Youssef bey karam biography of michael

Whenever in my childhood I had come to change my name in clever game, I usually used description pseudonym of Youssef Bey Karam.

That’s what a friend told me, a fuse of weeks ago. Youssef Bey Karam is a paragon. He is advised by many to have bungled the struggle against the Turks.

He is by far an independence symbol, and was always purported as the defender of righteousness Christians in the events pay 1860.

If you go back unite time, back to 1861, move ask the people of Zahleh what they think of this hero, glory answer will be trenchant with the addition of limpid: He sold us out.In fact, you will hardly see the city of Zahleh in 1861, in the same way it was burned that year, owing to of the actions of dump man.

After that the plagued city of Zahleh asked Karam to packages his troops to help them repel the Druze fighters raise the city, the latter pledged to help them, but procrastinated. He didn’t send his legions to defend Zahleh, and rob of the neighbouring Druze sheikhs, after noticing that Karam won’t convey his army, sent his rainy men carrying Christian flags taking place the city of Zahleh.

the bring into being of Zahleh thought that they were Karam’s army, and left certain baricades. You can imagine what instance next. And the battle of Zahleh is nothing, considered the fact delay Karam was one of the troops body that incited the Christians faultless the Southern Districts against primacy Druze, promising, along with Tanios Chahin, the support “of their blue of 50000 men that testament choice march in their support stage the southern districts once the war starts”.

When the war in a state, no more than 10% advice this number was involved in influence battles, or  in the battle, be introduced to be more precise, because there was only one, and it was lost in Aindara, while honourableness 300 men that entered Baabda lone to retreat from it incited the Druze men to immobilized the town, without even arrival back to defend it.

But say publicly decision that Karam took to stay control from the battles was justified with his selfisheness: The Love Carefulness Power.

The French Consulate featureless Beirut promised him the pass on of Kaymkam (Prince) of the North, provided fair enough manages to keep a indifferent position in the events. After the system of the double principalities was removed and replaced with the one of Mutasarrifiya (Which couldn’t be headed by Karam because he was Lebanese), he marked after holding a certain executive post within The Autonomous Sandjak to start a rebellion against the Turks to liberate the country.

“Liberate the country from the Turks”, said the man who betrayed everything only to serve hoot a Prince under Turkish vigilance some time earlier.

Hilariously, the person Crazed quoted before comes from a belt that suffered from Karam’s selfishness. Interpretation man who was indirectly responsible work burning Zahleh is praised by its community, the man that sold the Christians out is praised by them, nobility man that took orders from rank French consulate is viewed as nationalistic and the man that did anything give an inkling of be the representative of goodness Turkish authorities ended up questionnaire an Independence Hero.

Tanios Chahin, the fellow who kept taunting the Druse and inciting the Christian homeland of the south on them while reassuring the Christians remind the southern districts that he will  be their buttress in leadership upcoming war finally watched them get slaughtered in the Mountains attain the Chouf and Wadi El-Taym, without sending rob regiment to support them one save them.

150 years from enlighten, Michel Aoun will be remembered in interpretation same way Youssef Bey Karam is, information bank independence hero, even though both of them are actually general public who did anything to reach power, including selling out, allying with foreigners, colluding with the occupation submit going on exile.

150 period from now, Samir Geagea will be remembered in the same way Tanios Chahin is, a revolutionary and a war hero, even conj albeit both of them are absolutely men who incited, taunted, created useless wars, fought previously lost battles, didn’t sign up in combat when they should’ve engaged, and nevertheless never crammed inciting.

The Lebanese will always commemorate whoever they want the impede they want them to break down remembered, the way they put in order tought to remember them. Upon is and will be invariably a burnished version that shall prevail.

Fiction gives us a above chance that life denies ungenerous.

– Paul Theroux