All your base are belong to us [sic] – Olmert

This infamous Japanese to English translation, or Engrish, from an early nineties video game might be synctactally challenged, yet it rings true of the frustration and befuddlement that an aggressor would possess. Unfortunately, a frustrated IDF means 1,000 Lebanese dead, most of whom are civilians. Israel? 157 soldiers and civilians by last count.

Lebanon the country might be engaged in what seems like endless turmoil. Lebanon the spirit, the people; however, can never be denied. The aggressor might very well cry all your base are belong to us, to which Lebanon would say:

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;

And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.

And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words many indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Peace to all. Perhaps one day the aggressor will find the key to that cage of words that spans everything from abusing holocaust history to spindoctoring by the media. Perhaps one day they’ll remember a proverb of theirs: Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. []1

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