I thought there would be no words to describe what happened in the streets of Beirut on Saturday, but there are.
In my part of the world, Ariel Sharon was known as the “Butcher of Beirut.” Even though his bloody legacy began to be built decades before he led the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 – through years of killing Palestinians in British-controlled Palestine prior to the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 – he will still be primarily remembered for the responsibility he bore for Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila Massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of the same name.
As Hezbollah fighters join the Syrian conflict to support the Assad regime and suppress the uprising, is the political party-militia losing its legitimacy and drawing Lebanon towards an Sunni-Shia confrontation?
In the midst of political and security instability and growing concerns with the spillovers of the Syrian crisis, Lebanon has been witnessing one of its most important labour demonstrations in years.