The tent of a displaced resident erected along Beirut's seafront area early on March 19, 2026. (Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)
Three weeks already. Three weeks have been enough to shatter the last illusions and reveal, with undeniable clarity, the scale of the political collapse into which Lebanon has fallen, to the point of losing any real ability to control its own fate.What is unfolding today, this latest war we are living through, is neither an accident nor an unpredictable drift, but rather the culmination of a long process marked by the systematic avoidance of necessary decisions and a persistent inability to face the concrete implications of restoring sovereignty.Admittedly, this war was imposed on Lebanon from the outside, by two belligerents paradoxically united in their desire to destroy the country. But it is also the product of an internal void: That of a state which, by refusing to address the central issue of who holds the weapons, gradually...
Three weeks already. Three weeks have been enough to shatter the last illusions and reveal, with undeniable clarity, the scale of the political collapse into which Lebanon has fallen, to the point of losing any real ability to control its own fate.What is unfolding today, this latest war we are living through, is neither an accident nor an unpredictable drift, but rather the culmination of a long process marked by the systematic avoidance of necessary decisions and a persistent inability to face the concrete implications of restoring sovereignty.Admittedly, this war was imposed on Lebanon from the outside, by two belligerents paradoxically united in their desire to destroy the country. But it is also the product of an internal void: That of a state which, by refusing to address the central issue of who holds the weapons, gradually...
