there, and ahow my solidarity to Lebanes people... my brothers and sisters. I have a lot of family and friends there... i myself was there two weeks ago.. when it all started...
All i can do is to pray for you -Lebanese citizens. Be strong, and with the help off Allah the war will end soon.
I also became a blogger, I try to express my feelengs and my opinion about the situation in Lebanon using drawings i make.
I invite you to visit my blog... and i will appriciate to hear your opinion about it.
Hope the war ends soon,
Shirin
http://shirin-from-lebanon.blogspot.com/
hi there,
its zouzou, i'm a Lebanese Blogger and i'm 17
you can check my blog it's simple: zouzoukai.blogspot.com
it's an artistic place where news are expressed in illustrations (my illustrations)..
feel free to publish any comments there..
i thank you all for supporting lebanon!
we need this!
PEACE
The Wall Street Journal today published a story about Israel's attempts to silence Al-Manar television. See:
http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/library/wf-293.htm
Any time a person or group of people do something morally repugnant, they bring in Jewish conspiracy theories. This lot is no exception. Humanitarian rally for Lebanon, co-ordinated by Hezbollah fundraisers like CAIR. Of cause nobody notice that strange alliance, everybody will be busy blaming Zionists for everything including Global Warming.
At the same time CAIR & Co will collect some bucks for Hezbollah to continue to fight Israel and use Lebanese children as human shields - on your money.
heheh steeling US R&D?
thats crazy stuff.. as an employee of the israeli high tech industry i can tell you our R&D is very home grown.. we work hard to do what we do.. its not with anyone else's grace that we have succeeded..
our taxes are very high and we see only a very little bit of ever hard earned shequel.. and yet we develop and develop and develop because we know that we are an isolated and small economy and we need to export our imaginations and brain power and problem solving.. and that nadsbite is technology..
for millenia the jews were whipped around the planet.. denied the right to own or work land or assimilate into any social structures.. all we were left with was our minds.. and thats how we have made our living for centuries on end.. now you tell us that our brainpower is not ours to use either?
good lord..
clearly you are a champion of human rights
;)
wishing peace to all
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
peace is the only sustainable solution
Beautiful stuff from Israeli powers...
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1229114,00.html
rockets with 100kg of explosives were just launched into israel.. at first thought of as fajer5 but now they're saying chaibar1 rockets.. these rockets were launched from a heavily populated town
people living near rocket launchers.. please sabotage them.. otherwise rest assured that once a rocket is launched the launcher will be pounded..
this is so insane.. escalation seems inevitable..
sick of so many people suffering.. praying the negotiations will prevail without delay
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
enough is enough
nadsbent
thats not nice
al-ghad...quoting the NYT means nothing. about as much credibility as al-jazeera...lol
nasbind....by your own reasoning...America is in the same situation as Israel. The U.S should give up it's land to the native american's who we stole it from...you are such a moron.
Oh, yes, Hezbollah as the source of TRUTH. Love this.
It was great to learn from Al-Manara that HA destroyed the Israeli plane, which turned out to be HA's own missile which got hit by Israelis. It was also fun to learn that HA knocked out Israeli submarine and sunk the ship with tens of Israeli sailors dead (the ship did get damaged, and 4 sailors did die).
Anyone with more than one braincell appreciates that everything HA says is pure propaganda.
Al-Ghadabulsaati3, you should get pregnant. It would double the number of your braincells.
nasbined....just for the record, i am a catholic living in the U.S. i have no ties with Israel, i was just commenting on your ridiculous "logic" and out right lies. And btw. read up on your American history bud...we in NO WAY treated the indians with equality. We forced them into reservations, but this is off topic. If you love HA so much, get off your pc and fly over there. I sure don't want you spreading your filth over here in the U.S....we have enough problems.
God bless all peace loving Lebanese and Israelis.
okey dokey
now that we have all posted our ventablogs.. maybe we can get back to informing eachother of events and views..
we have done well maintain an island of sanity and dialog through this catastrophic event.. let's not cave to our impusles..
wishing us all peace..
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
mustnt forget whats important
nasbined-- If anyone else's flag is going to be flying at some point in Tel Aviv, it is going to be that of the United States. Do you really think that if worse comes to worst, the U.S. will not use its military might to prevent a 'final' destruction of the State of Israel? As self-serving and bloody-minded as I think that you are, you seem not to be intellectually incapable of looking at facts, however misleadingly you parse them.
anothervoice... this is very disturbing but unfortunately, i am not surprised. the radical branch of islam is so twisted and evil. when kids are raised on hate, it is no wonder terrorists are the result. this is truely sad. i heard a similiar story as this, about a radical cleric in egypt that has a children's show teaching jihad. this could be the same. the world is at war, not against terror...it is against an ideology of radical islam.
heard something curious last night.. imagine the rules of the war changed and it could only be managed by women and children.. what would it look like then..
wishing for some #$%en peace around here
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
this is one extreme game of hide and seek
seriously though..
i would like each of us to spend one dedicated minute thinking of how much the women of our region are hurting right now.. all the love and passion and hope that middle eastern women put into their children and now they are watching in terror..
sending some love and peace and hope to all of these women.. everywhere in the world..
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
may our women never go through this again
i dont think this makes any sense at ll..
i believe in comprehensive peace and hope for it and pray for it.. but the facts are simpler.. when you have a terror organisation bombing you for 6 years while you sit like a wingless duck and cop it..
it is vile and repulsive for them to come back later.. all hero like.. find every error you have made and seek to fix it as a condition to stop bombing you..
i think all issues raised are valid topics of discussion and we all have much to learn.. but using them as reasons to bomb us is baseless and unjustifiable.. its pure perpetuation of violence..
as jews we are naturally and inherently taught to feel guilty.. your mum buys you 2 shirts and you put one on and she accuses you of not liking the other.. but this is just nonsensical.. the complexity of our relaity is such that you cannot neatly package every wrong that has ever occured here and dump it in our faces..
with all due respect to noam chomsky.. do you seriously think that a kid napping of a doctor and brother could occur without the media being all over it? do you seriously think the PA would not publicise the $%^& out such an event.. they do it even to things that dont happen.. the misinformation is rampant..
whether we know it or not.. we are all desparate for peace.. we are all sick of this "shit" as bushy puts it.. but as part of that desparation allow me to suggest we focus on forward thinking solutions rather than drowing in blame chasing.. because we wont find the cause.. and we wont identify that single damned event that started all of this.. there will never be consesnus.. so focussing onthis divide is blatantly unproductive..
so turn around.. 180 degrees start looking forward and lets think solutions..
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
history will not offer us solutions
i share the dream..
NOW who told you about my guitar?
;)
The ultimate goal of an Israeli soldier is to finish his 3 years duty without getting himself killed, go to that one year trip to South America, study computer software in the Technion university, get a nice job in CheckPoint, marry Bar Refaeli and have 3 cute kids.
The ultimate goal of a Hezbullah fighter is to die as a martyr.
What the hell is wrong with these guys?
SadLebaneseGirl & Omer (israeli)
the dialogue between you is the first solid,objective, true based argument i read in last two weeks in the comment page of this blog.
just wanted to thank both of u for being so objective
and omer i hope there be lots of Israeli’s like u.
when both side agree that there was mistakes done in the past they can start to fix their mistakes . No one can change what he don’t acknowledge
Nasbined,
Al-Jazeera reports the other 150 that were surrounded had such a low IQ the IDF mistakenly though of them as furniture and left the town.
Dear Raja and other Members of this blog;
The following link is an article from the Greek newsapper Eleftherotypia (Free press) where they have the translated version of Raja post "Back in the States - leaving behind broken lives" on last Sunday.
http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=112,id=59877340
Your blog has been declared one of the best sources of information about the current conflict and the Greek newspaper borrows the idea from an article of the french Le Monde (I dont know if somebody else has mentioned it already)
I dont know if this means anything to you (when you country suffers so badly) but this blog maybe has contributed bridging some of the numerous gaps...
Dont even think to stop this effort :-)
P.S: Raja you are famous :-)
chas.. thanks dude.. i didnt realise anyone would even click on that.. (more at www.myspace.com/lirun)
anyway.. so i listened to nasralla's speech and i was strongly humoured by the lies.. i have decided to answer nasralla.. honey i hope you're listening sweety..
the destruction of our chief battle ship? hit but recovered and restored
our forces running away as cowards? our forces are very strong spirited and their caution is making us proud
israel is desparate for a ceasefire but america doesnt let us? you over estimate our dependencies.. israel has a very independent political mind.. you know this.. because you often accuse us of acting in a manner that conflict with international opinions..
our best units demolished? yes we have suffered losses.. these are painfull but dont forget how different we view the lives of our soldiers.. in every israeli POW exchange we give thousands back for a handful of ours - normally half of which are bodies.. for us a single soldier dying is a tragedy..
our media lying about the damage to us? on the contrary - our media and the world media have been everywhere - often to our detriment.. educating HA of the outcome of their efforts and enhancing their ability to hit us..
israelis fleeing the country? some have moved south and yes many are in bunkers and security spaces but not only have israelis not fled.. 6000 families came to israel last week from france and the USA many of which chose the north of israel as their new homes.. Nasralla baby.. we are much stronger spirited than you can imagine.. you dont scare us at all.. manyof us can afford to leave - and yet we dont.. i certainly dont blame any lebanese person for seeking refuge elsewhere - but nasralla.. dont kid yourself that you have shaken us up..
he spoke of fears in lebanon's government that if HA is seen to have a victory the implications would be dire.. he tried to call on the government to view any "victory" of HA as a collective lebanese victory.. this is so weird.. you provoke your far more powerful neighbour.. you get caned to the bone.. you continue your provocation at the expense of your complacent government and you call our mercy upon you "your victory"? how rhetorically dilluded.. its clear that if we were not cautious about our retaliation we would be called cruel.. so now we are cowards? very cute.. but stupid..
he was trying pathetically to implicate the entire arab world into his mischief.. it was ridiculous.. i dont believe for a second that the entire arab world supports his houliganism.. or believes his statements.. i believe the arabs largely seek peace and are tired of lunatics like nasralla dragging them through living hell..
Israel has been very strong.. we have had many thousands of people injured and yes we have kids and elderly stuck in bunkers.. but central israel is sending them gift packs and staples and care packs to our soliders and toys to the kids.. many major retail organisations have sponsored programs and they ar ebeing answered by the thousands.. my workplace for example has been collecting crate loads of gifts and aid for our people..despite the fear and the worry we are still producing and still striving.. nasralla.. you wont break us.. and we're not going anywhere.. and you will not destroy our chanes for peace.. you will only delay them.. and in the course of doing so you hurt all those you care about incuding your own family and including our creator..
your speech was a string on hollow statements that all contradicted most of your standard assertions about my nation.. you call us a temporary state of the illegitimate zionist entity.. at the same time you speak of the peace you bring..
how bipolar is that..
by the way.. still wishin us all peace
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
to our respective governements i say stop treating us mushrooms.. keeping us in the dark and feeding us shit..
I couldn't possibly be there, but I'm here , with you...
To Ibn Nagrela
Just one thing...
The two kidnapped soldiers (26 and 31 years old) belong to a regular army reserves unit. I know this by their age (above 21-22) and by the fact that a relative of one of them works with my wife. Army reserves units with people at the age of up to 45 don’t go raiding across the border a few hours before they supposed to end their duty and return to their life. They were just patrolling the border on the Israeli side.
Please stop using this nonsense.
To Ibn Nagrela,
You said "As to the relative of a sister of a cousin who is the nephew of the uncle that works with your wife ... HA."
Sorry if this sound lame to you but this IS the truth.
Hamas political bureau member Mohammad Nazzal told Reuters...
Oh, NOW it's reliable :-)
To ibn nagrela,
I give up. Keep believing Hizbollah and Hammas spokesmen. I'll be watching CNN if you don't mind.
“Israel was established as a military state; the army was not established as an army of a country,”
If you refer to the fact that Israel needed an army to defend itself against all Arab nations attacked her on the very second Israel was established - then you are correct.
“So far the enemy has only suffered military defeats, as was the case with the most important of its three Navy vessels off the Lebanese coast – which was struck. This was also the case during the ground war, when elite Golani Brigade forces were defeated,”
Ok Nasrallah, You won. We lost. NOW can you please get out of your bunker?
“You can see the amount of damage we have caused them in photos showing soldiers evacuated on stretchers lying on their stomach because they were shot in the back while trying to escape. The most important loss of the enemy relates to the morale of its leadership and army, as the army is incapable of overcoming a small organization with a strong belief in its cause."
I’ve NEVER seen the Israeli public more united than in this war.
The Hizbullah chief added: “(Vice Premier Shimon) Peres said ‘this is a life or death war for Israel,’ and he is right because he knows that if the resistance will come out triumphant this time the Zionist entity will not have a future. When the (Israeli) nation will begin to lose faith in its army it will mark the beginning of the end for this entity.”
Well… It’s like a very important military operation, ok?
“The enemy’s only option is to pressure Lebanon in the hope that this will lead to political pressure that will thwart our efforts. In this framework (US Secretary of State (Condoleezza Rice is returning to the region to impose her guidelines on us,”
Yes, political pressure in addition to military one. So what is your point?
i dont mind the nagrela peace proposal.. it reminds me of a negotiation i once had.. where one side would do so much for a confession - whether or not it earned them any benefit.. perhaps once we finish this surreal episode we can focus on th ereal issues between us.. like the cleanliness of our air and sea and our fishing stocks and how we harness our region for sustainable and clean energy generation as the two non oil nations ofthe region.. and how we teach other neighbours about democracy..
wishing us all peace
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
we're a smart crew - let's solve this
oh and the HA people who fire at us and take cover where the children seek safety.. is that the behaviour of brave heros? not only do they run away.. but they run and hide behind defenseless children..
shame on you for seeking moral rigteousness in such disgusting acts..
this is not about who has a bigger $%^&! this is a massive human tragedy and while we are seeking to end the threat against us.. the HA take every opportunity to ensure that our acts of retaliation echo into civilian death..
they are not defending but rather leading you to slaughter.. and putting your children's heads on the carving tables..
this needs to end.. this makes me sick to the stomach..
i dont want children to die.. i dont want women to cry and i dont men to lie.. this is all wrong..
we need peace now!
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
our lands can only soak so much blood
guys - dont fall into nads trap..
there are evil people everywhere and they make you saythings you dont naturally want to say.. they are masters of passion and evil and combine them intoa lethal cocktail of hatred..
dont drink it..
they do not represent everyone and should not give you grounds to base your views about everything..
they are human excrement..
wishing peace to all..
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
we all need it
yuval from tlv
do u remember 2 days ago i said IDF is not using nepalm and full force not bcuz they are concern about civilians life but thoer concern is PR all around the world ?
im sure even now u wont agree with me but see by your self if the lates attack on QANA ( policy of dusting the villiages) did serve and is serving Isreal status in this open war !
please dont come and repeat same song we hear it every day. (HA was hidding there, shooting rockets..bla bla bla )
To lebanies readers
may God help u and bless u all ( Christians/Muslims/Deruz...). May God Prosper your country and your democracy .
our love and prayers with each one of u
xor84
pepole cant get out of that area bcuz isreal bomb them even on the road. isreal refused even giving them safe road to leave. then ur spokman comes and say,..WE TOLD THEM TO LEAVE !!
how the hell they could leave ?
anyway argument here is going nowhere..they are dead now like other 700 before them and will lay beside them to be eaten by worms to ensure Isreal safty and peace ( IF isreal can achive it )
Dunes
laugh now and put ur LOL here , but there is a say " who laugh last his laugh will last"
من هم القتلة؟؟
هل هم مجرموا الحرب الاسرائييون ؟ام انهم تجار الحرب الامريكيون؟
كلا.... انهم نحن مصريين وعربا..لقد شاركنا بصمتنا فى العدوان على لبنان.,وقبلنا تخاذل واستسلام حكامنا ,وتهاوننا مع الفتاوى المسمومة لشيوخ النفط الذين لايفقهون سوى فى شق الصفوف واثارة الفتن.فهل نفيق بعد كل ماحدث من جرائم وبع مجزرة قانا الثانية؟ ام سيستمر الجميع فى سباته؟
عذرا لبنان فمصر الحزينة لم يعد صوتها ملك ابنائها.
)
فيا لبنان ماتطفيش نار نضالك
رجالك ..حتى لو ماحناش رجالك
بحور الدم ما تغرق حقوقك
ولا تكسر مجاديف احتمالك
حبيبك... بس مش قادر اعين
أنا المصرى
كريم العنصرين
"الابنودى" )
writingup.com/ahmed
nilewise.blogspot.com
This time, it will be the Jews running and managing the ovens.
It's only fair that they get their turn.
How do you want your Arab today, medium rare or well done?
The only Arabs with whom I've ever spent time in social situations, conversation about 'the situation' etc are Jordanians and folks from the UAE and, although we have disagreed on particular issues, I personally have never encountered the vicious invective that nasbined utters; "I say this with a hurt heart but it is the only way to ensure peace and stability" i.e. sending all the Israelis to "the ovens". It is so terribly sad etc: yet makes concrete so much of what Israeli supporters in the U.S. have been warning about these many years.
I just want My Mummy - A cry from Lebanon
Mummy was feeding me with cereal, the same sticky gooey stuff
she kept coaxing me as being nice and yummy
Yet I never saw her having any!
I was getting used to the taste, used to mummy going “yummy!” whilst pushing the spoon to my lips.
Then it started to taste funny, smelled funny.
Yuck. It’s kind of salty mummy.
Ow!! Mummy wasn’t putting the spoon to my mouth anymore, she’d splashed the bowl.
Everything was all over me. Mummy was over me. It was getting too noisy.
Hah! people around must have broken quite a lot of things, their mummies would be angry.
Hey mummy, I pried at mummy’s eyes, get off.. you’re too heavy. You’re crushing me,
Move away. It’s getting stuffy.
Mummy?
Sigh.. you’re fast asleep, you must be tired, Mummy.
I peered through the gap underneath mummy’s arms, wrapped tightly around me.
Someone had broken everything in our house.
Mummy will be angry. Hope she wouldn’t think it was me..
Mummy? Some strange thick liquid is wetting me, mummy.
Hey.. it’s covered your face too, you’re sleeping without cleaning your face Mummy.
Yuck.. this stuff is thick and sticky. It’s kind of warm isn’t it, mummy?
is it a new cereal? Is it a new drink that I’m allowed to sip? It’s not my glass of milk., is it mummy?
It’s got a nice colour..
Mummy?
…… Mummy? Wake up, Mummy.
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