Judge Tarek Bitar has been slammed by Hezbollah in the past and his work had been interrupted since December 2021. The news of the continued work by the judge comes as Lebanon still lacks a new president. The politicians in Beirut voted recently for the 11th time and couldn’t come up with a new leader. This leaves the country continually divided and leaves a power vacuum.
That vacuum is usually filled by Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s goal is to have a leaderless bankrupt Lebanon so that it can feed off the remains of the country and hollow it out and then fill it with weapons to threaten Israel.
Hezbollah benefits from chaos in Beirut
Hezbollah has a kind of stranglehold on power in Lebanon, not because it is that large a party, but because it has key allies and it has enough power to block the opposition from doing anything. Because it benefits from chaos, it, therefore, wants a political impasse.
Gebran Bassil, the head of the Christian party, the Free Patriotic Movement, has generally been an ally of Hezbollah. Lebanon’s politics are sectarian by law, so almost every party has sectarian-ethnic-religious roots, whether Christian Maronites or Shi’ite Hezbollah or Sunnis, Druze, etc. Bassil is related to the outgoing president Michel Aoun. READ MORE
