A poster depicting the former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the founder of Amal, Imam Moussa Sadr, and the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, at the entrance of the village of Cana, South Lebanon, in 2018. (Credit: Ramzi Haidar/AFP Archives)
Lebanon's politics over the past two decades have contorted logic, phenomena, discourse, laws, practices, agreements and disagreements to the point that they have trapped us with "beings of unreason," deceitful fantasies that insult our intelligence so brazenly, manifestly and continuously that they disrupt us cognitively and morally. At the same time, they fill us with humiliation.Therefore, we must come to our senses to realize how far things have been pushed, far beyond comparison with other political experiences that many observers consider predecessors of the latest one. Thus, in the wake of this, when we ask ourselves: "But what is political Shiism?" an answer seems ready: it is the end of a series of attempts of political predominance by other major Lebanese confessions, the Maronite, Sunni and Druze. ...
Lebanon's politics over the past two decades have contorted logic, phenomena, discourse, laws, practices, agreements and disagreements to the point that they have trapped us with "beings of unreason," deceitful fantasies that insult our intelligence so brazenly, manifestly and continuously that they disrupt us cognitively and morally. At the same time, they fill us with humiliation.Therefore, we must come to our senses to realize how far things have been pushed, far beyond comparison with other political experiences that many observers consider predecessors of the latest one. Thus, in the wake of this, when we ask ourselves: "But what is political Shiism?" an answer seems ready: it is the end of a series of attempts of political predominance by other major Lebanese confessions, the Maronite, Sunni and Druze. ...
