Bullying The UN

Saying that a chapter 7 resolution will cause a Lebanese civil war is clueless and wrong.

Even so-called professors have now joined the litany of doomsayers with sound-bites as colorful as “Lebanon is Jacques Chirac’s Iraq”. People who are protecting mass killers have taken to argue that a forceful intervention from the UN will mean another civil war in Lebanon, but is that really the case?

People here are so weary of a civil war that it’s ridiculously inconceivable that normal people will pick up arms just because ‘the resistance’ (to what?) says it has “a few observations” on a tribunal. Observations that it doesn’t want to share with anyone mind you.

It is obvious that Hezbollah is protecting its only arms passageway in Syria, and was probably bullied by the Syrians to stop the Tribunal at any cost, but to say that the Lebanese will kill each other to protect the Syrian dictator is simply an insult to the entire Lebanese people, Hezbollah supporters included.

To all Lebanese who know Lebanon very well, do you really, honestly believe that Aounists will pick up arms because the tribunal (which they insist on passing) will be passed on a chapter 7 resolution?

In fact, I would argue that NOT passing the tribunal will be a precursor to civil war. Simply because all anti-Syrians (at least half the population) will stop feeling safe and will behave accordingly.

A chapter 7 resolution will indeed spark bombs in Lebanon, but they won’t be bombs planted by Lebanese for other Lebanese, they will be the last squeals of revenge from a dying regime in Damascus.