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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 29. Juli 2006 / Time Line July 29, 2006
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Saoud briefing
dear dear friends...
It is the 18th day of war and aggression..Remember: in my first
e-mail I told you "it is only the beginning and it will be a long
war"..and I still think today that it will not end soon..I cannot
say this to my family and my neighbours and friends who hope and
pray to go back to their homes and towns and villages...yesterday
,and this morning, Beirut lived a calm time..people went outside
their buildings and houses to buy what they need..every thing is
very very expensive ..6 jordanian planes,one egyptian,one
american,one saoudian, landed since yesterday on the international
airport to deliver medical and humanitarian supplies and aid to the
civilians..this doesn't mean that the airport will work
soon..Israel will not permit its reopening until the end of the
war..meanwhile South Lebanon and Baalbak and the Southern suburb of
Beirut were still under fire and heavy bombings..we succeeded
yesterday and today in making food and medical aid enter some
villages and towns in the south under the UN flag..hundreds and
thousands of citizens are still caught in some villages in the
south under the bombings and they couldn't move even to bury their
dead siblings or neighbours..in Tyre (my wife's native town) and
its neighbouring villages , we buried 140 bodies..there is still
more than 90 bodies under the wreckage of destroyed buildings..all
of these bodies were of civilians..70% of them were children..and
this is only Tyre..the old phoenician historical city..my wife went
just now with her sister to present condolences to a neighbour who
lost her 2 sons and the son of her sister...what can you say to
her??and as you can see we still make social contacts and
solidarity gatherings even though it is dangerous to wander outside
your home or house.. The israelis didn't succeed in occupying 3
small villages in the south after 5 days of heavy fighting with
Hizbullah..so they decided to withdraw back and to continue their
air-strikes on all what moves in the south..this is their
"intelligent" war supported by the "intelligent" bombs delivered to
them yesterday by the USA..believe me this is what they call them
:"intelligent missiles or bombs"???today Mrs Dr Rice is coming back
to the ME to try to impose her version of cease-fire...our
government,and not only Hizbullah,didn't agree on the USA plan for
the cease-fire..you will not believe what Kondy told our
government: there will not be a cease-fire until you accept the
israeli conditions???? our government is asking for a package deal
that will solve the causes of the conflict..the Israelis will try
today and tomorrow to achieve some progress in their plan so Mrs
Rice can speak from a position of power and force ..but this will
not succeed..I don't know why the big powers don't learn anything
from History?? How they think that they can impose what they want
by force and war?? why they forget that the people of any oppressed
nation will rise again and again in a struggle of resistance and
fight back...that war and violence will give birth to more war and
violence and to more sufferings and killings??? how they imagine
that they can solve problems and "spread Democracy" by killing
civilians and destroying villages and towns and making 1 million
persons displaced and homeless and frustrated??? Israel cannot win
this war..but lebanon was devastated and destroyed and the USA is
seen as conspirator and supporter in this destruction...How they
will end terrorism?? they gave birth now to hundreds and thousands
of new suicide bombers and new Bin Laden recruitees...(I don't know
if recruitee is a good english word..but you can use it here).
Yesterday Johnny woke me up at 6 am..she was phoning from Boston to
tell me that she spoke with her congrssman and that he told her
that the USA will evacuate people like me who are not USA citizens
but have some kind of visa or document etc...I told her it is still
a hope not a reality..I am still working on this and I hope that we
will be able to send my son Rida next week..I am meeting with an
official in the embassy next monday morning..so wait and see..I
want to tell my friends who are concerned by this issue and who are
working and trying to make me leave Beirut by a special way?? that
I CANNOT leave Beirut NOW as a special USA case..it will harm my
credibility and my work here..I thank them all for what they are
doing but urge them to understand my situation and my position..:I
cannot leave like this while my people is counting the USA bombs
falling on them and killing their children??? thank you again and
again and thousands of time...the best way to help is to continue
to focus on the sufferings of the poor homeless people who lost all
what they have, including the lives of their beloved ones, their
human dignity and self respect.
yesterday I visited with my father and brother and wife, refugees
in the christian mountain..we spent 3 hours with them..130 families
in a covenant..they were from Tyre (my wife's town , her brother's
family is among them) and Nabatieh (my brother's wife family among
them)..yes my brother's family and my brother-in-law family are
among these refugees because we couldn't accomodate them in our
home since we already have 3 families living with us...My son Rida
and my daughter Lama(16) as well as their cousins and friends work
with a NGO in providing shelter and food and medicine to displaced
and homeless people..they go at 7-8 am and come back very late
after midnight..usually this is not accepted in our families..but
these days all the Lebanese youngsters are doing the same.. and the
parents are praying to God that He protects and helps them..I will
be interviewed tomorrow Sunday between 9 and 11 am (Beirut's
time)on LBC (a lebanese famous important channel broadcasting also
on sattelite)..I am working on Rida's travel via Jordan to
Indiana..Tickets are becoming very very expensive..even the taxi
which usually takes 20$ for a person is asking today for 1000$ and
sometimes more..people who fled the South yesterday said that they
paid 1000$ to reach Beirut (80 kms only)..fuel and bread are
becoming rare (expensive then)..many people will profit from the
war (as usual and as in any war in history)..Until now the internet
is still working... so we are still connected to the world..but we
cannot use it as much as we need or want to ,because the
electricity goes and comes and the lines are very busy as you can
imagine..shortage of water is the most sensitive thing that can
harm civilians..thanks God water is still supplied every 3
days..but we are fearing the worse in this case...Beirut is still
supplied with electricity (not 24 hours but between 12 and 18: it
depends on the bombings)..but the southern suburb and South lebanon
are not supplied at all..they are under a total black out...Israel
is SYSTEMATICALLY bombing all the south (they finished with the
southern suburb of Beirut which was totally destroyed)..they are
bombing all the villages and towns and roads..this is because they
cannot occupy again south Lebanon: they know that if they occupy
they will be forced to face again a new polpular resistance...so
their plan is to destroy the south as a way to force hizbullah out
of it and then the international forces can come and stay in the
south to defend Israel's borders ?? this is what Mrs Rice is saying
clearly and Mr Bush said their will not be a cease-fire until we
are sure that hizbullah is pushed 40kms north and disarmed...Israel
and Mr Bush do not know that they cannot defeat a political popular
party (hizbullah is not a regular army)and that the Shii are today
more supportive of hizbullah which is becoming the ONLY Shii party
that represents them and defends them...how strange that all the
big think tank intellectuals and strategists of the
New-conservatives didn't learn anything from the political science
courses and books that they are fond of....from Plato till Mao-Ze
Dong...
Just now the BBC called and they want me "live" at 3 pm (8 am
Indiana time...I don't know if anybody is awake now and can see it
and record it for the others to watch later??)..
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