Deaf ears in Lebanon of militias and mafias

WE do not exaggerate when we say Lebanon is a distinguished Arab country, even though that trait is a thing of the past, and the hope for Lebanon’s comeback from its misery requires it to disentangle itself from the failed political crew, which is submissive to the Hezbollah either directly or via threats. This country has been enduring a crisis that it has never experienced in the last 170 years, and its people no longer have the luxury of having options.

From here, the question of forming a government that can contain the complete downfall of Lebanon has become like solving the puzzle of which came first – the egg or the chicken.

This fact became clearer after former Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati was assigned to form a government. He gave himself one month to complete the task, and if he fails, he will excuse himself from the position. It has been more than 45 days now, and the formation of the government is nowhere to be seen. That is because Iran isn’t pleased with the choices made by Mikati.

Since 1982, Tehran has considered its military and security presence in Lebanon as a strategic choice. It has fought with all its might to establish control over it. Therefore, through Hassan Nasrallah’s gang, it has waged minor and major wars at home or on the borders, believing that Lebanon is its advanced base on the shores of the Mediterranean.

Iran realizes that its abandonment of this country constitutes a severe blow to its project in the region. This is why its political crooks “Hezbollah” seek to impose its will on everyone. It does this mostly through the assassination of prominent political figures who oppose its project, sometimes by smuggling drugs to Arab countries in a bid for these countries to abandon Lebanon, and sometimes through military interventions in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and even Argentina and Bulgaria to isolate it from the international community.

On the other hand, this group completed the project of eliminating Lebanon by blowing up the port of Beirut where it stored 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that it imported to make explosives for its missiles.

In addition to all this, the aforementioned party is taking advantage of the prevailing mentality of extortion and quotas to push the rest of the parties to exploit what is left of the living Lebanese flesh in order to devour it.

Following the same trend is the Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who is looking for a way to bequeath the political leadership as well as the presidency to his son-in-law Gebran Bassil, and the Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri Sahib, who is famously known for his saying - “Whoever goes to the market will either buy or sell”, on the basis of which the parliament closes whenever it finds that the deal is not profitable.

This miserable situation led to what can be considered as the collapse of the century, as Lebanon had never witnessed a similar situation, even at the height of the civil war that lasted 17 years when about 85 percent of its people were unable to buy basic living commodities such as medicine, food, fuel and electricity. Today UNICEF announced that this country is on the verge of a major drinking water crisis.

There is no doubt that experts, observers, and even fortune-tellers are unable to imagine an end to this crisis. If the state collapses and maintains this status quo, it will pose a major Arab threat. No one from the mafia junta and the ruling militia is moving to open a gap of light in this tunnel, despite all the warnings and pointing of fingers addressed to them by heads of state and government - Arab and foreign - urging them to feel responsible. However, all that fell on deaf ears. Also, the arrogance of these people has reached the point of “If you spit in their face, they will tell you that it is raining”.