The Lebanese protests against their government are still going strong against all odds.
Despite the threats of having a new civil war, despite the threats of using sectarianism, the Lebanese protesters continue their peaceful protesting demanding a true modern statue without corruption or sectarianism.
The spearhead against sectarianism in the movement now in Lebanon is none other than the Lebanese mothers.
For the second time in a week, Lebanese mothers in Beirut organized a rally where mothers from a specific sect neighborhood go on foot to another sect area to meet other mothers and go into a rally against sectarianism.
For example mothers from a Christian dominated neighborhood go on foot in a rally to a Shiite dominated neighborhood to be warmly received by mothers from that area and so on.
Here is a video shot by TV journalist Ali Gharbeih on 30 November 2019 for the amazing Lebanese moms who went in a rally from Christian-dominated Khandak El-Ghamik neighborhood to Shiite dominated Borj Al-Ghazel.
Already the fact that the first rally launched from Ain Remmaneh means a lot because this is the same Ain Remmaneh that witnessed the infamous Bus Massacre that was beginning of the bloody Lebanese civil war.
Those Lebanese mothers and grandmothers are from the generations that witnessed the ugliness of sectarianism and civil war first hand since the 1970s till the 1990s.
Now they find a way to put an end for all this ugliness for real.
What is happening in Lebanon is really growing from protests to a true revolution.
A social , economic and political revolution rejecting and replacing that sectarian system rooted in the country since independence.
For the first time since God knows when the political and religious leading figures do not control the scene and the public turn against them.
For the first time since God knows when we find the sectarian card fails.
Yes, it can be ugly but the Lebanese protesters hold the upper hand with their peacefulness against the ugly armed sectarian militias.
I believe that the political parties and their militias like Hezbollah and Free Current of Michel Oun do not want to go the extreme because the Middle East region and the world won’t tolerate another ugly sectarian war in Lebanon.
It is a long breathe fight between the Lebanese protesters and the political and economic system of Lebanon and the Lebanese protesters on behalf of the Lebanese people have had enough.
Unfortunately, the world seems to care less despite all the shiny slogans. World and regional powers want the old corrupted sectarian Lebanon because it is easier to control I suppose, the thing which the Lebanese protesters reject.
Despite the threats of having a new civil war, despite the threats of using sectarianism, the Lebanese protesters continue their peaceful protesting demanding a true modern statue without corruption or sectarianism.
The spearhead against sectarianism in the movement now in Lebanon is none other than the Lebanese mothers.
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| "History won't repeat itself" a banner held by a Lebanese mom in a Beirut rally Hussein Baydoun for Al-Araby website |
For example mothers from a Christian dominated neighborhood go on foot in a rally to a Shiite dominated neighborhood to be warmly received by mothers from that area and so on.
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| Lebanese moms hug each other by Hussein Baydoun for Al-Araby |
Here is another video when the mothers reached Beirut’s Khandak El-Ghamik from Borj Al-Ghazal.ايضاً بكسر التاء.. لولاكِ مافي ثورة.— WestSide (@AliGharbieh) November 30, 2019
مسيرة الامهات والسيدات من #الاشرفية الى #الخندق_الغميق.. الشعب اللبناني واحد.#لبنان_ينتفض #ثورة
Video by: Ali Gharbieh. pic.twitter.com/Usm9aWK5n0
The first time those rallies began to take place was on 27 November 2019 from Beirut’s Christian-Druze Ain El-Remmaneh to Shiite Chiyah.الامهات البطلات في الخندق الغميق pic.twitter.com/44unJg01nQ— Salman Andary (@salmanonline) November 30, 2019
You think it is a trivial thing but actually, it is a huge thing and another example in that revolution that shows the Lebanon people, not their political powers are finally through this ugly era.بكسر التاء.. انتِ الثورة.— WestSide (@AliGharbieh) November 27, 2019
لان المسيرة من #عين_الرمانة لـ #الشياح كانت بتبكّي.. هيدا شارع كلّ الناس.#لبنان_ينتفض #ثورة
Video By: Ali Gharbieh. pic.twitter.com/iQd4p5DQ3B
Already the fact that the first rally launched from Ain Remmaneh means a lot because this is the same Ain Remmaneh that witnessed the infamous Bus Massacre that was beginning of the bloody Lebanese civil war.
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| Mothers and grannies welcome other mothers and grannies with rice in their neighborhood By Hussein Baydoun for Al-Araby |
Now they find a way to put an end for all this ugliness for real.
What is happening in Lebanon is really growing from protests to a true revolution.
A social , economic and political revolution rejecting and replacing that sectarian system rooted in the country since independence.
 |
| Two Lebanese ladies from different generations in the rally by Hussein Baydoun for Al-Araby |
For the first time since God knows when we find the sectarian card fails.
Yes, it can be ugly but the Lebanese protesters hold the upper hand with their peacefulness against the ugly armed sectarian militias.
I believe that the political parties and their militias like Hezbollah and Free Current of Michel Oun do not want to go the extreme because the Middle East region and the world won’t tolerate another ugly sectarian war in Lebanon.
It is a long breathe fight between the Lebanese protesters and the political and economic system of Lebanon and the Lebanese protesters on behalf of the Lebanese people have had enough.
Unfortunately, the world seems to care less despite all the shiny slogans. World and regional powers want the old corrupted sectarian Lebanon because it is easier to control I suppose, the thing which the Lebanese protesters reject.
* This article was originally published here
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