Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Return To The South

It is heartbreaking to watch the poor and innocent Lebanese people so eagerly returning to their homes in the South. If any homes are left.

They do not want to stay refugees, not one minute more. They were often warmly welcomed in other areas of the country and in Syria, and yet they choose to return so quickly.

We can't hear it, but they can hear their land calling.
We can't feel it, but they can feel their roads and schools are waiting, the trees and the streams are lonely.

People of the South, isn't it guns and cannons that shattered your fond memories?
Do not allow the logic of war to hit you ever again. "Never again."
For you deserve peace as much as the inhabitants of the Golan Heights and Haifa deserve it. No more, no less.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

HappyArab,

Just read some of your older posts today. Did you by any chance read Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat"?

It was a great pleasure reading your posts - especially the one about the abundance of human capital in the arab world, and how it should be better utilized.