Before & After Pictures. Opposition’s Turnout.
Yesterday, the opposition wanted to celebrate 1 year of their occupation of central Beirut by staging a celebration and hoping to attract as much people as possible. As Annahar’s cheeky camera shows, that wasn’t even remotely the case. For reasons ranging from loss of traction to Sleiman’s unexpected candidacy, the turnout was embarrassingly bleak.
The opposition’s demonstration on December 2006 (BBC) :
The opposition’s demonstration on December 2007 (Annahar) :
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Hello, my name is Mustapha and I blog in The Beirut Spring about Lebanese society and politics. I started in February 2005 after the killing of P.M. Rafik Hariri.
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I think Lebanese are sick of the situation! A country is being hijacked, frozen and threatened of chaos by a group of fanatics with loyalty to outsiders (Hizb-Iran), a group headed by a person with a mental disorder (Aoun) and other small groups who miss the privileges that they were getting during the Syrian occupation!
On a somehow related note, why are Berri and Fadlallah outraged about Feltman “interference”, and they are ok with the much more flagrant interferences, dominations and suffocations from Syria and Iran?
I agree with GK. Lebanese have been dragged for 2 years. We’re tired and just want to go hack to our daily work, challenges, jobs and outings without the slightest interference of politics or the governent in our daily lives.
Nasrallah and Aoun should tell their supporters to leave the premises tidy up, and sparkling clean and head back to focusing their attention on rebuilding Al-Dahyeh and southern Lebanon.
Let’s hope that part of the Sleiman deal is that the sit-in has to end asap.
Sleiman, when elected, should mainly make effort to stop assasination againt March 14th leaders. As well Army Intelligence should activly work in that order.
As for opposition, wish I could offer them One Way Ticket to Tehran, Asfahan, Shiraz and Qum… as their terminal home and mainland.
I wonder how many people ex-M14 can gather now. I won’t move my ass for them anymore that’s for sure.
Why should there be any more assassinations when the reason for the assassinations has now ended?
You will now have all that wonderful, and safe “stability”.
Please remember in the future that this is what you “wanted”.