The Lebanese March. The Puppets Want “Dialogue”

It looks as if the Lebanese who want Syria gone from their country aren’t taking the Hezbollah-sponsored rally last week sitting down.

Today, Lebanese protestors mounted a counter-counter rally that Reuters says is quite large – larger than Hezbollah’s rally.

K-Lo on NRO posted an e-mail from Walid Phares that said, among other things:

Sources from Lebanon said “entire villages, neighborhoods and corporations will be marching,” They stated that “the withdrawal of the Syrians two days ago from the northern part, will allow tens of thousands more to rally the demo.”

More interestingly, he drops this little note in the same e-mail:

For the first time, a number of moderate Shiites will join the Druze, Sunnis and Christians in downtown Beirut. World TV crews will report live and give an estimate by 11 AM (EST)

That’s interesting because Hezbollah is a militant Shiite organization. It looks as if the moderate Shiites are beginning to put their weight publicly behind a free Lebanon and against the Syria/Hezbollah power block.

This from the Post article, however, ought to give us a little pause.

They said the authorities were pondering a ban on future demonstrations to be enforced by the Lebanese army.

That would be in reaction to the fear of violence from any future protests (though no violance has come from any democratic protest yet).

The good news here is that the protests are making those in power very nervous. Already there are calls for the opposition to sit down in a “political dialogue” and to cease any further street protests. But it appears that the opposition have only two lines in any dialogue: Syria must completely leave Lebanon and Hariri’s killers must be brought to justice. Those are the two things the Syrian puppet government in Lebanon and the Hezbollah killers can not allow and remain a vital influence on the Middle East.

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