As of today, the world is gasping for soccer. The 2022 World Cup has opened in Qatar, and with it a new era has begun in the world of football. For the first time in the cup’s history, an Arab country will host the tournament. It is an unprecedented historical achievement for Qatar and for the entire Arab world. It’s a moment that hasn’t happened since 1930, the date of the first soccer world championship. The opening ceremony was special and remarkable and included seven paragraphs, performed by artists from all over the world. They blended Qatari Arab customs and traditions and manifestations of global culture. In content, the inauguration carried an important message that went beyond politics. The idea of the ceremony mainly revolved around the rapprochement between human peoples, and the importance of overcoming ethnic, class and sectarian differences, in order to reach a single world, which is the world of brotherhood and humanity.
This is how the world is transformed, for about a month, a tribe gathers under a single tent called: Qatar. Congratulations to the Arab world for this result, because it demonstrates once again the civic and cultural dimension of Arabism, and confirms once again that Arabs are also messengers of peace, love and brotherhood. As for the host country, one word: thank you, Qatar
In return for the soccer match in Qatar, there is strong anticipation in Lebanon for what the ongoing negotiations to broadcast the matches on Lebanon TV might bring. According to the information, the negotiations with Qatar and with the distribution company in Lebanon have been completed, the requested amount has been determined and the contract is ready for signature. However, lurking obstacles remain, most of which derive from the absence of a government meeting to decide on the disbursement of the requested amount, especially since the legal disbursement mechanism has become more difficult after the approval of the procurement law public. This hurdle will be overcome one way or another, or the Lebanese are doomed to pay the price for the presidential vacancy and for conducting government affairs, even mathematically, so that the four billion people in the world do not participate in the pleasure of watch World Cup matches?
Politically, the suspended presidency was once again the focus of Patriarch Al-Rahi’s homily today. Sayed Bkerke renewed his characterization of parliamentary sessions as a farce, and proceeded to hold deputies accountable for the ruin and dismantling of the state and the impoverishment of its people if they continued to undervalue the election of a president at times more delicate and difficult circumstances. At the same time, in an interview with “MTV”, former minister Wiam Wahhab announced that the country now has three options: either Gebran Bassil accepts the election of Suleiman Franjieh, or Franjieh announces his refusal.
Candidacy, namely the election of army commander Joseph Aoun, with an American-Iranian agreement through the French. Wahhab attached his analysis to his claim that lines of communication were opened between the army commander and Hezbollah, revealing a meeting that took place in this context. Will the army commander reach Baabda following an Iranian-American-Saudi-French agreement, and will Lebanon emerge from its Arab and international isolation, and new horizons open before the country?
