Never have the events that led to the civil war of 1975 been so clear. The subject that would ignite a Byzantine quarrel has been demystified by the events following the February 14 blast and put an end to the endless finger pointing. A vulgar assassination with a ton of explosives, a series of bomb attacks intended to create civil unrest and most recently the arming of local militias, most notably those belonging to the Palestinians, with WWII missile launchers, is evidence that whoever is using these tactics is still lost in the 60s. Back in the early 70s, while everybody’s eyes were transfixed to the waists of generous belly dancers at places like Grotte Des Pigeons, the armed Palestinian militias were surrounding Beirut, drooling over our cultural, financial and economic riches. Once we sacrificed our sovereignty to the Arab cause, we became the playground of foreign sponsors of war.
