By: Hisham Bustani*(The original Arabic Version was published in Al-Adab Magazine, Issue 6/7 2005, pages 107-109)Some will say: "a dreamer", "his mind is still there in the 1950s ad 60s", "unrealistic" and "roaming outside history".* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *I was provoked by the proceedings of the "Seminar on the Future of the Syrian-Lebanese Relations" published in the last issue of Al-Adab(1)! And since all the participants are "Syrians" (Hussien Al-Oudat, Michelle Kilo, Omar Ameralay and Yasin Haj-Salih), and intellectuals; I was surprised by the amount of misinformation presented, and basing political analysis on it, as if taking an opposing position against a certain Arab regime (in this case: the Syrian regime), requires adopting automatically the Arab saying: "My Enemy`s enemy …
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