The Beirut Down
Town Sit-in: Sacrifices, Dragons & Saint Georges
By: Elias Bejjani/LCCC Chairman
December 10/07
"Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the
divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you
learned, and turn away from them. For those who are such don’t serve our Lord,
Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech,
they deceive the hearts of the innocent" (Saint Paul's Letter to the
Romans:16/17 & 18)
Hundreds of opposition supporters rallied in downtown Beirut on Saturday
December 01/07, to mark the first anniversary of the Hezbollah-led sit-in that
has sent 2,700 people unemployed and forced closure of 75 restaurants and coffee
shops. The protestors gathered in Riad Solh Square where the opposition,
supported by Syria and Iran, has maintained a tent city outside the offices of
Prime Minister Fouad Saniora. They vowed to maintain their tent city for years
if need be to force the resignation of Saniora's majority government. The
demonstrators waved Lebanese flags as well as the banners of Hezbollah, Amal,
the Free Patriotic Movement of Gen. Michel Aoun and a number of pro-Syrian
parties" .
The sit-in did not achieve anything, while its devastating damages are clear
on all of Lebanon and its economy, and not only on Beirut. Ironically, the so
called opposition has refused to budge, linking removal of the tents to
Saniora's departure or the election of a consensus president.
The whole world ought to be fully aware that the so-tagged "Lebanese
opposition", that is led by Hezbollah represent nothing that is Lebanese based
on all world-wide norms and criteria. Hezbollah is an Iranian-Syrian army
stationed in Lebanon, no more no less. The opposition coalition that revolves
around Hezbollah has one and only one paramount objective and that is to topple
by all means the Lebanese multicultural, parliamentary, democratic, peaceful,
and free regime in a bid to erect in its place a religious state replicate of
the Iranian Mulla's republic.
In this context it is worth mentioning that the festivities held in Beirut's
downtown under “The one year celebration of the opposition sit-in protest”, tag
was nothing but an overt declaration of an on-going nasty war against the
Lebanese people and their country. The festivities were in fact a set of atheist
rituals in which the Iranian-Syrian made leaders and politicians assumed the
role of HERETIC priests. These machineries, joined by other orphans of the
Syrian regime and its leftovers, offered during the celebrations and with cold
blood the Lebanese people as sacrifices to the Syrian/Iranian Dragon represented
by Hezbollah.
The sit-in celebration was held a few hundred meters from the Beirut bay that
was historically known as “Bay of Saint Georges". The well known Lebanese Myth
states that a ferocious dragon blockaded the people of Beirut city and as the
price of sparing them, he forced their king to present him daily children
sacrifices. The short sighted King accepted the Dragon's condition under the
false believe that he, his family and the royal community shall be safe. He
started supplying the children of his community as sacrifices for the dragon
till all his kingdom's children had disappeared. Finally the king was forced to
surrender his own daughter as the sacrificial lamb. the Myth goes on to say that
Saint Georges saved the king's daughter and eliminated the Dragon who would have
devoured all the city's citizens.
One wonders how similar are the current traumatic unfolding events in Lebanon
that the axis of evil two countries (Syria and Iran) are instigating, to those
that the country witnessed in numerous hardship past eras. Meanwhile how weak,
confused and selfish are those Lebanese Leaders and politicians who venomously
tailor their stances and platforms to suite their personal agendas and
ambitions, and not those of the country and its people.
How evil are those leaders and politicians whose conduct is motivated by hatred,
stupidity, grudges, inferiority complexes and lack of tolerance. How destructive
and heinous to the country's stability, welfare, democracy and peace are those
who abandon their humanity, and surrender submissively to instincts, delusions,
greed, and egocentricity.
The Syrian army was forced by the Lebanese people and the international
community to withdraw from Lebanon in 2005. But during its occupation era Syria,
in full conspiracy with Iran, has erected an oppressive and criminal Lebanese
kind of governance and formed the Hezbollah militia. Two years after their
country's liberation the Lebanese people are still struggling to re-build a free
and democratic Lebanon and to contain the threats of Hezbollah. The Lebanese
current kind of governance that was masterminded by Syria and Iran is portrayed
very well by this following biblical verse:
"I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over
them. The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his
neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the
base against the honorable. Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the
house of his father, saying, “You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this
ruin be under your hand.” "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and
women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and
destroy the way of your paths". (Isaiah 3:4/3:5/3:6/3:12)
One can understand what Hezbollah is doing in a bid to topple the Lebanese
regime and fulfill its Iranian paramount objective. But what is confusing and
makes no sense, is the active participation in this sit-in charade by the Free
Patriotic Movement (FPM) headed by MP, General Michel Aoun. Has it skipped the
Free Patriotic Movement's members, leader and officials minds, that they are
helping the Syria-Iranian dragon to devour their own people and the country. Did
they forget that many of them including Aoun himself were in exiles and jails
for years because of Syria and Iran and that they were able to return home only
and only because of the success of the “Cedars Revolution”? What is strange and
bizarre is that the FPM leadership has abandoned the Cedars revolution and
joined forces with its oppressors and their Lebanese machineries and puppets.
How could the FPM leadership swallow their patriotic tags of Sovereignty,
freedom and independence that they raised for 18 years? How could they reach
this chameleon like degraded stage. Aren't they ashamed of themselves for
betraying their own people and joining Hezbollah, Syria and Iran who slaughtered
their Lebanese people and kept Lebanon under a Stalinist occupation for years.
Their is no doubt that the FPM leadership has not realized, that the Dragon, has
an everlasting hunger and shall continue to demand more sacrificial rituals,
until they and their followers become themselves, the object of the sacrifice.
Can’t they realize, that the one year long sit-in have failed miserably to
achieve any of its declared objectives except the economic destruction
of downtown Beirut, the bankruptcy of businesses, and the unemployment and
destitution of thousands of Lebanese families. This sit-in has also accelerated
the exodus of the young and talented to the four corners of Earth.
Hopefully those Lebanese patriotic citizens who for one reason or another are
currently blinded, numbed and deaf to Hezbollah's actual schemes and are fooled
by some charismatic leaders like General Michel Aoun, hopefully they will before
it is too late, wake up and start to see things as they are. We call on them to
take our genuine rebuke in the realm of this biblical verse: "Better is
open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the
kisses of an enemy are profuse". (Proverbs;27/5 & 6)
There is no doubt that the Lebanese people shall and as always be victorious,
and those who are trying viciously to topple the Lebanese democracy will be
defeated, humiliated and forced to pay for their wicked acts. History will
always repeat itself: "Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever
rolls a stone, it will come back on him.(Provers:26/27 & 28)
Oh Lord, save our beloved homeland Lebanon and its people from those who
worship power, strive for riches, focus only on positions and have no self
respect or honesty. Mighty God, save our country and empower its good leaders
to lead its people safely off the present perverted time.
**Elias Bejjani
Chairman for the Canadian Lebanese Coordinating Council (LCCC)
Human Rights activist, journalist & political commentator.
Spokesman for the Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation (CLHRF)
E.Mail phoenicia@hotmail.com
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