Screenshot of a video that was circulating on social media Tuesday evening, showing the withdrawal of the Lebanese Army from the villages of Rmeish and Ain Ibl, in south Lebanon.
“Courage is walking naked through a village of cannibals,” Leonard Louis Levinson once said. That is exactly what it means today to remain in southern Lebanon. To stay, in the predominantly Christian villages of Rmeish, Ain Ibl, Dibil, and Qlayaa, is neither an ordinary choice nor a posture, nor even a decision. It is staying when everything, absolutely everything, pushes you to leave, staying without protection, staying exposed, staying even as the state withdraws, the army pulls back, and the world looks away.From that point on, there is no more imploring, only accusation. No need to mince words anymore. What happened is tantamount to abandonment, to betrayal. These words are now spoken, owned, and repeated. And they are directed first at the institution that, in the Lebanese imagination, remained the last line of defense. Because this...
“Courage is walking naked through a village of cannibals,” Leonard Louis Levinson once said. That is exactly what it means today to remain in southern Lebanon. To stay, in the predominantly Christian villages of Rmeish, Ain Ibl, Dibil, and Qlayaa, is neither an ordinary choice nor a posture, nor even a decision. It is staying when everything, absolutely everything, pushes you to leave, staying without protection, staying exposed, staying even as the state withdraws, the army pulls back, and the world looks away.From that point on, there is no more imploring, only accusation. No need to mince words anymore. What happened is tantamount to abandonment, to betrayal. These words are now spoken, owned, and repeated. And they are directed first at the institution that, in the Lebanese imagination, remained the last line of defense. Because...
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