Lebanon and the perpetual cycle of external intervention
From Cairo to Taif and beyond, Lebanon’s sovereignty remains trapped between regional power struggles and repeated foreign-imposed arrangements.
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The Cairo Agreement and “Fatahland”
The most painful point in the “cost dilemma” (which is not similar to Stockholm syndrome, where a hostage becomes attached to their captor and tormentor) reaches first and foremost the well-known Cairo Agreement, which practically dismantled the best state experience Lebanon had known since its independence and the consolidation of its geographical and constitutional entity. At that time, the Lebanese authorities of that era surrendered to a dubious Arab and international conspiracy and granted Palestinian fighters the right to fight Israel from the area known as “Fatahland” in southern Lebanon.
Then came the next, even more dangerous experience, with a specifically American “engineering” of legitimising Syrian army intervention in Lebanon’s wars, starting with the drawing of what were called the red lines that stopped Hafez al Assad’s army’s advance at the Awali River in the south, in order to prevent any military confrontation with the Israeli army that had invaded the south and established the border strip.
Those red lines did not remain merely a fatal marker of Lebanese sovereignty; they evolved into what became an even more dangerous American, Western, and Arab collective surrender to a tyrannical regime, the Hafez al Assad regime, granting it an occupying guardianship over Lebanon.
It is true that the international Arab umbrella later returned to stop the internal and external wars in Lebanon with the signing of the Taif Agreement, yet the international submission to the terror of the Assad regime, which shortly after the agreement was reached went on to assassinate President René Moawad because he refused to grant it permission to kill and to carry out the massacre of storming Baabda Palace in order to topple Michel Aoun’s authority, tore apart the reality of the Taif international umbrella and its meaning, leaving Lebanon for a long time under the grip of a false, Syrian, dark Taif.