Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Lebanese cabinet

Lebanese politics is so boring.  So there is a new cabinet.  Nothing major really.  But Muhammad Jawad Khalifah (Amal's Minister of Health) is finished politically, because in Wikileaks documents he mocked Hizbullah and its resisters.   He also lied about Wikileaks by producing his own version of the minute of the meeting.  I detest Najib Miqati: the notion that you can have a billionaire heading a cabinet that has an agenda of resistance is foolish.  The smartest move was done by Nabih Birri: who sacrificed a Shi`ite Minister, thereby increasing the Sunni Share in the cabinet: so fir the first time since Ta'if, Sunni representation in the cabinet is not equal to Shi`ite representation.  This was shrewdly intended to undermine the Hariri blatantly sectarian agitation of Hariri family and the various Saudi tools in Lebanon.  Typically, Amal produces a lousy minister of foreign affairs.  Amal is skilled in producing the worst ministers in the history of Lebanon--and the competition is stiff.  There are many ministers who are corrupt, from what I hear.  `Awn produced a minister of culture whose only credential is that he is related to his wife.  I trust Miqati like Habash trusted Arafat.  Sharbil Nahhas is probably the best minster in the history of Lebanon, but he left the Ministry of Telecommunication (he is now Minster of Labor).   But the new Minister of Telecommunication, Sahnawi, is very smart.  In Lebanon, the best strategy is to not harbor hope about any faction.  This why, you won't be disappointed.