Thank god it's Sunday

This was an extremely busy week and I had to restrain my addiction to blogging and ME topics to the utmost - nearly unbearable - limit. This sunday morning I had the choice between reducing my lack of sleep or... You guessed it - I got up early and went through some of my favourite blogs.

Uh, and what I learned isn't exactly what a peaceful sunday should promise. I'll start with Jeha's adorable 'Let's call the whole thing off'. One link really stunned me: can anybody tell what's going on in Aoun's mind? He seems to be the same old warlord he used to be and obviously is unwilling to accept elections' outcome. But the rest looks completely insane to me. In German we have the expression 'Wendehals'. Literally translated it is a neck that turns 180 degrees. Some rough sketches:

Aoun when he came back to Lebanon....

Aoun today.

Back to politics - the way Aoun twists the meaning of 'people's voice' reminds me of my country's history - I'm sorry. Churchill and Hitler once had a fight in the newspapers. Hitler told Churchill that he (Churchill) only represents a tiny part of UK, while he, Hitler, represents the voice of the whole nations. Not just that, he said that he is the German Nation. No need to mention that since that day he never asked the German people via elections again. I'm not saying that Aoun is going to be another Hitler. But I do underline the message learned: people like him should not be accepted as candidates in democratic elections.

Again Lebanon, but the question applies for Iraq just as well - Charles Malik comments on an interesting editorial: 'Kiss goodbye to a liberal Middle East'. It fits well into my topic 'The other America' and I sadly cannot reject the conclusion:

(...)it's ironical that Arab liberals should now applaud the onset of a realist American foreign policy toward the Arab world.

A tiny addition from the Palestinian front: US interaction in the conflict was reduced up to zero within the last two years. They've left it up to Europe to engage in the muddle - despite official statements the EU still finances the Palestinians: 329 Million Euro for 2006 is not nothing, huh? Now look at the results - not very encouring. While media still focus on every Palestinian killed by Israel, on every Iraqi killed by alleged Iraqis, it goes unnoticed that Palestinians are at the verge of a civil war. Instead we learn every week that Hamas has finally come up with a government. What government? Well, ask Fatah.

Europe won't deny the threats of a civil war, though. When it comes to keeping down US influence diplomats are more than ready to point out on it. Read the article carefully and think about the underlying concept. Either finance Hamas and Fatah or let all of them starve. Both option won't really prevent a civil war, will they?

So this was my sunday morning, I gotta go back to house-hunting in order to prevent civil war between Mixmax and me ;-)