EXCERPT IS ALL OUT WAR INEVITABLE IN LEBANON?
October 8, 2024Is an ALL-OUT-WAR in Lebanon INEVITABLE?!
The nation’s fate is unknown – will it be the next GAZA or will world leaders call an end to Israel’s violence, aggression, destruction and oppression?
We don’t know and I have lost all faith in the alleged global institutions, laws and leaders that were supposed to save the victim from the aggressor. In fact we have witnessed the opposite.
What we do know is that Lebanon is in turmoil with more than 2000 dead and 10,000 injured in less than a week, and more than a million innocent men, women and children who have been displaced after being forced to flee their homes in the south, Bekaa and Beirut due to the relentless IDF bombardment.
To help make sense of this, the Arab American Institute put together a panel of experts, which I was privileged to be a part of, to discuss the developments in Lebanon.
This is a short excerpt from the full interview which you can find in my bio.
English Script:
James Zoghby: Beirut is being bombed regularly, and it’s like, this is the beginning and end of everything. We’re getting, so little news, from there, other than missiles hitting here, missiles hitting here.
Imad Harb: Israel has free skies. It can bomb anywhere, and nobody is stopping Israel from bombing anywhere. It’s been bombing the South, since October, 8th 2023 and the reports are that the border towns are all decimated.
Paula Yaacoubian: No one imagined the scenario that happened and that it’s going to unfold like that so quickly before our eyes, and I think right now we might be also on another level, like an all-out war, because now Iran launched missiles to Israel, and all of us we have heard the threats from Netanyahu. So maybe it won’t even stay in Lebanon. It’s a very big, big catastrophe.
Daizy Gedeon: People are desperate at the moment in Lebanon. Not only that, the diaspora around the world are extremely desperate about what they can do. And right now, we have to ask Paula and the members of Parliament. One of the questions I’d like to ask is, what can the politicians do now? Because we do need a president. If they claim, and there’s so many political parties in Lebanon who claim that they have no way of changing the government or improving the situation because Hezbollah have had a control over the political system and the security system in Lebanon. Well, right now Hezbollah has been weakened. It’s in the weakest state it’s been in 30 years. Is it not ripe now for the Lebanese parliamentarians, all of these parties that are in the opposition, to come together and demand a parliamentary session to elect a president and start moving down that road towards, you know, independence and sovereignty and call on the Lebanese Army to install and implement resolution 1701?
