{"id":30632,"date":"2024-10-16T21:21:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=30632"},"modified":"2024-10-16T21:21:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:21:29","slug":"orient-le-jour-tells-us-about-beirut-war-peace-through-childrens-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/orient-le-jour-tells-us-about-beirut-war-peace-through-childrens-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Orient Le Jour&#8221; tells us about Beirut: War (+ peace) through children&#8217;s eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"964\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BeirutLebanonDrawing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18728\" style=\"width:485px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BeirutLebanonDrawing.jpg 964w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BeirutLebanonDrawing-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BeirutLebanonDrawing-768x234.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This post is meant to share two brief podcasts worth watching. Thank you <em>L&#8217;Orient Le Jour<\/em> for the moving insights by these children and youth.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the two podcasts, if you wish, you may listen to Mr. Mario Pelchat&#8217;s song on Lebanon&#8217;s cedars, with its powerful lyrics. Bambi translated them on her blog three years ago. For your convenience, she is re-sharing them at the end of this post. SADLY, this older French-Canadian song remains timely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To end on a more hopeful and joyful note, the last song is a beautiful French song by Mr. Enrico Macias, entitled &#8220;<em>Enfants de tous pays<\/em>&#8221; [ <em>Children From All Countries<\/em>], that Bambi also posted in the past. An English translation of its lyrics (<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/uvO56\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/uvO56<\/a>) is also shared below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May all the children be safe and able to play. May peace and love prevail.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Je vous parle de Beyrouth - \u00c9pisode 2 : La guerre, vue par les enfants\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pIF9cjwdkkM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Je vous parle de Beyrouth - \u00c9pisode 1 : Nasrallah et le skate\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuPI7v9kjcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Les c\u00e8dres du liban\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FAvRq4v_baU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Enrico Macias - Enfants de Tous Pays - Lyrics\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88tb6Xma0Qw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>A quick translation of \u201cthe Cedars of Lebanon\u201d (by Mr. Mario Pelchat)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cGaping holes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Like anthills where homeless roam<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Where the people of Phenicia once lived<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>From the East of blood, genes and Arabian language<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Screams, tears<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>And rage in the heart for so much violence<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>While we swim elsewhere under rains of abundance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>It is often when we cry that we experience indifference<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>What are we going to say<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>When danger surrounds us,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>To our children who question us<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Who we try in vain to teach<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>The verb \u201cto love\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>What are we going to do?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>If not find some refuge,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Hope for another flood<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Or kill yourself to understand<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>And forgive<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Twilight<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Like the life that disappears under the rubble<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Another night to invent the end of the world<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>A new era where you are no longer afraid of your shadow<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Sentries<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Which remind us that we are not at liberty<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>On a land that we did not choose to inhabit<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Under the wrath of a God we want to appropriate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>What are we going to say<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>When danger surrounds us,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>To our children who question us<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Who we try in vain to <\/em>teach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>The verb \u201cto love\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>What are we going to do?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Otherwise confide in the stars<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Praying to the saints of the cathedrals<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Because we are too little to understand<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>To forgive<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>A strong people<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Who still believes that tomorrow will be different<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Like a treasure that a giant knows how to recognize<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>As are, in the north, the cedars of Lebanon.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>&#8220;Enfants de tous pays&#8221; [Children from All Countries]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cChorus:<br>Children from all countries<br>Hold out your bruised hands<br>Sow love<br>And then give life<br>Children from all countries<br>And of all colours<br>You have in your hearts<br>Our happiness<br>It\u2019s in your hands that tomorrow our earth<br>Is going to be entrusted to go out from the night<br>And our hope to see the light again<br>Is in your eyes which awaken to life<br>Dry your tears, throw out your guns<br>Make of this world a paradise<br>Chorus<br>You have to think of our fathers\u2019 past<br>And of promises which they never have kept<br>The truth is to love without any borders<br>And give every day a bit more<br>For wisdom and wealth<br>Have just one address: paradise<br>Chorus<br>And on the day when love on the Earth<br>Becomes king, you can rest<br>When our prayers are covered in joy<br>You can have your eternity<br>And every laughs of your kingdom<br>Will make a paradise<br>Chorus\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29990\" style=\"width:242px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is meant to share two brief podcasts worth watching. Thank you L&#8217;Orient Le Jour for the moving insights by these children and youth. Following the two podcasts, if you wish, you may listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30636,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30632\/revisions\/30636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}