United We Stand??

“We don’t feel the war here, and I hope we never do, as it is not really our war, it is Hizbullah’s war with Israel,” said Rossana, who like many interviewed in Broummana, did not support Hizbullah, and blamed them for “dragging Lebanon into an unnecessary war.” “I feel sorry for the people in the South, but I am not going to stop my life for them,” she said. Read full article here

“These Hizbullah people are killing the whole country,” said Tony Terz, a Catholic and a native of eastern Beirut who now lives in Los Angeles. “I’m with Israel all the way. Let them clean up this mess.” Read full article here

If religious group A cannot even muster some compassion or even feign sympathy for the people of the South because they belong to religious group B then what does that say about the people of Lebanon and more importantly about the future of Lebanon?

I believe that without unity, we stand no chance: not again Israel, not against Syria… If we expect the people in the South to reject Syrian and/or Iranian hegemony then maybe it’s about time we start acting as one people by showing them the support that they deserve. The people of the South have gone through enough and they have been marginalized for far too long.

Our unity is our salvation