It’s been 27 years now since Bachir Gemayel has been assassinated, and every year I can’t help but wonder what could have happened if Bachir lived and remained as a president for Lebanon..?
Israel wouldn’t have invaded Lebanon, the Lebanese civil war could have ended earlier than 1990, a Beirut – Tel Aviv highway could have been created (similar to Beirut – Damascus highway!)… and for some reason Rafic Hariri could have lived!
What do you think?
What do you mean “Israel wouldn’t have invaded Lebanon” ???
Israel invaded Lebanon BEFORE Bachir’s assasination and with the complicity of Bachir. It was the bloody invasion that forced MPs to elect Bachir.
Stop idolizing militia leaders of yesterday, learn from their mistakes and try to build a better future
Another fanatic and criminal figure but he was the president of Lebanon who was assassinated same thing goes for the corrupted Rafic Hariri who robbed the country and bought Beirut.
@Salim
Excuse me for incorrectly expressing myself, I was referring to the events that followed Bachir’s assassination, e.g. Sabra & Shatila.
This post is not to idolize Bachir, I’m just saying that his assassination made a big turn of events in the Lebanese civil war, as Hariri’s assassination did in 2005.
@Dany moussa
Once again, I’m not praising neither Bachir here, nor Rafic Hariri.
Rami,
I don’t want to criticize your opinions. But, I have my opinion to share: the Lebanese civil war could have worsened and went on for longer than 1990, a Beirut – Tel Aviv highway could have been created (similar to Beirut – Damascus highway!)and could have encouraged hostilities within the Lebanese partisan society and had not served any good for Lebanon… and Rafic Hariri could have died all the same!
And maybe his assassination was good for the country after all.
My opinion is that Gemayel’s death shouldn’t be commemorated the way it is because he simply is a war criminal. But then again our whole country is still being run by war lords.
You can have symetric thaughts with people that were not killed! One of my favorites is about Ayatollah Khomeini in the late seventies, killed by some intelligence agency in his french asylum of Naufles le Chateau.
Bashir Gemayel was forced into war, his family comes a deeply rooted intellectual family that truly served the people. Founding of LBC, Libraries and institutions. We usally forget these and focus on the Palestinian cause/problem.
I wonder if any of the ones who commented in a negative way knew Bachir and what he did. Rather than make ignorant remarks, maybe you should spend some time to get to know about him and listen to what he said.
@Jester theFool
looooooooool, this is hilarious
this is like saying that hitler did lots of great things for germany, but poor thing, we tend to only focus on the genocides he made and the concentration camps.
loooool, some people are really hilarious, it explains a lot about how these fanatic warlords have people supporting them
and yeah sniper, ignorant remark, bashir was a saint. saying otherwise is very ignorant. what a smart comment from you…