Between 6th of February & 6th of February the revolution is not over
Written by Nasser Kandil,
For more than three decades, Lebanon was in the Israeli era after Ariel Sharon was able to reach Baabda Palace in his tanks and imposing the Seventeenth of May Agreement, at that day the legendary creature was born whose name has become the resistance. The accomplishments of Lebanon under different titles have associated with its presence, sacrifices, and martyrs. On the sixth of February in 1984 was the popular uprising which culminated with the abolition of the Seventeenth of May Agreement.
On that day it was clear that the uprising has formed incomplete revolution due to the absence of the important Christian partner, so it was obliged to stand behind the sectarian contact lines, and there was an imposition to make its political outcome a beginning for a partnership government headed by the late Rashid Karami, and later Al-Taif Agreement as a proving of the equation of the civil peace, but according to a formula that devotes the sectarian sharing of the government and its institutions.
The revolution has destroyed what must be destroyed, but it was unable to build what must be built, thus the sixth of February has come to form a new partnership with the resistance which its title has been changed from inclusive national formations with multi ideological and partisan bases which were headed by the Speaker Nabih Berri, till it became the resistance which Hezbollah represents the pivotal force in it, and which is headed by Al Sayyed Hassan Nasrollah. This new partnership is the birth of the understanding with the Christian power which the revolution of the sixth of February has missed as an expression of the force of independence and sovereignty. The Christian force which the resistance and the Arabism have lost because of what has accompanied the relationship between Lebanon and Syria from mixing the papers, has led to the loss between the correlation of the two tracks and the correlation of the two corruptions, when the hour of confrontation has come for the major merits of wars, the people of the correlation of the two tracks and the people of the correlation of the two corruptions have been shown, everyone of the Syrians and the Lebanese remained in his alliance but they stood in two opposite fronts.
The Lebanese people commemorate the two occasions as a partisan anniversary, so the leaders, the staff, the employees, and the followers of Amal Movement celebrate the first version of the Sixth of February, while the leaders, the staff, the employees, and the followers of Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement celebrate the second version of the Sixth of February, however the national reading of both of them is absent even according to some celebrators, this is the evidence that there is a shortage that makes the revolution do not end, particularly it has resolved the identity of the country in Lebanon and in the region by answering the question; is it still possible to build the national country according to the criteria of the sectarian organization and reforming it ? Or whether the condition of forming the national country has become its secularism?
The experience of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq says that as the encirclement of Syria with two sectarian formulas has led to threaten its secular country, thus the victory of the secular model again in Syria, surely will lead to the impossibility of forming a sectarian formula once again neither in Lebanon nor in Iraq.
Translated by Lina Shehadeh,