{"id":34140,"date":"2026-04-09T00:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=34140"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:39:39","slug":"lebanon-a-meaningful-song-for-you-to-honour-the-suffering-of-your-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/lebanon-a-meaningful-song-for-you-to-honour-the-suffering-of-your-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon: A meaningful song for you to honour the suffering of your people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FinalLebanonEnough.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FinalLebanonEnough.jpg 410w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FinalLebanonEnough-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 85vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>For decades, tiny Lebanon has been held hostage of regional power struggles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, more than ever, it is the bloody battleground for Iran (via Hezbollah), Israel, and the USA. All these powerful entities have been fighting each other fiercely, from war to war, until this current insane round. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, upon a so-called regional ceasefire, Israel launched 100 air strikes in ten minutes across Beirut and the rest of Lebanon. This resulted in more destruction and pressure on the healthcare system with about 837 injured people and 112 victims (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yk282fju\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yk282fju<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, the Lebanese government declared today a national day of mourning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May those trapped under the rubble be found alive. May all the injured heal. May the memory of the deceased be eternal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enough of violence in the Land of Cedars&#8230; for God\/G-d\/Allah\/No God&#8217;s sake. <\/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=\"Mawtini (\u0645\u0648\u0637\u0646\u064a) - Lebanese Patriotic Song (My Homeland)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/njs76Ud_1lQ?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<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\/2025\/01\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31132\" style=\"width:276px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/heart.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/heart-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, tiny Lebanon has been held hostage of regional power struggles. Today, more than ever, it is the bloody battleground for Iran (via Hezbollah), Israel, and the USA. All these powerful entities have been [&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\/34140"}],"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=34140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34142,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34140\/revisions\/34142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}