p.s : I couldn't publish this post on the same day for two reasons , first I am very sick , this bloody cold doesn't want to leave me alone,i got this terrible headache and fever despite all those medicines I am taking , second I am busy in Ramadan preparation
Now today was big day in Lebanon , it was the victory celebration , it was "The Victory Festival" as Hezbollah called it , last week the leader of Hezbollah Hassen Nasrallah made an open invitation to every one who wants to celebrate the victory of the resistance in the last war to come on the 22/9 Friday to the some yard in the southern suburb in to celebrate the victory in Beirut
And so today was the day, I was surprised to find this great gathering , and this great number of people attending the celebration in the television , It was like the gatherings of the cedars revolution of 14th of March from two years ago , or even great , as people began to gather in the southern suburb from yesterday night , the numbers of the audience were by thousands that Hezbollah gathered all the available rental chairs from Beirut and the south of Lebanon and even though they couldn't match the number , even the party itself was surprised
The people who came to the big event weren't from the southern suburb or Beirut only but also from all over Lebanon ,they came all the way to the big event from the south "the main home of Hezbollah", from the Mount Lebanon , from the Bekkah hill. Also they were n't only Shiites as i thought ,but from all different sects from Muslims Sunnis, Christians from different sects and even Druz
Not only Hezbollah or Amal supporters but also from the Free National stream of Christian Michael Own , Not only from Lebanon but from Syria ,Iran "Their main supporters and they 'Hezbollah' don't deny it' ,also from Bahrain and Kuwait , by the way don't be surprise with the gulf sharing in this event because both countries "Bahrain and Kuwait" got a very big Shiite sect , in fact the majority in Bahrain is from the Shiite
Numbers are big and the image on TV didn't lie , I didn't watch it from El-Manar TV , instead from both New TV and Al-Jazeera.
Here I won't talk about Hadi's father aka Hassen Nasrallah speech because he was the sole speaker in the celebration and he spoke too long and I was sick and I slept while he was talking , not because he was boring or speaking nonsense heavens forbid but because I was sick , my mom told that as usual Nasrallah opened his fires on his opponents declaring that he and his group by the support of his people they refuse the disarm of Hezbollah and that they still have in storage 30,000 rockets , of course Israel because of this announcement is in nightmare especially Olmert who failed in achieving any of his targets in the war
My mom told me that Nasrallah in his very long speech slammed Jumblatt
"My father wasn't a Bek , I am not a Bek and my sons won't be Beks"
strong words
Also he talked about G.W Bush claims of the State inside a State ,also he talked about the big big big Arabic man "Chavez" !! :)
Here I will speak something I noticed , as someone who used to watch most of Hezbollah's celebrations since the liberation of the south in 2000
For the first time or as I think Hezbollah goes more deeply to the Lebanese identity , Hezbollah as in the origin came out from an Islamic militant resistance group believes as all other Islamic group in the world whether the MB in Egypt or Hamas ,that there are no borders or different identities between Muslim people , the Islamic nation idea , if you remember the controversial statement of Mahdy Akaf ,the general guide of MB in Egypt in the beginning of this year when he said that Toz in Egypt , I would be ruled with some one from Malaysian to the end of that talk that gave to the NDP the chance to attack their long time enemy , it is just like the Arab nationalists idea , no for the national identity but for the regional identity , I can't say it is wrong or right because Egypt "Here I am speaking about the Egyptian experience" to be flexible with all the identities whether the national or religious or regional
anyway because the opponents of Hezbollah in Lebanon and also outside it from America's allies are speaking day and night that the party is not working for the sake of Lebanon but it acts as a means for Syria and Iran to the end of this talk , Hezbollah wants to prove otherwise , yes it doesn't need to do so but we got a common proverb in Egypt says
"The bullet that doesn't hit ,makes allot of noise"
And thus Hezbollah is trying to prove its Labenesehood now more than ever to make everyone to shut up , this something I believed in when I watched the festival , how ?? well I studied Marketing and media and how to use them in Political advertising , any ad sends you a decoded message to your brain using a specific language not spoken but seen,hear and even felt
You may or may not notice this ,but did you watch the big billboards Hezbollah hanged all over the place This billboard had this big poster "a red background which equals to both the blood color and the red color in the Lebanese flag" , Hassen Nasrallah 's image opening his arms "an old sign of both power and generosity" and written on it the following
"The honest pledge" --------- The name of the two Israeli soldiers capture operation
"A Divine victory and Victory from Allah"---------------- Describing their victory on the Israeli war Machine
Now both of these two phrases were written by both Arab and English , in the old day Hezbollah wrote it only in Arabic , this time they know that the whole world is watching , already the regional southern party got a world wide fame it didn't get in 2000 , they are sending messages of power to the whole world
Also both of these two phrases were colored in two colors dividing them , the first part is Green and the second part is white
Green,White and Red are the colors of the Lebanese flag " Two red lines , with white background and a green cedar tree in the middle"
All the phrases on the ads,posters and billboards were arranged in this way , colored and bilingual
The guys in Hezbollah working in public relations and marketing are not fooling around , in fact i believe MB must take some lessons from them , by the way Marketing is not used in the field of commerce and manufacturing only ,it is even more used in politics ,in delivering new ideas to people
Also did you notice the music they played first after the Holy Quran , the national Lebanese anthem them Hezbollah 's anthem
Hezbollah wants to prove it is a Lebanese Party ,it is not a state in side state, it is a Lebanese in the end made of Lebanese young men from the Southern villages defending their land
tags:Lebanon, Lebanese, Middle East, Hezbollah, Hassen Nasrallah, Beirut, War, Israel, Chavez, Bush, Islam, Muslim, Shiite