What does Saudi Arabia say about its allies and about the Lebanese people? The people of dignities & the government of graces

Written by Nasser Kandil,
“Al-Jazeera” the Saudi newspaper that is owned by the royal family and its mouthpiece wrote and the Lebanese read an editorial that deals with the Saudi Lebanese crisis, in which the Lebanese are waiting the reaction of their officials and their government upon, unless the officials and the government accept to say that Saudi Arabia has a democracy that allows it to say that this was the opinion of the party who published, and that it was mere a personal opinion that did not reflect the Kingdom’s opinion which just its government reflects it. And that Saudi Arabia refused to accept this description for Lebanon; it considered what a Lebanese party says is binding to his government if it is not taken against him a deterrent punitive procedure. To say that the Lebanese pluralism is incurable to be controlled is true as the saying of the Saudi unilateralism. The Lebanese are waiting the speech of their officials and their government regarding what was talked about them in a form that is similar to the official statement.
The Saudi “Al-Jazeera” says that Hezbollah which targets the Kingdom has a governmental participation, because “the Lebanese parties have yielded to terrorism submissively and this is their own business” so they have to pay the cost and “we have to exert pressure on them economically”, “in order to make the Lebanese citizen whom we take care of, feels that he is responsible of his silence”, thus the Lebanese “have to pay the cost even if it is at the expense of their national cohesion. The Saudi “Al-Jazeera” concluded “that the Lebanese did not take the decisive speech of Salman seriously, so they thought if their prime minister had come to us and apologized, everything would have been returned to its previous situation, it adds “We have supported them bearing them, thus the result was their ingratitude and they have bitten the hand which helped them and saved them repeatedly politically and economically” according to Al-Jazeera the Lebanese do not understand but the language of force and firmness, therefore they acquiesced earlier to Syria as the Saudi Al-Jazeera described.
The speech is clear and the intention is clear too, it is neither Hezbollah, nor its allies nor the allies of Syria, because according to the Saudi “Al-Jazeera” they are the terrorism themselves, the intention of the submission to the terrorism humiliatingly is the others who have bitten the Saudi hand which helped them, and they suggested that the visit of the prime minister will return the situation to its normal form, they did not take the decisive speech of Salman seriously, the intention here is the political parties which are particularly considered that they belong to Saudi Arabia, while Saudi Arabia looks at the Lebanese citizens and the government as a constitutional institution away of its political force, like the way through which Israel in the aggression of July 2006 looked and used the same language that the Lebanese have to pay the cost in order to exert a pressure on Hezbollah, moreover the government which does not exert a pressure on Hezbollah must be treated as responsible of the Israeli collision and then consequently the Saudi one.
Finally Saudi Arabia said its word, so will we hear the word of Lebanon?, or will the policy of appealing, mendacity and the language of July war with the attempt of promoting the pressures and observing its results hoping to reap its fruits political concessions continue?, as was the speech of the Prime Minister Fouad Al-Sioniora before, about the Seventh Chapter and the speech of the Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri about the weapons, so today their speech will remain at the same category and for the same purpose, or whether among the Lebanese there is a prime minister who was insulted personally through what has been written and published, thus he will get angry when he reads this speech, he will hold the phone addressing the Saudi ambassador in Beirut at least to tell him, tell Riyadh that if you did not accept that the mutli-Lebanon has more than an opinion, then do not laugh at us by saying that the publication is just a personal opinion of a writer, and it you refused considering the government that is responsible of what is issued by itself only, as our country then do not think that any one would believe you if you said that the Saudi ruler is not responsible but only for what is issued by himself officially, so as long as you have said and described the Lebanese like this and decided to punish the Lebanese in order to submit to your will, to starve them in order to humiliate them, so I tell you that I will withdraw the request of the visit to meet the officials of your country, at least to test the means of the war which you waged against the Lebanese people and to discover by yourselves whether the Lebanese as people can beg for your grace at the expense of its dignity.
Translated by Lina Shehadeh,