مطر: فلنكف عن التصرّفات العبثية والفوقية

كتبت ماري كلير فغالي:

وقف البابا يوحنا بولس الثاني امس ببسمته الطيبة امام حشد من المصلين والرسميين الذين جاؤوا ليشاهدوا ازاحة الستار عن تمثاله البرونزي الجديد في حديقة كنيسة مار الياس- القنطاري. كان صدى كلمات ألقاها قبل 10 سنين تقريباً في المكان نفسه يتردد: "افهم قلة صبركم على الوضع اليومي الذي يبدو لكم انه لا يتغير(...). ان ما تتوقون اليه من تبدلات على ارضكم تلزمه اولا وقبل كل شيء تبدلات في القلوب. يعود اليكم ان تهدموا الحواجز التي امكنها ان ترتفع في اثناء حقبات تاريخ وطنكم الاليمة. ويعود اليكم بناء جسور بين الاشخاص والأُسر والجماعات. ان للشدة وقتا وللنور وقتا، وكل شيء يمكن ان يتغير (...)".

وحدها الوجوه تغيرت، تقريباً. ووحدها قلة الصبر استمرت رغم تبدلات ربما لم تأت بكثير من التغيير. فعاد بابا السلام الى لبنان تمثالاً بنظرات حنونة ومطمئنة، تأملها حشد المصلين الغفير تحت شمس القنطاري الحارقة. هؤلاء أحبوا البابا، فكان ان اتاهم مرة جديدة في أحد العنصرة، علّ ألسنة النار تفيض فتتبدل القلوب ويعاد ترميم الجسور التي انقطعت.

 Lebanese Hizbollah supporters burn tyres during a protest in Beirut June 1, 2006, over a local comedy television programme ('Basmat Watan') broadcast on Thursday in which a comedian mocked the character of Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah . REUTERS/Ali Lamaa (LEBANON) Pls click READ MORE to view all pictures of this unfortunate event

Nayla Razzouk, AFP, June 2, 2006 BEIRUT --  Three people were wounded during street protests overnight on Friday by followers of the Shia militant group Hizbullah after its chief Hassan Nasrallah was caricatured in a television satirical show. Dozens of young men briefly cut off the Beirut airport road by burning tires to block a highway located near Beirut's southern suburbs - a stronghold of the Lebanese militant group, police said.

"God, Nasrallah and all of the southern suburbs," chanted the men, waving yellow Hizbullah flags. After the program ended late on Thursday, Hizbullah followers also staged nighttime protests in various parts of the capital, in several towns in southern Lebanon, and in the Bekaa Valley near the border with Syria. The protests only ended after Nasrallah personally made a plea for calm on television during the night in order "to protect the country's security and stability".

He also called for the need to find ways to protect "political and moral values". "Three of us spent the night in hospital for treatment after we were beaten" by protestors in Beirut's Christian neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh, said Sami Gemayel, son of former president and the supreme chief of the Christian party Kataeb, Amin Gemayel. Gemayel said that he suffered bruising to his back, and university students Gilbert Rizk and Bassam Samarani underwent surgery on their faces and noses. "We were awaiting the army to stop the protestors from entering Ashrafiyeh, and we did not want them to enter Monot street," which is lined with restaurants and nightclubs, he said.

Reporters Without Borders today paid tribute to murdered Franco-Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir when 50 of its activists unfurled a giant Lebanese flag (150 sq. metres) bearing his portrait at Human Rights Plaza in Paris.

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