#AdelKaramForPresident… Good one… Good call

 

 

Well today at 9:30pm on #‏هيدا_حكي‬ Adel Karam will be declaring his electoral program (If you click on the link you will be getting a promo). Anyway that’s not the point… As every Christian Maronite in our beloved Lebanon he has the right to get into the elections with the other weirdos that try to spread their name for some weird causes or prehistorical ways of thinking like Rachid Louis Labaky and Adel Karam talked about him in #‏هيدا_حكي… 

Ok, you have the right to go to the elections, but I have a feeling that it is a big teaser just to make us watch you instead of the Champions League today :/. Nice trick mate! Well, what can I say who announces his electoral plan on the 1/8finals of Champions League! Obama wouldn’t do that man! 

Which makes the teaser probability kind of high… This is from a viewer point of view… I seriously couldn’t care less for what a comedian / wannabe politician wants to announce today as much as I care for the Champions League… Remember in one of your episodes you promoted Heineken’s UEFA final competition. Anyway if you really are going to do that tonight, remember your media planning team has problems, you need to fire some of them :D.

As for the small chances of #AdelKaramForPresident being a serious matter… I think that we got to the point of no-return when a retard like Labaki wants to be the president, a pervert like this Mjabber guy and at last the Comedian of the court Adel Karam well this is how a King’s castle used to look in all medieval movies I watched, there is the king, the Joker, the one that is willing to do anything to be at his place (I can imagine the Moujabber guy there) and the retard… Anyway did somebody watch the movie “Man of the year”? I think Adel is living in its illusion in case he is really serious (the movie’s ending teaches us a great story).

I have nothing against Adel Karam as a comedian, in fact, I always watched his programs, he is a great actor that has a lot of characters like Frankie and Bob, Maitre Adel, Alphonse, Rafi2 Doumit and other characters that have been invented once Fadi Raidy left their team and made a huge gap by taking with him the amazing characters of Fadia Cherre2a, Pipo, Youssef 2lay2el (AKA Abou Raymond) and his other hilarious characters. The greatest thing in Adel is that during his whole career he was close to people, friendly, and even though I remember him since the age of 12 he didn’t change at all (he has a youth fountain maybe) and made his career path by himself. His new program #‏هيدا_حكي‬ I didn’t like it that much and I still think that ChiNN is a much better program. He simply is a great comedian and actor (Caramel proved it) but he is not the greatest stand up comedian that Lebanese public have seen so far.

Therefore, I would rather Adel Karam keeping a smile on our face by reminding us everyday of the non-return state of Lebanon instead of going in a no-return trip into the dirtiest business in Lebanon: Politics.

as for our MPs this is a tip you shall take into consideration: If you might for once care for the Lebanese people that stupidly voted for you again and again earlier I would suggest the former Minister of Internal Affairs Ziad Baroud for example because there is no other person that is qualified and smart enough for being our President and I am sure in the end we are going to end up with the Army’s General as usual.

Cold War?

After hearing today’s morning news and after seeing a deja-vu scene that happened so much times during the history of American and Russian conflicts I couldn’t help myself thinking about anything but the Cold War that ended in 1989.

“The Cold War was about the rivalry of two ideologies trying to conquer one another. John Mueller, a professor of political science, famously argued that the Cold War ended as soon as the Soviet Union acknowledged the end of its efforts to spread its ideology.” (1) Well who said the Soviet Union totally acknowledged it, by breaking the wall of Berlin and by making Poland an totally independent country?… Well, we have to realize that Ukraine, Georgia and many other countries stayed under the soviet rules of Russia and were given the so-called right to vote. And this is why this is happening nowadays in Ukraine.

Back in September, USA threatened to attack the Syrian regime and back then the situation was very similar but the Russian actually sent back-up while the USA NAVY were getting ready and taking their posts for the attack and China didn’t agree to attend any of the decision making processes… (2) In the end, President Obama ordered his troops too come back and stop the operation/trainings.

And this is where we can notice the deja-vu that happened yesterday. Russia was so determined and showed so much power on the field that the World was getting ready to wake up somehow on a WWIII. Well, I assume with these ways of acting both wont get us into any WWIII and they will keep fighting strategically, economically (Russia declared that they might boycott the Dollar and that the sanction don’t even worry their country (3))

In 1962 the October Crisis was a similar situation but that threatened USA with the use of nuclear weapons by the Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro and with the back-up of Russia. What happened? Nothing not a missile flew from Cuba. Mmmmm, another deja-vu, but back then it was still called the Cold War.

Lets face it Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia… Nothing changed for these people since USSR, they still get the same small amounts of money from their jobs, still get the same conditions of life and to seek a rich prosperous life they have to move out of the country and pour money into it even though they know that the government will end up stealing it in the end. Therefore, we can now identify the rights they have now and that they didn’t use to have during the USSR period: The right to buy what they want (not only from the USSR market and under their sanctions); The right to different levels concerning the ways of living even though it isn’t happening (Since they were all equal before); The right to own their own things (you can’t imagine how much it would cost you to buy a house in Ukraine or a car with the conditions they are living in).

In the end and in my opinion, the Cold War never ended and never will as long as both USA and Russia are the biggest powers in this world with the strongest allies. It’s correct that Russia may have acknowledged stopping their USSR project but it has surely replaced it into another project which is identical ideologically but its ideology is simply not revealed and the difference can surely be seen.

Bernard El-Kahi

Russia VS USA and the EU on the Ukrainian Territory?

On the 19th of January 2014, the Ukrainian revolution started, the people went down to defend their protests rights due to the anti-protest law that has been set in Ukraine and announced on the 16th February 2014. The protest began as a stand off between the protesters and the police…

Russia didn’t do any important interference during this period of time (too busy with Sochi Olympic Games), until this week-end when the Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that he would not discuss the matter of Ukraine and in case the protests don’t stop, Russia will invade Ukraine at 3am GMT time.

Nevertheless, Russia started its movements and trainings, and here comes the most dangerous parts, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the USA President are questioning Putin’s sense of reality and USA and Germany agreed that: “Russia’s military intervention in Crimea was in violation of international law.” But I have 2 questions here: Didn’t USA violate international laws by invading Iraq and in other situations or are they the ones who put the laws? And by you interfering, isn’t it becoming now a American-European war against Russia as usual in a land where the people have always to pay?

As for Poland, they just couldn’t keep their mouth shut and not interfere in such a situation… They had to go make statements and give opinions that go against the Russian government. Still, the worst thing they did is pushing towards a NATO reaction and a UN reaction for the situation in Ukraine. Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in a declaration: “History shows – although I don’t want to use too many historical comparisons – that those who appease all the time in order to preserve peace usually only buy a little bit of time.” “Poland shares a border with Ukraine and large parts of the western part of the country were Polish before World War Two. Warsaw’s foreign policy is driven by a fear of its former overlord Russia pushing west into Ukraine and threatening Poland’s own borders.” (1) Seems like they forgot that Putin’s army is over 1000000 man and the Polish one is made of 100000 man!

Anyway, history shows as well that when Poland was attacked by every single army of Europe during WWII they were able to take back everything and their resistance has been known as one of the toughest in the world against the Nazi troops and the Russian Army.

But, nowadays, with technology the situation differs and I am questioning myself about the consequences that Poland will have to face since its own territory has been threatened already and due to this fact they have the right to complain to the NATO and the UN since they are part of it.

It is clear that Putin won’t go easy on this one. In the end, its the Crimea base and it matters a lot historically, geographically, politically and especially it is the side of Ukraine where “nearly 60 percent of its population of 2 million identify themselves as Russians.”

Did Putin go mad? Who knows! he looked happy during the Sochi Winter Olympic Games… And he made it clear that he wants Sochi to end before discussing Ukraine’s situation! This was, when there were already hundreds of people that passed while defending their right of protest against the corruption that has been in charge politically and economically in Ukraine! And because they know that their country is one of the richest with natural resources such as: iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber, and arable land. (2)

In my opinion, this whole situation requires the world to stand for the people in Ukraine and help them to rule for once their country with no external interventions neither Russian nor European and American. We can clearly see that this is an American-European conflict with Russia on the Ukrainian land and once again this country will pay for others benefits.  It is a population that is sick and tired of always doing the dirty job when their country has so much capabilities and believe me its not USA or Europe or Russia that will let them do better and its not Capitalism nor Communism nor Liberalism nor any other kind of proposed solution because they have all been proven to be nothing but useless control techniques that fail much more than they succeed. Let us hope for them a better tomorrow and let us hope Russia won’t do something insane tonight.

What are the next steps? Will Russia invade Ukraine at 3am GMT? Will Putin go mad and once again the NATO will be useless and leave him be as usual? Is it the beginning of a Russian VS the EU USA alliance war? Well, let us hope they get into some kind of an agreement, in the end, this whole situation smells really bad.

Bernard El-Kahi

Are we becoming robots? #sit4roula

It is not difficult to any person that lived or even passed a journey in Lebanon to notice that it is rare to find a place that the physically challenged person can access easily. For example, many of the entrances for the buildings, in the so called million dollar projects, aren’t built in a way that can make it easy for the person on a wheelchair to access.

I can imagine how hard is the life of a Lebanese Physically Challenged Citizen not to be able to pass on the bridge on the highway because there are only stairs and there is no elevator and to even get to his/her own apartment on the 5th floor after coming back from work, grocery shopping, sport or whatever it is and find out there is no electricity and the elevator ain’t working.

Sadly, these people aren’t respected in this country and don’t have the same rights as they do in other countries due to the Lebanese infrastructure and the lack of professionalism our ARCHITECTS in Lebanon have because most of them, focus on the luxurious needs much more then the individual need which they consider a secondary need. Even though, we all know that in a well-organized country the Real-Estate Business is by-law obliged to follow the individual need as a first and then they can play with the design as much as they want. On the other side, the infrastructure of cultural countries are designed in a way to be friendly for the Physically Challenged Individual and all the transportation from buses to tramways to metros and trains are easily accessible and have special places reserved for these specific individuals.

As per the news, shockingly, Roula El-Helou was deprived to go on a plane of the Lebanese Middle East Airline heading to Egypt due to the fact that she is on a WHEELCHAIR and by herself… I am not talking about something I am clueless of, because luckily, I have followed a training lately in an Airline company where we went through the point of Physically Challenged Passengers and many options are offered by airlines to let these passengers feel better during his flight and these options are FREE OF CHARGE:

– Meet and Assist: A representative of the airline should in this case take the passenger to his/her seat on the plane and help him/her sit and fold their wheelchair afterwards.

-Priority Boarding: The passenger gets to board first due to his/her incapability of moving easily in tight places like the seat rows of the plane

As for more information and precision MEA has similar options that you can freely go through in the MEA Physically Challenged Person part of this link http://goo.gl/BsGpu1. Which certifies that MEA do offer services to Handicapped persons

Still, MEA did send a memo where she declared that the passenger HAVE NOT declared herself as a Physically Challenged Person that needs help to go into the plane. In this case, we can consider it as a point for MEA and as a logic explanation since this kind of procedure needs extra staff…

Still, aren’t we all human and what differs us from being animals is our ability to THINK? In this case, the employee of MEA should be sanctioned not for not doing his job because as per the rules the ticket didn’t show that Roula is a Physically Unchallenged Person and he can act like a robot right now, but, for his lack of humanity because he bullied the woman by telling her “if you can do it by yourself well then show me how you will” and as per the media he said unacceptable hurtful things and in the end by telling her at the customs that HE WILL SUE HER!!! Well, Mr. I don’t know what is your name but in case someone can sue the other, well, I guess, you will be sued for defamation of character, public disrespect to a person and you can find yourself a lot of other available options…

Where the hell is Humanity for God sake, for Buddha sake, for Whoever you believe in sake!!! You could have helped her to board-in and make this exception!!! In fact, this would have generated an excellent Word Of Mouth for MEA and Lebanon! A thing we need because lately the planes leaving Lebanon are much more full than the ones coming.

It is regretful to hear such a story about MEA (even though it’s expensive as F…) that is the pride of Lebanon due to her professionalism and excellent on-board services and due to its amazing record with no crashes since 1987 until today. I believe you crashed yourself two days ago with your lack of professionalism and disrespect for a Physically Challenged Person.

Last but not least, lets make it a wake-up call, I understand us fighting for being open-minded and free, well freedom comes by respecting others freedom and by being cultural enough to understand what freedom means. Lets point out the problem, lets make a stand by sitting for Roula and MEA lets just make it a call for humanity a thing that is beginning to disappear in Lebanon. Maybe, in this case, MEA should punish the irresponsibility and ignorance of their nonprofessional employee that made this woman feel useless and made her look pitiful in front of the other passengers. And believe me it wont happen in one day and if as usual the story will be a dead story the next day and if this guy isn’t sanctioned by MEA publicly since he discriminated this woman publicly, in this case, I am ready to take a stand and BOYCOTT MEA as some people already did (below).

Bernard El-Kahi

PS: I reserve the #sit4roula idea to a man called Rawad El-Hajj that inspired Karim Sokhn to take a stand and post a pic of himself on Facebook where he said: “I sit 4 Roula, and won’t travel by MEA Airlines anymore !”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXzfZh3zhhQ (I hope this gets translated)

The new not so new predictable Lebanese Government

I woke up in the morning and read the news on my favorite Lebanese portal Lebanonfiles.com that shares all news portals titles around Lebanon and I felt on this title: “الحكومة تبصر النور بعد عشرة أشهر من التكليف“.

As a first, I would like to congratulate Lebanon for nothing… I can’t see any meaningful change it is just the same bunch of thieves that have been given a different government than their previous one.

I can’t simply understand how can someone resign from a government and come back to the next one as soon as it is declared. I mean come on P.M what is the part of the word “Resignation” that you didn’t understand and how hard is it to open the simplest tool and find its definition (i.e a Dictionnary or Wikipedia!)

Anyway, I imagined myself this morning, as a combination of Layla Abd El-Latif, Michel Hayek, and Mike Feghali since I was able to predict this government before it gets even formed by pointing out in one of my previous posts that we just vote to the same bunch of warlords and they get always to be in the governments because this is the way corruption, manipulation and sect and religion based politic will always rule in Lebanon.

Just so we wont say that I am taking a side I would like to go through some of the names that I have seen and was shocked to see in the new formed government:

– بطرس حرب وزيرا للاتصالات – Boutros Harb: Minister of Telecommunication. Does he even know how to use his own cellphone? What does he know about telecommunication? What did he achieve in his previous ministerial tasks?

– اشرف ريفي وزيرا للعدل -General Achraf Rifi: Minister of Justice. How can it be when during his period of being the head of the Lebanese Police the corruption of the officers was higher than Burj Khalifa, and when the least corrupted Minister of Internal Affairs in the history of Lebanon resigned due to the corruption that was lead by him in the Internal Security Forces in Lebanon?

– جبران باسيل وزيرا للخارجية Gebran Bassil: Minister of External Affairs. Yoooohooo Joujou is going to represent us outside of Lebanon in every conference and in every summit… How cute… After he just made the EDL (Electricitee Du Liban) go to its lowest peak ever and he made sure to buy a private jet and make a fortune of millions and millions of dollars out of deals that never happened… Now, he will make sure to embarrass us internationally and I expect to see in the upcoming years the #stripforjackie hash-tag changed into another tag that say #embarassurselfforGebran. On the other side, come on!!! He lost parliamentary elections, he is not liked by people, why do you impose him? WHY?

– حسين الحاج حسن وزيرا للصناعة Houssein El-Hajj Hasan: Minister of Industry… I can now Imagine our new industrial plants… If you know what I mean.

– علي حسن خليل وزيرا للمالية Ali Hassan Khalil: Minister of Finance… No comment.

– وائل ابو فاعور وزيرا للصحة Wael Abou Faour: Minister of Health. Sorry,Dr. Wael Abou Faour… I have a question… Since Michel Aoun takes all kind of pills as I hear the media and comedians saying, he should be really an expert in this kind of thing… Why not him? Back to serious, can someone answer me that question? Why the hell the ministry of health is never given to a well reputed Dr that will at least know what to do and how to proceed in its management?

Ok! It’s enough even though I can list them all with their unhealthy accomplishments. P.M Tamam Salam (May God help you) well I guess if every decision you are going to take will take you 10 month, then this government wont do much which is not a problem for me or any Lebanese Citizen because we got used to the fact of Governments doing nothing.

Dear readers, I guess we all now understand how a change can be made. I urge you to start thinking and to stop thinking emotionally, If you want your country to grow in prosperity and peace, as of today, start promising yourself individually to do your best to vote the next time by using your head and not your feelings that are based on the war of Lebanon and our sad history. Lets stop hearing their usual propaganda and make Lebanon a better place to live in the future.

Bernard El-Kahi

Valentine’s Special: She was, is and will be…

I dedicate this post to my only true love…

Yup, I had lots of relationships and I won’t be counting them now… Some were beautiful and some bad… But as we all know, everything has its ups and downs. You want her, she doesn’t want you. she wants you but you don’t. You find the right one but its the bad moment, you talk future she talks today (or vice versa), you feel she doesn’t, she feels you don’t… and much more examples can describe love’s incredible and incomprehensible ways and dilemmas.

But enough talking about tough love let me introduce you to the love of my life that I would dedicate this eve of 14Feb 2014 to: MUSIC, damn you girl (La Musique in French therefore it’s a girl ;))… You… You will always surprise me and make me feel happy, satisfied and relaxed (Isn’t it the truth about love?).

It all started in Lebanon, my parents weren’t too much of music fans (as you know we always choose the girl our parents don’t like ;)), but, my cousin that is my God Mother as well was a lead singer in the Chorus of her University known back then as one of the best Choruses in Lebanon and she introduced me to her… She used to sing for us while babysitting us, therefore, I can say thank you to Mom and Dad for their urge to go out and leave us with Fadia. It all started with nice songs for Julia, Fairouz, and French songs that are calm and mostly either romantic or patriotic that used to make us fall asleep and feel comfortable.

With time my relationship with music grew up due to the efforts my sister poured in letting me discover rock and roll, alternatives and the great music released in the 90s… And then come the stage, when I really got into the next level of the relationship in secondary school and university by discovering how music can help you go through and find solution for any trouble.

The day I realized that music is my everlasting love was when I was driving in Lebanon and making a U-turn on Forum de Beirut seaside road and read on the wall: “Imagine that one day, you wake up, and music is gone forever.” This moment was unbearable it was an apocalypse like moment and this is where I realized how immense my love for music is.

I sadly say that I was never able to learn how to play on an instrument since I am a very impatient person and I always wanted to pass thru the whole procedure in one day (bad habit).

I believe that I am open to any kind of music as long as it is not ear damaging or meaningless crap and noisy sounds that someone dares to call music.

As a conclusion, my dearly beloved Music, I have never loved anyone as I loved you… Proof is that even when I make out with a girl you are there (It’s not cheating since you know you can’t provide me with that… Sad but trueL). You are the only one that gave me good answers even though sometimes I had to pay to hear them (CDs I bought), you don’t lie (as Jimmy Hendrix said) you don’t require jewelry nor roses nor fancy dinners and especially you never start blabing about Valentine’s day plans from January 1 and everyday is a celebration with you by my ears and (in my earphones) and June 21st is the best day cause everything goes for free with awesome street concerts. “People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has” (Taylor Swift), Therefore, You are the only persistent and everlasting love in my life thank you for being here and this is why this year you are my Valentine.

Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) Died young but shows people until today how much love music can provide you with.

PS: I am sorry if I keep sharing you with all my friends and the people I know but you mean so much to me that I want every person in this world to meet you and it is my goal to make it happen with 4shared and all other sharing websites online.

With all due love and respect!

Bernard El-Kahi.

شي أن أن – حلقة 14-01-2014 كاملة ChiNN episode on 2014-01-14

This post is an appreciation and respect letter to the team of ChiNN in NewTV.

As for the link it is a description of Lebanon’s actual situation by ChiNN.

ChiNN team has launched their facebook official page in 26 October 2011, still, I can’t find when they have officially started the program.

I once asked myself after watching one of their most amazing episodes how can this youtube (167351hits) video [ شي أن أن حلقة 24-06-2013 كاملة ] have less hits than the one where Maya Diab is performing in a silly Splash program (235,024 hits) [I won’t share the link coz seriously once clicked she will have more views and I refuse to contribute in this kind of stupidities but you can look it up easily search Maya Diab’s Performance].

Well my friends its time to support some programs like ChiNN and not silly ones like Splash I don’t think the situation that Lebanon is in would allow us to watch silly programs instead of getting inspired to some change by programs that at least have some meaning for once and that can make a change in the wrong way we are thinking in in the way that is leading us to fall from the EDGE (Over the Edge is the episode name).

Who is Salam Zaatari? Who is the writer that writes with him Tarek Ghayada? Well, I don’t know their backgrounds, but there are two things I know the first is that I am sure they are two of the most educated persons in Lebanon that we can consider lately as an inspiration for the new generation. As for the second thing is that if someday any little change might come in the political structure of Lebanon they will be the ones who played the biggest role. At least because they still believe that they can bring back some hope and dreams to Lebanon.

I would like to mention that the foreigners view to our country is terror and insecurity, well they are right since right now the country is in this state! But, I think that it is better to see what is happening to the country and why… Therefore, I believe ChiNN should translate their episodes in English and French, because they will contribute more and more to the change by targeting a wider movement.

Hats off for this episode, and for your excellently well done job as usual and hats off to the GUTS and BALLS you guys have to reveal sarcastically all the that is causing our main problems in Lebanon.

Last but not least, hats off to the sentence:
” خير لك أن تقضي وقتك بالسعي لإدخال نفسك الجنة على السعي في إثبات أن غيرك سيدخل النار ” Ali Shariati (1933-1977). Mentioned in the episode at 17:50, which means: “it would be much better for you to spend your time looking for ways to enter Heaven instead of wasting while proving that someone is going to hell”.

PS: Make sure you watch every Tuesday evening at 8:30 on NewTV maybe it will bring some sense to our politically religiously disturbed minds (yes NewTV has good programs mich bess Tony Khalife w Maryam Nour)

Bernard El-Kahi

Lebanese dealing with Syrian Refugees… Racism, Ignorance?

In this post I would like to point out my thoughts on a very interesting subject that everyone is discussing in Lebanon: The Syrian war refugees.

It is very understandable to have Syrian refugees in Lebanon and I don’t think they are enjoying their time living in the given conditions in the camps that have been “especially made for them”. Again I attack our government by having the balls to say these camps were done for them because I wouldn’t even put a pet in such a condition. Which means that our government isn’t racist (because they worked on camps) but they are careless and there is a lack of planning. I appreciate every organization working on making the conditions of the Syrians in Lebanon better and I hate every act of trendiness, which means that please you guys don’t live it to the max and start giving your opinion about racism because the racism evoked towards Syrians in Lebanon is very minor. Yes, there is racism against Syrians but in case we want to talk about racism, then, let me tell you, racism in Lebanon exists on other people much more than it exists on the Syrian refugees and in much more disgusting aspects.

 I have never been racist against Syrians as people and yes, I confirm, that I always hated their government because they have never done anything good to Lebanon when they ruled us for 30 years and yes I took part in mainly all manifestations in 2005 against the Syrian regime and who didn’t believe back then that its going to be better… But here we are 9 years later I sometimes say to myself at least there was a little more electricity during the Syrian occupation and there was no bombs, still, it’s our mistake as I said we made the old crew come back (bail out of prison, come from exile, give back parliament authority…).

So my points would be:

1-      Syrians are not object to racism but they are considered as a big responsibility for Lebanon and Lebanese people that can’t even put their shit together.

2-      I went thru many youtube videos many show a racist people and many show uneducated people that are the example of the true uneducated Lebanese that always wants to speak out loud without knowing the consequences his/her words might bring like this woman in this video at 0:53 well she is saying: “We became guests in this country that they own and I wish every Syrian would go back to his country so we can live because they’re really pressuring us”. Well auntie I can tell you that if there is a possibility for them to come back where they were they wouldn’t even think about it twice. Reminder, were you living in down town during the war or in any other country and did the people in this country tell you that you are a burden? Well, I would have loved to see you being treated this way just to see your reaction. In this case, I would like to consider this woman an uneducated “sett beyt” AKA for housewife that doesn’t have anything to do but shopping and treating her maid like a dog by making her run after her from place to place and this is the kind of people I am really racist at.

3-      Dear Lebanese, blame the government not the Syrian refugees, when Lebanese were seeking refuge in other countries these countries were ORGANIZED and knew perfectly well due to their studies how many refugees they can handle. Blame the corrupted customs that sit on the border and that for 50000LL would let a family go in and even for a $100 he wouldn’t mind if someone goes in armed.

4-      Let us not fall in the same mistake! Beware! In 1948 Palestinians entered Lebanon in huge numbers Jordan stopped admitting Palestinians, Syria stopped but we made the mistake of making more and more Palestinians go in which made them dominant and they started their project which is liberating Palestine from Lebanon and make trouble for Lebanon and Welcome To The Jungle because this is how the civil war of Lebanon started! Are you now imagining what might happen in 2 to 3 years if the situation goes on the way it is in Syria and just think about the fact that the refugees number is close to 3000000 Syrian Refugee a very close number to our population.

5-      It is the right of every Lebanese to feel bad about being fired from his job because a Syrian person would agree to do it for much less money (considering that Syrians are very educated and have great universities) and this is not something I am surprised of and it’s the government task to make decisions in this case ie: “British workers left unprotected says Labour as immigration row deepens” Now come on activists and defenders go and call the British people racist bastards J.

6-      Another video shows young friends sitting together and showing much more the real racist Lebanese side by saying the Sri-Lankan/Ethiopian with disgust or by saying “I don’t like to go in a bus with a person from Sudan or Syria or India” and calling them barbarians. Here we are, for once someone pointed out the stereotyped racist view of our country towards any other culture whether they are Egyptian (they got in their History: Pyramids, Pharaohs, the Sphinx), Ethiopian (Their Christianity dates from the 1^st Century for those who don’t know they played a big role in developing the Church all over the world), Sri Lankan (24/7 service and electricity and lately an amazing tourist destination to seek comfort and nature especially for newly weds 😉 wink wink), Nepali (A poor country due to its very difficult geographical position between India and China no beach for trading neighboring Tibet that has as well its own Political problems with China, unlike us who have the great Mediterranean Beach and the best we do is close our eyes and let the custom steal on a daily basis),Indian (Maharajah, Taj Mahal have you ever seen those I have seen pictures seriously and people who went there confirm the beauty of the place) we can still put a huge list of other countries that you would be surprised about the highest number of achievements they got than ours.

7-      Dear Lebanese Housewifes I don’t know whatever and whoever you are that treats her maid like a pet, how is it possible that you leave your kids under her disposition and under her whole responsibility if you are so racist why does she make your food and she will dispose it for you if possible. I know people who said mom to their maid before saying it to their mom and I know people who send flowers to their maids on Mother’s day because she was their when he/she was sick, hungry or whatever it is… Well, congrats, look at you being racist made you lose your kids for your pleasure to go shopping or to go partying with your wealthy husband or boyfriend let’s not deny it ;).

8-      Dear Mr. or as you call yourself home “Master” (this is the top racist/slavery term used)” Yes, Master me your humble servant do whatever you want” if you call your Ethiopian maid a Negro and feel disgusted when you see her then why do you always try to rape her? I don’t understand how sick is that? Decide dude you either are racist or not there is no mid-solution here!!

Conclusion, so what he smells I would like to see you washing cars, cleaning bathrooms, taking dirt of the road and trash and doing the dirty jobs while living in the same conditions they are living in, in the rooms they share due to the high cost of real estate that they cannot afford as individuals and where they get the minimum of water and electricity. I would like to see you working 14 hours for their salary, most probably once back home or to your 2m² room at the Master’s or Madam house you will fall on your bed asleep instead of waiting till midnight till electricity comes so you can wash yourself in some warm water… That’s why my dear friends, that are calling some people racist against Syrians refugees please note that there is a big difference between a refugee and a person that came here to work and please touch the racism subject where it is really relevant the racism we all grew up listening too which is all the Sri Lankan people are maids and all Black are Negros and car washer (Cool a Negro and Car Washer rules USA). Instead of your sympathy towards a trendy subject like Syrian refugees nowadays why don’t we just look at the old subjects and ask yourself: Do I know the difference between Racism, Emigrants, Refugees and Stereotyping? When you will answer yourself this question then you will know where racism is really practiced and if Syrians are the ones being treated in a bad way.

Bernard El-Kahi