When the secretary general of Hezbollah limited the classification of “the most honorable people” to his public and allies using a superlative form in the process, he created two problems; one which is cognitive and the other related to the entity – as was revealed by the Burj Abi Haidar clashes between two teams of those “people.” Indeed, the violence of the exchange of bullets and rockets pointed to the fact that the armed men of Hezbollah and the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects, which are within the same alliance, are different – but not at the level of “honor” as they both belong to that same honorable and favored group among all the other creations of Allah which are by definition less honorable. Consequently, the following question emerges: which side the most honorable between those fighting in the streets of this area of Beirut? This is on the “cognitive” level. While the answer was that both sides were equal in terms of honor based on the sentence issued by Hezbollah's secretary general, this necessitated a search for other differences between two armed organizations belonging to “political Islam” and guarantying goodness and happiness for human beings on this earth and in the afterlife. The impossibility to see a vertical division between the honorable and the more honorable (considering that the two organizations belong to the “most honorable” faction or class), left the arena wide open for a horizontal division which is defined by the affiliations of the members of the two armed groups, their domestic and external ties and their “cultural” inclinations. This is at the level of the entity or “ontologically.” Consequently, warring becomes an act of existence or a corroboration of the existential character and specificity. However, the leaders of the warring sides confirmed the “futility” of the incident which claimed the lives of three people, injured more than twenty others, destroyed dozens of cars and caused major damage to houses, shops and a mosque. If one were to take the statements of the leaders who are knowledgeable about their affairs into consideration, merging “futility” to existence would seem justified and sound. For three people, three hundred people or three thousand people to die, is in the eyes of those convened in the offices of the army intelligence nothing more than an act of “futility” which should be overcome and forgotten between the members of the same ranks who can kill whoever they want among each other or spare those whom they believe are worth sparing. The clashes between Hezbollah and the Charitable Projects Association (and the contradiction between the neutrality of the names and their performance of “non-neutral” missions and roles, which is a principle in a political life based on showing something that is different from the actual intentions) occurred at a time when the secretary general of Hezbollah was calling for the imposition of an emergency law and the establishment of field courts to urgently look into the files of the agents. Needless to say, the party and the Association that are busy with major issues such as the future of the nation and its immunization from the Israeli infiltrations, will not deem it necessary to establish such courts to prevent their fighters from spreading terror among the houses. This is due to the fact that the security of the “resistance” is above that of the country and that the deployment of hundreds of armed men in the streets within minutes has nothing to do with the security of the “resistance” for which the dignity of the citizen should be stepped on and for which they should be humiliated day and night. This lesson learned on May 7, 2008 which was a “glorious day” in the history of the Islamic resistance as it was decreed by the secretary general, is being repeated in August 2010 and was implemented on more than one occasion which witnessed the shedding of blood for no reason and due to the proliferating “futility.” While the promotional campaign to build a nuclear reactor in Lebanon is a mere publicity for the accomplishments of the regime in Tehran, another reactor proved to be working at full capacity on the night of the battles seen in Beirut. It is the reactor of sectarian infighting which is defeating the Lebanese and crushing their bones and their lives. A few days ago, this reactor positioned itself in Burj Abi Haidar and is susceptible to conduct a wide tour throughout the Lebanese territories in the growing absence of the state and the civil society.
