Basil and the “party”: a failed meeting and continued deterioration

Danny Haddad wrote on the MTV website:

The meeting that brought together MP Gebran Bassil and representatives of Hezbollah, three days ago, did not achieve a positive breakthrough. The relationship gets worse, and the rift gets bigger. What was called the Mar Mikhael Understanding became, after he reached the eighteenth year, a dead letter.

Gebran Bassil measures his positions on the balance of profit and loss. The relationship with Hezbollah made it lose some of its popular Christian legitimacy. Samir Geagea is the first beneficiary. Bassil read the results of the parliamentary elections well, and began the process of moving away from one side without completely moving to the other side. The “party’s” nomination of Suleiman Franjieh further alienated him. Some people close to Hezbollah believe that the source of the dispute is this nomination, not the confiscated presidential powers, nor legislation in the absence of the president, nor interference in the Gaza war…
Although the relationship between the “party” and the “current” has witnessed many tremors since the understanding, it is today experiencing its worst days and has become difficult to patch up, especially in light of what each side says about the other, away from the media. Bassil, who expresses his criticism of the “party” on several occasions, realizes that the fact that Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has avoided addressing the details of this relationship in the media does not mean that hearts are not full.
Bassil tried to drag Hezbollah into a media debate that could benefit him in the Christian street. But the “party” did not get carried away, and contented itself with delivering direct and indirect messages, in which it showed its fangs, which is what worries Bassil, according to what some people close to both sides believe.
The harshest thing about Hezbollah’s position is that they do not want anything from Bassil. They do not wait for a supportive position or a positive step. The “party” has set its sights elsewhere, and those in contact with it say that it is comfortable and acts as if its victory is inevitable in the ongoing battle, and it is betting on time and international and regional changes to secure Franjieh’s accession to the presidency, without caring if the Christian parliamentary majority opposes it. that.

However, regardless of Bassil’s goals and motives and whether his positions will restore to him some of the street he lost, he seems today more in harmony with himself, his ideas, and even his history, especially the history of the Free Patriotic Movement in the period before 2005, which opened the season of settlements that continued until the arrival of General Michel Aoun to the Presidency of the Republic.
Neither the unity of the squares resembles him, nor does the coverage of the corrupt suit him, nor do some of the positions issued by some of those who were or are still close to him, which contain a lot of fawning over the war of God.
But Basil’s biggest challenge is to gain what he lost as a Christian, otherwise he will be like someone who loses this world without gaining the afterlife.