This morning, Israel’s Defense Minister threatened to strike Lebanon’s state infrastructure and seize more Lebanese territory.
By the time these lines are read, something new may already have happened. News alerts cascade without pause — across television screens, mobile phones, WhatsApp groups, and app notifications. Everyone is watching, staring at their screens. And in the brief silence between one headline and the next, some may stop for a moment and ask themselves: why are we left alone between their fires?
Israel is pushing deeper into the south — into areas evacuated up to the Zahrani River — and has begun bombing bridges to isolate regions from one another. Hezbollah responds with waves of rockets launched in retaliation for Khamenei.
Caught between Israel on one side and Hezbollah on the other, the Lebanese remain abandoned like orphans between two fires — both bitter and burning. Many Lebanese today feel a real sense of abandonment, as no serious political movement emerges to stop this new nightmare.
People ask today: Will Israel simply be allowed to take the south like this?
Will it be allowed to bomb bridges, ports, and homes?
And will Hezbollah be allowed to fire all its rockets in service of Iran?
Will it be allowed to drag the entire country down to the abyss it has brought upon itself?
Between all of this, Lebanon’s state institutions and leaders appear to be in a coma. People feel it. They feel abandoned — as if this country has no guardian, no one responsible for protecting its people.
Lebanon’s institutions must move. Their calendars must be filled with political, military, and diplomatic meetings. They must compel the army to implement the only path to Lebanon’s survival: to restore state authority, enforce sovereignty, and regain international credibility so that Lebanon can once again be taken seriously and reclaim a seat at the negotiating table.
Lebanon’s leaders today had the chance to enter history, but they hesitated, maneuvered, and compromised. They did everything except save the country.
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