As proud Lebanese we might as well start burning our passports and find ourselves some other citizenship to claim. it never occurred to me before , how huge the gap between every rivaling Lebanese party, sect and soon to become neighborhood is. Just to explain my outrage to the minions; I was the unfortunate witness of a fight breaking out between two close Lebanese friends which was soon followed by a volley of insults and another hideous quarrel that probably put an end to their 12 years old friendship. Needless to say the main agent that triggered such a horrid scene was nothing but a political debate on whether Samir Al Quntar should have been kept behind bars for being a cold blooded murderer ( as one part mentioned ) or put on a pedestal for being a national hero as the other one suggested. So after I had time to gather my senses and awaken from such a horrendous trauma I realized how pathetic we are to let political debates and religious conflicts control us in such a way that a marionette would pity us. After decades of civil and international struggle we Lebanese still remain uneducated when it comes to unity and the true essence that this country was built upon; Democracy. Some might go on and say that we do realize that we are heading down hill but we just chose to turn the other way and ignore or simply avoid such a crucial element that helped shape the Lebanese society since the old days. Determined, and vicious the typical Lebanese is willing to ride his fully rigged war machine into the very fine borders of respect, friendship and trust. Not only he will threaten the existence of such imaginary lines but he will also cross them just to support and defend what he deemed just and politically correct and even ideologically righteous. And so the majority of the nation still finds itself stuck between the rock and the hard case as it is forced to choose between the rivaling foes on a daily basis. Intimidated by techniques known to every one from the civil war days, we always seem to hit that intersection where you are forced to succumb to the will of one or more of the adversaries, and staying in the middle would just mean dying in vain. Call it a warning or a scornful tone, but the truth remains that we lost the only thing we were once so proud of and fought so fiercely for. And in my own humble opinion I don't really find it advantageous for any Lebanese not even those who defend him themselves, to debate about the state Samir Al Quntar should be addressed with, since it is clearly nothing but a political argument that is going to be utilized in such an obvious and disgusting way, that the above mentioned person would regret the day he ever demanded freedom.
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