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 [...]

Kudos To You Mr. President

The Lebanese President deserves praise and respect for his own choice of Ministers.
I don’t often post fawning pieces on this blog, but I also don’t often find many politicians who make decisions to further the interest of the country before their own.
The Doha agreement allotted three ministerial positions to Mr. Suleiman, yet instead of installing [...]

Haggling Over The Election Law

Basing the electoral law on temporary alliances is ill advised and unsustainable.
There are rumors that the Lebanese parties in Doha are trying to carve a self-serving electoral law. It is being said for instance that Mr. Aoun is proposing Beirut divisions that allow the Shiaas to vote for the Christians and that Mr. Hariri would [...]

Obama And Hezbollah

The Democratic presidential candidate revisits his previous statement on the events in Lebanon.
When Hezbollah begun its punitive actions against the Seniora government, Sentaor Barack Obama released a statement that Left many Lebanese bloggers unimpressed. Abu Kais spoke for many when he wrote:
Oh the time we wasted by fighting Hizbullah all those years with rockets, invasions [...]

Beware Of Al-Quaeda

All sides should try their best not to portray this as a defeat for Lebanon’s Sunnis.

Humiliated on Hezbollah TV. (Photo Credit: Yahoo!)
As Hezbollah moved into (Sunni) west Beirut and took on the moderate Future Movement, many will be tempted to portray this as a defeat for Lebanon’s Sunnis. That would be bad ideas whose repercussions [...]

Patience Will Triumph

The best thing the government and the majority can do now is be cool and wait it out.
Let them play. They’ll get bored soon (Photo credit: Reuters)
Remember back in December 2006 when Hezbollah took to the streets with a large amount of people for the stated purpose of toppling Mr. Seniora’s government? The Prime Minister [...]

What Kind Of Mufti Is Jouzou?

The Mufti of Mount Lebanon is a foul-mouthed demagogue who needs to be demoted as soon as possible.
This must be one of the saddest, most irresponsible spectacles I’ve witnessed in Lebanese politics lately: The Mufti of Mount-Lebanon emerges from a meeting with the Sunni leader of the largest parliamentary block, to denounce “Shiaa intervention in [...]

Sleiman On The Lebanese-Syrian Relationship

Does the presumptive Lebanese president really believe that the solution with Syria is “mutual trust building”?
Mr. Michel Sleiman, the man who until further notice is our next president, said yesterday that the way to solve the Lebanese Syrian “problem” is by more “Mutual trust building” (Via today’s Albalad).
Mr. Sleiman could be pandering to the pro-Syrians, [...]