Bechara Charbel wrote in “The Call of the Nation”:
“Whether the Saudi-Iranian agreement succeeds in launching a constructive regional cooperation path or fails to take off, what came before the surprise of March 10 will not be similar to what comes following it. The test of intentions is short, and the implementation of the agenda does not bear any ambiguity. Yemen is a first test, and “it must be Sanaa, no matter how long the journey.
In Lebanon, the agreement means a lot to us. Not only because it reduces tension between two influential regional states, but also because the title of “non-interference in the affairs of other states” paves the way for the states of the region to restore a normal situation that they have been lacking since the “Islamic Republic of Iran” decided that its borders are narrower than its aspirations, and that its ideology is a project that transcends the sovereignty and fabric of nations. sectarian.
Both parties have an interest in the agreement. However, Tehran sought it insistently for a number of reasons, not on top of which are the sanctions, nor the fall of 60 percent of the people below the poverty line, nor the awakening of conscience resulting from the transformation of the four capitals that Soleimani trumpeted to control them into hotbeds of instability, but especially that the high cost of its regional ambition and the proven failure Exporting the “model”, not to mention the shaking of the regime’s ideological and moral legitimacy following the Khomeinist state turned into a naked force that feared a girl’s hair and punished dissent with death.
It is an opportunity for Lebanon and for “Hezbollah” in particular to draw an exceptional lesson from leaving it on the sidelines of the agreement, and making sure that the ownership of 100,000 missiles turns it, when the hour strikes, in the interests of the “guardian”, from a genie who is reckoned with inside and in the region a thousand accounts into a riotous pawn on the board of the big players. .
The worst that Hezbollah can resort to is waiting instead of seizing the moment to engage as a weighing party and form a lever to restore the state and its obvious functions, similar to the states of all people. It is an engagement that begins with the conviction that the entire axis project has become past, and its project for the Shiite community that transcends the national state and the ceiling of the constitution reached its climax with the military intervention in Syria and the path of internal bullying that culminated in the President of the Republic, Michel Aoun. Perhaps the “party” must admit that today, and before the “Beijing shock”, it is on a downward curve that will not be braked by the delivery of Franjieh to the Baabda Palace, nor by attempts to revive the corrupt system with doses of the promised Qana gas, or by “state assets” that are threatened with supply in the slave market to compensate depositors.
Hezbollah wasted on itself and on Lebanon two historic opportunities, either of which would have spared the country a misfortune. The party bears the primary responsibility because it has the upper hand and the decision.
The opportunity arose following the liberation in the year 2000, when it was at the height of its strength, glow, and local and Arab appreciation, but it considered the achievement a gain for the tutelage system and the axis of resistance that must be spent on the strength of the country’s partners and legitimacy.
As for the second, it was in his moments of weakness, following the assassination of Rafik Hariri. At that time, he preferred to raise the ceiling of confrontation instead of bowing to the “truth” and the unifying state. Then it was what happened on May 7 and what followed, and from the black shirts and their accessories, until we ended in the era of no-state and the lawless arena and bankruptcy instead of the sovereign state of law, and the system prevailed instead of the system.
It is a final test. The test is one of two options, either to insist on nominating Franjieh to pursue the approach of nihilism and resistance to reform, or to rush to a third, salvage option in the interest of all of Lebanon. A new bet, even though the citizen was bitten from the hole over and over once more!