Ideas not people are indestructible
Lebanon is a land planted with idols, the living, the dead and those made of marble, throughout its length and breadth, from its coast to its highest mountains, we are a country that raises high a person, a human being, and brings low another. We forget or ignore high ideals and values, or working together for a common good, or the value of organization that outlives flesh and blood. We are out for our own personal gain and we admire those who succeed at taking what isn’t technically theirs. We also admire the superman until we discover he is just a man, fragile flesh and blood. Christian and Muslim, secular, agnostic and atheist, each of us have his or her own idol, in this case a word with multiple connotations. What Israel fails to understand is the power and indestructability of an idea and a belief. For one, the audacious idea that an inferior force of guerillas formed into a resistance movement can dare to think it can defeat Israel, a powerful idea. That’s an idea that’s har...