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Editorial: The Tent 9
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jawad Adra)
Thu Oct 16 15:34:06 2008
To: crypto.discuss@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
From: "Jawad Adra" <newsletter@xtremezones.info>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:33:58 -0400
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<P align=3Dcenter><FONT size=3D4>Jawad N. Adra</FONT><BR><A href=3D"http://=
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<P align=3Dcenter><FONT size=3D5>The Tent (Part 9)<BR>or The Tent of Those =
Without a Tent</FONT></P><FONT size=3D3><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma=
','sans-serif'"><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman"><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: =
'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','=
sans-serif'">
<P><STRONG><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"=
>A Maronite:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Taho=
ma','sans-serif'"> The world has changed=85! I still remember when Bashir<S=
UP>1</SUP> used to take us to the monastery for military training =85 =93Th=
e Palestinians and the Syrians are our enemies=85 and the Muslims are their=
allies so they are our enemies too,=94 Father Charbel Qassis<SUP>2</=
SUP> used to preach back then. <?xml:namespace prefix =3D o ns =3D "urn:sch=
emas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Charles=
Malek<SUP>3</SUP> wrote about =93an eternal and immortal </SPAN><SPAN styl=
e=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><?xml:namespace prefix =3D ns0 ns =
=3D "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><ns0:country-region><ns0=
:place><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">Lebanon</SPAN></ns0:place></ns0:country=
-region><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">=85=94 and about the =93Christian soci=
ety=94 resisting the Bedouin incursion. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">I fough=
t tooth and nail; I killed and my brother was killed, but I never gave up.<=
o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Then ag=
ain, when Bashir was killed; the world started changing and the Christians =
were no longer united. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">I was k=
icked out from my village in the Chouf and never managed to return until to=
day. The Druze have long been our enemies but now they are our allies; the =
same applies to the Sunnis. The Shia=92a were once our friends, today they =
are our enemies. As for the Syrians that=92s a more complicated story. I st=
ill remember when Camille Chamoun<SUP>4</SUP> and Pierre Gemayel<SUP>5</SUP=
> sought the help of </SPAN><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-seri=
f'"><ns0:country-region><ns0:place><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">Syria</SPAN=
></ns0:place></ns0:country-region><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black"> when Palest=
inians were about =93to invade=94 our villages and towns. I also remember t=
he two men=92s famous saying: =93</SPAN><ns0:country-region><SPAN style=3D"=
COLOR: black">Lebanon</SPAN></ns0:country-region><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: blac=
k"> and </SPAN><ns0:country-region><ns0:place><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">=
Syria</SPAN></ns0:place></ns0:country-region><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black"> =
are just like twins.=94 <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">So, </S=
PAN><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><ns0:country-region>=
<ns0:place><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">Syria</SPAN></ns0:place></ns0:count=
ry-region><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black"> was once an enemy then it became a =
friend, and then back to being an enemy but now=85?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN=
></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">I also =
remember that I was amongst those who welcomed Ariel Sharon in </SPAN><SPAN=
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><ns0:country-region><ns0:plac=
e><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">Lebanon</SPAN></ns0:place></ns0:country-regi=
on><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">. At the time we thought we were amazingly =
strong because we were allied to invincible </SPAN><ns0:country-region><ns0=
:place><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">Israel</SPAN></ns0:place></ns0:country-=
region><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">. Today, we are the allies of Mahmoud A=
bbas<SUP>6</SUP>, Maqddah<SUP>7</SUP>, and Abu al-Aynayn<SUP>8</SUP>. I als=
o carried a cedar to the March 14 demonstration and screamed: =93Long live =
Bashir!=94 <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Speakin=
g about cedars, I should tell you what we did to Bshareh=92s cedars forest;=
we could have tuned it to wood fire but one Syrian officer forbid us=85 Wh=
at could we possibly do? It was so cold! <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">But now=
things have changed=85 What did we do to ourselves? =93This is not the tim=
e to discuss this,=94 we are told.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><STRONG><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"=
>A Sunni:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma'=
,'sans-serif'"> Things have indeed hanged. I used to be a fighter with Al-M=
urabitun<SUP>9</SUP> . Abu Amar<SUP>10</SUP> trained us to fight, and to co=
llect protection money from =93</SPAN><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma',=
'sans-serif'"><ns0:place><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">West Beirut</SPAN></n=
s0:place><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">.=94 I fought, killed and my son was =
killed =93all for the sake of </SPAN><ns0:City><ns0:place><SPAN style=3D"CO=
LOR: black">Palestine</SPAN></ns0:place></ns0:City><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: bl=
ack">,=94 I thought at the time. The =93Zionist enemy=94 had invaded </SPAN=
><ns0:City><ns0:place><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">Beirut</SPAN></ns0:place=
></ns0:City><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black"> and the Maronites, I mean the Leb=
anese Forces, were their allies. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Abu Sha=
ker<SUP>11</SUP>, the Amal Movement, the Progressive Socialist Party ruled =
over =93</SPAN><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><ns0:plac=
e><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">West Beirut</SPAN></ns0:place><SPAN style=3D=
"COLOR: black">.=94 We were the law. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">We neve=
r harassed =93our fellow Christians,=94 but most of them had left </SPAN><S=
PAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><ns0:place><SPAN style=3D"=
COLOR: black">West Beirut</SPAN></ns0:place><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">. =
=93The sheep follow their shepherd,=94 as the old Lebanese saying goes.<o:p=
></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">It=92s =
true that we slaughtered people based on their confessions and affiliations=
, but they did the same to us too. In the old days the =93enemy=94 resided =
in =93East Beirut,=94 but things have changed now and </SPAN><SPAN style=3D=
"FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><ns0:country-region><ns0:place><SPAN s=
tyle=3D"COLOR: black">Syria</SPAN></ns0:place></ns0:country-region><SPAN st=
yle=3D"COLOR: black"> became our sole enemy. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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inor-latin">The Sunnis are no longer marginalized and weakened... </SPAN></=
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