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Sigrid Kaag and Amos Hochstein …. Why?

Written by Nasser Kandil,

During the twenty four hours, the Lebanese have received two signs from two different resources about the position of their country in the coming considerations in the region, in conjunction with their reception similar signs from the same resources about the type and the justification of this position, to wonder about the justification of timing and whether it is the time for the major shifts?

The Lebanese have heard Sigrid Kaag the representative of the United Nations saying during her tour with the Minister of Defense and the commander of the army in Arsal that Arsal is a contact line for Lebanon and Europe against the terrorism, so they have wondered about the secret of her acceptance the call of visit which the pre-approval of it is often a condition for its sending, unless otherwise agreed to meet the desire of visit, they have wondered as well about the secret of referring to Lebanon’s location from Arsal in protecting the European security, which constitutes the heart of the global security. the United Nations know that despite making the army a title of the visit and a destination for the promised support but the separation between the steadfastness of the army in Arsal as a branch and between the origin which is the war that is waged by Hezbollah against Al-Qaeda Organization, its fighting, and its achieved victories in the Barren areas of Al Qalamoun is impossible.

Before the twenty four hours have been spent Amos Hochstein the US Deputy Secretary of State for the international Energy Affairs arrived to Beirut to manage the mediation between Lebanon and Israel, its essence is the exploitation of each of the two governments for the oil and gas fields in the remote areas of the conflicts lines, in order to leave the opportunity for relieving solutions, and not creating a panic situation between the interested companies of investment in these fields, talking about investing hundreds of millions of dollars. The Lebanese have heard Hochstein talking about the technical, financial, and security details of the issue which it seemed that he knows accurately about it, so they wondered about two things; why now, and whether the time of investments has started, and since when Washington is moving formally to be a motivator and an encouraging for tuning Lebanon into an oil county, after it was a hindrance, reluctant and an obstacle? so why does the rationality suddenly affect the American official and makes him talking about the risk of conflicts, his intention is the weak country Lebanon while Israel is the attacking power in the region and which America granted it all the reasons of strength to do whatever it wants and attacks whom and when it wants especially when if it is related to oil, the creature which shares with it the love of the Americans and their concerns, so the Lebanese remember that it is the time of deterrence which the resistance and its striking strength Hezbollah imposed.

The Lebanese have heard and seen, some of them have said that it is a good omen that shows a supportive side and an admission of the right of Lebanon in its fighting in the northeast front, its rights in the southwest,  and the admission that Lebanon in the time of resistance in the northeast is a power that the world feels of it against terrorism, while in the southwest there is a considered power in the world of gas, and  that the end of the tunnel may approach the light aperture, while some Lebanese neither see nor hear, because their insight is dimmed with hatred and denial, so how does the opened-eyes blinded-insight person see?

Translated by Lina Shehadeh, 

2015-07-03 | عدد القراءات 2025