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Harriri: Freedom Flotillas might come to break the Lebanese siege on Palestinian Refugee Camps!

  • Friday, 25 June 2010
  • Fouad GM
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  • I came across this article published by As-Safir ten days ago amidst debate over the civil and economic rights of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Like my previous blog, Elie Al-Farzali notes that the Palestinian issue restores and reinstates the sectarian alignments of the civil war vis-à-vis those of contemporary Lebanese politics.

    Lebanese politics today is domintaed by a Harriri-led March 14 coalition of (largely) Sunni Muslim and Christian forces and a Hezbollah-led March 8 coalition of (largely) Shi'a Muslim and Christian forces and other break-away factions here and there. Discussions of the rights of Palestinians in Lebanon however gave rise to a new-old alignments: Muslims patronising the rights of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (for a wide array of interest- or ethically-driven reason!) vis-à-vis a Christian camp still suffering the paranoias of majority-turned-minority status and the fear of any further demographic changes that reduce them to minority status even further.

    In other words, March 14 and March 8 Muslims seem to have agreed on patronising the rights of Palestinian refugees whereas March 14 and March 8 Christians seem to have retracted once again into their cocoon: the paranoia and isolationism emblematic of "Political Maronit-ism" so to speak. Once again, Christians rally behind slogans of 'fear' and Muslims behind notions of 'injustice' - much like the outbreak of the civil in 1975??

    In this parliamentary debate PM Sa'ad Harriri warns the Lebanese that "Freedom Flotillas [like those that challenged the siege of Gaza] might soon sail to the Lebanese shores to break the siege imposed on refugee camps."

    Although a reflection of the Sunni community's continued sympathy with Palestinians, one asks: why is Harriri so concerned with Palestinian refugees and the siege of their camps? Isn't the dodgy relationship between the Future Movement and Fath Al-Islam in Nahr El-Bared one of the reasons for the irrational and fascist war against the camp? Didn't Harriri and then-PM Fuad Siniora endorse the war on the camp and its total destruction? Does the current Harriri government and the Harriri-controlled internal security not enforce a strict embargo on Nahr El-Bared? And finally, does Harriri not benefit from the economic destruction and the neediness of Nahr El-Bared to boost the economy of his poorest constitutents in Akkar?


    الحريري: «أساطيل حرية» ستأتي إلى لبنان لفك الحصار عن أبناء المخيمات

    «حقوق الفلسطينيين» تقسم «الحلفاء»: فرز خطير بين المؤيدين... و«الخائفين»!

    أعضاء المجلس الأعلى لمحاكمة الرؤساء والوزراء يؤدون اليمين الدستورية (علي علوش)

    هي الدائرة المفرغة نفسها، تلك التي تدور فيها حقوق اللاجئين الفلسطينيين في لبنان.
    كل ما يتعلق بأبسط مقومات العيش من طبابة أو أرث أو عمل يغرق في مستنقع الخلافات الداخلية التاريخية.
    عند طرح الموضوع الفلسطيني تطفو الطائفية فوراً على السطح. يخاف المسيحيون بمختلف تياراتهم وأحزابهم، غريزيا، على وجودهم وكيانهم، بالرغم من أنهم غالباً ما يبررون رفضهم هذه الحقوق بالتلطي وراء فزاعة التوطين.

    الموضوع الفلسطيني قدّم صورة لبنانية خطيرة انقسم خلالها الحلفاء: مسلمو 14 آذار التقوا مع مسلمي 8 آذار والمعارضة. ومسيحيو 14 آذار التقوا مع مسيحيي 8 آذار والمعارضة. أما النتيجة، فتشير إلى فرز خطير أعاد التذكير بالحرب الاهلية. نصبت في ارجاء المجلس جبهتان واضحتان بمتاريس جاهزة للمناوشات انضوت تحت عنوان فاقع وفجّ: المسلمون مع الحقوق المدنية والمسيحيون خائفون رافضون؟!


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