<?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-5270638195136787905</id><updated>2012-02-01T21:11:36.177-08:00</updated><category term='convegno firenze sesamo'/><category term='dubai international film festival'/><category term='regione lombardia'/><category term='marathon'/><category term='frog'/><category term='unh'/><category term='ta7t al qasef'/><category term='mar mikael'/><category term='caduto'/><category term='elections'/><category term='hate_love'/><category term='belzebu'/><category term='Mar Taqla'/><category term='rome'/><category term='amore dopo amore'/><category term='together for lebanon'/><category term='pope'/><category term='zero 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term='chouf'/><category term='autobomba'/><category term='damien rice'/><category term='egiptian blogger'/><category term='isf'/><category term='datchforum'/><category term='Shiyah'/><category term='southaftersouth'/><category term='cease-fire'/><category term='sahel el dardara'/><category term='bikfaya'/><category term='Beshara El-Khoury'/><category term='sarkis'/><category term='maria sarkis'/><category term='IAMB'/><category term='clash'/><category term='antoine ghanem'/><category term='cpl'/><category term='Sad Boushriyeh'/><category term='baalbek'/><category term='libano'/><category term='lovers'/><category term='guerra civile'/><category term='lebanese recipes'/><category term='khiyam'/><category term='maps'/><category term='lf'/><category term='Jund al Sham'/><category term='lebanon'/><category term='run for peace'/><category term='khalass'/><category term='il cielo di beirut'/><title type='text'>LibanItaly</title><subtitle type='html'>I ricordi, le impressioni, i sogni. In tutte le lingue, con tutti i profumi, di tutti i colori, per tutte le fedi.
Passato, presente e futuro dagli occhi di un viaggiatore con la valigia sempre in mano. 
A partire da un Paese chiamato Lubnan. 
Approdatoci per un gioco del destino, divenuto la mia seconda Patria. 
Li Beirut, con riconoscenza</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>167</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2687425321315591669</id><published>2008-12-04T07:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T07:59:24.759-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='xmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tree'/><title type='text'>Christmas in Beirut</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/STf-J2rpl2I/AAAAAAAABJo/FiahXNcqjgM/s1600-h/Xmastreebeirut.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275964933738698594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 314px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/STf-J2rpl2I/AAAAAAAABJo/FiahXNcqjgM/s320/Xmastreebeirut.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arriva Natale. Anche a Beirut.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-2687425321315591669?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/2687425321315591669/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=2687425321315591669' title='5 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2687425321315591669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2687425321315591669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-in-beirut.html' title='Christmas in Beirut'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/STf-J2rpl2I/AAAAAAAABJo/FiahXNcqjgM/s72-c/Xmastreebeirut.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5638844670674746862</id><published>2008-09-29T01:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-29T01:36:14.849-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trablus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tripoli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autobomba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><title type='text'>The same Lebanon...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;TRIPOLI, Libano (Reuters) - Un'autobomba si è schiantata oggi contro un bus che trasportava soldati dell'esercito nel nord del Libano, uccidendo almeno cinque persone e ferendone 28.&lt;br /&gt;Lo hanno riferito fonti della sicurezza, spiegando che nell'esplosione - avvenuta nell'ora di punta nel quartiere Buhsas, all'entrata sud della città - sono morti almeno tre soldati. I soldati libanesi hanno recintato l'area, e le ambulanze hanno portato i feriti in ospedale. "E' un attacco diretto alle istituzioni militari", ha detto l'ex premier Najib Mikati a una stazione radio locale.&lt;br /&gt;L'attentato non è stato rivendicato.&lt;br /&gt;Sei settimane fa a Tripoli, una bomba colpì un bus uccidendo 15 persone, tra cui dieci soldati.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ma l'8 settembre 2008 i leader sunniti e alawiti delle fazioni rivali non avevano siglato un &lt;a href="http://www.osservatorioiraq.it/modules.php?name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=6376"&gt;accordo di riconciliazione&lt;/a&gt; ???&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5638844670674746862?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5638844670674746862/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5638844670674746862' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5638844670674746862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5638844670674746862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/09/same-lebanon.html' title='The same Lebanon...'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2673956164669308343</id><published>2008-08-15T08:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-15T08:45:09.193-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gandhi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='speech'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='discorso'/><title type='text'>Gandhi's speech - Il Discorso di Gandhi - New Delhi, 2nd April 1947</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SKWi7JsXodI/AAAAAAAAA18/Yy5dT6Prctc/s1600-h/flag_UNKG0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234769278986068434" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 41px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 21px" height="22" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SKWi7JsXodI/AAAAAAAAA18/Yy5dT6Prctc/s200/flag_UNKG0001.gif" width="52" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gandhi's speech to the Inter-Asian Relations Conference in New Delhi on 2nd April 1947&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;"Madam President and friends, I do not think that I should apologize to you, for having to speak in a foreign tongue. I wonder if this loudspeaker carries my voice to the farthest end of this vast audience. Will some of those who are far away will raise their hands if they listen to what I'm saying? Do you listen? Alright. Well, if my voice doesn't carry, it won't be my fault, it will be the fault of these loudspeakers.What I was going to tell you that I don't need to apologize. I dare not if all the delegates who have assembled from the various parts of Asia, and 'observers' - I learnt the word from the lips of an American friend, he said, "I am no delegate, I am an observer." Thinking that he hailed from Persia, from my very few moments I promised, lo, and behold an American stands in front of me, and I told him, "I dread you, and I wish you would leave me alone." Do you imagine that an American would leave me alone? Not he, and therefore, I had to speak to him. What I was going to tell you, that as my provincial speech, which is my mother tongue, you can't understand, and I do not want to insult you by insisting on the provincial speech.The national speech, Hindustani, I know that it will be a long time before it can be rival in international speech. If there is rivalry, there is rivalry between French and English. For international commerce, undoubtedly English occupies the first place, for diplomatic speech and correspondence, I used to hear when I was studying in my boyhood, that French was the language of diplomacy and if you wanted to go from one end of Europe to the other end, you must try to pick up French, and so I tried to pick up a few words of French in order that I might be able to make myself understood. Anyway, if there is any rivalry at all, rivalry might arise between French and English. Therefore, having been taught English naturally I have to resort in speaking to you in that international speech.I was wondering what I was to speak to you. I wanted to collect my thoughts, but let me confess to you, that I had no time, and yet I had promised yesterday that I will try to say a few words to you. Whilst I was coming with Badshah Khan, I asked for a little piece of paper and pencil. I got a pen instead of a pencil. I tried to scribble a few words. You will be sorry to hear from me, that that piece of paper is not by my side. But that is nothing, I remember what I wanted to speak out, and I said to myself, you friends have seen not the real India, and you are not meeting in conference in the midst of real India.Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Lahore - all these are big cities and therefore, having come under the influence of the West, having been made also, Delhi perhaps excepted, but not New Delhi, having been made also by the English. I then thought of a little essay, I suppose I should call it, which was in French. It was translated for me by an Anglo-French friend, and he was a philosopher, he was also an unselfish man and he said, he befriended me without my having known him, because he always sided with the minority and I was, that is, my countrymen, in a hopeless minority, not only hopeless minority but a despised minority.If the Europeans of South Africa will forgive me for saying so, we were all 'coolies'. I was an insignificant 'coolie' lawyer. At that time, we had no 'coolie' doctors, we had no 'coolie' lawyers. I was the first in the field. Nevertheless, a 'coolie'! You know perhaps what is meant by the word 'coolie', but this friend, his name was Krof - his mother was a French woman, his father was an Englishman -, and he said, "I want to translate for you a French story." You will pardon me, those of you who know the story, if I make mistakes in recalling it here and there, but there may be no mistake in the main incident.There were three scientists and they - of course it is an imaginary story - three scientists went out from France, went out of Europe in search of 'Truth'. That was the first lesson that story taught me, that if 'truth' was to be searched it was not to be found on the soil of Europe. Therefore, undoubtedly not in America.These three big scientists went to different parts of Asia. One of them found his way to India, and he began his search. He went to the so-called cities of those times. Naturally, this was before British occupation, before even the Mughal period, that is how the French author has illustrated the story, but still he went to the cities, he saw the so-called high caste people, men and women, till at last, he penetrated a humble cottage, in a humble village, and that cottage was a Bhangi cottage, and he found the 'Truth' that he was in search of, in that Bhangi cottage, in the Bhangi family, man, woman, perhaps two or three children. I speak that under correction, and then he describes how he found it.I omit all that. I want to connect that story with what I want to say to you, that if you really want to see India at its best you have to find it in a Bhangi cottage, in a humble Bhangi home, or such villages, so the English historians teach us, are 700,000. A few cities here and there, they don't hold several crores of people, but the 700,000 villages do hold nearly forty crores of people. I say nearly because you may take away one crore perhaps, maybe two crores in the cities, still there will be thirty eight crores. And then I said to myself, if these friends who are here without finding their true India, what will they have come for. I then thought that I will beseach you to imagine this India, not from this vast audience but to imagine what it would be like. I would like you to read a story such as this story of Frenchmen or other things. See, perhaps some of you, a few villages of India then you will find real India.Today I will make this admission also, that you will not be fascinated by the sight. You will have to scratch down below the dung- heaps that the villages are today. I don't pretend to say that they were ever places of paradise. But today they are really dung-heaps; they were not like that before, of that I'm quite sure. That I speak not from history but from what I have seen myself, with my physical eyes, of India, and I have traveled from one end of India to the other, seen these villages, seen the miserable specimens of humanity, lustreless eyes, and yet they are India, and yet in those humble cottages, in the midst of those dung-heaps are to be found the humble Bhangis, were you will find concentrated essence of wisdom. How? That is a great question.Well, then I want to take you to another scene. Again, I have learnt from books, books written by English historians, translated for me. All this rich knowledge, I am sorry to say, comes to us here in India through English books, through English historians, not that there are no Indian historians, but they also don't write in their mother tongue, or in the national language Hindustani, or if you prefer to call them two speeches, Hindi and Urdu, two forms of the same speech. No, they give us what they have studied through English books, than, perhaps through originals, but through English in the English tongue, that is the cultural conquest of India, that India has undergone. But they tell us that wisdom came to the West from the East. And who were these wise men? Zoroaster. He belonged to the East. He was followed by Buddha. He belonged to the East, he belonged to India.Who followed Buddha? Jesus, again from Asia. Before Jesus was Musa, Moses, also belonging to Palestine, though I was just checking with Badshah Khan and Yunus Saheb and they both corroborated me that Moses belonged to Palestine, though he was born in Egypt. And then came Jesus, then came Mohammad. All those I omit. I omit Krishna, I omit Mahavir, I omit the other lights, I won't call them lesser lights, but unknown to the West, unknown to the literary world. All the same, I don't know a single person to match these men of Asia. And then what happened? Christianity became disfigured when it went to the West. I am sorry to have to say that, but that is my reading.I won't take you any further through this. I tell you this story in order to hearten you, and in order to make you understand, if my poor speech can make you understand, that what you see of the splendour and everything that the cities of India have to show you, is not real India. Certainly, the carnage that is going on before your very eyes, sorry, shameful as I said yesterday, you have to bury it here. Don't carry that memory of that carnage beyond the confines of India, but what I want you to understand if you can, that the message of the East, the message of Asia, is not to be learnt through European spectacles, through the Western spectacles, not by imitating the tinsel of the West, the gun-powder of the West, the atom bomb of the West. If you want to give a message again to the West, it must be a message of 'Love', it must be a message of 'Truth'. There must be a conquest (clapping), please, please, please. That will interfere with my speech, and that will interfere with your understanding also. I want to capture your hearts and don't want to receive your claps.Let your hearts clap in unison with what I'm saying, and I think, I shall have finished my work. Therefore, I want you to go away with the thought that Asia has to conquer the West. Then, the question that a friend asked yesterday, "Did I believe in one world?" Of course, I believe in one world. And how can I possibly do otherwise, when I become an inheritor of the message of love that these great un-conquerable teachers left for us? You can redeliver that message now, in this age of democracy, in the age of awakening of the poorest of the poor, you can redeliver this message with the greatest emphasis.Then you will, you will complete the conquest of the whole of the West, not through vengeance because you have been exploited, and in the exploitation, of course, I want to include Africa, and I hope that when next you meet in India, you will all be, exploited nations of the Earth will meet if by that time there aren't any exploited nations of the Earth. I am so sanguine that if all of you put your hearts together, not merely your heads, but hearts together and understand the secret of the messages of all these wise men of the East have left to us, and if we really become, deserve, are worthy of that great message, then you will easily understand that the conquest of the West will be completed and that conquest will be loved by the West itself. West is today pining for wisdom. West today is in despair of multiplication of atom bombs, because a multiplication of atom bombs means utter destruction, not merely of the West, but it will be a destruction of the world, as if the prophecy of the Bible is going to be fulfilled and there is to be a perfect deluge. Heaven forbid that there be that deluge, and through men's wrongs against himself. It is up to you to deliver the whole world, not merely Asia but deliver the whole world from that wickedness, from that sin.That is the precious heritage your teachers, my teachers have left to us."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;M. K. Gandhi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;- - - &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SKWjl1x6tpI/AAAAAAAAA2E/dXXEYhhvvpE/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234770012375004818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="22" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SKWjl1x6tpI/AAAAAAAAA2E/dXXEYhhvvpE/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="33" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discorso tenuto da Gandhi alla Conferenza delle relazioni interasiatiche, New Delhi, 2 aprile 1947.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Traduzione a cura di Tara Gandhi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Signora Presidente e amici, non credo di dovermi scusare con voi per il fatto che sono costretto a parlare in una lingua straniera. Chissà se questi altoparlanti porteranno la mia voce fino ai confini di questo immenso pubblico. Quelli di voi che sono lontani possono alzare la mano, se sentono quello che dico? Sentite? Bene. Bene, se la mia voce non vi giunge, non è colpa mia, ma colpa degli altoparlanti.Quello che volevo dirvi è che non devo scusarmi. Non oso, visti tutti i delegati che si sono riuniti qua da tutta l’Asia, e gli osservatori – ho imparato questa parola pronunciata da un amico americano che disse: “Non sono un delegato, sono un osservatore”. Di primo impatto con lui, vi assicuro, pensavo venisse dalla Persia, ma ecco davanti a me un americano e gli dico: “Sono terrorizzato da te, e vorrei che mi lasciassi stare”. Potete immaginare un americano che mi lasci stare? Non lui e, quindi, ho dovuto parlargli.Quello che volevo dirvi è che il mio idioma per me madrelingua, non lo potete capire, e non voglio insultarvi insistendo su di esso. Il linguaggio nazionale, Hindustani, ci metterà tanto tempo prima di rivaleggiare con un linguaggio internazionale.Se ci deve essere rivalità, c’è rivalità tra francese e inglese. Per il commercio internazionale, indubbiamente l’inglese occupa il primo posto. Per discorsi e corrispondenza diplomatici, sentivo dire quando studiavo da ragazzo che il francese era la lingua della diplomazia e se volevi andare da una parte all’altra dell’Europa dovevi provare ad imparare un po’ di francese, e quindi ho provato ad imparare qualche parola di francese per riuscire a farmi capire. Comunque, se ci deve essere rivalità, la rivalità potrebbe nascere tra francese e inglese. Quindi, avendo imparato l’inglese, è naturale che faccia ricorso a questa parlata internazionale per rivolgermi a voi.Mi chiedevo di cosa dovessi parlarvi. Volevo raccogliere i miei pensieri, ma lasciate che sia onesto con voi, non ne ho avuto il tempo.Però ieri ho comunque promesso che avrei provato a dirvi qualche parola.Mentre venivo con Badshah Khan, ho chiesto un piccolo pezzo di carta ed una matita. Ho ricevuto una penna invece di una matita. Ho provato a scarabocchiare qualche parola. Vi spiacerà sentirmi dire che quel pezzo di carta non è qui con me. Ma questo non importa, ricordo cosa volevo enunciare, e mi sono detto: “I miei amici non hanno visto la vera India, e non ci stiamo incontrando in una conferenza nel cuore della vera India”.Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Lahore – queste sono tutte grandi città e quindi, hanno subito l’influenza dell’Occidente, sono state fatte, magari eccetto Delhi ma non New Delhi, sono state fatte dagli inglesi. Poi ho pensato ad un breve saggio – credo che dovrei chiamarlo così – che era in francese. Era stato tradotto per me da un amico anglo-francese, e lui era un filosofo, era anche un uomo altruista e diceva che mi aveva dato la sua amicizia senza che io lo conoscessi, perché lui parteggiava per le minoranze ed io rappresentavo, assieme ai miei connazionali, una minoranza senza speranze, e non solo senza speranze ma una minoranza disprezzata.Se gli europei del Sudafrica mi perdonano per quello che dico, eravamo tutti “coolies” [lavoratore non qualificato a basso costo]. Io ero un insignificante avvocato “coolie”. A quei tempi non avevamo dottori “coolie”, non avevamo avvocati “coolie”. Ero il primo nel campo. Ma sempre un “coolie”. Magari sapete cosa si intende con la parola “coolie” ma questo mio amico, si chiamava Krof – sua madre era francese, suo padre inglese – disse: “Voglio tradurre per te una storia francese”.Mi perdonerete, chi di voi sa la storia, se nel ricordarla faccio degli errori qua e là, ma non ci sarà nessun errore nell’avvenimento principale.C’erano tre scienziati e – ovviamente è una storia inventata – tre scienziati uscirono dalla Francia, uscirono dall’Europa alla ricerca della “Verità”. Questa era la prima lezione che mi aveva insegnato quella storia, che se bisogna cercare la verità, non la si trova su suolo europeo. Quindi, indubbiamente neanche in America.Questi tre grandi scienziati andarono in parti diverse dell’Asia. Uno trovò la strada per l’India e diede inizio alla sua ricerca. Raggiunse le cosiddette città di quei tempi. Naturalmente, ciò avvenne prima dell’occupazione inglese, prima anche del periodo Mughal, così è come ha illustrato la storia l’autore francese, ma visitò comunque le città, vide la gente delle cosiddette caste alte, uomini e donne, fino a che non si addentrò in un’umile casa, in un umile villaggio, e quella casa era una casa Bhangi, e trovò la verità che stava cercando, in quella casa Bhangi, nella famiglia Bhangi, uomo, donna, forse 2 o 3 bambini (lo dico come me lo ricordo) e poi lui descrive come la trovò. Tralascio tutto questo.Voglio collegare questa storia a quello che voglio dire a voi, che se volete vedere il meglio dell’India, dovete trovarlo in una casa Bhangi, in un’umile casa Bhangi, o villaggi simili, 700.000 come ci insegnano gli storici inglesi. Un paio di città qua e là, non ospitano neanche qualche crore [unità di misura indiana che equivale a 10 milioni] di persone. Ma i 700.000 villaggi ospitano quasi 40 crore di persone. Ho detto quasi perché potremmo togliere una o due crore che stanno in città, comunque sarebbero 38 crore.E poi mi sono detto, se questi amici sono qui senza trovare la vera India, per cosa saranno venuti? Ho poi pensato che vi pregherò di immaginare quest’India, non dal punto di vista di questo immenso pubblico ma per come potrebbe essere. Vorrei che leggeste una storia come questa storia dei francesi o altre ancora. Magari, qualcuno di voi vada a vedere qualche villaggio dell’India e allora troverà la vera India.Oggi farò anche questa ammissione: non ne sarete affascinati alla vista. Dovrete raschiare sotto i mucchi di letame che sono oggi i nostri villaggi. Non voglio dire che siano mai stati dei paradisi. Ma oggi sono veramente dei mucchi di letame; non erano così prima, di questo sono abbastanza certo. Non l’ho appreso dalla storia ma da quello che ho visto io stesso dell’India, fisicamente con i miei occhi; e io ho viaggiato da una parte all’altra dell’India, ho visto i villaggi, i miserabili esemplari dell’umanità, gli occhi senza vita, eppure sono l’India, e ciononostante in quelle umili case, nel mezzo dei mucchi di letame troviamo gli umili Bhangis, dove troverete un concentrato di saggezza. Come? Questa è una grande domanda.Bene, allora voglio illustrarvi un altro scenario. Di nuovo, ho imparato dai libri, libri scritti da storici inglesi, tradotti per me. Tutta questa ricca conoscenza, mi spiace dire, arriva qui da noi in India attraverso i libri inglesi, attraverso gli storici inglesi, non che non ci siano storici indiani ma neanche loro scrivono nella loro madrelingua, o nella loro lingua nazionale, Hindustani, o se preferite chiamarli due idiomi, Hindi e Urdu, due forme della stessa lingua. No, ci riferiscono quello che hanno studiato sui libri inglesi, magari gli originali, ma attraverso gli inglesi in inglese, questa è la conquista culturale dell’India, che l’India ha subito.Ma ci dicono che la saggezza è arrivata dall’Occidente verso l’Oriente. E chi erano questi saggi? Zoroastro. Lui apparteneva all’Oriente. Fu seguito dal Buddha. Lui apparteneva all’Oriente, apparteneva all’India. Chi ha seguito il Buddha? Gesù, di nuovo dall’Asia. Prima di Gesù ci fu Musa, Mosè, che apparteneva anche lui alla Palestina, ma verificavo con Badshah Khan e Yunus Saheb ed entrambi sostenevano che Mosè appartenesse alla Palestina, sebbene fosse nato in Egitto. Poi venne Gesù, poi Mohammad. Tutti loro li tralascio. Tralascio Krishna, tralascio Mahavir, tralascio le altre luci, non le chiamerò luci minori, ma sconosciute in Occidente, sconosciute al mondo letterario.In ogni modo, non conosco una singola persona che possa uguagliare questi uomini d’Asia. E poi cosa accadde? Il Cristianesimo, arrivando in Occidente, si è trasfigurato. Mi spiace dire questo, ma questa è la mia lettura. Non dirò altro al riguardo. Vi racconto questa storia per incoraggiarvi e per farvi capire, se il mio povero discorso può farvi capire, che lo splendore che vedete e tutto quello che vi mostrano le città indiane non è la vera India. Certamente, il massacro che avviene sotto i vostri occhi, mi dispiace, vergognoso come dicevo ieri, dovete seppellirlo qui. Il ricordo di questo massacro non deve oltrepassare i confini dell’India, ma quello che voglio voi capiate, se potete, è che il messaggio dell’Oriente, dell’Asia, non deve essere appreso attraverso la lente occidentale, o imitando gli orpelli, la polvere da sparo, la bomba atomica dell’Occidente.Se volete dare di nuovo un messaggio all’Occidente, deve essere un messaggio di “Amore”, un messaggio di “Verità”.Ci deve essere una conquista (applausi) per favore, per favore, per favore. Questo interferisce con il mio discorso, e interferisce anche con la vostra comprensione. Voglio catturare i vostri cuori, e non voglio ricevere i vostri applausi. Fate battere i vostri cuori all’unisono con le mie parole, e io credo che il mio lavoro sarà compiuto.Voglio lasciarvi con il pensiero che l’Asia debba conquistare l’Occidente. Poi, la domanda che mi ha fatto un mio amico ieri: “Se credevo in un mondo unico?”. Certo, credo in un mondo unico. Come posso fare diversamente, quando divento erede di un messaggio di amore che questi grandi, inconquistabili maestri ci hanno lasciato? Potete esprimere questo messaggio di nuovo ora, in questa era di democrazia, nell’era del risveglio dei più poveri dei poveri, potete esprimere questo messaggio con maggiore enfasi. Poi completerete la conquista di tutto l’Occidente, non attraverso la vendetta perché siete stati sfruttati, e nello sfruttamento voglio ovviamente includere l’Africa, e spero che quando vi reincontrerete in India la prossima volta ci sarete tutti: spero che voi, nazioni sfruttate della terra, vi incontrerete, se a quell’epoca ci saranno ancora nazioni sfruttate.Ho forte fiducia che se unite i vostri cuori, non solo le vostre menti, e capite il segreto dei messaggi che i saggi uomini d’Oriente ci hanno lasciato, e che se veramente diventiamo, meritiamo e siamo degni di questo grande messaggio, allora capirete facilmente che la conquista dell’Occidente sarà stata completata e che questa conquista sarà amata anche dall’Occidente stesso.L’Occidente di oggi desidera la saggezza. L’Occidente di oggi è disperato per la proliferazione della bomba atomica, perché significa una completa distruzione, non solo dell’Occidente, ma la distruzione del mondo, come se la profezia della Bibbia si avverasse e ci fosse un vero e proprio diluvio universale. Voglia il cielo che non ci sia quel diluvio, e non a causa degli errori degli umani contro se stessi. Sta a voi consegnare il messaggio al mondo, non solo all’Asia, e liberare il mondo dalla malvagità, da quel peccato.Questa è la preziosa eredità che i vostri maestri, i miei maestri, ci hanno lasciato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;M. K. 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sky)'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8691323459785720155</id><published>2008-07-03T04:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-03T05:09:32.142-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='restaurant'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buns and gun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hizbollah'/><title type='text'>Disgustorama: Buns and gun in Beirut</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SGzAT8xwbNI/AAAAAAAAA1s/EuURT_fmntQ/s1600-h/bunsandgun.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218757517180431570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SGzAT8xwbNI/AAAAAAAAA1s/EuURT_fmntQ/s320/bunsandgun.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ma si può??&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Buns and Guns", Panini &amp;amp; Pistole, il nuovo ristorante aperto nella zona sud di Beirut, in un quartiere dominato da Hezbollah: si mangia "protetti" da sacchi di sabbia, come in trincea, al suono delle esplosioni; nel menù, a forma di proiettile, si può scegliere il "Pasto del terrorista", il sandwich "Kalashnikov", la "Granata-missile" (che altro non è che un pollo alla griglia); i cuochi cucinano in divisa militare e il sarcastico slogan dice: "Un panino ti può uccidere". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bet 1000$ on how many gentle leb girls will frequent this place...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" 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type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0TkVBhfhetw&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0TkVBhfhetw&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-3878149600176606411?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/3878149600176606411/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=3878149600176606411' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3878149600176606411'/><link rel='self' 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Dickinson: Let's play those - never come!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDrFEEdLPMI/AAAAAAAAA1c/esGjhrPmB74/s1600-h/DSCN3615s.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204688993086291138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDrFEEdLPMI/AAAAAAAAA1c/esGjhrPmB74/s320/DSCN3615s.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;J188 (1860) / F239 (1861) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Make me a picture of the sun -&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;So I can hang it in my room.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;And make believe I'm getting warm &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;When others call it "Day"!&lt;br /&gt;Draw me a Robin - on a stem -&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;So I am hearing him, I'll dream,And when the Orchards stop their tune -&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Put my pretense - away -&lt;br /&gt;Say if it's really - warm at noon -&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Whether it's Buttercups - that "skim" -&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Or Butterflies - that "bloom"?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Then - skip - the frost - upon the lea -&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;And skip the Russet - on the tree -&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Let's play those - never come!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;Fammi un quadro del sole -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;Così potrò appenderlo nella mia stanza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;E far finta di scaldarmi Quando gli altri lo chiamano "Giorno"!&lt;br /&gt;Disegnami un Pettirosso - su un ramo -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;Così ascoltandolo, sognerò,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;E quando i Frutteti cesseranno il canto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;Metterò la mia finzione - via -&lt;br /&gt;Dimmi se è davvero - caldo a mezzogiorno -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;Se Ranuncoli - che "svolazzano" -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;O Farfalle - che "fioriscono"?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;Poi - salta - il gelo - sul prato -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;E salta il Rossiccio - sull'albero -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;Facciamo finta che - non arrivino mai!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8959626745780753193?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8959626745780753193/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8959626745780753193' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8959626745780753193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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term='italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trablus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suleiman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='speech'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frattini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='president election'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unifil'/><title type='text'>The Speech - Italy will stay</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDmwXEdLPLI/AAAAAAAAA1U/GSY43sebSA4/s1600-h/suleimanDSC00256.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204384754782911666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDmwXEdLPLI/AAAAAAAAA1U/GSY43sebSA4/s320/suleimanDSC00256.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Premise: from our lebanese friends in Trablus&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;Today, Liban, all of Liban is celebrating the new president. The amount of joy, happiness and hope in the country is unbelievable, and let me add, illogical. But it seems the Lebanese are simply "fed up" of the whole political struggle, and they are willing to "turn a blind eye" and just hold on to any hope.But today is not a day to analyze what is going to happen, or how things are to progress. The country has been without a president for over 6 months now, and just couple of weeks ago, the whole country was about to vanish. So we SHOULD celebrate the back to normalcy, at least for the time being. As Imrou El-Kays put it AGES ago: "Elyawm khamr, w ghadan amr" "Today we drink, tomorrow we act"......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;«Il Paese inizia a risvegliarsi dalla distruzione, chiedo a tutti voi, forze politiche e cittadini, di iniziare una nuova fase, un progetto nazionale con mentalità civilizzatrice» ha detto. Accolto da un'ovazione e affiancato dal presidente del Parlamento Nabih Berri e dall’emiro del Qatar, arbitro dell’intesa di Doha che ha permesso di sbloccare la crisi, Suleiman ha sottolineato la necessità di «dare potere alle istituzioni» e di «&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;dimenticare gli interessi di parte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;» in nome dell’unità nazionale. Rivolgendosi a Hezbollah ha osservato come «l'emergere della resistenza» fosse «necessario perché lo Stato andava disintegrandosi»: non solo, ma «le Sheba Farms sono ancora sotto occupazione israeliana, l’occupazione continua e possiamo ancora beneficiare dalla resistenza»; ma, ha avvertito l'ex generale, «non si può sprecare la forza della resistenza nelle lotte interne». Insomma, un riconoscimento dello status di Hezbollah come forza militare in chiave anti-israeliana, ma non come strumento di lotta politica interna; Suleiman ha infine lanciato un avvertimento a Siria e Iran: «Non possiamo permettere che qualcuno utilizzi la santa causa palestinese per i propri fini». Infine il neopresidente ha chiesto di stabilire relazioni diplomatiche con la Siria, sulla base del «rispetto reciproco della sovranità e dei confini di ciascun Paese».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ITALY WILL KEEP ON PLAYING ITS ROLE &lt;/strong&gt;- Il ministro Franco Frattini ha espresso l'auspicio di una stabilizzazione della situazione e ha assicurato l'appoggio italiano al consolidamento della democrazia libanese. «L'elezione di Suleiman è la giusta via verso il consolidamento della situazione» ha detto il responsabile della Farnesina, aggiungendo che «&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;l'Italia continuerà a svolgere il suo ruolo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;» anche attraverso il contingente schierato nell'ambito della missione Unifil. «Con i ministri di Hezbollah che saranno nel governo legittimo si può parlare - ha sottolineato Frattini -. Non con le milizie, almeno per quanto riguarda la diplomazia. Poi ovviamente gli arrangiamenti militari sul terreno sono diversi». Oltre a Frattini e Solana, c'erano i ministri degli Esteri di Spagna, Vaticano, Arabia Saudita, Barhein, Egitto, Emirati arabi uniti, Giordania, Iraq, Iran, Marocco, Oman, Siria, Tunisia; il primo ministro della Turchia Tayyp Erdogan, l'emiro del Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, il segretario della Lega araba Amr Mussa, una delegazione del Congresso americano e una rappresentanza svizzera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE ELECTION&lt;/strong&gt; - Al termine dello spoglio lo speaker del parlamento, lo sciita Nabih Berri, ha proclamato la vittoria di Suleiman. Il generale è stato eletto con 118 voti a favore, sei astenuti e tre a favore di altre personalità politiche, fra cui Rafik Hariri, l'ex premier assassinato in un attentato. Prima del voto quattro deputati hanno preso la parola per esprimere il loro sostegno a Suleiman, pur contestando la procedura per la sua elezione. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;Un emendamento dell'articolo 49 della Costituzione proibisce infatti di eleggere presidente un funzionario pubblico prima che siano passati due anni dalla fine delle sue funzioni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Tuttavia lo speaker del Parlamento ha deciso lo stesso di procedere al voto, senza emendare la Costituzione, per risparmiare al Paese un'altra lunga attesa. L'elezione, che mette fine a 18 mesi di stallo e crisi politica che hanno portato il Paese sull'orlo di una nuova guerra civile, è stata trasmessa in diretta dalla tv privata Lbc. &lt;/div&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/5270638195136787905-4131864005767235012?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/4131864005767235012/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=4131864005767235012' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4131864005767235012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4131864005767235012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/speech-italy-will-stay.html' title='The Speech - Italy will stay'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDmwXEdLPLI/AAAAAAAAA1U/GSY43sebSA4/s72-c/suleimanDSC00256.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-7027443998298375270</id><published>2008-05-25T10:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-25T10:36:30.238-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suleiman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='president election'/><title type='text'>Suleiman, the one they already choosed... so why he's President just now?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDmjfUdLPKI/AAAAAAAAA1M/pqCobymg4Kg/s1600-h/suleiman-official.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204370602865671330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDmjfUdLPKI/AAAAAAAAA1M/pqCobymg4Kg/s400/suleiman-official.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;But ... did we reserve so many fallen since &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html"&gt;November&lt;/a&gt; when it was clear he would have been the 12th President of Lebanese People?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michel Suleiman sarà il dodicesimo presidente dall'indipendenza nel 1943, e il terzo dopo la fine della guerra civile nel 1990. Sarà anche il terzo militare ad assumere la carica dopo Fouad Chebab negli anni Sessanta, ed Emile Lahoud, il cui mandato è scaduto il 23 novembre scorso. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Suleiman Elected PresidentMichel Suleiman was sworn as Lebanon's president Sunday after parliament elected him in long-delayed vote that was a key step toward restoring political stability.Celebratory gunfire and occasional explosions reverberated across the capital Beirut as news of Suleiman's election was announced.In the general's hometown of Aamchit on the Mediterranean coast north of Beirut, hundreds of people broke out in cheers and dancing in the main square as they watched the vote on a giant screen.The opposition and government agreed last week to elect Suleiman as part of their deal to end an 18-month political crisis. The stalemate erupted into violence earlier this month, bringing the country to the brink of another civil war.The Arab-mediated deal reached in Doha, Qatar was a major victory for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and its allies, who got their long-standing demand for veto power over all government decisions."I congratulate Michel Suleiman on his election as president of Lebanon," President George W. Bush said in a statement. "I am confident that Lebanon has chosen a leader committed to protecting its sovereignty, extending the government's authority over all of Lebanon, and upholding Lebanon's international obligations under U.N. Security Council Resolutions," Bush said."I am hopeful that the Doha Agreement, which paved the way for this election, will usher in an era of political reconciliation to the benefit of all Lebanese," the statement added.The presidential vote had been postponed 19 times since November when the last president, Emile Lahoud, left office.Suleiman, a compromise candidate, ran unopposed. He won 118 votes of the 127 living members of the legislature, according to parliament speaker Nabih Berri.There were six blank ballots. Two legislators voted for one-time presidential hopefuls and one was in the name "Rafik Hariri and the martyred legislators" -- a reference to the slain former prime minister and five other lawmakers killed in bombings in the last three years.After the vote, Berri was to swear in the new president.As the session got under way, four lawmakers objected to the vote, saying the constitution must be first amended to allow a sitting army chief to run for the post. But Berri rejected their requests.Lebanon's constitution bans serving top government officials, including army commanders, from becoming president.Parliament should have to amend the constitution but experts said this time around are an exception because the president's post is vacant.The voting in secret ballot got under way shortly after the objections were raised. A roll call of legislators present was read aloud and each deposited a ballot in the box.Before the session convened, hundreds of policemen and army troops sealed off the downtown area where parliament met. Lebanese flags and pictures of Suleiman adorned the streets.Foreign dignitaries including Arab and European foreign ministers were in attendance at the vote.Representatives from both sides of the Middle East's Sunni-Shiite divide came: the foreign ministers of Syria and Iran, which support Hezbollah, and Saudi Arabia, a strong backer of the government.Other dignitaries on hand were French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana. The emir of Qatar also was expected to attend. A U.S. delegation of six congressmen, three of them of Lebanese descent, was also among arrivals.Iranian Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki told reporters at Beirut airport he was carrying with him a "sea of support" for Lebanon.Kouchner, in a veiled comment aimed at Hizbullah, said he had hoped the solution would come in a more "democratic" way. "But this is Lebanon," he added. Kouchner had for months tried to mediate between feuding Lebanese politicians to no avail.On the eve of the election, there was anticipation and excitement across Lebanon.The Lebanese flag -- red and white with a cedar tree in its middle -- adorned almost every street and wall in parts of the country. Slogans welcoming the president-to-be, along with his pictures, stretched across highways leading to the capital.The agreement reached Wednesday in Qatar ended a standoff that had paralyzed Lebanon's government before boiling over into the worst violence since the 1975-1990 civil war. It left at least 67 dead and 200 wounded.Over the past two days, life has returned to Beirut's upscale downtown -- a symbol of the city's rebirth after it was devastated and rebuilt after the 15-year civil war. The area had turned into a virtual ghost town by a Hezbollah-led sit-in for the past 17 months.Already it appears that the economy, battered by violence and uncertainty, is on the upswing. The stock market is up and, according to tourism officials, 750,000 Lebanese expatriates have booked summer vacations in Lebanon.The army general bid farewell to fellow officers Saturday, and was expected to take off this uniform in a symbolic break with the military just after he is elected president.Suleiman's has pledged to strengthen "reconciliation and understanding" among rival factions."Lebanon is a country that deserves much from us. The Lebanese are a people who enjoy life. They have always proved that they are stronger than crises and pitfalls to which they have been subjected and for which they have paid blood, tears and sacrifices,".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-7027443998298375270?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/7027443998298375270/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=7027443998298375270' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7027443998298375270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7027443998298375270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/suleiman-one-they-already-choosed-so.html' title='Suleiman, the one they already choosed... so why he&apos;s President just now?'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDmjfUdLPKI/AAAAAAAAA1M/pqCobymg4Kg/s72-c/suleiman-official.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8225122527169006596</id><published>2008-05-21T06:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-21T06:53:39.638-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peace'/><title type='text'>A pink blue sky</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDQo_tTPItI/AAAAAAAAA1E/dS0t2LK1eEY/s1600-h/pinkbluesky.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202828544476914386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDQo_tTPItI/AAAAAAAAA1E/dS0t2LK1eEY/s400/pinkbluesky.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E' pace. It's time to make peace.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ecco i termini dell'accordo:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;- L'accampamento dell'opposizione verrà smantellato&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;- Downtown Beirut riaperto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;- L'attuale governo darà le dimissioni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;- Il nuovo Presidente (Suleiman, ndr) verrà eletto entro domenica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;- Verrà formato un governo di unità nazionale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;- L'opposizione avrà potere di veto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;- La legge elettorale del 1960 tornerà in vigore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;BBC News:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Western-backed ruling majority to get 16 cabinet seats and choose prime minister Syrian-backed opposition to get 11 cabinet seats and veto power. Three cabinet seats to be nominated by president. The use of weapons in internal conflicts is to be banned. Opposition protest camps in central Beirut are to be removed. New law to divide country into smaller electoral districts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffff33;"&gt;By tomorrow morning, you'll be able to drive up from Starco to Falafel Sahyoun for a quick sandweesh in less than 5 minutes. (yes, yes, the world does revolve around my appetite)CAUTION: If you haven't booked your flight yet, then BOOK it NOW - I can assure you, even guarantee, that all planes will be overbooked.See you in Lebanon, for Summer 2008!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8225122527169006596?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8225122527169006596/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8225122527169006596' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8225122527169006596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8225122527169006596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/pink-blue-sky.html' title='A pink blue sky'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SDQo_tTPItI/AAAAAAAAA1E/dS0t2LK1eEY/s72-c/pinkbluesky.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-3568395194373851044</id><published>2008-05-21T06:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-21T06:41:26.658-07:00</updated><title type='text'>One Suleiman in Lebanon ...</title><content type='html'>Got!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BEIRUT - I leader politici libanesi riuniti a Doha hanno raggiunto un accordo per mettere fine alla crisi politico-istituzionale. Il &lt;strong&gt;premier del Qatar Hamed bin Jassim al Thani&lt;/strong&gt; ha dato la notizia precisando che "entro 24 ore" il comandante dell'esercito libanese &lt;strong&gt;Michel Suleiman&lt;/strong&gt; sarà eletto presidente della Repubblica. L'intesa arriva al termine di cinque giorni di trattative fra le parti. Il dialogo a Doha, in Qatar, è stato condotto sotto gli auspici della Lega Araba. A quanto riferisce il sito del quotidiano libanese &lt;strong&gt;Naharnet&lt;/strong&gt;, l'accordo prevede, oltre all'elezione immediata del presidente, la formazione di un governo con 16 esponenti della maggioranza, 11 dell'opposizione e tre scelti dal presidente. Inoltre si sarebbe deciso di adottare per una sola volta la legge elettorale del 1960, che divide Beirut in tre circoscrizioni. La crisi libanese era iniziata nel novembre 2006 con l'uscita dei ministri sciiti dal governo. Lo scontro fra la maggioranza antisiriana e l'opposizione legata a Damasco si era ulteriormente acuito sulla scelta del presidente e il Libano è senza capo di Stato dal 24 novembre 2007 quando è scaduto il mandato del filosiriano Emile Lahoud. Successivamente è stata trovata un'intesa sul nome di Suleiman, ma le parti rimanevano divise sulla formazione del governo e la legge elettorale.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-3568395194373851044?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/3568395194373851044/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=3568395194373851044' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3568395194373851044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3568395194373851044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/one-suleiman-in-lebanon.html' title='One Suleiman in Lebanon ...'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-9027662771152470842</id><published>2008-05-15T00:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-15T00:46:40.726-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='we are england'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wembley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='we are lebanon'/><title type='text'>WE ARE LEBANON</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;When i was at Wembley stadium last April for a 3 days of conferences event, i was amazed by this poster, surrounding the entry of players before the field:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200507441070940850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCvp9tTPIrI/AAAAAAAAA00/_3yzVfg0Riw/s320/DSCN3831.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;So that, i want to reply with this one:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200507604279698114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="378" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCvqHNTPIsI/AAAAAAAAA08/nvo4zWfOcdQ/s400/weare.gif" width="423" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&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/5270638195136787905-9027662771152470842?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/9027662771152470842/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=9027662771152470842' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/9027662771152470842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/9027662771152470842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/we-are-lebanon.html' title='WE ARE LEBANON'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCvp9tTPIrI/AAAAAAAAA00/_3yzVfg0Riw/s72-c/DSCN3831.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2212995192409045893</id><published>2008-05-14T08:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-14T08:26:51.738-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='par condicio'/><title type='text'>Par condicio about Hezbollah</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCsEtNTPIqI/AAAAAAAAA0s/5I13QPNfNfQ/s1600-h/bilancia.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200255369440338594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCsEtNTPIqI/AAAAAAAAA0s/5I13QPNfNfQ/s200/bilancia.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dopo l'intervista di chi parla dei recenti eventi in Libano come di una "vittoria del Partito di dio", pubblico per par condicio un articolo di chi pensa esattamente il contrario...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;- - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il suicidio di Hezbollah - E. Calabrese&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.peacereporter.net/dettaglio_articolo.php?idc=0&amp;amp;idart=11044"&gt;http://www.peacereporter.net/dettaglio_articolo.php?idc=0&amp;amp;idart=11044&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dopo la battaglia a Beirut Hezbollah sembra aver perso il sostegno del popolo libanese&lt;br /&gt;L’ascesa al potere di Hezbollah, il partito di Dio, rappresenta senza dubbio uno degli sviluppi più notevoli nella recente storia mediorientale. Hezbollah non è una semplice organizzazione terrorista, né sparirà presto, gli Usa e Israele in questo hanno torto. A seguito della guerra del luglio 2006 tra Israele e Hezbollah, il partito di Dio- che racchiude in sé la funzione di una milizia (circa diecimila guerriglieri), un servizio sociale (spende circa un miliardo di dollari all’anno) e fornitore di lavori pubblici (il partito di Dio paga 70 mila salari) e un partito politico - , non è mai stato così popolare in Medioriente riaffermando anche il suo sostegno in Libano. Una delle chiavi di successo di Hezbollah risiede in effetti nella sua capacità di integrare nella cultura politica i differenti strati della sua storia, facendo valere, secondo le pressioni esterne, una o l’altra componente della sua identità, senza mai rinunciare definitivamente a una di esse.&lt;br /&gt;Negli ultimi 15 anni Hezbollah è passato da un gruppo pro-iraniano (o di esportazione iraniana per alcuni) che rifiutava di partecipare alle elezioni libanesi, perché ne criticava la corruzione, a un partito con un talento politico tale da poter vincere le elezioni, le prime quelle del 1992. Non è stata certamente una sorpresa vedere in questi ultimi giorni il partito di Dio “vincere” e sopraffare tutti, non solo a causa delle sue armi ma anche a causa di quell’ideologia di resistenza che il partito ha saputo costruire e strumentalizzare sin dalle sue origini. La sorpresa di questi scontri è stata un’altra, quella di vedere cioè il partito di Dio, per la prima volta sotto la guida di Hasan Nasrallah(1992) usare le proprie armi in Libano: a Beirut per “liberare la comunità sunnita dalla famiglia Hariri” , attaccando i media e le istituzioni del partito e nello Chouf per contrastare il feudo di Walid Jumblatt. In quanto incarnazione della Resistenza (non laica ma islamica e piazzata sotto la guida di Khomeini) contro Israele, Hezbollah sembra aver perso il sostegno del popolo libanese quel sostegno che si era guadagnato con le due vittorie contro il “nemico” , la prima nell’anno 2000 quando Israele si ritirò dal Libano Sud e la seconda durante il conflitto del 2006 contro Israele. “Usare le armi nella capitale è un atto di suicidio”, ha dichiarato al-Tufaily, rivale politico di Hezbollah. Fonti vicine al partito di Dio fanno fatto sapere che Hezbollah sta cercando una mediazione politica per uscire “con onore” da questa situazione” perché “si è reso conto di aver troppo alzato la mano”.&lt;br /&gt;La maggioranza dal canto suo ha dichiarato che “Hezbollah ha commesso un peccato capitale nell’attaccare Beirut”.&lt;br /&gt;Il generala maronita Michel Aoun che sembra essere stato marginalizzato dall’opposizione, ha parlato di una vittoria politica: “Siamo in una battaglia, abbiamo vinto”. E poi ha aggiunto per rassicurare i “suoi cristiani” : “Non preoccupatevi perché solo le area di Beirut est sono agitate“, si legge sul giornale An-Nahar. La stampa libanese riferisce fino ad ora di &lt;strong&gt;81 morti e 200 feriti&lt;/strong&gt;. Ma non è finita perché ora comincerà la vendetta dei partiti. Le famiglie delle vittime del massacro di Halba (avvenuto sabato scorso ad Halba, nord del Libano provocando 11 morti) hanno rifiutato di seppellire i loro figli fino a quando non si sarà fatta vendetta. Quindici anni di guerra sono stati bruciati.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&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/5270638195136787905-2212995192409045893?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/2212995192409045893/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=2212995192409045893' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2212995192409045893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2212995192409045893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/par-condicio-about-hezbollah.html' title='Par condicio about Hezbollah'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCsEtNTPIqI/AAAAAAAAA0s/5I13QPNfNfQ/s72-c/bilancia.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2783938393419514953</id><published>2008-05-12T05:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T05:29:22.887-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nasrallah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut burning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hizbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HA'/><title type='text'>La Terza Guerra Civile Libanese</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCg4G9TPIpI/AAAAAAAAA0k/4HxvQ8FjJ1Q/s1600-h/lebanonburning.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199467461984854674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCg4G9TPIpI/AAAAAAAAA0k/4HxvQ8FjJ1Q/s320/lebanonburning.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lebanon’s Third Civil War&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael J. Totten&lt;/strong&gt; - 05.10.2008 - 9:22 AM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The third civil war has begun in Lebanon.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;first&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; war was a short one. Sunni Arab Nationalists in thrall to Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser wanted to attach Lebanon to the United Arab Republic – a brief union of Egypt and Syria. An even larger bloc of Maronite Christians resisted. A nation cannot hold itself together when a large percentage of its population – roughly a third – wish to be annexed by foreign powers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;second&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; war was a long one. This time, Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organization formed a state-within-a-state in West Beirut and South Lebanon and used it as a launching pad for terrorist attacks against Israel. Again, Lebanon’s Christians resisted, as did Lebanon’s Shias. The second civil war was actually a series of wars that were merely triggered by that first fatal schism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The third civil war resembles both the first and the second. With Iranian money and weapons, Hezbollah has built its own state-within-a-state in South Lebanon and South Beirut which is used as a base to wage war against Israel. Hezbollah also wishes to violently yank Lebanon from its current pro-Western alignment into the Syrian-Iranian axis. Roughly one-fourth of the population supports this agenda. No country on earth can withstand that kind of geopolitical tectonic pressure. For more than a year members of Hezbollah have tried unsuccessfully to topple the elected government with a minimal use of force, but their patience is at an end and they have turned to war. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My old liberal Sunni neighborhood of Hamra near the American University of Beirut – the best in the Middle East – is now occupied by the private army of a foreign police state. Masked gunmen take up positions in a neighborhood of five star hotels, restaurants, and cafes (including a Starbucks) where students like to hang out while reading books by authors like Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. They burned down Prime Minister Fouad Seniora’s Future Movement headquarters building. They stormed the offices of TV and radio stations and threatened to dynamite the buildings if the reporters refused to stop broadcasting. They seized the property of Saad Hariri – son of the assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri – and they control all the exits. Member of Parliament Ammar Houry’s house is now occupied. Al Arabiya says they attacked the Ottoman-era Grand Serail, the current prime minister’s office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hezbollah used automatic weapons, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, and sniper rifles to seize all, if not most, of West Beirut. The only weapons its gunmen haven’t deployed are its Katyusha rockets, which are useless in urban warfare, and car bombs, which aren’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Hezbollah is not mounting a coup,” Charles Malik writes from Beirut at the Lebanese Political Journal. “They do not want to control ALL of Lebanon. They have no interest in controlling state institutions.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is mostly right. As long as Hezbollah gets what it wants, taking over all of Lebanon is unnecessary, as well as most likely impossible. But this is still a coup d’etat of a sort. What happened is, literally, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;a blow against the state&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Until this week, Hezbollah existed both inside and beside the state. Hezbollah now exists above the state, the parliament, the police, and the army. No member of Hezbollah will be arrested or prosecuted as they would in a normal and properly sovereign country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The army is too weak and divided along sectarian lines to protect Lebanon from internal or external threats. It was sabotaged for more than a decade during Syria’s military occupation and was staffed at the highest levels with Damascus loyalists who have yet to be purged. It is a make-believe army at best, and a part-time tool of the Syrian state at its worst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The erstwhile prevailing mentality of fragile coexistence and anti-war has all but evaporated. The restrained rhetoric Lebanese people are accustomed to hearing from their leaders is gone. “We are in war and they wouldn’t be able to predict our reaction,” Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said. “Hezbollah has gained control over Beirut,” said Member of Parliament Ahmad Fatfat, “and has caused a Sunni-Shia conflict that will be extended for years.” “If no compromise is reached, we will be facing a long internal war,” said Suleiman Franjieh, Jr., a former member of parliament and leader of the small Marada militia in North Lebanon aligned with Hezbollah and the Syrians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lebanon is a country based on consensus between its more or less demographically balanced Christians, Sunnis, and Shias, and its smaller population of Druze.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; No sect is allowed by law or social contract to rule over the others. The system, when it works, provides checks and balances. Hezbollah has overthrown all of it. And when the system is overthrown, as it has been in the past, Lebanese have demonstrated that they can and will fight as viciously as Iraqi militias in Baghdad. Lebanon has no shortage of people from every sect and most political movements who will fight dirty urban warfare with little regard for unarmed civilian noncombatants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though Hezbollah still occupies West Beirut, the city is reportedly calm at the moment – but don’t expect that to last long. Hezbollah is a Shia army in league with the Islamic Republic of Iran, while West Beirut is mostly made up of hostile Sunnis aligned with Saudi Arabia, France, and the United States. Lebanese blogger Mustafa at Beirut Spring put it plainly: “Expect the fight for Beirut to begin in earnest later with the distinct trademark of an occupied population: Hit and run.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even if Hezbollah does withdraw and real calm prevails in the near term, Lebanon has crossed a threshold from which there likely will be no recovery. Quiet may resume, but it will be the quiet of cold war rather than peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hezbollah has always said its weapons were pointed only at Israel, though many knew better. Hezbollah even brags (although it’s not true) that they did not turn their weapons against Lebanese during the last civil war. Both of these lies have now been exposed before the whole world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There may be lulls in the violence, but there will be no real peace in Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed or destroyed. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-2783938393419514953?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/2783938393419514953/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=2783938393419514953' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2783938393419514953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2783938393419514953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/la-terza-guerra-civile-libanese.html' title='La Terza Guerra Civile Libanese'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCg4G9TPIpI/AAAAAAAAA0k/4HxvQ8FjJ1Q/s72-c/lebanonburning.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-6023059534111555565</id><published>2008-05-12T02:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T02:29:12.606-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='papa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><title type='text'>E se lo dice il Papa....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2008/05/sezioni/esteri/libano-5/appello-papa/appello-papa.html"&gt;http://www.repubblica.it/2008/05/sezioni/esteri/libano-5/appello-papa/appello-papa.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;BUONA CAMICIA  A TUTTI !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;&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/5270638195136787905-6023059534111555565?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/6023059534111555565/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=6023059534111555565' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6023059534111555565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6023059534111555565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/e-se-lo-dice-il-papa.html' title='E se lo dice il Papa....'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8577660080735658625</id><published>2008-05-10T11:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-10T11:18:46.956-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Parliamoci chiaro...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCXm8CsRBQI/AAAAAAAAA0c/-0ORns9OSgM/s1600-h/mmxmastree.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198815264058180866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCXm8CsRBQI/AAAAAAAAA0c/-0ORns9OSgM/s400/mmxmastree.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Beirut, maggio - &lt;strong&gt;Hassan Hamadeh&lt;/strong&gt;, analista politico libanese, ha spiegato ad &lt;strong&gt;Arabmonitor&lt;/strong&gt; ciò che è avvenuto nelle ultime ore in Libano con l'apparente disfatta delle milizie vicine alla maggioranza parlamentare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Come insegna la storia, il popolo che ha fame va a divorare i propri governanti. Dopo le scelte del governo Siniora, che tengo a precisare è stato esecutivo golpista che ha esercitato il potere in violazione della legge sin dall'autunno 2006, di sfidare Hezbollah, il leader di Hezbollah ha tenuto un discorso molto duro, molto libanese per denunciare questo sindacato del crimine organizzato al potere nel Paese. Qui siamo di fronte a una situazione semplice: da una parte c'è una linea saudita, dall'altra una libanese orgogliosamente sovrana. Lo scontro è avvenuto tra queste due correnti di pensiero e la reazione dell'opposizione è stata molto rapida ed efficace. Le milizie filosaudite sono state eliminate".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ma Saad Hariri ha cercato tutto sommato di trovare una soluzione di compromesso quando ha parlato di malinteso tra governo Siniora e opposizione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Saad Hariri ha tenuto un discorso televisivo pieno di allusioni e minacce a una possibile guerra settaria tra sunniti e sciiti, dicendo: o fate in un certo modo oppure ci sarà lo scontro. Del resto, il giorno prima lo stesso Mufti sunnita libanese Qabbani ha toccato gli stessi tasti, cercando di aizzare l'odio interconfessionale".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Come valuta la condotta delle forze armate libanesi in questa crisi?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"E' stata molto appropriata. Hanno accompagnato da tutte le parti gli uomini dell'opposizione e hanno assunto il controllo dei locali conquistati e preso in consegna i miliziani di Hariri che sono stati fermati. Violenze, vandalismi sono stati evitati, eppure in molte sedi del movimento al Mustaqbal (di Hariri) sono state trovate armi, lanciarazzi, bottiglie molotov, tutto materiale che con l'attività politica non ha nulla a che vedere".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Perché è avvenuta la forzata chiusura dell'emittente tv Future di Hariri?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Come membro del Consiglio dell'audiovisivo libanese posso testimoniare personalmente che quell'emittente non ha avuto alcun rispetto per le leggi libanesi in materia ed è stata una tribuna per propagare l'odio interconfessionale".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ma alle operazioni militari da parte dell'opposizione hanno partecipato quali forze?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Essenzialmente quelle di Hezbollah e una piccola parte di Amal. Le altre forze, da quelle maronite, alle druse, a quelle sunnite schierate con l'opposizione, hanno sorvegliato la propria area, affinché miliziani armati della maggioranza parlamentare non potessero raggiungere Beirut. Hanno monitorato il proprio territorio".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E i vertici della Chiesa maronita come hanno reagito agli avvenimenti?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Il patriarca Sfeir, che deve avere delle antenne particolarmente sensibili, anche questa volta è partito prima della tempesta, diretto nel Qatar e negli Stati Uniti. Mi sembra quattro giorni fa. In aeroporto ha avuto ancora la poco felice idea di dichiarare che la crisi libanese va internazionalizzata. Vorrebbe trasformare il Libano in un'altra Serbia".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cosa succederà adesso?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"La maggioranza schiacciante del Paese è schierata con le forze dell'opposizione. Dovrà essere formato un nuovo governo e dovranno essere regolate le questioni della nuova legge elettorale, del governo di unità nazionale e dell'elezione del presidente della Repubblica".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quindi anche le decisioni del governo Siniora di dichiarare illegale il sistema telefonico di Hezbollah e la sostituzione del capo della sicurezza all'aeroporto dovranno essere revocate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Non devono essere revocate. Sono da considerare non avvenute visto che il governo è fuori dalla legge".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ma sarà necessario formare un governo di emergenza?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Penso di sì".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affidato a chi?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Per esempio a Selim al Hoss (ex premier sunnita)".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E le istituzioni internazionali come reagiranno?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ci saranno le solite condanne, che siano le Nazioni Unite o la Lega araba. I fatti sul terreno sono un'altra cosa. Ci sono dei rapporti di forza in Libano che le istituzioni internazionali non possono modificare".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Che tipo di reazione attende dai governi arabi?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I regimi arabi sono stati irreggimentati come se fossero delle milizie. Non esiste più la diplomazia araba. Esistono gli ordini impartiti dalla Rice a cui buona parte dei regimi si adegua".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E se i governi occidentali cominciassero ad evacuare i propri cittadini dal Libano che conseguenza avrebbe?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sono liberi di farlo, ma nessuno è andato a dare il benché minimo fastidio ai cittadini stranieri presenti in Libano". &lt;/div&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/5270638195136787905-8577660080735658625?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8577660080735658625/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8577660080735658625' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8577660080735658625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8577660080735658625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/parliamoci-chiaro.html' title='Parliamoci chiaro...'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCXm8CsRBQI/AAAAAAAAA0c/-0ORns9OSgM/s72-c/mmxmastree.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-6870366693984989490</id><published>2008-05-10T11:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-10T11:11:49.355-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='siniora'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='halba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tripoli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nabatieh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aley'/><title type='text'>Da Beirut: Hezbollah si ritira e consegna la capitale all'esercita</title><content type='html'>"L'esercito non ha fatto quello che avevo chiesto": dagli schermi della tv il premier libanese &lt;strong&gt;Fuad Siniora&lt;/strong&gt; esce allo scoperto. E attacca l'inerzia delle forze armate. Che si muovono ottenendo l'abbandono delle armi in città da parte di Hezbollah e l'inizio del ritiro dei miliziani dalle zone occidentali di Beirut occupate nei giorni scorsi. Ma il Partito di Dio ottiene come contropartita l'annullamento delle misure che prevedevano lo smantellamento della rete telefonica e la rimozione del direttore dell'aeroporto, ritenuto vicino agli sciiti, decisioni che avevano scatenato nei giorni scorsi la rivolta. Sembra così profilarsi una soluzione alla crisi che da giorni stringe il Libano in una morsa. Con il Paese insanguinato dagli scontri tra miliziani di Hezbollah e sostenitori del governo. Con un pesantissimo bilancio delle vittime: in tre giorni 27 persone hanno perso la vita e altre 86 sono rimaste ferite. In particolare sono almeno sei le vittime che si sono registrate durante un funerale sunnita. Davanti ai lutti Siniora attacca Hezbollah definendo i miliziani sciiti "golpisti". "Non abbiamo dichiarato e non dichiareremo guerra a Hezbollah ma non accettiamo la resa di interi quartieri e l'assassinio di civili innocenti. Non permetteremo il ritorno del potere del terrorismo" continua il premier. Che chiama in causa l'esercito, fino ad ora rimasto inerte: "Ho chiesto al comando di proteggere i libanesi. Cosa che invece ancora non ha fatto. Ora imponga la sicurezza nel paese". La risposta dei militari è tutt'altro che energica ma sembra avere risultati. L'esercito infatti chiede ai miliziani di lasciare le strade della capitale. Cosa che Hezbollah annuncia di voler fare "senza rinunciare alla disobbedienza".&lt;br /&gt;Nel frattempo nuovi combattimenti si registrano ad Aley, 20 chilometri a Est di Beirut, mentre nella notte ci sono state sparatorie a Sidone, a Nabatieh e a Tripoli. E 14 persone sono rimaste uccise negli scontri nella città di Halba, nella regione settentrionale di Akkar. A sostegno del governo libanese sono intervenuti gli Stati Uniti: l'amministrazione Bush, ha riferito un portavoce della Casa Bianca da Crawford, in Texas, "si sta consultando con altri governi nella regione e con il Consiglio di sicurezza dell'Onu per studiare misure affinché quanti sono responsabili delle violenze in Libano ne rispondano". Non sono state indicate le misure allo studio che potrebbero riguardare anche Siria e Iran, gli alleati di Hezbollah che Washington ritiene corresponsabili delle violenze. Una riunione d'emergenza dei ventidue ministri degli Esteri della Lega araba è stata convocata per domani al Cairo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-6870366693984989490?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/6870366693984989490/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=6870366693984989490' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6870366693984989490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6870366693984989490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/da-beirut-hezbollah-si-ritira-e.html' title='Da Beirut: Hezbollah si ritira e consegna la capitale all&apos;esercita'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-1580907202366047341</id><published>2008-05-10T01:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-10T01:57:55.686-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='torino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gemmayze bir hassan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brummana'/><title type='text'>Midnight in Beirut</title><content type='html'>Its midnight. Friday night. Beirut is deserted. East, west, left, right... It's deserted. &lt;strong&gt;Gemmayze&lt;/strong&gt; is empty. &lt;strong&gt;Brummana&lt;/strong&gt; is full. Reminds me of Israel's war in 2006. A light of hope flickers red - Torino's open. The red is soothing - you'll never hear about soothing red in books. I step in to a full house. The usual bartenders, aging but forever young, man the bar. A rosee please - i'm not sure why i drink rosee, perhaps because I'm not much of a drinker. Lots of 'ajehnib' (foreigners) speaking in multitudes of tongues, mostly journalists drinking away their existential ponderings. I look around, a man catches my eye, he tips his hat to me - a picture on an LP. An old friend walks in. He doesn't remember me. In 2006 we exchanged anecdotes of body counts and Israeli brutality - he's a cameraman. Tonight he's cheery, making money covering a different kind of war, perhaps by the look on his face a peaceful war - if there ever were such a thing. Fighting has all but died down in the capital (Beirut). He kisses the blonde next to me - hi keefik ca va? Torino closes its wooden doors. It's going to be a long night.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-1580907202366047341?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/1580907202366047341/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=1580907202366047341' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1580907202366047341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1580907202366047341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/midnight-in-beirut.html' title='Midnight in Beirut'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-1597677962362591936</id><published>2008-05-09T15:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T15:02:41.993-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rashaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bekaa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><title type='text'>In diretta da Beirut (ore 22.44 Lebanon local time)</title><content type='html'>- Most PSP offices are now under the control of the Lebanese Army. Jumblat has ordered the main PSP HQ to be evacuated.&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;West Bekaa &amp;amp; Rashaya&lt;/strong&gt; are now under the control of the opposition.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-1597677962362591936?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/1597677962362591936/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=1597677962362591936' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1597677962362591936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1597677962362591936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/in-diretta-da-beirut-ore-2244-lebanon.html' title='In diretta da Beirut (ore 22.44 Lebanon local time)'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-3168672245798141021</id><published>2008-05-09T11:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T11:42:25.201-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='city mall'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abc'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='civil war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gemmayze bir hassan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aley'/><title type='text'>In diretta da Beirut (ore 20.37 Lebanon local time)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;- Heavy gunfire in &lt;strong&gt;Aley&lt;/strong&gt;. 3 reported dead. Major fighting between Jumblat's PSP militia and Hizballah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;Saida&lt;/strong&gt;, Hariri's hometown, is under the control of the opposition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- LOTS of talk about Saniora resigning tonight. Stay tuned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Reporting from &lt;strong&gt;City Mall&lt;/strong&gt;: Open, but with reduced activity. Most shops were closing at around 8 PM. Lots of traffic in and around cafes (Dunkin Donuts / Moka More), with laptops open refreshing pages for updates.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Reporting from &lt;strong&gt;ABC&lt;/strong&gt;: Only 2 parking levels are open. Not much activity, but around 70% of shops open. Virgin is closed. Most shops were closing down by late afternoon (7 PM). I'm not sure about the theaters though, didn't check. Paul had closed the kitchen at around 6 PM.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Reporting from &lt;strong&gt;Gemmayze&lt;/strong&gt;: It's dead. Paul was closed when I passed (4 PM). Not much activity, but some places are open. Some shops were taking advantage of the lull to clean up (Olio). As usual Torino is open, so if you're in the neighborhood, or want to get out and away from the fekin TV, come down and have a birra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Reporting from &lt;strong&gt;Bir Hassan&lt;/strong&gt;: Roads are open in most Shiite areas. Crossing from Bir Hassan to Hazmieh by car is a non-issue.&lt;/div&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/5270638195136787905-3168672245798141021?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/3168672245798141021/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=3168672245798141021' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3168672245798141021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3168672245798141021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/in-diretta-da-beirut-ore-2037-lebanon.html' title='In diretta da Beirut (ore 20.37 Lebanon local time)'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-4919625429046762607</id><published>2008-05-09T07:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T07:45:01.562-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marina tower'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut burning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='st.georges hotel'/><title type='text'>In diretta da Beirut (ore 17.23 Lebanon local time)</title><content type='html'>- Reporting from Corniche Beirut: The second you cross the green line - just as I made my way past the St. Georges Hotel - you're greeted with heavily armed men with automatic weapons and vests in groups, some on scooters. One large group was gathered near the entrance of La Plage in front of the Intercontinental Vendome. They don't bother you - they don't even stop to ask questions - you can ask them for directions if you'd like - they're polite i think ;)&lt;br /&gt;After a brief stop at McDonald's, I made my way to a shop to buy some chips. M&amp;amp;Ms, Maltesers, Lay's Salted Chips, and a Sohat = 3250 LL (2 USD). As I was paying, a scooter zooms up to the store carrying two armed men. I am not sure if I am meant to feel fear / discomfort. They came in to buy some mouneh. I paid, put my stuff in a bag, and walked out nonchalantly. Got into my car and drove off into the smoke billowing from burning tires under the Marina Tower.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-4919625429046762607?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/4919625429046762607/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=4919625429046762607' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4919625429046762607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4919625429046762607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/in-diretta-da-beirut-ore-1723-lebanon.html' title='In diretta da Beirut (ore 17.23 Lebanon local time)'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8599344426659865826</id><published>2008-05-09T06:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T06:37:27.763-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='downtown'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><title type='text'>In diretta da Beirut (ore 15.53 Lebanon local time)</title><content type='html'>- After a tense standoff, the Lebanese Army has taken over Hariri's Future Movement militia office in Tareek el Jdeedeh.&lt;br /&gt;- Reporting from Downtown Beirut: The Beirut Corniche is a flashpoint. Future TV is now off air.&lt;br /&gt;- Reporting from Downtown Beirut: HEAVY Gunfire can be heard from the direction of Burj El Murr. &lt;strong&gt;If you are attempting to cross into the Hamra avoid the seaside entry points.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Reporting from Downtown Beirut: Gunfire is loud and clear from where I am (near the Porsche dealership). Reports of heavy gunfire in Clemenceau and Hamra (a few minutes from here).&lt;br /&gt;- Reporting from Downtown Beirut: Most of the Western part of Beirut is under the control of the Opposition. Jumblat is in Clemenceau, Hariri is in Koreitem, and Saniora is in the Saray. Passage in and out of different parts of the West of Beirut is very limited, but within the locked down areas - if you've got a strong heart - mobility is possible.&lt;br /&gt;- Reporting from Downtown Beirut: St. Georges Hotel highway is closed with burning tires. Cut-off point is at the Marina Tower. Hizballah men (unarmed) are manning the post. Heavy Lebanese Army presence in and around Downtown Beirut. Lots of Press trying to get through. I asked if I could take a photo, they said "We're a bit busy, now's not the time." Lebanese Army APC &amp;amp; Tanks are on every street corner in Downtown Beirut. No clashes or fighting has erupted in or around the area.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8599344426659865826?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8599344426659865826/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8599344426659865826' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8599344426659865826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8599344426659865826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/in-diretta-da-beirut-ore-1553-lebanon.html' title='In diretta da Beirut (ore 15.53 Lebanon local time)'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-7154205546586125143</id><published>2008-05-09T06:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T06:34:23.706-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giventousbythecityofteherantothenoblelebpeople'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut burning'/><title type='text'>Talking photo in Beirut</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCRSiysRBPI/AAAAAAAAA0U/U5G6wseasOc/s1600-h/giventousbythecityofteherantothenoblelebpeople.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198370627568862450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCRSiysRBPI/AAAAAAAAA0U/U5G6wseasOc/s400/giventousbythecityofteherantothenoblelebpeople.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;Given to us by the city of Teheran to the noble lebanese people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&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/5270638195136787905-7154205546586125143?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/7154205546586125143/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=7154205546586125143' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7154205546586125143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7154205546586125143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-photo-in-beirut.html' title='Talking photo in Beirut'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCRSiysRBPI/AAAAAAAAA0U/U5G6wseasOc/s72-c/giventousbythecityofteherantothenoblelebpeople.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-7599724188839968964</id><published>2008-05-09T01:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T02:20:39.431-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nasrallah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hariri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hamra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American University Beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jumblatt'/><title type='text'>8 May 2008 - one day in Beirut</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCQXMSsRBOI/AAAAAAAAA0M/hddbB_QgWXw/s1600-h/2169238636_c52c9a476b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198305369835767010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCQXMSsRBOI/AAAAAAAAA0M/hddbB_QgWXw/s320/2169238636_c52c9a476b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCQNWysRBNI/AAAAAAAAA0E/ep7-64Qm880/s1600-h/flag_UNKG0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198294555108115666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="27" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCQNWysRBNI/AAAAAAAAA0E/ep7-64Qm880/s200/flag_UNKG0001.gif" width="53" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;They kept on gun at 5.30 PM, as soon as Nasrallah finished to talk on tv. «The lebanese government —said Hizbollah sciite leader, black and orange dressed— has declared war». First gun, at 6.01 PM. Beyond the open window: blu sky, artillery, scent of spring, the deep sound of bombs, the sea at horizon. It seems a dream or something else. Outside, among the streets of a wonderful city, shoots between shiite and sunni factionssparatorie tra le fazioni: exactly what they were looking for.... The army, at the moment, is waiting, silence. Lot of soldiers are shiite, and a decision to attend and participate could break the last kind of national unity. From tanks, young head probably born during the civil war (1975-1990). Never, since then, Beirut has been so closed. Again. Hizbollah doesn't want to dismiss its private tlc network: last wedsnday they took in hostage the airport; yesterday, Nasrallah's speech then guns. Lebanese already knows, he knows the same dramatic history. And they were expecting it. Since 2 days, empty streets, empty markets, desert restaurant. In «Le Pecheur», among Corniche, only 3 tales are busy. Waiters, deliveried hommous and tabule, chat for a bit. They all own house, and want to come back. Nobody, whan it gets dark, go out. They wait. I suppose flight MEA 236, from Rome and Milan, has been the last to land in Beirut on wed: when arrived, carabinieri, paratroopers of italian army, were waiting for us, sent by embassador Checchia to gather italians. We walked for a km, in single file, dragging our baggages, along Airport Road, that cross the shiite zone, leaving at right side the palestinian camp of Shatila. Each 200mt before joining the jeep waiting for us, and handcrafted barricade - stones, tyres, rails - and few people were watching at us. Beard, mobiles, sunglasses; no army yet. Excited babies wearing the black shirt of Hizbollah, in search of stones to add on a mass. Someone welcomes «Ciao Italia». The proof we were authorized to pass; and that our carabinieri, soldiers and cooperators here made a good job. i'm here to attend a conference on Lebanese American University. It's impossible, to talk of the «role of journalist in the inter-cultural speech». So yesterday i walked in the city, my car had the diplomatic plate. The camp that Hizbollah set in Sodeco Square since december 2006, is still there. Tanks block the street to Hamra, other surround Hariri's office. The house of Jumblatt — montain's druse— is closed like a pix. Everywhere big photos of "martyrs" of the war, dead during years of violent peace. Tonight — friday 9 may — is scheduled the 80th Pizza Italians, after a century world tour, among 40 Countries. 100 subscribed: italians, lebanese friends, Institute of Culture. We haven't called off. Never leave Beirut, it's not used...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;- - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCQNOSsRBMI/AAAAAAAAAz8/Q0aBC-SV8fg/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198294409079227586" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="24" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCQNOSsRBMI/AAAAAAAAAz8/Q0aBC-SV8fg/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="43" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEIRUT&lt;/strong&gt; — Hanno cominciato a sparare alle 17.30, appena Nasrallah (nella foto) ha finito di parlare in televisione.&lt;br /&gt;«Il governo libanese—ha detto il leader del movimento sciita Hezbollah, vestito di nero e d'arancio—ci ha dichiarato guerra». Prima esplosione, alle 18.01. Oltre la finestra aperta: cielo azzurro, raffiche secche, odore di primavera, il basso delle granate, mare sullo sfondo. Sembra d'essere finiti nel sogno di qualcun altro.&lt;br /&gt;Fuori, per le strade di quella che era una città bellissima, sparatorie tra le fazioni sciite e sunnite: come se non aspettassero altro. L'esercito libanese, per ora, non si mette in mezzo. Molti, nella truppa, sono sciiti, e la decisione di intervenire potrebbe spaccare l'ultima forza di unità nazionale. Dai carri armati sbucano teste di ragazzi nati durante la guerra civile (1975-1990). Mai, da allora, Beirut c'era tornata così vicina. Il Libano delle fazioni è ricaduto nel suo vizio assurdo.&lt;br /&gt;Hezbollah non vuole che il governo smantelli la sua rete privata di telecomunicazioni: mercoledì ha preso in ostaggio l'aeroporto; ieri, il discorso di Nasrallah e le sparatorie. I libanesi hanno l'occhio lungo: sapevano che sarebbe andata a finir male. Da due giorni le strade sono semivuote, i supermercati svuotati, i ristoranti deserti. A «Le Pecheur», sulla Corniche, tre tavoli occupati; piccole onde contro i vetri, navi mercantili all'orizzonte. I camerieri, consegnati hummus e tabule, parlottano tra loro. Tutti hanno una casa, e devono tornarci.&lt;br /&gt;Siriani contro anti-siriani, governo sunnita filo-occidentale e opposizione sciita, maroniti incapaci di issare un proprio uomo alla presidenza, come vuole la tradizione. Il rituale libanese—«un regime feudale mascherato», sussurra ridacchiando un conoscente locale — s'è incattivito di colpo. Nessuno, quando viene buio, esce per le strade. Si assiste, si aspetta. Ci sono Internet, i cellulari, la televisione: le notti di battaglia del XXI secolo non si vedono, s'intuiscono.&lt;br /&gt;Credo che il volo MEA 236, da Roma e Milano, sia stato l'ultimo ad atterrare a Beirut, mercoledì: all'uscita ci aspettavano i nostri carabinieri paracadutisti del Tuscania, mandati dall'ambasciatore Checchia a raccogliere gli italiani in arrivo. Per un chilometro, in fila indiana, tirando i bagagli, abbiamo camminato lungo Airport Road, che attraversa i quartieri sciiti, e si lascia a destra il campo palestinese di Shatila. Ogni duecento metri, prima di arrivare ai fuoristrada in attesa, una barricata artigianale — sassi, gomme, ringhiere — e una piccola folla che ci studiava. Barbe, telefonini, occhiali da sole; niente armi visibili, non ancora. Ragazzini in motorino passavano dai varchi. Bambini eccitatissimi, anche loro con la maglietta nera di Hezbollah, cercavano sassi per aggiungerli al mucchio. Qualcuno salutava: «Ciao Italia». La prova che il transito era autorizzato; e i nostri carabinieri, soldati e cooperatori, da queste parti, hanno fatto un buon lavoro.&lt;br /&gt;Sono venuto qui per una tavola rotonda alla Lebanese American University e una conferenza. Surreale—anzi, impossibile — parlare del «ruolo del giornalista nel dialogo interculturale». Così ieri ho girato la città, in un'auto con targa diplomatica: qualche varco si apriva, ma non tutti.&lt;br /&gt;La tendopoli che Hezbollah ha piantato in Sodeco Square nel dicembre 2006, dopo la guerra con Israele, è ancora lì. Carri armati bloccano la strada per Hamra, altri circondano l'ufficio di Hariri, il figlio del presidente ucciso. La casa cittadina dei Jumblatt — drusi di montagna, quelli che il «Partito di Dio» considera i veri avversari — è chiusa come uno scrigno. Dovunque gigantografie di caduti, degli attentati che hanno ritmato la vita del Libano anche in questi anni di pace violenta. Ognuna delle diciotto fazioni, come un'organizzatissima tifoseria, ha i suoi simboli, i suoi striscioni, i suoi martiri, i suoi colori. E' il marketing del risentimento, e funziona.&lt;br /&gt;Stasera — venerdì 9 maggio — è in programma la 80˚ Pizza Italians, dopo un giro del mondo durato dieci anni, attraverso quaranta Paesi. Cento iscritti: italiani da esportazione, amici libanesi, l'istituto di cultura. Non abbiamo ancora cancellato. Mollare, a Beirut, non si usa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&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/5270638195136787905-7599724188839968964?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/7599724188839968964/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=7599724188839968964' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7599724188839968964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7599724188839968964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/8-may-2008-one-day-in-beirut.html' title='8 May 2008 - one day in Beirut'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SCQXMSsRBOI/AAAAAAAAA0M/hddbB_QgWXw/s72-c/2169238636_c52c9a476b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-6979776608269789606</id><published>2008-05-05T02:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T02:49:51.292-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='follow the women'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='detta regan'/><title type='text'>Let's Followthewomen!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SB7XtuCe1NI/AAAAAAAAAz0/B9isswsJ0io/s1600-h/followthewomen_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196828200484656338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SB7XtuCe1NI/AAAAAAAAAz0/B9isswsJ0io/s320/followthewomen_1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fonte: Repubblica.it&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEIRUT&lt;/strong&gt; - Dai boschi di cedri all'odore pungente della macchia mediterranea. Dalla montagna al mare in 40 chilometri di splendida pedalata con 250 donne di 39 nazioni diverse. Anche questo è il Libano. Anche questa è “Follow the woman”, la manifestazione che si è aperta ieri a Beirut, arrivata alla sua quarta edizione che invita le donne di tutto il mondo a pedalare attraverso i paesi del Medio Oriente per condividere un'esperienza di pace. L'ideatrice e la promotrice è una donna statunitense, &lt;strong&gt;Detta Regan&lt;/strong&gt;, che ha portato con sé anche le due figlie. Intorno a lei, un gruppetto di volontarie che ogni anno cercano sponsor e contatti con i territori attraversati per rendere visibile e fruttuosa la loro iniziativa. Quest'anno si parte dal Libano, per passare in Giordania e in Siria e terminare il tour nei Territori occupati della Cisgiordania. Le donne che partecipano vengono dalla Palestina, dall'Iran, dalla Turchia, dal Marocco, dall'Estonia, dalla Francia, la Danimarca, la Spagna, il Canada, e per i giorni prossimi è atteso anche un gruppo di donne israeliane. Le italiane sono in 20, due da Roma, il grosso da Padova, due dalla provincia di Siena, le altre da Venezia e Treviso. Dopo i discorsi ufficiali al Palazzo dell'Unesco, la carovana parte da Bakleen, Mount Lebanon, 900 metri sul livello del mare, sale e scende per i tornanti di un paesaggio che d'inverno è coperto di neve ed ora è un'esplosione di verde. Si passa per Ain-Bal, Ghariefi, Hasrout, Aanout, Daraxa, Sheim. In ogni paese la gente saluta, scatta foto con il cellulare, accoglie la comitiva con danze, distribuzione di fiori, dolci locali e narghilè. E' una festa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ad.it.doubleclick.net/jump/N3024.Network-Manzoni/B2873086.2;abr=!ie4;abr=!ie5;sz=180x150;ord=1795489281?"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ma a proteggere il corteo ci sono i mitra dell'esercito libanese, le camionette, le moto. Uno scontro armato potrebbe scoppiare all'improvviso, la gente lo sa. “Il paese è paralizzato”, dicono gli organizzatori locali del Pyo, il Progressive Youth Organization, un'emanazione del partito al governo, “ma libero e con una sua agenda indipendente”, ripetono i leader. E' paralizzato perché da una parte c'è la coalizione di governo, dall'altra gli Hezbollah, uno stato nello stato. Due universi paralleli che non riescono a comporsi. E' per questo che da tre anni, in Libano, si rinviano le elezioni del presidente. E in mezzo a tutto questo le donne e la bicicletta, mezzo umile, povero, senza difese, quasi ridicolo nella complessità e nella drammaticità di questi territori. Ma le donne pedalano... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/r_4bMTocNBY&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/r_4bMTocNBY&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-6979776608269789606?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/6979776608269789606/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=6979776608269789606' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6979776608269789606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6979776608269789606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/05/lets-followthewomen.html' title='Let&apos;s Followthewomen!!!!'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SB7XtuCe1NI/AAAAAAAAAz0/B9isswsJ0io/s72-c/followthewomen_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5704236983521836350</id><published>2008-04-14T05:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-14T06:04:49.656-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abdullah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sfeir'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guerra civile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='civil war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='13 Aprile 1975'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mubarak'/><title type='text'>13 Apr 1975 - 13 Apr 2008 : No news , good news</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SANWNuw0lqI/AAAAAAAAAzk/qlYQhgGgyJY/s1600-h/beirutcivilwar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189085989552035490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SANWNuw0lqI/AAAAAAAAAzk/qlYQhgGgyJY/s320/beirutcivilwar.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Beirut (AsiaNews) – Il Libano “è sulla strada del collasso”: nel giorno che ricorda lo scoppio della guerra civile (13 aprile 1975), commemorato da una pacifica manifestazione, il patriarca maronita Nasrallah Sfeir ha lanciato un nuovo monito contro l’ulteriore aggravarsi della situazione, che vede l’economia soffrire grandemente gli effetti della crisi politica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La nazione, nelle parole dette dal porporato durane la messa celebrata a Bkerke, vive “frammentata, senza un presidente, con un governo dimezzato ed un parlamento che non può riunirsi”. Per tale situazione, che “dovrebbe spingere tutti a fare l’impossibile”, il patriarca ha chiesto a Dio di “ispirarci ciò che è meglio per la salvezza nostra e del nostro Paese”. “I dirigenti arabi – ha detto poi – sono coscienti della crisi. Qualcuno cerca di dare scacco alle soluzioni. I libanesi debbono essere vigilanti”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quasi a fare eco al monito del patriarca, associazioni che riuniscono genitori delle vittime e mutilati di guerra, insieme a movimenti pacifisti e studenti hanno ricordato a Beirut il triste anniversario dello scoppio della guerra civile con una marcia (nella foto) che ha seguito la vecchia linea di demarcazione fino al centro della capitale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continua intanto la diplomazia parallela degli esponenti politici. Il primo ministro Fouad Siniora è rientrato da Amman, dove ha incontrato re Abdullah II, che ha espresso la preoccupazione che “il proseguire dell’attuale situazione in Libano possa avere ripercussioni sulla stabilità e la sicurezza non solo del Libano, ma dell’intera regione”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da parte sua il presidente del parlamento, Nabih Berri è rientrato da un giro che lo ha prtato dal presidente siriano Bashar Assad e da quello egiziano Hosni Mubarak.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5704236983521836350?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5704236983521836350/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5704236983521836350' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5704236983521836350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5704236983521836350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/04/13-apr-1975-13-apr-2008-no-news-good.html' title='13 Apr 1975 - 13 Apr 2008 : No news , good news'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/SANWNuw0lqI/AAAAAAAAAzk/qlYQhgGgyJY/s72-c/beirutcivilwar.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-3383272663548350852</id><published>2008-03-14T02:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-14T02:11:13.979-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='martino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><title type='text'>Mr. Martino...what are you talking about?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Ritiro dei soldati dal Libano&lt;/strong&gt; e ridispiegamento militare in Afghanistan e in Iraq, le intenzioni dell'ex ministro della Difesa Antonio Martino. In un'intervista alla Reuters Martino, che afferma di volere per sè l'incarico di titolare della Difesa ma su questo non v'è nulla di "definito" , afferma il suo punto di vista tradizionalmente filoatlantico. "&lt;strong&gt;Ho intenzione di ridurre drasticamente&lt;/strong&gt;", spiega Martino aggiungendo di esprimere un punto di vista assolutamente personale, "&lt;strong&gt;la nostra presenza in Libano, se non cancellarla del tutto, e inviare soldati in Afghanistan e in Iraq, dove ve ne è necessità&lt;/strong&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;Quanto al Libano, l'ex ministro della Difesa insiste nel voler rovesciare l'asse voluto da Massimo D'Alema, attuale ministro degli esteri. "&lt;strong&gt;Non solo dei soldati italiani in Libano non v'è assolutamente bisogno -ha sottolineato Martino- ma sono anche a rischio&lt;/strong&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;Have you ever been in some village in the South of Lebanon mr. Martino?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff66;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-3383272663548350852?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/3383272663548350852/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=3383272663548350852' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3383272663548350852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3383272663548350852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/03/mr-martinowhat-are-you-talking-about.html' title='Mr. Martino...what are you talking about?'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5083238658742718817</id><published>2008-03-07T00:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-07T00:59:33.215-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TERCOM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comitato Nazionale delle Donne Libanesi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wafa’a Dikah Hamzè'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sabah Zibaoui'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MOA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IAMB'/><title type='text'>Bari, TerCom Project: Activation of mechanism to support rural territories and communities in Lebanon</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;“Per molte donne lavorare è una necessità, non un lusso”.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sono parole di una imprenditrice rurale libanese che in questi giorni, insieme ad altre undici “colleghe”, sta frequentando un corso di formazione all’Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari. Si chiama &lt;strong&gt;Sabah Zibaoui&lt;/strong&gt; e da diciotto anni racconta di lavorare, in casa, per poter mandare i suoi tre figli all’università.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C’è la storia di &lt;strong&gt;Nawal &lt;/strong&gt;che ha investito tutti i suoi averi in un’azienda agricola e che ha visto il suo primo raccolto distrutto dalla guerra del 2006. E che ora continua a lavorare per sanare i debiti contratti per ricostruire la sua azienda. Sono donne che non “mollano”, decise ad andare avanti per sé e per le altre donne che, come loro, continuano a credere nel lavoro che fanno.&lt;br /&gt;Guidate da &lt;strong&gt;Wafa’a Dikah Hamzè&lt;/strong&gt;, già ministro per le pari opportunità e membro fondatore del &lt;strong&gt;Comitato Nazionale delle Donne Libanesi&lt;/strong&gt;, sono interessate alla costituzione di un Osservatorio nazionale in agricoltura che possa offrire assistenza, supporto e, altresì, monitorare la crescita della presenza femminile nel mondo rurale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“L’Osservatorio che vogliamo costituire” ha detto Wafa’a Dikah Hamzè “deve essere in grado di raggiungere le donne imprenditrici dei villaggi più sperduti, non il contrario”.&lt;br /&gt;“È la donna che riveste il ruolo naturale per lo sviluppo dell’agricoltura” ha detto il direttore dell’&lt;strong&gt;Iamb&lt;/strong&gt;, Cosimo Lacirignola, “ed è per questo che è necessario costituire un Organismo che migliori la loro attività, che sia in grado di fare rete e impostare relazioni con le istituzioni locali”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Tra gli obiettivi del Ciheam” ha aggiunto la vice presidente del Ciheam, Giuliana Trisorio Liuzzi, “c’è quello di contribuire a fare dell’Osservatorio Nazionale in Agricoltura uno degli strumenti essenziali per promuovere effettive condizioni di «pari opportunità» per le donne mediterranee, secondo un’impostazione che può diventare un modello di riferimento per i Paesi in via di sviluppo dell’area mediterranea”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo stage di formazione per le imprenditrici è organizzato nell’ambito del progetto &lt;strong&gt;TerCom&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;“Attivazione dei meccanismi per il sostegno dei territori e delle comunità rurali in Libano”&lt;/strong&gt;, sulla base dell'accordo stipulato un anno fa tra il governo italiano e il Consiglio per la ricostruzione e lo sviluppo (Cdr) del governo libanese e dell'Accordo Operativo tra il Ciheam-Iamb e il &lt;strong&gt;Ministero dell'Agricoltura libanese (Moa)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In particolare, il progetto TerCom è finanziato dal &lt;strong&gt;Ministero degli Affari Esteri Italiano&lt;/strong&gt;, con il contributo della &lt;strong&gt;Regione Puglia&lt;/strong&gt; ed attuato dallo Iamb. Nei sette giorni di corso le partecipanti avranno modo di assistere alle lezioni di ricercatori dell’Iamb sulla dimensione di genere nelle esperienze di cooperazione nell’area mediterranea. Alcuni rappresentanti di Confcooperative illustreranno le difficoltà e le soluzioni nella realizzazione di un piano aziendale, e porteranno le esperienze di alcune donne imprenditrici pugliesi. Le imprenditrici visiteranno la sede romana dell’ONILFA ed alcune aziende agricole pugliesi gestite da donne.&lt;br /&gt;Nella mattinata dell’8 marzo, inoltre, parteciperanno al convegno “L’impresa di essere donna” organizzato dalla Camera di Commercio di Bari e, nel pomeriggio, visiteranno la sede barese del Conart dove saranno esposti anche i loro manufatti e si potranno degustare i loro prodotti alimentari.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5083238658742718817?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5083238658742718817/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5083238658742718817' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5083238658742718817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5083238658742718817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/03/bari-tercom-project-activation-of.html' title='Bari, TerCom Project: Activation of mechanism to support rural territories and communities in Lebanon'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-4090257851356243916</id><published>2008-02-29T01:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T01:29:20.369-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jovanotti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='a te'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lorenzo cherubini'/><title type='text'>A te - Lorenzo Cherubini</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8NImtAT6yro"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8NImtAT6yro" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A te che mi hai trovato&lt;br /&gt;All' angolo coi pugni chiusi&lt;br /&gt;Con le mie spalle contro il muro&lt;br /&gt;Pronto a difendermi&lt;br /&gt;Con gli occhi bassi&lt;br /&gt;Stavo in fila&lt;br /&gt;Con i disillusi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tu mi hai raccolto come un gatto &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;E mi hai portato con te &lt;/em&gt;[Lorenzo Cherubini, A Te]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffff33;"&gt;............. e 6. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-4090257851356243916?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/4090257851356243916/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=4090257851356243916' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4090257851356243916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4090257851356243916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/03/te-lorenzo-cherubini.html' title='A te - Lorenzo Cherubini'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-9112538507231151692</id><published>2008-02-27T09:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-27T09:24:43.392-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canzone per beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guitar tabs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bennato'/><title type='text'>Guitar tabs: Canzone per Beirut [E.Bennato]</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;CANZONE PER BEIRUT - [Edoardo Bennato]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do#- Fa#- Do#- Sol#&lt;br /&gt;Cade dal cielo una pioggia scura&lt;br /&gt;Do#- Fa#- Do#- Sol#&lt;br /&gt;passa l’aereo che porta la paura&lt;br /&gt;Do#- Fa#- Do#- Sol#&lt;br /&gt;passa l’aereo che spara sulla terra&lt;br /&gt;Do#- Fa#- Do#- Sol#&lt;br /&gt;ma il suo rumore non copre la chitarra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do#- Fa#-&lt;br /&gt;Can’t stop stars from shining&lt;br /&gt;Si7 Mi&lt;br /&gt;or Beirut from rising&lt;br /&gt;Do#- Fa#-&lt;br /&gt;non c’è più niente&lt;br /&gt;Do#- Sol#&lt;br /&gt;dove c’era il ponte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can’t stop stars from shining&lt;br /&gt;or Beirut from rising&lt;br /&gt;nessun colore&lt;br /&gt;dove c’era il mare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spiaggia deserta, gioca una bambina&lt;br /&gt;ma il suo pupazzo può essere una mina&lt;br /&gt;ma nel suo sguardo grande come il mare&lt;br /&gt;c’è tutta Beirut che si vuol rialzare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can’t stop stars from shining&lt;br /&gt;or Beirut from rising&lt;br /&gt;passa la guerra&lt;br /&gt;col suo squallore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can’t stop stars from shining&lt;br /&gt;or Beirut from rising&lt;br /&gt;la guerra passa&lt;br /&gt;Beirut non muore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Passa la pioggia innaturale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can’t stop stars from shining&lt;br /&gt;or Beirut from rising&lt;br /&gt;Beirut ritorna&lt;br /&gt;a scintillare.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-9112538507231151692?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/9112538507231151692/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=9112538507231151692' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/9112538507231151692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/9112538507231151692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/02/guitar-tabs-canzone-per-beirut-ebennato.html' title='Guitar tabs: Canzone per Beirut [E.Bennato]'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-7264237704892430208</id><published>2008-02-01T03:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-01T03:27:21.108-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amr moussa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wisam eid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanese army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lega araba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mar mikael'/><title type='text'>I want to understand</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R6MA5gXqyII/AAAAAAAAAzc/U2XnRz-BeEA/s1600-h/shout.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161970585838471298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R6MA5gXqyII/AAAAAAAAAzc/U2XnRz-BeEA/s320/shout.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(original article of R. Fisk for The Independent &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-eight-dead-and-echoes-of-beiruts-bloody-history-reverberate-around-its-streets-775196.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;È stato l’esercito libanese a uccidere otto persone? Sembra che i soldati possano aver sparato a uno di loro per sbaglio. Ma visto che una delle vittime era l’ufficiale che legava la milizia Amal con l’esercito nazionale, sembra improbabile che i militari abbiano aperto il fuoco contro di lui. C’erano dei cecchini cristiani a est di &lt;strong&gt;Mar Mikael&lt;/strong&gt;? Di certo, i soldati hanno sparato a dei cecchini nell’oscurità attorno alla chiesa maronita mentre i proiettili gli scoppiavano attorno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hizbollah (almeno cinque delle vittime sarebbero suoi sostenitori) ha rilasciato dichiarazioni che accusano l’esercito nazionale per aver "sparato in maniera indiscriminata sui dimostranti", facendo anche appello all’esercito perché "porti allo scoperto gli elementi criminali che hanno ucciso civili innocenti". Ma visto che la più ampia comunità rappresentata nell’esercito libanese è quella sciita, l’idea che abbiano sparato sui loro correligionari sembra un po’ forzata. Nelle turpi rivolte settarie di un anno fa, anche quando nelle strade sono apparsi uomini in armi, l’esercito non ha ucciso un solo libanese. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunque cosa ci insegnano queste nuove e spaventose violenze a Beirut? innanzitutto, la triste lezione è che ci sono centinaia di "civili" nelle strade attorno a Mar Mikael (sia cristiani che musulmani) che portano armi. &lt;strong&gt;Ognuno sa che gli abitanti di Beirut hanno conservato le loro armi della guerra civile. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infatti, &lt;em&gt;pochi giorni fa stavo tentando di ricordare se conoscessi qualcuno (a parte me) che non tenesse un fucile in casa; mi sono venute in mente solo quattro persone.&lt;/em&gt; Ma vederle nelle strade, con armi da fuoco in pugno, ci ha mostrato quanto siamo vicini all’orlo del vulcano. La seconda e forse più spiacevole lezione è che i violenti incidenti di Beirut si stanno intensificando. Una bomba ogni due mesi (una battaglia in strada ogni sei) può essere sostenibile. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma i libanesi avevano appena cremato i cinque morti della potente autobomba della scorsa settimana quando le vittime dei combattimenti di domenica subivano le abluzioni rituali e venivano preparate per la sepoltura. Il capitano Wissam Eid, il giovane ufficiale dell’esercito ucciso con l’autobomba della scorsa settimana – trapela adesso – era il massimo esperto delle autorità di sicurezza nel rintracciare le chiamate da telefono mobile. Oggi, il cellulare è il miglior amico dell’assassino (insieme al suo esplosivo e alla fedeltà dei suoi macabri compagni). Perciò l’uccisione di Eid ha costituito una battuta d’arresto da parte degli assassini del Libano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ieri la Lega araba se n’è venuta fuori con il suo ultimo appello per la pace in Libano, promettendo di mandare l’infinitamente disperante e annoiante segretario generale, Amr Mousa, di ritorno a Beirut per parlare a tutti i soliti sospetti. La realtà, naturalmente, è che la Lega è anche meno capace delle Nazioni Unite di portare la pace in Libano, e tutti sanno a Beirut che il generale Michel Sleiman, il capo dell’esercito libanese, sarebbe accettabile come presidente per tutte le parti del Paese. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adesso siamo in attesa del 13esimo tentativo di eleggere il povero uomo, con tutti che pretendono che questo sia un problema libanese quando tutti quanti sanno che la violenza in questo paese proviene dal conflitto tuttora in corso tra Washington e Tehran. Questo è il destino del Libano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Traduzione di Carlo Miele per Osservatorio Iraq)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-7264237704892430208?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/7264237704892430208/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=7264237704892430208' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7264237704892430208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7264237704892430208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-want-to-understand.html' title='I want to understand'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R6MA5gXqyII/AAAAAAAAAzc/U2XnRz-BeEA/s72-c/shout.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-4323524949361063106</id><published>2008-01-27T10:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-27T10:44:36.751-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cpl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shiyah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='riots'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='otv'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanese army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ahmad Hamza'/><title type='text'>Today, Guerrilla</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zQkAXqyHI/AAAAAAAAAzU/rOL7jdUrUGU/s1600-h/Angel_Cry_by_Digitalsoldier%255B1%255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160228590052886642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zQkAXqyHI/AAAAAAAAAzU/rOL7jdUrUGU/s400/Angel_Cry_by_Digitalsoldier%255B1%255D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zP6AXqyFI/AAAAAAAAAzE/cbwz-6WtMJ0/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160227868498380882" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="23" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zP6AXqyFI/AAAAAAAAAzE/cbwz-6WtMJ0/s320/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="48" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Beirut è tornata a infiammarsi oggi dopo che una manifestazione di protesta contro le continue interruzioni nell'erogazione dell'energia elettrica è degenerata in scontri tra l'esercito e i dimostranti. Sono al momento almeno tre i dimostranti uccisi e una ventina i feriti.&lt;br /&gt;Dal quartiere di &lt;em&gt;Shiyah&lt;/em&gt;, a maggioranza sciita, gli scontri si sono estesi in serata a numerose altre zone della periferia sud di Beirut (Al Rihab, Qafaat, Mar Elias), dove gruppi di dimostranti hanno attuato blocchi stradali e dato alle fiamme cataste di pneumatici, interrompendo la circolazione anche lungo la strada per l'aeroporto internazionale della capitale libanese. A nome di Amal, il movimento guidato dal presidente del Parlamento e leader sciita d'opposizione Nabih Berri, il deputato Ali Hassan Khalil ha lanciato un appello ai dimostranti perchè sgomberino le strade e lascino mano libera all'esercito.&lt;br /&gt;Secondo Otv, l'emittente televisiva della Corrente patriottica libera (Cpl) guidata dal leader cristiano d'opposizione Michel Aoun, quattro dimostranti sono stati uccisi. Negli scontri tra soldati e manifestanti scoppiati questo pomeriggio alla periferia sud di Beirut nel quartiere di Shiyah, a maggioranza sciita, è stato ucciso anche un militante del movimento Amal, Ahmad Hamza (35 anni). Amal ha fatto appello ai suoi seguaci a interrompere le proteste scoppiate dopo la morte del militante. L'esercito dice di aver sparato solo in alto, e non è ancora chiaro che abbia ucciso l'uomo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zP-AXqyGI/AAAAAAAAAzM/MoY228uC6EQ/s1600-h/flag_UNKG0001.gif"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160227937217857634" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 41px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 24px" height="24" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zP-AXqyGI/AAAAAAAAAzM/MoY228uC6EQ/s320/flag_UNKG0001.gif" width="45" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Riots Renew in Beirut&lt;/strong&gt; with Protestors Tossing Stones at Troops, One Amal Official Killed&lt;br /&gt;The crackle of gunfire was heard over Beirut Sunday after violent demonstrators -- protesting power cuts -- tossed stones at heavily armed Lebanese soldiers and blocked main roads with blazing tires and burning garbage bins. Security sources said one Amal movement official was killed and several people were wounded. The official was identified as Ahmad Hamza, Amal's representative in the Hay Moawwad quarter of Shiyah, where protests first broke out around 4 pm. "Hamza has passed away after being shot in the back," an Amal official told AFP, adding that he was unable to identify the source of the fire.&lt;br /&gt;"Amal will not be dragged into any provocation," he said.&lt;br /&gt;A security official and witnesses told AFP that gunmen opened fire on Lebanese troops in the southern suburbs of Beirut where demonstrators had blocked roads with burning tires to protest against power cuts in that area.&lt;br /&gt;But as night fell, riots spread to reach the airport highway, where demonstrators cut the main road with burning tires. Soon afterwards protestors cut the coastal highway between Sidon and Tyre with blazing tires.&lt;br /&gt;The road to Baalbek in east Lebanon's Bekaa valley was also briefly closed.&lt;br /&gt;Witnesses said gunfire rang out sporadically across the southern suburbs, although the source of the firing could not be determined.&lt;br /&gt;The Amal official told AFP that Hamza was not among the protesters.&lt;br /&gt;"Hamza was not a demonstrator. He cooperated with the army on a regular basis whenever there were such similar protests in the region," he said. "The protests were initially spontaneous."&lt;br /&gt;According to the security official, the shooting occurred after demonstrators set ablaze tires, blocking a main road linking the Shiyah and Mar Mikhael neighborhoods in the southern suburbs to protest power shortages.&lt;br /&gt;The army fired warning shots to disperse the demonstrators, the official said.&lt;br /&gt;Demonstrators carried sticks and metal bars and witnesses said some gunmen in the crowd opened fire at the security forces who responded by firing at them.&lt;br /&gt;Troops were seen taking positions on rooftops, one witness told AFP.&lt;br /&gt;Dozens of demonstrators were on the streets between the neighborhoods of Shiyah and Mar Mikhael and some protesters were also emerging on the streets further south, witnesses said.&lt;br /&gt;Demonstrators have faced off with security forces on several occasions in the past few days over the power cuts.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-4323524949361063106?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/4323524949361063106/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=4323524949361063106' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4323524949361063106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4323524949361063106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/01/today-guerrilla.html' title='Today, Guerrilla'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zQkAXqyHI/AAAAAAAAAzU/rOL7jdUrUGU/s72-c/Angel_Cry_by_Digitalsoldier%255B1%255D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-408510945904175887</id><published>2008-01-26T10:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-27T10:31:48.281-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hazmiyeh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='isf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wisam eid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='car bombs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Furn al-Shebbak'/><title type='text'>25th Jan: police targetted</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zJwQXqyDI/AAAAAAAAAy0/TOU5P9GOa0g/s1600-h/carbombseid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zJwQXqyDI/AAAAAAAAAy0/TOU5P9GOa0g/s320/carbombseid.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160221103924889650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zJ3QXqyEI/AAAAAAAAAy8/ToNrelFdMd4/s1600-h/carbombseid2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zJ3QXqyEI/AAAAAAAAAy8/ToNrelFdMd4/s320/carbombseid2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160221224183973954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una bomba è esplosa vicino ad un cavalcavia nella parte orientale di Beirut, nel quartiere cristiano di Furn al-Shebbak, uccidendo un alto funzionario di polizia e almeno altre cinque persone, secondo quanto riferito da fonti di sicurezza.&lt;br /&gt;Si tratta di &lt;strong&gt;Wisam Eid&lt;/strong&gt;, capitano dei servizi d'informazione delle Forze di sicurezza interne (Isf, polizia) considerata vicina alla coalizione antisiriana del leader Saad al-Hariri al potere.&lt;br /&gt;Con una tecnica ormai sanguinosamente collaudata, e impiegata anche nell'ultimo attentato del 15 gennaio contro un fuoristrada dell'ambasciata Usa (tre morti), un'autobomba parcheggiata a lato del viadotto che sovrasta l'incrocio e imbottita con almeno 25 chili di esplosivo ad alto potenziale è stata fatta detonare a distanza al passaggio dell'auto dell'ufficiale delle Isf. L'esplosione, che ha scavato un cratere di quasi due metri di diametro nella carreggiata stradale, ha investito in pieno l'auto di Eid e danneggiato altri veicoli di passaggio. &lt;br /&gt;I pompieri hanno gettato acqua sulle macchine in fiamme e i rottami sparsi sulla strada del quartiere &lt;em&gt;Hazmiyeh&lt;/em&gt;, a maggioranza cristiana.&lt;br /&gt;L'esplosione è avvenuta dieci giorni dopo che un'autobomba ha danneggiato una vettura diplomatica americana nella capitale libanese uccidendo tre persone e ferendone sedici.&lt;br /&gt;L'intelligence della polizia è coinvolta molto da vicino nell'indagine guidata dall'Onu sull'assassinio del padre di Hariri, l'ex primo ministro libanese Rafik al-Hariri. Parlando con i giornalisti sul luogo dell'esplosione, il generale Ashraf Rifi, comandante delle Isf, ha confermato che l'attentato aveva per obiettivo proprio Eid che, ha detto, "era incaricato di seguire dossier delicati relativi alla catena di attentati che ha colpito il Libano negli ultimi due anni". Il ministro della gioventù Ahmad Fatfat, esponente della maggioranza parlamentare antisiriana, ha sottolineato che il capitano Eid era stato coinvolto nelle indagini sulla strage del San Valentino 2005, costata la vita al premier Rafik Hariri e altre 22 persone. &lt;br /&gt;- - -&lt;br /&gt;Era il nemico numero uno dei terroristi. Era un segugio coraggioso e paziente. Era l’artefice, lo scriba e il custode dei più riservati dossier sulla sicurezza interna libanese. Da tre anni inseguiva esecutori e mandanti della catena d’attentati costata la vita all’ex premier Rafik Hariri e a una decina di altre personalità libanesi. Ieri mattina ha perso la sua battaglia, è diventato, come gli sventurati protagonisti delle sue indagini, un pezzo di carne bruciata sull’asfalto. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il capitano Wissam Eid sapeva di essere nel mirino. Avevano cercato di fargli la pelle altre tre volte. Un anno fa gli avevano lanciato una bomba a mano davanti all’uscio di casa, lui si era fatto scudo con le mani, si era salvato d’istinto, era rimasto menomato, ma vivo. Ieri non sono andati per il sottile, hanno dispiegato la stessa millimetrica, micidiale, devastante precisione riservata ai suoi predecessori. Alle dieci di mattina il capitano, 31 anni, ha appena terminato una riunione con la commissione internazionale incaricata dalle Nazioni Unite di indagare sull’assassinio di Hariri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’auto dell’ufficiale scende verso il centro di Beirut, entra nel sobborgo cristiano di Hazmiyeh, svolta intorno alla rotonda Chevrolet, decolla in una vampata di fuoco. Lui è già morto, intorno è l’inferno. Una fila di macchine si accartoccia una sull’altra, innesca un rogo di rottami e carrozzerie sventrate. Umani insanguinati, feriti e terrorizzati vagano nella cortina di fumo, serrano gli occhi davanti all’orrore, si tappano naso e bocca invasi dal lezzo d’ossa e carni cremate. Davanti a quei resti d’umanità fulminata, mutilata, carbonizzata, la conta delle vittime diventa tombola crudele. Per ore il bilancio parla di dieci morti poi tutto si ridimensiona a cinque cadaveri, il capitano Eid, la sua guardia del corpo e tre passanti. La distruzione, le decine di feriti colpiti in un raggio terribilmente ampio testimoniano la potenza dell’autobomba. Il fine del resto giustifica i mezzi. Il super-poliziotto Eid era anche un ingegnere, l’interprete attento e competente delle complesse perizie sul caso Hariri che accusano un gruppo di ufficiali vicini all’ex presidente Emile Laoud e alla Siria. Era la mente del tortuoso domino telematico e telefonico che collega le schede dei cellulari usati dagli esecutori dell’attentato all’ex premier ai loro probabili mandanti. &lt;br /&gt;Il capitano Eid era anche un nemico dichiarato della Siria e dei suoi complici. Da otto anni la sua vita coincideva con il servizio nelle Forze di Sicurezza Interne, l’unico corpo di polizia legato al governo di Fouad Sinora. Subito dopo morte di Hariri era diventato il responsabile del dipartimento informazione e il coordinatore delle indagini condotte con gli investigatori dell’Onu. Dalla scorsa estate era anche nel mirino di Al Qaida. Per mesi aveva fatto la spola tra Beirut e la città natale di Tripoli coordinando le indagini contro i militanti di Fatah Al Islam asserragliati alle porte della città, inseguendo le tracce che portavano anche in quel caso a Damasco.&lt;br /&gt;Ieri, subito dopo la sua morte, una fila di pneumatici in fiamme ha bloccato la strada da Tripoli al confine. È stato l’ultimo saluto dei suoi concittadini, l’ultima indignata risposta a chi ancora si chiedeva dove cercare gli assassini di quel super-poliziotto.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-408510945904175887?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/408510945904175887/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=408510945904175887' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/408510945904175887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/408510945904175887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/01/25th-jan-police-targetted.html' title='25th Jan: police targetted'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5zJwQXqyDI/AAAAAAAAAy0/TOU5P9GOa0g/s72-c/carbombseid.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-6116546288576215127</id><published>2008-01-18T00:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-18T00:39:13.904-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gemayel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hariri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aoun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lega araba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='moussa'/><title type='text'>Meeting between Aoun and Hariri</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5BlfIslW7I/AAAAAAAAAys/4AnscMyuG-M/s1600-h/lebdonkeyflag.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5BlfIslW7I/AAAAAAAAAys/4AnscMyuG-M/s400/lebdonkeyflag.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156733158924049330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il leader della maggioranza parlamentare libanese Saad Hariri e quello dell'opposizione cristiana, Michel Aoun, si sono riuniti oggi per la prima volta in tre mesi a Beirut nell'ambito della mediazione del capo della Lega araba Amr Moussa tesa a risolvere la crisi politica che paralizza il Libano da oltre un anno. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alla riunione, che si è tenuta al parlamento nel centro di Beirut, erano presenti anche lo stesso segretario generale della Lega araba Amr Moussa e l'ex presidente libanese Amin Gemayel, che milita nella maggioranza anti-siriana. Hariri e Aoun l'anno scorso avevano avuto diversi incontri, fra cui uno a Parigi ad ottobre. Hezbollah, che guida l'opposizione, recentemente ha nominato Aoun suo rappresentante in ogni incontro con la maggioranza, iniziativa a lungo osteggiata dal blocco anti-siriano. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Negli ultimi due giorni, Moussa ha incontrato i responsabili libanesi per tentare di trovare una via d'uscita alla crisi in cui versa il Paese dei Cedri, la peggiore dalla fine della guerra civile del 1975-90. "Gli orizzonti si stanno allargando", ha dichiarato ai giornalisti Moussa al termine del suo incontro con il Primo ministro Fuad Saniora e poco prima di recarsi in parlamento per partecipare al meeting Hariri-Aoun. "Stiamo facendo tutto quello che possiamo per trovare un accordo", ha detto ancora Moussa che è al suo secondo viaggio in Libano nel mese di gennaio.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-6116546288576215127?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/6116546288576215127/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=6116546288576215127' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6116546288576215127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6116546288576215127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2008/01/meeting-between-aoun-and-hariri.html' title='Meeting between Aoun and Hariri'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R5BlfIslW7I/AAAAAAAAAys/4AnscMyuG-M/s72-c/lebdonkeyflag.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-3643936214822513164</id><published>2008-01-11T05:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-11T05:40:57.722-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elaph'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='radiodervish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nabil salameh'/><title type='text'>Radiodervish Nabil on Elaph</title><content type='html'>Ecco l'intervista di uno dei più importanti giornali web arabi, Elaph, al Nostro Nabil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R4dx1IslW6I/AAAAAAAAAyk/6pE-XYRGRXQ/s1600-h/foto_316.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R4dx1IslW6I/AAAAAAAAAyk/6pE-XYRGRXQ/s320/foto_316.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154213456230308770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;نبيل سلامة فنان عربي يخوض مغامرة موسيقية في أوروبا&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;نبيل سلامة (عدسة إيلاف) &lt;br /&gt;أسامة العيسة من القدس: يسعى الفنان العربي- الإيطالي نبيل سلامة، مع فرقته (راديو درويش) أو (راديو درفيش) كما هي مشهورة في إيطاليا، إلى تقديم مقترحات موسيقية لا تنتمي إلى الأنواع المعروفة في الموسيقى الغربية والشرقية، مستلهما في الوقت ذاته الأغاني الفلكلورية العربية، التي أعاد تقديم بعضها بأسلوب وتوزيع مختلفين تماما عن الأصل، وبالإضافة إلى ذلك قدم بعض أغاني المطربة فيروز، ووصل بمغامرته الموسيقية إلى النبش في التراث العربي الصوفي لتقديم محاكاة موسيقية له.&lt;br /&gt;وخلال احتفالات أعياد الميلاد المجيدة في فلسطين، شارك سلامة وفرقته الجمهور الفلسطيني، في إحياء هذه الاحتفالات، التي عنت له شيئا مهما له بشكل شخصي، وهو ما تحدث عنه في هذا اللقاء مع إيلاف.&lt;br /&gt;زائرو الأبواب&lt;br /&gt;* ما هي فرقة (راديو درويش) وماذا يعني الاسم؟&lt;br /&gt;نبيل سلامة: راديو درويش، مكونة من كلمتين، الأولى راديو وهو أو وسيلة حديثة كان يمكن للواحد، أن يسافر عبرها من بلد إلى آخر، ومن ارض إلى أخرى دون حاجة إلى جواز سفر أو إذن، فالراديو وسيلة تحفيزية لمخيلة الإنسان، ووسيلة لان يسافر ببساطة وسهولة وبدون تعقيد، الجزء الثاني من الاسم، المقصود به الناس البسطاء، واصل الكلمة من اللغة الإيرانية وهي مكونة من جزئين تعنيان (زائرو الأبواب)، وبالنسبة لنا هي الأبواب التي يعبر الناس من خلالها حدود الأماكن وحدود التفكير وحدود الروح، وهي الأبواب المشرعة التي تجعل البعض ينتظر لقاء أحد، وتعطي الفرصة لاخرين لعبورها، من اجل الاكتشاف، والشعور بالمفاجأة، ومن هذه المنطلقات جمعنا الكلمتين واعطينا اسما لمخيلتنا الموسيقية.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*ما هي الموسيقى التي تقدمونها؟&lt;br /&gt;-موسيقانا لا هي عربية ولا غربية، وهي تجمع بيني أنا الفلسطيني الذي كنت أعيش في لبنان، وزميلي ميكيل لاباكارو الإيطالي الأوروبي، ويمكن لك أن تتصور كيف يمكن ان تتكون موسيقى، بين هذين الشخصين الذين اجتمعا لكي يتخيلوا أو يبنيا شيئا معينا معا.&lt;br /&gt;ومن الطبيعي، أن يكون المشروع الموسيقي الذي بنيناه معا، متأثرا بالموسيقى العربية والموسيقى الغربية، ولكن في نفس الوقت نحن لسنا هذا أو ذاك، اننا نقدم نوعا موسيقيا جديدا، تتداخل فيه جنبا إلى جنب الإيقاعات حتى تعطي لونا جديدا.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; *كيف تتولد الألحان لديكما؟&lt;br /&gt;-عبر الارتجال والتمارين، ليس لدينا مشاريع موسيقية على الورق، نضعها مسبقا، ونقول بأننا نريد تنفيذها، ولكن الأفكار لدينا تتولد عبر الارتجال، حتى تصبح مقطوعات موسيقية. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;فضول البدايات&lt;br /&gt;*كيف بدأت فرقة (راديو درويش)؟ &lt;br /&gt;-التقيت مع زميلي ميكيل في الجامعة قبل 25 عاما، ذهبت إلى إيطاليا في رحلة دراسة أو بتعبير أدق، قمت بالهجرة الدراسية، التي كانت وما زالت ميزة خاصة للشعب الفلسطيني، ذهبت إلى إيطاليا لدراسة هندسة الإلكترون، بينما كان ميكيل يدرس الفلسفة، فالتقينا في إطار جامعي وكان لديه فضولا كبيرا لمعرفة الموسيقى والثقافة والآداب العربية، وأنا أيضا كان لدي الفضول والتوجه لمعرفة الثقافة الإيطالية والموسيقى، ومن هذا التمازج والرغبة في أن يكتشف كل منا عالم الآخر، ولد مشروع موسيقي، رغم انه لم يكن لدينا وعي لهذا المشروع، أو أننا كنا نخطط أو نعرف بان تكون الموسيقى الحقل المهني أو النشاط الأساسي لنا، نجن اجتمعنا كأصدقاء وزملاء دون أن يكون لدينا تفكير مسبق.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*متى بدأتم الخطوات العملية لتأسيس الفرقة؟&lt;br /&gt;- تكونت الفرقة عمليا عام 1993، مع نشر أول اسطوانة لنا بعنوان (الدراويش)، ولاقت قبولا، في فترة لم يكن لدى المجتمع الإيطالي، والمجتمعات الأوروبية بشكل عام معرفة أو ثقافة موسيقية، عن أنواع موسيقية خارجية.&lt;br /&gt;ولكن الان حدثت مستجدات عبر الهجرة وعبر التنوع، الان يستوعب المجتمع الإيطالي الهجرة والقادمين ليس فقط الذين يأتون للعمل الأكثر تواضعا، بل يوجد مثقفين ورجال فكر من العالم العربي ومن فلسطين، يشغلون أماكن مهمة في المجتمع الإيطالي، وعدا عن الجالية العربية، توجد جاليات من مختلف أنحاء العالم تشارك عمليا وفعليا بالحياة الثقافية وغيرها.&lt;br /&gt;*وبعد اسطوانة (الدراويش)؟&lt;br /&gt;-منذ أن نشرنا أول اسطوانة، تتابعت أعمالنا، وقبل نحو شهرين نشرنا سابع أسطوانة لنا.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*هل جرى تطور على مشروعكم الموسيقي؟&lt;br /&gt;-من الطبيعي أن يحدث تطور، ليس فقط في الموسيقى، ولكن على صعيد النضوج الشخصي، لقد كبرنا في العمر أيضا وليس فقط تطورنا ثقافي وفنيا، وهذا انضج تجربتنا وساهم في بلورة ثقافة وتفكير موسيقيين خاصين بنا.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*مع العدد الكبير من الفرق الموسيقية خصوصا في الغرب، بماذا تختلفون عن الفرق الأخرى؟&lt;br /&gt;-نحن لدينا عدة نشاطات، مثل العروض المسرحية، فنتداخل موسيقيا مع قطع مسرحية، ونعد الموسيقى المسرحية لها، ونشرنا اسطوانتين بهذا المجال، إحداها اعتمدت على كتاب للمفكر والفيلسوف الصوفي فريد الدين العطار اسمه (منطق الطير) أخذنا الكتاب، ووضعنا موسيقى حول نصوصه، وكان ذلك قبل أربع سنوات، وقبل سنتين نشرنا موسيقى لعمل مسرحي أخر، وبالإضافة إلى ذلك وضعنا موسيقى تصويرية لأفلام، أخرها لفيلم سيرى النور بعد عدة اشهر وهو من نوع الرسوم المتحركة، لاشهر الممثلين في إيطاليا في مجال دبلجة هذا النوع من الأفلام.&lt;br /&gt;والان لدينا توجه إلى الموسيقى الأكثر شعبية، لأننا نريد مخاطبة جمهور جديد، جمهور المجتمع الجديد الإيطالي.&lt;br /&gt;لقاء مع الجذور&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*هل امتد نشاطكم خارج إيطاليا؟&lt;br /&gt;-نعم، قدمنا عروضا خارج إيطاليا، منها حفلة على مسرح الاولمبيا في باريس، وعروض أخرى في اليونان، وأسبانيا، وبروكسل، وساحة الشهداء في بيروت.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*ما أهمية عرضكم في ساحة المهد بمدينة بيت لحم؟&lt;br /&gt;-بالنسبة لي شخصيا له أهمية كبيرة جدا، لأنني أعود إلى الجذور التي لم التق بها من قبل ولم أراها، لذا فان من الطبيعي، أن يكون لها وقعا كبيرا جدا علي، وهي العودة إلى مكان عشته فقط عبر مخيلة الأبوين والأشخاص الذين عاشوا في فلسطين وحدثونا عن أماكنهم الحميمة قبل التشرد، قصصا وحكايات بقيت حلما.&lt;br /&gt;أما بالنسبة للفرقة، فتقديم عرض في فلسطين له أهمية كبيرة أيضا، لأننا نحمل وجهة نظر، ولدينا رغبة في مشاركة الجمهور بها، اننا نحمل وجهة نظر تقول بأنه توجد إمكانية للتعايش بشرط الاحترام المتبادل بين الثقافات.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*هل هي رسالة سياسية؟&lt;br /&gt;- يمكن أن تكون سياسية، لكن نحن مجرد مثقفين، وموسيقيين، واريد التأكيد بان التعايش لا يعني، أن لا يعلن المرء معارضته للاحتلال. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*كيف ترى واقع الموسيقى العربية الان، وهل تتابع ما يجري على الساحة الفنية العربية؟&lt;br /&gt;-الموسيقى العربية التي اعرفها في السبعينات واوائل الثمانينات كانت تنتج ثقافة، أما الموسيقى العربية التي أراها الان عبر الفضائيات واسمعها في الإذاعات فإنها تنتج ثقافة اقل بكثير من حقبة السبعينات، ولكن لهذه لموسيقى إيجابياتها، على الرغم من الطابع الاستهلاكي لها، أنا شخصيا احب الموسيقى وحتى هذه الموسيقى الاستهلاكية، فنحن بحاجة لها أيضا، ولكن يجب أن يكون للواحد وعي وهو يراقب، ويستمع، وعي لحقيقته ولواقعه ولثقافته، ويكون حريصا على أن لا تطغى الموسيقى الاستهلاكية على ثقافته.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;واريد أن انوه، انه توجد أيضا أقلية في الموسيقى العربية، وكانت أقلية دائما، وستبقى أقلية، تضم موسيقيين يراهنون على موسيقى لها مستوى ويكون لها بعد ثقافي.&lt;br /&gt;*ما هي أحلامكم المستقبلية، وما هي مشاريعكم المفنية؟&lt;br /&gt;-بزيارة فلسطين تحقق حلم كبير لي، حلم عشته أربعين سنة، ولا اعرف لاحقا ماذا يحدث ربما احلم حلما آخر، ما يهم الان انه تحقق حلم حياتي.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-3643936214822513164?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/3643936214822513164/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=3643936214822513164' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nadine labaki'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='caramel'/><title type='text'>Nelle sale a Natale: Nadine Labaki in Caramel (Sukkar Banat)</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wqt6nP3_fC0&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wqt6nP3_fC0&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caramel è una sorta di Sex &amp; The City in versione mediorientale. L'epicentro dell'azione, o meglio, della conversazione, è un salone di bellezza di Beirut, in cui si ritrovano periodicamente cinque donne: &lt;strong&gt;Layale&lt;/strong&gt;, innamorata di un uomo sposato, &lt;strong&gt;Nisrine&lt;/strong&gt;, musulmana colta da scruploli, perché si sposa pur non essendo più vergine, &lt;strong&gt;Rima&lt;/strong&gt;, che deve venire a patti con la propria omosessualità, &lt;strong&gt;Jamale&lt;/strong&gt;, affetta dal complesso di Peter-Pan, e &lt;strong&gt;Rose&lt;/strong&gt;, che ha consacrato la propria vita ad accudire la sorella maggiore, sacrificando tutto il resto. Tra una permanente e una depilazione a base di caramello (quello che dà il titolo al film), le cinque donne si riveleranno i rispettivi mondi interiori e scopriranno quanto sia importante avere delle vere amiche su cui poter contare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Its release date have been scheduled as follows (from imdb):&lt;br /&gt;Lebanon 9 August 2007 &lt;br /&gt;France 15 August 2007 &lt;br /&gt;Belgium 12 September 2007 &lt;br /&gt;Italy 21 December 2007 &lt;br /&gt;USA January 2008 (limited)&lt;br /&gt;Netherlands 17 January 2008 &lt;br /&gt;Spain 18 January 2008 &lt;br /&gt;UK 7 March 2008 &lt;br /&gt;Germany 3 April 2008 &lt;br /&gt;apart its projection in many other festivals such as Abu Dhabi film festival, Cairo film festival, Asia Pacific Screen Awards, London, Canada, Denmark, Argentina...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;Ancora poco conosciuta in occidente, in Libano e in tutto il medioriente Nadine è una vera e propria superstar, conosciuta tanto per il suo talento, quanto per essere scopritrice del talento altrui. Figlia di un ingengnere e di una casalinga, la carriera di Nadine comincia con un concorso all'inizio degli anni '90, organizzato dall'emittente musicale Studio El Fan. In quell'occasione Nadine realizza il video dell'esordiente cantante Carla, ora diventata a sua volta una delle vj più famose del Libano. Uno dei suoi video musicali successivi, causò parecchie discussioni nel pubblico, dal momento che era incentrato sulla procace figurad di una cameriera in una tavola calda egiziana; il cortometraggio fu infatti ritenuto troppo "audace". Da allora è stata tutta un'escalation, culminata prima nella realizzazione di spot commerciali per la Coca-Cola e infine nell'approdo al cinema, dove si è cimentata anche come attrice, con buon successo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-7050788693072752825?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/7050788693072752825/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=7050788693072752825' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7050788693072752825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7050788693072752825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/12/nelle-sale-natale-nadine-labaki-in.html' title='Nelle sale a Natale: Nadine Labaki in Caramel (Sukkar Banat)'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2041484505793633266</id><published>2007-12-16T13:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-16T14:07:37.807-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ta7t al qasef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='under the bombs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dubai international film festival'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aractingi'/><title type='text'>Ta7t al Qasef, Under the Bombs won at Dubai Film Festival 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R2WhbfGyyuI/AAAAAAAAAyM/xrIyhd-rJVE/s1600-h/underthebombs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144695642919193314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R2WhbfGyyuI/AAAAAAAAAyM/xrIyhd-rJVE/s400/underthebombs.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Lebanese film &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=zM3Jvp6URaw"&gt;“Ta7t el Qasef” (Under the Bombs)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; directed by Philippe Aractingi won the top prize Saturday at the fourth &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dubaifilmfest.com/"&gt;Dubai international film festival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Aractingi's film beat off competition from two Tunisian movies to take the Gold Muhr award presented at a gala ceremony at the end of the festival which showcased 141 films from 52 countries. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144695754588343026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R2Whh_GyyvI/AAAAAAAAAyU/Lr7TiRrlQQc/s400/underthebombs2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The winning film centers around a love affair between a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;Muslim Shia woman and a Christian man in Lebanon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; during Israel's devastating offensive in July-August 2006. Its star, Nada Abu Farhat, took the festival's best actress award, while Nadim Sawalha walked off with the best actor accolade for his role in the Jordanian film “Captain Abu Raed.”&lt;br /&gt;Tunisian director Nouri Bouzid took the Silver Muhr award for his “Akhir Film”, while his compatriot Abdellatif Kechiche won the Bronze Muhr for La Graine et le Mulet (the Secret of the Grain), which already won three awards at the Venice Film Festival, including the Special Jury award.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&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/5270638195136787905-2041484505793633266?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/2041484505793633266/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=2041484505793633266' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2041484505793633266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2041484505793633266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/12/ta7t-al-qasef-under-bombs-won-at-dubai.html' title='Ta7t al Qasef, Under the Bombs won at Dubai Film Festival 2007'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R2WhbfGyyuI/AAAAAAAAAyM/xrIyhd-rJVE/s72-c/underthebombs.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-7031979211212602584</id><published>2007-12-13T04:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-16T04:58:10.645-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hajj'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suleiman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baabda'/><title type='text'>For the 1st time the Army was targetted: Hajj</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R2UgFvGyytI/AAAAAAAAAyE/gtMYHl-0Ils/s1600-h/hajj1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144553432257055442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R2UgFvGyytI/AAAAAAAAAyE/gtMYHl-0Ils/s400/hajj1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I 35 chilogrammi di tritolo utilizzati il 12 dicembre scorso nell’attentato di Beirut sono senza dubbio lo specchio dell’attuale situazione libanese: un Paese in preda alla paura, alle cospirazione, al sospetto e alla violenza che ha però dato vita ad una reazione politica unanime a dimostrazione che qualche cosa sta cambiando. L’auto bomba esplosa alle 7.05 del mattino nel quartiere di &lt;strong&gt;Baabda&lt;/strong&gt;, alla periferia est della capitale, ha ucciso il generale &lt;strong&gt;Francois Hajj&lt;/strong&gt;, il suo autista e la guardia del corpo che lo accompagnava. Un attacco che ha un significato particolare perché ha colpito una delle massime cariche delle Forze Armate Libanesi; quell’esercito che l’ex presidente Emile Lahoud ha eletto a garanzia dell’integrità istituzionale e costituzionale del Paese, almeno fino a quando non sarà eletto un nuovo Capo dello Stato. Questa è la prima volta che i vertici militari vengono colpiti da un attacco dinamitardo di tale portata e Hajj rappresenta sicuramente uno degli obbiettivi ideali per dimostrare che il terrorismo non è ancora sconfitto. Ma chi sono i mandanti di questo del vile attentato? I sospetti sono subito ricaduti sulla Siria e sui gruppi palestinesi più estremisti che risiedono nei campi profughi libanesi e che il generale aveva sconfitto l’estate scorsa nella battaglia di Nahr el-Bared. Quello su Damasco rimane però solo un dubbio, un’ipotesi dovuta alle accuse di complicità negli attentati che da anni sconvolgono il Paese e all’appoggio militare offerto al braccio armato di Hezbollah. Dopo mesi di contrasti, maggioranza e opposizione potrebbero aver infatti trovato un accordo sul nome del nuovo presidente della Repubblica. La scelta ricadrebbe sull’attuale capo delle Forze Armate, il generale &lt;strong&gt;Michel Suleiman&lt;/strong&gt;, sostenuto da Hezbollah con il placet di Siria e Iran e candidato a varcare la soglio del palazzo di Baabda da uno dei massimi leader dell’opposizione, il Cristiano Maronita Michel Aoun. E’ quindi difficile pensare che Damasco voglia fermare l’elezione di un uomo famoso per la sua neutralità, erede naturale di Emile Lahoud e legato a doppio filo all’ex compagno d’armi Aoun. Il maggiore indiziato per l’omicidio di Najj è perciò il gruppo integralista palestinese Fatah al Islam che potrebbe così aver voluto vendicare l’umiliante sconfitta patita l’estate scorsa. L’intelligence libanese è certo che molti dei superstiti di Fatah al Islam si trovano attualmente a Gaza mentre il capo, il terrorista Shaker al-Absi, avrebbe trovato rifugio in Siria. Per ora le autorità di Beirut hanno arrestato quattro persone sospettate di essere coinvolte nell’atto terroristico. Tre di loro sono stati fermati durante un raid delle forze di sicurezza a Taamir, un’area residenziale che sorge nei pressi della città portuale di Sidone, nel sud del Paese. Ad incastrarli sarebbe la targa della BMW verde oliva utilizzata nell’attentato, precedentemente registrata a nome di uno di loro e che sarebbe stata parcheggiata sul luogo dell’esplosione otto minuti prima del passaggio di Hajj. Quindi, anche se è ancora tutta da dimostrare, per ora l’ipotesi che a commettere la strage sia stata una cellula terroristica del fondamentalismo islamico sembra la più probabile.Per il momento la morte di Hajj non è in ogni caso riuscita a far scattare quella scintilla di violenza e la rappresaglia che in molti temevano e che alcuni speravano. I due opposti fronti politici non sembrano intenzionati a gettare benzina sul fuoco anche se alcuni esponenti di governo, come il ministro dell’Informazione Ghazi Aridi, continuano a parlare di complotto siriano. I principali personaggi libanesi sono comunque d’accordo sulla necessità di rimanere uniti contro questo nuovo tentativo di destabilizzazione che tende a creare le condizioni per una nuova guerra civile. Il leader druso Walid Jumblatt, notoriamente antisiriano, lancia un segnale di distensione e non si schiera con coloro che accusano la Siria; Hezbollah risponde dicendo che il Hajj ha combattuto a fianco della resistenza contro Israele e chi ha ucciso il generale ha voluto colpire il ruolo dell’esercito. Un Libano che cambia quindi, dove maggioranza e opposizione concordano sulla necessità di superare tutti gli ostacoli costituzionali che fino ad ora hanno impedito l’elezione del generale Michel Suleiman, in modo da evitare colpi di coda che potrebbero diventare incontrollabili.                                               &lt;em&gt;[E.R. Vitali]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&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/5270638195136787905-7031979211212602584?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/7031979211212602584/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=7031979211212602584' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7031979211212602584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7031979211212602584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/12/for-1st-time-army-was-targetted-hajj.html' title='For the 1st time the Army was targetted: Hajj'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R2UgFvGyytI/AAAAAAAAAyE/gtMYHl-0Ils/s72-c/hajj1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5312439620629687652</id><published>2007-12-08T10:37:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-08T10:41:32.194-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suleiman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aoun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='president election'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kouchner'/><title type='text'>Lebanese presidential sofa: who does offer more?</title><content type='html'>Il Libano è ancora senza presidente della Repubblica, dopo che ieri il Parlamento non è riuscito neppure ad approvare l’emendamento alla Costituzione richiesto per eleggere alla massima carica il comandante in capo dell’esercito, generale Michel Suleiman, ma l’ennesimo rinvio a martedì prossimo della cruciale votazione - il settimo dal 25 settembre - potrebbe stavolta essere l’ultimo. «Ci sono ancora piccoli sforzi da compiere», ha dichiarato il ministro degli Esteri francese Kouchner, alludendo al leader cristiano d’opposizione Michel Aoun, al quale ha tuttavia riconosciuto il «grande sacrificio» di aver rinunciato alla sua candidatura alla presidenza della Repubblica. Aoun insiste perché l’intesa tra maggioranza e opposizione sull’emendamento all’articolo 49 della Costituzione (che vieta l’accesso alle cariche elettive degli alti funzionari statali in servizio, come il generale Suleiman) sia accompagnata da un parallelo accordo sulla formazione di un nuovo governo di “unità nazionale”, scelta del premier e assegnazione di importanti incarichi di sicurezza e amministrativi (a partire dalla nomina del futuro comandante in capo dell’esercito). Per cercare di superare gli ultimi ostacoli, il presidente del Parlamento e leader sciita d’opposizione Nabih Berri e il leader sunnita della maggioranza parlamentare Saad Hariri sono tornati a incontrarsi ieri per la terza volta in 48 ore, mentre i deputati erano in attesa nella sede dell’assemblea legislativa nel cuore di Beirut, presidiato da esercito e polizia. Ma con un’ora di ritardo e in un clima di grande confusione, Berri ha poi annunciato l’ennesimo rinvio della seduta del Parlamento, smentendo le voci secondo cui maggioranza e opposizione avevano concordato di approvare ieri l’emendamento alla Costituzione.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5312439620629687652?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5312439620629687652/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5312439620629687652' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5312439620629687652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5312439620629687652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/12/lebanese-presidential-sofa-who-does.html' title='Lebanese presidential sofa: who does offer more?'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-1672418488020172392</id><published>2007-11-29T06:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T06:15:37.610-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suleiman'/><title type='text'>And the winner is...? huh?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R07I0VQUblI/AAAAAAAAAx8/xa2p00Yu5BE/s1600-h/suleiman_michel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R07I0VQUblI/AAAAAAAAAx8/xa2p00Yu5BE/s320/suleiman_michel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138265026260659794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondo la Farnesina, in Libano si potrebbe avvicinare un accordo sul nome del capo dell'esercito come nuovo presidente della Repubblica al posto di Emile Lahoud: il nome del generale &lt;strong&gt;Michel Suleiman &lt;/strong&gt;da tempo era uno di quelli tenuti in considerazione come possibili "riserve" in caso di crisi tra la maggioranza anti-siriana e la minoranza vicina a Damasco. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il nome di Suleiman era già stato ventilato come candidato di compromesso prima dell'estate, e si era anche parlato di una sua visita a Roma. Per votarlo i deputati libanesi però dovranno prima cambiare la Costituzione, perché come capo delle forze armate Suleiman rientra fra i funzionari pubblici di "categoria A" che possono diventare presidenti solo due anni dopo aver lasciato il servizio. Il Parlamento libanese si dovrebbe riunire prima per cambiare la Costituzione e poi per votare il presidente", dice un diplomatico italiano che segue la trattativa. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nelle prossime ore, dopo il via libera della maggioranza antisiriana, dovrebbe arrivare anche l'assenso dell'opposizione. Secondo fonti del Ministero degli Esteri italiano l'opposizione sarebbe già d'accordo sul nome di Suleiman, ma forse l'intesa non riuscirà ad essere formalizzata in tempo per l'elezione fissata per domani. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suleiman, 59 anni, guida l'esercito dal 1998, ed è &lt;strong&gt;cristiano maronita&lt;/strong&gt;, la confessione cui è affidata la presidenza secondo la tradizionale ripartizione degli incarichi istituzionali in Libano. E' una personalità popolare, che ha saputo mantenersi neutrale durante il duro scontro politico che da un anno divide la maggioranza antisiriana del governo di Fuad Siniora dall'opposizione guidata dagli sciiti del partito Hezbollah vicino a Damasco. E' stato molto vicino alla Siria, ma ha fama di maggiore indipendenza rispetto ai suoi predecessori.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-1672418488020172392?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/1672418488020172392/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=1672418488020172392' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1672418488020172392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1672418488020172392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/and-winner-is-huh.html' title='And the winner is...? huh?'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R07I0VQUblI/AAAAAAAAAx8/xa2p00Yu5BE/s72-c/suleiman_michel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-129362099003942238</id><published>2007-11-28T23:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T06:20:00.742-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brammertz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winograd report'/><title type='text'>Brammertz news: a new person of interest</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Interesting.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brammertz said:&lt;br /&gt;progress by the U.N. International Independent Investigation Commission in the last four months has led to the identification of &lt;strong&gt;new "persons of interest"&lt;/strong&gt; and new investigative leads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read the full report &lt;a href="http://adserver.naharnet.com/brammertz_last_ar.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-129362099003942238?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/129362099003942238/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=129362099003942238' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/129362099003942238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/129362099003942238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/brammertz-news-new-person-of-interest.html' title='Brammertz news: a new person of interest'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2122681050471951017</id><published>2007-11-28T01:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T01:21:37.413-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nakba'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='palestina'/><title type='text'>Milano 29/11/2007, Convegno "Palestina, a 60 anni dalla Nakba"</title><content type='html'>Locandina&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R00y4VQUbkI/AAAAAAAAAx0/TYgtNZPBiiI/s1600-h/convegnoinfopal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137818693259259458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R00y4VQUbkI/AAAAAAAAAx0/TYgtNZPBiiI/s400/convegnoinfopal.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&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/5270638195136787905-2122681050471951017?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/2122681050471951017/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=2122681050471951017' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2122681050471951017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2122681050471951017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/milano-29112007-convegno-palestina-60.html' title='Milano 29/11/2007, Convegno &quot;Palestina, a 60 anni dalla Nakba&quot;'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R00y4VQUbkI/AAAAAAAAAx0/TYgtNZPBiiI/s72-c/convegnoinfopal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5394559674947987502</id><published>2007-11-26T01:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T01:19:24.597-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nasrallah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hariri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fatah al islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lahoud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aoun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nahr al-Bared'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taif'/><title type='text'>Black Friday in Beirut</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Quello che si è visto venerdì in Libano è stato teatro politico ai più alti livelli. Dopo essere rimasto in carica per nove anni, il presidente Emile Lahoud ha abbandonato il suo posto allo scoccare della mezzanotte senza che il Parlamento avesse nominato un successore. Di fatto il Parlamento non si è nemmeno mai riunito dal momento che i partiti dell'opposizione guidati da Hezbollah e dal Libero Movimento Patriottico di Michel Aoun hanno boicottato l'elezione, impedendo che venisse raggiunto il quorum. Dal momento che l'elezione del presidente richiede una maggioranza di due terzi né l'opposizione né la Coalizione del 14 marzo, la maggioranza guidata dal primo ministro Fouad Siniora, possono far passare un candidato senza che gli altri partiti siano presenti.Nonostante la Costituzione richieda che l'autorità venga conferita al primo ministro se la presidenza risultasse vacante, Lahoud si è rifiutato, affermando che l'amministrazione di Siniora è "illegittima e incostituzionale. Loro lo sanno, anche se Bush ha detto il contrario."Egli invece ha dichiarato uno "stato di emergenza" e ha trasferito i poteri riguardanti la sicurezza (ma non quelli politici) all'esercito libanese sotto il comando del generale Michel Suleiman. Il presidente del Parlamento Nabih Berri ha stabilito il 30 novembre come prossima data prevista per il voto, eppure le tensioni rimangono elevate a Beirut, dove sono stati stabiliti dei checkpoint e l'esercito si è posizionato in modo da mantenere lontani dalle strade tanto i sostenitori del governo quanto quelli dell'opposizione. Lo stallo politico ha generato ansia su una possibile esplosione di violenza nella capitale, e la più drammatica paura che due governi separati e rivali possano venire formati in un preludio di una guerra civile."Non abbiamo altra scelta che raggiungere un accordo" ha detto Saad Hariri, figlio dell'ex primo ministro Rafic Hariri e leader parlamentare del Movimento per il Futuro, della Coalizione 14 Marzo. È veramente appropriato che una tale affermazione sia stata fatta da un campione di ipocrisia e di doppio gioco. Non dimentichiamoci che è stato Saad Hariri che ha aperto le porte della prigione e invitato in Libano i militanti salafiti di Fatah al-Islam, che ha poi cercato di usare come strumento contro Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah e gli Hezbollah (cosa che avrebbe certamente dato inizio una guerra civile, se il suo piano non si fosse miseramente rovesciato a spese di centinaia di libanesi e palestinesi in quella debacle che è stata Nahr al-Bared). Più sorprendente dell'attuale punto morto è il fatto che esso non sia giunto prima, dato che la natura confessionale su cui è basato il sistema politico libanese lo porta proprio in tale direzione. In base al non scritto Patto Nazionale del 1943 (l'anno in cui il Libano ottenne l'indipendenza dalla Francia), il presidente del Libano dovrebbe essere un cristiano maronita, il primo ministro un musulmano sunnita e il presidente del Parlamento un musulmano sciita. Sino agli Accordi di Taif del 1989 veniva assegnata anche una leggera maggioranza di seggi parlamentari ai cristiani rispetto ai musulmani. A causa dell'alto tasso di nascite e della conseguente maggioranza raggiunta dai musulmani, una tale divisione ha portato naturalmente a odi reciproci ed è stata uno dei fattori che hanno portato alla guerra civile libanese del 1975-1990. Gli &lt;strong&gt;Accordi di Taif&lt;/strong&gt; cercarono in qualche modo di correggere ciò, distribuendo equamente i seggi del Parlamento tra musulmani e cristiani (ma che sono sempre un numero eccessivo rispetto alla popolazione cristiana) e facendo sì che il primo ministro sia nominato dal Parlamento anziché dal presidente. &lt;strong&gt;È notevole il fatto che non ci sia stato alcun censimento ufficiale in Libano dal 1932&lt;/strong&gt;.In base alle attuali stime, però, la maggioranza tra tutti i gruppi religiosi ce l'hanno i musulmani sciiti. Sebbene la carica di presidente del Parlamento non sia insignificante, ciò che viene percepito è che essi non abbiano ricevuto un "trattamento equo" del governo in proporzione ai loro numeri, cosa da cui deriva la grande popolarità tra di loro di gruppi come Hezbollah. Dopotutto è stato Hezbollah che ha pagato per la ricostruzione della case nel Libano meridionale e nei quartieri meridionali di Beirut dopo la guerra dello scorso anno con Israele. Sì, ciò è stato fatto con l'aiuto del denaro iraniano. Nondimeno non è significativo che un paese non arabo abbia fatto di più del governo stesso o di altri paesi arabi nell'assistere la più grande fetta di popolazione? Gli sciiti libanesi dovrebbero davvero riporre la loro fiducia in un governo che ha chiesto a Hezbollah di disarmarsi mentre le loro città, villaggi e paesi venivano decimati dagli israeliani? O un &lt;em&gt;qualunqu&lt;/em&gt;e libanese può fidarsi di un primo ministro che ha abbracciato e baciato il Segretario di Stato Condoleeza Rice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137817280215019058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R00xmFQUbjI/AAAAAAAAAxs/czkUSallDrY/s320/rice_siniora_kiss.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;nonostante il suo rifiuto di chiedere un cessate il fuoco? Non c'è dubbio che, nell'attuale situazione di stallo in Libano, sia necessario trovare un candidato che raccolga il consenso di tutti. Ma è anche davvero il momento che venga fatto un nuovo censimento e che si lascino parlare i numeri.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rannie Amiri&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; è un commentatore indipendente del mondo arabo e islamico. Può essere contattato all’indirizzo: &lt;a href="mailto:rbamiri@yahoo.com"&gt;rbamiri@yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/"&gt;http://www.counterpunch.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Pubblicato da &lt;a href="http://www.comedonchisciotte.org/"&gt;http://www.comedonchisciotte.org&lt;/a&gt;  tradotto da Alcenero&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5394559674947987502?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5394559674947987502/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5394559674947987502' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5394559674947987502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5394559674947987502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/black-friday-in-beirut.html' title='Black Friday in Beirut'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R00xmFQUbjI/AAAAAAAAAxs/czkUSallDrY/s72-c/rice_siniora_kiss.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5351859745310403083</id><published>2007-11-23T11:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-23T12:22:20.500-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='siniora'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lahoud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='president election'/><title type='text'>A (n)everending simple game</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R0c2dlQUbiI/AAAAAAAAAxk/c1ht7VudJww/s1600-h/guesswholebanon%2520%2520president%2520-.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R0c2dlQUbiI/AAAAAAAAAxk/c1ht7VudJww/s320/guesswholebanon%2520%2520president%2520-.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136133781884005922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary, few rules:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- according Lebanese Constitution, the President must be christian (maronite)&lt;br /&gt;- the mandate of the current president Lahoud will end tonight, fri 23 Nov, at midnight&lt;br /&gt;- the opposition suggests as new president Aoun&lt;br /&gt;- the political forces of majority, currently at government with Fouad Siniora, did not accept this proposal: in this case, the Constitution (art.62 and 74) implies that the temporary mandate should be handles by the current government leaded by Siniora&lt;br /&gt;- but Lahoud claimed this government as "illegitimate" because it does not represents all ethnic groups in Lebanon, namely the Shiite Lebanese, since 13 Nov 2006, when Hezbollah-Amal-backed ministers resigned from cabinet to protest the establishment of the international tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafiq Hariri in 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;today Lahoud ordered the army to enforce law and order throughout Lebanon claiming that "&lt;em&gt;risks of a state of emergency&lt;/em&gt;" prevail over the nation. Lahoud said the move goes into effect after his term expires at midnight. The three-article statement signed by Lahoud said: "&lt;em&gt;The risks of a state of emergency prevail over all the territories of the Republic of Lebanon as of Nov. 24. The army is assigned the task of maintaining security and all military forces would be placed at the army's service&lt;/em&gt;," the statement added. It said that once a "legitimate government is formed" the army command would coordinate its moves with it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vote has been postponed for the fifth time and the new date is set for November 30.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible scenarios&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- rivals keep on seeking consensus president&lt;br /&gt;- majority's coalition moves to elect president unilaterally&lt;br /&gt;- Lahoud takes action before leaving office&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Risks:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- A brand-new bloody civil war&lt;br /&gt;- Political crisis, permanent and neverending&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Goals:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- A new President, which means political stability in lebanese lifeday&lt;br /&gt;- Peace&lt;br /&gt;- Are we sure they all want that all? ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;News: Many Lebanese fear a further escalation in the tension would quickly spill into the streets. The army has warned against violence and deployed to guarantee security.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5351859745310403083?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5351859745310403083/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5351859745310403083' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5351859745310403083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5351859745310403083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/neverending-simple-game.html' title='A (n)everending simple game'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R0c2dlQUbiI/AAAAAAAAAxk/c1ht7VudJww/s72-c/guesswholebanon%2520%2520president%2520-.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-1353426482860448827</id><published>2007-11-23T10:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-23T12:24:11.765-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Elezioni Presidente Libanese: Lahoud proclama lo stato d'emergenza</title><content type='html'>(AGI) - Beirut, 23 nov. - Si dimettera' alla scadenza naturale del mandato, dunque entro la mezzanotte di oggi, il presidente uscente del Libano, il filo-siriano Emile Lahoud: lo ha annunciato il suo portavoce, precisando tuttavia che prima di farsi da parte Lahoud intende adottare una serie di provvedimenti, attualmente al vaglio, per garantire la sicurezza nazionale. Poco prima la maggioranza parlamentare che appoggia il governo del moderato premier Fouad Siniora aveva intimato al capo dello Stato di abbandonare l'incarico e lasciare libero il Palazzo Presidenziale nel termine stabilito, altrimenti sarebbe andato incontro a un'incriminazione. "Se Lahoud decidesse di rimanere al suo posto, si tratterebbe di un reato contro la Costituzione che e' punito dalla legge", aveva avvertito il vice capo del Parlamento, Farid Makari, leggendo un comunicato emesso dalla coalizione pro-occidentale guidata da Saad Hariri, figlio dell'ex primo ministro Rafik al-Hariri, all'epoca capofila dello schieramento ostile a Damasco e assassinato nel febbraio 2005 con un attentato costato altri 22 morti, da molti imputato proprio alla Siria. Il monito di Makari aveva fatto immediatamante seguito all'ennesimo rinvio dell'elezione del nuovo presidente della Repubblica da parte dell'assemblea di Beirut, essendo venuto a mancare il prescritto quorum. Il voto e' stato adesso rinviato al 30 novembre, mentre continua a non profilarsi all'orizzonte alcun accordo per la scelta di un candidato di compromesso accettato anche dall'opposizione, capeggiata dagli integralisti sciiti di Hezbollah.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-1353426482860448827?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/1353426482860448827/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=1353426482860448827' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1353426482860448827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1353426482860448827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/elezioni-presidente-libanese-lahoud.html' title='Elezioni Presidente Libanese: Lahoud proclama lo stato d&apos;emergenza'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-3252292836497648729</id><published>2007-11-21T06:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-23T11:47:12.245-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marathon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suad'/><title type='text'>My little sister Suad at Beirut Marathon 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R0ct8VQUbhI/AAAAAAAAAxc/Z3nYBd312Yo/s1600-h/beirutmarathon_SA400914.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R0ct8VQUbhI/AAAAAAAAAxc/Z3nYBd312Yo/s320/beirutmarathon_SA400914.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136124414560333330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R0RAlVQUbgI/AAAAAAAAAxU/FvBlH0FRcbU/s1600-h/beirutmarathon_SA400818.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135300485214137858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R0RAlVQUbgI/AAAAAAAAAxU/FvBlH0FRcbU/s320/beirutmarathon_SA400818.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R0RAV1QUbfI/AAAAAAAAAxM/fR34Eey52OU/s1600-h/beirtumarathon_SA400936.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135300218926165490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R0RAV1QUbfI/AAAAAAAAAxM/fR34Eey52OU/s320/beirtumarathon_SA400936.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Buongiorno da Damasco!!!&lt;br /&gt;Rieccoci in Syria,proveniendo da Beirut sembra di essere stati catapultati 200 anni indietro!&lt;br /&gt;Qui troverete qualche foto della vera Beirut ovvero&lt;br /&gt;l'altra faccia di una citta' che non viene mai mostrata dai media:&lt;br /&gt;ha un coraggio incredibile di tirarsi su e rinnovarsi dopo anni di guerra civile e dagli ultimi bombardamenti dell'anno scorso.&lt;br /&gt;Ho saputo dai Lelli che il TG3 ha trasmesso un servizio ieri sera sulla Maratona.Riguardo l'adesione, c'erano 35000 pettorali, non so cosa abbiano detto in Italia&lt;br /&gt;E' stato veramente splendido.&lt;br /&gt;Abbiamo incontrato persone che arrivavano da ogni parte del pianeta apposta,oltre a tantissimi libanesi provenienti da tutto il paese.&lt;br /&gt;La giornata era assolata e calda (28 gradi),&lt;br /&gt;la partenza e' avvenuta alle 7 del mattino nei quartieri sud,lungo il parco della Foret des Pins,all'inizio dei quartieri che l'anno scorso sono stati rasi al suolo dai bombardamenti isrealiani.&lt;br /&gt;Irriconoscibili,li stanno ricostruendo ad una velocita' impressionante e difficilmente si direbbe che sia stata una citta' che abbia cosi' tante ferite.&lt;br /&gt;Le persone sono cordialissime (me lo ricordavo gia' due anni fa ma questa volta in particolare sono stati tutti veramente attenti e disponibilissimi).&lt;br /&gt;E la vita scorrerebbe totalmente normale fino al tramonto:infatti dopo le 17,tutti sono nei locali (c'e' di tutto,dal bistrot che sembra direttamente teletrasportato dai quartieri parigini,ai locali hight tech) e le strade sono deserte.&lt;br /&gt;Ci sono forze di polizia ogni 20 metri ma che abbandonano i check points per aiutare i turisti o gli stranieri ad orientarsi (l'altra sera,due soldati sono scesi dal carroarmato su cui stavano di guardia -ve ne sono in ogni quartiere agli incroci per la sicurezza- per indicarci la strada!!!!).&lt;br /&gt;E' terminata sul lungomare alle 12.30 e c'erano saltimbanchi,sbandieratori,&lt;br /&gt;gli allievi delle scuole,le squadre atletiche delle universita',tutti insieme a pranzare dopo le premiazioni!&lt;br /&gt;E a tutti i partecipanti una rosa,che abbiamo portato in Syria.&lt;br /&gt;Oggi le gambe dolorano un po' ma che soddisfazione!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un saluto a tutti!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;E.B. Suad &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&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/5270638195136787905-3252292836497648729?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/3252292836497648729/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=3252292836497648729' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3252292836497648729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3252292836497648729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-little-sister-suad-at-beirut.html' title='My little sister Suad at Beirut Marathon 2007'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/R0ct8VQUbhI/AAAAAAAAAxc/Z3nYBd312Yo/s72-c/beirutmarathon_SA400914.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-4683203008405279493</id><published>2007-11-17T17:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T17:35:54.856-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marathon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><title type='text'>Beirut runs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rz-W5lQUbeI/AAAAAAAAAxE/YG7AT8pVzPA/s1600-h/beirutmarathon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133988016222924258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rz-W5lQUbeI/AAAAAAAAAxE/YG7AT8pVzPA/s320/beirutmarathon.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tomorrow sat 18 Nov there is scheduled the Beirut Annual Marathon, over 18 000 are registered this year and hopefully its gonna be a great event.&lt;br /&gt;Suad, a friend of mine, will participate with her two french guys and an italian girl.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I cannot forget that last year i was there to run the race unfortunately postponed as marked by Pierre Gemayel’s assassination.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let's hope nothing happens this year. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-4683203008405279493?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/4683203008405279493/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=4683203008405279493' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4683203008405279493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4683203008405279493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/beirut-runs.html' title='Beirut runs'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rz-W5lQUbeI/AAAAAAAAAxE/YG7AT8pVzPA/s72-c/beirutmarathon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-1286966471107078818</id><published>2007-11-12T07:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T07:43:42.248-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brammertz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='belmar'/><title type='text'>Belmar after Brammertz in December</title><content type='html'>Il sostituto procuratore generale del Canada, &lt;strong&gt;Daniel Belmar&lt;/strong&gt;, nuovo capo della commissione Onu sull'omicidio Hariri. Belmar sara' nominato "martedi' o mercoledi' prossimi" - secondo il quotidiano al-Hayat - a capo della commissione che fino a dicembre sara' ancora guidata dal giudice belga &lt;strong&gt;Serge Brammertz&lt;/strong&gt;. Quest'ultimo presentera' alla fine di novembre al Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'Onu il suo settimo rapporto non definitivo sulle indagini per l'assassinio Hariri.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-1286966471107078818?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/1286966471107078818/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=1286966471107078818' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1286966471107078818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1286966471107078818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/belmar-after-brammertz-in-december.html' title='Belmar after Brammertz in December'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-105961446713564157</id><published>2007-11-11T04:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-11T04:32:35.441-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Celestial worry about Lebanese Presidential Elections</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rzb14xoj8oI/AAAAAAAAAw8/Ro1AHW7eX2s/s1600-h/papa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131559181180203650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rzb14xoj8oI/AAAAAAAAAw8/Ro1AHW7eX2s/s320/papa.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pope Benedict XVI Sunday expressed his concern about the presidential elections rescheduled for Nov. 21, underscoring that it was "crucial" for the future of the country. "The national assembly will be soon called upon to elect a new head of state," the pontiff said, adding that the ballot was "crucial for the survival of Lebanon and its institutions." "I add my concerns to those expressed recently by the Christian Maronite patriarch Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir and his wish that all Lebanese can recognise the new president," he said. The ballot has been deferred three times since September 25 amid deadlock on a consensus candidate between parliament's majority bloc and the opposition, which includes factions backed by Syria and Iran. (AFP)&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/5270638195136787905-105961446713564157?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/105961446713564157/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=105961446713564157' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/105961446713564157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/105961446713564157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/celestial-worry-about-lebanese.html' title='Celestial worry about Lebanese Presidential Elections'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rzb14xoj8oI/AAAAAAAAAw8/Ro1AHW7eX2s/s72-c/papa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5753316506854434755</id><published>2007-11-10T14:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T14:33:14.182-08:00</updated><title type='text'>To avoid the new empasse, the French role</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Libano: schiarita sul presidente, D’Alema presto a Beirut&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Piccola schiarita nel fosco scenario libanese per l’elezione del presidente. Nonostante il rinvio al 21 novembre della sessione parlamentare di lunedì 12, in cui era prevista una prima votazione, il patriarca maronita Nasrallah Sfeir ha intrapreso una iniziativa per sottoporre al Parlamento una rosa di nomi tra i quali eleggere il capo dello Stato. Secondo quanto riferito dal quotidiano al-Nahar, la rosa dovrebbe comporsi dai tre ai cinque nomi. Tuttavia, il Daily Star sottolinea come l’inviato diplomatico francese Claude Gueant stia cercando di tagliare a uno o a due i possibili papabili così da facilitare la scelta cui sarà chiamato il Parlamento di Beirut. La Francia sta tenendo un altissimo profilo nella crisi, con iniziative a tutto campo in Libano, in Siria e con la Lega araba, senza dimenticare che il tema è stato toccato anche dal presidente Nicolas Sarkozy durante il recente incontro con George W. Bush. L’iniziativa di Bkirki, come è definita quella lanciata dal patriarca Sfeir, favorisce una soluzione consensuale della querelle mentre allontana l’ipotesi di un presidente scelto a maggioranza semplice, un’ipotesi avanzata dal leader di “Forze libanesi” Samir Geagea ma considerata “un golpe” dall’opposizione filo-siriana. A favorire un’intesa tra i due campi contrapposti è anche l’atteggiamento degli Stati Uniti, almeno secondo quanto dichiarato venerdì dal deputato dell’opposizione Michel Murr. Secondo Murr, che aveva appena incontrato l’ambasciatore Usa Jeffrey Feltman, gli Stati Uniti non sono affatto favorevoli ad eleggere il presidente a maggioranza semplice, come è stato spesso riportato dalla stampa, e considerano la possibilità di giungere a una soluzione consensuale “al 90 per cento”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="444345"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Intanto, in preparazione della seduta del 21, viene dato per sicuro un incontro nei prossimi giorni tra il presidente della Camera, lo sciita Nabih Berri, e il leader della maggioranza, Saad Hariri. Dopo la missione di Gueant la Francia è intenzionata a sostenere il Libano passo passo fino all’elezione del presidente. Di conseguenza, è prevista per l’inizio della settimana una visita del ministro degli Esteri Bernard Kouchner, già recentemente a Beirut per le stesse ragioni assieme al collega italiano Massimo D’Alema e a quello spagnolo Miguel Angel Moratinos. Il Daily Star annuncia poi che anche D’Alema è pronto a partire per Beirut dove dovrebbe giungere entro la fine della prossima settimana. Il timore della comunità internazionale è che le due parti non trovino un accordo per il 24 novembre, data in cui, secondo la Costituzione, l’attuale presidente Emile Lahoud dovrà lasciare il proprio incarico. Come si ricorderà, già nel 2004 il filo siriano Lahoud ottenne una modifica costituzionale per estendere il proprio mandato tra le proteste dei suoi oppositori. Ora si teme che, qualora non sarà trovato l’accordo su un candidato, i due campi cerchino di forzare la situazione, l’uno attraverso una scelta a maggioranza semplice, l’altro per mezzo delle proteste di piazza, che negli ultimi mesi hanno paralizzato il Paese dei cedri.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5753316506854434755?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5753316506854434755/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5753316506854434755' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5753316506854434755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5753316506854434755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/to-avoid-new-empasse-french-role.html' title='To avoid the new empasse, the French role'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5828618943131689946</id><published>2007-11-10T14:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T14:28:45.214-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><title type='text'>What's up in Beirut?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RzYt6Boj8mI/AAAAAAAAAws/zJXYRVFtMfI/s1600-h/flag_FRAN0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131339300329484898" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="22" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RzYt6Boj8mI/AAAAAAAAAws/zJXYRVFtMfI/s200/flag_FRAN0001.gif" width="39" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Liban: la pression internationale s'accentue pour faire élire un président&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BEYROUTH, AFP - La pression internationale s'accentue sur le Liban qui n'arrive pas à sortir de la crise politique pour élire un nouveau président, deux semaines seulement avant la fin du mandat du prosyrien Emile Lahoud. "La communauté internationale est inquiète à l'approche de l'échéance du 24 novembre", quand s'achève le mandat du président Lahoud, a déclaré à l'AFP une source diplomatique occidentale à Beyrouth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La majorité parlementaire soutenue par l'Occident et l'opposition appuyée par Damas n'arrivent pas à se mettre d'accord sur son successeur. Le blocage est tel que les responsables libanais s'attendent à un report de la séance parlementaire de lundi consacrée à l'élection, après l'ajournement de deux précédentes sessions, le 25 septembre et le 23 octobre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le bras droit du président français Nicolas Sarkozy Claude Guéant est arrivé vendredi à Beyrouth, où il rencontrera les responsables libanais et le patriarche maronite Nasrallah Sfeir. Le président doit être issu de la communauté maronite, la plus puissante communauté chrétienne au Liban. La semaine prochaine, les ministres italien et français des Affaires étrangères, Massimo D'Alema et Bernard Kouchner, se rendront à Beyrouth, après une première visite fin octobre en compagnie de leur homologue espagnol, Miguel Angel Moratinos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"La communauté internationale met tout son poids pour aider le Liban, car si l'élection n'a pas lieu, la situation va se détériorer", explique Rosanna bou Monsef, analyste au quotidien à grand tirage An-Nahar. "Echouer dans cette mission sera très grave pour elle".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour le député Boutros Harb, un des candidats de la majorité à la présidence, "le monde est devenu conscient que si les choses vont mal au Liban, c'est toute la région qui en pâtira".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le Liban est plongé dans une grave crise politique depuis la démission des ministres chiites du gouvernement de Fouad Siniora le 11 novembre 2006. Depuis, le gouvernement est totalement paralysé, l'opposition menée par le Hezbollah chiite réclamant une part plus importante du pouvoir. "Cette période est très critique, on craint que quelque chose n'arrive pour contrarier le processus", selon Rosanna Bou Monsef.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beaucoup au Liban et à l'étranger redoutent un nouvel assassinat pour empêcher l'élection, comme ceux dont ont été victimes depuis 2005 des personnalités antisyriennes, dans lesquels Damas est soupçonné d'être impliqué. Dans le dernier attentat en date, le 19 septembre, le député antisyrien Antoine Ghanem a été tué aux côtés de cinq autres personnes. Les pressions se focalisent d'ailleurs sur la Syrie, ancienne puissance de tutelle au Liban.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le 4 novembre à Damas, "M. Guéant avait transmis au président syrien Bachar al-Assad un message de fermeté: le Liban doit élire un président par ses propres moyens, sans intervention étrangère", selon la source occidentale. Jeudi, les Etats-Unis ont fait savoir qu'ils "recourront à tous les moyens pour soutenir ceux qui veulent avoir une élection décente, juste et transparente".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La majorité affirme qu'en l'absence d'accord, ses députés pourront élire un président à la majorité simple entre le 14 et le 24 novembre, période durant laquelle ils pourront se réunir sans avoir été convoqués par le président du Parlement, Nabih Berri, un ténor de l'opposition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'opposition soutient qu'il est nécessaire de réunir un quorum de deux tiers des députés et que tout président élu sans ce quorum sera "illégitime". La majorité insiste pour que le futur président soit issu de son camp, ou du moins qu'il soit attaché "à l'indépendance et la souveraineté du Liban". L'opposition met en garde contre l'élection d'un candidat qui ne serait pas "consensuel", brandissant la menace de créer un gouvernement rival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RzYwRRoj8nI/AAAAAAAAAw0/GPNV470eNy4/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131341898784698994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="24" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RzYwRRoj8nI/AAAAAAAAAw0/GPNV470eNy4/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="38" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Libano, Cresce la pressione internazionale per fare eleggere un presidente&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Agence France Presse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beirut – Cresce la pressione internazionale sul Libano, che non riesce a uscire dalla crisi politica per eleggere un nuovo presidente, a sole due settimane dalla scadenza del mandato del filo-siriano Emile Lahoud. "La comunità internazionale è preoccupata per l’avvicinarsi della scadenza del 24 novembre", quando terminerà il mandato del presidente Lahoud, ha dichiarato all’Afp una fonte diplomatica occidentale a Beirut. La maggioranza parlamentare sostenuta dall’Occidente e l’opposizione appoggiata da Damasco non riescono a mettersi d’accordo sul suo successore. Lo stallo è tale che i responsabili libanesi si attendono un rinvio della seduta parlamentare di lunedì, dedicata all’elezione, dopo quelli delle due precedenti sessioni, il 25 settembre e il 23 ottobre. Il braccio destro del presidente francese Nicolas Sarkozy, Claude Guéant, è arrivato venerdì a Beirut, dove incontrerà i responsabili libanesi e il patriarca maronita Nasrallah Sfeir. Il presidente deve provenire dalla comunità maronita, la più forte comunità cristiana del Libano. La prossima settimana, i ministri degli Esteri italiano e francese, Massimo D'Alema e Bernard Kouchner, si recheranno a Beirut, dopo una prima visita di fine ottobre con il loro omologo spagnolo, Miguel Angel Moratinos. "La comunità internazionale ce la sta mettendo tutta per aiutare il Libano, perché se non ‘c’è l’elezione, la situazione andrà a peggiorare", spiega Rosanna bou Monsef, analista del quotidiano di grande diffusione An-Nahar. "Fallire in questa missione si rivelerebbe molto grave". Secondo il deputato Boutros Harb, uno dei candidati della maggioranza alla presidenza, "il mondo è divenuto consapevole che se le cose vanno male in Libano, a soffrirne è tutta la regione". Il Libano è piombato in una grave crisi politica in seguito alle dimissioni dei ministri sciiti del governo di Fouad Sinora, l’11 novembre 2006. Da allora, il governo è completamente paralizzato, e l’opposizione guidata dallo Hezbollah sciita chiede un ruolo maggiore nella gestione del potere. "Questo momento è molto critico, si teme che non arrivi nulla a invertire il processo", dice Rosanna Bou Monsef. Molti in Libano e all’estero temono un nuovo assassinio per impedire l’elezione, come quelli di cui sono state vittime nel 2005 delle personalità anti-siriane, e delle quali Damasco è sospettata di essere coinvolta. Nell’ultimo attentato in ordine di tempo, il 19 settembre, il deputato anti-siriano Antoine Ghanem è stato ucciso insieme ad altre cinque persone. le pressioni si concentrano sulla Siria, antica potenza tutelare del Libano. Il 4 novembre a Damasco, "Guéant aveva trasmesso al presidente siriano Bachar al-Assad un messaggio di fermezza: il Libano deve elegger un presidente con i suoi propri mezzi, senza interventi stranieri", secondo la fonte occidentale. Giovedì, gli Stati Uniti hanno fatto sapere che "ricorreranno a tutti i mezzi per sostenere coloro che vogliono avere un’elezione decente, giusta e trasparente". La maggioranza afferma che in assenza di un accordo, i suoi deputati potranno eleggere un presidente a maggioranza semplice tra il 14 e il 24 novembre, periodo durante il quale potranno riunirsi senza essere stati convocati dal presidente del Parlamento, Nabih Berri, un esponente di primo piano dell’opposizione. L'opposizione sostiene che sia necessario raggiungere un quorum di due terzi dei deputati e che ogni presidente eletto senza questo quorum sarà "illegittimo". La maggioranza insiste perché il futuro presidente provenga dalle sue fila, o almeno che sia legato "all’indipendenza e alla sovranità del Libano". L'opposizione mette in guardia dall’elezione di un candidato che non sarebbe "consensuale", brandendo la minaccia di creare un governo rivale. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5828618943131689946?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5828618943131689946/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5828618943131689946' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5828618943131689946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5828618943131689946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/whats-up-in-beirut.html' title='What&apos;s up in Beirut?'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RzYt6Boj8mI/AAAAAAAAAws/zJXYRVFtMfI/s72-c/flag_FRAN0001.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2155403563462919972</id><published>2007-11-07T15:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T15:53:44.356-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='khalass'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hamra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='together for lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blend'/><title type='text'>Fri 9 Nov, "Khalass" free concert in Hamra starring Blend</title><content type='html'>This Friday, Nov. 9, the Khalass! Together For Lebanon campaign is putting on a free concert in Hamra starting at 8pm to unite Lebanese people in the call for dialogue, civil solutions, and an end to the crisis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RzJPBxoj8kI/AAAAAAAAAwc/AFYV4vcqcqo/s1600-h/Poster_khalass%5B1%5D.png"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130249817450345026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RzJPBxoj8kI/AAAAAAAAAwc/AFYV4vcqcqo/s400/Poster_khalass%5B1%5D.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KHALASS! NO MORE SILENCE &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FREE CONCERT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAMRA Parking Lot after Librairie Antoine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8-11pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tania Saleh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hiba Mounzer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blend&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Special Guest…Oumayma El Khalil &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;BRING YOUR FRIENDS &amp;amp; COME BY AT 8pm! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PASS THIS MESSAGE ALONG &amp;amp; TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW…&lt;br /&gt;There will be an opportunity to sign the petition and learn more about how to join Khalass! ( www.khalass.net).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lebanese people are bombarded with negative, frightful images and discussions all day long. In order to combat this psychological terror, the Khalass! campaign along with generous artists and sponsors are putting on a free concert to make some noise and a statement…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Lebanese people are paying attention, we demand civil solutions, we refuse violence! &lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dialogue is always an option.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-2155403563462919972?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/2155403563462919972/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=2155403563462919972' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2155403563462919972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2155403563462919972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/fri-9-nov-khalass-free-concert-in-hamra.html' title='Fri 9 Nov, &quot;Khalass&quot; free concert in Hamra starring Blend'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RzJPBxoj8kI/AAAAAAAAAwc/AFYV4vcqcqo/s72-c/Poster_khalass%5B1%5D.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-733602494094181534</id><published>2007-11-02T14:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-02T15:00:12.397-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><title type='text'>Before being dragged in the war</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Ryudp15TPhI/AAAAAAAAAwU/b5RM9Vfc9V0/s1600-h/primadiesseretrascinatiallaguerra.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Ryudp15TPhI/AAAAAAAAAwU/b5RM9Vfc9V0/s400/primadiesseretrascinatiallaguerra.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128365942859054610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-733602494094181534?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/733602494094181534/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=733602494094181534' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/733602494094181534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/733602494094181534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/11/before-being-dragged-in-war.html' title='Before being dragged in the war'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Ryudp15TPhI/AAAAAAAAAwU/b5RM9Vfc9V0/s72-c/primadiesseretrascinatiallaguerra.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8351288483507128188</id><published>2007-10-30T14:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-02T14:57:05.556-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Heinrich Boll Foundation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Albert Hurani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American University Beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amazelab'/><title type='text'>Seminario e workshop su "Comunita' e territori" a Beirut</title><content type='html'>Beirut – La relazione tra comunità e territorio e tra città e cittadini a Beirut, che con la sua situazione ben rappresenta quella di tutto il paese. Saranno questi i temi del seminario e workshop internazionale “Comunità e territorio”, organizzato nella capitale libanese dall’associazione culturale aMAZElab di Milano in collaborazione con Heinrich Boll Foundation, Middle East Office (Beirut). Obiettivo del progetto è investigare la vita attuale della città che dal punto di vista sociale, come ha affermato l’intellettuale Albert Hurani, offre la possibilità di vivere in due o tre mondi contemporaneamente senza appartenere realmente a nessuno di questi. L’attenzione del seminario e del progetto sarà posta sulle zone urbane e periferiche, sulla politica sociale e sulla gestione territoriale, bilanciando i modelli burocratici con gli usi locali. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al seminario parteciperanno studenti e giovani artisti con conoscenze e iter formativi diversi, che avranno la possibilità di confrontarsi e di migliorare le proprie capacità. Le differenti comunità locali, e in generale tutto il pubblico, diventeranno attivi partecipanti di un dialogo sperimentale all’interno di una piattaforma di discussione su temi legati al loro territorio. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I workshop, invece, si svolgeranno all’interno delle uniche tre biblioteche cittadine (aperte dopo il 2001), per sottolinearne l’importanza e la possibilità di interazione con i cittadini nello sviluppo sociale e culturale del territorio. Scopo del laboratorio è la creazione di un archivio pubblico che comprenda immagini, testi, video, disegni e mappe su temi sociali come il concetto di spazio pubblico e privato. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il seminario si terrà sabato 17 novembre presso l’American University Beirut e vedrà la partecipazione di scrittori, giornalisti, architetti e artisti. Domenica 18, invece, tour guidati da artisti, architetti, geografi e scrittori permetteranno di sperimentare la città alla scoperta delle implicazioni geopolitiche di Beirut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunedì 19, martedì 20 e mercoledì 21 si terranno invece i workshop nelle tre biblioteche pubbliche della città. Loraine Leeson terrà il laboratorio sull’attivismo socio-culturale, Vito Acconci quello sul tema dell’installazione urbana, mentre Calin Dan quello sul tema dell’arte pubblica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fino al 15 dicembre, inoltre, presso la biblioteca di Haret Hreik di Beirut sarà aperta la mostra dei materiali visivi. Nella primavera del 2008 è invece prevista una pubblicazione con saggi critici e teorici sul risultato, i testi delle comunità locali e i materiali visivi. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per informazioni: aMazelab www.amaze.it&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8351288483507128188?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8351288483507128188/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8351288483507128188' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8351288483507128188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8351288483507128188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/10/seminario-e-workshop-su-comunita-e.html' title='Seminario e workshop su &quot;Comunita&apos; e territori&quot; a Beirut'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-6033135206060510827</id><published>2007-09-25T02:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T03:16:39.394-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hariri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lahoud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antoine ghanem'/><title type='text'>The lebanese job</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvjbV3pz5DI/AAAAAAAAAwM/uShRninFNzM/s1600-h/elezioni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvjbV3pz5DI/AAAAAAAAAwM/uShRninFNzM/s320/elezioni.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114078545642251314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alla prima convocazione del Parlamento per l'elezione del nuovo presidente del Libano, maggioranza e opposizione sono d'accordo su un punto: non ci sarà una fumata bianca sul nome del successore di Lahoud. Troppo distanti le loro posizioni, ancorpiù dopo l'assassinio di Antoine Ghanem.&lt;br /&gt;I parlamentari libanesi hanno due mesi per nominare il nuovo capo di Stato, in carica fino al 24 novembre. Il nuovo Presidente potrà essere eletto al primo scrutinio solo con una maggioranza qualificata, ossia se votato dai due terzi del Parlamento; nelle votazioni successive sarà invece sufficiente la maggioranza assoluta. &lt;br /&gt;Per l'opposizione la necessità di eleggere il presidente con una larga maggioranza le permetterebbe di evitare l'elezione di un candidato indesiderato. Ma un accordo con la maggioranza, che non dispone dei due terzi del Parlamento, al momento non c'è. &lt;br /&gt;Come ha detto oggi lo speaker Nabih Berri il voto per l'elezione presidenziale è stato rimandato al prossimo 23 ottobre, per il mancato raggiungimento del quorum, fissando la prossima seduta dopo l'Eid-el-Fitr, la festa che segna la fine del Ramadan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lo stallo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da lunedì il centro di Beirut, ove si trovano la sede del Parlamento e quella del Governo, da dieci mesi occupato dal sit-in dell'opposizione, è zona militare, per proteggere l'afflusso dei deputati in Parlamento. Si dice chesiano circa 40 i deputati della maggioranza ospitati e sorvegliati in un'ala protetta del Phoenicia International Hotel, il lussuoso albergo della capitale, di fronte alla curva del lungomare dove nel febbraio 2005 trovarono la morte Rafiq Hariri ed altre 22 persone.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo l'uccisione di Ghanem, la maggioranza conta ora 68 voti su 128, ben al di sotto del quorum di due terzi richiesto per l'elezione del nuovo Presidente. Se la coalizione al governo insisterà nell'eleggere il futuro capo dello Stato con la maggioranza semplice (50% piu' uno, ovvero con 65 voti) entro il 24 novembre, l'opposizione potrebbe tradurre in fatti la formazione di un governo alternativo a quello del premier Fuad Siniora, che modifichi la legge elettorale ed invochi nuove elezioni legislative eleggendo un proprio capo dello Stato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il Libano avrebbe cosi' due governi, due presidenti della Repubblica, due Parlamenti&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-6033135206060510827?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/6033135206060510827/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=6033135206060510827' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6033135206060510827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6033135206060510827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/09/lebanese-job.html' title='The lebanese job'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvjbV3pz5DI/AAAAAAAAAwM/uShRninFNzM/s72-c/elezioni.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-3953580304943670300</id><published>2007-09-20T02:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-20T02:35:22.196-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anti-syrian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sin-el-fil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bomb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='antoine ghanem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bayrouth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='assassination'/><title type='text'>The (n)ever changing story</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvI7TxMEnoI/AAAAAAAAAv0/fsRY534tP3Q/s1600-h/sinelfil_map.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112213737826459266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvI7TxMEnoI/AAAAAAAAAv0/fsRY534tP3Q/s400/sinelfil_map.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvI7NRMEnnI/AAAAAAAAAvs/CYvIjflP0dQ/s1600-h/sinelfil_190907.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112213626157309554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvI7NRMEnnI/AAAAAAAAAvs/CYvIjflP0dQ/s400/sinelfil_190907.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvI92xMEnpI/AAAAAAAAAv8/TNtWhY2TY0s/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112216538145136274" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="23" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvI92xMEnpI/AAAAAAAAAv8/TNtWhY2TY0s/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="46" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Il deputato della maggioranza parlamentare antisiriana, &lt;strong&gt;Antoine Ghanem&lt;/strong&gt;, e' stato assassinato ieri in un attentato a Beirut, nel quartiere cristiano Est della città, Sin-el-Fil.&lt;br /&gt;Nell'attentato sono morte altre otto persone e ci sono stati 20 feriti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il &lt;strong&gt;25 settembre &lt;/strong&gt;in Libano ci saranno le &lt;strong&gt;elezioni per il rinnovo presidenziale&lt;/strong&gt;. Una campagna a colpi di sangue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poco altro da commentare...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvI97BMEnqI/AAAAAAAAAwE/i_hmyfp8Fr0/s1600-h/flag_UNKG0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112216611159580322" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="27" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvI97BMEnqI/AAAAAAAAAwE/i_hmyfp8Fr0/s200/flag_UNKG0001.gif" width="51" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The assassination of an anti-Syrian Lebanese MP Antoine Ghanem was aimed at scuttling a looming presidential poll and foiling attempts at political reconciliation, the Lebanese press said Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;"Antoine Ghanem, a bloody message for the majority and the presidential election," thundered the front-page headline of the leading &lt;strong&gt;An Nahar newspaper&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parliament was due to meet on Tuesday to vote on a successor to pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud but rival political leaders have failed to agree on a consensus candidate, raising fears of further turmoil.&lt;br /&gt;Ghanem's death reduced the anti-Syrian coalition's majority to 68 members out of the now 127-member house, with numbers set to play a key role in the vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaker Nabih Berri, a key opposition figure, said last month that the Hizbullah-led opposition was ready to drop its demands for a national unity government if all parties agree to choose a new president by consensus when parliament convenes on September 25. Lebanon has been mired in a political stalemate since last November, when pro-Syrian opposition forces, led by hizbullah, withdrew their six ministers from the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Al-Mustaqbal&lt;/strong&gt; daily, owned by the family of MP Saad Hariri, said Ghanem's killing was "a quick response by the Syrian regime and its intelligence services to the call of the Council of Maronite Bishops" which on Wednesday urged lawmakers to take part in the vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Antoine Ghanem martyred: assassinating reconciliation through the presidency," headlined the leftist &lt;strong&gt;As Safir&lt;/strong&gt; newspaper, which tilts toward the opposition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Assassination threatens reconciliation and paves the way for chaos," added the opposition daily &lt;strong&gt;Al-Akhbar&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-3953580304943670300?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/3953580304943670300/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=3953580304943670300' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3953580304943670300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3953580304943670300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/09/never-changing-story.html' title='The (n)ever changing story'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RvI7TxMEnoI/AAAAAAAAAv0/fsRY534tP3Q/s72-c/sinelfil_map.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2159958602540666284</id><published>2007-09-09T23:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T23:53:30.237-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sous les bombs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='venezia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biennale'/><title type='text'>Alla Biennale di Venezia c'era anche questo ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.underthebombs.com/synopsis.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sous les Bombs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zeina vive a Dubai. In piena fase di divorzio, manda suo figlio Karim a casa di sua sorella a Kherbet Salem, un piccolo villaggio nel Sud del Libano, per proteggerlo dai conflitti coniugali.&lt;br /&gt;Pochi giorni dopo scoppia la guerra (12 Luglio 2006, ndr).&lt;br /&gt;Piena di angoscia, Zeina parte immediatamente per il Libano, passando per la Turchia.&lt;br /&gt;Ma a causa dei blocchi, riesce ad arrivare al porto di Beirut soltanto il giorno del cessate il fuoco.&lt;br /&gt;Qui incontra Tony, il solo autista di taxi che accetta di portarla al Sud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YbabkJPcTts"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YbabkJPcTts" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-2159958602540666284?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/2159958602540666284/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=2159958602540666284' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2159958602540666284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2159958602540666284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/09/alla-biennale-di-venezia-cera-anche.html' title='Alla Biennale di Venezia c&apos;era anche questo ...'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-3699669656061022889</id><published>2007-08-30T03:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-30T05:54:19.877-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pictura'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ali hassoun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alzano lombardo'/><title type='text'>"Il Sole ad Occidente", Mostra di pittura, Alzano Lombardo (BG), 1-16 Set: Ali Hassoun</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rta92tFofVI/AAAAAAAAAvk/bdSgSdZIajg/s1600-h/alihassoun.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rta92tFofVI/AAAAAAAAAvk/bdSgSdZIajg/s320/alihassoun.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104475975184842066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inaugurazione&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sabato 1 settembre 2007, ore 18,30 &lt;br /&gt;presso la Chiesa di San Michele Viale Roma, Alzano Lombardo (Bergamo).&lt;br /&gt;Sarà presente l’artista.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per arrivare: A4 uscita Bergamo, dopo il casello seconda uscita sulla destra (indicazione Alzano Lombardo), seguire le indicazioni per Valle Seriana e imboccare la superstrada ex SS35 (uscita Alzano Lombardo - Museo delle Sacrestie). La ex-chiesa si trova nel centro del paese, dietro alla basilica di San Martino.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-3699669656061022889?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/3699669656061022889/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=3699669656061022889' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3699669656061022889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3699669656061022889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/08/il-sole-ad-occidente-mostra-di-pittura.html' title='&quot;Il Sole ad Occidente&quot;, Mostra di pittura, Alzano Lombardo (BG), 1-16 Set: Ali Hassoun'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rta92tFofVI/AAAAAAAAAvk/bdSgSdZIajg/s72-c/alihassoun.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-4728973467198895936</id><published>2007-07-19T14:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-02T02:46:42.913-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='damien rice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the blower&apos;s daughter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='villa arconati'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piemmegroppi'/><title type='text'>...and finally arrived The Blower's Daughter: thanks Damo!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iAFMQ8wCWOU"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iAFMQ8wCWOU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Watching back to the last 3 years of my life, I've realized i was a shy, polite and in some way untrustful musician...&lt;br /&gt;but that is not the real you because inside you are wild and crazy.&lt;br /&gt;And this song is for everyone who feels deppressed... by work, people, family...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To say "f**k everything!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I'm going to be myself&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;I'm going to be free!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dedicated to the brighting solar person who i had the widely great chance to be with at the DR's concert in Villa Arconati, Milan...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-4728973467198895936?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/4728973467198895936/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=4728973467198895936' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4728973467198895936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4728973467198895936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/07/and-finally-arrived-blowers-daughter.html' title='...and finally arrived The Blower&apos;s Daughter: thanks Damo!'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8836405550239881904</id><published>2007-07-12T14:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-12T15:09:26.169-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pensa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war july 2006'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bint jbeil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marun-al-ras'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dibbin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fabrizio moro'/><title type='text'>1 year ago ... THINK ... Pensa</title><content type='html'>(Thanks to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://skylarkvoice.blogspot.com/"&gt;Skylarkvoice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for translating the lyrics of "Pensa", by Fabrizio Moro)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zM_MEAijeu0"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zM_MEAijeu0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ﻜﺎﻥ ﺒﻠﺩ ﺍﻻﺭﺯ ﻭ ﺍﻠﻠﻴﻤﻭﻥ ﻭ ﺍﻠﺯﻴﺘﻭﻥ&lt;br /&gt;ﻜﺎﻥ ﺒﻠﺩ ﺍﻠﺩﻡ ﻭ ﺍﻠﺤﺭﺏ ﺒﻴﻥ ﺍﻠﻁﻭﺍﻴﻑ ﻭ ﺍﻠﻌﻴﻝ&lt;br /&gt;ﻜﺎﻥ ﺒﻠﺩ ﺍﻟﻟﻲ ﺒﺘﺩﺒﺢ ﻭﻻﺩﻩ ﻭ ﺒﻨﺎﺘﻪ&lt;br /&gt;ﻜﺎﻨﻭﺍ ﺭﺠﺎﻝ ﻭ ﻨﺴﻭﺍﻥ ﺍﻟﻟﻲ ﻤﺎ ﺒﻴﻘﺸﻌﻭﺍ&lt;br /&gt;ﻭ ﺒﻴﺤﻜﻭﺍ ﻉ ﺼﻭﺕ ﻭﺍﻁﻲ&lt;br /&gt;ﻭ ﺒﻴﻁﻔﻭﺍ ﺍﻟﻀﻭ&lt;br /&gt;ﻭ ﺒﻴﺸﺭﺤﻭﺍ ﺒﺎﻟﺴﻜﻭﺕ ﻜﻝ ﺭﺼﺎﺹ&lt;br /&gt;ﻭ ﻜﻝ ﺠﺜﺔ ﻋﻠﻰ ﺍﻠﻁﺭﻴﻕ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rpaitx96uzI/AAAAAAAAAu0/AQaT8D4fcjg/s1600-h/rebuilding_beirut.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086431736552405810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rpaitx96uzI/AAAAAAAAAu0/AQaT8D4fcjg/s320/rebuilding_beirut.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[rebuilding Beirut]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ﻨﺤﻥ... ﺃﻨﺘﻡ... ﻫﻡ... ﺸﻭ ﻴﻌﻨﻲ ﻨﺤﻥ؟&lt;br /&gt;ﻠﻨﺎ ﺍﻠﺤﺭﻴﺔ ﺍﻥ ﻨﻘﻭﻝ&lt;br /&gt;ﺍﻨﻭ ﺍﻠﻌﻴﻭﻥ ﺒﻴﺸﻔﻭﺍ&lt;br /&gt;ﻭ ﺍﻻﺫﻥ ﺒﻴﺘﺴﻤﻊ&lt;br /&gt;ﻭ ﺍﻠﻔﻡ ﺒﺘﺤﻜﻲ&lt;br /&gt;ﻭ ﺍﻠﻌﻘﻝ ﺒﻴﺘﺎﻤﻝ&lt;br /&gt;ﺒﻌﺽ ﺍﻠﻤﺭﺍﺕ ﺒﻴﺸﺠﺏ ﻭ ﺒﻌﺽ ﺍﻠﻤﺭﺍﺕ ﺒﻴﻐﻔﺭ&lt;br /&gt;ﺒﺴﻴﻁﴼ ﺒﻴﻔﻜﺭ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rpai7h96u0I/AAAAAAAAAu8/x4VxqDSoqw8/s1600-h/rebuilding_bintjbeil.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086431972775607106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rpai7h96u0I/AAAAAAAAAu8/x4VxqDSoqw8/s320/rebuilding_bintjbeil.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[rebuilding Bint Jbeil]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ﻔﻜﺭ&lt;br /&gt;ﻗﺒﻠﻤﺎ ﺘﻁﻠﻕ ﺍﻠﻨﺎﺭ&lt;br /&gt;ﻔﻜﺭ&lt;br /&gt;ﻗﺒﻠﻤﺎ ﺘﻘﻭﻝ ﻭ ﺘﺤﻜﻡ&lt;br /&gt;ﻓﻜﺭ ﺍﻨﻭ ﺍﻠﻘﺭﺍﺭ ﻔﻴﻙ&lt;br /&gt;ﺨﻠﻴﻙ ﻠﺤﻅﺔ&lt;br /&gt;ﺨﻠﻴﻙ ﻠﺤﻅﺔ ﺒﺱ&lt;br /&gt;ﻤﻊ ﺭﺍﺴﻙ ﺒﻴﻥ ﺇﻴﺩﻴﻙ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RpajHB96u1I/AAAAAAAAAvE/LD_49l74J_w/s1600-h/rebuilding_dibbin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086432170344102738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RpajHB96u1I/AAAAAAAAAvE/LD_49l74J_w/s320/rebuilding_dibbin.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[rebuilding Dibbin]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ﻜﺎﻨﻭﺍ ﺸﺒﺎﺏ ﺍﻠﻠﻲ ﻤﺎﺘﻭﺍ&lt;br /&gt;ﺒﺱ ﻋﺭﻓﻭﺍ ﺍﻨﻭ ﻠﻥ ﻜﻨﺎ ﻨﺴﻴﻨﺎ ﺍﻓﻜﺎﺭﻫﻡ ﻭ ﺍﺤﻼﻤﻫﻡ&lt;br /&gt;ﺍﻓﻜﺎﺭ ﻤﺜﻝ ﻤﻌﺠﺯﺍﺕ&lt;br /&gt;ﺍﻓﻜﺎﺭ ﺍﻠﺘﺤﺭﻴﺭ ﻭ ﺍﻠﺤﻭﺍﺭ ﻭ ﺍﻠﺴﻭﻴﺔ&lt;br /&gt;ﻀﺩ ﺍﻠﻔﺴﺎﺩ ﻭ ﺍﻠﻁﻐﻴﺎﻥ ﻭ ﺍﻻﺤﺘﻼﻝ&lt;br /&gt;ﻷﺠﻝ ﺍﻠﻤﻅﻠﻭﻤﻴﻥ&lt;br /&gt;ﻷﺠﻝ ﺍﻠﻤﺤﺭﻭﻤﻴﻥ&lt;br /&gt;ﻀﺩ ﺍﻠﻠﻲ ﺒﻴﺨﺒﻭﺍ ﻀﻤﻴﺭﻫﻡ ﺘﺤﺕ ﺍﻹﺴﻤﻨﺕ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RpajVh96u2I/AAAAAAAAAvM/KSSnR0bBJQA/s1600-h/rebuilding_marunalras.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086432419452205922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RpajVh96u2I/AAAAAAAAAvM/KSSnR0bBJQA/s320/rebuilding_marunalras.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[rebuilding Marun-al-Ras]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ﻜﺎﻨﻭﺍ ﺭﺠﺎﻝ ﻭ ﻨﺴﻭﺍﻥ ﺍﻟﻟﻲ ﻗﺎﻭﻤﻭﺍ&lt;br /&gt;ﺤﺘﻰ ﺍﺫﺍ ﺍﻨﻴﻬﺩﻤﺕ ﻜﻝ ﺸﻲ&lt;br /&gt;ﻻﻨﻭ ﺸﻭ ﻴﻌﻨﻲ ﺍﻠﺤﻴﺎﺓ&lt;br /&gt;ﺍﺫﺍ ﺒﺘﺨﺎﻑ ﻤﻥ ﻗﻨﺒﻠﺔ ﺍﻭ ﺴﻼﺡ؟&lt;br /&gt;ﺒﻴﺨﻠﺼﻭﺍ ﺍﻠﻨﺎﺱ&lt;br /&gt;ﺒﻴﺨﻠﺼﻭﺍ ﺍﻠﺠﻴﻭﺵ ﻭ ﺍﻠﺤﺭﻭﺏ&lt;br /&gt;ﻤﺎ ﺒﻴﺨﻠﺹ ﺍﻹﻗﺘﻨﺎﻉ&lt;br /&gt;ﺍﻨﻭ ﺍﻠﻌﺩﺍﻠﺔ ﻭ ﺍﻠﺴﻼﻡ ﻭ ﺍﻠﻜﺭﺍﻤﺔ ﻤﺵ ﺃﻭﻫﺎﻡ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RpajsR96u4I/AAAAAAAAAvc/LpI2JBaN9FM/s1600-h/rebuilding_bintjbeil2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086432810294229890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RpajsR96u4I/AAAAAAAAAvc/LpI2JBaN9FM/s320/rebuilding_bintjbeil2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[rebuilding Bint Jbeil]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ﻔﻜﺭ&lt;br /&gt;ﻗﺒﻠﻤﺎ ﺘﻁﻠﻕ ﺍﻠﻨﺎﺭ&lt;br /&gt;ﻔﻜﺭ&lt;br /&gt;ﻗﺒﻠﻤﺎ ﺘﻘﻭﻝ ﻭ ﺘﺤﻜﻡ&lt;br /&gt;ﻓﻜﺭ ﺍﻨﻭ ﺍﻠﻘﺭﺍﺭ ﻔﻴﻙ&lt;br /&gt;ﺨﻠﻴﻙ ﻠﺤﻅﺔ&lt;br /&gt;ﺨﻠﻴﻙ ﻠﺤﻅﺔ ﺒﺱ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ﻤﻊ ﺭﺍﺴﻙ ﺒﻴﻥ ﺇﻴﺩﻴﻙ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PENSA [Fabrizio Moro]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci sono stati uomini che hanno scritto pagine&lt;br /&gt;Appunti di una vita dal valore inestimabile&lt;br /&gt;Insostituibili perché hanno denunciato&lt;br /&gt;il più corrotto dei sistemi troppo spesso ignorato&lt;br /&gt;Uomini o angeli mandati sulla terra per combattere una guerra&lt;br /&gt;di faide e di famiglie sparse come tante biglie&lt;br /&gt;su un isola di sangue che fra tante meraviglie&lt;br /&gt;fra limoni e fra conchiglie... massacra figli e figlie&lt;br /&gt;di una generazione costretta a non guardare&lt;br /&gt;a parlare a bassa voce a spegnere la luce&lt;br /&gt;a commententare in pace ogni pallottola nell'aria&lt;br /&gt;ogni cadavere in un fosso&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ci sono stati uomini che passo dopo passo&lt;br /&gt;hanno lasciato un segno con coraggio e con impegno&lt;br /&gt;con dedizione contro un'istituzione organizzata&lt;br /&gt;cosa nostra... cosa vostra... cos'è vostro?&lt;br /&gt;è nostra... la libertà di dire&lt;br /&gt;che gli occhi sono fatti per guardare&lt;br /&gt;La bocca per parlare &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;le orecchie ascoltano...&lt;br /&gt;Non solo musica non solo musica&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;La testa si gira e aggiusta la mira ragiona&lt;br /&gt;A volte condanna a volte perdona&lt;br /&gt;Semplicemente&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pensa prima di sparare&lt;br /&gt;Pensa prima di dire e di giudicare prova a pensare&lt;br /&gt;Pensa che puoi decidere tu&lt;br /&gt;Resta un attimo soltanto un attimo di più&lt;br /&gt;Con la testa fra le mani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ci sono stati uomini che sono morti giovani&lt;br /&gt;Ma consapevoli che le loro idee&lt;br /&gt;Sarebbero rimaste nei secoli come parole iperbole&lt;br /&gt;Intatte e reali come piccoli miracoli&lt;br /&gt;Idee di uguaglianza idee di educazione&lt;br /&gt;Contro ogni uomo che eserciti oppressione&lt;br /&gt;Contro ogni suo simile contro chi è più debole&lt;br /&gt;Contro chi sotterra la coscienza nel cemento&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pensa prima di sparare&lt;br /&gt;Pensa prima di dire e di giudicare prova a pensare&lt;br /&gt;Pensa che puoi decidere tu&lt;br /&gt;Resta un attimo soltanto un attimo di più&lt;br /&gt;Con la testa fra le mani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ci sono stati uomini che hanno continuato&lt;br /&gt;Nonostante intorno fosse [tutto bruciato&lt;br /&gt;Perché in fondo questa vita non ha significato&lt;br /&gt;Se hai paura di una bomba o di un fucile puntato&lt;br /&gt;Gli uomini passano e passa una canzone&lt;br /&gt;Ma nessuno potrà fermare mai la convinzione&lt;br /&gt;Che la giustizia no... non è solo un'illusione&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pensa prima di sparare&lt;br /&gt;Pensa prima dì dire e di giudicare prova a pensare&lt;br /&gt;Pensa che puoi decidere tu&lt;br /&gt;Resta un attimo soltanto un attimo di più&lt;br /&gt;Con la testa fra le mani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Pensa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8836405550239881904?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8836405550239881904/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8836405550239881904' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8836405550239881904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8836405550239881904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/07/1-year-ago-think-pensa.html' title='1 year ago ... 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Pensa'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rpaitx96uzI/AAAAAAAAAu0/AQaT8D4fcjg/s72-c/rebuilding_beirut.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-4311767430085352921</id><published>2007-07-09T14:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-09T14:50:33.824-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='germania 2007'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italia francia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='campioni del mondo'/><title type='text'>1 year ago ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RpKtdJkxJcI/AAAAAAAAAus/Xqtbjimi4FU/s1600-h/campioni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RpKtdJkxJcI/AAAAAAAAAus/Xqtbjimi4FU/s320/campioni.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085317645552657858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-4311767430085352921?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/4311767430085352921/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=4311767430085352921' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4311767430085352921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4311767430085352921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/07/1-year-ago.html' title='1 year ago ...'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RpKtdJkxJcI/AAAAAAAAAus/Xqtbjimi4FU/s72-c/campioni.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-9219258445789626812</id><published>2007-07-05T14:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-05T14:50:29.420-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarkis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festival'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beiteddine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shakira'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='byblos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='riccardo muti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baalback'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baalbek'/><title type='text'>No Shakira, No (Beiteddine, Baalbek) Party</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Ro1mqZkxJbI/AAAAAAAAAuk/9UPc2uRgu-s/s1600-h/beiteddinefestival.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Ro1mqZkxJbI/AAAAAAAAAuk/9UPc2uRgu-s/s320/beiteddinefestival.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083832432976799154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lebanon's main summer festivals have been called off for a second straight year - with a &lt;strong&gt;Shakira&lt;/strong&gt; concert cancelled -- because of security fears and political tensions, organisers said on Thursday. Shakira, the Colombian superstar with Lebanese roots, was to have performed in the capital as part of the &lt;strong&gt;Beiteddine&lt;/strong&gt; events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Baalbek&lt;/strong&gt; Festival in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon has also been called off, Maya al-Halabi said, although no decision has been taken yet on a third festival in &lt;strong&gt;Byblos&lt;/strong&gt;, to the north of Beirut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Italian conductor &lt;strong&gt;Riccardo Muti &lt;/strong&gt;was to have launched the 2007 season of summer festivals that were scrapped last year because of Israel's devastating July-August war against Lebanon's Hezbollah. He was to have conducted his orchestra at the Roman temples in Baalbek.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last summer, instead of droves of culture vultures descending on the country, tens of thousands of foreigners fled in a massive evacuation from a war that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tourism Minister Joseph Sarkis had announced only two months ago that the festivals would go ahead despite a political crisis that has gripped the country since November. But the army has since been locked in a deadly battle with Islamist militants in northern Lebanon and a string of bomb blasts have struck Beirut and tourist areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We want to change the image of Lebanon with an international media campaign in order to attract tourists again&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;," Sarkis said in May, recalling that Lebanon had been banking in 2006 on a record year in tourism revenues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year, Lebanon had been due to host concerts by Lebanese diva Fairuz, English rock band Deep Purple, jazz legend Barbara Hendricks and Liza Minnelli.&lt;br /&gt;The Beirut international film festival went ahead in October under the slogan &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Make Films, Not War"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, aiming to revive the Lebanese capital's vibrant arts scene from under the shadow of conflict&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-9219258445789626812?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/9219258445789626812/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=9219258445789626812' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/9219258445789626812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/9219258445789626812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/07/no-shakira-no-beiteddine-baalbek-party.html' title='No Shakira, No (Beiteddine, Baalbek) Party'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Ro1mqZkxJbI/AAAAAAAAAuk/9UPc2uRgu-s/s72-c/beiteddinefestival.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-7868003624940053168</id><published>2007-06-24T10:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-24T10:45:43.206-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sahel el dardara'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blast'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='espana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bomb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unifil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='khiyam'/><title type='text'>The (un)expected attack targeting UNIFIL</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rn6tH3UOlII/AAAAAAAAAuM/-miIOVQC49Q/s1600-h/espana_1158296636_g_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079687780339979394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rn6tH3UOlII/AAAAAAAAAuM/-miIOVQC49Q/s320/espana_1158296636_g_0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rn6tRnUOlKI/AAAAAAAAAuc/utnf129JYVg/s1600-h/flag_UNKG0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079687947843703970" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 43px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 19px" height="19" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rn6tRnUOlKI/AAAAAAAAAuc/utnf129JYVg/s200/flag_UNKG0001.gif" width="52" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Only &lt;strong&gt;few days ago&lt;/strong&gt;, news and local media were celebrating: "&lt;em&gt;According to the Minister of Defense Mr. I. Murr, the LAF has finished its operation in Nahr-l-Bared Camp against Fath-l-Islam group&lt;/em&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But today.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A powerful blast ripped through a vehicle manned by Spanish U.N. peacekeepers in the southern village of Khiyam (a major Hizbullah stronghold in south Lebanon), killing five soldiers and wounding four others, witnesses reported and added that rescuers evacuated nine soldiers from the burning vehicle, taking them by ambulances to UNIFIL's field clinics in the area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rn6tN3UOlJI/AAAAAAAAAuU/mkKcSZkuEE4/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079687883419194514" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 44px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 22px" height="23" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rn6tN3UOlJI/AAAAAAAAAuU/mkKcSZkuEE4/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="42" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Un attentato contro la forza internazionale di pace dell'Onu in Libano. Sahel el Dardara, un villaggio nel sud del Paese vicino a Kyiam, la città più grande del settore sotto il controllo spagnolo: un ordigno piazzato sul ciglio di una strada e comandato a distanza è esploso al passaggio di un veicolo con a bordo alcuni caschi blu spagnoli della missione Unifil. &lt;strong&gt;5 i morti&lt;/strong&gt;. A bordo del loro mezzo blindato Fap c'era una cassa con materiale esplosivo, a sua volta esploso all'interno del veicolo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zapatero allertato.&lt;br /&gt;Prodi gli ha già telefonato per esprimergli il cordoglio e la solidarietà di tutto il Paese.&lt;br /&gt;Alle 20 parlerà in televisione il ministro della difesa Alonso...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non è lecito non attendersi che scenari del genere possano presto riguardarci.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oggi gli spagnoli, domani ... ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La verità è che a Beirut nessuno vuole la guerra, ma lo spettro della guerra civile è più che mai realistico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leggevo pochi giorni fa:-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secondo un sondaggio dell'Information International, un centro ricerche indipendente di Beirut, il 30 per cento dei libanesi vorrebbe emigrare all'estero, il 60 per cento di loro appartengono alla fascia d'età compresa tra i 18 e i 25 anni. Negli ultimi due anni il 50 per cento dei nuovi laureati ha lasciato il paese dei cedri per trasferirsi all'estero. La metà dei Maroniti, la maggioranza cristiana del paese, sarebbe disposta a trasferirsi all'estero così come farebbero il 22 per cento degli sciiti e il 26 per cento dei sunniti.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where are we goin'? ...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-7868003624940053168?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/7868003624940053168/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=7868003624940053168' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7868003624940053168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7868003624940053168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/06/unexpected-attack-targeting-unifil.html' title='The (un)expected attack targeting UNIFIL'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rn6tH3UOlII/AAAAAAAAAuM/-miIOVQC49Q/s72-c/espana_1158296636_g_0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-84370547924685533</id><published>2007-06-14T14:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-14T14:45:48.164-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rafiq hariri university hospital'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lombardia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='regione lombardia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='litani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='niguarda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><title type='text'>Cooperation project between Lebanon and Italy, Regione Lombardia: Niguarda Milano &amp; Hariri Hospital Beirut twinning</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RnG24KqkvlI/AAAAAAAAAuE/g5zsvXuuHU0/s1600-h/lombardia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RnG24KqkvlI/AAAAAAAAAuE/g5zsvXuuHU0/s320/lombardia.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076039331075112530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regione Lombardia rilancia la cooperazione internazionale verso le popolazioni del Medio Oriente e del Libano in particolare. Una collaborazione già in atto da tempo, cui oggi si è aggiunta la firma del gemellaggio tra l'Azienda Ospedaliera Niguarda Cà Granda di Milano e il Rafik Hariri University Hospital di Beirut. Il documento, sottoscritto in Regione Lombardia dai due direttori generali, Pasquale Cannatelli e Wassim Wazzam, è stato presentato in una conferenza stampa, insieme ad alcune altre iniziative, dal presidente Roberto Formigoni, dell'assessore alla Sanità, Luciano Bresciani e dal sottosegretario Robi Ronza. Presente anche il console del Libano a Milano, Hassan Najem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Un'altra iniziativa umanitaria - ha detto Formigoni - che testimonia come la solidarietà sia nel Dna dei lombardi e soprattutto che va ad aggiungere un altro tassello ai progetti di cooperazione che abbiamo attivato nel mondo". Solo nel 2006 sono stati 58 i progetti finanziati da Regione Lombardia con uno stanziamento di 1,5 milioni (3 nel triennio). "Siamo ancora una volta orgogliosi di un'iniziativa di solidarietà che si aggiunge alle decine di operazioni simili promosse dalla Lombardia - ha aggiunto Bresciani - Da parte nostra ci siamo impegnati e continueremo a impegnarci nell'azione di governance di tutti gli attori coinvolti, affinché le popolazioni bisognose abbiano tutto l'aiuto che necessitano nel miglior modo possibile".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incentrato sul trattamento dei trapianti di fegato e rene e della chirurgia epatobiliopancreatica, il gemellaggio rientra nel programma di collaborazione e sviluppo internazionale in ambito sanitario per il quale il governo regionale ha stanziato 180.000 euro per il periodo 2007-2009. Saranno effettuati frequenti scambi di equipe composte da medici e infermieri cui seguiranno corsi di aggiornamento, perfezionamento e specializzazione che sfrutteranno anche le opportunità che offre la tecnologia moderna e in particolare la teleconferenza. Saranno sviluppate anche attività di teleconsulto con trasmissione di dati per la gestione di pazienti individuati (selezione, studio e follow up), così come la fornitura di attrezzature necessarie al trattamento delle patologie. Completa l'accordo la pianificazione di un modello per la gestione dei trapianti di organo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I FERITI CURATI NEGLI OSPEDALI LOMBARDI - Sono 13 i feriti civili libanesi che sono stati accolti e curati in Lombardia a partire dal loro arrivo a Linate il 28 settembre 2006. La lista comprende 7 ragazzi (tra i 6 e i 18 anni), 5 donne (tra i 22 e i 40 anni) e un adulto di 29 anni. Le patologie varie e tutte gravi: traumi cranici (una paziente era in coma), ustioni, amputazioni di arti, fratture multiple e ferite varie.  La richiesta di curare presso strutture sanitarie lombarde i&lt;br /&gt;feriti civili libanesi era stata avanzata al presidente Formigoni il 27 luglio dal console generale del Libano, Hassan Najem, durante la sua visita a Palazzo Pirelli. Formigoni aveva dato immediatamente piena disponibilità, sviluppando un'iniziativa in collaborazione con il Ministero per gli Affari Esteri e con la Croce Rossa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feriti sono stati accolti nei seguenti ospedali: Niguarda (5), Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo (4), Sacco (2), Buzzi ICP (2). Dei 13 pazienti, 8 sono già stati dimessi e sono rientrati in Libano (il primo è stato dimesso già il 10 ottobre 2006 dal Sacco di Milano, seguito da altri quattro dimessi nello stesso mese da Niguarda), mentre altri 5 stanno terminando la riabilitazione: 4 di loro saranno a casa per la fine di giugno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FIUME LITANI - L'intervento sul fiume Litani (il più lungo e largo del Libano, bacino di 2.160 km quadrati) si è reso necessario dopo i drammatici scontri del luglio 2006 che in soli 40 giorni hanno messo in ginocchio il Libano, provocando anche gravi danni al sistema idrico e agricolo. L'emergenza è stata affrontata da subito con l'aiuto immediato a 1500 famiglie sfollate dai luoghi del bombardamento, la riparazione dei canali irrigui bombardati nel Sud e nella Valle della Bekaa e la ricostruzione di una riserva d'acqua potabile da 3,5 milioni di litri e di una condotta, distrutte dai missili nella città di Balbeeck. In tutto sono state circa 200.000 le persone aiutate (5% della popolazione del Paese).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il Litani e il suo bacino sono un'area nevralgica per l'economia e la vita della popolazioni libanesi. Ora, Regione Lombardia, tramite le Ong Avsi e Icu, realizzerà un progetto di pulizia e riassetto idrogeologico del Litani con parallelo sostegno agli agricoltori che vivono e lavorano lungo le sponde del fiume. "Regione Lombardia insieme al Ministero degli Esteri e all'Onu - ha detto Ronza - ha deciso di dare il proprio aiuto sfruttando il lavoro delle Organizzazioni non governative presenti sul territorio perché nessuno meglio di loro conosce qual è la reale situazione".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-84370547924685533?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/84370547924685533/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=84370547924685533' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/84370547924685533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/84370547924685533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/06/cooperation-project-between-lebanon-and.html' title='Cooperation project between Lebanon and Italy, Regione Lombardia: Niguarda Milano &amp; Hariri Hospital Beirut twinning'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RnG24KqkvlI/AAAAAAAAAuE/g5zsvXuuHU0/s72-c/lombardia.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-4737911240973230763</id><published>2007-06-13T15:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-13T15:11:14.044-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bomb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='walid ido'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manara'/><title type='text'>And now Al Manara, Corniche de Beirut, gosh-</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RnBp9aqkvkI/AAAAAAAAAt8/Bu1N7iI-fCQ/s1600-h/almanara13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RnBp9aqkvkI/AAAAAAAAAt8/Bu1N7iI-fCQ/s200/almanara13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075673283897376322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RnBp5qqkvjI/AAAAAAAAAt0/5ETosKDmvtQ/s1600-h/almanara07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RnBp5qqkvjI/AAAAAAAAAt0/5ETosKDmvtQ/s200/almanara07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075673219472866866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A powerful blast ripped through Beirut’s seaside Manara district. The blast between the Long Beach and Sporting Club swimming facilities demolished a car and wounded dozens of people. Tongues of flame shot up from the wreckage of a car demolished by the blast as fire fighters tried to combat the blaze and prevent it from spreading to dozens of vehicles parked nearby. The bomb attack targeted an area usually crowded by beach fans about 200 meters south of the Lebanese Army’s heavily guarded main swimming club.&lt;br /&gt;Four people were killed and 15 wounded in a car bomb that wrecked Beirut’s Manara district and targeted Parliamentary Deputy Walid Ido’s car. Deputy and his son Khaled are dead ... Rest in peace.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-4737911240973230763?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/4737911240973230763/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=4737911240973230763' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4737911240973230763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4737911240973230763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/06/and-now-al-manara-corniche-de-beirut.html' title='And now Al Manara, Corniche de Beirut, gosh-'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RnBp9aqkvkI/AAAAAAAAAt8/Bu1N7iI-fCQ/s72-c/almanara13.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-998147244533895604</id><published>2007-06-12T00:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-12T01:54:02.264-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kibbeh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kebbe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanese recipes'/><title type='text'>Lesson #6:- How to prepare ... Kibbeh</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Previously:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/01/lesson-1-how-to-prepare-hummus.html"&gt;Hummus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#2: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/02/lesson-2-how-to-prepare-fatoush.html"&gt;Fatoush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#3: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/02/lesson-3-how-to-prepare-tabbouleh.html"&gt;Tabouleh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#4: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/lesson-4-how-to-prepare-mamoul.html"&gt;Mamoul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#5: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/lesson-4-how-to-prepare-baba-ganoush.html"&gt;Baba Ganoush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5RS6qkvcI/AAAAAAAAAs8/7jPovVXgeUo/s1600-h/flag_UNKG0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075083215520447938" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 49px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 23px" height="20" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5RS6qkvcI/AAAAAAAAAs8/7jPovVXgeUo/s200/flag_UNKG0001.gif" width="49" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Kibbeh (also kibbee, kubba, Arabic: كبة). It is a common food in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, North Africa, Caucasus and Turkey (as içli köfte in Turkish). In its most common form, it consists of minced lamb mixed with bulgur and spices, stuffed inside a bulgur pastry crust and grilled, boiled or fried. The shape, size and ingredients vary between different types of kibbeh and between the recipes traditional in different areas. The meat and bulgur mix, without the crust, is often served raw (called Kibbe Nayye), similar to steak tartare. This is a popular delicacy in Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories, and is often accompanied with arak. In Lebanon, it is common to serve fresh kibbeh meat raw, and then cook the remainder the next day. It is traditionally served with a tahina dip which is a sesame seed paste. Sometimes Lebanese will serve the dish without the pastry bread and only eat the meat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5U5aqkvhI/AAAAAAAAAtk/vr7RFa_0M64/s1600-h/Kibbeh.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5U5aqkvhI/AAAAAAAAAtk/vr7RFa_0M64/s320/Kibbeh.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075087175480294930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ingredients:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 lb ground lamb&lt;br /&gt;1 cup wheat - soak for 1/2 hour in warm water&lt;br /&gt;1 lrg onion, grated&lt;br /&gt;salt (to taste)&lt;br /&gt;pepper (to taste)&lt;br /&gt;cinnamon (about two shakes)&lt;br /&gt;allspice (about two shakes)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Preparation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Squish wheat in hands to remove water. Then mix all ingredients well.&lt;br /&gt;Taste to see if you need more spices. (It's ok to eat this raw; indeed, it is considered a delicacy, although personally I prefer it cooked!)&lt;br /&gt;Grease a large baking pan, at least 13x9 or larger.&lt;br /&gt;Divide meat in half. Make bottom layer. Flatten with hands until even.&lt;br /&gt;Then add:&lt;br /&gt;1/3 cup snobar (pine nuts) or pignoli seeds&lt;br /&gt;Add top layer of meat and flatten until even. Cut diagonal lines in both directions, not all the way through, so have diamond pattern. Dot well with butter and crisco, more butter (or margarine) than crisco.&lt;br /&gt;Use half teaspoonfulls at a time. Should be a pat every couple inches or so...&lt;br /&gt;Bake for 1 1/2 hours at 350 degrees, or until brown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5RWqqkvdI/AAAAAAAAAtE/qgTp36Ojslk/s1600-h/flag_FRAN0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075083279944957394" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 44px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 24px" height="21" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5RWqqkvdI/AAAAAAAAAtE/qgTp36Ojslk/s200/flag_FRAN0001.gif" width="44" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ingrédients (pour une tourtière) :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- steak (éviter le steak haché du boucher qui contient trop de nerfs)&lt;br /&gt;- boulgour très fin (le boulgour est un blé dur concassé.)&lt;br /&gt;- pignons de pin&lt;br /&gt;- oignons&lt;br /&gt;- sel, poivre&lt;br /&gt;Pour la sauce d'accompagnement :&lt;br /&gt;- deux yaourts nature (ou mieux, du "labne"). - le jus d'un citron - sel, poivre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Préparation :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Faire gonfler le boulgour avec un verre d'eau. Le mettre ensuite à égouter dans une passoire fine. Enlever la graisse et tous les nerfs du steak. Le hacher très finement. Il faut le même volume de steak haché et de boulgour soigneusement égoutté.&lt;br /&gt;Dans une terrine, melanger intimement la viande et le boulgour à la main. Faire fondre la graisse du steak dans une poêle. Emincer finement les oignons et les faire revenir avec les pignons de pin. Huiler un moule rectangulaire.&lt;br /&gt;Prendre une poignée de mélange viande-boulgour et l'applatir entre vos paumes pour former une petite galette d'environ un centimètre d'épaisseur. La poser dans le moule. Répeter le procedé jusqu'à ce que le fond du moule soit tapissé d'une couche réguliere (n'utiliser que la moitié de la préparation). Ajouter alors les oignons et pignons de pin grillés en une fine couche. Former une seconde couche de viande-boulgour au dessus des pignons en utilisant la même méthode que précédement.&lt;br /&gt;Tasser le tout avec la paume de la main. A l'aide d'un couteau, tracer des losanges dans la pâte presque jusqu'au fond du moule. Mettre à cuire à four chaud jusqu'à ce qu'il n'y ait plus de jus dans les entailles et que le dessus soit doré.&lt;br /&gt;Servir tiède accompagné d'une sauce yaourt + citron + sel, poivre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5RaKqkveI/AAAAAAAAAtM/DdF7EfP07ew/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075083340074499554" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="21" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5RaKqkveI/AAAAAAAAAtM/DdF7EfP07ew/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="46" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il "kibbeh" è il piatto nazionale libanese. Può essere fatto con agnello, montone o manzo. Può essere mangiato crudo, fritto, al forno o grigliato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5UsKqkvgI/AAAAAAAAAtc/r3OKilhjqfc/s1600-h/kibbeh_fritte.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5UsKqkvgI/AAAAAAAAAtc/r3OKilhjqfc/s320/kibbeh_fritte.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075086947847028226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ingredienti: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;500gr coscia d'agnello&lt;br /&gt;1 tazza di farina - a bagno per 1/2 ora in acqua fredda&lt;br /&gt;1 cipolla grande&lt;br /&gt;sale (da assaggiare)&lt;br /&gt;pepe (da assaggiare)&lt;br /&gt;cannella (un paio di pizzichi)&lt;br /&gt;spezie varie (un paio di pizzichi)&lt;br /&gt;pinoli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Preparazione:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mettere a bagno il burghul a grana fine in acqua fredda per mezz'ora. Tritare abbondante cipolla (meglio con il robot) e metterla a bagno con acqua e sale, per farle perdere acidità. Scolare, strizzare e asciugare il burghul. Cercate di eliminare tutta l'acqua. Fate lo stesso con la cipolla. Poi mettete tutto in una terrina, aggiungendo la carne tritata e il sale. Le proporzioni sono 1 di carne tritata e 1 di burghul+cipolla. Impastate e amalgamate perfettamente, bagnandovi spesso le mani con acqua gelida ed eventualmente aggiungendone qualche goccia all'impasto. Poi mettete tutto nella parte più fredda del frigo per qualche minuto, mentre voi fate altro. Preparate il ripieno. In una padella, mettete un paio di cucchiai d'olio e fate prendere colore ai pinoli. Poi aggiungete abbondante cipolla tritata. Quando la cipolla è imbiondita, aggiungete la carne tritata. Fate rosolare, salate... e poi ci andrebbe un cucchiaio di sciroppo di melograno oppure dell'uva passa. Aggiungere un po' di cumino in polvere e un po' di mentuccia ... ma potete non metterla o mettere altre erbe. Ora tirate fuori dal frigo l'impasto. Ricordatevi che per maneggiarlo bene bisogna bagnarsi in continuazione le mani nell'acqua gelida. Prendete una noce di impasto e fatene una polpetta. Usando il dito indice e facendo ruotare la polpetta con l'altra mano, scavate un "tunnel". Riempite la cavità con un paio di cucchiaini di ripieno. Richiudete e, usando sempr el'acqua fredda per aiutarvi, date alla polpetta una forma ovale. Friggetele, poche alla volta, in abbondante olio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Variazioni: KIBBEH AL FORNO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5UoKqkvfI/AAAAAAAAAtU/iFkjXkM-kQQ/s1600-h/kibbeh_forno.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5UoKqkvfI/AAAAAAAAAtU/iFkjXkM-kQQ/s320/kibbeh_forno.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075086879127551474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tenete buona la prima parte: avete il ripieno e avete l'impasto di burghul, carne e cipolla. Ungete una teglia da forno con burro. Poi stendete uno strato di impasto. Versate il ripieno, poi ricoprite con un altro strato di impasto. Sempre con le dita bagnate con acqua gelata, unite bene l'impasto superiore a quello inferiore e poi, con un coltello adatto, tagliate delle "fette" a raggio e lasciate un buchino al centro. Aiutandovi con un cucchiaino, mandate nelle fessure, compresa quella centrale, del burro liquefatto e spandetene un po' anche in superficie. Infornate in forno preriscaldato a 190° per circa mezz'ora. Nel frattempo, preparate la salsa. La Tahine si prepara aggiungendo alla psta di sesamo acqua, aglio, succo di limone, sale e cumino macinato. Due cucchiai di Tahine e due cucchiai di yogurt cremoso. Mescolare il tutto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Variazioni-2: KIBBEH CRUDO o CIG KOFTE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conosciuto anche come &lt;strong&gt;Kibbe nayyeh (kibbee, kubba, Arabic كبة نية or كبة نيئة).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Servono 500 gr di carne magrissima macinata finemente. Servirebbe il montone. Sostituitelo col manzo, con l'agnello... o con quello che vi pare più opportuno. 250 gr di bulgur, quello fine. Forse anche finissimo. 2 o 3 cipolle grandi, tritate (ridotte in poltiglia), messe in acqua e sale per far perdere loro acidità, poi spremute e strizzate magari con un passino e asciugate. Devono perdere tutta l'acqua. 2 pizzichi abbondanti di pepe nero, quanta paprika piccante pensate di riuscire a sopportare (per quella quantità, un paio di cucchiai), 2 pizzichi abbondanti di cumino in polvere, un mazzetto di prezzemolo tritato, 2 cucchiai di OTTIMO concentrato di pomodoro, erba cipollina tritata (facoltativo). Prima di tutto, preparare il bulgur. Poi, mischiare tutto insieme. Impastare, amalgamare,...a lungo. Conviene bagnarsi le mani nell'acqua fredda, ogni tanto. Amalgamate tutto per almeno un quarto d'ora. Poi fate riposare un po' in frigo. Basta poco. Staccate dei pezzi. Il risultato finale devono essere delle polpette che avrete formato chiudendo il palmo della mano. I segni delle dita servono da decorazione. Poggiateli su un vassoio con un letto di foglie di lattuga.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-998147244533895604?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/998147244533895604/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=998147244533895604' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/998147244533895604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/998147244533895604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/06/lesson-6-how-to-prepare-kibbeh.html' title='Lesson #6:- How to prepare ... Kibbeh'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5RS6qkvcI/AAAAAAAAAs8/7jPovVXgeUo/s72-c/flag_UNKG0001.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-7198252269327214831</id><published>2007-06-11T02:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-12T02:45:02.900-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='redcross killed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nahr al-Bared'/><title type='text'>Thanks.</title><content type='html'>Just that...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5ljqqkviI/AAAAAAAAAts/0w0GwtXdGxs/s1600-h/redcross_marathon%25205.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5ljqqkviI/AAAAAAAAAts/0w0GwtXdGxs/s320/redcross_marathon%25205.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075105493515812386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&amp;0FA4A91490CC3B47C22572F7005686E3"&gt;Breaking news&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Two Lebanese Red-Cross Rescuers killed in Nahr-al-Bared camp.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-7198252269327214831?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/7198252269327214831/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=7198252269327214831' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7198252269327214831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7198252269327214831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/06/thanks.html' title='Thanks.'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rm5ljqqkviI/AAAAAAAAAts/0w0GwtXdGxs/s72-c/redcross_marathon%25205.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-4194711738563219948</id><published>2007-06-10T16:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-10T16:46:11.988-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='massive carnival'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trablus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tripoli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanese army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><title type='text'>Tripoli Stadium</title><content type='html'>While Lebanese soldiers and diehard terrorists entrenched in a refugee camp fought face-to-face confrontations Sunday, a &lt;strong&gt;Massive Carnival&lt;/strong&gt; has been held in &lt;strong&gt;Tripoli Stadium &lt;/strong&gt;this Sunday June 10th, 2007 @ &lt;strong&gt;12:00 pm &lt;/strong&gt;to support the Army and the Internal Security forces, organized by Lebanese Forces, Future Movement, Tripoli Bloc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmyMraqkvbI/AAAAAAAAAs0/NEkKBNlHk3c/s1600-h/tripoli1_538827300_28783f2a36.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmyMraqkvbI/AAAAAAAAAs0/NEkKBNlHk3c/s320/tripoli1_538827300_28783f2a36.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074585557659860402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmyMl6qkvaI/AAAAAAAAAss/O_x9uPqoyls/s1600-h/tripoli2_538832828_aaf1aab59c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmyMl6qkvaI/AAAAAAAAAss/O_x9uPqoyls/s320/tripoli2_538832828_aaf1aab59c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074585463170579874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmyMgqqkvZI/AAAAAAAAAsk/bBlL-yEE4A4/s1600-h/tripoli3_538952761_b99ba7d693.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmyMgqqkvZI/AAAAAAAAAsk/bBlL-yEE4A4/s320/tripoli3_538952761_b99ba7d693.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074585372976266642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I agree that some photos talk better than thousands words...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peace for all.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-4194711738563219948?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/4194711738563219948/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=4194711738563219948' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4194711738563219948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4194711738563219948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/06/tripoli-stadium.html' title='Tripoli Stadium'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmyMraqkvbI/AAAAAAAAAs0/NEkKBNlHk3c/s72-c/tripoli1_538827300_28783f2a36.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5552033936926036213</id><published>2007-06-04T13:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-04T13:31:37.127-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sad Boushriyeh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fatah al islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mar Taqla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ein Alaq'/><title type='text'>The list is getting longer: Sad Boushriyeh , Mar Taqla area, NE Beirut</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;A Copy of Ein Alaq Bombings Hits Sad Boushriyeh&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A powerful blast ripped through a bus parked at the entrance to a &lt;strong&gt;business center in Mar Taqla area (next to the church) of Sad Boushriyeh &lt;/strong&gt;district northeast of Beirut Monday wounding at least ten people, security sources said. The exact time of the explosion was 8:15 pm, coinciding with a meeting of security officials at the Prime Minister's offices in the Saraya. The number of wounded has been increased from 7 to 10. The explosion also inflicted damage to the front of the bus, cars parked in the crowded area and at least 10 shops in the business center. Ambulances and fire engines, their sirens wailing, rushed to the scene of the blast minutes after the explosion echoed across the stricken area. Helmeted Lebanese troops set up checkpoints and searched the area for suspects as well as for more bombs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photos taken from Tayyar and Yahoo.news:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmR188AhN_I/AAAAAAAAAsc/Ls7yK1msObI/s1600-h/sid_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmR188AhN_I/AAAAAAAAAsc/Ls7yK1msObI/s200/sid_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072308770086926322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmR13MAhN-I/AAAAAAAAAsU/Azf5X8m7Ix8/s1600-h/sid_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmR13MAhN-I/AAAAAAAAAsU/Azf5X8m7Ix8/s200/sid_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072308671302678498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmR1y8AhN9I/AAAAAAAAAsM/bdmeEaDzEts/s1600-h/sid_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmR1y8AhN9I/AAAAAAAAAsM/bdmeEaDzEts/s200/sid_3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072308598288234450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmR1ucAhN8I/AAAAAAAAAsE/NN99gsCVbvc/s1600-h/sid_4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmR1ucAhN8I/AAAAAAAAAsE/NN99gsCVbvc/s200/sid_4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072308520978823106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5552033936926036213?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5552033936926036213/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5552033936926036213' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5552033936926036213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5552033936926036213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/06/list-is-getting-longer-sad-boushriyeh.html' title='The list is getting longer: Sad Boushriyeh , Mar Taqla area, NE Beirut'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmR188AhN_I/AAAAAAAAAsc/Ls7yK1msObI/s72-c/sid_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-4828111597731207271</id><published>2007-06-04T01:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-04T02:02:26.543-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='palestinian camps'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maps'/><title type='text'>Map of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmPUuMAhN7I/AAAAAAAAAr8/pnFAI2x0QzU/s1600-h/lebanon-refugee-camps.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072131495311783858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmPUuMAhN7I/AAAAAAAAAr8/pnFAI2x0QzU/s400/lebanon-refugee-camps.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a look &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/300/307/pal-camps/"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to see details.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-4828111597731207271?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/4828111597731207271/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=4828111597731207271' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4828111597731207271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/4828111597731207271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/06/map-of-palestinian-refugee-camps-in.html' title='Map of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmPUuMAhN7I/AAAAAAAAAr8/pnFAI2x0QzU/s72-c/lebanon-refugee-camps.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2056948957066912090</id><published>2007-06-04T01:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-05T12:57:39.737-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='palestinian camps'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ein el Helweh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fatah al islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tripoli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nahr al-Bared'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanese army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jund al Sham'/><title type='text'>Another day in the hell</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmPT2cAhN6I/AAAAAAAAAr0/P_5oExLs8Ys/s1600-h/burning_peace.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072130537534076834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmPT2cAhN6I/AAAAAAAAAr0/P_5oExLs8Ys/s320/burning_peace.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You read news and it seems like reading war bulletins...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&amp;E1A12E49B238E70DC22572F00020D5F3"&gt;An-Nahar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; reports that a military spokesman said two Lebanese army soldiers and two Islamist extremists from Jund al-Sham were killed in the overnight clashes at Ain al-Hilweh.&lt;br /&gt;They said 11 other people were also wounded in the fighting which broke out anew after militants attacked army checkpoints in Taamir, a residential area adjacent to Ain al-Hilweh, with grenades, prompting Lebanese troops to respond with artillery and machine gun fire.&lt;br /&gt;Back at Nahr al-Bard, Lebanese troops on Sunday pushed ahead, pounding Fatah al-Islam hideouts relentlessly.&lt;br /&gt;An Nahar reports also that mosques there now are dual-use. They are places in which to pray. They are also armed camps. They are also, possibly, terrorist targets. Suicide bombers reportedly detonated themselves at the Thawra mosque. Perhaps someone ignited himself a little too early. Maybe the keepers of that mosque were hostile to Fatah al-Islam. Who knows...&lt;br /&gt;military spokesman said two Lebanese army soldiers and two Islamist extremists from Jund al-Sham were killed in the overnight clashes at Ain al-Hilweh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They said 11 other people were also wounded in the fighting which broke out anew after militants attacked army checkpoints in Taamir, a residential area adjacent to Ain al-Hilweh, with grenades, prompting Lebanese troops to respond with artillery and machine gun fire.&lt;br /&gt;Back at Nahr al-Bard, Lebanese troops on Sunday pushed ahead, pounding Fatah al-Islam hideouts relentlessly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Many in Lebanon believed the army would be able to crush the Fatah al-Islam quickly, but after three days of fierce battles using artillery and tanks, the troops continued to face strong resistance.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lebanese security officials said that Nahr al-Bared had been strategically divided into three zones. The army was controlling one zone, the militants held another, while Palestinian civilians and Fatah al-Islam guerrillas controlled the third and were refusing the militants sanctuary, they said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The casualties raised the army's death toll to 44 since the standoff began two weeks ago. At least 20 civilians and about 60 militants have also been killed, but casualties in the camp in the last three days were unknown because relief organizations were banned from entering.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Earlier Sunday, the army denied that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was helping Lebanese troops in their fight against Fatah al-Islam.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*** &lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Tensions were running high in the refugee camps of Rashidiyeh and Borj al-Shamali near the southernmost port city of Tyre, state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported Monday. It said militants from the mainstream Fatah movement and other allied factions have kept an all-night vigil over the two camps. NNA said sporadic clashes continued through the night and Monday morning between Lebanese troops and Fatah al-Islam militants holding out inside the northern refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared. It said the main road linking the Akkar province with the rest of north Lebanon was open for traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*** Visit &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingbeirut.com/archives/1103-Nahr-El-Bared-Ein-El-Hilweh-in-the-MAP.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to see the maps of the camps with the ongoing fightings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmPQZcAhN5I/AAAAAAAAArs/LC8Lw9JTmL8/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072126740782987154" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 39px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 22px" height="18" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmPQZcAhN5I/AAAAAAAAArs/LC8Lw9JTmL8/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="39" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Nuovi scontri sono scoppiati all'alba a uno degli ingressi del campo profughi palestinese di Ein el Helweh, a Sidone, dove già ieri ci sono stati incidenti, durati un paio di ore, dopo che militanti islamici hanno colpito con dei razzi una postazione dell'esercito all'esterno del campo.&lt;br /&gt;Gli scontri di ieri si sono conclusi a seguito di una mediazione degli altri gruppi palestinesi, ma all'alba di oggi ci sono stati ancora violenti scambi di colpi di arma da fuoco tra soldati e islamici di Jund al Sham. Secondo fonti della sicurezza libanese due soldati e due militanti islamici hanno perduto la vita, mentre undici persone risultano ferite. A Sidone sono state chiuse le scuole e la vita della città si svolge al rallentatore. Intanto, continuano gli scontri, sproradici anche a Nahr el Bared, a Tripoli, tra l'esercito libanese e miliziani di Fatah al Islam, barricati all'interno del campo profughi.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-2056948957066912090?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/2056948957066912090/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=2056948957066912090' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2056948957066912090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2056948957066912090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/06/another-dai-in-hell.html' title='Another day in the hell'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmPT2cAhN6I/AAAAAAAAAr0/P_5oExLs8Ys/s72-c/burning_peace.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5786184256395469662</id><published>2007-06-01T13:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-03T05:37:39.156-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fatah al islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trablus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tripoli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanese army'/><title type='text'>The mistery of Fatah-al-Islam</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmCMhMAhN4I/AAAAAAAAArk/RoxNDmZLuwo/s1600-h/tripolifatah_DSCN2650.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmCMhMAhN4I/AAAAAAAAArk/RoxNDmZLuwo/s320/tripolifatah_DSCN2650.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071207682206152578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TRIPOLI - Lebanese tanks and armored vehicles battled their way into the outer neighborhoods of a Palestinian refugee camp Friday in some of the heaviest fighting since violence broke out between the military and al-Qaida-inspired militants nearly two weeks ago. The military demanded the Fatah fighters holed up in the Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon surrender and promised to pursue them if they didn't.&lt;br /&gt;Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and 16 palestinians, according to security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to address the media. Most of the camp's 31,000 refugees have fled, many to the nearby Beddawi refugee camp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An interview to the lebanese opinionist Hassan Hamadeh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you explain the clashes in Tripoli ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It was a clear plan to create conditions to involve lebanese army in a war of attrition". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why just the lebanese Army ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Because it represents the only guarantee against a civil war in the Country. The entire crisis started when these bandits assaulted a bank in Tripoli and then the internal security worked over their hideout, which was known, to stop them. They were not able to do that, so called the Army, completely unaware of the "hot" situation so they felt down in trap".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the phenomenon of sunni extremism in Lebanon exists since oct 2005, when Charles Ayoub, director of independent sheet Ad Diyar said to Arabmonitor that in the country there were many more islamic militants than you can imagine, lot of foreigners, with the target to destabilize Lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The phenomenon appeared 5-6 years ago, before Iraqi invasion, supported by Rafiq Hariri with the intent to utilize the islamic fanaticism, which look at Al Qaida as reference, for their purposes".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who did encourage or support them in the last years ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sure The Future of Saad Hariri (leader of the current majority in the Parliament) has a big responsibility, since it wanted to utilize them. It's not accidental that members of Fatah-al-Islam have assaulted the Bank of Mediterranean (propriety of Hariri's family) in Tripoli, as it seemed they were no more paid (see Franklin Lamb article: Who is behind the fighting in North Lebanon, www.counterpunch.org). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Bank of Mediterranean has had the same role in lebanese events than Banco Ambrosiano in Italy with reference to Calvi, P2 and IOR&lt;/strong&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It seems there are lot of foreigners in Fatah-al-Islam rank.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The saudi ambassador in Beirut admitted the presence of many saudi people (Marwan Abdulal, palestinian leader who lives in Tripoli, said to Arabmonitor that between guerilla's militants the palestinian ones are the less represented)".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How have they entered in Lebanon and how have they arrived here ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They entered mainly through Beirut international airport Rafiq Hariri, although this is not an honour for our Country. They entered using the militar corridor  used by Unifil force. None was able to stop them, or to control. They arrived in small groups last autums. Choosed Ein el Helweh camp (Saida), as there it was easier to disguise because there was another islamic extremist group. Then, thanks to lebanese Securitate (name reminding the secret services in Romania with Nicolae Ceasescu), they have been transfered months ago by special units of  Internal Ministery into Nahr-al-Bared (palestinians fonts in Lebanon have referred that some of Fatah-al-Islam were present in a palestinian training camp in Bekaa used by Fatah-Intifada group. Once they broke down with these one, they moved to Nahr-al-Bared. Three months ago there would have been a negotiate in Saida, source palestinian fonts in Ein el Helweh camp, between islamic members and Rafiq Hariri's sister, Bahia, deputy of Parliament, which was supposed to have requested militants to leave Saida's area (in Saida the origins of Hariri's), offering them money)". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who's Shaker al Absy, indicated as the boss of Fatah-al-Islam ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A delinquent who acted cooperating with Abu Musab al Zarqawi, he was in prison in Syria 3 years before arriving in Lebanon (It's a jordanian-palestinian member of al-Fatah and trained in Lybia as official of palestinian armed forces. In 2002 an amercian diplomatic was killed in Amman and Absy was investigated and then capital condemned in absence by the jordan security Court in 2004. Fouad Hussein, a jordan expert in islamic militant organizations, said to Arabmonitor that after the assassination of the USA diplomatic, Absy left Jordan and moved in Syria. The internal Syrian Ministery informed last March that Absy stayed in sirian jail from dec 2003 to dec 2006 as responsible of terroristic activity. Once released, he joined Lebanon. In Fouad Hussein's opinion, Absy has never been in Iraq. However, Palestinian fonts in Tripoli said to Arabmonitor that many militants of Fatah al Islam inside Nahr-al-Bared camp are supposed to have passed a certain period in Iraq, fighting among lines of a group named Iraqi Islamic Army)".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whom weapons, ammunitions and equipments, sent by USA in Beirut in last days, are addressed to ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It seems the vehicles to the lebanese Army, while the other stuff to the several militias of the current majority. It's weird if you think that USA keep on talking about weapons sent to Hezbollah, while they provides them to the others". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(thanks to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arabmonitor.info/dettaglio.php?idnews=19131&amp;lang=it"&gt;Arabmonitor&lt;/a&gt; source&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5786184256395469662?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5786184256395469662/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5786184256395469662' title='74 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5786184256395469662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5786184256395469662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/06/mistery-of-fatah-al-islam.html' title='The mistery of Fatah-al-Islam'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RmCMhMAhN4I/AAAAAAAAArk/RoxNDmZLuwo/s72-c/tripolifatah_DSCN2650.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>74</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8779823806775983438</id><published>2007-05-31T06:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-31T06:56:22.657-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hariri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='u.n. tribunal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='onu'/><title type='text'>A United Nations Tribunal to try Hariri's assassins</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rl7Tu8AhN3I/AAAAAAAAArc/2sqG7RuCXoI/s1600-h/hariri_the_truth_1_220945_1_9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rl7Tu8AhN3I/AAAAAAAAArc/2sqG7RuCXoI/s320/hariri_the_truth_1_220945_1_9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070723033801504626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Abstract from &lt;a href="http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&amp;772E3943DACBA676C22572EB006F198C"&gt;Naharnet&lt;/a&gt; source)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday 30 May to set up an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri which shook Lebanon two years ago.&lt;br /&gt;Fire works lit up the night sky over Beirut in celebration of the court's establishment. A concussion bomb exploded near Mar Mikhael Church in Beirut's Shiyyah district just as news of the court's creation was announced around 11 p.m. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 15-member council adopted a legally binding resolution that sets June 10 as the date for the entry into force of a 2006 agreement between the United Nations and the Beirut government to establish the court. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ten countries voted in favor&lt;/strong&gt;, with veto-wielding members Russia and China as well as South Africa, Indonesia and Qatar -- three non-permanent members -- abstaining. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hariri and 22 other people were killed in a massive bomb blast in February 2005&lt;/strong&gt;, widely blamed on Syria, which was then forced to end nearly 30 years of military and political domination in Lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resolution 1757&lt;/strong&gt; was sponsored by the United States, Britain, France, Belgium, Slovakia and &lt;strong&gt;Italy&lt;/strong&gt;, and introduced at the request of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The resolution states that "the tribunal shall commence functioning on a date to be determined by the secretary general in consultation with the government of Lebanon, taking into account the progress of the work" of the U.N. panel probing the Hariri murder. In any case, the tribunal is not likely to be up and running until several months after the treaty enters into force, diplomats said. &lt;br /&gt;The U.N.-Lebanon deal envisages a mixed tribunal composed of two chambers, a trial court composed of three judges -- one of them Lebanese alongside two foreigners -- and an appeals court with five judges, including two Lebanese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For reasons of security, administrative efficiency and fairness, the tribunal would be located outside Lebanon. Cyprus, Italy and the Netherlands have been mooted as possible sites&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8779823806775983438?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8779823806775983438/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8779823806775983438' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8779823806775983438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8779823806775983438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/united-nations-tribunal-to-try-hariris.html' title='A United Nations Tribunal to try Hariri&apos;s assassins'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rl7Tu8AhN3I/AAAAAAAAArc/2sqG7RuCXoI/s72-c/hariri_the_truth_1_220945_1_9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8310508224110077998</id><published>2007-05-22T14:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T14:51:58.824-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trablus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tripoli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meitein'/><title type='text'>Pictures from Meitein str., Tripoli</title><content type='html'>Referring what my leb friends wrote me last sunday about clashes and explosions sounds in Meitein street in Tripoli, &lt;a href="http://failasoof.blogspot.com/2007/05/pictures-of-destruction-in-tripoli.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; some photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What astonishes me more is that none here, in italy, or in other western, modern country, can figure what this could mean in the reality, our soft, golden, brighting, sweet "reality"...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8310508224110077998?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8310508224110077998/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8310508224110077998' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8310508224110077998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8310508224110077998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/pictures-from-meitein-str-tripoli.html' title='Pictures from Meitein str., Tripoli'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5186415189306209738</id><published>2007-05-22T05:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T05:24:26.749-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cease-fire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nahr al-Bared'/><title type='text'>72hours cease-fire</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlLgij6edqI/AAAAAAAAArM/YyEUQIvNoN8/s1600-h/mainentrancenahr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlLgij6edqI/AAAAAAAAArM/YyEUQIvNoN8/s320/mainentrancenahr.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067359415105910434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fatah al-Islam will observe a cease-fire beginning 2:30 pm and expected it to hold “if the Lebanese army abides by it,” spokesman Abu Salim Taha told The Associated Press from inside the camp.&lt;br /&gt;In the above picture, the main entrance in Nahr al-Bared.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5186415189306209738?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5186415189306209738/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5186415189306209738' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5186415189306209738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5186415189306209738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/72hours-cease-fire.html' title='72hours cease-fire'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlLgij6edqI/AAAAAAAAArM/YyEUQIvNoN8/s72-c/mainentrancenahr.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5096314311423083008</id><published>2007-05-22T02:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T02:43:33.434-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='siniora'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finish-off'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fatah al islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nahr al-Bared'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='support army'/><title type='text'>Pride lebanese and 'Finish-off' Fatah-al-Islam</title><content type='html'>Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government has ordered the Lebanese army to "finish off" extremist militants of Fatah al-Islam, locked in fierce battles with Lebanese troops for the third straight day Tuesday in the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared. &lt;br /&gt;The cabinet decision reflected the government's determination to pursue Fatah al-Islam who staged attacks on Lebanese troops on Sunday and Monday, killing 29 soldiers. Some 20 militants have also been killed, as well as an undetermined number of civilians. &lt;br /&gt;Speaking after a government meeting late Monday, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said the cabinet stressed the "need to end the terrorist phenomenon that is alien to the values and nature of the Palestinian people." &lt;br /&gt;"(The government) is determined to respond to any aggression and put a final end to this dangerous phenomenon ... which has threatened to widen the scope of the aggression," Aridi said. &lt;br /&gt;"This phenomenon which attacked the Lebanese army and other security forces is harmful to all of Lebanon, its people, security and stability, and is a permanent threat to the Palestinian people," he added. &lt;br /&gt;Aridi said identity checks of the militants killed have revealed that most of them are not Palestinians, but have different nationalities.&lt;br /&gt;The daily An Nahar, citing security sources, said on Tuesday among the Fatah al-Islam militants killed in the fighting were men from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bangladesh, Syria as well as Lebanon. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(source: Naharnet)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I forward this from lebanese friends in Tripoli, as symbol of young lebanese pride and support to their army&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlK68j6edpI/AAAAAAAAArE/kSF_7YdyRHc/s1600-h/leb_army_pride.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlK68j6edpI/AAAAAAAAArE/kSF_7YdyRHc/s320/leb_army_pride.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067318080340653714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5096314311423083008?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5096314311423083008/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5096314311423083008' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5096314311423083008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5096314311423083008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/pride-lebanese-and-finish-off-fatah-al.html' title='Pride lebanese and &apos;Finish-off&apos; Fatah-al-Islam'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlK68j6edpI/AAAAAAAAArE/kSF_7YdyRHc/s72-c/leb_army_pride.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5876043151423678858</id><published>2007-05-21T13:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-21T14:04:47.918-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tallet-el-Khayyat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut mahina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='verdun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><title type='text'>Beirut: Targetted the sunni area of Verdun</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlIGwD6edoI/AAAAAAAAAq8/vTXK5iaLnBo/s1600-h/verdunmap.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlIGwD6edoI/AAAAAAAAAq8/vTXK5iaLnBo/s320/verdunmap.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067119953499289218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A bomb rocked a parking lot in the mainly Sunni Muslim district of Verdun wounding at least 7 people, security sources and witnesses said.&lt;br /&gt;The explosion set cars ablaze and broke the windows of some buildings, near Hotel Dunes, the bomb was supposed to be placed either underneath or near a car.&lt;br /&gt;Glass and debris from surrounding buildings lay scattered across the street, which has several restaurants and clothing boutiques.&lt;br /&gt;Future TV said the blast, not very far from House Speaker Nabih Berri's mansion, was likely caused by a car bomb.&lt;br /&gt;LBC, however, said the bomb was planted underneath a black car.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Early pictures&lt;/strong&gt; from tv broadcasting news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1&lt;/strong&gt; : A car exploded near &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Tallet-el-Khayyat  (... MM ...) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, no casualties reported yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt; : Explosion was near Russian Cultural center.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 3&lt;/strong&gt; : 4 injured reported, explosion took place near Al-Mandarin restaurant in Verdun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 4&lt;/strong&gt; : From Al.Arabiyya, Explosion targetted a politician.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 5&lt;/strong&gt; : 12 injured and one woman killed ( but not confirmed yet).&lt;a href="http://www.ouwet.com/n10452/news/early-pictures-of-explosion/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5876043151423678858?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5876043151423678858/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5876043151423678858' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5876043151423678858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5876043151423678858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/beirut-targetted-sunni-area-of-verdun.html' title='Beirut: Targetted the sunni area of Verdun'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlIGwD6edoI/AAAAAAAAAq8/vTXK5iaLnBo/s72-c/verdunmap.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-114723988928303431</id><published>2007-05-20T05:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T05:25:15.436-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fatah al islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trablus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='achrafieh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tripoli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><title type='text'>Blood in the North (Trablus): updates and photos from Achrafieh</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlBBaz6ednI/AAAAAAAAAq0/SU0WHJyiJMc/s1600-h/tripoli_large_99324_34626.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlBBaz6ednI/AAAAAAAAAq0/SU0WHJyiJMc/s320/tripoli_large_99324_34626.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066621509659686514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After watching webnews, I've called a friend in Tripoli, he said the clashes have reached "Mitein Street" and people have been ordered to "stay home and never get out!". Clashes and sirens sounds can be heard all over the city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking news (Naharnet source, &lt;strong&gt;in ITALIANO &lt;a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2007/02/sezioni/esteri/libano-3/scontri-campo-profughi/scontri-campo-profughi.html"&gt;Repubblica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;):&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Lebanese army engaged in deadly fighting with Fatah al-Islam militants in the northern port city of Tripoli and the adjacent Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared Sunday, officials said.&lt;br /&gt;11 Lebanese soldiers and 8 Fatah al-Islam militants (Reuters source) were killed in the fierce fighting, which involved tank and grenade fire, Internal Security Forces chief Gen. Ashraf Rifi told Agence France Presse.&lt;br /&gt;Dozens wounded in the palestinian camps in Nahr-al-Bared, where 40000 people are living, close to the northern city of Trablus(Tripoli). Appearently, clashes started during the night, while police tried to arrest someone in the camp suspected of bank rubbery. Rapidly clashes involved other areas and some militian attacked an army command. Fatah al-Islam is suspected by the lebanese authorities to be responsible of the attempt to the minibus near the christian village of Ain Alak last 13 Feb, when near Beirut 3 people died and 22 kept wounded. It's also accused of the assassination of a lebanese sergent last 23 Apr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Lebanon there are 12 palestinian camps, where are located 350,000 people. The lebanese army cannot enter palestinian refugees camps, under a 1969 agreement.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following last clashes, &lt;strong&gt;Syria has temporarly closed two borders with Lebanon, Al Arida and Dabussiya&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My deepest condolences to the families of Lebanese civilians and army soldiers who were killed today. One hopes these events prompt the "opposition" to end its occupation of dowtown Beirut, allowing the army to focus its energy on rooting out these terrorists.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more info, you can check &lt;a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/05/20/34626.html"&gt;Al-Arabiya&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6673639.stm"&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0721001E-75E7-425D-8032-0B573DE54BEF.htm"&gt;Al-Jazeera&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lbcgroup.tv/LBC/En/MainMenu/News"&gt;LBC&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&amp;amp;957C863B2185ED54C22572E10018EFC6"&gt;Naharnet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update 20/5: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TRABLUS:&lt;/strong&gt; The army said 23 soldiers lost their lives in the deadliest fighting between security forces and Islamists since 2000, while 15 gunmen were killed, 10 of them in Tripoli&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEIRUT (AFP)&lt;/strong&gt; - A 63-year-old woman was killed and 10 people wounded in an explosion late Sunday in the Christian quarter of Achrafie in Beirut, police and hospital sources told AFP. Ten other people were wounded and taken to two hospitals in the district, said hospital sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update 21/5: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TRABLUS:&lt;/strong&gt; The Lebanese security officials said 27 soldiers, 20 militants and 14 palestinian civilians have been killed since yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEIRUT&lt;/strong&gt; - Photos from explosion in Achrafieh &lt;a href="http://chercheusedor.blogspot.com/2007/05/photos-from-todays-explosion-in.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. A huge explosion near the busy ABC shopping mall in Beirut's Achrafieh neighborhood shortly before midnight killed an elderly woman and wounded 11 other people, police said. The 11:50 p.m. blast shook thousands of sleeping Ashrafiyeh residents out of bed, many hurrying down the street to take stock of the damage. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note from Peppe:&lt;/strong&gt; I have been in Nov right in that mall, right in that cinema, we watched Borat...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlLhGz6edrI/AAAAAAAAArU/69DDA-mbMdI/s1600-h/achrafieh_explosion.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlLhGz6edrI/AAAAAAAAArU/69DDA-mbMdI/s320/achrafieh_explosion.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067360037876168370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-114723988928303431?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/114723988928303431/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=114723988928303431' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/114723988928303431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/114723988928303431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/blood-in-north-trablus.html' title='Blood in the North (Trablus): updates and photos from Achrafieh'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RlBBaz6ednI/AAAAAAAAAq0/SU0WHJyiJMc/s72-c/tripoli_large_99324_34626.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-3197283737792647588</id><published>2007-05-16T03:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-16T03:50:39.663-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libanitaly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='appello'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='together onlus'/><title type='text'>Sostieni LibanItaly - Together ONLUS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rkreaz6edlI/AAAAAAAAAqk/yx5CWN0aOOk/s1600-h/libanitaly.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065105283124983378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rkreaz6edlI/AAAAAAAAAqk/yx5CWN0aOOk/s400/libanitaly.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Together Onlus &lt;/strong&gt;è un’associazione con scopi umanitari costituita nel 2005 a Potenza.&lt;br /&gt;L’idea è nata all’indomani di un reportage realizzato dal giornalista Nello Rega in Libano. Un Paese spesso dimenticato, lasciato al proprio destino da gran parte della comunità internazionale, isolato dai progetti umanitari.&lt;br /&gt;L’idea di costituire una associazione rivolta prevalentemente al Libano è stata, nel corso dei mesi, avvalorata dalle cronache provenienti dal Paese dei cedri. I 34 giorni di guerra tra Israele e i miliziani di Hezbollah, hanno acuito le ferite di chi soffre e&lt;br /&gt;aumentato l’esigenza di intensificare gli sforzi umanitari.&lt;br /&gt;Together Onlus è nata grazie all’aiuto di persone mosse dalla voglia di dare spazio finalmente ai fatti e non fermarsi alle sole parole. Sensibilizzare l’opinione pubblica, intensificare gli sforzi delle istituzioni, aggregare “missionari”. Sono queste le attività di Together Onlus che, comunque, ha bisogno tutti i giorni di nuove sensibilità e ulteriori aiuti. Per questi motivi il lavoro dei soci dell’associazione è costante e senza sosta.&lt;br /&gt;Together Onlus, subito dopo la sua nascita ha varato il progetto LibanItaly con sostegno medico e farmacoligico, aiuti alle scuole, corsi di lingua italiani, gemellaggi sportivi, aiuto all’infanzia nei seguenti comuni e centri libanesi: Comune di Jounieh (Nord di Beirut), campo profughi palestinese di Chatila (Sud di Beirut), Tyr (Sud del Libano), Bednayel (Valle della Bekaa), Naqoura (Sud del Libano).&lt;br /&gt;Tra i partner di Together Onlus figurano: Regione Basilicata, Comando Regionale Basilicata Guardia di Finanza, Contingente italiano-Operazione Leonte in Libano-Unifil, Figc Comitato Regionale Lucano Lnd, MEA Middle East Airlines, Fidas Basilicata, Messina Line, Iabadabadu –Felice di Comunicare, Comune di Forenza, Comune di Gabicce Mare, Assadakah, Saci Trasporti, Consiglio Dell’Ordine dei Medici della Provincia di Potenza.&lt;br /&gt;Dalla sua nascita sono nati centri di collaborazione in tutta Italia e nuovi ne nasceranno.&lt;br /&gt;La sede di Together Onlus è a Potenza in Via Grippo 49. Together è iscritta nel Registro Regionale delle Onlus.&lt;br /&gt;Il 21 gennaio è partita un’altra missione di Together Onlus con al seguito oltre 60 tonnellate tra farmaci, libri, viveri, giocattoli, attrezzature sanitarie, attrezzature sportive. Al seguito della spedizione due medici, guidati dal direttore&lt;br /&gt;sanitario Dott. Gianluca Paternoster, il portavoce dell’Associazione Dott. Gennaro Grimolizzi, un fotoreporter-cameraman, i rappresentanti di alcuni partners di Together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Curriculum Vitae di Nello Rega&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quarant’anni, potentino, Nello Rega lavora nella redazione Esteri di Televideo Rai.&lt;br /&gt;Giornalista professionista dal 1993, ha lavorato per il Giornale Radio Rai, San Marino Rtv (Consociata Rai), Tg3, Radio Dimensione Suono.&lt;br /&gt;Ha firmato come autore un programma giornalistico per Rai Tre. Ha collaborato con quotidiani e settimanali nazionali. Laureato in Scienze Politiche, si è diplomato alla Scuola Superiore di Giornalismo. Ha insegnato Giornalismo Radiofonico presso l’Istituto per la Formazione al Giornalismo di Urbino. Consulente di comunicazione di società nazionali e internazionali, ha insegnato presso l’Università di Atene – Facoltà di Scienze Politiche. Ha collaborato con il Parlamento di Atene. Ha insegnato nei corsi per ufficio stampa dello Stato maggiore dell’Esercito. Come inviato è stato in Romania, Grecia, Albania, Jugoslavia, Algeria, Cipro, Iraq, Kosovo, Libano, Territori Palestinesi, Israele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065107619587192418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rkrgiz6edmI/AAAAAAAAAqs/1cAbEFHCbLo/s320/suddoposud.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nel 2006 ha scritto il libro “&lt;strong&gt;Sud dopo sud&lt;/strong&gt;”, presentato già in 30 città. Lo scorso giugno è stato presentato presso la Divisione Aqui di San Giorgio a Cremano alla presenza dei generali Villani e Lops. &lt;strong&gt;A maggio del 2007 il libro sarà tradotto in arabo e pubblicato in Libano a cura del quotidiano “As Safir” e diffuso in 35 mila copie.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;***** PER DONAZIONI *****&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C/C 9328544&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABI 05398&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAB 04200&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Banca Popolare del Materano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff33;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compila il modulo per diventare sostenitare&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: clicca &lt;a href="http://www.libanitaly.com/moduloadesione.pdf"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt; per scaricarlo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;***** 5 per MILLE dell'IRPEF *****&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Poni la tua firma e indica il tuo Codice Fiscale sul tuo CUD 730 Mod.Unico&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TOGETHER ONLUS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c.f. 96047550767&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Per dare un sorriso a chi ne ha bisogno ... GRAZIE!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-3197283737792647588?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/3197283737792647588/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=3197283737792647588' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3197283737792647588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/3197283737792647588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/sostieni-libanitaly-together-onlus.html' title='Sostieni LibanItaly - Together ONLUS'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rkreaz6edlI/AAAAAAAAAqk/yx5CWN0aOOk/s72-c/libanitaly.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8874316188858066717</id><published>2007-05-13T14:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-13T14:39:21.124-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='run for peace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vivicittà'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giorgio calcaterra'/><title type='text'>Beirut, "Run For Peace" Marathon at Dbayeh</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkeC-cgBrTI/AAAAAAAAAqc/ktyD9gLahOA/s1600-h/beiruth_marathon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkeC-cgBrTI/AAAAAAAAAqc/ktyD9gLahOA/s320/beiruth_marathon.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064160315315432754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The italian Giorgio Calcaterra, 35y taxi-driver from Rome has won the 12Km race "Run For Peace", along Dbayeh sea side (north-east Beirut), in the tremendous Italian event "VIVICITTA" organized by the Beirut Marathon Association associated with the UISP (Unione Italiana Sport Per tutti), the CONI, the italian Foreigners Minister, the Comitato internazionale sport militare (Cism), the Lebanese Olympic Committee and the Lebanese Federation of Athletic Associations.&lt;br /&gt;Two runners of Lebanese Army arrived 2nd and 3rd; the first four lebanese runners won a free course to learn italian language, sponsored by italian embassy and ICE(Istituto di Cultura italiano).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8874316188858066717?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8874316188858066717/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8874316188858066717' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8874316188858066717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8874316188858066717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/beirut-run-for-peace-marathon-at-dbayeh.html' title='Beirut, &quot;Run For Peace&quot; Marathon at Dbayeh'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkeC-cgBrTI/AAAAAAAAAqc/ktyD9gLahOA/s72-c/beiruth_marathon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-6854480677377372384</id><published>2007-05-10T01:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-12T00:15:16.619-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convegno libano oggi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baba ganoush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanese recipes'/><title type='text'>Lesson #5:- How to prepare ... Baba Ganoush</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Previously:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/01/lesson-1-how-to-prepare-hummus.html"&gt;Hummus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#2: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/02/lesson-2-how-to-prepare-fatoush.html"&gt;Fatoush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#3: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/02/lesson-3-how-to-prepare-tabbouleh.html"&gt;Tabouleh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#4: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/lesson-4-how-to-prepare-mamoul.html"&gt;Mamoul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkQkWcgBrQI/AAAAAAAAAqE/sNFVLvi7W4o/s1600-h/babagnoush.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063211849097522434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkQkWcgBrQI/AAAAAAAAAqE/sNFVLvi7W4o/s320/babagnoush.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkQkhMgBrSI/AAAAAAAAAqU/MF6UJyPsAB0/s1600-h/flag_UNKG0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063212033781116194" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 44px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 23px" height="23" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkQkhMgBrSI/AAAAAAAAAqU/MF6UJyPsAB0/s200/flag_UNKG0001.gif" width="53" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Baba-Ghanush&lt;/strong&gt; (Arabic بابا غنوج), melitzanosalata (Greek μελιτζανοσαλάτα), baklazhannaya ikra (Russian баклажанная икра, literally "eggplant caviar") is one of the most popular Middle Eastern appetizers (maybe together with Hummous Bi Tahina), made primarily of eggplant (aubergine).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ingredients:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Serves 3 - 4&lt;br /&gt;2 big aubergines&lt;br /&gt;2 tablespoons tahini&lt;br /&gt;2 tablespoons lemon juice&lt;br /&gt;2 tablespoons yogurt&lt;br /&gt;1 garlic crushed&lt;br /&gt;chopped parsley/fresh basil&lt;br /&gt;Salt&amp;pepper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Preparation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make a slit in the skin of the aubergine and place under a hot grill for a few minutes on each side or until the skin blackens on all sides. Leave it to cool down, then peel the off skin, wash with cold water and put in a preheated oven at 200°C for a few minutes to get rid of all excess liquid. Put the aubergines and the other ingredients in a food processor to make into a dip, or crush the aubergines with a potato masher and mix with the other ingredients to get a rough mix . Serve cold topped with some olive oil and chopped parsley or fresh basil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tips:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Serve sprinkled with cumin and surrounded by the vegetables of your choice. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkQkdMgBrRI/AAAAAAAAAqM/5Gn-Yv5in7U/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063211965061639442" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="20" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkQkdMgBrRI/AAAAAAAAAqM/5Gn-Yv5in7U/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="38" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Ingredienti:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per 3-4 persone&lt;br /&gt;2 grandi melanzane&lt;br /&gt;2 cucchiai di tahina&lt;br /&gt;2 cucchiai di succo di limone&lt;br /&gt;2 cucchiai di yogurt&lt;br /&gt;1 spicchio d'aglio&lt;br /&gt;prezzemolo tritato/basilico fresco&lt;br /&gt;Sale&amp;amp;Pepe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Preparation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Accendete il forno a 200°C. Forate le melanzane con una forchetta, incidendo buchi qua e la'. Mettete su una teglia leggermente oleata o ricoperta di carta da forno e fatele cuocere per 45'-1h. Fatele quindi raffreddare ed eliminate la buccia delle melanzane. Schiacciatele appena per eliminare l'acqua in eccesso. Mettete tutti gli ingredienti nel mixer, tranne che il prezzemolo e l'olio. Mixate fino a formare un composto omogeneo ed infine spolverate con prezzemolo e se lo desiderate un po' di olio crudo. Servite con Pita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggerimenti:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Servite con una spolverata di cumino e circondato da verdure di stagione. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-6854480677377372384?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/6854480677377372384/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=6854480677377372384' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6854480677377372384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6854480677377372384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/lesson-4-how-to-prepare-baba-ganoush.html' title='Lesson #5:- How to prepare ... Baba Ganoush'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkQkWcgBrQI/AAAAAAAAAqE/sNFVLvi7W4o/s72-c/babagnoush.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-7500790369735743060</id><published>2007-05-09T05:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-11T01:30:47.235-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='appello'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marche pour la paix'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sodeco'/><title type='text'>On 12 May 2007, 12:00 :- Beirut Peace's March from Sodeco sq. to Museum</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkHFZsgBrPI/AAAAAAAAAp8/EIVfX07j6vw/s1600-h/sodecosquare_pcd3721_13-23.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkHFZsgBrPI/AAAAAAAAAp8/EIVfX07j6vw/s320/sodecosquare_pcd3721_13-23.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062544501374037234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12،00&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;الخميس 10 أيار 2007 الساعة &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;مسيرة صاخبة للسلام من تقاطع السوديكو حتى المتحف الوطني&lt;br /&gt;قرع الأجراس و رفع التكبير على مساحة الوطن&lt;br /&gt;" دقيقة تأمل "&lt;br /&gt;"نبذاً للفتنة و العنف و طلباً في تخطي الأزمة و تأكيداً للعيش معاً بكل طمأنينة.&lt;br /&gt;فرح العطاء&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;لأي معلومات إضافية : 03/340035&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeudi 10 Mai 2007 à 12h&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marche bruyante pour la Paix du Sodeco Square au Musée&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sons de cloches et louange à la grandeur de Dieu dans les mosquées sur tout le territoire libanais.&lt;br /&gt;Une minute de méditation et de réflexion.&lt;br /&gt;Pour rejeter toute division et violence.&lt;br /&gt;Et affirmer notre volonté de vivre ensemble en toute tranquillité.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-7500790369735743060?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/7500790369735743060/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=7500790369735743060' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7500790369735743060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7500790369735743060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/demain-12-may-2007-1200-beirut-peaces.html' title='On 12 May 2007, 12:00 :- Beirut Peace&apos;s March from Sodeco sq. to Museum'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkHFZsgBrPI/AAAAAAAAAp8/EIVfX07j6vw/s72-c/sodecosquare_pcd3721_13-23.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-9113834184260077816</id><published>2007-05-08T00:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T00:09:48.461-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='skylarkvoice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convegno firenze sesamo'/><title type='text'>Firenze, 10-12 Maggio: Convegno SeSaMO sul Medio Oriente</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkAiMMgBrOI/AAAAAAAAAp0/Q0rdt7aro0U/s1600-h/firenze-duomo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkAiMMgBrOI/AAAAAAAAAp0/Q0rdt7aro0U/s200/firenze-duomo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062083574073765090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sesamoitalia.it/brochure2007.pdf"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Programma&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In particolare, segnalo la giornata dedicata al Libano che vedrà coinvolto come relatore uno degli amici di Libanitaly:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Venerdì 11 Maggio - ore 14,30&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Salotta Museo Palazzo Vecchio&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il Libano ed i suoi nemici nell'era dell'egemonia israeliana in&lt;br /&gt;Medio Oriente&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presiedono: Rosita Di Peri e Michelguglielmo Torri&lt;br /&gt;Francesco Mazzucotelli (Cattolica, Milano), &lt;strong&gt;Il modello&lt;br /&gt;istituzionale del confessionalismo libanese&lt;/strong&gt;Massimo Di Ricco (Tarragona), Il confessionalismo libanese:&lt;br /&gt;logica del consenso, deterrenza comunitaria o nemico&lt;br /&gt;interno&lt;br /&gt;Rosita Di Peri (Torino), L'esperienza libanese fra crisi dello&lt;br /&gt;stato e paradigma democratico&lt;br /&gt;Jolanda Guardi (Milano), La visione della guerra nel tempo&lt;br /&gt;e nello spazio di Kawabìs Bayrùt di Ghadat as-Sammàn&lt;br /&gt;Mattia Toaldo (Roma Tre), 1982: il tentativo di egemonia&lt;br /&gt;israeliana sul Libano e la convergenza americana&lt;br /&gt;Laura Guazzone (La Sapienza, Roma), Sovranità&lt;br /&gt;immaginate: le politiche di sicurezza dello stato libanese&lt;br /&gt;dopo Ta'if&lt;br /&gt;Michelguglielmo Torri (Torino), La guerra dei 32 giorni: verso&lt;br /&gt;una valutazione militare e politica dell'aggressione&lt;br /&gt;israeliana al Libano nell’estate 2006&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-9113834184260077816?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/9113834184260077816/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=9113834184260077816' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/9113834184260077816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/9113834184260077816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/firenze-10-12-maggio-convegno-sesamo.html' title='Firenze, 10-12 Maggio: Convegno SeSaMO sul Medio Oriente'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RkAiMMgBrOI/AAAAAAAAAp0/Q0rdt7aro0U/s72-c/firenze-duomo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8081483066316812744</id><published>2007-05-01T03:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-06T04:27:17.965-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winograd report'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><title type='text'>The Winograd Committee Press Release (full text)</title><content type='html'>Herewith follow the main findings of the Winograd report on the Second Lebanon War.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(source &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/854051.html"&gt;Haaretz.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“We determine that there are very serious failings in these decisions and the way they were made. We impose the primary responsibility for these failures on the Prime Minister, the minister of defence and the (outgoing) Chief of Staff. All three made a decisive personal contribution to these decisions and the way in which they were made.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8081483066316812744?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8081483066316812744/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8081483066316812744' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8081483066316812744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8081483066316812744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/05/winograd-committee-press-release-full.html' title='The Winograd Committee Press Release (full text)'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-6765137874090763158</id><published>2007-04-30T09:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T10:10:10.871-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='olmert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amir peretz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winograd commission'/><title type='text'>Winograd Commission: the judge doesn't smile not even once</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RjYe0MgBrNI/AAAAAAAAAps/chc-Dk1Q2FQ/s1600-h/lebanon-israel-topper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059265113454914770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RjYe0MgBrNI/AAAAAAAAAps/chc-Dk1Q2FQ/s320/lebanon-israel-topper.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RjYcgcgBrMI/AAAAAAAAApk/rSxqUjNf6Zc/s1600-h/flag_UNKG0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059262575129242818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 43px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 19px" height="23" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RjYcgcgBrMI/AAAAAAAAApk/rSxqUjNf6Zc/s200/flag_UNKG0001.gif" width="47" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The Winograd Commission is an Israeli government-appointed commission of inquiry, chaired by retired judge Eliyahu Winograd, which is set out to investigate and draw lessons from the failures experienced by Israel during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(IsraelNN.com) Justice Eliyahu Winograd read aloud the findings of his government-appointed commission's partial report on the Second Lebanon War late Monday afternoon; many said that they were even harsher than had been expected. Winograd explained that the findings are limited to the days just prior to the beginning of last summer's war against Hizbullah.&lt;br /&gt;At least 1,200 Lebanese, including an estimated 270 Hezbollah fighters were killed in the summer war, as well as 119 Israeli soldiers and 39 civilians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"There was a weakness in strategic thinking... They went into war without thinking how they would get out of it."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report's main points include the following:&lt;br /&gt;"The decision to carry out an extreme military operation [in response to the kidnapping of the two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border] was not based on a careful analysis of the situation in Lebanon... It was rather overly-ambitious and unrealistic... The capacity to attain genuine accomplishments was limited... Olmert said he would fight until the objectives were achieved, but the fighting was not done in a manner designed to achieve these goals... He did not ask for a detailed plan from the army..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report also castigated Defense Minister Amir Peretz and ex-IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Halutz. Winograd said the Defense Minister "did not have the required knowledge or the experience in security or diplomatic matters, or in how to use military strength to achieve objectives. Despite this, he made decisions without consulting others, and did not give sufficient weight to differing opinions... He did not take into account the army's lack of readiness... His influence on decisions were only on local matters; he did not try to grasp or deal with the overall picture. His lack of experience and knowledge weakened the government's ability to deal with the challenges."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other on:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/54BDF128-9230-42D0-95BD-210305093AC0.htm"&gt;Al Jazeera&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122289"&gt;Israel National News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Political Reactions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prime Minister Olmert "appointed the committee and will honor its conclusions," an aide said, while emphasizing that Olmert has no plans to resign. The Prime Minister announced this morning that he will convene the ministers of his Kadima party at 6:45 PM. It is expected that he will outline his plan to rebuff calls for his resignation, including a list of quotations from opposition members and others in support of the war.&lt;br /&gt;Upon receiving the report this afternoon, &lt;strong&gt;Olmert&lt;/strong&gt; thanked the Commission members for their hard work, and said, "&lt;em&gt;I will study the report in order to be able to learn the lessons and correct the faults and ensure that the faults will not repeat themselves.&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minister Peretz's lawyer seemed to be relieved, saying that the findings of the report are the same as that which had been leaked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MK Effie Eitam (National Union) said that Olmert must not turn "barricade himself in his office" but must resign immediately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli TV broadcasted the session in which Winograd deliver Olmert his report. Olmert seems tense, with a nervous smile, Amir Peretz looks dark in face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Judge Winograd does not smile not even once.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RjYcZsgBrLI/AAAAAAAAApc/2KqTVj9lkRo/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059262459165125810" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="18" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RjYcZsgBrLI/AAAAAAAAApc/2KqTVj9lkRo/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="42" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; La Commissione Winograd è la commissione di inchiesta nominata dal Governo di Israele, guidata dal giudice Eliyahu Winograd, la quale è stata incaricata di investigare sull'insuccesso di israele nel conflitto con il Libano dell'estate 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il rapporto di 320 pagine è stato consegnato oggi ai diretti responsabili&lt;br /&gt;e poi messo sul web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondo la Commissione, il premier &lt;strong&gt;Ehud Olmert&lt;/strong&gt;, il ministro della Difesa &lt;strong&gt;Amir Peretz&lt;/strong&gt; e il capo di stato maggiore &lt;strong&gt;Dan Halutz&lt;/strong&gt; sono i maggiori responsabili della decisione di andare - la scorsa estate - in guerra contro gli Hezbollah. Un conflitto durato 34 giorni e che ha provocato molte vittime, almeno 1200 Libanesi, compresi una stima di 270 Hezbollah, più 119 soldati e 39 civili Israeliani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;em&gt;I ministri hanno votato per una decisione (di aprire le ostilità ndr) che non hanno capito e hanno approvato il conflitto senza sapere poi come uscirne". Hanno deciso una guerra "senza un piano adeguato&lt;/em&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;Le conclusioni del rapporto non sembrano lasciare appello: "&lt;em&gt;Il modo in cui Israele ha avviato la campagna militare è inaccettabile, non dovrà mai più ripetersi.&lt;/em&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;Olmert è accusato di aver dato troppo spazio ai piani dei vertici militari e &lt;strong&gt;di non aver lasciato la porta aperta a soluzioni diplomatiche per risolvere la crisi con i gruppi di Hezbollah&lt;/strong&gt; che diedero il via al conflitto con il rapimento di due militari israeliani. "&lt;strong&gt;Un grave fallimento&lt;/strong&gt;" è scritto nel Rapporto. Secondo la commissione d'inchiesta, inoltre, il premier non ha valutato con attenzione la preparazione dell'esercito prima di autorizzare l'attacco contro il Libano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il rapporto si occupa degli anni che hanno preceduto la guerra (descrive la dislocazione di miliziani Hezbollah a ridosso del confine e le contromisure adottate dall'esercito israeliano) e dei primi sei giorni di conflitto dopo che il 12 luglio i miliziani sciiti aprirono le ostilità bombardando la Galilea, catturando due soldati e uccidendone altri. Il rapporto ha due versioni: una con una parte top secret destinata al governo; una pubblica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le tivù israeliane hanno anche diffuso il filmato della seduta in cui Winograd consegna a Olmert il rapporto. Il premier dice al presidente della Commissione, composta da cinque persone, che il governo studierà il rapporto e opererà per attuare al più presto le sue conclusioni. Olmert appare teso, con un sorriso nervoso, mentre ringrazia gli inquirenti per il compito "non facile" da loro svolto. Il ministro della difesa Amir Peretz è scuro in volto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il giudice Winograd non sorride nemmeno una volta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-6765137874090763158?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/6765137874090763158/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=6765137874090763158' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6765137874090763158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/6765137874090763158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/winograd-commission-judge-doesnt-smile.html' title='Winograd Commission: the judge doesn&apos;t smile not even once'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RjYe0MgBrNI/AAAAAAAAAps/chc-Dk1Q2FQ/s72-c/lebanon-israel-topper.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-410396882438007922</id><published>2007-04-21T15:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-21T15:53:44.168-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='re-thinking beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milan triennale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><title type='text'>Re-Thinking Beirut: exposition in Triennale Milan</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Re-thinking Beirut&lt;/em&gt; is a project by the cultural lab aMAZElab, directed by Claudia Zanfi, floowing the international event Salone del Mobile, at Triennale Milan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;aMAZElab&lt;/strong&gt;, in collaboration with Art Book and the Province of Milan, proposes “&lt;em&gt;Re-Thinking Beirut&lt;/em&gt;”, a series of cultural events and visual installations dedicated to the current cultural, social and geo-political aspects of the Lebanese capital town. The project sets out to investigate contemporary Beirut life, through the contributions of intellectuals of the highest level, as well as through an arts exhibition programme accompanied by a cycle of conferences, with the use of a multi-disciplinary approach. With contributions from artists, architects, sociologists, geographers, journalists, etc. the project analyses the new urban geography, both physical and mental. &lt;br /&gt;Art Book will host on &lt;strong&gt;Monday, 23rd of April&lt;/strong&gt;, the group of Lebanese architects &lt;strong&gt;L.E.F.T.&lt;/strong&gt; will meet Stefano Boeri for a discussion on “Architecture and Society: the re-construction of Beirut”. The LEFT team, headed by Steven Holl, is involved in the reconstruction project of &lt;strong&gt;Marina Beirut&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RiqV0ragpdI/AAAAAAAAApU/h9W5bE5v5RA/s1600-h/1174914428b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RiqV0ragpdI/AAAAAAAAApU/h9W5bE5v5RA/s320/1174914428b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056018263916455378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Re-Thinking Beirut&lt;br /&gt;Vernissage: Mon 23 Apr, 6:30 PM&lt;br /&gt;address: Triennale, Viale Alemagna 6, Milan&lt;br /&gt;info email: info@amaze.it&lt;br /&gt;web: &lt;a href="www.amaze.it"&gt;www.amaze.it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;entrance: free&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Following in May:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conference: Beirut, geopolitics signs&lt;br /&gt;When: Tue 8 May, 6:30 PM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ref.: Prof.ssa Marcella Schmidt, Prof. Fabrizio Eva&lt;br /&gt;Where: Art Book Milano, Via Ventura 5, Milan&lt;br /&gt;entrance: free&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exposition Vernissage: A travel between memory and identities, Ali Hassoun&lt;br /&gt;When: Fri 11 May, 6PM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where: Triennale, Viale Alemagna 6, Milan&lt;br /&gt;entrance: free&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conference/concert: The lebanese music between tradition and modernity, Manuela Giolfo and Takht Cham Ensemble&lt;br /&gt;When: Sun 13 May, 6PM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where: Triennale, Viale Alemagna 6, Milan&lt;br /&gt;entrance: free&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-410396882438007922?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/410396882438007922/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=410396882438007922' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/410396882438007922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/410396882438007922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/re-thinking-beirut-exposition-in.html' title='Re-Thinking Beirut: exposition in Triennale Milan'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RiqV0ragpdI/AAAAAAAAApU/h9W5bE5v5RA/s72-c/1174914428b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5138297172801018547</id><published>2007-04-17T15:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-17T15:15:38.935-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maria sarkis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='erotica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nayla karam'/><title type='text'>Maria Sarkis Art</title><content type='html'>Source: &lt;a href="http://www.mariasarkis.com/"&gt;Maria's site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Painting, a language that should be even beyond any understanding as Picasso said:&lt;br /&gt;“Everyone wants to understand art ,why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird, why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without to understand them? but in the case of painting, people think they have to understand!” &lt;br /&gt;So as Osho said: &lt;br /&gt;“Unless you are a creator, you will never find real blissfulness, it is only by creating that you become part of the great creativity of the universe.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RiVG4Fh54eI/AAAAAAAAApM/9ZSc4LoU-Ew/s1600-h/mariasarkis_nailakaran_eroticabeirut.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RiVG4Fh54eI/AAAAAAAAApM/9ZSc4LoU-Ew/s320/mariasarkis_nailakaran_eroticabeirut.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054524086164251106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the vernissage on 11 Apr, the expositio "&lt;strong&gt;EROTICA&lt;/strong&gt;" of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NAYLA KARAM et MARIA SARKIS&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;will keep on taking place in Galerie Surface Libre d'Art&lt;br /&gt;until 28 Apr, Mon-Sat, from 10AM to 7PM&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5138297172801018547?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5138297172801018547/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5138297172801018547' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5138297172801018547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5138297172801018547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/maria-sarkis-art.html' title='Maria Sarkis Art'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RiVG4Fh54eI/AAAAAAAAApM/9ZSc4LoU-Ew/s72-c/mariasarkis_nailakaran_eroticabeirut.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2594606816729472635</id><published>2007-04-13T12:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-13T12:17:36.802-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ponte milvio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='padlock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='caduto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felt down'/><title type='text'>I felt down like padlock in Ponte Milvio's bridge</title><content type='html'>Sono caduto.&lt;br /&gt;Sono caduto di nuovo.&lt;br /&gt;Stella del cielo vuoi spiegarmi perchè&lt;br /&gt;quando mi convinco d'essere mago&lt;br /&gt;c'è sempre il vento &lt;br /&gt;a ricordarmi&lt;br /&gt;che quella che ho in mano&lt;br /&gt;non è una bacchetta magica&lt;br /&gt;ma sabbia che con un soffio&lt;br /&gt;lui me la porta via.&lt;br /&gt;Perchè huh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh_XPlh54dI/AAAAAAAAApE/8xCV7Tqy184/s1600-h/franceschi101800371304203020_big.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh_XPlh54dI/AAAAAAAAApE/8xCV7Tqy184/s320/franceschi101800371304203020_big.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052993969705312722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-2594606816729472635?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/2594606816729472635/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=2594606816729472635' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2594606816729472635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2594606816729472635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-felt-down-like-padlock-in-ponte.html' title='I felt down like padlock in Ponte Milvio&apos;s bridge'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh_XPlh54dI/AAAAAAAAApE/8xCV7Tqy184/s72-c/franceschi101800371304203020_big.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-5958929038169549321</id><published>2007-04-13T08:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-13T09:08:30.674-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mika'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alcatraz'/><title type='text'>Ladies &amp; Gentlemen, MIKA live in Milano</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh-pEVh54cI/AAAAAAAAAo8/odD8jbVJZCc/s1600-h/mika.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh-pEVh54cI/AAAAAAAAAo8/odD8jbVJZCc/s320/mika.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052943198896906690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bellissimo concerto ieri sera,all’Alcatraz di Milano!&lt;br /&gt;Magliettina glitterata e pianoforte, ha fatto il suo ingresso sul palco &lt;strong&gt;Mika Penniman&lt;/strong&gt;, o semplicemente &lt;strong&gt;MIKA&lt;/strong&gt;, come ormai tutti i fans conoscono questo giovanissimo artista di &lt;strong&gt;madre libanese &lt;/strong&gt;e padre americano,vissuto tra &lt;strong&gt;Beirut&lt;/strong&gt;,Parigi e Londra che ha scalato le classifiche partendo dal web in un tempo da record. Voce straordinaria, ha infilato un acuto dietro l’altro,proponendo diversi pezzi del suo album, da “Take it easy” alla notissima “Grace Kelly”, passando per la ghost track “Over my shoulder” , un inedito, una cover e concludendo in bellezza con “Lollipop”, mascherato da peluches,assieme a tutta la band. &lt;br /&gt;Il canto in farsetto è tornato in voga da qualche tempo e molti artisti del pop ne fanno il proprio cavallo di battaglia, come gli Scissors Sister. Pure Robbie Williams e i "risorti" Take That non lo disdegnano.&lt;br /&gt;L’artista,tra una canzone e l’altra racconta di come scriva le canzoni durante notti insonni di zapping e improvvise ispirazioni e ringrazia il calorosissimo pubblico, che non si aspettava così numeroso e che ha sorpreso anche gli organizzatori che hanno dovuto spostare la location del concerto per ben tre volte in club sempre più capienti,vista la continua richiesta di biglietti.&lt;br /&gt;Una pecca, e sì, una pecca c’è stata: Mika è rimasto sul palco un’ora scarsa. Visto l’entusiasmo dei sui fans,poteva anche cantarli tutti i dieci pezzi del suo album.&lt;br /&gt;Ma piano prima di parlare della nascita di un nuovo Freddy Mercury, please!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-5958929038169549321?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/5958929038169549321/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=5958929038169549321' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5958929038169549321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/5958929038169549321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/ladies-gentlemen-mika-live-in-milano.html' title='Ladies &amp; Gentlemen, MIKA live in Milano'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh-pEVh54cI/AAAAAAAAAo8/odD8jbVJZCc/s72-c/mika.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-7197244411845140580</id><published>2007-04-13T01:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-13T01:51:45.403-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futsal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='follow the women'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ride for peace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iranian team'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bend it like beckham'/><title type='text'>Follow the Women 2007 and Bend It Like Beckham - Iranian ver.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh9CUFh54ZI/AAAAAAAAAok/OXW7Ls0uPpY/s1600-h/startfollowthewomen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh9CUFh54ZI/AAAAAAAAAok/OXW7Ls0uPpY/s200/startfollowthewomen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052830219782185362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh9CYVh54aI/AAAAAAAAAos/uDa6Vr_q9JQ/s1600-h/italyfollowthewomen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh9CYVh54aI/AAAAAAAAAos/uDa6Vr_q9JQ/s200/italyfollowthewomen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052830292796629410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Follow the Women - Women for Peace' cycle ride has started from Aleppo University in northern Syria on Saturday, with 249 female riders from 30 countries crossing the start line and heading straight into the first 30km road section from Aleppo to the site of the historic Saint Simeon Citadel.&lt;br /&gt;Over the next 11 days, the riders will pass through Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan, before finishing in Amman on Thursday, April 19th. Over 120 female riders from Syria elected to enter this year's Middle East peace ride to raise awareness of the unstability and unrest in the region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(source &lt;a href="http://www.ameinfo.com/115973.html"&gt;AMEINFO&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, Iranian version&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women's futsal team of Iranian club of Rah Ahan is scheduled to leave for the Jordanian capital Amman tonight. &lt;br /&gt;Rah Ahan represents the country in an international tournament, which is attended by 10 teams. &lt;br /&gt;Three teams from the host country and seven from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, and Palestine compete in the tourney from May 11-18. &lt;br /&gt;Rah Ahan stood top in Iran's seven-strong inter-club league, winning 26 points. &lt;br /&gt;Five national players are in the Rah Ahan squad. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(source: &lt;a href="http://www.irna.com/en/news/view/line-19/0605091520194226.htm"&gt;Iranian Islamic Republic News Agency&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rh9EEFh54bI/AAAAAAAAAo0/63gCYcXRoxs/s1600-h/reuters101731671204195928_big.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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Nelly Furtado&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thomas&lt;/em&gt;: Da quando non mi hai più cercato [Since you didn't look for me]&lt;br /&gt;mi sembra molto più difficile [it seems to me many more difficult]&lt;br /&gt;credevo di essere più forte [i believed to be stronger]&lt;br /&gt;di quella sera e tutte le parole [than that night and all the words]&lt;br /&gt;ed e bastato un solo sguardo [and just a look was enough]&lt;br /&gt;solo una volta non lo scordi più [just one time, and you won't forget it anymore]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Matteo&lt;/em&gt;: rincontrarsi nei pensieri [più] [to meet us into the thoughts]&lt;br /&gt;ritrovarsi come ieri [to find us like yesterday]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;T&lt;/em&gt;: anche se non può più tornare [even though it can't go back]&lt;br /&gt;basta una volta e non lo scordi più [just one time, and you won't forget it anymore]&lt;br /&gt;quella sera e tutte le parole [that night and all the words]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ma tu&lt;/strong&gt; [but You]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Davvero credi sia stato un piano&lt;/strong&gt; [really believe it was a plan]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;studiato per farti del male&lt;/strong&gt; [designed to hurt you]&lt;br /&gt;si tu di sicuro, sei stata più sincera nel dire le cose [for sure, you have been more sincere in telling things]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nelly Furtado&lt;/em&gt;: Now who's gonna say&lt;br /&gt;You win I loose&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;T&lt;/em&gt;: vincere tu... [you win]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;: senza ormai più chiedersi [without self-asking]&lt;br /&gt;se mai ce la farò [if i will succeed]&lt;br /&gt;e se domani - &lt;strong&gt;domani forse ritornerò&lt;/strong&gt; [and if tomorrow, tomorrow maybe i'll be back]&lt;br /&gt;magari un giorno poi [hopefully someday then]&lt;br /&gt;poi me ne pentirò [then i will repent]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ma ne valeva la pena rischiare tutto o no?&lt;/strong&gt; [but that was worth of risking everything huh?]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;NF&lt;/em&gt;: no... &lt;strong&gt;Never seems so really ended&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;No I can't really forget it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;No I can't forget you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NF&amp;T&lt;/em&gt;: Will you ever see that I can't try I'll lie down&lt;br /&gt;The day that we'll say goodbye&lt;br /&gt;It's true that someday&lt;br /&gt;you're on and still we'll play&lt;br /&gt;and I pay it my truth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;T&lt;/em&gt;: e ora che vuoi? [now what you want?]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;NF&amp;amp;T:&lt;/em&gt; vincere tu.. [you win]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;NF:&lt;/em&gt; ooooh...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;NF&amp;T:&lt;/em&gt; Will you ever see that I can't try I'll lie down&lt;br /&gt;The day that we'll say goodbye&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's true that someday&lt;br /&gt;you're on and still we'll play&lt;br /&gt;and I pay it my truth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;T:&lt;/em&gt; ed era l'ultimo saluto [and it was the last goodbye]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;NF&amp;amp;T:&lt;/em&gt; e non ci penso più.. [and i don't think about it anymore]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8992588946897259913?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8992588946897259913/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8992588946897259913' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8992588946897259913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8992588946897259913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/do-you-miss-my-smell.html' title='Do You Miss My Smell ?'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-9143665553757291239</id><published>2007-04-10T02:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T02:31:42.478-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cookies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='easter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mamul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maamoul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanese recipes'/><title type='text'>Lesson #4:- How to prepare ... Mamoul</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Previously:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/01/lesson-1-how-to-prepare-hummus.html"&gt;Hummus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#2: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/02/lesson-2-how-to-prepare-fatoush.html"&gt;Fatoush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#3: &lt;a href="http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/02/lesson-3-how-to-prepare-tabbouleh.html"&gt;Tabouleh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhtOO1h54WI/AAAAAAAAAoM/_vauMlUm7Vw/s1600-h/maamoulwalnuts.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051717423820562786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhtOO1h54WI/AAAAAAAAAoM/_vauMlUm7Vw/s320/maamoulwalnuts.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhtZClh54XI/AAAAAAAAAoU/eVF9X2kaRCo/s1600-h/flag_UNKG0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051729307995070834" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 50px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 20px" height="27" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhtZClh54XI/AAAAAAAAAoU/eVF9X2kaRCo/s200/flag_UNKG0001.gif" width="41" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Mamoul are Middle Eastern cookies served typically Easter. The cookies have three traditional fillings: walnut, pistachio and date.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ingredients&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1/2 cup solid shortening&lt;br /&gt;8 tablespoons or 4 ounces butter&lt;br /&gt;1 cup flour, all purpose&lt;br /&gt;2 cups semolina&lt;br /&gt;1/4 teaspoon salt&lt;br /&gt;1/4 teaspoon baking powder&lt;br /&gt;1/4 cup granulated sugar&lt;br /&gt;1 tablespoon rose flower water OR&lt;br /&gt;1 tablespoon orange flower water&lt;br /&gt;7 tablespoons water&lt;br /&gt;confectioners sugar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Walnut or Pistachio Filling&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 1/2 cups finely chopped walnuts or pistachios&lt;br /&gt;2 Tablespoons orange or rose flower water&lt;br /&gt;1/4 cup sugar&lt;br /&gt;1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon&lt;br /&gt;Mix well together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Date Filling&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 1/2 cups chopped dates&lt;br /&gt;6 tablespoons butter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Preparation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not expect the dough to be cohesive but it will be damp enough to form into balls to pack into the cookie molds. This recipe needs to be started a day ahead.&lt;br /&gt;Melt shortening and butter together or use all butter if you wish a richer cookie. cool slightly. Mix flour, semolina, salt, baking powder and sugar together. Rub melted shortening into dough with fingertips until it is like fine soft meal.&lt;br /&gt;Cover bowl and let it rest overnight. Combine flower waters with 7 tablespoons water and sprinkle over the dough. Toss lightly with a fork to distribute liquid evenly. Mix until just combined, like pie dough. (another person says to knead the dough well).&lt;br /&gt;Dust maamoul molds well with flour. Invert and tap gently to remove excess flour. Estimate the amount of dough need to fill maamoul mold and make a ball of dough. Flatten it out slightly and place a good tablespoon of filling in center. Close dough around filling to cover it. Pack ball into mold. Level off cookie even with the lip of the mold. Be sure you have not revealed filling or it will stick to the pan as it bakes.&lt;br /&gt;Tap cookies out onto the work area with a sharp firm hit to the top of the mold. Transfer cookies to baking sheet with a spatula. Bake at 300 to 325deg F about 12 minutes, until barely colored.&lt;br /&gt;Sprinkle with confectioners sugar before serving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhtZJlh54YI/AAAAAAAAAoc/651Ov1HM2G4/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051729428254155138" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 40px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 21px" height="18" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhtZJlh54YI/AAAAAAAAAoc/651Ov1HM2G4/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="48" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I Mamoul sono i tipici biscotti libanesi serviti a Pasqua. Possono avere tre diversi ripieni: noci, pistacchi o datteri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ingredienti&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 cucchiai di burro&lt;br /&gt;1 tazza di farina&lt;br /&gt;2 tazze di semolino&lt;br /&gt;1/4 cucchiaino di sale&lt;br /&gt;1/4 cucchiaino di lievito&lt;br /&gt;1/4 tazza di zucchero in grani&lt;br /&gt;1 cucchiaio di acqua di fiori di rosa OPPURE&lt;br /&gt;1 cucchiaio di acqua di fiori di arancio&lt;br /&gt;7 cucchiai di acqua&lt;br /&gt;zucchero a velo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ripieno di Noci o Pistacchio&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 1/2 tazza di noci finemente tritate o pistacchi&lt;br /&gt;2 cucchiai di acqua di fiori di rosa o di arancio&lt;br /&gt;1/4 tazzina di zucchero&lt;br /&gt;1/4 cucchiaio di cannella&lt;br /&gt;Mescolare bene insieme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ripieno di Datteri&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 1/2 cups datteri sminuzzati&lt;br /&gt;6 cucchiai di burro&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Preparazione&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'impasto dovrà essere abbastanza compatto da poter formare delle palline che possano essere inserite in stampi per cucina. La preparazione di questa ricetta deve cominciare con un giorno di anticipo.&lt;br /&gt;Mescolare farina, semolino, sale, lievito e zucchero insieme. Strofinare il burro sul fondo della scodella dove verrà adagiato l'impasto di sopra. Coprire la scodella e lasciare a riposo per una notte.&lt;br /&gt;Unire l'acqua di fiori coi 7 cucchiai di acqua e bagnare l'impasto. Ricoprire bene gli stampi del maamoul con la farina. Inserire un bel cucchiaio di ripieno al centro dell'impasto ben appiattito in precedenza. Chiudere l'impasto così ripieno e formare delle palline negli stampi. Attenzione a chiudere bene per evitare fuoriuscite del ripieno durante la cottura in forno.&lt;br /&gt;Cuocere a 150-170°C per 12' finchè la parte superiore dell'impasto risulta dorata.&lt;br /&gt;Cospargere di zucchero a velo prima di servire.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-9143665553757291239?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/9143665553757291239/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=9143665553757291239' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/9143665553757291239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/9143665553757291239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/lesson-4-how-to-prepare-mamoul.html' title='Lesson #4:- How to prepare ... Mamoul'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhtOO1h54WI/AAAAAAAAAoM/_vauMlUm7Vw/s72-c/maamoulwalnuts.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-2991958264672693826</id><published>2007-04-08T09:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T09:39:11.842-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pasqua'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='papa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pope'/><title type='text'>Pasqua and the prayer of the Pope</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Buona Pasqua a tutti in Cristo Risorto e Asceso al Cielo.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(source: &lt;a href="http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&amp;E3189C31360A0EB7C22572B7004881F2"&gt;Naharnet&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday expressed concern over Lebanon's role and future due to the ongoing political crisis between the Hizbullah-led opposition and Premier Fouad Saniora's majority government.&lt;br /&gt;The pope also decried the "suffering in the world" in his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) on Easter Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"In Lebanon, the paralysis of the country's political institutions threatens the role that the country is called to play in the Middle East and puts its future seriously in jeopardy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"… I cannot forget the difficulties faced daily by the Christian communities and the exodus of Christians from that blessed Land which is the cradle of our faith," the 79-year-old pontiff said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"How many wounds, how much suffering there is in the world? Natural calamities and human tragedies that cause innumerable victims and enormous material destruction are not lacking," he said in the message beamed around the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am thinking of the scourge of hunger, of incurable diseases, of terrorism and kidnapping of people, of the thousand faces of violence which some people attempt to justify in the name of religion, of contempt for life, of the violation of human rights and the exploitation of persons," the 79-year-old pontiff said. &lt;br /&gt;"My thoughts go to recent events in Madagascar, in the Solomon Islands, in Latin America and in other regions of the world," Benedict said from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica to a crowd of tens of thousands filling the square as well as the main street leading up to it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I look with apprehension at the conditions prevailing in several regions of Africa," in several parts of the world's poorest continent, notably Zimbabwe, Darfur and Somalia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Zimbabwe is in the grip of a grievous crisis, and for this reason the bishops of that country in a recent document indicated prayer and a shared commitment for the common good as the only way forward," he said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"In the Middle East, besides some signs of hope in the dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian authority, nothing positive comes from Iraq, torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees," the pope said in the message broadcast live by 67 television stations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-2991958264672693826?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/2991958264672693826/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=2991958264672693826' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2991958264672693826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/2991958264672693826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/pasqua-and-prayer-of-pope.html' title='Pasqua and the prayer of the Pope'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-1635670640080701862</id><published>2007-04-03T01:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-04T01:54:13.851-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love after love'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='walcott'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amore dopo amore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='euforia extrasensoriale'/><title type='text'>Take a rest ... read and smell</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhIN4GEB1QI/AAAAAAAAAn0/2tn_ZI__Dcw/s1600-h/love%2520after%2520love.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049113389587092738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhIN4GEB1QI/AAAAAAAAAn0/2tn_ZI__Dcw/s320/love%2520after%2520love.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhIP4WEB1RI/AAAAAAAAAn8/p3HlAyu6Qbs/s1600-h/flag_UNKG0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049115592905315602" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 39px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 17px" height="21" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhIP4WEB1RI/AAAAAAAAAn8/p3HlAyu6Qbs/s200/flag_UNKG0001.gif" width="46" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Love After Love &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The time will come&lt;br /&gt;when, with elation,&lt;br /&gt;you will greet yourself arriving&lt;br /&gt;at your own door, in your own mirror,&lt;br /&gt;and each will smile at the other's welcome,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And say, sit here. Eat.&lt;br /&gt;You will love again the stranger who was yourself.&lt;br /&gt;Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart&lt;br /&gt;to itself, to the stranger who has loved you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all your life, whom you ignored&lt;br /&gt;for another, who knows you by heart.&lt;br /&gt;Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the photographs, the desperate notes,&lt;br /&gt;peel your own image from the mirror.&lt;br /&gt;Sit. Feast on your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Derek Walcott &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---###---&lt;br /&gt;Never happened? Going to the baker and the brend-new bread aroma arises, seducing olfaction. Suddenly you feel serene and calm, and maybe that bad mood plaguing you before, runs away. Aromas and smells act on mood awakening memories. I.e. cinnamon's smell reminds Xmas, talc's smell the children one, maybe yours or the one of your adored niece, while THAT smell of your beloved can bring you back a romantic night. Together with Her.&lt;br /&gt;It seems that smells are sensorial stimulus, treated in the hidden oblivion of the brain and awaken reactions. It's called AROMATHERAPY. Who hates waking up in the morning can easierly rise by sniffing fresh rosemary. A spiced aroma strengthen soul and organizational abilities. The Vanilla and citrus create good mood, the Bergamot lightens the atmosphere of a room and stimulates appetite. The Lemon increases the ability of concentration and intellectual nimblity. The Rose reduces worry and eagerness. If you need calm, in order to recharge your energy stocks, try to spread all over lavender, gelsomino and cypress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extrasensorial euphoria. Inebriated by alchemies that persecutoring play on my memories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhIP-mEB1SI/AAAAAAAAAoE/g0VJx68f1ss/s1600-h/flag_ITAL0001.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049115700279498018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="22" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhIP-mEB1SI/AAAAAAAAAoE/g0VJx68f1ss/s200/flag_ITAL0001.gif" width="46" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;AMORE DOPO AMORE &lt;/strong&gt;di &lt;em&gt;Derek Walcott&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tempo verrà in cui, con esultanza, saluterai te stesso arrivato alla tua porta, nel tuo proprio specchio e ognuno sorriderà al benvenuto dell'altro, e dirà: siediti qui. mangia. amerai di nuovo lo straniero che era il tuo io. offri vino. offri pane. rendi il cuore a se stesso, allo straniero che ti ha amato per tutta la vita, che hai ignorato per un altro e che ti sa a memoria. dallo scaffale tira giu' le lettere d'amore, le fotografie, le note disperate, sbuccia via dallo specchio la tua immagine, siediti. è festa: la tua vita è in tavola.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---###---&lt;br /&gt;Ti è mai capitato? vai dal panettiere e l’aroma di pane appena sfornato si diffonde seducendo l’olfatto. D'improvviso avverti serenità e calma, e forse quel cattivo umore che prima ti affliggeva, se ne va, dileguandosi. Aromi e profumi agiscono sull’umore arrivando a risvegliare i ricordi. Ad esempio l'odore della cannella ci fa rammentare il natale, l'odore del talco quello di un bambino, magari il tuo o un'adorata nipotina, mentre QUEL profumo della persona amata ti può riportare ad una serata romantica. Con Lei.&lt;br /&gt;Si dice che gli odori siano stimoli sensoriali che vengono elaborati nell’aria limbica del cervello e risvegliano delle reazioni. La chiamano AROMATERAPIA. Chi detesta alzarsi al mattino, si leva con maggiore facilità dopo aver annusato del rosmarino fresco. Un aroma speziato rinforza lo spirito e potenzia le abilità organizzative. Vaniglia e agrumi generano buonumore, il bergamotto alleggerisce l’atmosfera di una stanza e stimola l’appetito. Il limone aumenta la capacità di concentrazione e l’agilitá intellettuale. La rosa riduce preoccupazione e impazienza. Se hai bisogno di tranquillità, per ricaricare le tue riserve di energia, prova a diffondere intorno a te lavanda, gelsomino e cipresso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Euforia extrasensoriale, m'inebrio di alchimie che giocano aguzzine sui miei ricordi.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-1635670640080701862?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/1635670640080701862/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=1635670640080701862' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1635670640080701862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/1635670640080701862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/take-rest-read-and-smell.html' title='Take a rest ... read and smell'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/RhIN4GEB1QI/AAAAAAAAAn0/2tn_ZI__Dcw/s72-c/love%2520after%2520love.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-8889096680909487940</id><published>2007-04-01T11:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-01T11:52:28.877-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stramilano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libanitaly'/><title type='text'>StraMilano Marathon 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rg_-mmEB1PI/AAAAAAAAAns/CQEngBbpRPM/s1600-h/DSCN2177.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rg_-mmEB1PI/AAAAAAAAAns/CQEngBbpRPM/s320/DSCN2177.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048533646311544050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LibanItaly has been there too :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-8889096680909487940?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/8889096680909487940/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=8889096680909487940' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8889096680909487940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/8889096680909487940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/04/stramilano-marathon-2007.html' title='StraMilano Marathon 2007'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7h15tsBS9pw/Rg_-mmEB1PI/AAAAAAAAAns/CQEngBbpRPM/s72-c/DSCN2177.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-7520291044614037161</id><published>2007-03-27T03:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T03:26:59.495-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unhcr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brammertz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hariri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mehdima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mahina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beirut mahina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lebanon'/><title type='text'>Commissione Internazionale sull'assassinio di Rafiq Hariri: 12 mesi di proroga</title><content type='html'>L'inchiesta internazionale sull'assassinio dell'ex premier libanese Rafik Hariri, ucciso il 14/02/2005, verrà prorogata di un anno: lo ha deciso il 21 Marzo scorso il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'Onu. La commissione delle Nazioni Unite che indaga sul caso Hariri avrà altri dodici mesi per terminare i suoi lavori, ha spiegato alla stampa il rappresentante permanente francese all'Onu Jean-Marc de la Sabliere.&lt;br /&gt;L'ambasciatore ha aggiunto che tutti i quindici membri del Consiglio di Sicurezza (tra cui l'Italia membro non permanente per due anni) hanno accolto la richiesta del governo di Beirut di prolungare il mandato della commissione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serge Brammertz&lt;/strong&gt;, il magistrato belga che guida gli ispettori Onu, ha fatto al Consiglio di Sicurezza un nuovo punto sulle indagini, spiegando che le ragioni del delitto vanno cercate nelle attività politiche dell'ex premier.&lt;br /&gt;"La commissione -ha detto Brammertz nel suo intervento- ha decisamente ridotto il campo delle indagini, concentrandosi sulle ragioni dell'omicidio che sono legate alle sue attività politiche".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Download Documenti di approfondimento:&lt;br /&gt;1) &lt;a href="http://216.68.81.37/brammertz-7threport.pdf"&gt;Brammertz 5th report: 7th UN report on the Hariri assassination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) &lt;a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/research.asp?categ_id=3"&gt;altri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   - &lt;a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/researcharticle.asp?article_id=129"&gt;Peter FitzGerald's report of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri&lt;/a&gt; - 25/03/2005&lt;br /&gt;   - &lt;a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/researcharticle.asp?article_id=62"&gt;Mehlis Report (Draft)&lt;/a&gt; - 19/10/2005&lt;br /&gt;   - &lt;a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/researcharticle.asp?article_id=63"&gt;The Mehlis report Full&lt;/a&gt; - 19/10/2005&lt;br /&gt;   - &lt;a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/researcharticle.asp?article_id=127"&gt;Brammertz 1st Report&lt;/a&gt; - 15/03/2006&lt;br /&gt;   - &lt;a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/researcharticle.asp?article_id=130"&gt;Brammertz hands over his first report on al-Hariri assassination&lt;/a&gt; - 15/03/2006&lt;br /&gt;   - &lt;a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/researcharticle.asp?article_id=131"&gt;Brammertz 2nd Report&lt;/a&gt; - 06/10/2006&lt;br /&gt;   - &lt;a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/researcharticle.asp?article_id=60"&gt;Brammertz 3rd report, September 2006&lt;/a&gt; - 25/09/2006&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5270638195136787905-7520291044614037161?l=libanitaly.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/feeds/7520291044614037161/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5270638195136787905&amp;postID=7520291044614037161' title='5 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7520291044614037161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5270638195136787905/posts/default/7520291044614037161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://libanitaly.blogspot.com/2007/03/commissione-internazionale.html' title='Commissione Internazionale sull&apos;assassinio di Rafiq Hariri: 12 mesi di proroga'/><author><name>Pep</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05865862664452514618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270638195136787905.post-4532871432406881205</id><published>2007-03-19T07:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-02T15:05:41.290-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='damien rice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conservatorio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mehdima'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mahina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mahina unhcr'/><title type='text'>Impressions on a great concert: Damien Rice live at Conservatorio Sala Verdi, Milan 18 March 2007</title><content type='html'>Premise: Lisa has not been present , doh!&lt;br /&gt;In the afternoon, Vyv, asked about rumours on Lisa's absence, she said Lisa hasn't really quit but "she won't be on stage tonight". She looked like she was carefully choosing words and maybe trying to say a bit more without actually saying the whole story.&lt;br /&gt;After the concert, a girl asked "is Lisa not touring with you?" and Damo replied "she was..." then paused and finished with "... but not anymore" and looked at her as though she shouldn't ask anything else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 26 March&lt;/strong&gt;: Now it is official :-(&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;em&gt;After much thought and discussion Damien has decided that his professional relationship with Lisa Hannigan has run its creative course. As a result Lisa will not be appearing at any of the upcoming live shows. Lisa is embarking on her own artistic endeavours and there are no plans for them to work together in the foreseeable future. The current band on tour at the moment are - Damien Rice, Joel Shearer, Shane Fitzsimons, Tom Osander &amp;amp; Vyvienne Long&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he started singing my head was pulsing like my heart had moved there... it was my first Damien concert and I was totally out of myself!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- TRACKLIST -&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;1. Cannonball (no mic)&lt;br /&gt;2. Delicate&lt;br /&gt;3. Rootless Tree (piano version with a long intro)&lt;br /&gt;4. Me My Yoke and I&lt;br /&gt;5. The Rat Within The Grain&lt;br /&gt;6. Volcano&lt;br /&gt;7. Accidental Babies (outro with Vyv)&lt;br /&gt;8. "O sole mio"&lt;br /&gt;9. Amie (he asked "happy or depressing song?" - "both!" and then, under fans request, he played Amie)&lt;br /&gt;10. Coconut Skins&lt;br /&gt;11. I Remember&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- ENCORE -&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;12. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part I (Vyv piano solo)&lt;br /&gt;13. Sand&lt;br /&gt;14. The Blower's daughter&lt;br /&gt;15. 9 Crimes&lt;br /&gt;16. What this night is for / Sleep don't weep&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My highlights:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- In Accidental Babies he totally messed up the lyrics twice...:P but both the intro and the long ending at the piano went on forever and were absolutely beautiful!&lt;br /&gt;- He started playing woman like a man but his guitar was out of tune so he started fixing it and since it took him some time, Vyv started palying with shadows on the wall and helped with her hand Damien's shadow... Unfortunately he decided to change the song after that and played Amie.&lt;br /&gt;- He talked a lot... but a certain point he wondered if anyone in the crowd talked English because we were all too quiet I guess... :P he told us the usual story for Amie... a long story for Volcano (but I missed part of it because of my far from perfect English) and he also introduced I remember and Coconut Skins... which was my favourit! About being a kid and wanting to dig a hole to get to the other side of the earth... it was lovely!&lt;br /&gt;- I kind of liked the lack of drums I think Tomo did an awesome job with congas.&lt;br /&gt;- After Volcano, a lot of people asked about Lisa but Damien didn't say anything...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;***VIDEOS***&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rootless Tree&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;And if you hate me, hate me, hate me, hate me so good&lt;br /&gt;that you just let me out&lt;br /&gt;let me out, let me out?&lt;br /&gt;Its hell when you're around.&lt;br /&gt;Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out.&lt;br /&gt;Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out.&lt;br /&gt;LET ME OUT, LET ME OUT, LET ME OUT, LET ME OUT.&lt;br /&gt;LET ME OUT, LET ME OUT, LET ME OUT!!!&lt;br /&gt;FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, LOVE YOU&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="300" height="270"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dCL5cabPQ-U"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dCL5cabPQ-U" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="300" height="270"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accid
