OPINION

It is not relevant anymore whether Michel Aoun’s party represents the majority of the Christian community or whether Hizbullah could massively mobilize its supporters on a very short notice. It is not even a necessary condition to have popular support for the alleged majority to remain in power.
On the other hand, the militants do not have a popularity issue. As they derive weight and authority from silencing ordinary helpless citizens, the militants could do without any popular support. In fact, they would be spreading fear and intimidating the public in order to achieve their assigned mission.
Only a miracle could save Lebanon from disaster. Miracles, though, do not emerge suddenly from thin air, or perhaps they do. The country needs a genuine third party that would try to mobilize one last massive demonstration, before people finally forget how to rally in big mass, with one sole objective, condemning violence and preventing militants of all sides from ever controlling their neighborhoods or deciding the country’s fate.
The Arab states are unable to bring about a peaceful resolution to the Lebanese crisis. The US officials do not encourage any form of national reconciliation that includes Hizbullah, which the Americans insist to keep it outside the official institutions at all levels. The loans promised in Paris III conference to Fouad Siniora’s Government will never arrive if democracy is not preserved.

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What more would it take to inflame a civil war in Lebanon?

The gravity of the escalating confrontation between the Lebanese government and the opposition is not only the result of stubbornness or the failure to recognize each other’s legitimacy, but also of the leaders’ narcissism that led them to believe they could contain the violence when it erupts.

Rice’s offer to ‘moderate’ Arabs, die or better commit suicide

The US Administration argues that an American failure in Iraq would be chaotic and detrimental not only to the American people but to the Arab States’ own internal stability too. The deliberate failure, though, is unavoidable, and the Bush Administration acts in apparent denial. However, when time comes for acknowledgement, there would be plenty of scapegoats, at home and abroad, to blame.

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New Iraqi Strategy: Recipe for fueling Sectarian wars and ethnic cleansing

The new US strategy in Iraq is a perfect recipe for fueling already escalating sectarian killings in Baghdad, adding the ethnic Kurdish element to the complex formula.
The plan stressed on the conditional support for Nouri Al-Maliki’s Government, upon which it claims to rely for success, but it did not disclose what the US intends to do in case of failure; Plan- B,  I believe, would soon unveil the US intensions.

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Loyalist and opposition groups in Arab internal disputes follow the same manuscript
Leaders of conflicting parties reflect egocentric interests

A reporter asked a powerful world leader from the 1930s era how he could know when the war would ignite. The answer came swift, when the parties become more articulate in calling for world peace. Today, in the Middle East, where all tensions and attentions are focused, the various political groups, parties and governments ever more advocate communal peace and national unity. I am certain this means civil wars and communal unrests on the widest scale are in the making or are about to erupt.

New phase in the war on terrorism unveil real objectives

Spreading anarchy and chaos in the Middle East was the interim objective of the first chapter in the so-called war on terrorism, and the warring parties, on both sides of the isle, have so far contributed to its successful conclusion. However, certain distracting maneuvers, aided by premeditated diplomatic efforts and biased media, misled the public opinion, compelling America’s friends and foes alike to believe that the US policy has failed.

Genuine reconciliation between the Arab and Muslim peoples and their “domestic oppressors” still probable
Many self-appointed reformists say reconciliation is impossible

Related topic: Brief historical background of Arab regimes

The life of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ended in a pitiful fashion, setting a serious ground for current presidents, kings and Emirs of most Arab and Muslim countries to reconsider and reflect on their foreign relations, style of domestic governance and positions vis-à-vis their respective oppressed and deprived populace.

إعدام صدام والقراءة المغلوطة
ذهلت وأصبت بالغثيان من جراء القراءات ذات الطابع الطائفي والموغلة في المذهبية لعملية إعدام صدام حسين. لا شك أن عملية الإعدام شابها بعض القصور، ووقعت في بعض الأخطاء سواء لجهة زمان إعدام صدام حسين، أو لجهة بعض المواجهات اللفظية التي جرت في المقصلة بين صدام حسين وبعض الحضور. ولكن هذه