Was The M.O.U. Compromised?

Hezbollah and the FPM are rushing their Memorandum Of Understanding to intensive care.

Something else could be burning…

The peaceful Shiaa demonstrators came to the Christian neighborhood, started breaking stuff and cut off roads using burning tires. Depending on the version of the story you heard, they could also have shot in the air and threw a couple of grenades here and there.

The locals were enraged and some perhaps started shooting back using their good ol’ civil war M16s. “You don’t restore electricity in your neighborhoods by wreaking havoc in others” one female local told a TV reporter. 

This can’t be good news to the FPM-Hezbollah’s political Memorandum Of Understanding (M.O.U), especially if all the damage took place next to the very church in which the memorandum was signed.

As Lebanese veteran commentator Sarkis Naoum asked this morning: “If Aoun and Hezbollah both believe that Aoun represents the majority of the Christians, then why did Hezbollah allow its supporters to tarnish the peace in a Christian neighborhood?”

If Mr. Naim Kassem, Hezbollah’s second in command, reads this post, he will likely “break my head” and that of Mr. Naoum, since that is what he threatened to do to those who dare “touch the M.O.U”. His ally, Mr. Aoun was equally defensive: “The People will not let go of the M.O.U between Hezbollah and the FPM”, announced a brave-faced M.P. from his block.

But for both Hezbollah and the FPM to be defending the M.O.U so vigorously, one would be excused to wonder if there’s any life left in that piece of paper.