Elias Bejjani’s New English Editorials
The Lebanese Canadian Coordinating Council (LCCC) strongly condemns the killing of four civilian Israelis/02/09/10/Click Here/Arabic & English
Introduction: There are no words that could actually describe the brutal killing of four Israeli civilians on August 31 near Hebron in the West Bank. What is disgusting and extremely unpardonable by all means is the kind of bizarre celebrations that were carried out by the Hamas Militants in the Gaza trip. The massacre was celebrated on the Gaza streets by distributing sweets as a sign of joy as if the crime was a great and honorable military victory. This kind of cruel conduct is totally inhuman and has no relation at all to civilization, peace, freedom, tolerance and human rights. Definitely such a barbaric ritual belongs to the stone age era and to the jungle law.

بيان صحفي/المنسقية العامة للمؤسسات اللبنانية الكندية تدين بشدة مقتل أربعة إسرائيليين مدنيين/عربي وانكليزي/02 أيلول/10/اضغط هنا

We Can't Serve God and Mammon/By: Elias Bejjani/September 01/10/Click Here
Introduction: "You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared whose will they be?" - Luke12:20/There are very few people who did not experience at a certain point of their life a traumatic and disappointing encounter with a family member, a beloved person, a friend, or an acquaintance who loved money too much. Worship of money, better known biblically as Mammon, changes the thinking, emotions, conduct, relationships, and priorities of people.  These bitter changes are for the worse. They strip those who worship money of their humanity, numbing their consciences, and turn them into wild beasts. "But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows". -1 Timothy 6:9-10 /Since his first ancestors Adam and Eve were cast out of paradise and sent to live on earth, man has been fooling himself. Suffering a kind of elective blindness to the transient and temporary nature of life’s journey on earth, choosing to entangle himself into its trap. Although life’s unfolding events tell him loudly to wake up each day, he remains too blind to see that his life is not his own property and that He who granted his life can take it away at any time.
Lebanese Diaspora and the Hezbollahisation of Lebanon/By Elias Bejjani/August 24/10/Click Here
Introduction: Every time two Lebanese meet in any of the Diaspora countries, one of them usually starts the conversation with the same nostalgic questions. How is the situation back home in Lebanon? Are there any positive changes there or any progress to build on? Are there any hopes for a better future or are things still chronically chaotic, unstable and bizarre? The same routine response is echoed in reply; No our beloved and beautiful country is going down the drain and things are getting worse every day as the armed Iranian militia Hezbollah is devouring the country piece by piece, dominating more of its institutions, forcing its stone age ideology on many people through money, intimidation and murder. Meanwhile, Arab countries and the free world watch idly from a distance, not taking any serious or decisive deterrent stance to put an end for this on going Iranian expansionism plot. It is true that God has granted Lebanon, the Holy Land of the Cedars, all that He could endow to a country including beautiful nature, an attractive climate, and many blessed riches. But Lebanon has also been cursed being a pivotal geographical door to other countries in the Middle East region, causing it instability for thousands of years and to this day. How could the Lebanese people back home live in peace when Syria, Iran, and the axis of evil countries continuously interfere with their domestic affairs in all domains, sponsoring armed terrorist militias that hold the country hostage as a terrorist base for Islamist expansionism and evil hegemony schemes?
God is Omniscient, He Knows Our Needs/By: Elias Bejjani/August 17/0/Click Here
Introduction/"God is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him". (Nahum 1/7)/Have you ever been so upset, angry, and furious, that you refrained from praying and started questioning God's fairness, judgment and even existence? Have you ever been stunned and not been  able to explain difficult situations, wrongdoings, and ingratitude from a beloved one? Have you been bewildered and felt helpless in the face of bizarre acts of treason, hatred and vendettas from those whom you love? Have you ever been disappointed by selfish, greedy, and evil acts by people close to you? Have you been hurt unjustly by those whom you gave your life to and built your hopes on? Have you ever felt abandoned and betrayed by people on whom you depended and trusted? I am sure you have been through such unhappy moments because every one of us faces such distressing times throughout life. The question is, why do some of us hold back and refrain from irresponsible acts of revenge while others do not?/Click Here
Lebanon is a country that is unable to govern itself/By: Elias Bejjani/August 13/10/Click Here
ِIntroduction: The current explosive situation in Lebanon is sad, unfortunate and very dangerous. Meanwhile, the Lebanese people are marginalized and exposed to all kinds of terrorism, oppression, poverty, persecution, foreign interferences and fear. The Lebanese government is just a shadow and a fancy tag with no actual content, backbone or teeth. It holds no power or authority and has no free say in any matter at all due to the fact that Hezbollah and Syria fully controls its decision making process. Hezbollah, the Iranian armed proxy, controls by force, money and intimidation the whole country and is taking both its people and government hostages. Hezbollah, which is merely an Iranian army stationed in Lebanon, is dragging the country and its people as well as the whole Middle East into a state of havoc. The West and the moderate Arab countries as well as neighboring Israel have an obligation to step in and offset the balance militarily. It is not a secret that Syria that occupied Lebanon for almost 29 years with an iron fist (between 1976-2005), at least since 1990 has been viciously Syrianizing all Lebanon's institutions, especially the armed forces, media, cabinet and parliament.
The Israeli-Hezbollah War is Inevitable/By Elias Bejjani/August 04/10/Click Here
Introduction: Most Middle East analysts and political observers are more than sure that the war between Israel and the West on one side, and Hezbollah, Syria, Hamas and Iran on the other front is inevitable. Its occurrence has become just a matter of time. The Middle East is in the eye of the storm and, apparently, no one can avert the confrontation that has become necessary for the agendas of all parties involved. According to observers, the predisposing factors that build for a war are precipitating in the Middle East. Ali Hmade, the renowned Lebanese political analyst, shed light on some of these factors in his last Tuesday's column published in An Nahar Beirut Daily. Meanwhile, other American, European, Arab and Israeli analysts have written extensively on these tensions and added other pivotal factors to the Israeli-Hezbollah war formula. Hopefully, this time Israel backed by the Western and moderate Arab countries will push Hezbollah out of Lebanon as it did in 1982 with the PLO. The region deserves a lasting peace that cannot be achieved while Hezbollah holds the Lebanese people hostage, Syria breeds and exports terrorists while oppressing its own people, Hamas enslaves the residents of Gaza residents by aborting all peace initiatives with Israel, and Iran endeavors to own a nuclear bomb with dreams of reviving the Persian Empire by terrorism and mass destruction. History tells us that peace prevails only in the aftermath of wars. This is what happened after the World Wars. Once again, peace will be the fruit of the coming Middle East war if Israel, the West, and moderate Arab countries stand tall and courageously execute  a well planned war to defeat the "Axis of Evil" countries and their terrorist proxies./Click Here
Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Credibility/By: Elias Bejjani/August 01/2010/Click Here
Introduction: It is strongly believed that the UN body, its General Assembly, and the international tribunals that fall under the UN umbrella and jurisdiction could all be in the hot seat, exposed to a very serious jeopardy and are up in the air with a questionable and blemished credibility. This dim image of the UN and its judicial institutions could become a shocking reality if Hezbollah, the armed jihadist terrorist organization backed by Iran and Syria, succeeds in imposing its criminal threats and will on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) either by totally abolishing its mission or by forcing its judges to make certain detrimental concessions in a bid not to indict any of its (Hezbollah) men in the Beirut 2005 assassination attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, 22 other Lebanese nationals and injured many others./Click Here