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Lebanon’s FM Gebran Bassil calls for an Arab-Arab reconciliation, the only way to redeem this nation and to restore itself

"Woe to us  if we quit today;  Revolution or death for a sleeping nation"- Gebran Bassil




Lebanon’s FM Gebran Bassil calls for an Arab-Arab reconciliation, the only way to redeem this nation and to restore itself

"Woe to us  if we quit today;  Revolution or death for a sleeping nation"- Bassil

Dec. 09, 2017  - Edited and Translated by the ME Times Int'l.

(Translation appears in Arabic section)

Cairo: Lebanon’s Foreign Affairs Minister Gebran Bassil called Saturday that for “reconciliation between Arabs as the only way to save this nation and to reconceive its identity". He called also to an emergency Arab summit entitled Jerusalem to get it back to its Arab embrace because without it there is no Arab or Arabism.

            He also called for "regaining self-esteem instead of losing it, restoring the unified Arab policy to take deterrent measures in response to the American decision regaining Arab pride and the rebellious Arab soul on injustice, with one popular uprising in all our Arab countries." Basil said during an extraordinary session of The Arab League Council at the level of foreign ministers in Cairo to discuss the question of Jerusalem.

            "Jerusalem is not a cause, it is the cause, because it is the title of our Arab identity. Jerusalem is not for a Jewish God who expels a Christian or Muslim god, and not a place for the war of gods on earth; Our God is one and for all and Jerusalem cannot be a monolithic state, and there is no place for monotheism among us. Jerusalem is for Jews, Christians and Muslims. We are the sons of Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad. We all want to pray in Jerusalem and nobody can stop us. "

            "I am not here in the name of Lebanon to condemn a robbery or to recall an Arab identity we made it, nor to inquire about a deep affiliation that is meant to be lost in endless conflicts. You want to divide us into tribes and families and turn us into a fragmented nation that can be humiliated, stolen and raped rather than being a partnership that brings together science, development and dialogue. Of course I am not here to issue a sterile statement or a symbolic condemnation", he said.

            "We are here, because our Arabism does not give up Jerusalem and we in Lebanon do not escape our fate in the confrontation and resistance until the martyrdom. We are from the identity of Jerusalem, we live only free and stand up against every usurper and occupier. Golda Meir wanted us to be a sleeping nation when they burned Al-Aqsa in 1969, and we have turned ourselves into a failed nation. Others wanted us to be an absent, faded and non-existent nation.

            Thus because of the lack of one vision among us and the absence of an open ideology that brings us together. A nap that we do not accept, but we awaken with a unique Lebanese identity and link it to a broad orientalism looking forward to a stable and developed Arabism. Jerusalem is our identity. Our dignity will not be infringed and our identity will not be kidnapped, it will be liberated starting from its Lebanese roots to its Oriental identity and Arabism.  We are here to restore our strayed Arabism between Sunnis and Shiites, lost between East and West, deluded by an Arab-Persian conflict and driven to intimidate Islam-Christian mutually. Pope Shenouda, Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim, Bishop George Khadr and Father Joaquim Mubarak are the most who had carried Arabism as a cause of life. The Arab Patriarch realized that wars in our countries are not meant to end a regime in a country, but to end this country. That is distraction from the question of Palestine, from Arab spring, Sunni-Shiite fighting, the creation of Takfiri movements and exposure to the existence of minorities. In a certain sense, all of us are minorities. Wars were fabricated and failed, then after the failure they choose to transfer the embassy and Judaization of Jerusalem”, he continued.

            He asked: Can the disaster bring us together, to slap us from our slumber? Jerusalem is a mother and a sister, our honor from her honor, she calls and begs us. Should we let it down? Or do we get up to support it? History will not forgive us and our children in the future will not feel proud of what we did. The mirror when we look at it will look down on us. Woe to us if we came out today with weakness, either the revolution or the death for a sleeping nation. "

            “I am the Lebanese Christian, I stand before you today and invite you to an Arab-Arab reconciliation, the only way to redeem this nation and to restore itself, so that we can be an unbreakable compact package to call for that to an emergency Arab summit under the title of Jerusalem, to restore it to its Arab lap, because without it there is no Arab nor Arabism. Let us stand up to our pride and avoid the curse of history and the questions of our grandchildren about our negligence, because the uprising alone will preserve our face and reinstate our rights. Either we move now, or we say goodbye to Jerusalem. There will be no Peace,” Bassil concluded.

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