A clip passed on LBC's Basmat Watan whereby a Lebanese ties a Palestinian and wears the Red Scarf (Koufieh), and takes a check from the Public Sector compensation, and then as he is fleeing, he dumps the Koufieh on the head of the tied-up Palestinian, and tells him: "I am a Lebanese who had to steal your identity to make cash from the state.... (laughs)... the immigrants of the Mountain (Mt. Lebanon/ al-Jabbal) till now didnt return, but a Palestinian?" and he runsaway
First, I want to say that even if this is intended towards the government, this is very racial towards the Palestinian civilians...
Second, opening the issue of Mt. Lebanon immigrants is illogical since a lot of the political figures of 8th of March never tackled such an issue while they were part of the government. (then it was Junblatt who took charge of the Immigrants' Box)
Third, Basmat Watan is known to be mostly Pro-Aoun (despite LBC is pro-14th of March)... and that is the type of extreme Nationalism that we expect from all of them...
Fourth, if people are so bothered by the presence of the Palestinian Refugee Camps and their residents, perhaps they can wonder why several militant groups rose over there due to bad conditions, specially most of the Palestinians (mostly lower class) never allowed to have full rights as citizens, while different reports warned about the aggravated sanitory and living conditions of the camps... so what are the Palestinian Refugees to the political officials (14th of March/Opposition)? Bargaining cards with the outside world?!
Fifth, already Racism has spread toward the Palestinians in Lebanon, due to extreme nationalist parties, Arafat's blunders in the Past, and of course, most recently to heavily politicized Nahr el Bared events whereby the Palestinians are suffering part of the accountability of the existence of Fatah Islam. Well, wasnt it the fleeing residents of Nahr el Bared, two weeks before the war with Fatah Islam broke out, were begging any official to intervene on an investigation that appeared on LBC itself?!
Sixth, whatever is racist it is replaced with reverse racism... so now people think they are getting even with the Palestinians due to the events starting since late sixties: first Palestinian Missile propagading from Lebanon and to Israel. Well guess again, this would cause both Lebanese and Palestinians to be more isolated than ever even though they both live in the same country. Moreover, a lot of Lebanese Christians are originally Palestinians given the Lebanese identity when the racist Zionist organization expelled them from their homes, and till now they dont dare to expose themselves as "Palestinian Christians"
Finally, specially to the Christian parties of Lebanon, such as Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement & Phalange Party, there is a joke that ends with nice ironic information "Jesus is Palestinian". As for the rest racist parties, they are not excluded. Till now, several AMAL movement members take pride in the "War of the Camps" against the Palestinians, while the old generation of the Sunni faction still remember the horrors of the PLO reign over "West Beirut" and blame it on the current generation of civilians who are neither combatants nor even politicians, simply civilians with minimum conditions of living. The Upper class Palestinians live equally like the rest of the Lebanese because money buys rights, while they drifted in general (interview with 12 different families) away from Politics and prefer to keep a low profile rather shed light on the situation. This may sound as a very subjective post, but yes, what to expect from a stupid post that attacks the government on the expense of the Palestinians...
No War but Class War
MFL
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4 comments:
cant see why you have it against bassmet watn when it picks on everyone but nasrallah, we seen what happened last year. Also to say to us lebanese that palestians this and that mate go tell the palestian people themselves that kill each other every day.
keep the good work up LBC and god damn the al manar tv as that is the racists channel of lebanon
actually LBC is moderate compared to the other channels, Mannar TV and Future TV are considered the two extremes or polars in Lebanon
It's called a sketch comedy show, with emphasis on comedy. I don't know where you are from but for us Lebanese, it is pretty comical that foreigners/refugees are getting more attention than the Lebanese themselves who were driven from their homes because of those same foreigners.
You come from the logic of Marounstan my friend...
For starters, funny how the Palestinians in 1948 till 1969 never did that... while afterwards, the PLO, who I do notlike at all, became a political power in "West Beirut"... and afterwards the PLO became a Militia like anyone else and not the Palestinian Citizens... whereby a lot paid the price of the leaders
Second, please remind me, wasnt it the Syrian Army that bombed East Beirut for 100 Days after Pierre Gemayel, Camille Shamoun, and Suleiman Frangieh Sr. invited them over (and confirmed by Henry Kissinger himself, among other references?)
Third, Wasnt the Lebanese Front and Lebanese National Movement political parties expelling people from their homes?
Fourth, Wasnt the Israelis practically almost demolished West Beirut by the israelis upon the invitation by Bashir Gemayel himself with the blessings of Camille Shamoun and Pierre Gemayel Sr?)
Fifth, you call the Palestinians as foreigners in a racial sense...please explain to the children of the refugee camps how they kicked you out?
Sixth, re-read my blog, since I do not tolerate any form of racism...if you accept such shows, then seriously re-read your values on democracy
Seventh, I lived all my life in Lebanon... and a holder of the Lebanese citizenship, so where ancestors if that what you are pondering... and it doesnt feel that great sarahatan ... it is just a tag on an identity card...
Eighth, when you get people since 1948 living in this country denied any rights, unlike else where then freaking decide what you want to do with them... but do not deserve this treatment, unless you consider everything non-Lebanese as non-deserving of at least Human Rights...again when the War of the Jabal broke out, does it mean every maronite should hate every durzi or vice versa? Reconsider you words my friend, and hoping for a constructive debate at least...
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