Stop
desecrating the dead
Aug 25th
, 2006
A disturbing
practice has been vaunted on Arab TV networks , Arab newspapers , arab
tabloids and most recently on the internet : Pictures and newsreel
footages of dead children whose bodies riddled with shrapnels , bullets
and rubble are held up from the feet by bearded fellows telling the
world viewers : In your face .
The corpses were brandished in front of
reporters and re-transmitted in real time by Al Jazeera TV ,
Hizbolla’s al Manar TV and other Lebanese and Arab networks . The same
pictures were shown again and again to the millions of viewers around
the world with no respect whatsoever for any ethical standard or the
sanctity of the innocent children who perished in the 33 days
Israeli/Hizbolla war . Have there ever been a clean war ? Are we to
expect a bed of roses after wars , any war ? Hizbolla’s “jihadists”
were caught red handed in some villages of south Lebanon lobbying
missiles at Israel’s cities from Lebanese civilian areas then running to
take cover in tunnels dug underground .The civilian population, families
with their children , were caught in the crossfire and innocent lives
were lost in the shelling .In other words Hizbolla fighters were
cowardly using mothers , children and their fleeing car convoys as human
shields . Israel’s tanks , airplanes and firepower may have bombed
indiscriminately , war is a dirty business : you kill before you’re
killed , and when your enemy is lobbying missiles at your cities from
atop a house or from the basement of an apartment block you bomb the
hell out that house or basement . In the military lexicon it is as
simple as that .There is no doubt that Israel have committed mistakes
but the Arab media and Hizbolla’s propaganda machine made sure that
those young and innocent lives were slaughtered twice .
The same ignominous pictures are circulating now
on the net in the form of pps. and wmv. files . My e-mail box has been
flooded on a daily basis with nauseating images courtesy of Hizbolla &
co’s propaganda network . By not letting those young souls rest in peace
, Hizbolla and other internet naïve pundits want to make sure the world
buys this cheap and appalling propaganda . This must stop . The
international community should come up with harsh measures preventing
the media and internet users from disseminating such disgraceful and
despicable material .
The dead deserve not only a sheet to cover them
up respectfully but also harsh measures to be enforced against whoever
desecrates them after they die. Zarqawi’s throat slitting videos were
banned from the internet , why can’t we impose strict measures on the
Arab media to exercise some self discipline or at least to warn the
viewers that such pictures and /or film footages might be disturbing .
As for the internet users , strict monitoring should be applied and
whoever is caught originating , propagating and /or circulating such
material desecrating the dead should be prosecuted and brought to
justice .
Knowing that sooner or later Israel would open
the gates of hell on Lebanon if provoked , mullah Hassan Nassrallah
should have been keeping busy building fortified underground shelters to
protect the population of south Lebanon with part of the hundred of
millions of dollars he received for years from Iran . Instead , he was
busy digging underground tunnels and holes to protect like rats his “
mujahiddin” . Mullah Nassralla built his State within the State of
Lebanon , he failed in one important aspect though : protecting the
families and children of south Lebanon . He should get quickly on the
job of building those shelters before he triggers the next round of
devastation and destruction .
Anwar Wazen
Brussels
Aug 25th
, 2006
Anwar Wazen studied at St. Joseph
University in Beirut, Lebanon, earning a Master's degree in Economics.
He lived in several countries in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf,
working on country risk exposure for American and Arab Banks. In
Brussels, Mr. Wazen became an activist and lobbyist for the Lebanese
cause and contributed many articles promoting freedom of Lebanon from
the Syrian occupation, which were published by political web sites and
Lebanese newsmedia. He speaks Arabic, English and French fluently.
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