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Seven times destroyed, seven times rebuilt

by Yasser Akkaoui

Last month’s so-called election of a Lebanese President must have seemed to international onlookers an event drenched in degradation, an example of both how low Lebanon’s politicians have sunk and allowed themselves to be manipulated by those who claimed to be their friends — and those the politicians vowed to fight because they sought to destroy Lebanon’s national integrity and kill its leaders. A more intriguing question begs what actually happened in Doha between the power broking Qataris and Saudis? We have heard the rumors of the night flights in private jets to hammer out a regional accord, but what is certain is that a deal was made. We don’t know the details but the result was that our MPs, like chastised schoolboys, were reduced to obediently writing a name on slip of paper and casting it into the ballot box under the watchful star of the head monitors of

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