موقع د.وليد فارس الإخباري: سوب أوبرا الحريري هي عملياً مسرحية لحزب الله على طريقة عروض برودواي/Blog by Dr Walid Phares on his social media: Hariri’s soap opera is a Hezbollah Broadway show
Hariri’s soap opera is a Hezbollah Broadway show موقع د.وليد فارس الإخباري: سوب أوبرا الحريري هي عملياً مسرحية لحزب الله على طريقة عروض برودواي Blog by Dr Walid Phares on his social media/October 01/2019
As soon as the New York Times published the “bombshell” report that PM Hariri has paid a South African model 18 million dollars, a Tsunami of critics exploded on social media. If Lebanon was a normal functioning democracy, free from terror and occupation, the story would have been stopping time in that small country and deserved a NYT front story. The problem is that the country is not a Monte Carlo buzzing with scandals, it is rather a country living under a Vichy like regime. If M. Hariri’s spending was from public budget, there would be a legal questioning. But is it? If it is his own purse, it may frustrate some of his own partisans and be seized by his political enemies, but it is his own private life. So far, it is not hitting world concerns about the threats roaming in the Middle East. It may be a strange story for some, but not a matter of national security.
What is national and international security is Hezbollah jumping on the story to neutralize Hariri and or remove him from office. Knowing that Sheikh Saad is the only non Iranian ally among the three presidencies in official presidencies, since the President and speaker are Hezbollah open allies. What would that lead to? Well of course to pressure PM Hariri to allow Hezbollah to move closer to reform the Central Bank of Lebanon, or eventually move Hariri away and have a flexible Prime Minister, allowing a control over the Central Bank and evasion of US sanctions. Let’s remember that since the US escalated sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank, Iran’s allies in region moved to secure influence over the central banks of Baghdad and Beirut.
Why would the New York Times blast Hariri with an article to draw ire on him in Lebanon and minimize his credibility worldwide? Simply because the NYT is a supporter of the Iran Deal, and not shy about it. The paper raise the issue, and the pro Iran camp descends on Hariri politically. It is not about an old story of a personal relationship by a Lebanese politician.. The story can have its own noise among the public at will, but the real goal behind its publication and the maneuvers of Hezbollah in Lebanon have to do with geopolitics and political control.
In Lebanon this could be a Prime Minister’s soap opera. But internationally this is seen as a Hezbollah Broadway show.
