If you happen to pass by the site of Loubnanouna, a new political party founded by young vigorous Lebanese Christian militants, you may pause for a second and think if these dudes are talking about the same country as the other dudes that you hear more often today. Well, this may not seem surprising at all given the fact that “Loubnanouna” in Arabic means literally “Our Lebanon”. One can say that at least, they are pretty open about it.
Now if you scroll down the front page, you notice that there is no explicit mentioning of a country called Israel (except one and I’ll tell you where in a bit) that may have bombed the shit out of their “Loubnanouna”. Maybe these guys were thinking of not mentioning that because after all a Loubnanouna representative would maybe abide by this rationale: “the Israelis were just bombing “Loubananouhom” (their Lebanon)”.
By comparison, there are many mentions of Syrian “occupation” of Lebanon, and the endless suffering this is causing. The different ‘News’ says it all, whereas average news feeders were talking about mines killing lebanese everyday, Loubnanouna does not seem to care. But the disappearance of two monks in 1990 (not that I am not concerned with the disappearance of anyone), is worth mentioning today as we celebrate a mass in their name. why? well because it may be that Syria was behind it.
To quickly summarize, if you read the ‘News’ section, there are very simple things that troubles the world today (and Loubnanouna). Islamic demons and extremists (to the point where Le Figaro’s propaganda articles on “young Djihadists” is picked up on the front page, or, and this really funny, “tunisia’s fight against the Islamic veil”), Lebanese prisoners in Syrian jails, the “militias” in Lebanon (Hezbollah), and the fact that, unfortunately Hanniyeh (Hamas leader) escaped an attack. By the way the only mention of Israel comes through a story on Hezbollah’s use of cluster bombs, a story that Savonaroll has well commented on.
I won’t even mention Bashir Gemayel’s picture on the front page as Albert told me that he is completely against it and I believe him. Oh, and a “friendly site” for Loubnanouna is the one of “The Guardians of the Cedars”. There are of course no Muslim “friends” linked on Loubnanouna’s website, and under political parties, it seems that half of Loubnanouhom is not mentioned.
Funniest part is their “About Us” section, sort of a school student type manifesto with a bunch of beautiful sentences and empty words. No doubt these guys can become important politicians in the future
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