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It is already morning time in Beirut.

May the dawn of hope for more merciful days rise on Beirut and on the entire Lebanon.

The lyrics of this uplifting song were composed specifically for these two great artists by a famous French singer-songwriter called Mr. Jacques Veneruso.

Thanks to the always available Mr. Google Translate, a brief translation follows the YouTube video.

The uniquely gifted Ms. Ginette Reno is our national pride. She does not need any introduction.

As for Mr. Vladimir Kornéev, Bambi just discovered his incredible voice and great performance. Of note, Mr. Kornéev was born in Georgia (lucky him, he comes from a place where the cuisine is sooo delicious!). After growing up in Germany, he moved to Québec in 2022 where he started his inspiring international career in North America. He is currently giving concerts across Europe (https://shorturl.at/4vqtY).

Enjoy!

“I know these distances well

All these long journeys

I who come from so far

And who is always looking

I know all these traps well

This time that makes us fragile

By following so many paths

And without letting go of the thread

You know

Our thoughts of love fly away and fall

In stardust, somewhere, at random

We wait our turn, we travel the world

But we have difficulty finding

The bright side of heaven“.

According to Mr. Robert Wood, “as President Biden emphasized to the General Assembly, a diplomatic solution consistent with UN Security Council Resolution 1701, remains the only path to durably reverse the cycle of escalation and to enable displaced people in both Israel and Lebanon to return to their homes” (https://shorturl.at/p2TwO). Very well said. While thanking Mr. Wood and Mr. Biden for their expressed good intentions, Bambi is praying for a diplomatic miracle to stop the nightmare of war in her birth country.

However, it is sadly well known that history risks repeating itself, again and again, when we do not learn from it, especially if conflicts are kept unsolved for too long. As a result, the double fiasco of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the one of the Hezbollah-Israeli one are heart-breaking for all the innocent people enduring war.

Indeed, as Ambassador Wood himself reported: “ Hesbollah’s buildup of weapons, many of which are supplied by Iran, and its presence along the Blue Line in defiance of Resolutions 1559 and 1701, has long been a source of instability“. Bearing the latter in mind, how would the above reality change now given the UN and/or US apparently failed diplomacy in the Middle East? Will this change be sufficient enough to halt the INSANE wider war in Lebanon?

And beyond the current war, if the conflict remains unsolved once again, will the region experience another regional round of war, like in 2023 and in 2006, in 18 or 20 years from now?

Related to the above, Bambi does not only want a temporary ceasefire. Instead, like so many others, she needs to see a drastic solution that will finally bring safety, peace, dignity, and prosperity to Lebanon. Same for its entire neighbourhood, on all sides of the borders, and in the world. More specifically, Bambi is not only for a two-state solution in the bloody Middle East (i.e., Palestine and Israel), but rather for a 3 state-solution, starting with a (truly) sovereign official Lebanon.

If elected democratically, Hezbollah could be/remain part of the Lebanese state, as a useful political party, like all the others. It can even be the vast majority, no problem. However, it can no longer continue to also be the heavily armed militia that calls itself (Islamic) resistance. It must stop dragging Lebanon into regional wars, in the name of foreign so-called divine causes, serving the interests of Iran while endangering the lives of its fellow Lebanese people as well as the innocent folks living on the other sides of the borders (whether in Israel or Syria). All this while pretending to speak in the name of the sadly often used and abused Palestinian people (by everyone). Last but not least, and most importantly, when will Hezbollah stop giving Israel excuses to cruelly destroy the beautiful Lebanon as it did in 2006 and right now under the hopeless eyes of the entire world?

Bambi was honoured to be the invited guest in the FB live book event of Dr. Mark D’Souza. She so much enjoyed the chat with Josh (MC) and Mark (Author). Bravo again Dr. D’Souza for your inspiring book, entitled “Lost and Found: How Meaningless Living is Destroying Us and Three Keys to Fix It” (https://shorturl.at/MQuS7)!

Last but not least, MANY thanks to Mark D’Souza, MD, for his thoughtful and highly important NP column, which can be found here: https://shorturl.at/xFNDz.

Here is the trailer about the book:

Here is the link to the event, if you are interested. Everyone is welcome :)!

https://www.facebook.com/share/or5TeTapum5C9VVg/

Below you can find an earlier post about this exciting event.

As for you Dr. D’Souza (or Mark), Bambi thanks you for your thought-provoking book. She is honoured to be joining you tomorrow. If she may, she will end this post by offering you a Lebanese-Arabic song. It is called “Mabrouk“, which means “Congratulations” :)!

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Bambi is honoured to join Dr. Mark D’Souza for his book launch of “Lost and Found” on September 24, 2024 at 2:30 PM EDT on Facebook. Welcome to all!

Bambi just read in the L’Orient Le Jour two articles. The first one informing us that Mr. Isaac Herzog, President of Israel (a post similar to the Governor General of Canada), denied the involvement of his country in the Hezbollah pager blast (https://tinyurl.com/ys7ff54m). As for the second one, it informed us that Mr. Mojtaba Amani, the Iranian Ambassador in Beirut is “honoured” by the loss of an eye sustained during the pager attack (https://tinyurl.com/2s3akp7b).

If this is not gaslighting, what is it then? As a reminder, gaslighting is a form of abuse, most often observed within romantic relationships, in which one partner tries to control the other one by making them doubt or question themselves (https://tinyurl.com/y93vds3z).

Can we please call a spade a spade? Not only innocent people are being taken hostage in this awful regional conflict, their intelligence is now being insulted.

How can Bambi coldly go to sleep when it is already midnight in Beirut and it is your birthday, dearest Maya? Despite the challenging times, may you have a beautiful day. May the year ahead be filled with love, health, laughter, continuous success, prosperity, and all what you wish for. Yes, the latter and much more for you and for your adorable family. With MUCH love across the miles 💚!!

Many thanks to Dr. Joseph Facal for his thoughtful column in the Journal de Montréal (https://tinyurl.com/ycpw28hu), entitled “L’UQAM savait-elle dans quoi elle s’embarquait?“, which means “Did UQAM know what it was getting into?”

First of all, Dr. Facal is informing us about a forthcoming conference, which looks like anything but scientific. It seems to be stemming from the dangerous (and frankly stupid) marriage between ideologies like wokeism and Islamism (or political Islam).

As a reminder, wokeism is a form of modern sectarianism and Islamism is Islam’s political component. The latter refers to state authoritarianism, which pushes to impose its Islamic principles on societies. Make no mistake, Islamism is not the spiritual component of this otherwise beautiful religion (like all its sister religions). Indeed, Islamism is the ugly side if Islam. It is expanding in Québec, under the public endorsement of political parties like Québec Solidaire (QS).

Second of all, unsurprisingly, Dr. Facal is not asking the university to cancel the event, as written in his earlier column (https://shorturl.at/ScK8z). He is just attracting everyone’s attention to it.

This being said, and in the rest of this post, thanks to her loyal friend Mr. Google Translate, Bambi will leave you with Dr. Facal’s thought-provoking words:

“From September 27 to 29, UQAM will host a gathering of far-left intellectuals and activists entitled “Bandung du Nord,” in reference to the famous 1955 conference.

The event, it is emphasized, will be entirely organized by “non-white people”.

We will work towards “a political alliance between Western decolonial movements” and the fight against “the rise of supremacist nationalism and ultra-liberalism” and “imperialist domination in all its forms”.

WHO

Among the “godfathers” of the event, you will find Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the assassination of American and Israeli diplomats in France, and Mumia Abu Jamal, still imprisoned for the murder of a police officer in Philadelphia.

Among the speakers, several made hateful and inflammatory remarks, such as Houria Bouteldja or Joseph Massad.

The crowdfunding campaign for this event is under the responsibility of Ms. Safa Chebbi.

On the “Indigènes de la République” website, Ms. Chebbi is proud to point out that: “The PYM [Palestinian Youth Movement] […] was the first to politicize the question of faith in the Palestinian struggle in Montreal […] .] During the demonstrations, it was the first time that we heard calls like “Allah Akbar” […] or even pauses during the marches to have a moment of prayer in the streets.”

Politicization of faith? Making Islam a political program, isn’t that the very essence of Islamism?

Chanting “Allah Akbar”? Praying in the streets?

This lady is also on the 2024-2025 board of directors of the League of Rights and Freedoms, of which we see what it has become more than 60 years after its founding and its battles of the past, notably for the right to abortion.

She is also a QS activist. On YouTube, she can be seen speaking at the nomination meeting of QS candidate in Mont-Royal–Outremont, Eve Torres, on May 26, 2018.

And who invites her on stage? Bochra Manaï.

Yes, the same Bochra Manaï, former spokesperson for the National Council of Canadian Muslims, appointed by Valérie Plante to the newly created position of commissioner for the fight against racism and systemic discrimination.

The mayor had to call her to order as her pro-Palestinian bias was so crude.

After the adoption of Bill 21 on secularism, she declared that Québec had become “a reference for supremacists and extremists around the world.”

MISSION

I could go on for a long time explaining who is who in this Quebec Wokistan.

In short, I continue to think that QS has very troubled relations with Islam.

The event at UQAM has very little to do with the advancement of authentic knowledge, the fundamental mission of a university.

Finally, I fear that the administration did not do its homework before offering its premises to these people”.