To Sheikh Saad

Posted on by Mustapha

I just HAVE to get this off my chest:

Hello Mr. Hariri, please watch carefully what’s happening in Gaza and think of this:

There is no such thing as Saudi Guarantees..
There is no such thing as Saudi Guarantees..
There is no such thing as Saudi Guarantees..
There is no such thing as Saudi Guarantees..
There is no such thing as Saudi Guarantees..
There is no such thing as Saudi Guarantees..
There is no such thing as Saudi Guarantees..
There is no such thing as Saudi Guarantees..
There is no such thing as Saudi Guarantees..
There is no such thing as Saudi Guarantees..

The best way forward is to stick to the principles of March 14 (a strong, sovereign and independent state) so please don’t sell out in the name of phoney national unity…

Signed:
A Lebanese Sunni you can’t take for granted

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  5. Mustapha, try catching Dennis Ross’s interview with Terry Gross on NPR earlier today (tues. 3:00pm est.) His analysis of the Gaza situation sounded eerily similar to the scenario Syria, Hizbo, FAI and others might have been envisaging for Lebanon.. i.e
    –the upholding of a Hezbollahland in the South as a de facto reality on the ground (that would not only challenge the legitimacy of the Lebanese state, but would also ultimately etiolate it all-together)
    –further pillorying the state by slowly bleeding it in Nahr el-Bared and ultimatley elsewhere (knowing full well that the state could muster neither the wherewithal nor the stomach to engage the Islamist vandals indefinitely)
    –and finally “cookie-cuttering” and radiating the Hezbollahland/FAILand model throughout Lebanon, effectively splintering the state as an integrated (and FINAL LEBANESE) territorial unit.

    With this in mind, not only does Amine Gemayyel’s maneuver yesterday begin making sense, but so does Saad’s ill-timed “olive branch” reveal itself the despicable capitulation that some of us suspected it to be.

  10. Hi Mustapha,

    I understand your frustration but don’t you think in the end that to put this behind us there has got to be some sort of compromise? I mean after all Hizballah and their supporters cannot be ignored completely, we’re going to have to give a little. Hasn’t this been the whole problem with this situation in the first place, nobody was willing to give an inch? See where that has gotten us?

    We got our biggest aim : the tribunal, despite everything they did. In the end they looked like fools as the tribunal passed anyway.

    Now it’s our turn to give something, if only to save the country from the spiral it has fallen into, a kind of sacrifice perhaps? How on Earth are we going to get out of this hole if everyone sticks to their guns (bad pun, I know) 100%?

  11. The “first” goal was the tribunal! We have a long way to go. We need to accomplish the following:
    - new president (March 14 or leaning to March 14)
    - new speaker (not March 8!)
    - new government (without March 8) - restructuring the military and strengthen it by eliminating the Syrians apponittees!
    - strong (coherent- unfiltrated) intelligence service
    Then we can say that we have an independent, free and sovereign country!
    God bless Lebanon.

  12. Ghassan,
    though it would be ideal for us to have complete control, it would be ridiculous to take over every prominent position and have them have no say at all. They are, in the end, a third of the country and do need to have their voices heard, however much we disagree with what they say.

    Alienating them will only serve to divide the country not to make it free sovergin and independent.

    I didn’t say give them everything, I said give them a representative portion, we got something, they get something etc etc etc, and perhaps then the country will survive.

    Don’t forget, however much we disagree with their opinion, they have a right to it, so let’s try put this animosity behind us (we’ve put worse behind us) and try to move forward in a different way.

    Pure obstinacy on both sides got us nowhere. They will learn in the end that neither the Syrians nor the Iranians really cared about them, and we, their fellow Lebanese, are the only ones who will be left in their corner one day.

  13. But offcourse the Iranians care about them,they send them weapons,they train them,they aid them financially,they luuuuve them,and dont forget their allegiance with the Syrian idiot regime.Lebanon cannot afford it right now.

  15. cia giving money to the fatah is ok, giving them military education in egypt is also ok,
    but iran giving hamas money – who were elected by the people of palestine -is bad.
    what kind of logic is that ? you know some lebanese are trying to find a scapegoat for their own misery, put your fingers always on iran , its so easy , but dont forget that lebanese people carry out the “orders” u think of night and day.
    check:
    http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/06-14/020.php
    (its in german)

  16. why does nobody consider the option that is always marketed for israel – an autonomy? hiz could have a 3rd of the country, in the south, and some autonomy over beirut’s shia neighborhoods, and the non-shia could have the rest.
    or is it impossible?

  17. To Sheikh Saad:

    There is no such thing as YOU without Saudi guarantees..
    There is no such thing as YOU without Saudi guarantees..
    There is no such thing as YOU without Saudi guarantees..

    signed,
    A Lebanese Shiite that you indubitably WILL take for granted.