Mishegas, Politics

Meet My Son, "Iraqi Liberation"

“…but we call him Rocky for short.”
The Khaleej Times reports of a family who hold Hezbollah in very high regard. So high, that they named their daughter after the current Hezbollah operation.

When Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah launched “Operation Kept Promise” the day after his militiamen captured two Israeli soldiers to use in a prisoner swap, little did he know the same name would be bestowed on a new-born refugee girl two weeks later in Damascus.
“I wanted to call her Al-Waad Al-Sadek (’Kept Promise’ or ’Sincere Pledge’ in Arabic) because Sayyed Hassan made it happen — he took on Israel to win, and he has done it,” says 20-year-old Ahlam Bazzi, her baby at her breast.
[…] Suzanne al-Ali is just 17 and still looks like a child. Her confinement was difficult.
“I fled bare-footed,” she says. I fell down several times on the road, and my baby was no longer moving in my belly.” Married for one year, Suzanne was expecting her first child when Israel attacked Lebanon in retaliation after two of its soldiers were seized by hezbollah on July 12.
“My husband was wounded by shards of glass,” she says. “It was a miracle we got here safe and sound.” Her baby was to have been named Nouhad, after her aunt. But Suzanne decided otherwise.
“I called her Sourya (Syria), after the land which welcomed her.”

While I empathize with the distraught parents — naming your child after a military offensive?

7 thoughts on “Meet My Son, "Iraqi Liberation"

  1. I must have missed something major, as referenced in the following quotation:
    “I wanted to call her Al-Waad Al-Sadek (’Kept Promise’ or ’Sincere Pledge’ in Arabic) because Sayyed Hassan made it happen — he took on Israel to win, and he has done it,” says 20-year-old Ahlam Bazzi, her baby at her breast.”
    Did Hezbollah win over Israel while I had CNN off last night, or is this just another Arab promethian delusion and detachment from reality of the sort we have seen so much of the last decade?

  2. There was apparently bit of a craze in Britain during WW1 for giving children this sort of name. My gran had classmates called ‘Alma’ and suchlike, after major battles.
    On CR’s point: just don’t let Madonna near this one…

  3. i read a similar article a while back about a woman naming her child AFTER THE MISSILES hezbollah was using. she said that she wanted to name her next child “(missile-name) 2” and “(missile-name) 3”

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