by
BÉATRICE PATRIE and
EMMANUEL ESPAÑOL One
hundred days after the
end of the war of
2006, the
assassination of young
minister Pierre
Gemayel plunged
Lebanon
again in the endless
spiral of terror.
Impotence, but not
resignation, strange
word in the Lebanese
vocabulary. Fall seven
times, rise eight
times. Everybody is
aware what the
Lebanese are capable
of. But in addition to
their known courage
for incessantly
building their
destroyed houses,
their broken lives,
how can we endow them
with the necessary
courage for getting
rid of the ordeals of
a revolved political
history, with its
feudal lords and
warlords? The children
of
Israel
can sleep on their two
ears, essentially
affirmed Ben Gourion,
when the tribe of
Israel
is no longer
surrounded by all the
tribes of the
Middle East
... It is against this
vision that
Lebanon
should nowadays be
constructed.