Lebanon Debate Unveils Unlikely Political Sports Alliances Amid Rising Tensions

While a fierce virtual war is going on every day between the supporters of the Lebanese Forces Party and the Lebanese Phalange, on the one hand, and the supporters of the Amal Movement, on the other hand, what seems to be a complete harmony between virtual opponents has appeared. What politics has divided over decades is united by sports today.

This duality, which characterizes the relationship between parties in Lebanon, hides behind the scenes many interests that go beyond the broad ones that these people want publicly, especially on the issue of corruption, jurisdiction, and mutual accusations of interference.

In detail, Debate Lebanon learned that “the award ceremony of the school volleyball tournament was held on the grounds of ​​Club Amchit last Saturday, in the presence and under the supervision of the sports coordinator of the Lebanese Forces Party, which is the head -sit on Club Amchit, Youssef Qasifi. , as well as the head of the Sports Activities Unit at the Ministry of Education and the official in the Amal Movement Sports Office, Mazen Qubaisi, and a member of the Phalange Political Bureau Roukoz Zgheib were also present.

According to the information, “This meeting is not the first of its kind between political opponents and sports federations, as the Phalange member Roukoz Zgheib is the most likely candidate for the leadership of the Yacht Federation with the support of the Amal movement and Forces Lebanon. as well as the Phalange Party.”

The information revealed that “over the past months, meetings have been held at the highest party levels, to create a broad sports alliance led by the Amal Movement and including the Lebanese Forces and the Party Phalange to run in the upcoming sports elections. ”

The confusion is not limited to the content of the strange alliances, but it also extends to the celebration, which coincided with a few days after the assassination of the coordinator of the forces in Jbeil, Pascal Suleiman , as the forces did not hesitate. identify the prosecution branch of the Amal Movement alliance, Hezbollah, as being behind the crime, and how could the Christian party deal with it? There were so few issues in front of his audience and a double standard at the same time, and the information asked about the meaning of the political messages behind the publication of this alliance from the town of Amchit at this time.