Letter from Lebanon

My aunt Hind from Lebanon emailed me today:

Dear Salim,

Thank you for your thoughts and your care.

We are all ok, we thanks God for that, and we hope for the best for our country.

Actually now is the only chance we have to clean our country from all the bad people and from the Syrian occupation. Definitely it is not so easy but we have to take the risk or the chance or whatever we can call it.

All the actions are being held in Beirut, demonstration and so on. You have every night around 10,000 persons camping in down town Beirut besides that every Monday there is a big demonstration on which we are all contributing.

We will keep up these demonstrations until we achieve all our goals and have a free country. Of course everything is going on in peace, there is nothing to worry about except to pray for God to help us and to free us from the ignorance and the selfishness of some of our leaders.

I will keep you updated in case of any progress other than the one you are reading in the newspaper.

Thanks Salim for being with us in such moments.

Love

Hind

Of course, not all Lebanese agree with her. The big news today is of big counter-protests, as the country seems to be breaking down along the old socieeconomic lines of Christians & Sunna versus Shi'a. The best thing for the country, imho, would be a confederal system giving the Shi'a-dominated Beqaa Valley broad self-governing powers, and diluting the impact of the Syrians there in the rest of the country.