A Message for Syrians from Ibrahim Hanano

07/25/2004

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by Moderator @ 07:03 PM CST [Link]

Replies: 4 comments

This story could be as well
transposed to the jewish country,
as well as to the Algerian one or
even to any other arabic country,
so I guess that Syria is only taken as an example...? So,I'm OK!
Maxula

Posted by Maxula @ 07/26/2004 08:42 PM CST

Maxula, why are you only O.K when this is just an example that also would apply to Israel or other countries? The Israeli people don't suffer from dictatorship or less of freedom like the Syrians. I don't think that if Ben Gurion or other founders of Israel 'had known what was going to happen' they would not have fought for independance, and rather would let the British or the Arabs controll the country.
Why is it problematic to you that an Arab criticizes his own country without pointing to Israel as the source of their problems?
I think it very important that Arabs, as well as Israeli's and others look critically at their own societies and not just blame others for their problems. Unfortunately this is especially difficult in most Arab countries.
Therefore I value this honest story and hope it encourages Syrians to discuss freely what they want their country look like.
Ratna

Posted by Ratna Pelle @ 07/27/2004 07:28 AM CST

Dear Maxulla. Don't feel OK. WE are not.

Posted by Abed Al Suri @ 07/29/2004 10:31 PM CST

My name is Hakim. I live in the Metropolitan area of New York. My neighbors are predominantly Jewish, as I am, and we have other nationalities as well as Moslems. The root of evil is money. The lack of money is despair. Clearly it is sad to see poverty and deprivation of any human being. An article shown on Discovery Times television today, interviews Arab Journalists and Playwrites who explain the theory of causes of 9/11. The word humiliation is profound, above other words. To be humiliated is terrible, as a child or adult or worse, as a people and or Nationality.
Therefore, I submit to you my personal experience living in America for the past 46 years. All the people I know, who have come to America for a better life, and brought with them their personal politics of their root country, throw away that politics, at 6:00 P.M. every day. Why? Because when you have started a life, anywhere, and have a decent living, the children are in school, at the end of the day you do not give a damn about people who do not want to help themselves out of a crises. And I say this whether they are Israelis, Syrians, Jordanians and above all Palestinians. I trade with many Palestinians. Every single one of them curses not only Sharon, but Arafat as well.
Mothers of the Middle East UNITE. Go together arm in arm, walk to the West Bank. Jewish Mothers and Moslem Mothers. Hold Hands. Yell to Sharon and Arafat, to dare to come to your meeting, and refuse to sign a peace. Dare the young, Jews and Moslems, to attend without weapons. Park the Tanks and save the petrol. Enough misery. Enough violence. Enough hatred. Enough hunger. Enough poverty. Enough of a child who goes to sleep hungry to eat and to learn.
The irony of it all is that the Near East has such a potential to return to being the original CrossRoads of the world. Both in trade and in commerce. One group has the oil, the other the technology to live well. Dream about a vegetable garden growing in the Sinai. Stop dreaming stupid and do it. Unite the Mothers. They are the key to the worlds problems.

Posted by Hakim @ 09/13/2004 04:16 AM CST

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