Where is the world heading to?!

There it was, a fwd titled Hayfa Wahbe and Omar Sharif and in it are two pictures taken at the Cannes festival probably, showing them standing close to each other, caressing each other, like they're a couple monkeys. The moment people got there, they started commenting on Hayfa, her body, her eyes. They started fantasizing and… well, you can imagine how the conversation went. Then walked in a girl who works there and started commenting on how people in France probably know Hayfa and how they all adore her, the same way they adore Nancy Ajram. Basically, this fwd has been the "talk" of the day. My job is that hideous. Yeah well… pathetic isn't it?

We tend to wait for pictures and videos for Hayfa and Dana and the rest of the porno chicks who give the wrong impression about a country as beautiful as Lebanon. We wait for Miss Lebanon to be crowned every year just so we could check her out over the internet or on LBC or whatever. Most girls in all Arab countries look up to Lebanese girls as a symbol of femininity and style. Men look up to female Lebanese pop stars as a benchmark for their future wives. We know they have snow in the winter and that they probably have a lot of cedar trees and something to do with red and white. We know they have LBC and Future TV. We know George Qirda7y is Lebanese. We know Rafik El Hariri (allah yer7amo) was assassinated and was a great man, for some reason.

What do we know about Lebanon?

I know white is snow, where the cedars are located, on snowy mountains. It also represents purity, holiness, and eternity. Red is the blood of the martyrs who kept fighting for Lebanon against all sorts of colonizers along the years. I know Lebanon is currently under attack by the Israeli forces for no reason whatsoever. I know Bush said it's Israel's right to defend its ass. Well, defend it against what, you ignorant bastard?!

I know that when I left work, I had already learned about the bombing of Lebanon, about the air strikes, the killing of 50 something civilians, and that my fellow workers were still, sadly, talking about Hayfa among the rest of their weekend bullshit. I know that my friends were planning on going out tonight, but I said no.

I know my brothers and sisters in Lebanon are probably hiding in fear, not knowing what'll happen next.

I know all I can do is pray. I know that my prayers will be answered, I pray they would.

I write this post wondering if a day will come when we'd get attacked, if we'd still have the heart to fantasize about Hayfa, plan weekends; if we'd sit tight and make a stand. I bet we'd start thinking about how we got sold out by the rest of the world, by the rest of the Arab nations.

Yeah well… to all of you who think that Arabs hate us… well, we deserve to be hated. We didn't even say a word, we didn't even pout. We only decried, condemned, disapproved? What gives us the right to claim Arab leadership? Is it because we're the center of the world? Center my ass!!

We only talked about Hayfa.

Posted by Яαgιи Яαvєи on Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 7/13/2006 11:05:00 PM | Permalink