“Lebanon Debate” – Nawal Nasr
His Excellency the President of the Republic said it with a full mouth, “Lebanon is not Iran.” Then the Persian followers went crazy and began to betray him, throwing many of their always ready metaphors against everyone who says, “We only want the state.” It’s strange what we’re living through. It is strange and strange that Bee’ah carries – repeatedly – her age and rushes to a tent in a Lebanese spot that believes in the Lebanese state and nothing else. Its members – or at least many of them – brag about “the party and its weapons,” and every time the goblet hits the jar, they move to protect the state. Really strange logic. “Hezbollah” recruited an environment in the name of the entire sect. And those who did not follow his desires, he called them “Shiites of the embassies.” Luqman Slim was one of them. And he was killed. The “yellow party” faded in color and presence and collapsed with incredible speed. It was the one that thought for a moment that it was the “ordering party,” raising the finger, the tone, and the silencer. It is the fastest “party” to fall after it was an icon for many Arabs in 2006, and it became a devil in 2026. It is forbidden. The good people are honest and pay the price.
Let us follow developments in 2026. Hezbollah’s environment is in woe, even if its children smoke a lot of hookah wherever they go. It is their only refuge. We walk slowly next to the pial, and we see what looks like clouds in the air and we inhale the smells of honeyed tobacco flavored with two apples. It is said that the tanbak just arrived from Iran. Did the leaders ask why those who move from one place to another carry the hookah before medicine, children’s milk, identity cards, and photos of their age? Psychiatrist Dr. Samir Jamous gives an explanation: “When people suffer from great anxiety, they resort to one of three things: tranquilizers, alcohol, or drugs of all kinds.” Tobacco is a sedative that has a narcotic effect that makes the person who breathes it forget a little, perhaps at ease.
The votes are rising again: The “party” is preparing for a march like that in 2007, the recurrence of which worries Walid Jumblatt today. It is said that the 2007 scenario will be repeated in 2026. The “party” is now encroaching on the entrances to the mountain and renting – or buying – in large numbers in Sidon and the heights of Keserwan and Jbeil, and it has gatherings in the northern Matn that no one knows what is in them. This means that in moments he would have been able to arrest all of Lebanon. It is a scenario that its members were discussing in 2007, the day the party revolted and closed down downtown Beirut. Today he is “hardan” to the core. The scenario is ready.
Every day there is a new death, in large numbers, of entire families and grieving mothers. We bow to all those who died. However, there is a question that persists in the minds of many: Why does sympathy (unfortunately) appear more when the deaths of Christians (and Sunnis and Druze) occur than when the children of the “party” environment die? Let’s ask psychology. Dr. Samir Jamous says, “In psychology, we see ourselves in the pain of others. When Egénie’s entire family was killed (Tony’s mother, Taodosia, and the wife of Dr. James Karam), to name a few, those who knew her and those who did not know her cried. This is because we always see ourselves in the victim, in her place, living her feelings, and projecting her condition onto us. We call this state empathy (empathy). She did not choose war. She and her family did not choose martyrdom. Whereas the mother who stands next to the corpses of her family members does.” She says: They are martyrs for the sake of (..) We do not project her condition onto us. She chose us, but we move on, rejecting all these free forms of death. This is in psychology.
“Resistance” is beautiful. Christians from the beginning have been resistant. However, when death becomes free and unequal, it is no longer useful. Logic says: Let’s look for solutions. Let us reduce death and destruction. However, what we are experiencing today is based on illogicality.
We have reached a stage where it has become difficult to distinguish between Shiites and the “party” environment. Note that in reality discrimination is imposed. We have reached the point of fear of every Shiite who comes to live among other sects. How difficult it is for the children of the Shiite sect to feel that they are outcasts. This is what other sects do not want, but the party generalized it: This is my environment. He took them “in bulk” as he wished. This – we repeat – is not true. Shiites are friends, acquaintances and good people. But the use of the entire sect is required by the “party” and even by Iran, which sought to use all the Lebanese people in its project, and when it failed, it said, “We defend the Shiites and the oppressed.” Who asked her to do that? These are truly Lebanese. The Lebanese state alone is supposed to defend all its people.
We are in “great anxiety” about what is coming. Samir Jamous says, “All Lebanese people live with forms of anxiety as a result of fear of the unknown and psychological pressure (stress), and anxiety is treated either by eliminating its direct causes or with tranquilizers. Chronic anxiety that is not treated leads to depression. Every body deals with it – and with everything that is abnormal – differently.” However, there are those who say that “resistance” is a right and this is normal? Jamous answers, “These people were raised on “martyrdom” as a divine religious belief, just like those who believe in reincarnation (for which there is no scientific explanation). They consider this natural, and minds in this case may not be able to fight what we consider unnatural. In the life of the majority of a group, they determine what is normal even if it is not natural. Today, when we prepare a personality study, we conduct it on a hundred people to see what is normal for them. If we ask them about something that is abnormal They answered with the same answers: “This matter becomes normal for them. Normal is what the majority creates through a belief that they believe in. If there is someone who writes with the left hand, we call him unnatural, because the majority writes with the right hand, so it seems difficult to rely on minds in the same environment to think and come back to their senses.”
Another thing is the feeling of survivor guilt or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). When a raid falls and everyone dies except one, he may feel this disorder. This is what we see among the soldiers or fighters. What we see today is a group of unrest that is accumulating and leaving Lebanon floating on “Asfouriyah.”
We are waiting for the unknown, and only the “World Cup” may save us from it, which may be postponed – as they say – from the war. He postpones it and does not cancel it. We are in a very crucial stage in which everyone is tired and in need of a lot of logic. But, unfortunately, those who say that they decide on war and peace have lost the logic that makes everything permissible. May God have mercy on Lebanon and its people.
