Friends from abroad who ask me about Lebanon

We continue to worry, not just about our own safety, but about about the safety of our fellow Lebanese in the South, in Dahieh, and in so many areas being suddenly targeted. We worry about our country and its future and whether there are insidious plans being hatched to redraw its borders.

We worry about future supplies of food, medicine, petrol, fuel and other necessary items, and whether they will continue to be delivered. We worry about our airport and whether it will continue to function, providing a necessary lifeline to the world outside. We feel trapped in our country, knowing it is very difficult to find pathways to leave, as the crossing points with Syria are being bombed, and as it is difficult for people without visas to leave by sea to Cyrus.

We worry about our crippled economy, already ravished by a severe financial crisis, and whether hundreds of thousands of Lebanese will be without salaries if the war continues and whether businesses will crumble. We worry about our environment, about the thousands of olive groves in the south, completely destroyed, about the air pollution in Beirut (hammered daily with poisonous bombs, some phosphorous) and about the million refugees who have fled from the South and who are breathing this air, many sleeping out in the open.

But despite all this, most Lebanese hang on to the idea of the immortal phoenix, eternally rising from the ashes, as they believe that Lebanon will always be protected by its many saints, by its ties with communities East and West, and mainly by the indomitable spirit of its people.

ان المعلومات و الاراء و الافكار الواردة في هذا المقال تخص كاتبها وحده و تعبر عن وجهة نظره الخاصة دون غيره؛ ولا تعكس، باي شكل من الاشكال، موقف او توجهات او راي  او وجهة نظر ناشر هذا الموقع او ادارة تحريره.
ان هذا الموقع و ادارة تحريره غير مسؤوليين عن الاخبار و المعلومات المنشورة عليه، و المنسوبة الى مصادرها بدقة من مواقع اخبارية او وكالات انباء.