في ساحة التحرير في مصر

Yesterday we went to a demonstration in Egypt supporting Lebanon and the resistance.
we wore t-shirts with Lebanese flags and stood there silent with a large Lebanese flag while Egyptian leftists, Nassirists, Islamists, and democrats screamed their throats off against Moubarak and Arab leaders, supporting Nasrallah (the only arab hero "ragil") and the Lebanese people.

At night, I was watching news. an Egyptian guy calls from Qatar saying the the Lebanese people are doing nothing; and Hezbollah alone is defending the whole country. did he ask himself whether he is doing anything himself? surely not.
he is only capable of blabbering like his leaders about things he doesn't understand.

a guy at the demonstration, on the other hand, came up to us, asked if we were Lebanese and shook our hands saying, "we won't let you down, we won't leave you alone"

those guys probably got beaten up by about 200 police officers in dark suits and an undefined number of civilian mercenaries known as "baltagia" (what we call moukabarat)

luckily, we left right before they circulated Tahrir Square.

i met a guy there who knows TOSH (tillab shouyou3iyyoun) and knows hussam nasif. he claims that he's with a leftish movement, probably kifaya.

a taxi driver praised moubarak. "he's a wise man" he said, "why do we have to worry about lebanon and palestine? i7na sha3b ta3ban"

el wallah, ta3ben kteer.
kis ikhtak ma as2alak...

although he pissed me off. he has a point.

some want to live and make money, build their economy and take care of their lives, jordan first, egypt first, lebanon first... etc..., and others (obviously fewer) still believe in the cause, resistence, the arab nation, the islamic nation... nasser, nasrallah, el da7yee killa... etc...

until someone thinks of a solution, until the people of at least one arab nation decide to back us up (us=lebanese) and change their regime into a democratic one that expresses their "arab solitude", i will be in egypt selling shampoo to the arabs, making money for the west.

sad but true.

ta7ya el umma 3a um elli 3imila