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Beirut and Haifa: They used to be twin cities, before Israel was created to block daily communication
Posted by: adonis49 on: November 28, 2019
In: Book Review | cities/geography | Essays | Jews/Israel/Palestine | Lebanon/Middle East/Near East/Levant | social articles
Note: This is a re-edit of "Tales of Twin Cities: Beirut and Haifa (April 1, 2009)"
By the year 1933, the city of Haifa was the main magnet for the Levant people (Lebanese and Syrians) and Iraqis.
A railroad linked Haifa to Egypt, Damascus and to the Hijjaz (Mecca) in the Arabic Peninsula (Now called Saudi Kingdom).
A pipeline was exporting half of Iraq's production toward Europe. A modern port was the main export location of Syria's wheat and grain to Europe. A new oil refinery was installed. Haifa was the most prosperous and promising destination for the Lebanese.
Many streets were named after Lebanese towns and cities. Anywhere you walked the stores had common Lebanese family names. The Maronite Selim Khoury from Bkaseen (a town by Jezzine) was considered the richest in Palestine; he instituted a modern silk factory and many laborers from Lebanon flocked there.
The families of Bustros, Sursok, and Tuweiny owned half the fertile plains in Galilee ( of about 180 square kilometers). Suleiman Nassif had exclusivity on thermal pools. (These families sold their lands to the Zionists in order to establish their political foothold in Lebanon)
The CAT Company, a building contractor, erected series of houses outside Acre' s walls.
Lebanese educators and intellectuals taught there.
The famous lawyer, Wadi3 Bustani was the special counselor to the British Governor Colonel Stanton. Dailies were created. Haifa was like Qatar and Dubai today for the Lebanese emigrants; they were welcomed and needed to absorb the fast pace economic explosion.
Then, in 1948, the infamous Zionist State was created by a majority of a single vote in the UN (when most countries didn't yet enjoy "independence" from the colonial powers).
The administrations of the USA, France, and Britain wanted to get rid of the Jews in their midst. The monster Stalin stupidly believed that Israel would be the first communist State in the Middle East.
The tide turned and the Palestinians flocked to Lebanon.
The prosperous and educated Palestinian refugees headed to Beirut. What the English and USA governments could not do in Lebanon was done by the Palestinians: the English language spread and prospered. The American University in Beirut got a new lease on life; most of the Arabs in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq studied in Beirut.
In fact, the most powerful bank in the Middle-East and based in Lebanon Intra was owned by a Palestinian Bidass. USA and Israel wanted to bankrupt this bank and ordered the Central Bank to cut off liquidity for the bank, though it had far more assets that the depositors needed.
The port of Beirut was modernized and expanded and replaced Haifa; oil pipelines and refineries were installed in Lebanon, most of the land transit passed through the port of Beirut.
South Lebanon was transformed into a vast garden of orange and apple orchards thanks to the expertise of the cultivators of Jaffa (Yafa).
The financial institutions in Beirut flourished. The insurance businesses got foothold. Even today, most of the insurance executives are of Palestinian origins. Folk dancing, songs, theaters were initiated by Palestinian artists.
The rich Palestinian Christians were offered the Lebanese citizenship. The poor Palestinian Christian refugees were installed in camps in Christian districts such as the camps of Jisr Basha, Dbaiyeh, and Mar Elias. The Palestinian Moslems were distributed in camps all over Lebanon.
These inexpensive Palestinian workmen were the main backbone for the emerging small and medium industries and in agriculture (currently replaced by Syrians refugees); until the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) disturbed the entire structure when it installed its headquarters in Beirut in 1969.
During the civil war that started in 1975, all the Christian Palestinian camps were overturned by the Lebanese Christian militias and the surviving refugees expelled from the Christian regions or cantons.
The PLO was forced to vacate Lebanon in 1982 and the Palestinian workforce was replaced by Syrians and the Palestinian refugees were confined to their camps; they experienced renewed constraints on work permits and selective jobs and restraining labor licenses.
Since time immemorial, the southern Lebanese seaport of Tyr was the administrative center for the entire region extending to beyond Haifa, Mount Carmel, and including upper Galilee.
Under normal circumstances, the coastal zone from Tyr to Haifa could have been the largest Megalopolis on the Mediterranean Sea.
The newly created apartheid Zionist State disrupted all kinds of major development in the region and blocked the daily trade and communication among the same people..
Note 1: I am reading the interesting Arabic/Lebanese book "This Life, my Sweetheart" (Ya Dunia, ya Gharamy) by Ussama El Aref. One of its chapters inspired the theme of this article.
Note 2: After the Second World War, Germany welcomed the Kurdish workforce, arriving by train with fanfare and official bands, because it needed badly to reconstruct the country. Germany thinks that it finished reconstruction and has no idea how to repatriate the Kurds of Turkey.
Germany is offering to finance private enterprises in the Kurdish region for any Kurdish family willing to return. The catch is: would anyone Not feeling secure and safe in his homeland return? Would Germany re-welcome any Kurds if political conditions deteriorate?
Tags: (PLO), adonis49, beirut, Bidass, colonial powers, Dbaiyeh, Galilee, Haifa, Intra, Jisr Basha, Kurdish workforce, Levant people, Mar Elias, Megalopolis, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Selim Khoury, silk factory, twin cities, Ussama El Aref, Zionists
Palestinian Liberation Organization calls for sanctions Activism Palestinian BDS National Committee
Posted by: adonis49 on: January 23, 2018
In: Essays | Events/Cultural/Educational/Arts | Jews/Israel/Palestine | social articles
PLO endorses BDS, makes unprecedented call for sanctions
Palestinian BDS National Committee on January 17, 2018
On Monday, the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, officially announced its support for the BDS movement and called, for the first time, on the international community to "impose sanctions on Israel" to end its ongoing, grave violations of Palestinian rights as stipulated by international law.
This is the most explicit and official adoption of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement by the PLO.
Specifically, a statement released by the Palestinian Central Council, the second highest authority in the PLO, agreed to:
Adopt the BDS movement and call on states around the world to impose sanctions on Israel to put an end to its flagrant violations of international law, its continued aggression against the Palestinian people, and to the apartheid regime [Israel has] imposed on them.
This statement emerged from a PLO meeting centered on the Trump administration's efforts to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in contravention of decades of US policy and in direct violation of international law. The meeting took place in occupied Ramallah on January 14-15, and included the majority of the PLO Central Council's 109 members.
It also comes in the wake of Israel's escalating theft of Palestinian land through its expansion of illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territory and its ruling party's escalating efforts to annex all illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. To date, there are more than 600,000 illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) said:
As the leadership of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights, we welcome the PLO's decision to officially and unequivocally declare its support for the BDS movement, already supported across the breadth of Palestinian society in Palestine and in exile. This declaration, along with the PLO's unprecedented call for sanctions against Israel, will further enhance the growth and impact of BDS across the world in pursuit of Palestinian freedom, justice and equality.
The PLO's executive branch should implement the Central Council's decisions by calling for states to impose meaningful sanctions on Israel's regime of military occupation and apartheid, like those imposed on apartheid South Africa.
With this official Palestinian backing of BDS, we shall work more diligently than ever with our popular base and international allies to push for a two-way military embargo on Israel, the suspension of free trade agreements with it, and the cessation of trade with or investment in any Israeli or international company involved in Israel's annexation of occupied Palestinian land and flagrant violation of Palestinian human rights.
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How the half million Palestinian refugees disappeared in Lebanon since 1948?
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Note 1: The survey sheds light on the living conditions of the latest count of 174,422 Palestinian refugees, as well as another 18,601 Palestinians who fled the neighboring conflict in Syria to camps in Lebanon. Instead of the official count of over 460,000 since 1948 and the successive Israel preemptive wars in Palestine and Lebanon.
The painstakingly conducted count found the Palestinians evenly divided between men and women with half of the total 24 years or younger. While 7.2 percent are illiterate, 93.6% of children aged between three to 13 were enrolled in schools.
Also documented is the well-known fact that Lebanon's Palestinian camps suffer serious problems, with varying degrees of poverty, diseases, overcrowding, unemployment, poor housing and lack of any functioning infrastructure.
The census found that the rate of unemployment among young Palestinians aged 20 to 29 is 28.5% whereas for Lebanese it is currently 6.8 percent (If this percentage of unemployed Lebanese is correct, it certainly Not taking account of the thousands who immigrate every year for no return and those living in remote areas, barely surviving).
Note 2: Is Lamb trying to preempt Donald Trump's decision to curtail Palestinian refugees aid? Trying to offer the lame excuse that the poor and non-oil producing countries (Lebanon, Jordan) cover the UNRWA deficit? Lamb uses terms of "colonization by Iran" as a way of discrediting the resistance of the Lebanese to Israel's many successive , preemptive wars, 8 of them and frequent threats on Lebanon
By Franklin Lamb [First Published by Counter Punch, January 5, 2018]
Rashidieh Palestinian camp, on the border of Occupied Palestine, by Franklin P. Lamb . The first ever official census of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon was finally released on 12/21/2017 in Beirut. The village by village and camp by camp survey by 500 specialists found that only 174,422 Palestinian refugees are living these days in the country.
Counted were all Palestinians living in the 12 official camps and 156 informal settlements known as 'gatherings' and those living outside these areas across Lebanon. This figure is shockingly lower than the previous estimate of 469,331 Palestinians by UNRWA and as many as 600,00 by others for political purposes. (Trump has started to drop funding of UNRWA
Lebanon is a country where demographics have long been a politically sensitive subject to be approached with extreme caution. For the past nearly 85 years (since 1932) Lebanon's leaders have refused to allow a count of the population out of feelings of terror that a rival sect, among the 17 other rival sects, might gain power at their expense were there to be an honest count. Consequently, plenty of political lords have used fake population figures, without fear of contradiction by a forbidden official government count, to secure benefits-political and financial- for their own sect.
With respect to Lebanon and regional endemic tribalism, one is reminded of the words of Hannah Arendt from her volume, "The Origins of Totalitarianism:"
"Politically speaking, tribal nationalism always insists that its own people is surrounded by "a world of enemies", "one against all", that a fundamental difference exists between these people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man".
The reason for UNWRA's own higher figures since it was created by General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) 69 years ago this month to help feed and care for refugees forced out of their homes in Palestine, its mandate has always been to register all Palestinians who, since the 1948 Nakba, apply for its help.
This UNWRA has faithfully done to the best of its ability while facing many obstacles-political and financial-over the decades.
Affecting its record keeping, starting in 1950s, scores of thousands of Palestinian refugees left Lebanon for a better life abroad. Just as more than 1,780,000 Lebanese have done since the onslaught of Lebanon's civil war in 1975. Hence the larger number of UNRWA recorded registrants. UNRWA does not have a headcount of every Palestinian refugee who currently resides in Lebanon.
What they do have are official registration records for the number of registered Palestine refugees in Lebanon. If a Palestinian registered with UNRWA in Lebanon should decide to live outside Lebanon, as countless thousands have, they don't normally advise UNRWA that they are moving.
As a gentleman this observer admires, Hassan Mneimneh, chairman of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee, which coordinated the census, told the media a couple of weeks ago, "tens of thousands of Palestinians left Lebanon when the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) withdrew from the country in 1982. This observer knows something about this firsthand as he was on one of the August 1982 boats than left Beirut harbor by boat for Tunis courtesy of an invitation from Yasser Arafat along with the American journalist, Janet Lee Stevens.
Unfortunately, Janet missed the boat as she was assuring a group of Palestinian women in Burj al Barajneh camp in South Beirut that all would be OK as they worried about losing their PLO protection. The next month was the Sabra-Shatila massacre and seven months later April 18, 1983 Janet and our unborn child, Clyde Chester Lamb III were killed in the bombing at the American Embassy.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians left Lebanon when the PLO withdrew from the country in 1982.
Like the Lebanese over the past 3 decades, many Palestinians try to leave Lebanon at the first opportunity. And why wouldn't they?
Lebanese seemingly leave their birth country any chance they get these days and during Lebanon's civil war more than one million left and hundreds of thousands have until today.
There are fewer than 3.5 million Lebanese remaining with many of them searching for the first opportunity to begin a new life elsewhere because they realize that there is little future here for their children given the deep prevailing corruption of the former 'warlords' who appointed themselves 'political lords.
Other reasons include the growing Iranian influence in Lebanon and the failure of the Sunni and Christians to counter the takeover of their country.
According to this seminal study, undertaken by both Lebanese and Palestinian statistics bureaus and the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, 45.1% of the 174,000 Palestinians in Lebanon live in refugee camps, while the remaining 54.9 percent live in "other gatherings."
According to the census taking teams spokesperson: "We would see huge numbers used, 500, or 600 thousand, and these would be used in politics. But this demographic project was able to define things, and thank God today we have results,"
Prime Minister Saad Hariri said in an address at the event where the figures were released. The survey sheds much needed light on the living conditions of 174,422 Palestinian refugees, as well as another 18,601 Palestinians who fled the neighboring conflict in Syria to camps in Lebanon.
The survey found that the number of Palestinian in Lebanon were split essentially evenly between men and women, with half of the total being 24 years or younger. The percentage of Palestinian youth is nearly identical to the numbers of youth across the Middle East.
Dear reader can imagine what these demographics and living conditions portend for this region as the bright, energetic and acutely aware youth seek justice and empowerment from dictatorships who have cynically denied them empowerment for countless decades. Revolution is in the air across in Lebanon's Palestinian camps and across this region.
Announcing the population survey results, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Lebanon had a "duty" towards Palestinians. He pointed to "exaggerations" as for the number of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon which estimated the count at 600,000. He said the "actual number is 174,422," assuring "that the State will adhere to its responsibilities."
Hariri lamented how "some parties in the international community wish to offer no help to UNRWA but instead want to disrupt UNRWA."
Pointing to the UNRWA's financial crisis, he said: "It directly affects the basic requirements of refugees in Lebanon. We call upon donor countries to increase their contributions and support to enable UNRWA fulfill its financial obligations to meet the needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon."
With a total of $644,701,999 in contributions, the US, EU, UK, Sweden, Norway, Germany, The Netherlands and Japan pay 71% of the annual UNRWA budget. Mr. Hariri omitted mention of the fact that Lebanon, like Israel, donates zero dollars to UNRWA's budget.
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Assuming the PM is sincere, and this observer does, then Lebanon "adhering to its responsibilities" can be quickly demonstrated by its Parliament granting Palestinians the half-century overdue elementary civil rights to work and to own a home granted to every refugee on earth by every country but Lebanon.
Why do many Lebanese politicians inflate the number of Palestinians in Lebanon?
Plenty of Lebanese and regional political lords have used the inflated Palestinian population figures seeking political advantage.
Lebanon's anti-Palestinian block that consistently misrepresents the number of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is led by more than one Christian militia who committed the 1982 massacre at Sabra-Shatila and by the Amal Shia militia that carried out the 1985-89 massacres at three camps which they servilely, on orders from the east, labeled "wars of the camps."
There were no wars but rather massacres of Palestinian civilians who were without weapons to protect themselves since the PLO left Lebanon in August of 1982.
Among others with a long history of misrepresentation of the number of Palestinians, is Lebanon's President, Michel Aoun. When this observer last met with Aoun as part of a delegation of pro-Palestinian Americans, Aoun stressed the point as he has done dozens of times before and since, that there are 600,000 Palestinians in Lebanon who, he implies are sucking Lebanon dry.
Also accused by Mr. Rifi of the same crime as Aoun is his son-in-law Jebran Bassil , who got appointed Foreign Minister despite Bassil having admitted he has no qualifications for the post but is close to Hezbollah and Iran like his father-in-law.
This week Bassil is again facing calls to resign. This time for remarks he made this week about Israel being no threat to Lebanon. Speaking on Iran funded Al-Mayadeen on 12/26/2017, Bassil in his position as Lebanon's Foreign Minister, stated: "For Lebanon, [Israel] isn't an ideological cause. We are not against Israel existing in security. We accept it. We are not against it. We just want all people to live in peace and to recognize each other. This is not a blind cause." Adding "We are a people who accept and want the Other, despite our differences." (For a reminder to all: Israel is an existential enemy in the Near East and created mainly by USA and the colonial powers)
In response to Bassil's statements, former Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk called on Bassil to immediately be fired, declaring: "If Jebran Bassil does not find an ideological difference with Israel and demands security for it, Cabinet should dismiss him because he violates the Constitution. "Is this Lebanon's position in international forums? This is shameful!"
(Bassil had to meet with Hassan Nasrallah, secretary General of Hezbollah, for 5 hours after his unwelcome pronouncement. Israel is an existential enemy to the people in the Near-East countries)
As do some other anti-Palestinian politicians in Lebanon, including the former Minister of Education and Aoun partner, Elias Bou Saab as he a few months ago incited his Christian supporters with the 600,000 Palestinians in Lebanon gross exaggeration at an event at the American University of Beirut (AUB) which this observer attended.
(The author is confusing anti-Palestinian/isolationist sections of mainly Christians Parties with people wanting that the world community apply UN 196 resolution of returning Palestinian refugees to Palestine)
Mr. Saab knows that many of his and Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) political party supporters worry about Muslims swamping them politically and socially much as was the case in the run-up to the 1975-90 civil war. (The Moslems, Sunnis, Shiaas and Druze are already 75% of the population)
Truth told Mr. Saab is probably not all that wild about this observer because at the above-noted event earlier this year in the presence of the UN's elegant Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag and a number of officials and directors of NGO's and plenty of media, this no-account observer proceeded to deliver a short- well so it seemed to me- lecture with ample details and statistics to the then Minister of Education Bou Saad on the subject of inflating the number of Palestinians in Lebanon for political purposes.
I also painstakingly addressed the subject of the right to work and home ownership for Palestinian refugees forced into Lebanon against their will 7 decades ago (as Israel chased them out of their homeland). Despite the Ministers public assurance that he would meet with me and we can "fix the problem about the right to work" I still not heard from the gentleman.
But as life instructs us, there is plenty of good in all of us and during his three years as Minister of Education, Elias Bou Saab did, to his great credit, work to get a significant number of the 200,000 Syrian refugee kids now scattered across Lebanon into its public-school system employing a double session innovation whereby Syrian child could study using the same classrooms during split shift afternoon-evening time slot.
Some of the same political motivations have led to fake statistics regarding the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
As of the end of November 2017, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) tallied 997,905 Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
A clear majority of them being women and children who fled their country to Lebanon from the outbreak of the civil war in March of 2011. More than 70% live in extreme poverty, struggling to eke out a living while sheltering in informal tented settlements or unfinished buildings because Parliament has refused to authorize refugee camps where they could receive more organized assistance.
The highest number of Syrian refugees who were ever in Lebanon from the ongoing war next door was 1,011,366.
From 2011 until September 2017, nearly 49,000 Syrians departed Lebanon for third countries under the UN's resettlement program including the United States, Sweden, and France. Others left on their own, making the dangerous sea journey to reach Europe.
As with the Palestinian refugee's count, the UN Syrian refugee tally has been shown to be 500,000 fewer than the 1.5 million scare tactic number some Lebanese politicians and their media have hyped for political purposes.
By buying food and necessities, made possible with international humanitarian aid, partly in the form of 'food stamp ATM cards' the Syrians are growing Lebanon's economy and Lebanon shopkeepers are generally thrilled with them. (The Syrians are and were the main construction workers in Lebanon, even before 2011. Now they are also into the restaurant and food business)
But Syrian refugees are not growing Lebanon's economy according to experts at the International Labor Organization (ILO) as fast as the Palestinian refugees would grow this country's ailing economy if they were allowed the elementary civil right to work and home ownership as required by international humanitarian law and Lebanon's constitution.
Lebanese law targets Palestinians that denies them the right to work, social security, or joining a union. There are at least 25 banned areas of work for Palestinians including medicine, law, engineering and pharmacy. Also outlawed for Palestinian is ownership of land, property or a home.
As Fathi Abu al-Ardat, a representative of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon, noted this past week: "when Palestinians have the rights to work and can live a decent life, they will improve the country on the level of economics, on the level of community, even on the level of security and stability for the country."
Iran & Hezbollah know better but also use inflated Palestinians population numbers to keep the increasingly restive Shia population loyal by inflating the size of the Palestinian Sunni "Takfiri" threat to Lebanon.
Approximately 92-96% of Palestinians are Sunni and many resent Iran influence for several reasons. One is that in Syria, Iran's funded and trained 12 militia including Hezbollah and the Al Quds force that have killed nearly four thousand Palestinians, and have targeted a majority of Syria's ten Palestinian camps. (This exaggeration demonstrate the biased and unfounded siding with USA/Israel/Saudi Kingdom front)
The Yarmouk Palestinian camp near Damascus was home to 120,000 and another Palestinian camp in Latakia last month. (During this world war on Syria, Hamas and many Palestinian jihadists sided with the "extremist opposition factions).
The most recent demolished camp, over the past two weeks, was in the Southern Ramal district of Latakia, which residents claim Iran wants to 'develop.' For nearly 70 years, Ramal has been located along Latakia city's southern coastline, on a strip of land that slopes down towards the Mediterranean Sea. The district was settled as an informal encampment in the 1950's by Palestinian refugees fleeing Jaffa and other coastal towns. Approximately 10,000 Palestinians in Syria have lost their homes in Ramal.
By slinging inflated figures for the number of Sunni Palestinians in Lebanon at the Shia community, Iran's leadership reportedly hopes to help Hezbollah whose primary bases, South Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and South Lebanon increasingly believe that their sons, brothers and fathers are dying in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan for no reason except the whims of Iran's Wali al-faqih.
(These are the kinds of crappy quick regurgitation of news media bad-wording against Iran)
Iran also seeks to instill fear among its own population to quell the growing number of protests from its own population spreading across Iran.
Iran, according to even neighborhood Hezbollah sources, has vastly overreached in the region with its hegemonic objectives and the people of the region, including increasing numbers of Shia, including thousands of fed up Iranians. Many Hezbollah leaders have long objected to what they have been ordered to do in Syria and the region.
Moreover, thousands of Iranian citizens have taken to the streets of the country's second-largest city, Mashhad and other towns this week to once again protest high prices, unemployment, and the fact that their government is spending countless billions funding militia across the Middle East while "our women are selling themselves on the streets for money to feed their families and our young men are forced to steal!"
(These uprising were consequent to banks foreclosure due to shortage in liquidity. It subsided within 3 days as millions of counter Iranians surged in the streets))
Videos on Nazar's Telegram channel showed citizens in Mashhad, an important religious center in the northeast of Iran, not chanting "Death to America" but rather "Death to the dictator" (Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei) and protesting about their ruler's efforts at regional hegemony, rather than improving conditions at home. "Not Gaza, not Syria, not Lebanon, my life for Iran" was one of main chants.
Iran's brutal theocratic rulers have a problem as many Iranian believe and hope that the current rebellion will rapidly spread and become for their rulers what Benghazi in February 2011 was for Gadaffi and Deraa, Syria was a month later for Assad. (The author is mainly day dreaming his wishes)
The claimed "Resistance" has also long used the inflated figure for political advantage as they seek to rein in many of their hard-core Shia supporters with claims that Palestinians in Lebanon comprise another 600,000 Sunni so why empower them with the civil rights to work and own a home? Given Hezbollah's political power it would take just 90 minutes in Parliament to grant Palestinians the right to work and home ownership. But the tribal "Resistance" axis has chosen to block these elementary civil rights.
Hopefully growing pressure from the new generation of young Palestinians vying for leadership positions in the camps and the growing number of young Shia in the region who no longer want to be fodder from their leaders seeking revenge for the events at Karbala 1,500 years ago, can persuade the "Resistance" that true Resistance begins with improving the Palestinian camps and being allowed to seek a job.
Since 2013, Professor Franklin P. Lamb has traveled extensively throughout Syria. His primary focus has been to document, photograph, research and hopefully help preserve the vast and irreplaceable archaeological sites and artifacts in Syria.
Like Iraq, Syria is the cradle of civilization, and as such it has been a rich source of our shared global culture and historic heritage. Already endangered from illegal excavation, looting, international trafficking and iconoclasm; the theft and destruction of these sites has greatly increased as a result of the conflict in the Middle East.
Many of the endangered archeological sites and artifacts are over 7,000 years old. The oldest remains found in Syria are from the Paleolithic era (c. 800,000 BCE). The most endangered artifacts and archaeological sites currently are in Tell Halaf, the north of Syria near the Turkish border with Syria.
These archaeological sites date as far back as 5,500 BCE. They include archaeological sites and artifacts of the Babylonian, Sumerian, Egyptian, Assyrian, Phoenician, Aramaic, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Omayyad, Ayyubid and Ottoman civilizations and empires.
Professor Franklin Lamb has also been working, sometimes under dangerous circumstances, to record and photograph the war damage done to religious icons, images, monuments, and ancient structures that span pre-Roman civilizations, and structures such as Islamic mosques, Christian churches and Jewish synagogues.
Professor Lamb is working to record and photograph these sites and artifacts because they are in danger of complete destruction for religious, political and illegal trafficking reasons, especially due to the ongoing wars in the Middle East.
Professor Franklin Lamb's website and his latest book, "Syria's Endangered Heritage, an International Responsibility to Preserve and Protect" presents exclusive and never published before photographs, records, data, articles, and interviews from across the whole of Syria. His book can be purchased at his website http://www.syrian-heritage.com/.
In addition to Dr. Lamb's urgent archaeological work he is also deeply committed to rescuing and aiding refugee children in Syria. He is a volunteer with the Lebanon, France, and USA based "Meals for Syrian Refugee Children, Lebanon (MSRCL)", which seeks to provide hot nutritional meals to Syrian and other refugee children.
Lamb says that the goal of MSRCL is to be able to provide one meal a day to 500 children. More donors are needed in order for him to reach that goal. At $2.25 per meal x 500 children per day ($1,225), the budget for a month (30 days) requires approximately $36,000.
Over 95% of each donation goes directly towards the cost of each meal. The MSCRL volunteer teams give their time, energy and even their own money to help the refugee children so that they will not become part of the "lost generation" of Syria.
Lamb's books and publications include "Pollution as a Problem of International Law"; "International Legal Responsibility for the Sabra Shatila Massacre"; "Israel's 1982 War in Lebanon: Eyewitness Chronicles of the Invasion and Occupation", "The Price We Pay: A Quarter Century of Israel's Use of American Weapons against Civilians in Lebanon in addition to the three volume set, "Palestine, Lebanon & Syria Palestine, Lebanon & Syria (Commentary and Analysis 2006-2016)."
Due out during Fall 2016, in English and Arabic, is "The Case for Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon: Why the Resistance Sleeps."
Dr. Lamb's most recent book is "Syria's Endangered Heritage: An International Responsibility to Preserve and Protect". http://www.Syrian-heritage.com
Lamb's Academic Credentials include: BA, and Law Degrees from Boston University, Master of Law (LLM) Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy from the London School of Economics (LSE); Diploma in International Air & Space Law from the University College of London; Post-Doctoral Studies at Harvard University Law School of East Asian Legal Studies Center, specializing in Chinese Law; International Legal Studies at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom; Studied Public International Law at The Hague Academy of international Law, at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands.
Lamb's Professional and Political Activities include Assistant Professor of International Law, Northwestern College of Law, Portland, Oregon and Assistant Counsel to the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, During the Administration of President Jimmy Carter, Lamb was elected for a four year term to the Democratic National Committee, representing the state of Oregon. Lamb served on the Democratic National Committee Judicial Council with California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi as well as the Platform Committee on East-West Relations. Professor Lamb served on the presidential campaign staff for Presidential Candidate Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.
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Posted by: adonis49 on: May 16, 2014
In: biographies/books | death/ terminally ill/ massacres, genocide | Events/Cultural/Educational/Arts | political Artical | social articles
Was he the planner of the Assassination of President elect Bashir Gemayel: Did Nabil Alam passed away?
Nabil Alam passed away probably this May 13, 2014.
He was one of the leaders of the Lebanese National Resistance. He was suffering from brain cancer in the last 3 years. He is survived by two daughters.
Apparently, he lived in Brazil, fleeing a death sentence by Lebanon court, and underwent several cosmetic surgeries. I believe that he was in his late sixties.
Samir Asmar added a photo of Nabil Alam in his youth.
Lebanon daily Al Akhbar reported the news in an article this May 14, 2014. It reads (taking liberty in translation from Arabic):
"What is the veracity of the passing away of Nabil 3Alam, the planner of the assassination of Beshir Gemayel, and one of the leaders (Security chief) during the civil war of the Lebanese-based Syria National Social Party? Alam was nicknamed "The Fox"
Alam is considered the one who recruited his comrade Habib Shartouni to execute the blowing of the building where Bashir was meeting in September 14, 1982 with Achrafieh's Phalanges members, the day prior to his inauguration as President of Lebanon.
Alam had returned briefly to Lebanon to attend the funeral of one of his cousins. It is rumored that the announcement of his death was a smokescreen to facilitate the return of Alam to Lebanon…"
I knew Nabil and visited him and his wife Sana2 a couple of times between 1981-82. Once in his apartment in Kontary (West Beirut) and in his office (ground-floor of a building facing the south-east entrance of the American University of Beirut (AUB).
In that period, between 1981-82 and before the Israeli invasion of 1982, I used to hang out and sleep over in West Beirut twice a month: Just to get away from the deadly boring mountain town.
Someone might have showed me where Nabil lived in his youth in Jbeil, on a side street of Blat going up to LAU.
I was in Lebanon when Bashir was assassinated and I heard many rumors. One of the rumors was that Nabil Alam was behind the planning of the assassination.
Another rumor was that Abu Ayad (second in command of Arafat) had decided this assassination and provided the logistics and support.
A third rumor was that the combined secret services of Syria and Israel cooperated on a joint common interest of eliminating Bashir. This alternative might sound ridiculous, but secret services of all kinds frequently cooperate on small matters, not even related to long-term strategy.
And the plan was so straightforward and carried out in relative ease that this third alternative cannot be ruled out.
The apartment of Habib's parents was above the meeting location in the building and Habib was to just arrange the bombs.
The Lebanese Forces assassinated the father and brother of Habib Shartouni and savagely tortured his sister.
Habib was incarcerated in the prison of Roumieh, without trial, till 1989. A group of his Party comrades liberated him from prison during President Amine Gemayel (elder brother of Bashir). Habib vanished since then.
It is highly probable that Shartouni had inside support from a few security leaders in the Lebanese Forces of Beshir.
Habib Shartouni publshed two books in Arabic. One is a collection of poems "Dictionary of the Memory, 2010" and a booklet "Law of Truth, 2006″ where he assembled the various Lebanese laws that treat the political assassination cases, and claims that the Syrian security services had nothing to do with his activity.
This claim is believable since the Syrians who occupied Lebanon didn't try to pardon Habib. Most importantly, at that period, the Party was split between the faction that supported the Syrian dictator Hafez Assad's strategy in Lebanon unconditionally and the faction that backed the independence in decision of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), and Nabil Alam paid allegiance to the second faction.
In note 1, I posted last month an article on what could have happened if the assassination of Beshir Gemayel had failed.
Note 1: In hindsight https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/in-hindsight-what-could-have-happened-if-beshir-gemayel-was-not-assassinated-in-1982/
Note 2: Relationship of Beshir with Ariel Sharon https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/these-sweet-lebanese-christians-kiss-the-hands-of-ladies-and-commit-the-worst-of-atrocities-ariel-sharon/
Note 3: Nidal Slim posted the condolence of the Lebanese National Resistance, the Martyr Muhammad slim division, which conducted attacks on the occupying Israeli troops after its invasion in 1982.
Note 4: The Arabic text of the daily Al Akhbar
ما صحة وفاة المخطّط والعقل المدبّر لاغتيال الرئيس بشير الجميل؟؟ أفادت معلومات صحافية انّ القيادي في الحزب السوري القومي الاجتماعي نبيل العلم، والذي يعتبر المخطط لعملية إغتيال رئيس الجمهورية اللبنانية السابق بشير الجميل قد توفي قبل أيام في مكان إقامته في البرازيل. ويعتبر العلم الذي خرج من لبنان قبيل إنتهاء الحرب الاهلية، المسؤول عن عملية الاعداد والتخطيط لاغتيال "الجميل" حيث جنّد "حبيب الشرتوني" لتنفيذ المهمة التي أداها الاخير بنجاح ناسفاً المبنى الذي كان يتواجد فيه "الجميل" ليلقي خطاب في مناصري حزب الكتائب عام 1982. ويعتبر "نبيل العلم" مطلوباً للعدالة، حيث صدرت بحقه أحكام وصلت إلى الاعدام في قضية إغتيال "الجميل"، ما اجبره على مغادرة لبنان وعدم العودة إليه. ووفق المعلومات، كان "العلم" بشغل مركز "مسؤول أمن" الحزب القومي خلال الحرب الاهلية
. ويعتبر "شخصية غامضة وسرية وذكية ومخابراتية نتيجة الدور الهام والامني الذي كان يلعبه في فترة الحرب حيث لقب بـ الثعلب". والجدير بالذكر ان نبيل العلم قد أجرى في البرازيل عدة عمليات جراحية تجميلية لاخفاء معالم وجههه الحقيقية، وقد حضر الى لبنان منذ فترة ولمدة قصيرة للتعزية باحد أقاربه الذي توفي في بلدة متنية وتأتي وفاة "العلم" وسط تكتم بسبب موقف القضاء اللبناني منه. وتتساءل اوساط سياسية إذا كان نبأ وفاة العلم خبر صحيح أم أن الحزب القومي يروّج له من أجل عودة العلم بطريقة سرية الى لبنان. محلي يلفت موقع "اخر الاخبار" انه غير مسؤول عن النص ومضمونه، وهو لا يعبّر إلا عن وجهة نظر كاتبه أو مصدره
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Young Ariel Sharon: Has he ever changed?
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" Palestinian women are slaves to the Jews, because that's how we want them to be"
War criminal Ariel Sharon, butcher of Beirut, is dead. He never faced justice for all the lives he ended and ruined. (Graphic by Doc Rocket & me) Ben White's photo.
General Ouze Merham interviewed Sharon in 1956 and Ariel's answers:
1. I massacred 750 Palestinians in Rafah in one swipe
2. I encouraged my soldiers to rape the Palestinian women
3. Palestinian women are slaves to the Jews
4. We dictate to others what we want
5. I swear that I am ready to kill any civilian Palestinian I meet
This is the French text:
Nadia Massih published in the Lebanese The Daily Starthis Jan. 11, 2014
BEIRUT: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday aged 85, was widely reviled in Lebanon for his role in the invasion of the country in 1982 as well as the massacres at the Beirut-based Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
Sharon was commonly dubbed the "Butcher of Beirut" for his association with some of the worst atrocities during Lebanon's 1975-1990 Civil War.
FILE – In this June 15, 1982 file picture provided by the Israeli Defense Ministry, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, foreground, rides an armored personnel carrier on a tour of Israeli units advancing to the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, during the Israeli occupation. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Ministry, File)
He was a part of the Israeli military since the country's creation, as a member of the Jewish Haganah paramilitaries in the 1947-48 war that led to the "Nakba," displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
He rose through the ranks with his belligerent military strategies, leading a brigade in the 1956 Suez War, and engineering the capture of the Sinai Peninsula 11 years later during the Six Day War.
However, it was in his political career that he will be most controversially remembered.
As Defense Minister he spearheaded the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, set up to root out Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Liberation Organization and form a peace accord with the Beirut government. The invasion morphed into a long occupation, and inadvertently helped to confirm Hezbollah's status as the resistance party.
In 1982, Israel's ally Bashir Gemayel was assassinated by Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party member Habib Chartouni. Gemayel's Kataeb fighters looked to the Palestinians to avenge the death and launched an attack of the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, which were under Israeli control.
Over 3,000 Palestinians, including many women and children, were brutally killed, and as many taken away, never to reappear.
It was a massacre that Sharon was personally implicated in. A U.N. investigation the next year concluded that Israel was responsible for the attacks, and the Israeli-run Kahan Commission the same year determined that Sharon was personally accountable.
The Kahan report's findings said that Sharon bore responsibility "for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge" and "not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed."
The conclusions led many to dub Sharon the "Butcher of Beirut" and forced him to resign from the defense post but he refused to leave Cabinet, remaining minister without portfolio.
His bellicose reputation continued into his tenure as prime minister.
In 2000, he walked brazenly into the Temple Mount complex which houses the Dome of the Rock and the Aqsa mosque, some of the holiest sites in Islam. The inflammatory move was widely attributed as sparking the Second Palestinian Intifada.
He was also associated with the widespread expansion of illegal outposts in the West Bank. As Housing Minister in the 1990s, he oversaw the biggest settlement drive in 20 years.
However, despite his uncompromising attitude, in 2004 he signed into law a plan to re-house all settlers in the Gaza Strip.
Sharon: 'Occupation' terrible for Israel, Palestinians
Kelly Wallace on CNN this May 27, 2003
JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appears to be urging Israelis to accept giving up land for peace and advocating an end to what he called "occupation."
"You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation — to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians," he said Monday.
Those were stunning words from the longtime hawk and backer of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
"It can't continue endlessly," Sharon said. "Do you want to stay forever in Jenin, in Nablus, in Ramallah, in Bethlehem? I don't think that's right."
On Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet voted to accept — with reservations — the U.S.-supported "road map" to peace, clearing the way for a series of steps that would lead to the creation of a Palestinian state within three years.
The first phase of the road map involves the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian zones reoccupied during the current uprising and a freeze on settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza.
Palestinian officials are required to crack down on militant groups that have carried out attacks against Israelis.
The Palestinian Authority accepted the plan last month after it was drafted by the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, the so-called Mideast Quartet.
The Israeli Cabinet's 12-7 vote, with four abstentions, marked the first time an Israeli government has formally accepted the principle of a Palestinian state.
But Sharon faces a skeptical public. In a newspaper poll Monday, 51 percent said implementing the road map would not lead to peace, while 43 percent said it would.
The stakes will be high for this week's expected meeting between Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
Abbas will call for immediate implementation of the road map, including an end to Israeli military operations in Palestinian areas and a freeze on any settlement expansion, Palestinian advisers said.
Both steps are key to convincing radical Palestinian groups to stop attacks against Israel, the Palestinians said.
But Israeli sources said Sharon will reiterate his long-held position that the first step must be a clear and visible Palestinian crackdown on groups such as Hamas, which has claimed responsibility for four recent suicide bombings against Israelis.
Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization, has acknowledged attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers and has been labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the United States, said Israel wants to see a "complete dismantling of the infrastructure of terror" by Abbas' government.
"We cannot have negotiation by day and killing us at night," Ayalon said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
Sharon and Abbas failed to achieve any breakthroughs in their last meeting more than a week ago.
And a series of suicide bombings by Islamic militant groups befinning shortly before the meeting was seen as a "declaration of war" by Sharon's government.
Now the two men face U.S. pressure to deliver, with a possible Mideast summit — with President Bush as host — perhaps hinging on what comes out of this week's talks.
A three-way summit involving Sharon, Abbas and Bush could be called within 10 days.
A senior Bush administration official told CNN that the White House would not agree to a summit until it sees initial steps taken by both sides — a Palestinian crackdown on militants and the lifting of Israeli economic restrictions.
Nevertheless, a Bush administration advance team left Sunday morning for Egypt to begin preparations for the possible summit, an administration official told CNN. The team is also set to go to Jordan, which Bush might visit early next month.
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Jan-11/243804-sharon-most-reviled-man-in-lebanon.ashx#ixzz2qGSQGzht
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The Druze of Lebanon and Syria: Esoteric sect? Claiming to be Islam and tacitly cursing Prophet Muhammad?
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The Druze of Lebanon and Syria: Esoteric sect?
The Unitarian sect, the "Muwwahhidoun" (among themselves and excluding the Ignorant Juohhal)
The Druze religious sect constitutes one of the most extravagant of sects. The adepts, persecuted by the majority of Moslems, began to keep their distance from Islam to the point of having nothing much that links it to Islam.
The Druzes took refuge in the center of Mount Lebanon and in the surrounding high plateau in south of the Bekaa Valley, in Hasbaya and Rashaya, and in the Houran plateau in adjacent Syria and the Golan Heights.
The Druze adepts formed a distinct community and counted about 30,000 in 1860 when the mass massacres between the Druze and Maronite spread into Syria and Damascus and harvested thousands of civilians.
This peculiar religion appeared around the year 1,000, during the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al Hakem (985-1018) in Egypt. (Read Note 2)
The Fatimid Caliph Al Hakem (985-1018) was a bizarre and complex person. He assassinated his tutors, gave order to kill all the prisoners in Cairo, and organized bloody combats as the night fell.
He drowned all his favorite women and his spouses in the Nile River, and ordered women never to leave their homes.
El Hakeem forbade eating the main food Mloukhia and many other ingredients, prohibited fishing and to sell fish with no scale…
He was a grand persecutor of Christians and burned their churches in Egypt and Syria…
El Hakem was claimed to have disappeared in 1021, to return at the End of Time.
This Caliph is believed to be God incarnate on earth by the Druze, and he is to be the last incarnate God.
The real founder of the Druze is Hamzeh, of Persian origin who settled in Cairo and was one of the closest to the caliph. Somehow he managed to be spared assassination by el Hakem.
Hamzeh began proselytizing in 1018 and proclaimed the divinity of his master el Hakem. Hamzeh dispatched his emissary Darazy to preach in Lebanon, in the regions of Hasbaya and Rashayya, close to the current Syrian borders with the Golan Heights.
Darazy ended up proclaiming to be divine and was assassinated, but the adepts had taken the name of Druze.
Hamzeh wrote 111 letters called "The Wise Letters", which constitute the saint book for the Druze.
One of the letters attacked all the prophets and lambasted Prophet Mohammad as the calf, the devil, the bastard and the immature…
The first dogmas is Metempsychosis, the soul is reincarnated into another mankind body in order to resume its purification… This process continues until the Coming of Al Hakem.
The second main dogma is to rally the most powerful empire dominating the region and the most dominant of religion.
"Since the dogma is of a high level rank that even the initiates have difficulty understanding, the Druze adepts must hide the mysteries, refrain from discussing the religion, and externally profess the dominant religion at the time...". This attitude is referred to by "Takiyya"
Actually, the Druze behavior was to adhere to the foreign missionaries religion who represented the most powerful nation at any period, studies in their schools and worked for them…
At the time, Islam was the dominant religion and they claimed to be Moslem. The domination of Islam lasted too long in the region to be able to shift allegiance to another major religion.
As power shifts, the Druze shift allegiance. (Read Note 3)
A third dogma is to practice "Revenge" as a sacred responsibility against any one who kills a Druze. The revenge should be dealt in a surprise manner, after a long time has elapsed to the killing, so as not to divulge the main perpetrator and why the target was killed…
The non Druze are called the Ignorant (as is the case in every religion), and the highest in the clergy are called the Wise (Okkal).
The Sheikh Akal is but the symbolic highest clergy or the main speaker in the name of the sect: The real power resides in the highest group located in the saint place in Bayyada (the Hasbaya region). This assembly is the power who decides politically, militarily, socially, and religiously for the Druze… (Read Note 4)
Note 1: From the book "Memoirs of Syria: French expedition of 1860 to Lebanon and Damascus", written by a French diplomat who attended all the negotiations to end the series of secular massacres between the Maronites and the Druzes
The first western published book on the Druze sect (1838) was by Sylvester de Sacy in "Exhibit of the Druze religion". The book is objective in the description and analysis, but lack the Orient comprehension of the deeper reality of this religion.
Sylvester de Sacy accompanied Bonaparte in his Egyptian campaign and stayed in Egypt for 40 years.
One of the more recent books on the Druze sect was published in Paris in 1980 by 3 anonymous (non-western) authors and titled "Between the Logos (reason) and the Prophet" (Bayn al 3akl wa al nabi)
Note 2: Mind you that it was about this period that Byzantine Empire in Constantinople started another round of major persecution of the "heretic" Christian sects that opted to pay allegiance to the Pope of Rome. Among those persecuted Christian sects was the Maronite sect which fled and took refuge in the northern parts of the mountainous Mount Lebanon.
The Melkite (Royalist) Christian sect, later called the Orthodox Church, was the main persecutor of the Maronites and not any Moslem sect.
It is at the turn of this first millennial that many mysterious and underground religious sects were created and prospered. The Alawit sect spread at this period too.
The people were fearful and apprehensive of the coming calamities, but the extreme zealot people took advantage of people emotional weaknesses
Note 3: When the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser was dominating the politics of the Arabic World, the Druze sided with Nasser.
In 1975-76, the Druze, represented by the leader Kamal Jumblat, sided with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) that dominated Lebanon and headed by Yasser Arafat.
In 1976-82, the Druze, headed by the son Walid Jumblat, sided with the Pro-Syrian political factions
In 1982, the Druze sided with the invading Israeli troops and facilitated their advances and refused to confront them…
Note 4: The Takkiya is performed not just on the non-Druze, but this habit applies on their political leaders. For example, the Okkal Assembly were very displeased with Kamal Jumblat alliances with the PLO and communist Soviet Union. They gave Syria dictator Hafez Assad the green light to assassinate Kamal in 1978.
Note 5: The son Walid Jumblat got the message loud and clear and never ceased to obey the Okkal Assembly orders and decisions. Every season, Walid changes his position to coincide with the perceived strength of local and foreign powers. Walid keeps apologizing for his frequent "momentary lapses in judgments". But Walid doesn't care, as long as the Druze believe that he is exercising wise intelligence.
Tags: adonis49, Alawit sect, Bayyada, Caliph Al Hakem, Darazy, Druze, Esoteric sect, Fatimid Caliph Al Hakem (985-1018), first millennial, French expedition of 1860 to Lebanon and Damascus, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hafez Assad, Hamzeh, Hasbaya region, Juohhal, Kamal Jumblat, Melkite (Royalist) Christian sect, Memoirs of Syria, momentary lapses in judgments, Muwahidoun, Muwwahhidoun, Okkal Assembly, Orthodox" Church, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Sheikh Akal, Sylvester de Sacy, Takiyya, The Druze, Walid Jumblat
Litmus test for Arab intellectuals? So many of these litmuses, and so few to pass…?
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Litmus test for Arab intellectuals? So many of these litmus tests, and so few to pass…
Apparently, every period has its main litmus test of patriotism and progressive positions, regardless of how little action and engagement are linked to them. A litmus test is to show how acid or basic a liquid is, and in political jargon the term is to judge someone on his political social stands, irrespective if the individual is the most passive kind in his actual engagement…as long as he is considered a "public figure"…
In the Arab World, the litmus tests were for many decades, especially in the 70s:
What is your stand on the Palestinian cause?"
How far would you support the military wings of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in its struggle against the apartheid State of Israel?
Would you ask the PLO to take your side in any civil war against "archaic regimes" that are ready to sign any peace agreement with Israel?
Would you dare direct you critics to the main danger to oligarchies instead of the Palestinian cause?
Are equality of rights between genders as urgent a priority in the political spectrum?
A few angry intellectuals want to shift the "support for the Assad leadership's struggle against the imperialist-Zionist-Arab moderate axis' onslaught" and replace it with supporting the Syrian insurgents funded and armed by the Saudi Wahhabi absolute monarchy and the Qatari absolute Emir…
No, maybe not supporting these radical salafists, but the "good insurgents" are so shifty, very rational people, and refuse to submit to this ridiculous litmus test, that it is very convenient to focus on the "blood thirsty" Assad regime…
As'ad AbuKhalil posted on June 13 under "Outrage of the week: absurd levels in defending the Asad dictatorship" (with slight editing):
"Now the real litmus of Arab intellectuals' and activists' commitment to the Palestinian cause is no longer their support for Palestinian rights.
Rather, their support for the "Assad leadership's struggle against the imperialist-Zionist-Arab moderate axis' onslaught."
(Can this angry Arab mention the name of any intellectual who claimed that Bashar does not have to go?)
Litmus test according to whom? Who sets this litmus test? Rami Makhluf or Dunya TV?
Let me get this absurd notion: so one need not support Palestinian struggle because support for the Asad dictatorship suffices?
(I think this sentence is an absurd counterpoint and totally irrelevant to the content)
The Asad regime is NOT in any way struggling against "the moderate axis". The regime is merely struggling to stay in power: do you see Bashshar EVER speaking out against Saudi regime and alliances?
(Bashar did speak out on several occasions and was punished for his haughty public statements. Particularly after the 2006 preemptive war of Israel against Lebanon)
Do you see him ever even responding to hourly Saudi propaganda attacks on him? He does not dare. No, because he wants to eventually reach a compromise with that Arab ruling order to stay in power.
(Which regime would not? The US is the best ally to Saudi Arabia…and the AbuKhalil would follow suit if they came to power…)
If support for the Asad regime is the litmus test, please register me as failing in that test every minute of my life, ever since the Syrian regime intervened in Lebanon in 1976 to crush progressive Palestinian and Lebanese struggle–real struggle–against "the imperialist-Zionist-Arab moderate axis".
(It is not because the "Christian" Phalengists allied to Israel that the opposition alliance was that progressist…and was willing to give Arafat free power to reign over Lebanon…
In fact, as Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, most of these progressive parties were showering rice on the invaders and opening strategic route for the advance of the tanks…and their leadership were nowhere to be found, and only the Palestinian forces stopped the advance of the Israeli army in Saida, before the enemy regrouped and amassed 500,000 soldiers and 1,200 tanks.
And the Syrian troops were sitting duck along the highway, by their tanks, waiting for the Israeli jets to bomb them, just for the fun of it, and the abandoned Syrian soldiers managed to stop Israel advance toward the higher region of the Chouf and denied Israel the luxury of cutting off Lebanon from the Syrian borders…)
The Assad regime was for many years part of that axis until it was kicked out for reasons that have nothing to do with the struggle.
(What struggle is meant here? How can we erect a litmus test if we fail to define what is the struggle?)
The Asad regime failed the Palestinians at every crucial moment of Palestinian struggle:
1. the regime failed the Palestinians when they were being slaughtered in Jordan in 1970,
2. the Assad regime failed the Palestinians when they were being slaughtered by pro-Israeli militias in Lebanon,
3. and even engineered the war on the camps against the Palestinians in Lebanon.
(Can AbuKhalil recall any State bordering Palestine that did not indulge in repressing Palestinian infiltrations into Israel?)
The litmus test for Arab intellectuals should entail opposition to all Arab regimes without exception, unless one wants to pick sides in the regional conflict between Arab dictators and other Arab dictators. (thanks "Ibn Rushd")
This angry Arab intellectual published a self-indulgent post and is trying to please the current mood of the western media, Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia…
What is the freshest litmus test again? I got confused of the previous litmus test.
Litmus test must be applied to engaged politicians, with enough power to make a difference…
Let us name names… And stop the angry rhetoric
Tags: adonis49, angry Arab intellectual, angry Arab published, good insurgents, Litmus test for Arab intellectuals, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Saudi Wahhabi absolute monarchy, syria, writing


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untill the next album there wont be that much news. the album will be out probetly around december 2019. untill i have to get some things straight in life, but i will update some things in the meantime on my website, like a interview and other things have to improve too. TY all of you for your support you show me, you wont be disappointed in the future as i still have plans.
I started collecting ideas, for a new album. "Bitter'n Sweet"
happy holidays everyone, may 2019 a peacefull one, with less hate and trouble for everyone in the world.
goin to publish a new music video in the next days...stay tuned...peace out.
i wish everyone a peace full summer, i will be back with my new album in sept. 2018.
i started to collect new ideas for the next digital album. "mother nature" goin back to the roots with this one but also trying out new sounds. working also on a little e-drum kit i want to use in the future. peace out.
ich habe angefangen neue ideen zu sammeln für das nächste digitale album "mother nature" ich gehe zurück zu den wurzeln mit diesem album. arbeite auch an einem kleinen e drum kit, das ich ihn zukunft benutzen möchte. peace out.
"flying circus" from the forthcoming digital cd "back again"
happy new year and only the best for 2018. ty for the support in the past year. back again will be done at the 17th feb. (not jan.) im also already collecting some ideas for another cd, will be out around summer this year...more infos will come.
frohes neues jahr und nur das beste. danke für den support im letzten jahr. back again wird am 17 feb. fertig sein (nicht jan.) ich sammle auch schon ideen für eine andere cd, wird fertig sein around sommer diesen jahres...mehr infos kommen bald..peace out.
remake of "the legend of the scarecrow"
ich arbeite immernoch an meinem git. sound aber es geht voran, die ersten 2 lieder sind im kasten für die neue "cd". ich mache im moment auch ein paar virtuelle konzerte und nutze die chance an meinem live sound zu arbeiten und ein paar blues songs zu spielen, das kannse unter einem psydonym.
im still working at my git. sound but its progressing, the first 2 tracks are done for the new "cd" im doin also some virtuel gigs atm and taking the chance to work on my live sound and playing some blues songs, everything under a pseudonym.
ein paar news: werde die nächsten monate das neue digitale album fertigstellen, name und ein paar songs haben sich geändert. das baby trägt den namen "back again" mit 2 älteren deutsch sprachigen songs. es wird eine bunte mischung, das album. hier könnt ihr den song motherless child hören den ich einfach so veröfentliche..vielleicht mach ich irgentwan mal ein reines blues album wer weis..mit dem sound bin ich so weit zufrieden. peace out.
some news: goin to finish my next digital album in the next months, the name and some songs have changed, the babys name is now "back again". here you can hear the track motherless child, maybe im goin to make a pure blues album one day, who knows..so far im happy with the sound, peace out.
i learned ca. 60 cover songs in the last 2 month, just for the fun out of it, one of them will be on my next album, the name of the album will be "for sale" and will be released in october..peace out.
ich habe mit den ersten recordings fürs nächste album begonnen, desweiteren ist auch eine photosession geplannt für nächsten monat,peace out.
with the first recordings for the next album, im planning also a photosession for next month, peace out.
new digital album im herbst, danach werde ich ein live programm zusammenstellen, meine neue domain ist online an der homepage arbeite ich gerade und werde mehr infos,musik ect. hinzufügen.
new digital album in autumn, after that im goin to put a live set together. my new domain is online, im just working at the homepage and goin to add more music,infos and so on.
während ich die letzten 2 songs abmische habe ich heute ein bonus track gemacht, den könnt ihr heute schon hören. wie versprochen die ganze cd gibts am sontag.
during my work at the last 2 endmixes i recordet a bonus track today, you can listen to it already. like i promised,the whole cd you get at sunday, peace out. your mikey.


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What we know about the Resorts World Manila gunman
Testimonies from the taxi driver who dropped him off, closed circuit television camera (CCTV) footage from the casino, and the accounts of witnesses give a glimpse of the still unnamed gunman who attacked Resorts World Manila
Bea Cupin
@beacupin
Published 12:15 AM, June 04, 2017
Updated 12:38 AM, June 04, 2017
SUSPECT. The perpetrator of the Resorts World Manila attack kills himself after burning a portion of the casino.
MANILA, Philippines – With a backpack in tow and using the hood of his sweatshirt to cover his head, a man casually walked into Resorts World Manila in Pasay City, and started a series of events that would lead to the death of 38, including himself.
In the early hours of June 2, the man – whom police have yet to identify – scared customers and employees of the popular entertainment complex after he brought out an M4 assault rifle.
In the chaos, some of those fleeing began screaming "ISIS," referring to the international terrorist group. Within minutes, police and other security personnel arrived at the complex.
Hours later, national police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa announced that the gunman was dead and that there were no casualties. (READ: TIMELINE: Resorts World Manila attack)
Later that morning, however, news came of the high death toll – 37 employees and guests dead not because of the gunman, but because of suffocation due to the fires he had set inside the casino.
Police have yet to release the identity of the gunman, but they've listed down a few things they know about him, thanks to testimonies from the taxi driver who dropped him off, and closed circuit television camera (CCTV) footage from the casino.
Who was he?
The suspect was described as someone who was tall and had fair skin. "As you can see, mestizo," said Metro Manila police chief Director Oscar Albayalde in a press briefing on Saturday, June 3.
According to testimony from the taxi driver who dropped him off, the man spoke fluent Filipino. Initial reports indicated the man was speaking English while inside the casino, leading police to initially describe him as "foreign-looking."
The suspect hailed a cab from San Lazaro in Manila. On his way to Resorts World from San Lazaro, the suspect apparently asked the taxi driver to switch the radio to a news station instead of music.
Police are still awaiting test results that may give them more clues about the gunman – the autopsy, blood tests from samples retrieved in the casino, dental records, and a DNA test.
How did he get in?
The man got off at the drop-off area close to the parking entrance at around 12:07 am on June 2. From there, he somehow entered the premises through the parking lot and used an elevator with two other women.
In a statement, Resorts World security noted that he was "in plain clothes, with a back pack, and with no visible firearms." Turns out, he had an M4 rifle inside his bag.
The man alighted at the second floor and moved to the parking area where he wore a mask, his ammunition vest, and took out his rifle.
From the parking area, the man entered the mall proper at around 12:11 am. He walked past the metal detector, prompting mall security to chase after him. He then took out the assault weapon, causing the security guard and other people nearby to run away in panic.
What was inside his bag?
He had with him several bottles of flammable liquid (either gasoline or kerosene), a M4 assault rifle, and a .38 caliber gun. The M4 rifle's serial number was defaced while the .38 gun's serial number was traced back to a 1998 registration.
He had with him around 3 magazines of ammunition, totaling around 90 rounds.
What did he do inside?
The man walked past customers and employees of the mall and went to the casino area. Resorts World began evacuating its customers and staff while its security team tracked the suspect and called the police.
He entered Prosperity Court, an area which houses gambling tables, slot machines, and restaurants. He fired his gun without hitting anybody and started pouring flammable liquid onto 3 gambling tables.
He began shooting at the LCD at Bar 180 and also set the area on fire. The man also torched several slot machines.
Why did he do it?
Police believe robbery was the motive because after setting parts of the casino on fire, the man proceeded to the area behind the cashier. He opened several doors by firing onto them using his rifle, at around 12:18 am.
He was able to enter the chip bank room, where he lingered for a while. Police thought he was searching for cash. Instead, he stole high-value chips amounting to P113.1 million.
How did he die?
The gunman went down to the basement area using the stairs, where Resorts World security personnel were able to track him down. He exchanged gunfire with security personnel and got wounded in the process.
"Thereafter, the gunman appeared to be weakened causing him to drop and abandon the bag of plaques," Resorts World said.
He went back up as police and Resorts World security personnel again began trying to track him down.
The gunman eventually found his way to the hotel on the 5th floor. From there, he entered a room, exited it again and set aflame linen. He entered the room, which police believe he set on fire too. He then shot himself in the mouth.
Albayalde said they showed the CCTV footage to media, partly to dispel persistent rumors about the gunman. They also showed it to prove that it was not an act of terror. (READ: Officials contradict each other on Resorts World Manila attack)
ISIS, through its propaganda arm, claimed responsibility for the incident. But police have dismissed this, pointing out that ISIS has a habit of claiming all sorts of incidents around the world. (READ: Terrorism and ISIS at Resorts World Attack?)
President Rodrigo Duterte also said the Resorts World attack "is not ISIS" as the international terror group was known for acts that were "more brutal." – Rappler.com
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Bottle Identification Book/Price Guide Help. Good Book?
Thread: Bottle Identification Book/Price Guide Help. Good Book?
New to the forum and collecting more or less.
I do find the occasional bottle while prospecting and have begun to collect certain locales.
I am looking for suggestions for the Best all around most inclusive bottle guide or book out there that doesn't cost an arm n a leg. Is there such a thing?
A comprehensive price or rarity guide for all known bottles would be ideal.
I'm also more interested in Colorado specific bottles.
I don't know of such a thing but would like to find one myself. Lots of Bottle books out there but all very limited with small % of known bottles unless it's for a specific bottle like Coca Cola or ACL Sodas or Bitters & even those are very limited with small % of known bottles, Except maybe Porters Coke book may be pretty complete. Good Luck. LEON.
Hi WildernessAu and welcome to the forum! I'm afraid there isn't such a thing, really. You can find plenty of price guides out there but bottle prices are so hard to predict that the values stated are generally almost meaningless. Ebay sold listings are really the only thing that can quickly give you a general idea of value and even those are not necessarily a very good guide. Cataloging all known bottles would be a nearly impossible task, as there are millions upon millions out there. If such a book did exist it would probably be the size of a house and several stories tall. There are some good bottle guides out there for certain locales, but the value of these is more in seeing what's out there and getting a general idea of rarity than it is in using them as a price guide.
Looks like we were both responding with pretty much the same thing at the same time. LEON.
Thanks for the thoughtful response guys.
I was afraid that this would be the case. I am somewhat surprised however, that no one has created such an online catalog.
I personally look for bottles that have curious or aesthetic appeal. But there are plenty of bottles that are semi valuable that are not exactly aesthetically pleasing and I would like to be able to know and identify those. Also, be able to keep an eye out for rarities. I suppose this is where good old research comes into play...darn it.. was hoping that there was a good all around US guide out there.
Well at least I am here! Which is a good start!
Not books I know but you will find these three sites useful and are worth bookmarking.
The first is the SHA site which is a good aid to identification and background information on a variety of bottle types and their manufacture.
The second is specifically for US soda and beer bottles while the third is mainly for Hutchinson Patent bottles.
Looks like someone back in the 80s did a book on colorado marked beverage bottles from around the turn of the century. Found this one listed for a small fortune on abebooks.
If I wanted to check out books before purchasing I'd use the local library.


i saw this version of Ombre Nails in a magazine a while back and have been wanting to do this tutorial for you. i thought it was a cute play on the Ombre trend so i decided to give it a shot.
five shades of gradient color. Ombre is when color transitions from dark to light. you can be as creative as you'd like for this. i am using my China Glaze 3D glitters as well as the Let It Snow collection.
Seche Vite Top Coat. you know i don't do anything without Seche Vite. if you haven't heard/read me rave about it, check out my review here.
this technique is so simple but the payoff is gorgeous. simply paint each nail with your color gradient of choice. finish with the Seche Vite top coat and you have yourself some Ombre Nails. i'm really diggin' this look.
That's so creative! I've seen where they do the entire ombre range on each nail, but that is just way too complicated for me!
I love the ombre trend! I tried this before with pinks and reds, but the colors just were slightly off. I think the sparklies would be so fun!


Is Varma Rubbing Christians On Wrong Side?
Knowing for picking sides with various fundamentalists and critics, Ram Gopal Varma has made fun of Lord Ganesh sometime ago and then fell in a legal tangle. And now it looks like he is rubbing the wrong side of another community.
Evangelist KA Paul, who is now predicting his forthcoming as Chief Minister of AP as he feels that his Praja Santhi party will clean sweep the elections, has surely rubbed director Ram Gopal Varma on the wrong side, saying that the director touched his feet. And that has hurt the director to the peaks that every day he throws some sort of satire on the evangelist.
Today, while sharing a video of KA Paul's emotional meeting with his followers, Varma tweeted, "Thana peru inthagaa chedagoduthunnanduku K A Paul ki shiluva veyyabothunnani ippude naaku Jesus Christ Whatsap msg pettadu". (Jesus Christ just sent me a message on WhatsApp that he is going to crucify KA Paul for bringing a bad name to him).
Though Varma's intention is to malign KA Paul, some Christians are said to be feeling that he is making fun of Jesus as well. So we have to see if the director will invite unwanted troubles from these tweets.


When I began with Science and Health, I read the chapter on "Prayer" first, and at that time did not suppose it possible for me to remember anything I read, but felt a sweet sense of God's protection and power, and a hope that I should at last find Him to be what I so much needed, - a present help in time of trouble. Before that chapter on "Prayer" was finished, my daughter was downstairs eating three meals a day, and daily growing stronger. Before I had finished reading the textbook she was well, but never having heard that the reading of Science and Health healed any one, it was several months before I gave God the glory.
One by one my many ailments left me, all but the headaches; they were less frequent, until at the end of three years the fear of them was entirely overcome.
Neither myself nor my daughter have ever received treatments, but the study of the Bible and Science and Health, the Christian Science textbook by Mrs. Eddy, has healed us and keeps us well.


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The Leningrad Album fact sheet for la Biennale di Venezia
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Enciclopedic Palace
from June 1 through November 24, 2013
"Ленинградский альбом" (the "Leningrad Album") consists of 256 single sheets of paper mostly in A4 format (vertical) with drawings and texts. Evgenjj Kozlov (Евгений Козлов, pronounced Yevgéniy Kozlóv) created them between 1967 and 1973, from the age of 12 to 18. An unknown number of drawings from that period has not been preserved. The young artist had not intended to produce an album, but the name "Leningrad Album" was given later to the drawings that remained as a collective name.
The 150 drawings displayed at "The Encyclopedic Palace" have been personally selected by Massimiliano Gioni, curator of the 55th International Art Exhibition. He first chose them for the large "Ostalgia" exhibition at the New Museum, New York, in 2011.
The book edition of 2003 (Konkursbuchverlag, edited by Hannelore Fobo as the curator of Evgenij Kozlov's work) bears the subtitle "We are on our way to school / singing songs hip and cool". It contains 108 drawings, partly two-sided, with the texts on the (reproduced) drawings translated into German and English, as well as small reproductions of the other drawings and an epilogue in German, English, and Russian. The book is on sale at the bookshop of the Biennale.
Technique and characteristics
Ink is the predominant medium. In the later drawings ballpoint pen, pencil, crayon and eraser (to create white shades) have also been used. On the reverse the ink drawings show through as a weak print, and sometimes stories or other elements have been added. Therefore the drawings can be considered two-sided (see the reverse of the pages in the book edition).
The artistic evolution shows a growing complexity of interrelations between the figures. The number of figures increases and a young artist, presumably the alter ego of Evgenij Kozlov, eventually appears in the scenes. This is accompanied by longer texts; elaborate dialogues continue on the reverse, and some pages consist of dialogues and songs only. Texts develop the story to a considerable degree, but they are also interesting as graphic elements.
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A boy dreams that the girls dream about him and he starts drawing … the beauty of the bodies, the clever faces, the comical dialogues, […] the affectionately created details of the interior, with its typical sixties and seventies furnishings, with the artistically draped garments, the stylish tape recorder playing the newest hits, and the meditative view through the window into the silvery, satin, marble night of Leningrad…
(from the book cover)
The drawings show the spiritual awakening of a young artist within the polarity of the sexes, his desire to embrace life in its most abundant potential, praising the beauty of the human body.
Evgenij Kozlov (E-E)
untitled (no. 256 of the Leningrad Album)
The young artists invites his classmates Ira, Sveta, Rosa, Mila, Olga, Katya and his female teachers in order to draw them, but in fact they are the driving forces in this game: they want to be drawn by him because he loves their individual beauty and proves this with his drawings. This is demonstrated by the comment of a model while looking at a book with illustrations from old masters: "But Goya is great, you can see right away that she [Goya's model] liked him. The others – they're OK I guess. All they did is simply draw pictures." Model and artist admire each other and therefore the drawings are devoid of voyeurism; they are explicit and innocent at the same time.
Time and place are specific yet the feelings of the teenagers are universal. In the drawings they are expressed by the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, their favorite music when meeting – the "YEAH YEAH" which was feared by parents all over the world for its disinhibiting effect. "E-E", the Russian transliteration of "YEAH YEAH", later became Evgenij Kozlov's artist name, which he has used as his signature for his works of art ever since 2005.
As a matter of fact the Leningrad Album goes beyond time and place. This becomes apparent in the last page, showing a young artist drawing in a book (book page 129/130). The text on the front and reverse of the page reads. "Favorite book?! dedicated to all youth and men in the world throughout the XXI, XXVI, XXXIX and LXIV centuries".
Massimiliano Gioni on the "Leningrad Album"
In an interview with Hannelore Fobo in 2011 Massimiliano Gioni explained why he chose the Leningrad Album for "Ostalgia". In this context he already uses the term "encyclopedic" to describe the significance of the drawings.
"I saw the original drawings of the Leningrad Album in book form probably back in 2004 or 2005 in Berlin. [...] I was very taken by them and for a long time, for many years, I kept the book and went back looking at it. It is one of these things that really stuck in my memory for a long time. [...] I And when I began thinking about this show [Ostalgia] on, let's say, art and life in the former Soviet block, I went back to this piece and decided literally that I wanted it to be a cornerstone and foundation for the exhibition. It is beautifully drawn, it is beautifully realized, but it is also so clearly a sort of desiring machine. You look at it and you can imagine the fantasies of a fourteen, fifteen year old, and it is also encyclopedic, which is beautiful because it is not desiring just sex, it is desiring an entire universe, which I think is very interesting. [...] At the same time it is a piece that talks about passing time and that's another theme of the show with respect to the art. It passes time and makes a whole invention of different dimensions of time. [...] The idea was to maybe show it completely, but we couldn't because it is quite expensive and very large, so we decided to go for 150 pages, which is quite substantial, quite intense, so I'm very happy with it. I certainly didn't want to show just ten or twelve because I wanted it to go into the head of a person. You see the dates, it's years and years of work and this makes it quite fascinating. I think that people will really like it, I am very proud that we brought it."
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Statement by Evgenij Kozlov
Maybe it is no coincidence that the first extensive presentation of the "Leningrad Album" in Europe is taking place in Venice, where in 1725 Giacomo Casanova was born, whose name has become a synonym for desire and seduction. Desire and seduction are also the themes of the drawings in the Leningrad album. It may seem strange to compare the memories of this famous adventurer of the 18th century, acquainted with the social and spiritual elite of Europe – among them Catherine the Great of Russia and Voltaire –, with the experience (M. Gioni calls it "fantasies") of a young boy living in the rather prudish and secluded society of Soviet Russia.
If reflected upon on a deeper level, however, we will see that for both of them "desire" is not in the first place a force to fulfill sexual needs but Eros, the power to transcend the human being through love and beauty. Eros is the desire to re-establish what was once united, the masculine-feminine wholeness before it was divided into two halves. Religions and philosophers speak of this. Eros, ultimately, is alchemy, a process of transforming substance to gain a higher level of existence. Casanova was also an alchemist, and the alchemy of the "Leningrad Album" is based on what I defined in 1991 as "art of the future": "to make a true work of art, so that the observer is able to see and understand it, the artist must first achieve a certain state called 'the art of the future', which is the richness of desires and the desire for these – riches."
The "Leningrad Album" in "Century XX" by Evgenij Kozlov
"Ну Юр, не улета туда"
("Hey Yur, don't fly awry"),
first of six graphic works
from the no. 90 series
of "Century XX", part two, 59.6 х 42 сm
mixed media / paper, 2011
inv. number E-E-xx-090-1
While the "Leningrad Album" had not been inspired by any specific work and has no "predecessors", the publication of the 2003 print edition has clearly influenced and helped develop one of Evgenij Kozlov's main artistic projects: "Век ХХ" ("Vek XX" / "Century XX"), dedicated to the twentieth century. "Century XX" has two parts, with part one consisting of 80 collages (1989 – 2008) and part two (2008 – today, unfinished) of more than 450 original graphic works and the same number of imprints of the drawings on transparent paper ("light boxes"). For the 55th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia Evgenij Kozlov and I have edited a special book of the first part which is available at the library space.
Век ХХ ("Century XX", part one) is a series of drawings combined with script, poems and collages which Evgenij Kozlov had begun in 1989 in the style of the Leningrad art group "New artists", of which he was a member. Originally the pages of a scrapbook, they were cut from the binding, obtaining a total of 39 two-sided (single or double) pages plus the covers inside and outside.
"Century XX" part one and part two, pictures and text >>
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