Ibrahim Al-Halabi, the candidate of (the leftist) Harakat Ash-Sha`b in the Beirut by-election, is a rare non-sectarian candidate in Lebanese elections. He is not very good on TV but compared to his rival, Hariri tool Amin `Itani, he is brimming with charisma. He now is administrative director at New TV but was a fighter with the Lebanese Communist Party, and joined the resistance against Israeli occupation after 1982. He does not have a chance of winning: not only because sectarian agitation is the rule in Lebanon these days but also because Hizbullah--as usual--has abandoned him although he is courageously running against the Hariri Inc apparatus in Lebanon. I have never voted in my life--and never will--but this is a decent man. I salute any one who runs a campaign in Lebanon without resorting to sectarian agitation. Thus I salute Ibrahim Al-Halabi.