FOR TRUTH AND HISTORY - experiences in governance 1998 - 2000
تاريخ النشر: 25/08/2016
الناشر: دار كتب للنشر
نبذة الناشر:I sacrificed many long years of my life in the service of the people and the country.
By assassinating me politically, some wanted to erase my life history from the memory of this country.
My life history in the service of the country is the dearest possession that I own, and the ...most precious legacy that I leave to my grandchildren.
I am aware that every political career has a beginning and an end.
However, it is my right not to allow the remembrance of my life’s work to fall victim to money, chauvinism, or propaganda.
This is so, even if politics in Lebanon were to be seen as a game without rules; this is so, even if politics in Lebanon were to be seen as a jungle without a law. Often, an item of news in Lebanon is but a point of view. Often, the truth is simply the perception of the viewer. Often, the information media function as the eyes of society in the perception of the truth.
In this way positive aspects are exaggerated and negative ones are covered up, alternatively, positive aspects are buried and negative ones are exaggerated. In this way success in politics is created, and in this way failure is brought about. In this way glories are constructed in public life, and in this way temples are demolished.
I may have been correct in much of what I undertook to do, and been mistaken in some of it. I may have been successful in much of what I undertook to do, and failed in some of it. However, I do not regret anything that I did.
Whatever I was successful in and whatever I failed in was a fruit of my own hands, and it is God who grants success. I did not at any time ask anything for myself, nor did my hands commit anything that would weigh down on my conscience.
Suffice it for me to say, in view of all that I encountered of obstacles, obstructions, and difficulties: God, I avow that I have tired.نبذة المؤلف:When I was in the position of responsibility, I was careful to write down a gist of my experiences in the hope that such a narrative would be helpful in revealing the facts and implications of a critical interval in the history of a nation.
Predominantly, news is more a point of view than undisputed facts, it is who is reporting, where, when, who is the audience and what the news item is about. Hence this book, written in the interest of history and the truth for future generations.
Lebanon is a small country in the Middle East region, it is, however, significant in its strategic position in the Arab world owing to the role it performs by virtue of the freedom it enjoys and the resilience and resourcefulness of its population.
This book focuses on a two- year interval which was momentous in the annals of the Middle East region. Much was said about this interval, some of it documents facts; while a lot relies on interpretations, points of view, political positions, and fabrication leading sometimes to outright defamation and misrepresentation. It is my hope that I have presented the truth with transparency and integrity. I leave my legacy for the generations to come trusting that, in the final analysis, justice will prevail. إقرأ المزيد