Whispers Page #2

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I hopefully expect that when they can fix

one essential room to live in

I think most of them will return, if not all

I think that Lebanese specially

people living in South

Despite all the misfortunes

Just like when the sun shines, you forget the

rain

Lebanese are like this

They love their country and homes also are

attached to it

Despite all the obstacles and need

they are still attached to their country

We left Tyr What a beautiful sea at Tyr

Its color today is the color of fear

I have only been here two days ago

I've heard so many opinions and I got lost

Yes, lost

When I left the airport

I felt like I'm am a foreign

What will happen to us?

We will not stop leaving?

Carrying our houses on our backs

Like birds who got crazy

From village to village

From region to region

houses are empty

and they tell me: nobody cares

and they say:
no one is responsible

A country, a nation is ending

You think that what is ending

must end?

And what is born, must be born?

This is the first time I see Bekaa winter

We use to come at summer

Bekaa meant the summer

Baalbak festivals, Chtoura

Cafs on the banks of Berdawni

Raw Kebbeh, Arak and fried frogs

Karicheh, yes karicheh (cream)

and Labneh

This is the first time at winter

you think summer will come back?

Mousse Freij l-Hawch Snaid

I have never left my land

I was born on this land

Even when I was networking here in

agriculture

I returned after a week or 10 days

To see my land and the plants

In my opinion, the land is not a business

Land is passion

I can even tell that it is a love story

The person who really feels independent

in this world

Is the one who works in the land

It became a national duty for everyone

who can produce whatever fruit,

radishes or lettuce

you said you've never left you land

and that you was born in this house

and even when you managed Casino de

Liban"

You came back to this land

But now you are back

How can I say it?

You spend most of your time here

You practically live here in the Bekaa

In these circumstances that we live it now a

day

This is very important, right?

Sure

And I hope that others will follow my example

because today I live in my house

in my land that I always loved it

I think that today I should prove for all

those who have the ability

to come to their land and take care of it

and their plantations

and everything that comes from the

fertile land of Bekaa

Of course we cannot forget this misfortune

that we face

from 5 years ago

But we can say that the Lebanese

Have had enough of vital energy

To return back to their land even during the

misfortune

This vital energy is very important

Absolutely, and we proved it in all fields

Although I believe that today I am not an

"adventurer"

But I can participate a little

I have always participated a little

Lebanon must remain Lebanon

Because God created it like this

And that because Lebanese feel that it should

not change

Especially in this region

Perhaps at a certain time, people became

arrogant

But now you can be sure that

they are no longer arrogant

I speak in the name of the majority, Muslim

Shiite

They want to preserve Lebanon even more

than others

In the city I proved that I am a city man

But here I prove that I am a farmer

son of a farmer and a small-farmer's son

Hermel is so far

When I was little Hermel was a kind of tale

before the war, I remember I had friends

they left Beirut and went to live in the Jurd

People told them they were crazy

me too I was surprised

Today despite the borders that are increasing

in Lebanon

And distances are getting longer

But people are getting closer from each other

And the far Hermel is getting closer

Hassan SAAB

The village compared to our agriculture

We use to plant wheat and barely

Wheat was planted but apricots is better

But now we planted apricot

we cannot plant apple trees

because We do not have good pesticides

We went to the Syrian land

and we looked for apricots

but it did not work

So we took from Nabi Othman, Al Ain, Jdeide

and Bekaa

It worked better we planted our lands and it

began to reap

Regarding water

in the village

We go to the Assi river

Each man with his wife, he carries a pot and

so does she

Then they use donkeys to take it to the village

We are like camels, we hold water on our

backs

while we are thirsty

This land is a barren desert

Government says that it is going to fix the

water problem

But it didn't

We left our land and went to work in Beirut

Now we left beirut and return to our villages

We started to work and produce depending on

ourselves

We plant corn and barely,

tomatoes and many kinds of vegetables

Thank God ifs going well

But we are suffering from the water issue

The effects of war

Thank God

we are not sectarian we are Lebanese

Our heritage is Lebanese and it is true that we

are Arabs

Our language is Arabic, we are of Arabian

origin

Frankly I will not love my aunt as much as I

love my mother

We were born in this country Lebanon

Lebanon is for everyone not for certain people

Not for Christians nor for Muslims

We have the Lebanese identities that we kept

it

But we are not a part of any project

Our children got homeless, others died

For unnecessary wars, it was their destiny

Some were killed and they were not even

concerned in the war

shooting became a joy to treat people like

birds

As if they did not exist

What if one or two are killed?

Those who kill have no more pity

Neither Jesus nor Mouhammad asked to kill

Neither the Koran nor the Bible, we believe in

both

How much? This is an addition

All for the country,

for the glory, for the flag

From the beginning of centuries, our pencil

and sword

All for the country

for the glory, for the flag

From the beginning of centuries, our pencil

and sword

Oh my teacher

The wolf came

He came to eat us

What shall we do?

Oh my children

Oh my beautiful children

Stay where you are

Listen to me

Oh my teacher

The wolf came

That you talked about

He eats meat

My children

don't get afraid

He only eats the afraid children

Are you afraid?

Oh my teacher

We are small

We don't know how to defend our homes

Oh my children

Watch how

I carry the rifle and how I fill it up

Where is the wolf

Oh my teacher

Oh my children

Where is the wolf?

Where you are oh wolf?

Michel Alouf

5 years of crisis but the hotel never closed

We stayed here despite all the problems

Specially working problems

Tourism is 100% our revenues

But as long as there is crises the are no

tourism

Anyway we are not leaving

This is my country

Where can I go?

First I don't like to leave

Because I like the sky here I like water

I like the citadel

I was born here, I live here

I learned lot of things here

I learned about life

the sky and the sun are beautiful

and temples

it's hard but we continue

it's hard because there is no work, it is logic

The hotel has daily expenses

If there is no clients or there is

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