Watching the progress of events at the Hariri international tribunal brought back sad memories to most of Lebanese who recapitulated in regressive state the calamities that struck Lebanon long before Rafik Hariri played any public role in the Lebanese arena.

With Hariri many other politicians and innocent citizens lost their lives to terrorism and hate, to tyranny and hidden dictatorship…

But the tribunal can be a message of hope to those demanding international justice, security and peace.

Those of us who followed the beginning of events prior to Hariri and still continuing till present day know who executed the assassination of Hariri and all other politicians, but who perpetrated, planned and conspired is a different story. The assassination of Hariri involves more than one conspirator and the aims are more than one target, by removing Hariri and his allies from the political scene in Lebanon directly targeted the independence of Lebanon from Syrian occupation of which he was an insurmountable obstacle and indirectly targeted to stifle the influence of Saudi Arabia in Lebanon and as was revealed later the very role of Saudi Arabia in the whole of the Middle East.

Who would benefit from the killing of a peaceful loving human who never involved in anything other than successful business and later a very successful political performance, A philanthropist who extended hand and worm welcome to all of those who associated with him be it on the political, business or humanitarian level.

Rafik Hariri and his fellow martyrs deserve justice.

Humanity deserves justice as we all do…

South Africa recently lost their Mandela and so did India their Gandhi but as for the Lebanese and the Middles East we lost our own Hariri, the difference is our loss was not due to natural death.

May justice prevail and may peace reign in Lebanon soon.

But we still want and need to know the truth in literal terms and not in theory.

Good luck Saad Hariri and family and hopeful wishes to all of us who seek justice and peace in the forsaken Lebanon.

Adam El masri

A new phenomenon unveils with the death of another young man from Beirut. Muhammad Al Sha’ar may very well prove to be the new Bou Aziz of the Lebanese Media at an age of sweet 16 this young martyr would have accomplished a miracle in the local media which was heavily occupied in dirty local politics for a long time…

The media coverage of the death procession of Muhammad Al sha’ar at his school in Beirut was emotionally touching and moving enough to summon the conscience of youth from all over the world to join in mourning him in an act of sympathy with Lebanese youth who lost touch with the their reality, He, Al Sha’ar along with several of his friends had a dream to join the MBA, he was a talented basketball player, he also liked to watch Harry Potter, perhaps he wanted to compensate his bitter reality with some magic, very much needed magic in the lives of Lebanese youth who are all but victims of the occupation of Lebanon by either foreign powers or alien ideologies imported from neighboring and regional  philosophies.

May this new calamity be an illumination of our endeavor for a better future for our youth all over the world and may the death of Muhammad trigger the change needed to bring peace and stability in the region.

Adam El Masri

Why?! As events trickle on the Lebanese stage after the assassination of former minister Muhammad Shatah, dark shadows of part of the picture started revealing its secrets.

The several missiles landing in Israel launched from South Lebanon and the blockade of the highway to Beirut in protest for a kidnapped Lebanese citizen in Nigeria sheds light to what could be the reason behind the assassination of Dr. Muhammad Shatah.

Muhammad Shatah is from Tripoli City in the North of Lebanon, but what most people did not realize is the fact that Dr. Shatah originally came from the Tabbaneh area in the city of Tripoli, Tabbaneh is facing mount Mouhsin which is the Alawayt stronghold that supports Bashar Al Assad lately accused of being behind the infamous bombings of the two mosques of al Salam and al Taqwa resulting in over fifty dead and a thousand injured few months ago.

Though Shatah was very active in finding solution for the current stalemate in Lebanon, I do not personally think this would be enough for his assassination at this time, neither I believe that he was murdered because he was a moderate politician and a talented debater, It seems that being a Sunni from the Tabbaneh area was more probable cause for his assassination to instigate another round of fighting between Tabbaneh and Mount Mouhsin in an act of retaliation for his assasination to give a motive for the supporters of the Alawayts and their allies to interfere militarily in their support in preparation to bring more chaos into the Lebanon prior to the due date of the Lebanese Tribunal for the assassination of PM Rafik Hariri in mid-January 2014.

The Assad Regime and its allies in Lebanon would prefer to have Lebanon in chaos and without a government or even a presidency during the beginning of next year to secure the elimination of a possibility for any Lebanese government to have to respond to any obligation resulting from any request by the international tribunal trial of the five Hezbollah members accused of Hariri assassination…

The three billion dollars military aid for the Lebanese army granted by the Saudi Kind Abdullah may also be to prepare the Lebanese armed forces to respond to any hidden agenda by Iran, Syria and the Hezbollah camp in Lebanon…

Though there is so much uncertainty in the Lebanon after the assassination of Dr. Shatah what is certain is that 2014 will prove to be a very delicate year for the existence of Lebanon as we know it today.

Partition of Lebanon seems inevitable unless Iran and Syria let go of Lebanon which they hijacked for over two decades.

Lebanon is a failed state without the Lebanese workforce support in the Gulf countries.

Lebanon is too tiny to grab the attention of the super powers but Lebanon will prove to be contagious if the super powers keep on neglecting its need for independence and peace and ignore its rights to exist as a free and neutral country in this 21^st century.

The Syrian refugees number is growing like wild mushrooms in every community throughout Lebanon, schools are not enough to cater for their children, hospitals are not equipped to accommodate or attend to their needs and the whole infrastructure of every city, town and village is exhausted and overwhelmed by the Syrian refugees invading even their fields and roads and accommodation needs.

The united nation and other donor countries do not give the needed help because the current government is corrupt and not even legitimate and the list grows longer and longer, will Lebanon have a break in the 2014 or will it breakdown that is yet to be seen in the 2014.

What come may, good luck Lebanon.

Adam El Masri

Message in a bottle… Evil strikes again… Former Minister Muhammad Shatah was assassinated today along with up to eighty victims between the injured and those lost their lives so that a massage can be conveyed to specific people that Lebanon is still hostage of regional powers and it is still not allowed for it to be freed…

Lebanon took its independence from the French occupation on the 22 of November 1943 but since that date till to date Lebanon never really enjoyed any independence.

Shatah was known to have been close to Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri who was assassinated in a similar method though on a much rather scale on February 14, 2005, and he was one of the consultants for the son of Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

Shata was considered one of the doves of the 14^th of March political movement, a highly educated debater and mediator he strived to keep a positive debate amongst all other politicians in Lebanon and because he kept his role as a moderator he was considered to be a soft target within the 14^th of March movement, and he paid the price in a country ruled by chaos.

What massage is meant behind this crime seems almost certain to be a warning to the Lebanese President Mr. Mishal Sulaiman not to form a new government lead by Mr. Tamam Salam without the consent of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah camp.

What is expected to happen after this blasting massage is probably more explosive situation probably a renewal of unrest in the north of Lebanon capital city of Tripoli…

Who is next and what is next for poor Lebanon.

Adam El Masri