A protracted, very long time in the past, I really labored on the airport. I used to be in high administration if you wish to know. We used to get Al Liwaa newspaper day by day. Sooner or later there was a caricature concerning the president of the republic. The following day there was concerning the head of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. So one secretary stated “el rayyes fhemna bass el sayyed kamen!” (the president, we get it, but in addition the sayyed!). That is to inform you that effectively, political affiliations in Lebanon run deeper than the affiliation to the representatives of the land.
I’m saying this as a result of yesterday, the screens of the airport have been hacked with an anti-Hezbollah message. “Within the identify of God and the inhabitants, the Rafic Hariri airport is just not the Hezbollah airport and that of Iran. Hassan Nasrallah you shall not discover an ally for those who get Lebanon right into a conflict for which you shall deal with the tasks and penalties. Hezbollah we will not combat on behalf of anybody, you might have already taken out our port and now you’ll do the identical for the airport since you are bringing weapons in. Let the airport be free from the grasp of the small nation”.
All proper, it didn’t take lengthy earlier than this turned a meme. Additionally there’s a picture of the flights being written with a sharpie on a movable paper board. The authenticity of that picture has not been verified nevertheless.
So, the place does this depart us? Nowhere, fairly actually. I stated it earlier than, in Lebanon there isn’t a political promoting (right here). Which means that folks’s political positions are too entrenched and run deep deep. Those that already dislike Hezbollah will discover this hacking helpful, those that do will discover it irrelevant. And allow us to be trustworthy, what the hacking will change on the bottom is completely nothing. It’s going to no sway folks, is not going to change their thoughts, is not going to make any geostrategic impression.
So why did it occur? No thought. Identical with with these billboards on the road that say Lebanon doesn’t need conflict (right here). Somebody paid for these, who? No thought. Possibly the identical individuals who did the hacking. Somebody ought to inform them that is pointless.
