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Follow-up [THREAD] on the Beirut blast and political ramifications, hopefully a little shorter than the first & focusing on the aftermath.
In summary: 2005 isolated the resistance from their Sunni compatriots; now 2020 seeks to isolate the resistance from their Christian ones.
In summary: 2005 isolated the resistance from their Sunni compatriots; now 2020 seeks to isolate the resistance from their Christian ones.
Who suffered most visibly from this blast? The Christian neighbourhoods of Beirut have been front-and-centre. We've seen scene after scene of Christian funeral ceremonies, name after name of Christian martyrs, lives lost in the blast. May God ease their pain and suffering.
The Lebanese Christian community is in mourning, more than any other (even if every single Lebanese person was affected, one way or another). These deep, real emotions are ripe, however, for the scavenging wolves to prey upon, and re-direct.
Before we go any further, let us keep sight of one thing. People are angry: rightfully so. But people are angry, specifically, at Hezbollah. Why? There is not a single plausible way in which Hezbollah are to blame than any other party. But anger is aimed at them, all the same.
This is no accident, but the work of the media, stirring people into a frenzy through the repetition of fact-free sound-bites devoid of any substance. This is part of the same build-up taking place since 2005, and also echoes how anger in 2005 was itself re-directed at Hezbollah.
2005 saw the assassination of a Sunni figure, which was blamed on the resistance with zero evidence (and eventually evidence to the contrary). 2020 now sees an “assassination” of Christian Beirut, which again, is being blamed on the resistance. Again, without a shred of evidence.
So just as 2005 saw the first real division between Lebanese Sunnis and Shia, and began turning the Sunnis of Lebanon against Hezbollah, now 2020 seeks to isolate Hezbollah from their remaining Christian support base, namely Aoun's FPM.
This is not the first act in this plan, but the most visible, obvious and devastating. In the elections of 2018, the right-wing Christian pro-Zionist parties (Kataeb and LF) took advantage of growing right-wing sentiment to win over FPM supporters.
This was later exacerbated during the protests in October of last year, where Kataeb & LF used the unrest and misery of the Lebanese people to direct national feeling against the resistance, and in which the turmoil was immediately turned against Hezbollah.
The suffering felt by the Christian community now as a result of the Beirut explosion makes, unfortunately, for the perfect climate in which to turn the emotionally-charged sentiments of the Lebanese (and Christians especially) against Hezbollah.
Again, no need to even prove any responsibility on Hezbollah's part- the media frenzy of the past decade and a half has prepared the groundwork so aptly, that any catastrophe can be blamed on Hezbollah without anyone so much as batting an eye.
The allies of the Lebanese resistance grow thin, and its isolation continues to be imposed through the use of media, dirty politics and comprador politicians and bought-out party leaders.
The immediate effect of this can be seen manifesting already as protests begin- not against the corruption in the government or the negligence that led to this tragedy, but squarely and bare-facedly against the Lebanese resistance. The political game begins.
But this is just one side of the game. They are not the only side with plans, not the only side playing the game. Sayyid Nasrallah spoke yesterday with calm, clarity and responsibility, and set the tone for the stages to come.
Above all, the Sayyid's political message was clear: they can plot, and they can plan, but they will fail.
It was almost as if he was saying one thing: this is not 2005, as badly as they want it to be.
And that is all we need to know.
It was almost as if he was saying one thing: this is not 2005, as badly as they want it to be.
And that is all we need to know.
وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُ اللَّهُ ۖ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ
