The assassination of the young pro-western leader Pierre Gemayel is not so linear as it could seem, and for sure it deserves a reflection or an investigation about the playing variables.
The journalist, the opinionist, facing an explosive situation like this, should observe the environment with always critical eyes.
First the Truth, that's what i read on a poster inside an old car.
First the Truth, it's what reminds and strongly asks the clocks on Hariri's mega-poster in Beiruti streets, counting how many days are passed since the assassination, still looking for the Truth.
But all the mainstream medias i read or watched (TVs, newspapers, magazines) feel to be part of a Bible conflict that they cannot avoid: the media information should be experience of doubt, always askig WHY, always trying to understand which are the involved parts, their story, the history, all the factors that can really make light over the reality, destroying platitudes and stereotypes. But today, in Europe, and not only here, reading a newspapers equals to going inside a dark tunnel.
Understanding Hezbollah since 2005 to date, through Hariri's assassination, passing through last war against Israel and recent assassination of the anti-syrian Pierre Gemayel, can help us to find new point of view over the lebanese question more than any other lined-up declaration of the current media.
Do know that Gemayel's assassination, HA's opponent, that Israel, USA and lebanese pro-western have assigned to Syria, Iran and Nasrallah, although this one immediately has condemned the attempt, declaring his non-involvement, happens just in the moment in which Hezbollah enjoys a large consent, trying to concretize that by a political engagement against the lebanese electoral system (confessional and not-democratic), but at the same time this could sign the party's decline.
Before Israel's attack, the Hezbollah movement was in a weak position and internationally isolated, especially due to the hard doubt of an involvement of Syria in Rafik Hariri's assassination, a very rich banker, sunni, pro-western and anti-syrian, symbol of the Unity of Lebanon and owner of several activities and communications media. After that, following similar demonstrations in Ukraine and Georgia, a crowded rally of one million of lebaneses asked Syrian army withdrawal, in Lebanon since 1972.
Among several polemics and disputations, the investigation were assigned to the german "discussed" judge Mehlis, which had already a lead role in other cases of terrorysm: at the end, he blamed Syria as responsible of the terroristic attack, and asked to continue and deepen the investigation.
For sure, one of the consequences of that bloody murder was a closer approach of Lebanon to the Western, and a wider local opposition to Hezbollah, Syria and Iran.
Given that, the summer 2006 war was an incredible unique chance for Israel to get his enemy farer. But we all know and have seen how wrong was this premise and forecast. Only thick-headed minds could pretend to win a group of people by bombing the civil population...
In August, after last israeli attack, Lebanon appeared as mortified country, consciously wiped-out in his infrastructures, in his economy, and even in his official army positions...On the ash of a Country that the international community and, substantially, the Siniora's government as well, didn't know to protect, in this mortified Country with an heritage of millions of non-exploded cluster bombs, with a drammatically serious doubt of not-conventional weapons used (one word: u-r-a-n-i-u-m), there was the seed of National Unity, Together We Will Stand, among the death of adults, children (Qana 2),shiites, christians and sunnis...
Between frustration and powerlessness feelings, while the Siniora's government received just solidarity from western leaders, among people a force was growing up: Hezbollah. HA has collected the spread consents of all of those felt in israeli attack, meditated in advance, a disproportion and contempt of all the Lebaneses.
Recently, while government was deciding to start the cooperation about Hariri assassination's investigation, HA has retired his ministries at the end of October, which leads government to a weird situation of stalemate, resetting to zero the shiite component inside the government; the Lebanese Constitution establishes a number of deputies proportional to the religious confessions, based on a census 20years old, and makes illegal a government where such proportions and balance are not respected.
In such difficult and extremely confused context, there's Pierre Gemayel's assassination, maronite, falangiste, son and nephew of important lebanese politicians of the previous war (in that period Israel ally, today more close to Western).
Another wrong-move of HA/syria with a clumsy, silly act to get more political power or an effort of "someone" unknown to get rid of HA? The distance between such position is not so far, and the answer is not easy and immediate as it could seem.
The present article contains just impressions of no-party blogger, aimed to call forth answers by asking questions. Walk on the streets and ask always why.
No matter how cloudy is the sky, Lebanon shall return
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