I Won’t Believe It Till I See It
The fact that the whole world is talking about an eventual Syrian embassy in Lebanon doesn’t make it any less of a fantasy.
The international news outlets are talking of this as a “mutual” breakthrough, as if Lebanon somehow sacrificed to accept having a Syrian embassy in Beirut.
All the Lebanese people ever wanted from Syria was a recognition, a concrete recognition, that Lebanon is a sovereign country like say, Jordan, Saudi Arabia or Turkey. But the problem all along was that both the Syrian government and the Syrian people believed in their heart of hearts that Lebanon was somehow stolen from them during French colonial rule, and that we somehow yearn to the embrace of our historic mother ship.
The Assads have always attempted a gradualist “redressing” of that “historic error”, but to placate intense Lebanese and international resistance, they have always paid lip service, like they’re doing now in Paris, to Lebanon’s independence and sovereignty.
If they stick to their usual habit, they will eventually find some way of weaseling out of their commitments after the world turns its eyes away from the matter. This usually happens after the Syrians pocket the benefits of their empty promises. Remember, there is a good reason why the Germans are skeptical.
Of course, things could be different this time, but my hopes aren’t set too high. Mr. Sarkozy and the media can talk all they want about the Syrians opening an embassy in Lebanon, but as far as I’m concerned, I’ll only believe it if I see it with my own eyes.
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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 agree with you Mustapha assad will definitely weasle out of it the mn he can and he already started making pretexts to stall.
Wasn’t selling out Lebanon always part of the strategy to get Syria to cut the umbilical cord with Iran, put Hezbollah in a cage, purge Damascus of its terrorist lowlife residents, and squeeze Hamas to be a bit more accomodating? I guess we’re going to find out.
I don’t know. I have faith in our new president and I believe he can make this happen. Assad is being interviewed left and right and I doubt he will make a u-turn with the spotlight fixed on him. If he wants the Euro-Med agreement signed by the end of the year, he’s going to have to cough up an embassy.
Agree! Syrian regime is treating this like they are in a bizzare. They want to see what they can get for each tiny step like:
- Saying that they will have an embassy.
- Saying that they will start talking with the Lebanese government to establish an embassy.
and so on!
So they open an embassy in Lebanon.
Big deal. Since when do embassies mean that sovereignty will be respected?
Building an embassy doesnt change the facts that the syrians always consider lebanon a part of syria.
Iraq had an embassy before they invaded kuwait, and they always considered kuwait a part of iraq.
As long as the baath regime is in power, lebanon will alway considered as a syrian state.
I think the problem is no body asked the Syrians where the embassy should be. For the Syrians, the Syrian embassy should be in Syria!
Get real. Do you REALLY want a Syrian embassy in Lebanon? what the heck for? to get the implied approval of a murderous regime that Lebanon is a separate state? they are bandits, who cares about their approval? Lebanon should refuse a Syrian embassy until Syria democratizes. Don’t hold your breath though.
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