Lebanon

Zakira/Memory

This text comes at the time of great worry for the neighbouring countries of Syria as the violence threatens to spill over further and that there is a consensus to let Syria sort its problems out itself without foreign intervention. It is important to consider the fact that this following text exists as a result of illegal activity in neighbouring Israel that has continued since the second world war to present day and that any military intervention against Syria only serves Israel’s interests, either as a diversion for the continual expansion and even advancement further into the West Bank, or for any additional advancement that borders Syria, either for water or land, or for testing out military capabilities.  I find it genuinely hard to see if Israel has any concern for its civilian population given its behaviour in international and regional affairs over the last 65 years and the State’s refusal to desist in both the advancement of settlements or further attacks and incursions into the West Bank, Gaza, Southern Lebanon, Jordan River or Golan Heights. An allied attack by the US, France - or Israel - on Syria is going to be catastrophic for the region’s stability. Watching Britain’s offering of televised democracy to pull out of military intervention was a tormenting relief that was almost surreal in both the immediacy of the decision and that the government was actually listening to the public.

Beirut

yani

Nuovamente si spegne la luce. Quanto a lungo resteremo al buio questa volta? Mezzo minuto.

Ci sono queste brevi interruzioni dell’elettricità, nessuno ci fa caso. Ma ogni volta potrebbe essere la volta buona, you know what I mean. Yani. L’intercalare più frequente. Un attimo di sospensione. Un attimo prima.

Solo i computer non si spengono ai tavoli del bread republic, e ciascuno continua a digitare imperterrito la faccia illuminata dalla luce eterna del ciberspazio.

Mi sono svegliato presto stamattina alle sei e tre quarti in preda a un’eccitazione pericolosa, folle. Ieri sera al Time out con una siriana un indiano due palestinesi un’italiana tre libanesi una mezza inglese e mezza non so cosa a parlare dei Grundrisse, del general intellect, della poesia dell’esaurimento dell’energia fisica e psichica, e della demografia mondiale. Nessuno fa cenno a quello che sta succedendo in Siria perché tutti lo sanno benissimo. Duecento morti al giorno a un’ora di auto da qui, e la violenza pronta a esplodere in ogni istante all’angolo di strada per ragioni imperscrutabili. Come reagirà Hezbollah al possibile crollo del regime siriano? Come reagirà Israele alla possibile reazione di Hezbollah?

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