<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099</id><updated>2012-01-19T20:49:49.658-05:00</updated><title type='text'>AFKAR</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>74</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-3940316616362580544</id><published>2008-02-26T00:21:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-26T00:30:07.487-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A Day of "War Talk"</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;My Mom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Why did Sayyed Hassan Threaten that much. Things are not getting any better"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;My Colleague&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Is it true that war is just around the corner? What do you think? Do you think Hisballah will Retaliate outside Lebanon? Damn this country, one can not live in security around here."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;My other Colleague&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"So, Hamze, where would you go when the war brakes?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Lady at the shop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Canadian immigration, Huh?" she then looks at one of her relative on my right, "Listen, when the war brakes, I want to cook for you and the guys" He smiles and says " Can you use an RPG?"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-3940316616362580544?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/3940316616362580544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=3940316616362580544' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3940316616362580544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3940316616362580544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2008/02/day-of-war-talk.html' title='A Day of &quot;War Talk&quot;'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-6266220520692529106</id><published>2008-02-10T15:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T15:27:07.026-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Aimless</title><content type='html'>Sundays were never my best days... Historically speaking. They were the days when the fun was over and I had to get ready to go to bed, since I had school the next day. The same goes for college, even though my mom wasn't the one enforcing the law anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this Sunday was a day when nothing made any sense. Actions, Reactions, Thought, feelings. They were all  confused and just went in a circles of nothingness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My cure to such days is a long night sleep. I shall, hopefully, recover by then...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-6266220520692529106?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/6266220520692529106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=6266220520692529106' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/6266220520692529106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/6266220520692529106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2008/02/aimless.html' title='Aimless'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-7077057563877185179</id><published>2007-12-24T15:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-28T15:37:42.666-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Update!!</title><content type='html'>Many life-changing decisions were made since my last blog entry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did not get to finish filling the application for my US working visa. I submitted my resignation, paid my bills, transfered the lease of my apartment, sold my car, bought a ticket and landed in Beirut on the 2nd of May,2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And only then, I realized that it was the best thing I have ever done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I am working in Beirut  at a company called Sukleen, which raises an eyebrow whenever I mention the name to my Lebanese friends. And for those who don't know, Sukleen is the largest trash collecting company in Lebanon, thus the eyebrow!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the time being, I am enjoying my time with my family and friends and planning my next career move.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-7077057563877185179?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/7077057563877185179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=7077057563877185179' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7077057563877185179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7077057563877185179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/12/update.html' title='Update!!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-1150121010028193128</id><published>2007-03-27T22:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T23:09:34.559-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reminsince- The VOLZZ</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Rgnl7d3g3NI/AAAAAAAAAEk/xX97PD8dteM/s1600-h/volz.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Rgnl7d3g3NI/AAAAAAAAAEk/xX97PD8dteM/s320/volz.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046817667237862610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Do you remember this piece of machine?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where I come from, it is not related to hippies or the anything of that sort. When I see what is known in Lebanon as the "VOLZZ", I remember all the electric contracting equipment, since that was my father's occupation. A whole arsenal of wire bundles of different gauges and colors, in addition to the orange pipes (narbish or narbish, i dont know).  It also bring memories of crates of Oranges and Lemons from our small orchard (the piece of Land is called "il Zirnebeh"). It is also  associated with  going to school, since that was one of the favorite mode of transportation for the promising young masses, and more specifically with a man of the name "Abu Hassan Salemeh", a driver who used to own one of these and had the Naughtiest kids at school (Kadmous, in Tyre).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I saw one here in th heart of the Midwest today. The mere sound of that Automobile (which, of all the cars in the world, can only be mistaken for an older VW beetle) gave rise to an endless array of old memories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The VOLZZZZ. The car of the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as an engineering tidbit: Did you know that its engine, as well as the beetle's did not use water for cooling??&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-1150121010028193128?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/1150121010028193128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=1150121010028193128' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/1150121010028193128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/1150121010028193128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/reminsince.html' title='Reminsince- The VOLZZ'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Rgnl7d3g3NI/AAAAAAAAAEk/xX97PD8dteM/s72-c/volz.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-4325518180097693094</id><published>2007-03-26T20:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T20:14:11.148-05:00</updated><title type='text'>So We Won't Forget!!كي لا ننسى</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Rght2CotIjI/AAAAAAAAAEc/00xuGaKQCEQ/s1600-h/p21_20070323_pic1.full.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Rght2CotIjI/AAAAAAAAAEc/00xuGaKQCEQ/s320/p21_20070323_pic1.full.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046404157656605234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Watching this picture reminded me of a grim fact about us, "the human race".  WE JUST FORGET, Want to forget or just shovel those unwanted memories into the back of our skulls. What got to me tonight is that while I am going out, playing sports and watching movies. The mother, father, uncle and siblings of that girl are sitting somewhere and dealing with the implication of loosing her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Please post links and comments about pictures which affect/affected/affecting you. Just to remember that month between July and August of last year)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-4325518180097693094?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/4325518180097693094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=4325518180097693094' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/4325518180097693094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/4325518180097693094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/so-we-wont-forget.html' title='So We Won&apos;t Forget!!كي لا ننسى'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Rght2CotIjI/AAAAAAAAAEc/00xuGaKQCEQ/s72-c/p21_20070323_pic1.full.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-2220251277014428785</id><published>2007-03-25T10:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-25T10:27:01.910-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pride</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RgaSTJPWmrI/AAAAAAAAAEU/tl3aAiFlDAs/s1600-h/PICT1533.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RgaSTJPWmrI/AAAAAAAAAEU/tl3aAiFlDAs/s320/PICT1533.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045881290110704306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Chicago. A bustling city of 2.8 million souls. A  small Dunkin Dougnuts stand. The guy looks Japanese, turns out he is Nepalese. "where are guys from", he asked?. "Lebanon", we replied. "You Lebanese are brave people, fighting those Israelis.", he comments with a thick accent. We smile. I take my order. My friend, who likes the conversation, tells him how beautiful Lebanon is. I sit, take out my snadwish, with "You Lebanese are brave people" echoes in my ears over and over and over.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-2220251277014428785?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2220251277014428785/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=2220251277014428785' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2220251277014428785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2220251277014428785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/pride.html' title='Pride'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RgaSTJPWmrI/AAAAAAAAAEU/tl3aAiFlDAs/s72-c/PICT1533.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-3947030707101912341</id><published>2007-03-17T22:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-17T22:12:01.691-05:00</updated><title type='text'>لبيروت</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;الجو العام هذه الأيام يعبر عنه القول التالي&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;إن اليوم لناظره قريب&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-3947030707101912341?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/3947030707101912341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=3947030707101912341' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3947030707101912341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3947030707101912341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post.html' title='لبيروت'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-8578397082693951080</id><published>2007-03-10T00:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T00:28:00.904-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RfJBfOcFtnI/AAAAAAAAAEM/TgMIK_M9p_E/s1600-h/car+in+dahyeh.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RfJBfOcFtnI/AAAAAAAAAEM/TgMIK_M9p_E/s320/car+in+dahyeh.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040162937688667762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Photo that is still making it to the news. &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6385969.stm"&gt;read more. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-8578397082693951080?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8578397082693951080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=8578397082693951080' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8578397082693951080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8578397082693951080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/photo-that-is-still-making-it-to-news.html' title=''/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RfJBfOcFtnI/AAAAAAAAAEM/TgMIK_M9p_E/s72-c/car+in+dahyeh.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-5272529900784954473</id><published>2007-03-10T00:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T00:24:50.568-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2341353.ece"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Forbes Hails "The richest year in human history"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We should mourn the fact that even more money is going into the pockets of even fewer people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;span class="down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_JustifyLeft" title="Align Left" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 10);ButtonMouseDown(this);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-5272529900784954473?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/5272529900784954473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=5272529900784954473' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/5272529900784954473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/5272529900784954473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/forbes-hails-richest-year-in-human.html' title=''/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-2598788623589555830</id><published>2007-03-09T23:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T00:15:36.232-05:00</updated><title type='text'>City of God</title><content type='html'>"In front of him are two kids, one about 6 years old and another about 10, both shot in the foot. He points the gun at the wailing younger one. He has to choose. Has to impress the gang leader. His hand quiver. his face sweats. He don't want to do it, but has to impress the big boys.  has to Prove he is a man. In a moment of contradiction, the killers heart softens and coldly looking at the little boy, turns the gun to his right and shoots the other. The first kill. A moment when humanity is  permanently snatched out of a human being."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New roommate with a Netflix account = Lots of movies, and in this case (City of God) a nightmare. But I still do recommend it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-2598788623589555830?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2598788623589555830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=2598788623589555830' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2598788623589555830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2598788623589555830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/city-of-god.html' title='City of God'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-8574168512924787638</id><published>2007-03-04T12:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-04T12:59:00.493-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Divide and Conquer</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Silently sitting on the floor of my half-empty apartement, my guts were boiling with anger and bitterness as I read Robert Fisk's &lt;a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2323413.ece"&gt;Latest Columns. It is titled: "&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;How easy it is to put hatred on a map".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The most sickening part is this:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;“Buy Time magazine, dear reader, turn to page 30, and what will you find? "How to Tell Sunnis and Shi'ites Apart." Helpful, uh? And after this, are columns of useful, divisive information. "Names," for example. "Some names carry sectarian markers... Abu Bakr, Omar and Uthman ... men with these names are almost certainly Sunni. Those called Abdel-Hussein and Abdel-Zahra," (I have never in met an "Abdel-Zahra" by the way) "are most likely Shi'ite." Then there are columns headed "Prayer", "Mosques", "Homes", "Accents" and "Dialects", even - heaven spare us - "cars". The last, for those readers not already reeling in disbelief, tells us which car stickers to look out for (spot a picture of Imam Ali and you know the driver is Shia) or which licence plate (Anbar province registrations, for instance) means a probable Sunni driver.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is sad and Ironic is that even a westerner, Robert Fisk, is telling about the conspiracy and we are still not listening. Sectarianism is so deeply rooted in our subconscious that even if we don’t like it, we either get swept by it or just watch it as a daily routine, but never manage condemn it. It is just a way of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have changed the name of our part of the world many times: the Arab world, the &lt;st1:place&gt;Middle East&lt;/st1:place&gt;, the new &lt;st1:place&gt;Middle East&lt;/st1:place&gt;, the greater &lt;st1:place&gt;Middle East&lt;/st1:place&gt;. While we are still label each other sunni, shia, who is more arab and who is less arab, while the truth is that it all does not matter to "them" as long as we fight and they reign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Predominantly optimistic in nature, I believe that time is on our side and tides will sooner or later turn in our favor, and we would, slowly but surely, wake up from our prolonged hibernation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-8574168512924787638?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8574168512924787638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=8574168512924787638' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8574168512924787638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8574168512924787638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/divide-and-conquer.html' title='Divide and Conquer'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-8908099744383480370</id><published>2007-03-04T00:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-04T00:38:39.441-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Childhood Flashback-Learning Bike Riding</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RepahQ49VeI/AAAAAAAAAD4/7k4h8eXn-zE/s1600-h/alg-nancy2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RepahQ49VeI/AAAAAAAAAD4/7k4h8eXn-zE/s320/alg-nancy2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5037938660683372002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yep. It was something like that....and My brother shouting "Stop looking at that paddles and watch where you are going"!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-8908099744383480370?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8908099744383480370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=8908099744383480370' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8908099744383480370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8908099744383480370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/childhood-flashback-learning-bike.html' title='Childhood Flashback-Learning Bike Riding'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RepahQ49VeI/AAAAAAAAAD4/7k4h8eXn-zE/s72-c/alg-nancy2.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-2127175247336138190</id><published>2007-03-03T02:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-03T03:00:35.493-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;My last project, inshalla...Testing Turbocharger Actuators. Interesting and fun, but not as high-tech as it sounds. It is a series of 3 sequential tests, about 45 minutes each, during which I have to watch a pointer, make some changes and enter data.Well anyway, I watch that Pointer all day, going back and forth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;As the pointer Going up, &lt;a href="http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/811/libnanpics05204ga5.jpg"&gt;this place&lt;/a&gt; comes to mind. and &lt;a href="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8797/sunrise011hf1.jpg"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; too(Image by &lt;a href="http://sietske-in-beiroet.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sietske&lt;/a&gt;). Then &lt;a href="http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/1078/motherge1.jpg"&gt;she&lt;/a&gt; comes. Followed by&lt;a href="http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2088/10003082ag9.jpg"&gt; him&lt;/a&gt;. and &lt;a href="http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7245/1000015zf7.jpg"&gt;her.&lt;/a&gt;......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;@#$% The stop button should have been pressed a while back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok. Redo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-2127175247336138190?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2127175247336138190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=2127175247336138190' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2127175247336138190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2127175247336138190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-last-project.html' title=''/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-2452070882870871535</id><published>2007-02-25T21:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T22:04:31.794-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;لو سؤلت عن هويتي لقلت: أنا مسلم لبناني. ولم أرى يوما تضارب بين هذا الإنتماء وذاك. لكني وبعد قرأة &lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/23491"&gt;مقال المؤثر لزياد الرحباني&lt;/a&gt;، شعرت وكأني أقف كتفا لكتف مع الشيوعيين عند قوله "وعلينا أن نواجه هؤلاء دون الرفيق سماحة". وبالمناسبة، إن أسلوب زياد الرحباني الساخر لم يستهوني يوما. لم أكن أستمع  لمسرحياته أو أي من برامجه. كنت أقول لمحبيه من أصدقائي أني فقط لا أحب طريقته بالتعبير عن رأيه، ولو إتفقت معه. لكنه قوله اليوم صادق وحق، والحق لا يعرف دين ، أديولوجية أو حزب سياسي.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;أما جوزيف سماحة فقد زرع موته الأسى في قلبي اليوم. كانت مقالاته تجد دائما صدى لدي في استفلا ليتها وتجردها. لكني لدي الثقة بأن هنالك صحافيين من طراز جوزيف سماحة، أمثال إبراهيم الأمين الذي أنتظر مقالآته دائما، ممن سيكملون الطريق&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;رحم لله جوزيف سماحة&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-2452070882870871535?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2452070882870871535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=2452070882870871535' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2452070882870871535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2452070882870871535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_472.html' title=''/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-2085585227304160862</id><published>2007-02-25T11:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T11:36:28.900-05:00</updated><title type='text'>وداعاً جوزف</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/ReG66VhQC3I/AAAAAAAAADs/yP0csUqesKE/s1600-h/p1_20070224_pic0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/ReG66VhQC3I/AAAAAAAAADs/yP0csUqesKE/s320/p1_20070224_pic0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5035511369748712306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Hamza/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-4.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Hamza/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-5.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-2085585227304160862?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2085585227304160862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=2085585227304160862' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2085585227304160862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2085585227304160862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_25.html' title='وداعاً جوزف'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/ReG66VhQC3I/AAAAAAAAADs/yP0csUqesKE/s72-c/p1_20070224_pic0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-9197680755164996779</id><published>2007-02-24T15:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-24T16:05:19.652-05:00</updated><title type='text'>اللعب</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;صبي لم يتجاوز طوله 100 سم، يلعب ليل نهار، لا تهدأ له ساكنة.  يبدوأنه لن ينام الليلة... يسأل مرارا وتكرار أن يذهب إلى النوم فيهز رأسه يمينا وشمالا رافضا. فهنالك دائما المزيد من الوقت للعب. فتساله أمه أن يدفأ لها السرير. فيفكر بالأمر للحظة ثم يبتسم ويركض نحو السرير. وما هي إلا لحظات وإذا به يوم جديد......لإستمرار اللعب&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-9197680755164996779?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/9197680755164996779/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=9197680755164996779' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/9197680755164996779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/9197680755164996779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_24.html' title='اللعب'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-8691324593537007862</id><published>2007-02-18T12:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-18T12:47:33.770-05:00</updated><title type='text'>جايين</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;عزمنا الرحيل، وبقي تحديد الموعد&lt;br /&gt;..........................&lt;br /&gt;Intending to go Back, the Date is yet to be set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RdiQMZfUsrI/AAAAAAAAADg/NSuP0BQfwCA/s1600-h/case1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RdiQMZfUsrI/AAAAAAAAADg/NSuP0BQfwCA/s320/case1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032931126261625522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-8691324593537007862?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8691324593537007862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=8691324593537007862' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8691324593537007862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8691324593537007862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_18.html' title='جايين'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RdiQMZfUsrI/AAAAAAAAADg/NSuP0BQfwCA/s72-c/case1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-1954557111152183630</id><published>2007-02-17T10:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-17T10:39:53.271-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pan's Labyrinth</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RdcgM5fUsqI/AAAAAAAAADU/OH5sxqWJWww/s1600-h/1499105887_l.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RdcgM5fUsqI/AAAAAAAAADU/OH5sxqWJWww/s320/1499105887_l.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032526514572538530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;A must-see movie. Tragic yet beautiful. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: lucida grande; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.panslabyrinth.com/"&gt;Check website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;Unfortunately, might carry some parallelism to what could happen to our children!!&lt;br /&gt;`&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-1954557111152183630?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/1954557111152183630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=1954557111152183630' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/1954557111152183630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/1954557111152183630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/02/pans-labyrinth.html' title='Pan&apos;s Labyrinth'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RdcgM5fUsqI/AAAAAAAAADU/OH5sxqWJWww/s72-c/1499105887_l.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-686852901304389668</id><published>2007-02-12T22:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-12T22:57:31.050-05:00</updated><title type='text'>فيلتمان والدجل السياسي</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/21945"&gt;قال جيفري فيلتمان&lt;/a&gt;، مستخفا بعقولنا، أن جميع أصدقاء لبنان ـ يعني ولايات بوش المتحدة ـ  يشعرون بالأسف للثمن الإنساني والاقتصادي والسياسي الذي دفعه لبنان بسبب الحرب غير الضرورية التي كان حرض عليها فريق خارج عن إطار الدولة&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;نسي السيد فيلتمان أن آلاف القنابل العنقودية المتناثرة في الجنوب أرسلت، وعلى عجل، بواسطة جسر جوي.... جسر اصدقاء لبنان الجوي. ونسي أيضا من المسؤول عن إطالة أمد الحرب&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-686852901304389668?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/686852901304389668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=686852901304389668' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/686852901304389668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/686852901304389668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_12.html' title='فيلتمان والدجل السياسي'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-3283573398701939753</id><published>2007-02-12T13:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-12T23:00:33.964-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ya Beirut</title><content type='html'>Feeling uninspired these days, but this song is will never fail to move me.  I thought I'd share it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://odeo.com/flash/audio_player_gray.swf" quality="high" width="322" height="54" name="odeo_player_gray" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="type=audio&amp;id=8602543" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-size: 9px; padding-left: 110px; color: #f39; letter-spacing: -1px; text-decoration: none" href="http://odeo.com/audio/8602543/view"&gt;powered by &lt;strong&gt;ODEO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-3283573398701939753?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/3283573398701939753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=3283573398701939753' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3283573398701939753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3283573398701939753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/02/ya-beirut.html' title='Ya Beirut'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-7365114618839138233</id><published>2007-02-03T13:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-03T13:39:00.812-05:00</updated><title type='text'>المصيبة</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;.......اتفاق لوقف الاشتباكات والمواجهات بين &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="ReadWriteMetadataPlaceholder1"&gt;&lt;span id="ReadWriteMetadataPlaceholder1_ReadWriteMetadataValue" style="height: 25px; width: 100%;"&gt;فتح وحماس&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="ReadWriteMetadataPlaceholder1"&gt;&lt;span id="ReadWriteMetadataPlaceholder1_ReadWriteMetadataValue" style="height: 25px; width: 100%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="ReadOnlyMetadataPlaceholder3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="ReadOnlyMetadataPlaceholder3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;الحكومة وحماس تدينان  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="ReadOnlyMetadataPlaceholder3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="ReadOnlyMetadataPlaceholder3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="ReadOnlyMetadataPlaceholder3"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="ReadOnlyMetadataPlaceholder3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;تجددت الاشتباكات في قطاع غزة بين حركتي فتح وحماس بعد ساعات قليلة من اتفاق الرئيس الفلسطيني محمود عباس ورئيس المكتب السياسي لحركة حماس خالد مشعل على وقف إطلاق النار&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;إدانة، رفض  وانتقاد&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt; عباس &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;يلتقي&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt; رئيس المكتب السياسي لحماس خالد مشعل&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt; في مكة المكرمة&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="ReadWriteMetadataPlaceholder1"&gt;&lt;span id="ReadWriteMetadataPlaceholder1_ReadWriteMetadataValue"&gt;اتفاق جديد لوقف الاقتتال بغزة&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt; الاشتباكات فورا بين حركتي التحرير الوطني (فتح) والمقاومة الإسلامية (حماس) التي أوقعت منذ أمس في قطاع غزة 21 قتيلا و220 جريحا&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;في غضون ذلك تتواصل عمليات الحفر تحت أساسات المسجد الأقصى وأسواره&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;تل أبيب تشجع على تهريب الأسلحة إلى الساحة الفلسطينية بكل الطرق والوسائل&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;المصيبة&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="Htmlplaceholdercontrol1" class="tdArticleBody"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="ReadOnlyMetadataPlaceholder3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="ReadOnlyMetadataPlaceholder3"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-7365114618839138233?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/7365114618839138233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=7365114618839138233' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7365114618839138233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7365114618839138233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post.html' title='المصيبة'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-5358835248631832463</id><published>2007-01-26T20:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-26T21:41:12.271-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mood - 2</title><content type='html'>The optimism I had flying around this afternoon, when I dropped a comment about &lt;a href="http://jamalghosn.blogspot.com/2007/01/from-lebanon-m16.html#links"&gt;Jamal's entry&lt;/a&gt; , hit rock bottom as I was reading the news from Libnan.  What I like about Joseph Samaha, of Al-akhbar, is his simplicity in breaking down a complicated issue. Check out his &lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/20319"&gt;latest one&lt;/a&gt; (sorry!! arabic only). He does not yell, call names or attack anyone (not viciously anyway). Forget NBN, NewTV, LBC and most definitely Future TV; they are all an insult to anyone's intelligence, but I have to admit, I still pay them visit every once in a while, with the exception Future TV, to get feel of whats going on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Going back to Mr Samaha, his article today was amazing... amazingly depressing that is, and it took me 15 minutes of blindly staring at the screen to get myself to click for the next article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In brief,  Condy and Georgi are leading a counter-attack :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;$10 billion to Afghanistan.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;more billions to Iraq (which they will collect later, and we all know how)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;An end to the negotiations in Palestine, and lot of $$$ to rebuild Abbas's own security forces, slowly but steadily for the next two years. (and to be honest, I don't know whats there to  negotiating, they don't have anything yet!!!!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;More US escalation towards Iran, mainly in Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;And most importantly, They are donating more billions of $$$$$$$$ to the........Lebanese prime minister.  who is known for his transparency, honesty and decency during his previous years.  He gracefully smiles as he sit at the right hand side of President Jacques Chirac. Then, at a press conference, he address th Lebanese people with his his usually sweet talk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;An offensive, lead by the "Bush and Allies L.L.C", and used as infantry (willingly and necessarily.. unwillingly) are the "Moderate Arab's" and the transparent , honest decent people like PM Saniora and our brothers in Fatah to lead us into a more "democratic" and economically prosperous future.  Then we will all live, democratically, under the watchful eyes of the kings of Arabia and we will all know where our money spent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of this outside aid, and then minister Ahmad Fatfat, PM Sanior, Jounblat and the rest of the gang of elitist and warlords will disgustingly throw statements on the air, demanding that Lebanon be left out of international and regional conflict and "let it not be a battle field for other countries wars"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sad thing that what is happening!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and to make things even worse; a friend sent me &lt;a href="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8326734789464462895&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;this surreal and idealistically depressing video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of that, and my boring Friday night has not even started......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jamalghosn.blogspot.com/2007/01/from-lebanon-m16.html#links"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-5358835248631832463?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/5358835248631832463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=5358835248631832463' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/5358835248631832463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/5358835248631832463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/mood-2.html' title='The Mood - 2'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-7231733029401631767</id><published>2007-01-17T22:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T23:20:39.919-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Homesickness - 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Ra7y3EjTnII/AAAAAAAAAC4/QxOOdNd58g8/s1600-h/untitled.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Ra7y3EjTnII/AAAAAAAAAC4/QxOOdNd58g8/s320/untitled.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021217662493236354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Half an hour spent(wasted) on the computer, starting with http://www.google.com/maps, Typing "Saida, Lebanon", the closest city to my hometown and following the roads from there to get to....HOME (click on the picture). Then roaming around the fields where  I grew up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next.... Beirut, Addahyeh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do that every few months..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-7231733029401631767?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/7231733029401631767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=7231733029401631767' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7231733029401631767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7231733029401631767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/homesickness-2.html' title='Homesickness - 2'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Ra7y3EjTnII/AAAAAAAAAC4/QxOOdNd58g8/s72-c/untitled.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-8536013228636852330</id><published>2007-01-17T21:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T21:20:18.709-05:00</updated><title type='text'>حنظلة</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Ra7YcUjTnGI/AAAAAAAAACg/Y2fwdwciW8M/s1600-h/naji3am42.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Ra7YcUjTnGI/AAAAAAAAACg/Y2fwdwciW8M/s320/naji3am42.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021188615629413474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;تعقيبا على ما جاء في المقال السابق، أشعر أن الليلة هي ليلة "حنظلة" بدون منازع..... رحم الله ناجي العلي....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-8536013228636852330?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8536013228636852330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=8536013228636852330' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8536013228636852330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8536013228636852330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-post_1320.html' title='حنظلة'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Ra7YcUjTnGI/AAAAAAAAACg/Y2fwdwciW8M/s72-c/naji3am42.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-7693614861070888534</id><published>2007-01-17T20:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T21:17:51.238-05:00</updated><title type='text'>العرب ؟؟</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;...«المعتدلين العرب»، «معتدلون بلا حدود»&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/19277"&gt;التفاصيل المحزنة&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-7693614861070888534?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/7693614861070888534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=7693614861070888534' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7693614861070888534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7693614861070888534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-post_17.html' title='العرب ؟؟'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-3727283101392397484</id><published>2007-01-16T20:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-16T20:18:59.969-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Ra15BEjTnEI/AAAAAAAAACM/FCXjXUlyy5w/s1600-h/martin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Ra15BEjTnEI/AAAAAAAAACM/FCXjXUlyy5w/s320/martin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020802218896628802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;He knew he was living his last hours, but steadfast he delivered &lt;a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm"&gt;his last speech&lt;/a&gt;, "I've been to the Mountaintop"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-3727283101392397484?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/3727283101392397484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=3727283101392397484' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3727283101392397484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3727283101392397484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/dr-martin-luther-king-jr.html' title='Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Ra15BEjTnEI/AAAAAAAAACM/FCXjXUlyy5w/s72-c/martin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-5535238483072839336</id><published>2007-01-14T12:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T12:25:57.929-05:00</updated><title type='text'>أنسي الحاج</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;كتب أنسي الحاج&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;..............&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt; هناك شيء غيرهما، غير هذا المنطلق الذي بات أشبه، في حدّيه، بالحلقة المُفْرغَة.&lt;br /&gt;لعلّه الوعي.&lt;br /&gt;(اكتشاف عديم الدهشة، ككثير من الحقائق التي تستدعي التواضع).&lt;br /&gt;وعي في حدّة الشمس، وقحٌ كبراءة تعيش ذاتها بلا وعي.&lt;br /&gt;وعيٌ يعطّل فاعليّة العدوان. يشلّ الطغيان. يتفّه حيويّة الشرّ.&lt;br /&gt;مناعة تنبعث من مجرد تسليط الوعي. توجيهه كالأشعّة، كالمطر الشاطف. وعي، محضُ وجوده وإعلان وجوده سقوط للجريمة. الجريمة تنمو في رطوبة العتم وتيبس وتهرّ في انقشاع الظهيرة.&lt;br /&gt;لا يحتاج الحقّ إلى رشاشات، بل إلى ضمائر يشرح صدرها الصدق.&lt;br /&gt;ولا إلى أبطال سلطة ولا إلى دُهاة، بل إلى متواضعين أبطال وإلى أذكياء مترفّعين وإلى عديمي الادّعاء أو على الأقل إلى قليلي الادّعاء. الغرور انتشر إلى حدّ باتت معه قلّة الادّعاء فضيلة أكثر انطلاباً من المعرفة.&lt;br /&gt;لا تحتاج البلاد إلى عيون تَقْدَح الشّرَر، بل إلى عيون تشعّ بالطيبة. الجميع قبضايات. لكن الحاجة إلى وُدَعاء يقاسمون الشعب المقهور الفقير أوضاعه ولقمة موته.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-5535238483072839336?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/5535238483072839336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=5535238483072839336' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/5535238483072839336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/5535238483072839336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-post_14.html' title='أنسي الحاج'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-857812287644672475</id><published>2007-01-13T12:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T20:22:28.492-05:00</updated><title type='text'>السجن</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Rakdg0jTnCI/AAAAAAAAAB4/smyxQVy9Dr4/s1600-h/prison_bars2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Rakdg0jTnCI/AAAAAAAAAB4/smyxQVy9Dr4/s320/prison_bars2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5019575709380877346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;يقال:&lt;br /&gt;يصبح شعور الإنسان وحواسه في السجن أقوى،  و يزدادإستعداده للإستفادة من الحياة والحب وما إلى ذلك.&lt;br /&gt;فأتسأل هامسا:&lt;br /&gt;إنه السجن إذا؟؟؟؟&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;It was said that man's senses and feelings become more acute in prison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder to myself and whisper: " It is the prison then, I am living in one!!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-857812287644672475?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/857812287644672475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=857812287644672475' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/857812287644672475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/857812287644672475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-post_13.html' title='السجن'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/Rakdg0jTnCI/AAAAAAAAAB4/smyxQVy9Dr4/s72-c/prison_bars2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-178199721470834655</id><published>2007-01-12T18:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-12T18:40:55.167-05:00</updated><title type='text'>الوضع الحالي</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;كتب جوزيف سماحة&lt;br /&gt;..........................&lt;br /&gt;لم يستكمل، بعد، بناء «محور الاعتدال العربي». إلا أن تقدماً يحصل. إيهود أولمرت يساعد من بعيد. بوش يقوم بما عليه. حكام عرب يعيدون ترتيب الأولويات. إيران ترتكب الخطأ تلو الخطأ. نخب عربية حاكمة (أو معارضة) تزداد غرقاً في أزمتها وتبدو مصابة بنوبة عصبية قد يطول أمدها. قيادات عراقية غرائزية. صعود «البلطجة» إلى موقع الصدارة في فلسطين. الرقص حول جثة صدام حسين. مطاردة «الشيعة» في غزة. التفتيش عن «المجوس» في جبل لبنان. التسامح مع أن تكون «الصدّامية» مستقبل الحركة القومية. حيرة «الاعتدال» بين ممارسة الخضوع للخارج وخطاب التحريض ضد الداخل... هذه كلها، وغيرها، علامات على نجاحات في بناء المحور المشار إليه.&lt;br /&gt;رايس قادمة لوضع مدماك جديد، لتحاول محاصرة أي تعبير يفتح أفقاً.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-178199721470834655?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/178199721470834655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=178199721470834655' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/178199721470834655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/178199721470834655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-post.html' title='الوضع الحالي'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-3503765379028998460</id><published>2007-01-10T22:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T22:39:22.065-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Investigation!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWwokjTnBI/AAAAAAAAABs/rkFRQ43dbJI/s1600-h/Serge-Brammertz-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWwokjTnBI/AAAAAAAAABs/rkFRQ43dbJI/s320/Serge-Brammertz-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018611570827303954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who are the Ten countries that declined to help in the investigation of the assassination of Rafiq Hariri?? And why Did the US and France refuse the same of those countries in the UN?? One of many questions to the Lebanese and the world. Click &lt;a href="http://www.assafir.com/Article.aspx?EditionId=536&amp;ChannelId=11505&amp;amp;ArticleId=1046"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for an article by Talal Salman (arabic only, sorry).&lt;br /&gt;I am not sure if out dear Almoustaqbal newspaper will even mention it. I wouldn't want to even try, I have been having a good day so far and want to keep it that way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-3503765379028998460?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/3503765379028998460/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=3503765379028998460' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3503765379028998460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3503765379028998460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/investigation.html' title='Investigation!!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWwokjTnBI/AAAAAAAAABs/rkFRQ43dbJI/s72-c/Serge-Brammertz-4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-2620045235695808758</id><published>2007-01-10T20:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T21:18:20.712-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brothers become Fathers and start baring face wrinkles, but never seize to loose the shear sense of humor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWZDUjTm9I/AAAAAAAAAA8/_qwhh0posug/s1600-h/brothers.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWZDUjTm9I/AAAAAAAAAA8/_qwhh0posug/s320/brothers.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018585642109737938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nephews who barely walked are now life-busting youngsters, but still get their clothes dirty all the time and did not manage to loose the "I will break everything in my way" look in their eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWbPEjTm-I/AAAAAAAAABE/JlyqWOb45xQ/s1600-h/hassan.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWbPEjTm-I/AAAAAAAAABE/JlyqWOb45xQ/s320/hassan.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018588042996456418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Families still meet on new year's eve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWcMEjTm_I/AAAAAAAAABM/itD5gr0d2Mw/s1600-h/P1010395.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWcMEjTm_I/AAAAAAAAABM/itD5gr0d2Mw/s320/P1010395.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018589090968476658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And for  picnics and Barbeques.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWcfUjTnAI/AAAAAAAAABU/_-y8wsC---Y/s1600-h/P1010323.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWcfUjTnAI/AAAAAAAAABU/_-y8wsC---Y/s320/P1010323.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5018589421680958466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;While I am here, thousands of mile away, wondering whether what I am here for is worth missing on all of that....hmmmmm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-2620045235695808758?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2620045235695808758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=2620045235695808758' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2620045235695808758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2620045235695808758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/brothers-become-fathers-and-start.html' title=''/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RaWZDUjTm9I/AAAAAAAAAA8/_qwhh0posug/s72-c/brothers.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-1581201179095592247</id><published>2007-01-03T22:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T22:55:24.225-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Madness..</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RZx6mpjlnKI/AAAAAAAAAAw/0zjv_YEgEkI/s1600-h/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 111px;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RZx6mpjlnKI/AAAAAAAAAAw/0zjv_YEgEkI/s320/images.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5016018889392626850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/17596"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for the latest Jounblat Madness....... (no further comments)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-1581201179095592247?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/1581201179095592247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=1581201179095592247' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/1581201179095592247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/1581201179095592247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/madness.html' title='Madness..'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RZx6mpjlnKI/AAAAAAAAAAw/0zjv_YEgEkI/s72-c/images.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-4179862502310196746</id><published>2007-01-03T19:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T20:38:24.439-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Saddam, Again...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RZxLapjlnJI/AAAAAAAAAAk/HO5AeLh_pnI/s1600-h/1_665258_1_23.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RZxLapjlnJI/AAAAAAAAAAk/HO5AeLh_pnI/s320/1_665258_1_23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015967006187691154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Like Rabid beasts, two "civilized" Iraqi Politicians debate the legitimacy of the excution of Saddam Houssein. They start of course by the name calling and then comes the inevitable scene when one of them, or both, leave the set. One calls the other, a persian spy, a safawi, and the other barks out some names that I did not comrehend, given the choas.The ironi is one of them is a member in a party called "المصالحة والتحرير", the party of reconciliation and liberation. He spoke about the shia, and I am one of them,  using very provocative and demeaning way; I was definitely offended.I do not understand how the so-called cream of the crop in Iraq are supposed to achieve the so-called reconliation if they are at such a level of ignorance and hate (a civil war mixture). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a Muslim,Shia and Arab, I denounce the timing and the way of the execution of Saddam and I blame both Shia and Sunni's in Iraq for the escalation that will follow. I had a feeling of shame and helplessness, just like the  feeling I had when the announced the fall of Baghdad not so long back. It drives me mad that the Iraqis have not learnt from us, lebanese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would still want to see him dead, but why not finish the other trials, the mass murder of the Kurds using chemical weapons for example. Maybe the cover would have been blown, showing the American involvement in many of those murders. The chemical agents were ordered "by phone" from the US at the time when Saddam the the US #1 man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until ignorance and hate cease to be the dominant feeling on the streets of Iraq, I do not see how things can get any better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, click &lt;a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2114403.ece"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for some of when&lt;a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/"&gt; Robert Fisk &lt;/a&gt;had to say about all this mess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Hamza/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-4179862502310196746?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/4179862502310196746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=4179862502310196746' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/4179862502310196746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/4179862502310196746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2007/01/saddam-again.html' title='Saddam, Again...'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RZxLapjlnJI/AAAAAAAAAAk/HO5AeLh_pnI/s72-c/1_665258_1_23.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-374551902097198533</id><published>2006-12-29T23:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-30T00:13:26.195-05:00</updated><title type='text'>He is Gone!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RZXxyJjWs-I/AAAAAAAAAAY/qvoZ-Dxa1SU/s1600-h/_18940_Saddam_Hussein.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RZXxyJjWs-I/AAAAAAAAAAY/qvoZ-Dxa1SU/s320/_18940_Saddam_Hussein.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5014179604006876130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;He was executed today. The largest Iraqi community in the &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;United   States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; is celebrating here in town. &lt;br /&gt;As far as I am concerned, it would be very hard claim that this dictator deserved any lesser punishment, but the timing was ruthless, unprecedented and unacceptable, not to mention that it reveals a deep lack of knowledge as far as the Muslim and Arab populations are concerned.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Once again, the Bush administrations proves that it is either extremely Middle-East -ignorant, or they are intentionally provoking division within the Iraqi community, or both.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-374551902097198533?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/374551902097198533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=374551902097198533' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/374551902097198533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/374551902097198533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/he-is-gone.html' title='He is Gone!!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_gNhG1cGIEDQ/RZXxyJjWs-I/AAAAAAAAAAY/qvoZ-Dxa1SU/s72-c/_18940_Saddam_Hussein.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-2802202773017030162</id><published>2006-12-17T22:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-17T22:30:15.279-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Unacceptable and Unexpectable.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;My supervisor, a nice man in his fifth decade, came to me one late afternoon asking me about &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Iran&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;'s president and what I thought of the Conference about the Holocaust. I simple said that I do not agree with the way he flamboyantly declares the extermination of &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, but as much as any human being should condemn these acts, I was glad that subject as a holocausts is being talked about and debated, and not such a taboo anymore. I also asserted that the isrealis have been using these massacres, which were not done by us, to commit their massacres against us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But today, I read an entry by&lt;a href="http://mrbehi.blogs.com/i/"&gt; Behi &lt;/a&gt;and was surprised…. What? White supremacists attended the conference. An article published BBC news, but since I have recently lost faith in BBC's neutrality, I looked somewhere else... The Independent, &lt;a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2067598.ece"&gt;it was also mentioned&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;What a shame. What a shame!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="return false;" tabindex="7"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-2802202773017030162?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2802202773017030162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=2802202773017030162' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2802202773017030162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2802202773017030162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/unacceptable-and-unexpectable.html' title='Unacceptable and Unexpectable.'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-7030847939610104954</id><published>2006-12-17T21:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-17T21:48:07.609-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ميشال عون</title><content type='html'>I was a little surprised with &lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/16011"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They Do not even know he is in the opposition.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-7030847939610104954?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/7030847939610104954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=7030847939610104954' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7030847939610104954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7030847939610104954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-post_17.html' title='ميشال عون'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-2532388301028922382</id><published>2006-12-15T18:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-15T19:00:30.195-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Double Standard</title><content type='html'>The Civilized EU leaders met and decided their view and policies for us, the uncivilized world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what's intriguing is their full support to PM Saniora, for after all, he is democratically (indirectly) elected by the people. On the other hand, the Palestinian people have to go hungry for months because they elected, democratically,  someone who those same Civilized leaders do not agree with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, another big news: UK drops fraud charges against officials in relation with the arms deal with the Saudi's, &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;violating the international convention&lt;/span&gt;, as stated by one English officials. One of Blair's excuses..."it will hurt the war on terrorism". and it was also stated that the decision was "&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;not be influenced by considerations of national economic interest".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-2532388301028922382?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2532388301028922382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=2532388301028922382' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2532388301028922382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/2532388301028922382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/double-standard.html' title='Double Standard'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-4503709648628163216</id><published>2006-12-11T22:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T08:30:14.885-05:00</updated><title type='text'>القيء المذهبي®</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;كتب جوزف سماحة.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;الشعارات التي رفعها «المستقبل» للمواجهة تثير حساسية مذهبية («كرامة بيروت»، «موقع رئاسة الحكومة»، تحريم انتقاد «المعتدلين العرب»، إلخ...). ومن يراقب بدقّة يلاحظ أن نوعاً من تقسيم العمل نشأ. للرئيس فؤاد السنيورة دور رجل الدولة العاقل، الهادئ، المحاصر، الحريص على المؤسسات، الداعي إلى الحوار، المدافع عن ممارسات حكومته... لرئيس «تيار المستقبل» سعد الحريري دور الدخول في السجال السياسي، واتهام الخصوم بأنهم أداة في محور إقليمي، واستحضار جمهور رفيق الحريري، والإيحاء أن التناقض بين العروبة الأصيلة والشعوبية، إلخ... وللمؤسسة الدينية المذهبية، من القمة إلى القاعدة، دور الهجوم الصريح على «الحزب» وأمينه العام. وجرى التسامح، هنا، مع استخدام ترسانة شبه تكفيرية ذات مضمون مستقى من تنويعة زرقاوية. ولا مبالغة في القول إن الخطاب الأخير كان هو الخطاب التعبوي الأقوى، وخاصة في الأرياف المهملة (عكار، الضنية، البقاع الغربي، الإقليم...) ولدى الأوساط الشعبية القلقة التي يصعب حشدها بشعارات ذات صلة بباريس ــ 3 وخصخصة قطاعات الاتصال والكهرباء.&lt;br /&gt;يجب أن نضيف إلى ذلك استنفار أقلام سعودية تراوح بين الوهابية الصافية والليبرالية الحديثة النعمة. ولقد وجد أصولي مرتدّ نيوليبرالي مستجدّ أن في معركة «الثلث الضامن» أصداء معركة تدور منذ قرون&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وللمزيد من القرف ال14 آذاري، إقرأ  &lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/15322"&gt;النص كامل&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**القيء المذهبي®: ماركة مسجلة باسم المدون &lt;a href="http://hilalchouman.blogspot.com/"&gt;هلال&lt;/a&gt;......على ما أعتقد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-4503709648628163216?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/4503709648628163216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=4503709648628163216' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/4503709648628163216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-8475286642852115903</id><published>2006-12-10T21:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-10T22:25:32.636-05:00</updated><title type='text'>معادلة بسيطة</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;تحت عنوان "معادلة بسيطة"&lt;a href="http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BFCF53F8-5A20-4956-A3B3-8CC7218E6B2F.htm"&gt; كتب أحد القراء&lt;/a&gt;، "رجل تريد أن تقتله اسرائيل لأنه يشكل تهديد لأمنها و رجل تدعمه اسرائيل لأنه يشكل ضمانة لأمنها. فأي الرجلين يحق أن يتبع؟ رجل يشتمه بوش و أولمرت صبح مساء ورجل يغدق عليه الدعم من أمريكا و اسرائيل"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; السؤال المتمم هو هل أن ما يفعله هؤلاء، أي ألمرت و بوش، يأتي في سياق الترويج للفتنة أم هو حقيقة خوفهم على مصالحهم؟&lt;br /&gt;فأما إذا كان للفتنة فيا لها من مصيبة لتحالف 14 آذارمع الأمريكيين(وهم ينكرون ذلك طبعا، كمن يختبئ خلف إصبعه).... أما إذا كان لمصالح هؤلاء، فيا لها  ن مصيبة المصائب فالأشرف للسنيورة ان يسقيل  على أن يكون حافظا للمصالح الإسرائيلية&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;لكن السنيرة وللأسف لا يسمع ما يحدث في العالم  خارج السراي إلا مايقوله السيد حسن للرد عليه والباقي "دايرلو الأذن الطرشى".. وللمزيد  إقرأ ما أتى في&lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/15200"&gt; آخر المقال&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-8475286642852115903?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8475286642852115903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=8475286642852115903' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8475286642852115903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8475286642852115903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-post_10.html' title='معادلة بسيطة'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-5447201846458575657</id><published>2006-12-05T23:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-06T21:06:59.531-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mood</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I am struggling to keep my opinionated inclinations in check these days. For on one hand, I firmly believe that what the opposition is asking for is a fare and reasonable propositions. These propositions provide the right representation of the Lebanese population. In addition to that, I despise the current PM, Saniora, and the people/parties he represents for all they are doing and have done during the war in the summer (and even before all of that), and definitely want him out of that office. But on the other hand, I pray that all the diplomatic visit lead to a resolution and these demonstrations, while absolutely rightful, would come to an end as soon as possible. Although unlikely, Things could get out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Until then, I go on with my pursuit for some &lt;a href="http://sietske-in-beiroet.blogspot.com/"&gt;impartial blogs&lt;/a&gt; to monitor my political inclinations. Any suggestions?? &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-5447201846458575657?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/5447201846458575657/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=5447201846458575657' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/5447201846458575657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/5447201846458575657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/mood.html' title='The Mood'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-3588547930789127031</id><published>2006-12-03T14:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-03T15:00:38.054-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reasonable!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/14270"&gt;A must read&lt;/a&gt; article by Joseph Samaha. A reasonable assessment of the current situation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-3588547930789127031?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/3588547930789127031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=3588547930789127031' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3588547930789127031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3588547930789127031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/reasonable.html' title='Reasonable!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-5360705787707816651</id><published>2006-12-03T01:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-03T17:12:34.644-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Day I'd Lose Hope.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;It has always been considered that Lebanese politicians are individuals who eloquently bend the truth, are very effective at selling words and slogans and rarely delivering on their promises. In the mean time, “clean politicians” have always been sidelined and overshadowed. With leaders like Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and General Aoun, that not been the case.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;I do not need much effort to relate to the extreme loyalty and respect that many Lebanese, especially the Muslim Shiite, pledge to Sayyed Hassan. He has been honest so far, following through with his promises, led the liberation of the southern part of Lebanon from occupation, and had shown a great deal of organization that led to many victories (that last one is open to debate, I know). I can also relate, but to a much lower extents, with the reason why many Christians in &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; cheer for General Aoun as well. Just like most other Lebanese sects, they are just utterly sick of dishonest politicians with shady pasts. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That being said, and in a scenario where the current demonstration lead to the forming a new clean government, If the new leadership fail to deliver on their promises (which includes, among other things, sharing the government with others, rebuilding, etc), That would be the Day I’d get close to losing hope and giving up on Lebanon. If such leadership would prove to be corrupt, I do not know how can any “clean leader” ever exist in the Lebanese political arena. If that happens, I still have no idea what would I do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-5360705787707816651?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/5360705787707816651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=5360705787707816651' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/5360705787707816651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/5360705787707816651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/day-id-lose-hope.html' title='The Day I&apos;d Lose Hope.'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-8883411354721756235</id><published>2006-12-02T10:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-02T10:33:11.632-05:00</updated><title type='text'>جملة</title><content type='html'>جملة من وحي المناسبة. مختصرة لكن معبرة.&lt;br /&gt;"إن فقدتم الأمل فاخترعوه"-الدكتور سليم الحص&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-8883411354721756235?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8883411354721756235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=8883411354721756235' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8883411354721756235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8883411354721756235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-post.html' title='جملة'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-7661421162635890870</id><published>2006-11-30T23:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-30T23:30:05.605-05:00</updated><title type='text'>أيام ساعة الصفر</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;st1:time minute="59" hour="8"&gt;8:59 a.m.&lt;/st1:time&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Settling in my Cubicle, day dreaming, eyeballs foolishly follows the flying icons on the screensaver against a black background. I think of &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, Downtown, and what is going on, I stray and think of Jnoob, my mom, Tabeekh, and for some reason &lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Dubai&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:City&gt;... Memories start rushing through my head uncontrollably.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then it gets too much, I shake my head, wake up and go back to work mumbling to myself “It is not a way to start an efficient day at work”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-7661421162635890870?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/7661421162635890870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=7661421162635890870' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7661421162635890870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/7661421162635890870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/11/blog-post_30.html' title='أيام ساعة الصفر'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-3887299194630121881</id><published>2006-11-28T21:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-28T22:30:42.720-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Politically Helpless..</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I have attempted to write a few entries in the last week or so, but I always finding it hard to follow through.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I struggle to hold off on my political views but always wind up writing about it. I try to be as unbiased as possible, but I can not help mentioning Geagea and Joumblat and Hariri and their bunch and how horrible they are performing. I try to look, imagine or consider the viewpoint of those who support those leaders and I fail drastically. Then I place the opposition leaders in one side of a balance (nasrallah, Aoun, Karameh, el Hoss, Berri, etc) with all their pro's and con's and the ruling bunch (Filtman, Hariri, Joumblat, Geagea, etc) in the other. Is it my inability to understand or what? I keep on repeating to myself "there should be something I am not able to see", otherwise how come  people actually listen to them. Yet, I still fail to understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I said I wanted to stay away from politics....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My other attempts were to try to express myself, and you probably have an idea where that ended... you named it…. Politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is why I deleted it all and decided to write the above entry, which itself couldn’t escape the inescapable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-3887299194630121881?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/3887299194630121881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=3887299194630121881' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3887299194630121881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/3887299194630121881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-8644891562569627745?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8644891562569627745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=8644891562569627745' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8644891562569627745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8644891562569627745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/11/blog-post_25.html' title='المشكلة'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-8404441147532040524</id><published>2006-11-24T01:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-25T01:06:09.175-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If they were only a day late!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Beware Beware the Ides of March......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-8404441147532040524?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8404441147532040524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=8404441147532040524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8404441147532040524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8404441147532040524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/11/if-they-were-only-day-late.html' title='If they were only a day late!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-1979475720703812845</id><published>2006-11-23T23:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-24T00:04:42.673-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Said The Way They are Ought to be Said..</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="right"&gt;لا تنسَ الدعوة الى الاعتصام».. لم يقدر فارس سعيد على تمالك نفسه عندما اقترب من الرئيس أمين الجميل مطالباً إياه بالإعلان عن هذه الخطوة في ختام كلمته. لم يرد الاخير. رفع سقف خطابه لكنه لم يشر إلى الخطوات العملية. ضرب فارس سعيد جبينه بكفه. لقد انكشف في اللحظة الأصعب. الرجل يريد أن يدفن ابنه ومعه أحقاد وثارات أتت على أفراد كثر من عائلته. بينما يهتم سعيد ومن يمثل، بلحظة الاضطراب العقلي والسياسي والعصبي. بإشعال النار: هذه هي فرصتنا ولا يجوز أن نفوّتها كما فعلنا بعد 14 آذار!لم يكن فريق السلطة موفقاً أمس. لا الحشد يشبه يوم الحشد، ولا الخطاب له صلة بتعبئة بحجم ما حصل. وأكثر من ذلك. ثمة خلل مركزي في آلية التعبئة متصل بالموقف أكثر مما هو مرتبط بالآليات. إضراب جزئي في المدن المفترض أنها مركز ثقل هذا الفريق، ومشاركة شعبية مسيحية تقتصر على فريق “القوات اللبنانية” وبعض الكتائبيين، وتجنيد أقل بكثير مما رصد لجذب الشارع السني. وهذا لا يعني ان فريق السلطة تنقصه عصبية او جمهور او ادوات للقتال. لكن من المفيد القول إنه يصعب إدارة معركة سياسية شاملة بحسابات لا تتصل بما كانت عليه الأمور قبل أقل من عام.إضعاف العماد ميشال عون وتحييد الرئيس نبيه بري. هذا هو العنوان المشترك لعمل فريق السلطة الذي يقوده فعليا الآن كل من وليد جنبلاط وسمير جعجع. أما سعد الحريري فقد تاه وسط متطلبات أبرز مجرمي الحرب الاهلية. وهو وإن كان مقتنعاً بأن موقفه صحيح الآن، وأن الآخرين، وتحديداً حزب الله والتيار الوطني الحر، ليسوا في صفه، فهو يربط الأمر بالموقف من التحقيق في جريمة اغتيال والده الرئيس رفيق الحريري. لم ينتبه سعد الى أنه يصعب اتهام الآخرين بمحاباة قاتل مفترض هو سوريا، وهو يخوض تحالفاً مع قاتل مدان من أعلى سلطة قضائية في جريمة اغتيال رئيس وزراء سابق.. أليس بين من يشرع للمحكمة الدولية الآن من كان عضواً في المجلس العدلي الذي حكم بإدانة جعجع؟ وهو في الوقت نفسه شريك أشد رموز الحرب قسوة في قتاله الآخرين بواسطة آخرين... ألا يرى سعد الحريري أنه يصعب إقناع الناس بأن عليهم السير خلف جنبلاط وجعجع بدل نصر الله وعون؟انتهى التشييع، لكن الدم لا يزال حاراً، لكن فريق السلطة مستعجل أكثر مما ظهر على المجرمين من استعجال في تنفيذ جريمتهم والمخاطرة بعناصر كثيرة. ولا مكان للعقل البارد، ومع ذلك فإن باب الأسئلة مشرع بخلاف ما يرغب أصحاب كواتم الصوت من كتم للأنفاس ومنع أي سؤال او كلام عمن هو المستفيد من موجة القتل والتوتر الاخيرة؟كان حزب الكتائب يدخل مرحلة جديدة بعد قداس حريصا الشهير. ومحاضر اجتماعات قيادة هذا الحزب تكشف عن الخيبة الكتائبية من “التمادي القواتي في سرقة الشهداء والأمجاد”. تطور الأمر الى حدود أن بيار الجميل نفسه طلب استنفاراً على مستوى حضور الحزب في كل الأمكنة، طلب إعادة تنشيط الأقاليم ومضى في خطة كانت تمهد ببساطة لتولّيه منصب الرجل القوي في الحزب، الذي يمكن أن يمسك القرار بين رئيسين أدنى وأعلى. ثم كان النقاش في امكان تحييد الكتائب نفسها عن الصراع القائم “بين السنة والشيعة بواسطة المسيحيين”. كان الجدل قد وصل حدود الإقرار بأن المشاركة المسيحية ضئيلة في سلطة 14 آذار، وكان القرار أقرب الى تعايش من نوع مختلف مع الحالة العونية، مع تقدير ربما يكون أقرب الى وهم بأن الكتائب إن جددت يمكن أن تكون وريثة التيار الوطني، على قاعدة أن القاسم المشترك بين الكتائب و“القوات” انحصر في اعتبار حالة عون طارئة وتتجه صوب الضمور.مضى سمير جعجع في ترتيب أوضاعه. ومن النواحي كلها. تنظيمياً عمل من دون توقف على استعادة كل الكوادر. وعلى صعيد ترتيب الوضع الأمني للحزب وقياداته كان غسان توما يعود الى الواجهة. شرع له جعجع شخصياً الباب بإعلانه قيادياً في “القوات” ثم نشط الأخير في استعادة عشرات من الكوادر الذين سافروا على مراحل بعد توقف الحرب الاهلية وبعد توقيف سمير جعجع. ثم بدأت عمليات التدريب تحت حجة الأمن الخاص بالشخصيات والمراكز. وثمة وثائق وصور عن تدريبات لعناصر كثيرة من القوات في أكثر من منطقة لبنانية. وكان هناك في الوقت نفسه عملية استعادة المؤسسات المباشرة. وسيلة الإعلام المركزية أي المؤسسة اللبنانية للإرسال وإذاعة لبنان الحر. وفتح الباب أمام جمع المداخيل المالية من اكثر من جهة. والعمل على الارض على جبهتين: الاولى سرقة ما أمكن من الكتائبيين الذين يريدون عصبية أكثر حدة من التي قامت، وتهويل على التيار الوطني الحر من باب ترهيب تشهد له القرى والأزقة والجامعات.فجأة يعود السجال الداخلي الى ذروته. قوى المعارضة اجتمعت في طابور واحد بعد خروج أمل وحزب الله من الحكومة. واستنفار وتعبئة شعبية ظهرت مؤداها العملي في الاحتفال العوني في 15 تشرين الأول، لكن الخطة الاكثر عملانية كانت في الاستعداد لبرنامج تحرك مفتوح حتى استقالة الحكومة. ولم يكن هناك أمل لأي شيء آخر. رفع عنوان المحكمة الدولية، وفجأة تظهر الحاجة الى فعل ما يقلب الامور رأساً على عقب. مع كلام أميركي ضاغط تحت عنوان “تجديد ثورة الأرز” وسرعان ما يتم اختيار هدف لافت: بيار الجميل. ثم جاءت النتائج:1ــــــ دفع المعارضة الى التراجع عن الخطط وإدخالها في ارتباك مفتوح على امور كثيرة.2ــــــ اغتيال فاضح يدل على استعجال من قرره بطريقة تنفيذه في منطقة وضد شخصية تفتح باب السجال الأعنف ضد التيار الوطني الحر.3ــــــ استنفار العصبية التي قامت عليها المجموعات التابعة لتيار “المستقبل” والحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي ضد سوريا باعتبارها القاتل الدائم، وتحريك الشارع لأجل شعارات تتجاوز مطالب المعارضة الخاصة بالمشاركة.4ــــــ اختيار شخصية من حزب يصبح مضطراً لحسم خياره السياسي دون أي تردد كالذي عاشه سابقاً، ودفعه طوعاً او غصباً الى حضن المشروع الطائفي والمذهبي المتوتر الذي يقوده سمير جعجع.5ــــــ التسريع في إقرار المحكمة الدولية في مجلس الأمن ودفع الإحراج للقوى السياسية الداخلية ولا سيما الرئيس نبيه بري الى الحد الاقصى، بغية تشريع جلسة جديدة لمجلس الوزراء للمصادقة على ما اقره مجلس الأمن وتحويل الملف الى المجلس النيابي.ثمة أسئلة كثيرة وثمة معطيات كثيرة وثمة ما هو متصل بالتحقيقات نفسها التي تكشف عن ثغر كبيرة، وما يفتح الباب على ما هو اكثر تعقيداً في بلد يتجه صوب الصدام ما لم تتدخل جهات قادرة على جمع الكل في غرفة مقفلة حتى إشعار آخر!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;ابراهيم الأمين&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;جريدة الأخبار&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-1979475720703812845?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/1979475720703812845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=1979475720703812845' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/1979475720703812845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/1979475720703812845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/11/said-way-they-are-ought-to-be-said.html' title='Said The Way They are Ought to be Said..'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-8317654921875227574</id><published>2006-11-13T22:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T21:41:57.870-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Its a Boy!!!!!!!!</title><content type='html'>Meet, Haidar, the newest nephew and member in the family.  a whopping 4.2 kg (smallah).  Joining Us from Dubai...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://imageshack.us/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2453/hai2iz8.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p131/hhotait/Hai3.jpg" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p131/hhotait/Hai4.jpg" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p131/hhotait/hai1.jpg" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can already see that he's grumpy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mabrook. Abu Haidar!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-8317654921875227574?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8317654921875227574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=8317654921875227574' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8317654921875227574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/8317654921875227574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/11/its-boy.html' title='Its a Boy!!!!!!!!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-116322720922551630</id><published>2006-11-11T01:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:07:00.368-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Just an Alternative..</title><content type='html'>Salaam!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been trying to stay away from politics for a while, but I could not resist anymore. So.. Meet the &lt;a href="http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/6344/saadjt2.jpg"&gt;new man&lt;/a&gt; on the block.  &lt;a href="http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2649/haririod8.jpg"&gt;His father&lt;/a&gt; was recently  murdered, right after he was used to come home happy (as per his wife) once or twice a week for the last few months of his life, after meeting with the US most wanted man in Lebanon (and honorably so). Makes one wonder!!! Then meet his newly found&lt;a href="http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/3244/wjst0.jpg"&gt; friend and mentor&lt;/a&gt;, whose father was also murdered (by the Syrian regime, no one denies),  and still went to bed with the same regime that killed his father for more than a decade. Then there are &lt;a href="http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3781/samirsaadwalidvf8.jpg"&gt;other members&lt;/a&gt; in the group, whose history speak for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now... Going back to the new man; it is very strange that his father was  assassinated at a time when the so called "hawks" controlled the major player in the region. A United States administration with the rightest of the right key players, which invaded another Arab country by lying to everyone in this world including its people and started a civil war; An administration that leads war that is slowly, and with cold blood, killing the Palestinian people, although indirectly; they have the right allies to do that.  An administration infested with masterminds who are willing to do anything and everything to get to their goals.   An administration which have been  advocating for a "New Middle east", and stated that the Israeli war (well, the latest of them) was just a labor announcing the birth of that "New Middle east".  And an administration who was recently castrated by the American people. We thank them for that, although we know the foreign police of the administrations to come wont change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So my point is this: could be, no matter how low a percentage, but could it be that that the Syrian regime was not the one who did it ya Sheik Saad? because there are many other doubts and speculations leading any sane man or woman to think that the Syrian regime did not actually have much to win out of the assassination, while others did. Or could it be that the student will follow in the tutor's footsteps....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-116322720922551630?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/116322720922551630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=116322720922551630' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116322720922551630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116322720922551630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/11/just-alternative.html' title='Just an Alternative..'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-116303663501100140</id><published>2006-11-08T20:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:07:00.103-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ramsfeld Goes Home!!</title><content type='html'>Not that it makes any difference, as far as the forgein police towards our part of the world is concerned; but it s always good to see a crook disgracefully go home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/rams.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/rams.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-116303663501100140?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/116303663501100140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=116303663501100140' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116303663501100140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116303663501100140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/11/ramsfeld-goes-home.html' title='Ramsfeld Goes Home!!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-116278710737928567</id><published>2006-11-05T23:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:59.889-05:00</updated><title type='text'>أرض لبنان 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed src="http://odeo.com/flash/audio_player_gray.swf" quality="high" width="322" height="54" name="odeo_player_gray" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent"  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="audio_id=2348806&amp;audio_duration=644.388&amp;valid_sample_rate=true&amp;external_url=http://media.odeo.com/0/7/0/04_-_Track_4.mp3" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-size: 9px; padding-left: 110px; color: #f39; letter-spacing: -1px; text-decoration: none" href="http://odeo.com/audio/2348806/view"&gt;powered by &lt;strong&gt;ODEO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-116278710737928567?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/116278710737928567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=116278710737928567' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116278710737928567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116278710737928567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/11/2.html' title='أرض لبنان 2'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-116278703923916699</id><published>2006-11-05T22:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:59.604-05:00</updated><title type='text'>* أرض لبنان</title><content type='html'>لبنان يا أرض العلى طيبي وفوحي.....يفديكِ حبي جنتاً من ماء روحي&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;عمتِ صموداً عمتِ جمالاً.....والنصر غنى فيكِ اختيالاً&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;انتِ جلالٌ فاق الجلال.....رأس المعالي منكِ تعالى&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;..................&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;افديكِ يا معشوقتي يا كل ذاتي.....يا دوحة الأرز التي تحكي ثباتي&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;أنتي التي لا يمضي هواكِ.....لا شيء عندي يبقى سواكِ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;من قمح عيني اروي ثراكِ.....عشت وافنى احمي حماكِ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...................&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;شدي على آلامك صبراً وعودي.....محفوفةً بالنصر يا بنت الخلودي&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;مهما نعاني عصف الرياح.....عزاً طلعنا مثل الصباح&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; أني وروحي كانت براحي.....شعب تعالى فوق الجراح&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;....................&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;قومي على أوجاعكِ واطوي شقانا.....قد بايعت اطفالنا اطفال قانا&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;صلت عليهم كل الطفولة.....صلت جراحاً صلت بطولة&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; اطفال قانا تنعى الرجولة .....في كل عرشٍ في كل دولة&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Peom and song by Houssein Al-Akraf.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-116278703923916699?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/116278703923916699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=116278703923916699' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116278703923916699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116278703923916699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/11/blog-post.html' title='* أرض لبنان'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-116225872517931758</id><published>2006-10-30T20:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:59.130-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kathem as well...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www-tc.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/mycountry/audio/ohmycountry.mp3?mii=1"&gt;A very touching song&lt;/a&gt; by Kathem Al Saher. It speaks to Lebanese and Palestinians as much as it to Iraqis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally poster by &lt;a href="http://baghdadtreasure.blogspot.com/"&gt;Iraqi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Divide and Conquer, A very effective British/US Policy. Its latest victims:  Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Akkkkkkkkkhhhh.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-116225872517931758?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/116225872517931758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=116225872517931758' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116225872517931758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116225872517931758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/10/kathem-as-well.html' title='Kathem as well...'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-116214493820235261</id><published>2006-10-29T13:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:58.922-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Julia, Again!!!!</title><content type='html'>the Video clip of Ahibba2i.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-1651090361169172883&amp;amp;hl=en" flashvars=""&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-116214493820235261?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/116214493820235261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=116214493820235261' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116214493820235261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116214493820235261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/10/julia-again_29.html' title='Julia, Again!!!!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-116203942897601443</id><published>2006-10-28T07:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:58.314-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ghareeb.</title><content type='html'>Gareeb wakes up one Saturday morning, performs his morning prayers, and looks over his inbox for a few minutes. Then he dozes off on his couch. He Then hears a bird singing outside his window; the sound is identical to that he used to hear outside his window during the peaceful weekend mornings in his hometown in &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. So for a few seconds, just a few, he gets snatched out of place and time and could almost smell his mother's breakfast....... Then, he just coldly smiles and tries to extend those seconds as long as possible, for he realizes it was just another dream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/Image048.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/Image048.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-116203942897601443?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/116203942897601443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=116203942897601443' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116203942897601443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116203942897601443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/10/ghareeb.html' title='Ghareeb.'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-116200914630633516</id><published>2006-10-27T23:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:58.125-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I have been  asked to post &lt;a href="http://www.hirelebanese.com/"&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt;. again www.hirelebanese.com&lt;br /&gt;It could help fellow Lebanese better their chances getting jobs.&lt;br /&gt;Its definitely worth checking.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-116200914630633516?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/116200914630633516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=116200914630633516' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116200914630633516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116200914630633516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/10/i-have-been-asked-to-post-this-website.html' title=''/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-116200600960325460</id><published>2006-10-27T21:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:57.685-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Moving On.</title><content type='html'>Life demands Changes all the time. Some changes are embraced with open arms (such as a great career move), while others are reluctantly&lt;u1:p&gt; &lt;/u1:p&gt;accepted; we can't always pick and choose, I guess. But some must things tag along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;It doesn’t matter if I move from &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;saddr=Dearborn,+MI&amp;amp;daddr=Columbus,+IN&amp;f=d&amp;amp;z=7&amp;ll=40.672306,-85.067139&amp;amp;spn=4.257423,10.305176&amp;om=1"&gt;Dearborn, MI to Columbus, IN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;saddr=Dearborn,+MI&amp;daddr=Columbus,+IN&amp;amp;f=d&amp;z=7&amp;amp;ll=40.672306,-85.067139&amp;spn=4.257423,10.305176&amp;amp;om=1"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;(An excruciating 6 hours drive, done three times in one month. But not so excruciating when you are on the phone, talking to people in Libnan half of the way.), some things can not be left behind under any circumstance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such as my very loyal, beloved and durable mountain bike; bought in 2000, I think. For some reason, I just can not leave it behind. Maybe because it was one of the first few things I paid for it with my OWN money. I was going to ship it to &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; or &lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Dubai&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; when I leave BTW. It is funny how we get attached to some of our belonging sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT1335.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/PICT1335.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Then there is my drink of choice. Chai (Falet akeed) or Zhoorat (min eeden il hajje bi libnen). The choice depends on the day of the week, the weather, how I feel that day, ect. Not to forget, ofcourse, the tea pot (ibri2 ichai) just like the one we get in libnan; No american designs, otherwise it might taste differently :).. and finally, brown sugar ot (preferable, but essential)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;                   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT1333.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/PICT1333.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT1334.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/PICT1334.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;One wishes that dragging  roommates and some friends along could have been as easy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Life goes on.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT1333.jpg"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-116200600960325460?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/116200600960325460/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=116200600960325460' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116200600960325460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/116200600960325460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/10/moving-on.html' title='Moving On.'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115937946211689130</id><published>2006-09-27T12:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:57.522-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A Rare Blog!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Check out the Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari's blog from space. &lt;a href="http://spaceblog.xprize.org/"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115937946211689130?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115937946211689130/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115937946211689130' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115937946211689130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115937946211689130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/09/rare-blog.html' title='A Rare Blog!!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115899381079855280</id><published>2006-09-23T01:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:57.068-05:00</updated><title type='text'>3abayah........</title><content type='html'>An Opinion and a Hypothetical Request.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_gray.swf" quality="high" width="300" height="52" name="audio_player_standard_gray" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent"  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="audio_id=1962335&amp;audio_duration=42.683&amp;valid_sample_rate=true&amp;external_url=http://media.odeo.com//files/2/3/2/859232.mp3" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-size: 9px; padding-left: 110px; color: #f39; letter-spacing: -1px; text-decoration: none" href="http://odeo.com/audio/1962335/view"&gt;powered by &lt;strong&gt;ODEO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And &lt;a href="http://www.assafir.com/iso/oldissues/20060919/local/1960.html"&gt;an unexpected surprise&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, click &lt;a href="http://www.wa3ad.org/video/flashat/3abayat-alsayed.wmv"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; download the whole Video.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115899381079855280?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115899381079855280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115899381079855280' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115899381079855280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115899381079855280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/09/3abayah.html' title='3abayah........'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115864412171869130</id><published>2006-09-19T00:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:56.896-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Julia!!!!</title><content type='html'>The deepest of deep respects to Julia and all the free and dignified people of Lebanon and the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_gray.swf" quality="high" width="300" height="52" name="audio_player_standard_gray" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent"  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="audio_id=1928110&amp;audio_duration=205.54&amp;valid_sample_rate=false&amp;external_url=http://media.odeo.com/2/2/0/JuliasingsNasrallahsspeech.mp3" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-size: 9px; padding-left: 110px; color: #f39; letter-spacing: -1px; text-decoration: none" href="http://odeo.com/audio/1928110/view"&gt;powered by &lt;strong&gt;ODEO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115864412171869130?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115864412171869130/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115864412171869130' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115864412171869130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115864412171869130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/09/julia.html' title='Julia!!!!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115847099813984621</id><published>2006-09-17T00:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:56.726-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The UNIFIL Fear</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/1_643438_1_34.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/1_643438_1_34.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/1_643438_1_34.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ships at &lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;Beirut&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype&gt;Port&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;!!! Equipment being dropped at the beach in &lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Tyre&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;!!! the Magnificent French tank, "le Clerc", trudging on Lebanese soil for the first time ever!!!! thousands of troops coming to &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; in a very short time!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A series of events that send a chill down my spine; especially after the &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;announcement of Angela Merkel, the new German chancellor, who by the way is the new baby doll of the American influence in Europe, with the undefeated champion of this position -Blair- having his own battles at home. In that announcement, she explicitly stated that one of the duties of the German troops is ensure the security of &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;.... (we'll wait on the explanation). The history of biased of the United Nations (In of words, the United States Administration) exasperates my worries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then I read news of these forces patrolling our national waters, watching over security at Rafik Hariri's &lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;International&lt;/st1:placename&gt;  &lt;st1:placetype&gt;Airport&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;!!!!! That got me Furious. Our weeping PM and his gang (the Velentinos, as Gen Aoun calls them) always talk about autonomy, freedom and independence (Seyedeh. Horriyeh. Isti2lel. It always sounds better in Arabic) and then they do not mind all the other non-autonomous actions, so long they serve their goals. (w3eeshe ya horriyeh, as Aoun, Again says). &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I recall some wonderful stories about the great relationship that exists between the old UNIFIL troops and the residents of the villages surrounding them, especially the Finnish (from &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Finland&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;) troops. I just pray to God that these new fishy troops do not ruin it all; because I am surely not very comfortable with having troops from countries of questionable intentions, in addtion to big guns, and a somewhat fuzzy UN resolution. The loose security situation in Lebanon (i.e the freedom of Mosad to mingle around) only adds fuel to the fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Allah Yustorna !!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115847099813984621?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115847099813984621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115847099813984621' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115847099813984621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115847099813984621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/09/unifil-fear.html' title='The UNIFIL Fear'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115713278250064685</id><published>2006-09-01T12:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:56.519-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Homesickness</title><content type='html'>Two reasons of the frequent Homesickness of a Lebanese (Janoubi) abroad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/pictures%20children%20066.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/pictures%20children%20066.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_gray.swf" quality="high" width="300" height="52" name="audio_player_standard_gray" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent"  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="audio_id=1802871&amp;audio_duration=253.936&amp;valid_sample_rate=true&amp;external_url=http://media.odeo.com/6/2/8/Mazikana_Ahmed_Kaabour---Beladi.mp3" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-size: 9px; padding-left: 110px; color: #f39; letter-spacing: -1px; text-decoration: none" href="http://odeo.com/audio/1802871/view"&gt;powered by &lt;strong&gt;ODEO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115713278250064685?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115713278250064685/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115713278250064685' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115713278250064685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115713278250064685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/09/homesickness.html' title='Homesickness'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115699359413397009</id><published>2006-08-30T21:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:56.343-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Info worth Spreading around.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Below is, in my opinion, an informative piece written by an anonymous writer, although I can not authenticate all its details.  It seems to be written by &lt;a href="http://www.awarki.com/"&gt;this guy&lt;/a&gt;. It is a comment on an article written by Michelle Samaha in the &lt;a href="www.al-akhbar.com"&gt;Al-Akhbar Newspaper&lt;/a&gt;. Click &lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/3059"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for the Article.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;الحقيقة العارية لعلاقة حزب الله وإيران &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;تتعمد الكثير من الدوائر الدولية تشبيه حزب الله بلعبة الدمى المتحركة التي يتولى السيطرة عليها بالتساوي كل من أيران وسوريا فهل الأمر صحيح ؟ &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;لا شك بأن الغايات السياسية في عالمنا الحاضر هي التي تشكل التسميات والألقاب . على سبيل المثال تستعمل وكالة رويتر تسمية "حزب الله الشيعي الموالي لإيران " بينما تسمي الوكالة نفسها الثوار الإيرلنديين بالـ" الجيش الإيرلندي السري" أي تشير إليه بإسمه دون ذكر إنتمائه الديني . مع أن الحرب التي دارت منذ عشرينات القرن الماضي في إيرلندا الشمالية وحتى وقت قريب ، هي حرب دينية بين البروتستانت الموالين لبريطانيا والكاثوليك المدعومين من الفاتيكان ولو بالرعاية والإحتضان . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;إن جذور حزب الله كمقاومة ضد الإحتلال وكتنظيم سياسي لبناني تعود إلى ما قبل ظهور إيران الإسلامية بسنوات . فالكثير من قادته وكوادره هم في الإساس من كوادر حركة المحرومين التي أسسها السيد موسى الصدر لحماية الجنوب من الإعتداءات الصهيونية في وقت مبكر من سبعينيات القرن الماضي . إضافة إلى كوادر أخرى من مريدي السيد محمد حسين فضل الله وحزب الدعوة وجمعية التعليم الديني وحركات شيعية متدينة أخرى . وكلها تنظيمات لبنانية صميمة إستضافت وساعدت المعارضين لنظام الشاه من أتباع الإمام الراحل روح الله الخميني ( روح الله إسمه العلم مثل عبد الله أو فضل الله أو ماشاء الله وليس لقبا للفخامة كما يعتقد البعض ) . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;إنه لمن سخرية الأزمان على سبيل المثال أن يتهم حزب الله بأنه ينفذ السياسات الإيرانية في الوقت الذي كان إعلام الشاه الإيراني يتهم معارضيه الناشطين ضده من لبنان بأنهم عملاء للعرب (يقصد أنهم عملاء لموسى الصدر وياسر عرفات اللذان توليا تدريب الكثير من كوادر الثورة وأشهرهم وزير الدفاع السابق مصطفى شمران ) .&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;في صيف العام 1982 وبعد رفض قيادة حركة أمل المشاركة في التصدي للإجتياح الإسرائيلي حفظا للقرى والمدن اللبنانية من التدمير في حرب معروفة النتائج سلفا، خرج قسم من الجسم الحركي عن طوع القيادة المركزية وأسسوا ما عرف لاحقا بـ"حركة أمل الإسلامية" . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; و قد تولى فصيل منها التصدي للقوات الإسرائيلية في المعركة الحقيقة الأولى على ابواب بيروت في منطقة خلدة الساحلية ، وقد خسرت إسرائيل وقتها دبابات إستعرض المقاتلون أحداها في شوارع برج البراجنة حيث أسروها فارغة من طاقمها الذي أنقذته الطائرات العمودية من قتل محتم . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;كانت تلك البذور الإولى لما عرف فيما بعد بالمقاومة الإسلامية التي تأسست من تجمع قوى أمل الإسلامية بقيادة حسين الموسوي الرجل الثاني في حركة أمل قبل الإنشقاق، ومن مجموعات حزب الدعوة – فرع لبنان&lt;br /&gt;ومن مجموعة متدينة ومثقفة كانت تأتلف تحت إسم إتحاد الطلبة المسلمين وهؤلاء كانوا من ألمقاومين الأوائل في القرى الواقعة تحت الإحتلال . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;القصة التي ركبت تفاصيلها المخابرات الغربية تقول أن حزب الله هو فرع إيراني للحرس الثوري أسسه السفير السابق لإيران في دمشق علي محتشمي . حسنا إن هذا القول فيه خلط وتشويه . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;القصة الحقيقية للكيان التنظيمي الأول للمقاومة الإسلامية تمثلت في فتوى دينية أصدرها الإمام الخميني كمرجع تقليد ( يتبعه الملايين من المؤمنين خارج إيران كما يتبع الكاثوليك توجيهات البابا مع فروقات هامة في التفاصيل ) السؤال وجهه ممثلون عن تجمع العلماء المسلمين المختلط من السنة والشيعة في لبنان وكان يرافقهم لزيارة الخميني الراحل ممثل حركة أمل في طهران السيد المعمم الشاب حسن نصرالله ومن ضمن الوفد كان الشيخ الشهيد راغب حرب وآخرين . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;كان السؤال الموجه كالتالي " إسرائيل قوى عظمى ونحن قلة فما الحكم الشرعي وما واجبنا كمؤمنين تجاه إحتلال بلدنا " ؟ &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;الخميني أذهل الموجودين حين قال " التقية سقطت وتحرم ممارستها ، هذا زمن الحسين وكربلاء ، عليكم أن تقاتلوا ما أستطعتم وسنساعدكم على قدر ما نستطيع " &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;وصلت الفتوى إلى لبنان فأنقسمت أمل بين فتوى المهادنة و عدم رمي النفس في التهلكة وبين القتال بدون إنتظار .&lt;br /&gt;كلف المرشد الروحي للثورة الإسلامية الحرس الثوري بتقديم المساعدة اللوجستية والتسليحية للمقاتلين ففتحت مراكز التدريب في البقاع اللبناني حيث توجد سيطرة كاملة للمنشقين عن أمل . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;كان الدور الذي أنيط بمحتشمي هو التنسيق مع السلطات السورية لتأمين مرور المدربين الإيرانيين من سوريا إلى لبنان وهي للمناسبة الطريق الوحيدة برا وبحرا وجوا . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;ولكن هذا العمل البدائي سرعان ما أتسع بإلتفاف شيعة البقاع حول العلماء المعممين الذين أخذوا يحرضون أهل البقاع المعروفين بالشدة والحمية على مقاومة إسرائيل . وبرز من بين المحرضين في المساجد والحسينيات أربعة من القادة أشهرهم وقتها كان الشيخ صبحي الطفيلي ثم السيد عباس الموسوي فالسيد إبراهيم الأمين والسيد الشاب حسن نصرالله ...هذا في البقاع المحرر ، ماذا عن المناطق الواقعة تحت الإحتلال ؟ &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;في منطقة الجنوب بشكل عام يكذب من يقول أن المقاومين الأوائل من كل الإتجاهات الفكرية بدأو القتال بناء لقرارات حزبية كما يدعي بعض الإستعراضيين . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;في بلدة الدوير على سبيل المثال كانت تتواجد على تلالها قاعدة للحزب الشيوعي دمرها الطيران ولم تدخلها الدبابات بعد إحتلال المنطقة فتسلل العشرات من الشبان والأهالي ليلا وسحبوا كل ما سلم من سلاح ودفنوه في أماكن عشوائية . وهكذا حصل في كل القرى ومن هنا بدأت النواة الأولى للمقاومة اليسارية والقومية والإسلامية . لقد كانت المجمعات المقاتلة تضم فيما بينها خليطا من التيارات الفكرية ولكن ما يجمعها هو إنتمائها لقرية أو مدينة واحدة ما يجعل ترددهم على بعضهم البعض أمرا طبيعيا ولا يثير الشبهات . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;في بداية العام 1983 بدأت الأتصالات تنتظم بين الجزء المحتل والجزء المحرر من لبنان وبدأت الإمدادات تصل بالسلاح والمال والتدريب . هنا ظهر على ساحة المقاومين عدو شرس جدا للجيش الإسرائيلي إسمه إتحاد الطلبة المسلمين ( إحدى الوية حزب الله التي أندمجت به منذ الدقيقة الأولى ) هؤلاء تخصصوا في العمليات النوعية المحكمة التنفيذ خصوصا التفجيرات بالعبوات المجوفة التي تدمر مدرعات الإحتلال العصية على القذائف الصاروخية .&lt;br /&gt;ثم كانت الثورة الشعبية ضد الجيش المحتل حين حاولت قوة مدرعة المرور عنوة في مكان إقامة إحتفال عاشوراء في النبطية التي كانت تضم جموعا تزيد عن المئتي الف من أهالي الجنوب فثاروا ضد المحتل وأحرقوا المدرعات وشردوا القوة ركضا على الأقدام . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;ثم جاء إعتقال الشيخ راغب حرب الذي أشعل ثورة عفوية أسست للمقاومين بالسلاح ملجأ وحضنا شعبيا متعاطفا وغير خائف ولا وجل . خصوصا أن خطب ومواقف الشيخ راغب كانت مسموعة من كل تيارات المجتمع حتى من الملحدين الذين ربطت بينهم وبين الشيخ الشعبي والقريب من سكان القرى المحتلة علاقة حوارية جيدة . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;ولعل موقفه الذي هز حاجز الخوف ونزعه من قلوب الناس هو ذاك الموقف البطولي حين قطع طريقه على مقربة من منزله وعلى مرأى من القرويين في بلدة جبشيت قائد وحدة المخابرات في منطقة النبطية . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; وكان ذو سمعة مرعبة ، فتجاهله الشيخ واكمل طريقه فقال له الظابط وهو يمد يده ليصافحه جئتك لأشرب معك فنجان قهوة فرد الشيخ :&lt;br /&gt; " المصافحة إعتراف لكم بشرعية وجودكم وليس لكم مني إلا العداء " ثم أكمل طريقه .&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; وتابع الشيخ القاء الخطب المحرضة على القتال والمستخفة بالمحتلين فإغتيل وأشعل موته ثورة عارمة جذرت رفض الإحتلال شعبيا وفتحت الباب واسعا لقيام حركة مقاومة مسلحة سرعان ما إمتدت في كل الجنوب على الأخص وفي لبنان كله بشكل عام . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;السؤال الذي يطرح نفسه هنا هل ما قام به الناس في النبطية وما قام به الشيخ راغب هو خدمة للفرس ؟ ام قيام بواجب مقاومة العدو ؟ &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; وإذا علمنا أن السعودية وغيرها من الدول العربية ساعدت المحتلين وسهلت وغطت جرائمهم كالعادة تبييضا لصفحتهم مع ولي نعمتهم الأميركي ، فهل يتصور عاقل أن يرفض اللبنانيون مساعدة تدريبية وتسليحية من سوريا وإيران ؟&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; إنه السخف بعينه .. فمهما كان الموقف من النظامين السوري والإيراني على المستوى الشعبي فإن اليد التي تقاوم إحتاجت لمن يرفدها بأسباب الحياة لتستمر وتحرر الأرض . وقد كانت سوريا وإيران في ساحة الفعل فهل على المقاومين شتمهم أم شكرهم ؟ &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;حتى ولو كان لهم مصالح وغايات ككل الدول التي تبحث عن مصلحتها . فكيف و إن كانت مصلحة سوريا وإيران تلتقي مع مصلحة المقاومين في كسر التفرد والسيطرة الأميركية الإسرائيلية على المنطقة ولبنان فهل كان مطلوبا قصف طهران ودمشق بدلا عن مقاومة المحتلين ؟ &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;وقتها أيضا إنخرطت حركة امل بقيادة بري في العمل المقاوم السري ما رفد المقاومة النخبوية وقتها بمد شعبي هائل أحكم السيطرة شعبيا على قرى بكاملها وجعل منها مناطق محررة . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;في ذلك الوقت ذاع في الجنوب صيت الحرس الثوري الإيراني الذي يخرج المقاتلين النوعيين في معسكرات التدريب التي اقامها في البقاع ليس لنشر النفوذ الفارسي كما يدعي البلهاء بل تنفيذا لأمر ولي الفقيه المنطلق من قاعدة دينية بوجوب نصرة المظلوم . على الأقل كان الوضع كذلك في زمن الراحل الخميني ولم يتغير مع خليفته الخامنئي مع العلم أن علاقة حزب الله الدينية بإيران تماثل علاقة البطريرك صفير بروما وبالتالي السيطرة على القرار السياسي تعود للقيادة المحلية ضمن معطيات الشرع والفقه الإسلامي . بينما العلاقة مع الدولة والحكومة الإيرانية مرت بأزمات متعددة ومشكلات ظلت تحت الرماد . وحسمت لمصلحة علاقة مميزة وحصرية لحزب الله مع أيران الثورة اي القيادة الدينية للمرشد والمؤسسات التابعة له مباشرة والبعيدة عن سيطرة العقلية البيروقراطية للدولة . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;أما عن التمويل الإيراني فهو أيضا يخضع لاساطير لست صحيحة بتاتا ، على سبيل المثال فأن المساعدات التي تقدمها المؤسسة الدينية في إيران هي نتاج مال المسلمين الذين يدفعون واجبا ما قيمته عشرين بالمئة من أرباحهم للولي الشرعي وهو عند الشيعة كل مرجع تقليد مشهور بالعدل والورع والأعلمية في الفقه وإستباط الأحكام .&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;وعلى سبيل المثال فرجل مثل الخوئي وبعده السيستاني تتبع لهما مؤسسة مالية يصرف منها على المشاريع الخيرية تبلغ قيمة موجوداتها عشرات المليارات من الدولارات وهو مرجع واحد من عدة مراجع . والخميني أفتى قبل رحيله بتقديم أموال الخمس للمقاومة وللعلم فقط فأن خمس أحد رجالات الكويت المتدينين يبلغ سنويا ستة وعشرين مليون دينار كويتي وهو المرحوم حسين بهمن فما بالك بملايين المريدين . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;بالطبع يحصل حزب الله على دعم ساحق ومؤثر من إيران ولكنه ينحصر في المؤسسة الدينية فقط ومشاكله مع المؤسسات الحكومية معروفة للأوساط المطللعة . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; على سبيل المثال تلك الأزمة الحادة التي حكمت علاقة حزب الله بالرئيس الإيراني خاتمي الذي صرح نائبه عطاء الله مهاجراني لصحيفة أميركية قبل إنسحاب إسرائيل من لبنان بأن المقاومة ستسلم سلاحها وتتخلى عن حماية الحدود فور إنسحاب إسرائيل من الجنوب في وقت كان كل العالم يتحزر عن الموقف الحقيقي الذي سيتخذه السيد نصرالله والذي رفض البوح به حتى يبقي الأمر ورقة بيده ضد الإسرائيليين . هذا التصريح تسبب بعلاقة غير مريحة بين دولة إيران ومقاومة لبنان وهو موقف يبين أن القرار اللبناني مستقل عن الفقه الديني العام الذي يربط ما بين المرجعية والمريدين والمقلدين في لبنان . &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;فهذا نائب رئيس إيران يقرر وحسن نصرالله يقرر شيئا معاكسا فمن كانت له المصداقية في التنفيذ ؟ &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;هذا المثال يبين إستقلالية القرار اللبناني الحزب اللهي .&lt;br /&gt;وبالتالي إن سلاحا متقدما تقدمه إيران للمقاومين ليس مطلوبا بالمقابل أن يستحصل على أذن خاص لإستعماله وليس له مقابل سياسي مفروض وبالتأكيد يقدم حزب الله مصلحة لبنان على مصلحة أي دولة أخرى بما فيها إيران وقد أثبتت التجارب ذلك . ولكن لو إستفادت سوريا وأيران من موقع قوة لحزب الله فهل المطلوب منعهم من ذلك ؟ تماما كما تتعاون دول العالم على تبادل المنافع والمصالح ولكن ليس على حساب أوطانها القطرية . &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115699359413397009?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115699359413397009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115699359413397009' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115699359413397009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115699359413397009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/info-worth-spreading-around.html' title='Info worth Spreading around.'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115647699170537712</id><published>2006-08-24T22:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:56.127-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Al Moustaqbal &amp; Shalaq's forced resignation...and more</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/fouad_saniora5.4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/fouad_saniora5.4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I recall about a week ago, a friend telling me he has an inside information about conflicts withinthe Hariri camp. At the time, I dismissed the idea, assume that it’s just another Lebanese Rumor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turn out, the rumors are true. &lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/2385/print"&gt;Read this Article &lt;/a&gt; from the new &lt;a href="http://www.al-akhbar.com/index.php"&gt;Al-akhbar newspaper&lt;/a&gt;. Also look for a similar &lt;a href="http://addiyaronline.com/pdf/p02-25-8-2006.pdf"&gt; article &lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://addiyaronline.com/pdf/"&gt;Addiyar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One more reason to believe that Saniora is not the man for the job, given his past, present and forseen future. He is even being criticized by his own people. &lt;span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA"&gt;وشهد شاهد من قومه&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We do not need a tear shedding PM who caves in at the first chance, does not seem to know how to Negotiate (a problem stemming from the fact that he submits to the belief that &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; is weak) and has still to start "to put together" a rebuilding plan, let alone starting with it.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Also, I pray &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;that Waleed beik &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and PM Saniora utilize their “Regional and International Rleations”, which Waleed Beik was talking about in his latest press conference, because I would like to go home soon without having to pass by the Jordanian/Israeli check points in Amman. But those “”Regional and International Relations/friendships” are unlikely to get that resolved. If that would be the case, it would be more dignifying to take the long trip through &lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Damascus&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115647699170537712?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115647699170537712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115647699170537712' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115647699170537712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115647699170537712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/al-moustaqbal-shalaqs-forced.html' title='Al Moustaqbal &amp; Shalaq&apos;s forced resignation...and more'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115595052663140213</id><published>2006-08-18T19:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:55.513-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Zainab.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/347315.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/347315.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/347316.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/347316.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I am not sure if anyone has watched Zahi Wehbi's "Khalleek bil Beit" lately. Inviting three members of the Red Cross and Islamic relief organization, he ran a documentary about a girl Called Zainab murdered in Qana during the last Israeli aggression, next with her childhood friend and in her mother's lap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was struck by her family's endurance, her mom's murmurs and her little brother's intricate description of time of the vicious incident. So struck, I couldn’t help but weep like child; something very uncommon for someone like myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried searching for Pictures of Zainab, but failed to find any.  But please keep an eye on "&lt;a href="http://www.futuretvnetwork.com/khalik/FutureTV.htm"&gt;Khaleek bil Beit&lt;/a&gt;" to&lt;a href="http://www.futuretvnetwork.com/Default.aspx?page=video&amp;amp;prog_id=51"&gt; watch the video&lt;/a&gt;, whoever it is posted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, I convey my best regards to Zahi wehbi and the cast of "khaleek bil Beit" , who have always touched my heart with their different documentary. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115595052663140213?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115595052663140213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115595052663140213' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115595052663140213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115595052663140213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/zainab.html' title='Zainab.'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115579551050025870</id><published>2006-08-16T23:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:55.307-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;To all you losers out there, to all the liberals, and especially, the peace-loving ones. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many are asking who won the war and who lost. Should HA keep their weapons, and should they disarm? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been reading blogs all nights and many have the attitudes and are asking the questions listed above and more.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, some facts are being ignored and the whole issue is being unwisely underrated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact # 1.  Unfortunately for us Lebanese, almost everyone in the world has some interest that starts, ends or just happens to intersect in our beloved country. &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;United States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, EU, &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Iran&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Syria&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Russia&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, the rest of the arab world, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;United States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, to get their "New Middle-East" and secure their grab on the world's largest oil reserves. Also to make us all live the Democratic (as per US standards, we have to be precise) mode of the &lt;st1:street&gt;&lt;st1:address&gt;AMERICAN   WAY&lt;/st1:address&gt;&lt;/st1:Street&gt; OF LIVING..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, to secure the Northern borders of a states built on the skull and bones of the Palestinian people; Also to secure their control over the waters of Litany in &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, in its pluralistic dimensions is also a threat to the "Jewish State"... Believe me, if the Israeli’s could find a way to justify a great Arab exodus (including the Israeli Arabs, know as the Arabs of the 48) they would have done that a long time ago.  That is, if we want to ignore the ideological interests of the "Israelis" orthodox Jews. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Also, now they have another 2 reasons: being forced to withdraw from &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; in 200o and having to shamefully retreat their “Undefeatable Army” baring a having losses in death and casualties, in additions to tens of their sophisticated tanks and armored vehicles (they won’t forget that)&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Syria&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Iran&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; (they come in a package; also US and &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; are usually presented as a couple as well).... well. Syria and Iran, and we can maybe add Russia to the package, want to reduce the US dominance in the middle east do secure their own interests: Syrian government staying in power, the Irani Nuclear projects, Iran's ambition to be a major player in the region, Russia to regain its golden days of the USSR and come back as a contender to the US in the world; i.e. secure their own interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the rest of the Arab world, which can be lumped into a saudi-egyptian-jordanian front, and those who follow!! These three countries, do not wish to see &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Iran&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; as a major player in the region, &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;thereby reduce their own part, which has been reduced to a “Yes Dear” of the &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;US&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; interests in the region. Also, In Saudi Arabia, like much of the gulf region in general, if you are not a local, you are second degree human being, racism is a concept unheard of by a large percentage of people in the country, not to mention that women's driving privileges is still being debates. In &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, moubarak and his ruling party had to close up voting stations in the last elections in order to win. And ahhh, the american democracy; they gave moubarak a small slap on the hand and asked them not to do it again.  As for &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Jordan&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, we all know better than to say anything about the "king", otherwise.......... (for all those who are rolling their eye balls, that happens in &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;syria&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; as well) so &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, Hassan nasrallah, pluralism, freedom of speech and press... That doesn’t work for US-Arab countries; oh not to mention the shia cresent...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact # 2. For all those who believe that &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; will not be a playground for the international community's interests, YOU better wake up...... Soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So using  my own limited knowledge of the secret underworld of politics. I look at things and wonder where do I stand.?? I mean, I do not want &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; to be a playground where the world powers do their dirty work; that is for sure. I do not want US and Israeli dominance either. I like my kids to have the Lebanese way of living (one of the Lebanese life styles that is, thanks to pluralism. And I mean that in a very positive way ). I want to be able to speak my mind, be able to live in honor and dignity, in relative safety, and I definitely want my mother and sisters to drive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So given what was mentioned above, in addition to the grueling reality of having to take someone’s side (yes we have to). I thought I'd rather where most shia in &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;; not because I am shia and therefore safety un numbers, or because I love sayyed Hassan, but because it makes the most logical choice. What did we ever gain from the &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;US&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; or the Arab world; nothing but killing, lying and one betrayal after another. But do not get me wrong, I am shia, but I do not want an Islamic state in &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; (or southern &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;) because it simply can not work. I also said that I'd like to be able to speak my mind, something you can not do in &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Syria&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. But siding with the interests of these two countries and being a fully fledged partner in this alliance (contrary to what many might believe, that we are being used as a tool by these countries) has brought us dignity and pride more than anyone could have ever believed an Arab would get, something I can always tell my kids about. " The day Israel destroyed our homes and villages, but its mighty army  could not set foot in the South without paying a heavy price and retreating like cowards back where they came from..” something that the world powers put together can never take from me.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115579551050025870?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115579551050025870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115579551050025870' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115579551050025870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115579551050025870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/to-all-you-losers-out-there-to-all.html' title=''/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115527404598236799</id><published>2006-08-11T00:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:54.628-05:00</updated><title type='text'>An Indsider's Info</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/isreal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/isreal.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/destroyed.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/destroyed.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Since the day I was a kid, Living my early childhood years in southern &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and then moving to &lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Beirut&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, I've always heard this slogan: "Jabal 3amel, ma aradak ahadon bi soo2, illa wa qasama llaho dhahraho nisfayn" which, in simple terms, translates to "oh Jabal Amel, God's wrath would fall upon anyone who would ever wish you harm".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can call it a Belief, Myth or even propaganda, But watching pictures (whatever is leaked from the tight grip of the Israeli news blockade) &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;of the Israeli tanks burning in jabal 3amel (this one is in sahel il Kheyem) and the wounded soldier is just fortifying my "belief" in that slogan.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115527404598236799?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115527404598236799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115527404598236799' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115527404598236799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115527404598236799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/indsiders-info.html' title='An Indsider&apos;s Info'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115520084109694391</id><published>2006-08-10T04:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:54.327-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting!!!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/L_1189a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/L_1189a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/749015.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/388E776E-EA01-4424-A454-40146C76177C.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/749023.html"&gt; here&lt;/a&gt; to read about what some in the occupied territories are saying about the war.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115520084109694391?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115520084109694391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115520084109694391' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115520084109694391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115520084109694391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/interesting.html' title='Interesting!!!!!!'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115518530546775799</id><published>2006-08-09T23:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:54.126-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anti-depressant-Julia</title><content type='html'>One of my Daily anti-depressants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;قاوم فيداك لإعصار&lt;br /&gt; وتقدم فتقدم فالنصر قرار&lt;br /&gt;إن حياتك وقفة عز&lt;br /&gt; تتغير فيها الأقدار&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115518530546775799?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115518530546775799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115518530546775799' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115518530546775799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115518530546775799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/anti-depressant-julia.html' title='Anti-depressant-Julia'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115518393852023364</id><published>2006-08-09T23:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:53.923-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Journalism</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Finally.... Someone telling the "Zion-biased" news networks what every Lebanese wants to say.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you George Galloway. Click &lt;a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-galloway_060806,00.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; please.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. Link previously posted by &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/19545268"&gt;anny&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115518393852023364?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115518393852023364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115518393852023364' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115518393852023364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115518393852023364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/journalism.html' title='Journalism'/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115517377790366072</id><published>2006-08-09T20:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:53.693-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/dahyeh.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/dahyeh.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Click &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14252208"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for an interactive look at Dahyeh.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115517377790366072?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115517377790366072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115517377790366072' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115517377790366072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115517377790366072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/click-here-for-interactive-look-at.html' title=''/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32374099.post-115501896647767806</id><published>2006-08-08T01:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T22:06:53.498-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/Libnan%20Pics%2005%20102.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/Libnan%20Pics%2005%20102.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/Libnan%20Pics%2005%20099.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/320/Libnan%20Pics%2005%20099.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pictures @ Maroun El-Ras with Palestine in the background and Bint Jbeil Behind the Cameraman (Nadeem)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I keep going back to these couple of pictures from my last trip to &lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, looking at their smallest of details and wondering what happened and is still happening over there. How was it when the legendary Army, with all its air force superiority and Special Forces could not hold it for 24 hours? How the people in that town and others nearby lived through those days?&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32374099-115501896647767806?l=a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115501896647767806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32374099&amp;postID=115501896647767806' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115501896647767806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32374099/posts/default/115501896647767806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-do-nothing-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/pictures-maroun-el-ras-with-palestine.html' title=''/><author><name>Hamze</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05656702674521746836</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2961/2146/1600/PICT00172.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
