Can you tell me who you think the dangerous man can be? Just a small part, go read the article.
.........But there are some who believe that the dangerous man did not become truly dangerous until 1977. He took a decision that a peace treaty with Israel should never be allowed in Lebanon. While everyone around him were glued to their chairs in front of the television, watching Sadat descend the plane with his yellow smile, the dangerous man immediately left the house. He could not bear to watch this on the television. He decided that this shall not pass in his country. Dealing and collaborating with the enemy will not become an ordinary event like it has become in Egypt, Jordan and in Ramallah. The dangerous man never accepted any talk of a semi Palestinian state: For him, any stance that is not based on the utter rejection of the Zionist entity and on the total liberation of Palestine is a sacrilege and a heresy. The dangerous man decided that there will be no new Sadat in Lebanon, despite the fact that there were now many candidates aspiring to take up this role. The dangerous man walked, and walked without stopping to take a breath, on the day that Sadat dared to set foot on the tarmac in Israel. He walked from Tetuan [in North Africa] to Jeddah in an hour or two. There are those who exaggerate by saying that he crossed that distance in a minute or two. But the dangerous man is truthful. That day, he felt that he was only floating in the air. On any given day, he would pace the ground with his steady gait. But he was now like Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment: He counted each step that he took, and each breath that he drew. Sometimes, but not all the time, his breathing could have even be heard. The sun shone on his hair, rendering it glittery, and he was unbendable by winds and torrents. To those who didn’t know him very closely, he came across as someone deeply agitated.
He could not believe what they had done to him. They put his world in ruin and disarray. He used to think of himself as a peaceful pacifist, but they managed to provoke him. They wanted to smear his homeland with an Israeli stain. They invited the hoards of the Israeli enemy into Lebanon, and then they wanted to set up Israeli, Phalangist, Lebanese Forces’ and Sham’onic colonies and settlements in his own country. He did not want to bear anything that he could not truly handle. Yet, he paced the floor back and fro, weighing his options and devising his plan, and counting the days and nights that lay ahead. But he decided that he shall not put up with long and endless nights like Sharazad before him. They did not understand him nor believe him. They thought that they could redraft the map, and redraw the features of faces, and replace his eyes with coloured eyes: He did not have blue eyes. He renounced his present and refused to see the Israeli flag. The dangerous man used to say that this flag’s only function was to be burned. When someone spoke to him about a “civilized” resistance, he walked away. When someone asked him about this Liberal Wahhabite or that, he would reply that he had never heard of any of them before.
Friday, May 8, 2009
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I read it but I know very little about Lebanese history so I can't figure out who it is. I'm intrigued. Can you tell us?
ReplyDeleteNo Dancing Possum,,,,,,, I cant tell you. I think that some people will have different answers for who that dangerous man is.
ReplyDeleteThis dangerous man is the most patriotic Arab that there is.
I think it is Professor As'ad writing about himself....
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ReplyDeleteI think so to but he said it was not. Can we believe him?
Or do we want to believe he is talking about some person?
I don't think he is talking about anyone in particular, rather what should have been done. Is this possible?
ReplyDeleteWow, I feel so much happy here than I did arguing with those assholes at Totten. I guess you can't liberate Palestine by arguing. :(
ReplyDeleteToo bad you guys have stopped posting things on the economy. I'm having a blast listening and reading all those pro-capitalist pollyannas announcing the end of the depression, when in fact we are just entering into the second and most virulent phase of it.
ReplyDeleteWhy waste your time over there? There is sufficient reactionary assholes that visit this blog as to go and search for them afar. :)
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ReplyDeleteYasmin is miss economy here. She'll be back. If you have interesting stuff or links I'll post them for now.
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Hey Moy, Do you know this Economist Michael Hudson?
ReplyDeleteDoes a great job exposing the banksters and oligarchs and their nefarious meglomaniacal criminality. Highly recommended IMHO.
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/50059"The Financial Barbarians at the Gate"
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/48892"The Way We Were and What We Are Becoming"
http://www.michael-hudson.com/
No. Thanks ehhh...I'll check him out.
ReplyDeleteYeah, and she was darn good at it, TGIA. I miss her and of course not just because of those posts and links to economic stuff. Abe also used to provide some very good links. Where is he, btw? I also miss Joe. When I find some good links to economic issues I will forward them to you. Did you read As'ad's post on Marx and Engels. Very good. I couldn't agree more.
ReplyDeleteNo I haven't yet. I will later on. Thanks Moy.
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Of course, the "dangerous man" is the one who holds these postions, and becomes more so when multiplied.
ReplyDeleteThe "dangerous man" knows who he is and what must be done
ReplyDeleteYes, I guess the "dangerous man" is the sum total of all those who are decent, courageous and principled. All those who will settle for nothing less than complete justice, and all those willing to live and die for it.
ReplyDeleteThere is another short observation made by As'ad which is true, in regard to Marx and Engels, how the greatness of one overshadows the great work of another.
ReplyDeletehttp://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/05/conditions-of-working-class-in-england.html
As'ad, let me assure that while this is true and somewhat natural in this instance, that it is not true for the majority of recognized works today, today for the most part, elites magnify mental ants. I can see this working its deceptive web today, and many will have to be satisfied living in the shadow of midgets transformed by deceptive artificial light! The greatest minds are obscured on purpose, which creates the poverty of thought in the current century. It is a terrible way to stunt a people, and thereby enslave the world.
One of the comments in al-Akhbar thinks he's the assassin of the little Nazi. But I too think the dangerous man is allegorical. As'ad doesn't seem like he'd romanticize something like that.
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Are you alluding to Bernard Lewis by chance?
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