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Created: September 16, 2001
Latest Update: September 16, 2001
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- You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard. Journal entry by Tina Juen
- We as a great nation must not stoop low like the terrorists to bomb innocent children and mothers. Journal entry by Nnamdi Ibechem, Soc. of Law, CSUDH
- The public simply does not know the complicated aspects of Central Asian history and the diverse roles America has played in recent events. by Robert Samuels, from the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society List.
- Journal entry reportedly by a Lebanese, sent to one of the lists by an Israeli.
On Sunday, September 16, 2001, this was posted to the Pshychoanalysis of Culture and Society list:
Subject: Re: a letter from BeirutThis is a letter from Beirut. I omitted some personal details. Yes, I am writing from safe Tel Aviv.
Dear ...
I am so afraid. I need to talk to you about my fears..... i cannot be relaxed..i am not sleeping at night... I will be frank with you , when i first knew about it..in the first 2 hours,..I WAS HAPPY...yes i was....but when the thought of the innocents killed under this attack, i cried a lot...i couldn't imagine but my brother or my friends with those innocent people.... And this was the case of most of the Lebanese people ,...we have suffered a lot from the USA and its support to the Israelis (i am not generalizing, i know many -like you- are so different and i admire and respect them).....Two days ago, the one of the Ministers in Israel said the following exactly: " we are happy we killed in these 2 days 14 palestineans and no ONE in the world said something"....he was happy..!!! Imagine, ....this suffer make me in trouble with a combination of feelings of hatred, anger, happiness with their suffer....I don't know what i am feeling ....I wish i was never born...... They say that Lebanon is under threat also, although ALL the public and the first leaders "ran begging" their condolonces for the Americans...of course, they will do this...we are afraid from any new war here...i cannot stand the shells anymore...i cannot stand the pain.... I am so afraid ....i wish i was a bird...just a bird...even if i am shot with the hunter, it would be very much less painful than being a human being.
If I wanted to put my feelings in words, they won't be better than what Robert Fisk mentioned in his article.
I knew that the Media in North America is showing us as butchers, and barbarians. They show same footage of couple of palastinians kids celebrating the attack. They use the media to affect the ignorant North american citizens.
They forgot that it is their government that brought this. They supported Talban in their resistance against the Soviet Union, they supported them with Money, Training, Weapons..etc. Once this was over, they wanted to get rid of them as their role simply is over after the cold war has ended. And Talban became America's first enemy.
They Supported Saddam hussein and IRAQ in their war against IRAN. They flooded Iraq with weapons to keep Iran out of the picture. And again once the need for Saddam has ended, They turned their back to him, and they wanted to clean Iraq from their weapons before being used against them no matter how cruel this move was on half of million of Iraqians kids.
Simply it is USA who created the "Evil" George W. Bush talked about. The fear that every Arab has been living through all these years. The economical frustration for a hospitable and respectable nation who is named now as "terroristical nation". The misery, deprivation, poverty, hunger Were the real terrorists and Evil that America created.
We ,in Lebanon, don't enjoy watching the scenes of agony and sadness of americans, simply because we know how it feels more than anyone on this planet. Yet as Robert Fisk mentioned, instead of going on with this public and media war against us, try to change the way of looking and dealing with arabs. Try to understand that we are simply humans that have same feeling of pain and anger if we lose someone we love, Yet we have No CNN, no MBC, no ABC , we have no NATO to support us, we have no one who cares whether we vanish or not. We have our pride, our strong beliefs, and though we shall survive. But will we survive under a USA attack? I don't know.....i will not want to be still alive to know if the USA will attack Lebanon....we have no terrorrists, we simply practiced our right in liberating our occupied land. ...i feel weak and afraid, i never was like this before....maybe , your emails will keep the power in my heart..
R.
I have no way of verifying the authenticity of this letter. But we do not need to know who wrote it, with what agenda, to understand the confusion of feelings of hatred, anger, of simply not knowing what one is feeling. I hope that we will be able to verify genuine letters from many parts of the world. It will take us a while, just as it is taking the Federal Government a while, to establish such connections.Meanwhile, how does this letter match your imaginary of what you might like to say if you were in one of countries that has been identified as harboring terrorists?
"this suffer make me in trouble with a combination of feelings of hatred, anger, happiness with their suffer....I don't know what i am feeling ....I wish i was never born......"