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While Iran and Israel hurl drones, missiles and threats back and forth, while diplomats scramble to respond, analysts raise alarms and psychological warfare escalates, a small Mediterranean country keeps doing what it does best: nothing.
Lebanon, fractured and barely governed, seems oblivious to the fact that it’s sitting on a powder keg with the fuse already lit. The world braces for a regional explosion. In Beirut, the main concerns are whether the parliamentary committee is on schedule and whether the last administrative appointments are a modest success or a major one.
Overhead, Iranian missiles streak through the sky, quietly intercepted. And the government? As usual, it does nothing.
And Hezbollah? Naturally, it threatens to act. It says it will step in “when the time is right,” insists that the “resistance” is ready, and claims that any attack on Iran is an attack on Lebanon. Iranian officials openly suggest Hezbollah could join the fight. Brilliant. That says everything you need to know about the so-called autonomous decision-making of this pro-Iranian militia.
American envoy Tom Barrack, who arrived this morning in what some call the “land of Sleeping Beauty,” warned that Hezbollah’s involvement would be a “bad decision.” But official Lebanon keeps hoping for a fairytale ending. Their answer? Israel must withdraw from the five hills in the south.
Fine. But what if tomorrow the Israelis move into Akkar, pushing Hezbollah beyond the Orontes River this time? Then what?
If Lebanon once again gets pulled into ruin by a handful of diehards, what do we do?
Ah yes, the state? Almost forgot. Faced with a threat that could drag the country into chaos, it remains silent, turning a blind eye, fully absorbed in its own failures. You’d expect that a militia threatening total war from Lebanese soil would at least get a rebuke. But no. Not even a raised eyebrow.
The world demands that Hezbollah disarm. Lebanese people are exhausted from living on the edge, hostage to an agenda that isn’t theirs. Yet the government keeps repeating its favorite mantra: dialogue. A hollow word that hides a total lack of will to act.
As the region burns, missiles fall and the risk of all-out war becomes clearer, Lebanon keeps extending its hand… only to be trampled on. This isn’t resilience anymore. It’s surrender.
And while global diplomacy races to avoid the point of no return, Lebanon dozes on, lulled by the ominous sound of boots marching at its borders.
Maybe one day it’ll wake up – if there’s anything left to govern.
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