What Next?

Why was Pierre Gemayyel’s funeral postponed from Wednesday to Thursday? The answer reveals what will happen in the next two days.

If I had to invest in Lebanon right now, I’d have no doubt where my money would go: Buses and people transportation.

The signs in Lebanon are abundant. Thursday will witness a day of mass people mobilization on a scale not seen since March 14, 2005, when an estimated 1.2 million people took to the streets (about the third of the population)

March 14’s Future TV is turbocharged: First came a two part series on the “dark” days of President Lahhoud, then, Saad Hariri started appearing on TV every 15 minutes, urging all the people who love Rafic Hariri to come to Gmayyel’s funeral on Thursday. Patriotic songs and TV generiques reminding the viewers of all the people who were recently killed, with the right amount of Lebanese flags and dramatic music to set the sought mood.
Then came a re-airing of a recent TV-program which had Gemayyel as a guest, after which came a documentary about the history of political assassinations in Lebanon.
The patriotic music plays again.

People are being mobilized, but where will all this energy be used?

Just listen to Nadim Gemayyel, the cousin of the deceased, who urged in today’s March 14 summit for the masses to march to the Presidential palace.