From: ccav38@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("I.Ballouz")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Subject: Re: Hariri's corporation
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:00:28 GMT
Organization: University of Strathclyde

In article <1992Nov6.123609.548@ulrik.uio.no> eliedw@hedda.uio.no (Elie Dib Wardini) writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.170442.4393@ccsun.strath.ac.uk> ccav38@ccsun.strath.ac.uk
>("I.Ballouz") writes:
>
>It seems like we have a break down in communication. I am sorry to have
>offended you Ibrahim. It was never my intention.
>
Whatever we decide to call "what is between us", it saddens me to acknowledge
that we have a long (a very long) distance that separates us.

I am not offended personally, I know you did not swear at my Mum.
It saddens me that we can't even agree on the gravity of the situation we are
all stuck in.
Talk about home, I saw with my own eyes here on "channel 4" news a report about
Lebanon in which I saw the people sifting the rubbish in order to find things
to sell and get money. This is not mention the thousands who are unemployed
and waiting, the thousands of families who have nothing.

Talking about Lebanese abroad, you don't have to look hard to see how our youth
are trying every trick they know, knocking any door they find in order to find
refuge here and they are experiencing the bitter and humiliating circumstances
a man can ever imagine.

This is what is upsetting me. I am distressed because our horizon is so close,
and our world is getting smaller and smaller. Many doors are being shut on our
face.

Do we have to go through this hell? Why can we not go back and live in dignity
like all the other people in this world? 

I am not getting a reward from Mr Hariri nor from any body else. I only think
he is good to us. I only think that this will PROBABLY (a big probably)
ease our situation a bit. That is all. Not for myself alone, but the whole
population who are becoming coloured with one single colour and that is the
colour of poverty, the population that are increasingly taking a new ideology
and this is the ideology of survival.

This what is upsetting, and yes I am sad to see people who are capable of
ignoring this situation and capable of shutting the door in the face of a 
POSSIBLE solution.

>It seems like we are arguing against each other's *MOTIVES*. This I believe is
>difficult and surely open for misunderstanding and someone can get hurt.
>
Yes, I did wonder about the motives and I had a feeling that those motives 
are not something I could accept. I did not write to hurt anybody or cause
tension, I only wrote because I could not stand this cloud of doubt and 
discredit that has been created to shadow a man (Mr Hariri) who has never
done any harm to any of us.


>Ibrahim, I do not know from which religion you are. So I could defenitely not
>be against *YOU* and wanting to prove anything wrong about *YOU*.
>
>I dont know what to say? I am sorry  :(
>
Never mind now, I am sorry too because I know that a lot did not want to create
tension on the net. 
However, this is the way I felt and it would be grossly hypocritical of me
to write otherwise.

>>I. Ballouz.
>
>elie wardini

 I. Ballouz


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