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June 08, 2005
The Lebanese Paradox
Hazem Saghieh, in a June 6, 2005 article in Dar Al Hayat headlined "The Predators of Samir Kassir", said The brave and enlightened pen did not fall by the hands of the "Syrian-Lebanese Security Apparatus" alone, or the latter did not execute its crime but in an environment that provokes murder or promote it." He added: Between March 14 and the day of the crime, a considerable recession in the political and national occurred, leaving confessions, notables, peers of the realm, religious figures, and men with an ever-growing ego of every type, to occupy the vacuum. Since the political and the national have receded, dubious omens of every form began to appear. We saw General Michel Aoun, returning as a little Napoleon, reshuffling the cards and changing its form, obsessed with launching history from square zero, from the void. We saw electoral alliances, and no one is to be excluded, grow away from the political alignment of March 14, not to speak of the adopted principles, which were growing closer to the smaller parish calculations. We saw voter turnout, being the mother of all political and citizenship practices, drop to a level that suggests public despair and desolation after a notable broad energy. As for the youth that have refused to become part of the confessional equation, they seemed like orphans at the table of the wicked, pleading for representation.
"Finally," he asserted, "the fatal Lebanese paradox became clear. The election is not an intense political moment anymore; it has become a moment that is equivalent to politics, carrying inherent chances of collapse." Mr. Saghieh's analysis of current politic events in Lebanon is worth reading.
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 8, 2005 03:13 AM
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