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Chou khass el "palestinian mothers" bi hayda el thread!!!!!
Obviously I meant in the case of Palestinian fathers deuhhhhhhh...
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Joumana Gebara,

WITH THIS MENTALITY U WILL REACH NO WHERE!!!

I AM ON YOUR SIDE!!!! I WAS MERELY TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THE SITUATION IN LEBANON, YOU CAN IGNORE IT ALL YOU WANT BUT IT WON'T CHANGE A THING.

I understand your frustrations and maybe that's why you don't want to hear anything that is not your way.
Bedik tekleh 3ennab wala teetleh el natour??? You have to find constructive ways to reach your goals, this means trying to lobby with as much people as possible. For that you have to be willing to listen to others and their concerns no matter how greater and more founded your frustrations are.

As for the secrets on politicians why wait, say them all now.
Sorry if I had offended you, that was not the purpose of my post.
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WITH THIS MENTALITY U WILL REACH NO WHERE!!!

I AM ON YOUR SIDE!!!! I WAS MERELY TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THE SITUATION IN LEBANON, YOU CAN IGNORE IT ALL YOU WANT BUT IT WON'T CHANGE A THING.

I understand your frustrations and maybe that's why you don't want to hear anything that is not your way.
Bedik tekleh 3ennab wala teetleh el natour??? You have to find constructive ways to reach your goals, this means trying to lobby with as much people as possible. For that you have to be willing to listen to others and their concerns no matter how greater and more founded your frustrations are.

As for the secrets on politicians why wait, say them all now.
Sorry if I had offended you, that was not the purpose of my post.
Listen I know you are on MY SIDE. But you are arguing after aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllll I wrote still in the same manner. Did you read what I wrote?

I explained that:

- This is a natural right which Lebanese mothers are asking for, and I assure you I am thousand times more Lebanese and attached to my country than millions of men holding the Lebanese citizenship.

- Applying this law would enrich Lebanon in so many various fields, new family names, new ethnicities, cultures and languages in a country which calls itself centre of civilization.

- Per lex, this violates the Lebanese Constitution and Lebanon's membership in the UN (See my reply page 3), hence there is a CONSTITUTIONAL BREACH. "Everyone is born equal"

- Psychologically, those children are suffering and their mothers too. They are not secured in any aspect, although those children do not differ from children born to a foreign mother and Lebanese father. So either the latter should be treated as non-Lebanese or both as Lebanese. In this case the children of ELIAS HRAWI are half Lebanese half Palestinians I ask to withdraw their citizenship. People must stop this nonsense, really.

- If you want to politicize it (not you personally, but any reader ) then I will too and I will tell tou I will make an army, buy Katyousha, and defend myself against this unjustice just like anyone defending himself from Israel or Syria.

- The palestinians already have a laisser passer. Children of Palestinian fathers and Lebanese mothers can already acquire the citizenship if the parents are smart and the child is registered under the second law in Children Right's convention of 1991. In the worse case under the first section of the same article (read page 3)

- This issue is not about Palestinians but about Lebanese and those who "fear" the Palestinian issue are those who brought the Palestinians, Syrians, Israeli, US, Somlia and all the mercenaries, so those do not have the right of protest because I am not the one to be held responsible for the mistakes they do.

- The same people who signed the Taef signed the CEDAW depriving children from a Lebanese Mother this right. The Taef was made under Saudi/Syrian pressure, the CEDAW was made under same pressure because both countries do not respect neither children nor women, is Lebanon to follow their example or should Lebanon be a leader in the Middle East in issues regarding Human Rights?

- Those objecting are majorly the Christian parties. But aren't those same hypocrites calling for a civil nation? Aren't those Christians "afraid" of muslim but they treat women worse than in Muslim countries? (Morocco, Egypt and Tunesia acknowledged in 2004, 2006 and 2008) the right for children from a Moroccan/Tunesian/Egyptian woman to give her children the citizenship.

- Why was Walid Bin Talal able to take this citizenship while his father is Saudi and my children can't?

- The Muslim and especially Sunni are since over 80 years the majority and christians cannot fight this demographic change by punishing me and my children! If they are afraid of Muslim then they are the first to apply a civil country with distribution upon qualification, based on nationhood, then there wouldn't be a problem.

I really could go on, but if I did not convince you, I never can. :)
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Ok I know we like to play all modern and humane and all that, but the truth is we live in lebanon and whether u like it or not most people are still a bit susceptible to religious distributions and percentages (and you cannot blame them, especially since this fear is fed daily by the media and political speeches). The number issue comes from the subconscience fear that when muslims become the mass majority, they will somehow interfere with the christians' way of life (or so they beleive) . I understand you are looking at this from a human rights point of view but u cannot simply disregard this fear. I think this problem would become much easier once we instore a civil state where regardless of our religion we are treated equally as lebanese.

Now about the palestinian issue. What would be your stand if they passed a law by which all lebanese mothers can give their children the lebanese citizenship, EXCEPT Palestinian mothers? Would you consider this as an improvement or would you go on pressuring to include palestinians also? AN THIS IS NOT A RACIST THING like some people keep saying.This is a national patriotic issue. Otherwise lets remove all the barriers and borders between countries and live happily ever after. I for one wouldn't mind.


this is the very much the definition of racism. excluding a group of people because of their nationality cannot be called otherwise.

but beside being a racist proposal it is a complete unjustified move and insignificant if you are preoccupied with the Palestinian issue and demographic "danger".

the impact of such a law is very small compared to other laws, but at least this one is progressive (equal right for lebanese women)

let me explain: do you know that if a lebanese man gets married with a palestinian woman SHE and ALL OF their children can get the lebanese nationality? how come this doesn't bother you....
if this man was muslim, he can get married with 4 different women, and they will get the lebanese nationality along with their common children. how come this doesn't make a demographic threat?

if you really worry about the demographic equilibrium, you should call on progressive civil laws, and object the retarded unjust ones...
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Wasn't there an organised protest carried out by lebanese women married to foreigners regarding this issue just recently? I think there should be more of these, coupled with strong media coverage then you would make this topic hot again.
Ghada Eid could help out.
Why do I have the feeling she already dedicated one episode for this issue lol...I might be imagining things..
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Wasn't there an organised protest carried out by lebanese women married to foreigners regarding this issue just recently? I think there should be more of these, coupled with strong media coverage then you would make this topic hot again.
Ghada Eid could help out.
Why do I have the feeling she already dedicated one episode for this issue lol...I might be imagining things..
spacecreature, I was on every TV station in this country, de2 l may may. Only last week I called Boutros Harb and asked him to approve his law after that I told him that he insulted me when he said one month ago about the whole issue: chemem ri7et tawtin. I told him that fi ktir ness tal3a ri7eta bi hal balad, w marfoud ba2a ytejro bi hal adye. He said that the Palestininans will be disregarded from this issue and I told him: I do not want to doubt your national devotion but I wonder where your human sense is.

As I mentioned before there are organizations working on this issue but they do not have any strategic thinking. When I came to Lebanon I met some organizations and found out that they never met parliament members and convinced them about their just cause. They simply relied on Ziyad Baroud's work, who made a draft law and submit it to the parliament committee (lijen). So I led a media campaign after talking to around 82 deputies and then those organizations began working on the media, but they are weak because they fight between each others, they all want to be the leaders of this case, a typical Lebanese trait. So instead of being strong, they are weak. To demonstrations they are only able to gather the same 20 women although the organizations get plenty of money (but this is the corruption problem all Lebanese institutions suffer from).
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Joumana, in Shuyu3e's true words, take out everyone who opposes such law, and spank him/her . This issue is cristal clear, genes mingle and so should children get both mother and father's citizenship, no questions asked. FPM and other decent souls should push for and adopt an amendment of the existing law, wbala ta22 7anak.

Lebanese father + Lebanese mother -> Lebanese child
Lebanese father + German mother -> Lebanese and German child
Lebanese father + Palestinian mother -> Lebanese and Palestinian child
Palestinian father + Lebanese mother -> Palestinian and Lebanese child
Norwegian father + Lebanese mother -> Norwegian and Lebanese child
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If we are prepared to marry away our sisters and brothers to other nationalities, why should we disown their love-fruits the pleasure of belonging to us? If we allow 50.000 Palestinian mothers to be married to Lebanese yielding 400.000 new Lebanese, why should we discriminate the offspring of 50.000 Lebanese mothers married to Palestinians? or Americans, French or Somali? Are we punishing the mothers here, or are we actually protecting the children?
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Listen I know you are on MY SIDE. But you are arguing after aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllll I wrote still in the same manner. Did you read what I wrote?

I explained that:

- This is a natural right which Lebanese mothers are asking for, and I assure you I am thousand times more Lebanese and attached to my country than millions of men holding the Lebanese citizenship.

- Applying this law would enrich Lebanon in so many various fields, new family names, new ethnicities, cultures and languages in a country which calls itself centre of civilization.

- Per lex, this violates the Lebanese Constitution and Lebanon's membership in the UN (See my reply page 3), hence there is a CONSTITUTIONAL BREACH. "Everyone is born equal"

- Psychologically, those children are suffering and their mothers too. They are not secured in any aspect, although those children do not differ from children born to a foreign mother and Lebanese father. So either the latter should be treated as non-Lebanese or both as Lebanese. In this case the children of ELIAS HRAWI are half Lebanese half Palestinians I ask to withdraw their citizenship. People must stop this nonsense, really.

- If you want to politicize it (not you personally, but any reader ) then I will too and I will tell tou I will make an army, buy Katyousha, and defend myself against this unjustice just like anyone defending himself from Israel or Syria.

- The palestinians already have a laisser passer. Children of Palestinian fathers and Lebanese mothers can already acquire the citizenship if the parents are smart and the child is registered under the second law in Children Right's convention of 1991. In the worse case under the first section of the same article (read page 3)

- This issue is not about Palestinians but about Lebanese and those who "fear" the Palestinian issue are those who brought the Palestinians, Syrians, Israeli, US, Somlia and all the mercenaries, so those do not have the right of protest because I am not the one to be held responsible for the mistakes they do.

- The same people who signed the Taef signed the CEDAW depriving children from a Lebanese Mother this right. The Taef was made under Saudi/Syrian pressure, the CEDAW was made under same pressure because both countries do not respect neither children nor women, is Lebanon to follow their example or should Lebanon be a leader in the Middle East in issues regarding Human Rights?

- Those objecting are majorly the Christian parties. But aren't those same hypocrites calling for a civil nation? Aren't those Christians "afraid" of muslim but they treat women worse than in Muslim countries? (Morocco, Egypt and Tunesia acknowledged in 2004, 2006 and 2008) the right for children from a Moroccan/Tunesian/Egyptian woman to give her children the citizenship.

- Why was Walid Bin Talal able to take this citizenship while his father is Saudi and my children can't?

- The Muslim and especially Sunni are since over 80 years the majority and christians cannot fight this demographic change by punishing me and my children! If they are afraid of Muslim then they are the first to apply a civil country with distribution upon qualification, based on nationhood, then there wouldn't be a problem.

I really could go on, but if I did not convince you, I never can. :)

I love your replies, Joumana I'm 100% with you on this topic. I'm a dual Lebanese and Canadian citizen, and it's very likely that I'll marry someone non-Lebanese since I live abroad. I'd like to at least have the option of giving my children the citizenship!

Where can I read more about this? And what can I do for the cause?
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Joumana, in Shuyu3e's true words, take out everyone who opposes such law, and spank him/her . This issue is cristal clear, genes mingle and so should children get both mother and father's citizenship, no questions asked. FPM and other decent souls should push for and adopt an amendment of the existing law, wbala ta22 7anak.

Lebanese father + Lebanese mother -> Lebanese child
Lebanese father + German mother -> Lebanese and German child
Lebanese father + Palestinian mother -> Lebanese and Palestinian child
Palestinian father + Lebanese mother -> Palestinian and Lebanese child
Norwegian father + Lebanese mother -> Norwegian and Lebanese child
.....

If we are prepared to marry away our sisters and brothers to other nationalities, why should we disown their love-fruits the pleasure of belonging to us? If we allow 50.000 Palestinian mothers to be married to Lebanese yielding 400.000 new Lebanese, why should we discriminate the offspring of 50.000 Lebanese mothers married to Palestinians? or Americans, French or Somali? Are we punishing the mothers here, or are we actually protecting the children?
I hate violence:) So I will simply verbally break them down into pieces:) I will spank them so hard by revealing all their secrets and how they sell themselves and the people to other countries, with details, place and dates. I will not allow them to destroy the rest of human aspects this country has. And thank you so much for your moral support.
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I love your replies, Joumana I'm 100% with you on this topic. I'm a dual Lebanese and Canadian citizen, and it's very likely that I'll marry someone non-Lebanese since I live abroad. I'd like to at least have the option of giving my children the citizenship!

Where can I read more about this? And what can I do for the cause?
Thank you so much but you made the best question! I completely forgot to mention how John-Dos can support the cause, thank you for reminding me!

1 - You can write or simply call the Ministry of Interior and elaborate that this is a just cause and that the law has to be passed asap leaving a message to Minister Ziyad Baroud on the "why" you feel concerned:

01 - 754200 / 751601 / 751602/01

Email: info@moim.gov.lb
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2- Spread the word between all Lebanese around you and clarify about our suffering and the solution through the law
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3- Join "jinsiyati 7akon li wa li ousrati" on Facebook :

Support Lebanese Women's Right to Nationality ((No Vote Campaign ))
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4- Sign the petition which I will submit immediately after the elections.
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5- Write to the President of the Republic on Naharnet.com - The Lebanese Portal that Keeps you Coming Back at the left side: Ask the president (although useless but give it a try)

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6- If you are member of a party, stress on the neccessity that your MPs have to vote for such a bill

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7- Write an article of concern to the media and send it to annahar, LBC, assafir etc... They would not publish it but they would be aware that more than 2 or 3 people are concerned.

My only problem is that I never tried recruiting for this cause and tried to personally pressure on the deputies and politicians, partially with success. You now brought me to the idea of recruiting big numbers who would submit an appeal to all ministries and he parliament to enforce this law. Thank you so much and thank you for the support.
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