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Hayam Al-Qusseify wrote in Al-Akhbar:
Despite being subject to the current international cord, Hezbollah faces internal pressure from its closest allies. In the glory of being in power with its allies, the country fell under the weight of economic and financial collapse, but this did not prevent its allies from practicing the solution of internal scores.
Hezbollah does not need at this stage of the confused internal and regional situation to dedicate itself to dealing with the internal affairs of its allies. It is clear that the party took advantage of the allies, who are now increasing their burdens rather than easing them, because what is happening within the political line is no longer just routine problems, but rather settling accounts and a fundamental dispute between the allies of the first rank that is not only reflected in them from their Christian-Maronite position, in the competition for the presidency, but rather On the reality of the internal arena in which the party has become an advanced, unequal pillar with the other parties.
Starting in the 1990s, the line of separation between the two party lines, on the one hand, and other political forces, is clear and does not need to be demarcated. It was crossed in articulated crises or wars with Israel. In addition, the political forces continued to follow the same path, from the administration and the political movement, to the agreements and investments in which the public and private sectors overlap. The rise of economic-political power in the 1990s project occurred in parallel with the rise of military power, and each turned a blind eye to the other. In 2005, it was what made Hezbollah a cornerstone of the settlements and the permanent intersection with other political forces, to which the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese forces were added, to dedicate most of their role after 7 May and then the Doha Agreement, until the presidential agreement arrived.
The party was just an important partner, sometimes directly and developed through its ally, President Nabih Berri, but it was not in the front row, as it has been for years. And the presidential agreement contributed more to improving its presence and its role, not as a first partner, but as the creator of the internal event. However, this agreement was taken from him as much as I gave him. What was accomplished by Mar Mikhael’s Memorandum of Understanding, and his two parties were out of power in a practical sense, on a political level, changed weight when they became the nucleus of the government equation and formulated it. If the weight does not translate quickly, thanks to the union of other parties in the agreement, such as President Saad Hariri, the Lebanese forces and even the head of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt. But gradually, the burden of alliances and access to power began to loosen on both sides, especially with the escalation of local confrontations between the Free Patriotic Movement, on the one hand, and all the forces, Berri, Jumblatt … and finally Hariri, even the Marada Movement, on the other hand. At this stage, the party maintained its dividing line, but fell under the weight of the equation, in which the bilateral authority became a witness to a country that is collapsing financially, politically, economically, and socially. The country where previous settlements floated, even under the guise of deceptive appearances, fraud, corruption, and cronyism, seemed unable to bear the costs of exposure in a political class overlapping with complex interests, and an unprecedented collapse collapsed in its recent history. Despite the cost of sanctions, international blockade and US conditions, and with it the International Monetary Fund, to remove Hezbollah from the internal equation, which will increase internal pressure on the Lebanese financially and economically, the party remains surrounded from inside.
It is true that Lebanon’s problems in its corrupt and worn reality did not start with it and will not end with it, but the transformation of the ruling, political, banking and financial class, in recent years, is an essential part of a corrupt system. , which exceeds its private and personal interests above any political consideration, which will put the party facing the challenge of exchange between the least expensive and most effective allies, if not also a comparison with other political forces. Because the allies of the current authority have different agendas than before arriving in Baabda and before the end of the era and preparing for the presidential elections. They consider networks of interest in Washington, the Gulf, and Europe, as opposed to allies who also have presidential ambitions and projects and a strengthened political role. Isn’t it a paradox that the party’s Christian allies are the fighters and fugitives when it comes to their own interests? And consequently … whatever is less severe for the party, the Hariri, which produced with it more than a Sunni-Shiite calm during which we could neutralize its streets, or the allied forces that confuse it, and transform it, like the Syrian leadership, in what happened during the 1990s, the reference to the solution and the link to daily problems? And whichever is less severe for him, Jumblatt is capable, no matter how strong against him, of controlling the path of their relationship, as well as capturing his area or the party allies who insist on digging graves. What is worse for the party at home: a financial collapse at the height of its ruling power, or seeing its allies compete for the presidency, interests and appointments, to increase the wear and tear of the situation? There are politicians who believe that today the party has a greater need to organize the internal situation in a sinister crisis, because the “oligarchs” and the continuation of the financial crisis in ascending order will double the size of the internal “peak”. This is not based on feeding the internal scene, but on restoring the internal balance, even if it is forced to adapt to the changes that have taken place in the last months and the shame of many politicians has been exposed.
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