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Upon his return to Beirut again, three weeks from now, President Emmanuel Macron wanted this time to be the home of Ms. Fairouz, his first Lebanese stop. By that, he meant that there is another Lebanon that you can still bet on in case the country is “re-established.”
Fayrouz, the singer who is in her 80s, symbolizes all that is beautiful in Lebanon. Above all, it symbolizes the culture of life and a rich heritage, part of which was lost after the bombing of the port of Beirut three weeks ago, with the consequent destruction of part of the city, its archaeological buildings, old houses, monuments, old neighborhoods. and museums, among which the Sursock Museum stands out.
By introducing Fayrouz to all the senior Lebanese officials and political leaders, it seems clear that the French president wants to send a message. The essence of this message is that there is still something to build on in Lebanon. What can be built on is a cultural heritage based on the culture of life, which considers Fayrouz among its most prominent faces. The culture of life was not limited to Fayrouz’s Lebanese rays. The most famous Lebanese singer has performed in the last sixty years all over the world, including Paris, London and New York, as well as in most of the Arab capitals, especially in Damascus. There was no one in the Arab world comparable to Fayrouz’s fame except Umm Kulthum, who still symbolizes what artistic and cultural life was like in Egypt … and the pioneering role that Egypt played at a certain stage, especially during the monarchy, in the diffusion of culture. Joy associated with everything civilized in the region.
Fayrouz refused to surrender, despite all the Lebanese wars that took place in Lebanon. Fairuz still symbolizes the greatness of the Baalbek festivals and the greatness of a city that would have been the kiss of world famous people had it not been for the culture of death that is known to spread throughout Lebanon and the region. From the Baalbek festivals, which were attended by famous people from around the world, Fairouz remained. Fayrouz remained after the absence of the elders, from the Rahbani brothers, to Wadih al-Safi and Nasri Shams al-Din, to Sabah, whose voice rivaled the voice of Fairuz … to many others whose names are difficult to enumerate. in an article of the stature of Abdel Halim Caracalla and his band …
Did Emmanuel Macron come, with a sensible sense, to say goodbye to Lebanon and declare that there is no hope for his resurrection … or did he come to tell the Lebanese that there is hope and that the existing political void can be filled, void better expressed by the presence of a president of the republic named Michel Aoun who refuses to assume his responsibilities in any Upper Cannes, including resignation. This was clearly demonstrated by his justification for not taking any steps, in either direction, after he was informed by concerned officials, more than two weeks before the Beirut port bombing, of the presence of hazardous materials in one of the harbor flags.
It is not necessary, of course, to open the issue of electricity and the role of the “Free Patriotic Movement” in preventing his return to Lebanon, in addition to the deficit caused by the “movement” in the area of increasing external debt. It is true that the French president knows the smallest details of Lebanon. He knows in particular that there is no salvation for the country without getting rid of the current political class and the parties that use quotas.
Macron returns to Beirut on the occasion of the centenary of the declaration of “Greater Lebanon” on September 1, 1920, from the Pine Palace in Beirut. You will stay at the Pine Palace, which is the residence of the French Ambassador to Lebanon. He will go so far as to say that a country like Lebanon, which gave birth to Fairuz, does not deserve death and “disappearance” from the map of the region and the world. This is against what French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned a few days ago.
Macron knows the other Lebanon, Lebanon Fairouz, Lebanon also Amin Maalouf, who lives in Paris, is a member of the French Academy. Macron recently made sure to honor Amin Maalouf at the Elysee Palace.
Reading the points included by senior French officials interested in Lebanon as a “concept paper” for the formation of a Lebanese government, it is clear that there is no confidence in the existing government. The “concept paper” calls for “the rapid formation of a government to avoid a power vacuum that would plunge Lebanon into the crisis” it is suffering. It also calls for “the formation of a government capable of dealing with the economic, political, social and moral crisis that Lebanon is going through.”
There are several points mentioned in the French “concept paper” which concludes that France “will organize as soon as possible an international conference for the restoration that will allow the country to recapitalize and achieve its full sovereignty.”
Who examines all that an eight-year-old woman like Fairouz stands for and what it means for the French president to go home, discovers that Lebanon still has something to offer the world and the region, and that France’s bid for victory of the culture of life on the culture of death is still valid. It is true that the bombing of the port of Beirut exposed the great political void in Lebanon, but it is also true that it is necessary to fill this void in one way or another.
Who will fill the void? The French choice is very clear. It is based on the idea of forming a new government capable of preventing the fall of the country, a government of another type that includes personalities with all the qualities that enable them to play a salvific role. This means a government that has no relationship, close or distant, with the type of ministers that the “Free Patriotic Movement” brings and others to the government, that is, ministers who enjoy, above all, the status of transparency rather than corruption. , apotheosis, opportunism, superficiality and sectarian fanaticism that characterize the fairness of the educated and educated. Most important of all, there should be a government calling for an international investigative committee on the Beirut port bombing.
Lebanon needs honest ministers. First of all, that they understand the meaning of transparency and the meaning of returning electricity to the country as soon as possible, rather than being the source of agreements that serve the political purposes of this or that group.
In light of the existing political vacuum, President Manuel Macron is discussing the history of Lebanon, hoping that someone who is capable of bringing a country back to life that is not guaranteed will emerge peacefully from his first century-long experience.
