Lebanon Day

We should have a national day sometime in the future. But which day?


Today the Canadians are celebrating Canada-Day. My Canadian friends were invited to a huge party at the Canadian High Commission. People from Ottawa to Vancouver partied all day and night to celebrate this day. So what is Canada Day?

Canada Day is, roughly, the day when six provinces, 138 years ago, decided to sign a document to become one country. That’s about it. No fighting, no bloodsheds, no revolutions. Quite boring stuff to the Lebanese I must say. But still, Canadians proudly sport their red-maple-leave budges and pins and walk around all over the world singing proudly: “O-Canada”. My friend even hung a huge Canadian flag in her living room as a backdrop to her own Canada-day party; right after the one athe High-Commissioner's (can’t have enough booze at the embassy you know)

Now back to that other country with a tree in its flag, ours truly: Lebanon. When will there be a Lebanon-Day?

How about March-14? Everyone should agree that the day a million people took down to the street to sack the Syrians is a great day in our history as a nation. Right?
Wrong! Some people are proposing March-8: The day when hundreds of thousands of Lebanese also took to the streets to say thank you to Syria.

So how are we going to solve this problem?

Let’s take a look at how the government is being formed. It seems we are living in times of compromises and Euro-style last-minute fudging. We’re seeing a kind of Marriage between the March-8 folks and the March-14 ones. (Although Edmond Saab in Annahar called it a “Homosexual Marriage”. Which In Lebanon is equivalent to saying: a perversion)

But still, we need only one national day, what shall we do?

How about another compromise: Anyone for celebrating next March-11?