Two civilian targeted bombings, an Islamist group attacking the Lebanese Army and murdering its soldiers in their sleep Iraqi style, and Palestinians thinking it's 1973.


I'm finally back in Lebanon and what so many of my friends actually joked about has come true. Before I got here, they would say that I shouldn't come back because they actually want to enjoy their summer, since the time I came back last summer was the day before Hizballah wittingly decided to kidnap and kill Israeli soldiers.

I've been watching the news all day today since I'm not allowed to leave the house. Yes... that's what happens when you go back to living with your parents and you have an overprotective mother, but nevertheless I saw a few interesting things.

Now I will not comment on what the Lebanese sides have said, because they both love to score political points against one another in every situation possible and in this situation the opposition has shown too much leniency towards the Palestinians and the "fateh el-islam".

"Fateh el-islam" is a group that should be literally crushed by the Lebanese Army, and be made an example of. Those pompous Palestinian leaders like Sultan Abou-El Aynan and Anwar Raja should be warned and taught to keep their mouths shut. They cannot expect to talk like that against the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese themselves. The Lebanese Army does not need their permission to enter the camps and it certainly does not need their permission to defend itself from the groups that they have willingly hosted.

Civilian casualties should be kept at a minimum, however, are we really willing to risk more Lebanese casualties for the sake of those terrorists and their Palestinian counter-parts. Now "Fateh El-Islam" arrogantly called for a cease-fire, and I believe the Lebanese Army has accepted. This however should also not be accepted, because such groups are a threat to Lebanon, the Lebanese, and their security, and this war should not be dictated according to their terms.

I am specifically reminded of a sentence that Bachir Gemayel once said. Whether you agree with him or not, or you consider him a hero or not, one cannot deny that when he said (loose translation from Lebanese):

The worst thing ever is for a foreigner to humiliate you in your own country

That's what the Palestinians are doing now by so arrogantly threatening the Lebanese and their army. They have to be taught a lesson through "Fateh El-Islam" that they will never forget.

Long live our brave army and God bless their martyrs. They're doing a great job out there and could be doing a better one if we had brave enough politicians.