Beirut on August 19, 2006

i woke up today to the news of an israeli commando mission to baalbeck. the news say 3 hezbollah fighters died in the mission. the israelis say the mission was to avoid new weapons arriving to hezbollah. Manar tv has no information in its little running strip of information at the bottom of the screen concerning the issue.

i was well thru half my drink yesterday in sociales when jade told me that he heard news of israelis raiding baalbeck. i sent smses checkin for news, they came conflicting, some saying was a lie no such thing was happening, some others told me that the channels on tv had conflicting stories themselves.

i came back home later, pretty loaded. was not feeling at my best. slept. woke up at 2.30 , tried barfing, couldnt do it, started walking and pacing on the balcony, decided to drink some tea. made the tea, sat on tv... it was 4am i could hear the planes pacing over my head. the israelies were pacing on their balconies too, apparently. apparemment ils avaient eu une nuit bien arrosée aussi. i can hear them now too while writing this...
so much for ceasefires and as T would say, cessation of hostilities... yesterday night nothing was showed on tv, not on the little rotating strips at the bottom of the screen, no big blue boxes at the lower third, no tattattata tata tata tatat tatat taaratata mooojaz lil akhbar.
and today manar didn't say anything...
what's happening...

evb is covering the 50 french UN guys who r getting to naqoura.
roll out the red carpet evb!
in ramallah, the palestinian gvt is demanding the release of the ministers and the members of parliament that were kidnapped by the israelis.
guess israel was pretty busy yesterday night, while i was trying to reignite my night life...

ceasefire mode...

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Gemmayze on august 17, 00.30am


people are eager to go out to drink. yesterday night, just like the night of august 16 to 17, witnessed a lot of people in the streets. don't go thinking it was packed as if we were july 10 or sth, but pretty packed considering the situation.
was talking to hassib while watching the people in sociales... are they really back?
i saw all of them trying to drown their worries and stress, hassib felt they had forgotten and are back to their habits and 2-dimensional mascarade.
le philanthrope et le misanthrope, l'optimiste et le pessimiste, le crédule et le cynique.