Arabisc: The Blazing Middle East · Global Voices
Haitham Sabbah

Third day after the beginning of the never ending Middle East conflict; Israel/Lebanon war, the Arabic blogsphere speaks.
Ranging between anger, celebration, condemnation and support, on both sides of the conflict, the bloggers views vary depends where they come from. Some sound extreme, others sound objective and reasonable, but all hopes that this ends with persistence peaceful and just solution for all, soon.
From Bahrain, Ali glorifies the Shia't Hezbollah operation and call them ‘the most honored arab,’ yet condemns Sunni's conspiracy against Hezbollah. He said:
And the conspiracy theory popup to marginalize and depress what the Shia't Hezbollah did. First they said, its aim is to ruin ‘Lebanon Summer’, which pumps a large sum of money to the Lebanese economy, and then they said it is a ‘play,’ and many other useless imaginary stories.
I don't know why I have the feeling that it's because Hezbollah is a Shia't party, nothing else. I don't know why all the Sunni power uprise against anything Shia't. The problem is that this Shia'a thing called ‘Hezbollah’ is embarrassing them. Not only the Sunni political failure, but even the Sunni as faith, and as they pretend to forget what the ‘Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement’ and other Sunni parties are doing.
From Jordan, Rami simply lay few unanswered questions, he said:
Moodless from Kuwait see this as ‘Policy of Foolishness’:
From Lebanon, in her last post, Eve first draws the sad pictures of the atrocities, damages, death at door steps, buildings, bridges, airport and all Israeli air raid targets. The second part of her post reveals her wishful unity against Israel aggression. She said:
إذاً هذه هي الرّواية الرّسمية. لكن، حسب رأيي الشّخصي، القصّة لا تحتوي على أبطالٍ من كلتا النّاحيتين. القصّة تتضمّن ضحايا… ضحايا كثر. وتتضمّن أيضاً مذنبين. حزب الله أذنب. لا شكّ في هذا. ميول حزب الله السياسيّة تمثّل جزءاً غير بسيط من اللّبنانيّين (لكن لا جميعهم). لا شكّ في هذا أيضاً. لكنّني أورد الرّواية الرّسمية لأنّ الوقت ليس وقت إثارة النّعرات الدّاخلية، ولا البحث في موضوع الحقّ معهم أم عليهم، أو “عيب عليكم كيف بتعملوا هيك” (مع إنّو: معقول راسكم؟ عن جد كيف بتعملوا هيك!!). الوقت وقتٌ لإيقاف الهجمات الإسرائيليّة على أرض لبنان بأسرع ما يمكن، ووضع حدٍّ لسقوط المزيد من القتلى والخسائر. أمّا بعد ذلك، فلكلّ حادثٍ حديث، ولكلّ حدودٍ ترسيم، ولكلّ صلاحيّاتٍ نطاقٌ معيّن. ومن هنا، ضرورة عدم التزام مواقف مشتّتة. ومن هنا اختيار الانحياز إلى لبنان، واعتماد صوت واحد. ومن هنا، الرّواية الرّسمية.
المشاهد ما زالت تتوالى على شاشة التّلفزيون. أكتم الصّوت. أتفرّج على بيروت مضاءة ليلاً. من غير صوت. مع بعض دمع. ما زالت تبدو جميلة. رغم كلّ شيء…
Of course we were not asked, and who are we to stand in front of the champions?
So, this is official version of the story. But, personally, the story has no champion knights. The story includes casualties… a lot of casualties… and includes guilty people too. Hezbollah is guilty, no doubt. But Hezbollah policy represents a big part of the Lebanese (but not all). No doubt about this too. I put the official story to say that it’s not the right time to enrich a national conflict, and not time to discuss who is to blame, or to shame anyone now. Now it is the time to stop the Israeli aggression on Lebanon as fast as possible, and to minimize the casualties. Later on, we can talk, we can but borders, and we can define authorities. Therefore, we should not take conflicting positions. And based on this, be on Lebanon side, have one voice; this should be the official saying.
The senses are still coming on TV. I mute it, watching Beirut at night, no sound, and few tears, still beautiful, in spite of everything.
From Egypt, Jar el-Kamar looks at Hezbollah operation from different perspectives and tries to understand who is benefiting from what:
The last romantic possibility is that el-Sayed Hassan Nasralleh wants to use the Palestinian situation to ignite a wide comprehensive Islamic war. This possibility was adopted by U.S., which held Syria and iran responsible for.
Last but not least, Osama, a blogger from Palestine post few photos of debris on the Israeli side, caused by Hezbollah rockets and Israeli civilians sitting in shelters and title the post with one line; “They are suffering as much as you are.”