tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post115422364278571888..comments2024-02-05T04:09:55.009-08:00Comments on Maya's corner: When I really pitied the LebaneseMaya Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post-1170674899025116792007-02-05T03:28:00.000-08:002007-02-05T03:28:00.000-08:00Dear Maya,I was reading your blog with a lot of in...Dear Maya,<BR/><BR/>I was reading your blog with a lot of interest. Given that I am half Lebanese and half Bulgarian ( very proud of both), made it even more interesting. Although I agree with most points mentioned in your discussions I believe that what your looking at in terms of historical facts are only the results of a much deeper and complex struggles. Usually "smaller" countries are used as disposable tools for achieving world dominance by major players. The real struggle in the Middle East region is not between Hezblollah and Israel nor it is about nationalism or Arab pride. It is about major players like the US, China, Iran, EU .... using the ponds on the chess board to try and gain a bigger share of the world. By this comment of mine I am not undermining the great revolutionary movements in history, however freedom is rarely achieved by great revolutions rather it is granted to ponds that have achieved their objective. <BR/>I don’t want you to understand that my comments are in defense of the Lebanese Government or any other party it is just a role that the have to play. It is very easy to voice patriotic slogans but unfortunately those are only there to blur and distract peoples attention from what the real issues are.<BR/><BR/>Thank youEdyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14441162582402832056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post-1170674844197158352007-02-05T03:27:00.000-08:002007-02-05T03:27:00.000-08:00Dear Maya,I was reading your blog with a lot of in...Dear Maya,<BR/><BR/>I was reading your blog with a lot of interest. Given that I am half Lebanese and half Bulgarian ( very proud of both), made it even more interesting. Although I agree with most points mentioned in your discussions I believe that what your looking at in terms of historical facts are only the results of a much deeper and complex struggles. Usually "smaller" countries are used as disposable tools for achieving world dominance by major players. The real struggle in the Middle East region is not between Hezblollah and Israel nor it is about nationalism or Arab pride. It is about major players like the US, China, Iran, EU .... using the ponds on the chess board to try and gain a bigger share of the world. By this comment of mine I am not undermining the great revolutionary movements in history, however freedom is rarely achieved by great revolutions rather it is granted to ponds that have achieved their objective. <BR/>I don’t want you to understand that my comments are in defense of the Lebanese Government or any other party it is just a role that the have to play. It is very easy to voice patriotic slogans but unfortunately those are only there to blur and distract peoples attention from what the real issues are.<BR/><BR/>Thank youEdyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14441162582402832056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post-1170674778424690672007-02-05T03:26:00.000-08:002007-02-05T03:26:00.000-08:00Dear Maya,I was reading your blog with a lot of in...Dear Maya,<BR/><BR/>I was reading your blog with a lot of interest. Given that I am half Lebanese and half Bulgarian ( very proud of both), made it even more interesting. Although I agree with most points mentioned in your discussions I believe that what your looking at in terms of historical facts are only the results of a much deeper and complex struggles. Usually "smaller" countries are used as disposable tools for achieving world dominance by major players. The real struggle in the Middle East region is not between Hezblollah and Israel nor it is about nationalism or Arab pride. It is about major players like the US, China, Iran, EU .... using the ponds on the chess board to try and gain a bigger share of the world. By this comment of mine I am not undermining the great revolutionary movements in history, however freedom is rarely achieved by great revolutions rather it is granted to ponds that have achieved their objective. <BR/>I don’t want you to understand that my comments are in defense of the Lebanese Government or any other party it is just a role that the have to play. It is very easy to voice patriotic slogans but unfortunately those are only there to blur and distract peoples attention from what the real issues are.<BR/><BR/>Thank youEdyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14441162582402832056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post-1154756723769875302006-08-04T22:45:00.000-07:002006-08-04T22:45:00.000-07:00What I can't figure out is how come NB imply that ...What I can't figure out is how come NB imply that Lebanon, Bulgaria and Finland are small weak countries but Israel is a big strong one? <BR/><BR/>You make yourself strong or weak - YOU decide as individual and as a nation.<BR/><BR/>Without a shadow of a doubt Israel has been attacked from Lebanese territory since before it was founded (first attack by murderous bandids took place in 1947). <BR/><BR/>Israelis don't have a choise. Hezbollah is like cancer, killing healthy cells and Israel is chemotherapy trying to cure it. If Israel destroys Hezbollah it will help Lebanese, spineless as their government is...BHChhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08178467606233596591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post-1154699750163260272006-08-04T06:55:00.000-07:002006-08-04T06:55:00.000-07:00Your comments are very interesting, I would wish t...Your comments are very interesting, I would wish to comment extensively your last one also, but I want to write another post, so - just several brief sentences.<BR/>You are amazingly familiar with Bulgarian history (a minor factual mistake doesn't count, actually the treaty for disposition of German troops in Bulgaria was signed 4 hours after the troops had crossed the frontier, so technically we HAVE been occupied). I have very little knowledge of Finnish history. I admire the Finnish resistance against the Soviet Goliath during the Winter war. (I've read that the expression "Molotov cocktail" was coined for bottles of flammable liquid used by the Finnish against the Soviet tanks.) So I have no raw stuff to make a "parody" of Finnish history, but I state again that your "parody" of Bulgarian history was quite accurate and shouldn't offend any reasonable Bulgarian.<BR/>Because I value sincerety, clarity and information content more that politeness, I agree that I presumably offend Arabs from time to time. I'm afraid that I am reinforcing the conviction that Bulgarians are Arabophobes able to infect Arab children with HIV. But can I spend all my day (or night) over the keyboard to seek more polite ways to phrase the same things? And don't you think that they will be polite enough only when they are so polite that no criticism is evident?<BR/>My excuse is that, first, I wouldn't be offended if somebody criticizes my culture and nation in a similar way, and second, that I still keep much quieter tone than I would if it were my culture, leaving the harsher words for "internal" Arab criticism. You can find an example of such criticism at http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23044 and see for yourself that the author begins well beyond the point where I end!Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post-1154573388719201482006-08-02T19:49:00.000-07:002006-08-02T19:49:00.000-07:00Non-Blogging, let me first mention that I have spe...Non-Blogging, let me first mention that I have special feeling towards your country because of its contribution to Bulgaria's 1878 liberation and because the Finnish, unlike the Russians, never demanded from us in return to do what they want, or any resources, or even plane gratefulness.<BR/>I wouldn't be insulted if you meant seriously what you wrote. With 1 exception, it is quite true and is often presented exactly in this way in public discussions. Some Bulgarians (not me) would be insulted to here it from a foreigner, but I don't think they are right.<BR/>Bulgaria didn't resist seriously the Turkish 1393-1396 invasion that joined it to the Ottoman empire. It wasn't even united. Indeed, other nations such as Germans and Italians have passed a similar stage of division io numerous small parts but had the luck not to have Ottoman troops at their gates exactly at this time. This doesn't excuse the stupidity, shortsightedness and cowardice of Bulgarian rulers of that time.<BR/>Throughout the nearly 5 centuries of Ottoman rule, Bulgarians made only local and inefficient uprisings. I am not sure that withouth the ouside help in 1877-78 Bulgaria would exist today.<BR/>We were not occupied by the Nazis (the only point where you are wrong). We were their ally. I am not proud of this fact.<BR/>While we could not prevent our inclusion into the Soviet bloc, it is true that we were the most loyal Soviet puppet state in Eastern Europe. As under the Ottomans, there was no serious and nation-scale resistance as in East Germany in 1953, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Poland in 1970 and later. We were under pressure to take part in the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia, but could refuse, as Romania did. Also, most of our soldiers in the occupation corpus were send against their will, but some volunteered, because they were offered admission in any University they wanted without candidate student exam.<BR/>Of course all the above has its contexts and excuses, but I think that if you resort to excuses to justify your miserable past, you doom yourself to exactly as miserable future.<BR/>However, there seems to be one important point where Bulgaria is significantly better that Lebanon. While we were a Soviet satelite, we never protested when the West regarded us as an enemy. The Lebanese, on the contrary, claim that their government is pro-Western because such an impression is good for tourism and trade, and this same government has 1 or 2 ministers from a terrorist organization created and existing to fight the West. The whole South of the Lebanon is given to this force, and the numerous Lebanese Shi'ites support it. This hypocrisy makes me angry.Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post-1154403869701561242006-07-31T20:44:00.000-07:002006-07-31T20:44:00.000-07:00You are right that a small country like Lebanon ca...You are right that a small country like Lebanon cannot hope to defend itself against the regional powers. However, "international force" usually means UN, and everybody knows how good job they do in Lebanon and elsewhere. NATO or US troops are necessary, I think. But in order to have them, Lebanon first has to ask, and here intervenes the famous Arab pride and honour.Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25206081.post-1154223815896299602006-07-29T18:43:00.000-07:002006-07-29T18:43:00.000-07:00Lebanon is clearly not capable of taking care of i...Lebanon is clearly not capable of taking care of itself. An international force is probably the best way to disarm the Hezbolah.Big Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05293832199191510257noreply@blogger.com