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| Photo credit: Lorenzo Trombetta |
I know this is about 10 days too late, but the ad is still running in town, plus this is my blog and I can post whenever I want to!
Well, where's Alanis Morissette when you need her because this is exactly what would fit under the lyrics of her super hit "Ironic"... Imagine the new verse:
"Like your old Ottoman ruler
Wishing you a happy independence day
Because you took it from the French
So they win on a technicality
(Pre-Chorus)
And isn't it ironic
Don't you think?"
All apologies to Miss Morissette and Glen Ballard who co-wrote the monster hit... But seriously people, I know that "technically" the Lebanon who was under Ottoman rule was basically "mount Lebanon" not the current Lebanon we know, and that yes, we took our independence (sigh, what independence?) from the French not the Ottomans, and that our whole history is a bit of a blur (meaning depends whom you ask you get a different story!), and as Bill Farrell said about Beirut "there's no truth in Beirut, only versions" - you may easily apply this to Lebanon as a whole.
Still, we can all see the irony in this!