Persiflage & Paroxysm

Either heaven is unjust or we are just wicked and deserving of our suffering, either way, I have good reason to turn my back on god forever, to be angry, to feel singled out, put on and unfairly treated, and that I belong to a people similarly badly treated. I wonder how those who ran for their lives from marauding bands of terrorists felt in 1948, how tales of killings and the burning and leveling of entire villages and the lining up and shooting of all before them, made these hungry and thirsty newly created refugees feel. They had lost everything, all was stolen from them, their homes, their lands, their dignity and their country. Did they know how the world betrayed them, how the nascent forum of nations, made up of countries who had only a few short years before helped defeat Nazism, how this UN was part of the conspiracy, how the leader of the free world, the liar in chief, had worked hard to make sure that Palestine be bulldozed and in its place a new country set up for another ...

By Hani M Bathish For the first time since the crisis began in Lebanon over three years ago, “fresh cash” account holders will be able to write cashable dollar and lira cheques starting June 1, and transfer both locally and abroad any amount of money from their fresh lira or fresh dollar accounts. This was made possible by Banque du Liban (BDL) Basic Circular 165 issued last month.   Some banks have been quick to respond, informing their customers that their new cards are ready and that they can collect them from their local branch. One particular bank’s new US dollar debit card has a distinct red band around it to distinguish it from cards linked to old dollar accounts that remain locked, which will have a blue band around them. Of course the red band comes with a fresh annual fee in cashable USD as well and the usual banking transaction fees. Metal effect sleek card with red band denoting fresh cash account The circular effectively creates a separate clearing mechanism for fresh ...