Category: Political Ethics
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The Illusion of the Inevitability of the Oppressed One’s Victory 2 (The Model of Christ)
In the preceding article we said that the justice of a cause is not a sufficient condition for its victory, for without correct language and tools the truth turns into an elegy, and victimhood turns into an eternal defeat. In the midst of our discussion of how to defend causes, we must look at Christ…
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The Illusion of the Inevitability of the Oppressed One’s Victory — “When Right Possesses No Self-Sufficient Power to Prevail”
Many people, especially in our Arab region, live by the illusion of “the inevitability of the oppressed one’s victory”, convinced by a strange emotional and religious discourse that promoted the idea that the oppressor is inevitably defeated and the oppressed will prevail without fail. This intellectual anesthesia made the holders of right lean on the…
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The Syrians: A Burnt Offering upon the Pulpit of Christ.
In an interview with Patriarch al-Rahi in September 2022, he said: “If the Syrians do not return to Syria, they will impose upon themselves a second war.” Holy Scripture says: “My word shall not return to Me empty, but shall accomplish what I sent it for,” and the word which the Patriarch spoke unfortunately succeeded…
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Liberating All of It Is Not Possible
To speak of liberating Palestine entirely is a dream that haunts some of those asleep in the corridors of the Arab narratives. History is not a novel, nor is it a story at whose end good triumphs and the villain dies and joy and peace prevail (necessarily) because good is good, or because the…