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اليومَ ليس يومًا جديدًا. منذُ انفجارِ المرفأ كلُّ أيّامِ السَنةِ 4 آب. لا اسِمَ لها آخَر. لا أشهرًا ولا أسابيعَ ولا أيامًا. اكتفَت بهُنيهةِ الانفجار. كانت الهنيهةُ دهرًا. بعدَها لم تتوالَ الأيّامُ. خَجِلَت أنْ تُطِلَّ فتَنتَحرَ فوقَ جثامينِ الشهداء. سنةَ 4 آب ما عاد سكّانُ لبنانَ أربعةَ ملايينِ نسمةٍ، بل مِئتي شهيدٍ وسِتّةَ آلافِ جريحٍ. سنةَ 4 آب ما عادت مساحةُ لبنان عشْرةَ آلافٍ وأربَعَمائةٍ واثنينِ وخمسينَ كلم²، بل مدى العالم والفضاء. شَخَصت الشعوبُ نحوَنا. رأت انفجارًا وسَمِعَت دُخانًا يُرشِدُها إلى "المغارة"، حيث وُلِدَ الشهداءُ الجُدد.

أتَوا جميعًا يَسجُدون أمام المرفأِ وبيروتَ والشهداءِ باستثناءِ أركانِ الدولةِ اللبنانيّةِ (أو غيرِ اللبنانيّة). سنةَ "4 آب" كان إيمانويل ماكرون رئيسَ جمهوريّةِ لبنان. وكانت حكوماتُ الدولِ العربيّةِ والأجنبيّةِ حكومةَ لبنان. وكان البطريركُ بشارة الراعي رمزَ الموقِفِ الوطنيِّ. وكان البابا فرنسيس مُحرِّكَ الديبلوماسيّةِ الدوليّةِ. يومَها برز التضامنُ بين اللبنانيّين. عَزفوا على وَترٍ كئيبٍ واحِد. كلُّ بيتٍ شَعَر أنَّ الانفجارَ في الدار. كلُّ لبنانيٍّ أحسَّ أنّه مصابٌ. بدا تبادلُ التعازي بين الناس حَرفًا زائدًا وكلمةً جوفاءَ ورديفَ صلاة. أما المسؤولون، فاعتَبروا أن تعازيَهم عَبرَ شاشاتِ التلفزيون إنجازٌ عظيمٌ يُغني عن العدالةِ والحقيقةِ وتأليفِ حكومة، وعن... رحيلِهم الآتي. قالها البطريركُ الراعي للجموعِ أمس: "حافِظوا على الوطنِ وغَيِّروا الباقي..."

By Anchal Vohra -- foreignpolicy.com -- Lebanon’s ruling elite designated billionaire Najib Mikati to be prime minister at a time when Lebanon’s masses have fallen under poverty. He comes from Tripoli, the poorest city in Lebanon, but owns a yacht, a stake in Pepe Jeans, a South African telecom firm, and prime real estate in New York and London. According to Forbes, Mikati is one of the richest men in Lebanon with an estimated worth of $2.7 billion. But such wealth highlights the widening inequality, and political dysfunction, in a country where most people find it hard to imagine how they will ever again make ends meet. Nobody believes Mikati’s leadership is sustainable even in the medium term. It is Lebanon’s misfortune that its political class, and many of its international backers, believe he is worth supporting nevertheless. Mikati is seen by most Lebanese, by contrast, as a symbol of an old and corrupt order. In October 2019, the month Lebanon erupted in protests, he was charged with corruption for illegally profiting from housing loans meant for lower-income groups, but the case was buried. Most insulting to the suffering of the Lebanese is the fact that Mikati has previously served as prime minister—and last did so when a ship laden with thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate first docked at Beirut’s port. He now returns to power a year after the unsafely stored explosive caught fire, exploded, and fatally damaged some of the most glorious parts of the city.

Is Mikati the man to extract Lebanon from its myriad crises? Activists say he is a pawn of the political class, a stopgap prime minister tasked with preserving the status quo. But optimists believe that as an experienced businessperson, Mikati might strike the right compromises and find a way to keep the country afloat until elections next year. Lebanon’s backers in the West are clearly hoping that, through Mikati, a disruptive collapse of Lebanon’s political order can be avoided for now. Lebanese politics has been in dysfunctional stasis ever since Beirut was shaken by an explosion so strong it has been compared to the Chernobyl disaster. Around 200 innocent people were killed, thousands of people were injured, and hundreds of thousands of people were rendered homeless in an incident that could have been avoided. One week later, Hassan Diab was forced to resign as prime minister. But Diab has continued as caretaker prime minister as former Lebanese chief of staff Mustapha Adib and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri failed to form a government.

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