The big Joke

We just love to lose. The sad thing about that is we deny reality and claim to emerge victorious whatever the outcome. While the world sat and watched fellow Lebanese kill one another, the tragic events unfolding in Beirut reminded us of horrible scenes pulled from Lebanon's archives of war. While the rest of the Arab Gulf was enroute to achieving economic milestones, Beirut was drawn into chaos, on the verge of civil war, and soon ran out of tombstones to bury the dead.
Overnight, all changed.
Reconciliation took charge, with opposing sides agreeing on problematic issues, cordial smiles reigned over, and a sence of warmth filled the once-tense atmosphere. For we are all Lebanese, we need one another, we have nobody but each another. That is so true, once you realize everybody is in It for their own personal reasons. Israel and Syria, the United States and Iran were all working the bargaining tables behind the media flare up taking place in Beirut. We were the victims. Not Hizbullah, or the ruling Majority, but Lebanon and what it stood for. What an embarrasment...33 years after '75. Have we not learned a lesson yet?

Doha Diversion....for a little while.

So its off to Qatar, it seems as though even the politicians have gotten sick of Lebanon's status quo...Beirut is too unstable...Dubai is too saturated ....so Doha sounds just right. Call it a recess a breather, or a not so temporary ceasefire, before the rude rhetoric rebuilds and bullets reign over again. Expect to see cordial smiles, handshakes and camera poses while in Doha before the dreadful reality of returning to Beirut empty handedly.

The Second Lebanon War

Lebanon's political paralysis has reached its melting point, the fire has ignited, the lid has blown off, Beirut is now ablaze. The three year old tolerance-tension game between the March's has come to its decisive point in time and now the tugging of war has moved from the television screens to the deadly streets. Hizbullah has declared its state through war.

With an arsenal that has proven havoc-hell against the israeli's, the "former resistance organization' has now shifted roles from being a defensive entity into an offensive threat to Lebanons soviergnty. The so-called 22 years of credibility as a Resistance force has pulverised to dust in just seconds. Did Iran signal the barbaric seige of Lebanon, or did the West sound the bells of war? Memories of wars past will haunt us, but todays survival instincts will surpass all fears, taboos and red lines we vowed not to cross. Hizbullah has demonstrated an uncalled for military might and flex of muscle to the disgust of their fellow Lebanese at the untimely cost of their existence. The Shiaa sect of Lebanon has been savagely sliced away from their fellow patrons. This is Hizbullah's end. They have dug their own grave before removing the klashinokov from their flag. But then again, what purpose would their weaponless flag serve in being a resistance force with nothing to resist it seems but the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of their fellow Lebanese' lust for life.