Read carefully this interesting press review from Syria Comment on the deadlock in the Lebanese crisis to elect a president and tell me how many puppeteers can you count in these stories ?
The only sense we can make of such news is that Lebanese Politcians are puppets and seem happy with the fact, especially those of March 14th who let Bush and Sarkozy speak on their behalf. I have one objection however, the role of the puppeteer Syria is exaggerated by Sarkozy and Bush. That's to hide their own role as puppets masters.
I mean read the title at Syria Comment: 'Bush, Sarkozy, and Mualem face off'. That's hilarious because to make sense of this you have either to inflate Mualem or to deflate Bush and Sarkozy. And Mouallem seems to be more than happy to play the game.
Showing posts with label Lebanese presidential elections. Show all posts
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22.11.07
Lebanese presidential elections: Pro-US March 14th reject a last minute compromise offered by Aoun and the opposition
From UrShalim
My brother was asking me on the phone five minutes ago: 'who are we in Lebanon and what do we represent for major foreign powers and political brokers who have visited us from five continents repeatedly the last four weeks in an attempt to reach a consensus between the Lebanese nonmajority that is Sanyura's government and the majority opposition that are Aoun-Amal-Hezbollah ?'
I don't have the answer. The only thing I know is that it has been like this in Lebanon since the fall of the ottoman empire; foreign powers set the political agenda. The other thing I know is that Lebanese have been always divided between pro-western and pan-Arab sympathies. And the last thing I know is that Politicians in lebanon have always opened the door wide to foreign intervention.
And now it seems that the destiny of Lebanon and the decisions of its March 14th non majority are being crafted in the US: Rice rejects compromise to resolve Lebanese crisis. Read : She wants Birth Pangs.
I think that in no way the US is ready for a large scale confrontation that may result from a new lebanese civil war now in the ME. But they have set Iraq as an example of what they are capable of and they are trying to capitalise on the Iraqi tragedy to instill fear. Because if they are really ready for another confrontation, with the Iraqi disaster going on, it will be the end of US foreign policy in the ME. And I think if they are really willing to go for a large scale confrontation, they shouldn't have bothered offering some carrots to Syria, like inviting it to the Annapolis conference, in order to isolate Syria from Hezbollah and Iran. Aoun and Hezbollah shouldn't be bothered, no matter the outcome in terms of Lebanese presidentiel elections, time is playing on their side.
Update, Friday November 23rd, 23:45, local time, Lebanon
Hours before his term's end at midnight tonight, president Lahoud leaves the country in care of the Lebanese army.
Read here an English translation of the adress presidential candidate and one of the opposition leaders, anti-Syrian general Michel Aoun, gave to a Lebanese TV station.
My brother was asking me on the phone five minutes ago: 'who are we in Lebanon and what do we represent for major foreign powers and political brokers who have visited us from five continents repeatedly the last four weeks in an attempt to reach a consensus between the Lebanese nonmajority that is Sanyura's government and the majority opposition that are Aoun-Amal-Hezbollah ?'
I don't have the answer. The only thing I know is that it has been like this in Lebanon since the fall of the ottoman empire; foreign powers set the political agenda. The other thing I know is that Lebanese have been always divided between pro-western and pan-Arab sympathies. And the last thing I know is that Politicians in lebanon have always opened the door wide to foreign intervention.
And now it seems that the destiny of Lebanon and the decisions of its March 14th non majority are being crafted in the US: Rice rejects compromise to resolve Lebanese crisis. Read : She wants Birth Pangs.
I think that in no way the US is ready for a large scale confrontation that may result from a new lebanese civil war now in the ME. But they have set Iraq as an example of what they are capable of and they are trying to capitalise on the Iraqi tragedy to instill fear. Because if they are really ready for another confrontation, with the Iraqi disaster going on, it will be the end of US foreign policy in the ME. And I think if they are really willing to go for a large scale confrontation, they shouldn't have bothered offering some carrots to Syria, like inviting it to the Annapolis conference, in order to isolate Syria from Hezbollah and Iran. Aoun and Hezbollah shouldn't be bothered, no matter the outcome in terms of Lebanese presidentiel elections, time is playing on their side.
Update, Friday November 23rd, 23:45, local time, Lebanon
Hours before his term's end at midnight tonight, president Lahoud leaves the country in care of the Lebanese army.
Read here an English translation of the adress presidential candidate and one of the opposition leaders, anti-Syrian general Michel Aoun, gave to a Lebanese TV station.
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