{"id":10008,"date":"2020-08-21T13:14:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T10:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmfidawla.com\/?p=10008"},"modified":"2020-08-21T13:19:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T10:19:34","slug":"mkn-diem25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmfidawla.com\/en\/2020\/08\/21\/mkn-diem25\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon: what happens when a ruling class goes unchecked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4qhcvh-39b5c39c192e9822cc2af8d23396cadb\">\n.flex_column.av-4qhcvh-39b5c39c192e9822cc2af8d23396cadb{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-4qhcvh-39b5c39c192e9822cc2af8d23396cadb av_three_fourth  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-jo02aj9o-c747e19ade06532efadb9eaf2e11a914 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2 class=\"title-block\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Lebanon: what happens when a ruling class goes unchecked<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-36ctod-04a0923b74485b06d58a63d634bda0b4 hr-default  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jpa4dlb3-7f844daeec652e2e27d9eba858697598 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Article by Mohammad Khair Nahhas, member of Mouwatinoun wa Mouwatinat fi Dawla published by Diem25 on the following <a href=\"https:\/\/diem25.org\/lebanon-what-happens-when-ruling-class-goes-unchecked\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The recent explosion in Beirut, Lebanon \u2014 which killed more than 150 people, injured more than 5,000, affected the livelihoods of more than 300,000, and caused material damage of over $15 billion \u2014 is no accident.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zLMDKa9juH8\">Rather, this is the consequence of corruption<\/a>; of power-mongering games, and a clientelist mentality rooted in a sectarian ruling structure that has constantly been awarded re-legitimisation by the international community since the French \u2019mandate\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UssamaMakdisi\/status\/1293292270037475329\">after WWI<\/a>. The combustion of Beirut\u2019s port \u2014 the most vital commercial gate to an economy that imports more than 70% of what it consumes \u2014 burdens the devastated Lebanese society, which is already struggling with the worst financial crisis since Lebanon\u2019s establishment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mmfidawla.com\/en\/2018\/12\/28\/berri-2\/\">The current financial crisis and political crisis were predicted back in 2018 by Charbel Nahas<\/a>, former minister and current General Secretary of the vibrant young movement \u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/mmfidawla.com\/en\/\">Citizens within a State<\/a>\u201d. Nahas tried to warn \u201cour\u201d heads of state and the ruling class, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Today, Lebanon pays for our elites\u2019 ignorance and incompetence.<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Insultingly, the Israeli regime has chosen this critical moment of failure to show unprecedented gestures of support for Lebanon and the Lebanese. Israel\u2019s regime has, on multiple occasions, vowed to demolish Lebanon\u2019s infrastructure (and partly accomplished this in 2006) while the Israeli military continuously breaches<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20181122-israel-committed-550-violations-against-lebanon\/\"> Lebanese airspace<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-lebanon-israel-oil\/lebanons-berri-israel-%20violating-water-borders-in-oil-exploration-idUSKCN1PV1QV\">maritime<\/a> territory on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The \u201cinternational community\u201d (in this case the US, EU and their client-regimes in the Middle East) responded to the calamity in a manner that is even more worrying to those who care about the future of Lebanese society. All at once, they are competing to broaden their influence in Lebanese affairs \u2014 either through carrot-and-stick offers of conditional financial aid, or by singling out Hezbollah as the sole responsible party. That singling-out of the Hezbollah party as \u201cprime suspect\u201d of course results from the Lebanese organisation\u2019s rather unique record in having stood up to continuous Israeli aggression, and from Hezbollah\u2019s guerrilla involvement in the Syrian war when it allied itself with official enemies of the West.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The international community prefers focussing on the General Secretary of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, rather than on the whole political structure of Lebanon, in the hope of expanding and further inflaming ongoing tensions between Washington\u2019s and Tehran\u2019s regional allies.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>What can we do to support the Lebanese during this time?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Certainly, donations and sentimental support help to overcome grievances and to rebuild. This, however, will not affect the root of the country\u2019s problems, which are entrenched in a sectarian political-social-economical structure. <b>That fragmentation can only be solved by the Lebanese.<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">For those of us in the Western countries (and outside of Lebanon), our share in the task of solidarity involves pushing our governments to stop their speculative policies towards Lebanon specifically, and towards the Middle East, in general. Until now, Western policies have officially stated their aim of \u201dstabilising\u201d the MENA region in order to maintain global business interests; ensuring a steady flow of cheap fossil fuel, and the liberalisation of markets in the Arab world, simply for the benefit of multinationals and the local financiers and cartels.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>The above should give clear insights as to how our struggles (against oligarchy and global finance)\u00a0 in Europe interconnect with those of Middle Easterners.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">One example of how European interference \u2014 whether deliberate or not \u2014 further entrenches Lebanon\u2019s ruling class, was when France called for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diplomatie.gouv.fr\/en\/country-files\/lebanon\/news\/article\/lebanon-cedre-conference-06-04-18\">CEDRE conference<\/a> in 2018 weeks before the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/lebanon-elections-2018-politics-usual-180501091710689.html\">Lebanese parliamentary elections<\/a> to provide the Lebanese oligarchies with another \u2019foreign legitimizing\u2019 act in front of their constituents by pledging financial support of approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-lebanon-economy-france\/lebanon-wins-%20pledges-exceeding-11-billion-in-paris-idUSKCN1HD0UU\">$ 11 billion<\/a> in loans and grants to the State. Another example is the World Bank-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/lebanons-bisri-valley-dam-faces-uncertain-future-after-funding-halt\">Bisri dam<\/a> project, that would bring about an enormously damaging environmental impact. The currently halted construction \u2014 due to public pressure \u2014 of the Bisri dam is meant to be carried out in clear collusion between local oligarchs and international investors, who profit on the back of mother nature and society.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Within 48 hours following the devastating explosion, French president Macron \u2014 dodging the \u201cyellow-vest\u201d anti-austerity and anti-Macron protests which have only momentarily subsided due to the lockdown \u2014 visited Lebanon to confer with the ruling class, admonishing them to \u201dpull their act together\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Such paternalistic sounds from Macron towards his Lebanese associates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/08\/deadly-blast-beirut-residents-macron-relief-200806205048992.html\">breaks with every notion of interstate cooperation<\/a>, reducing French-Lebanese relations back to a retrograde patronage reminiscent of past French colonial forms. This, clearly, also exemplifies how our struggles relate, and that the fight in Europe for a better world requires working together.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The recent tragedy has given a wake-up call jolting the middle classes, who on one hand form part of the problem, as well as part of the<i> potential<\/i> solution.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Part of the problem, because the current configuration has allowed Lebanon\u2019s middle class to accumulate its affluence by way of speculations and savings. This has created a corrupted sense of progress that has slowly but steadily lost its value. This middle class, however, can also become part of the solution if and when they acknowledge that our current political and socio-economic imbalance cannot sustain itself. It must be confronted, before hopefully pulling out the rug from underneath the oligarchs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">To stand in solidarity with Lebanon beyond mere gasps and sentimental gestures requires us to push the EU to summon enough backbone to finally iterate a common EU foreign policy: one that stands up to US aggression, while rejecting the imperial policies that have so far fragmented the Middle East. <b>All too often, our societies in the Middle East are left alone to deal with the blowback of an imperial superstructure that helps feed and entrench our rotten ruling elites.<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The current political and socio-economic situation in Lebanon is dire. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/08\/10\/900878730\/lebanons-prime-minister-resigns-%20citing-an-earthquake-of-upheaval\">The short-lived government fell <\/a>last Monday, in addition to the resignations of various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20200810-lebanon-3-ministers-8-mps-resign-after-beirut-blast\/\">members of the fa\u00e7ade Parliament<\/a> \u2014 those who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/08\/lebanon-parliament-approves-sweeping-powers-army-200813094557717.html\"> declared an unnecessary <\/a>emergency state of martial law. These events further emphasise that the political and socio-economic structure in place after the end of the civil war in 1990 (the result of the intersection<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UssamaMakdisi\/status\/1292593506377179138\"> of foreign interests of the US, Syria, and Saudi Arabia<\/a>) is broken and bankrupt. <b>Rather than <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/mmfidawla.com\/en\/2020\/06\/24\/cn-alsharq-1\/\"><b>reform, Lebanon needs a total overhaul<\/b><\/a><b>. 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