I liked the first section of the new article
“”Why “Only Christians Can Save Lebanon””” because it is a very real caption of
our ill communities. I liked to reply by a blogpost.
The comments and discussion were on
the first article’s idea, with all due respect to Nadine EL Ali, the article’s
writer, and with support of the good elaboration of the messy political
situation in Lebanon and the region..
In a reply to the first article “Only
Christians Can Save Lebanon” on twitter, and after a common friend shared it, I’ve
corrected simply one information in the article, and got away from the sectarianism
discussion, because it’s becoming nauseous, but I felt that the thought – especially
in these days – is a joke.
And that’s why.
Let us pass the Lebanese civil war,
and talk about its results, just to get to the causes of “”Why “Only Christians
Can Save Lebanon” is Not Applicable””.
After Taef arrangement, the Lebanese
political atmosphere was divided between a majority – supported by the Syrian regime
– which shared governance and divided the benefits, and a minority – reluctant for
the Syrian presence in Lebanon – which became oppressed during the 90s and the beginning
of the 21st century.
If we are talking about sectarian
communities in Lebanon, it’s not sectarianism, but the Political structure of
the company is built on this basis.. That’s why, we can say that most of the
Sunnite were supporting the ex Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and most of the Druze
supported Walid Jumblatt, while the Shiite were divided between Amal movement –
as the political wing – which controlled the Speaker of the Parliament position
since 1992, and Hezbollah – as the military wing – which dominated the
resistance against Israel in Southern Lebanon, till the Israeli sudden retreat
in 2000. Then, Hezbollah entered the political scene.
This status quo started to change with
the “Maronite Bishops statement” in 2000, and Michel Aoun testimony in front of
the American Congress which led to the resolution 1559 “the Lebanese struggle with Syria for what
it truly is: a fight for freedom against terrorism and oppression” in 2003, and the
assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, attracted the
international – especially American, French, and British – support to help
mainly the Christians to achieve their goals of freedom and descent living, and
to help them come back from exile (Michel Aoun), get out of the prison (Samir
Geagea), and get up from under the oppression (Amine Gemayel).. the others were
floating downstream.
Nowadays,
the international community is still supporting the Christians, while Sunnite are
supported by KSA and Shiite are supported by Iran.
But in
the internal play, The agreement between Hezbollah and FPM is a
Political/Sectarian cover for Hezbollah’s decisions inside and outside Lebanon.
The
relation between Future Movement and Lebanese Forces is beyond political measures,
the visits of Geagea to some arab countries, and the cover ups on Future
Movement failures is exchanges services.
Al
Marada’s leader Sleiman Franjieh, assured that he will not leave Assad alone in
his bad times, because He (Assad) always supported him.
Felange
leader Amine Gemayel, and his son Sami, are running the play with Future
Movement.
The “Single”
Christian Politicians are – just like other non Christian politicians - following
a big party so they can have a seat in the parliament.
So,
what sort of change will the Christians change to Save Lebanon?
And
what kind of solutions will they bring if each and every section of them is following
a different Non-Christian leader as a head of the Group (8 & 14 March).
Sorry
if it was a long post, but it was for spotlighting some issues.
