Terrified Bassil Dumps Hezbollah. Deserves 2023 Nobel for Treachery

Gebran Bassil says his ill-named “Free Patriotic Movement” (FPM) has agreed with the Lebanese opposition on a name for a candidate for the presidential elections, though the political program remains incomplete. Bassil, however, being terrified at the prospect of being a target of assassination by his former ally, the Iranian terrorist militia of Hezbollah, continues to lick the flip-flops of Hassan Nasrallah and says, “it is necessary to find an agreement with everyone else, including Hezbollah.” Lick, Gebran, lick, it may save your life from the wrath of Beelzebub with whom you struck a Faustian deal in 2006.

After spending close to two decades as a Christian Dhimmi slave to the Iranian terrorist organization, when he should have known that there are consequences to dealing with an unlawful, criminal and terrorist organization, Bassil is now walking back from his love affair with the Iranian mullahs. Why? Because his Christian base has deserted him and is now squarely in the camp of the Christian opposition, the Lebanese Forces of Samir Geagea.

As is typical in primitive tribal Lebanese politics, Bassil doesn’t find it necessary to explain to his followers and the Lebanese people his turnaround on his 20-year-long treasonous relationship with Hezbollah, in which he and his father-in-law, former traitor president Michel Aoun, have spoken ill of the Lebanese army as an incapable institution and used this as a justification for defending the unlawful existence of Hezbollah. Once a defender of Israel against Palestinian suicide operations, and an enemy of Syria and Iran, Michel Aoun became an enemy of Israel and an ally of Syria and Iran overnight after the idiot Bassil convinced him to betray his principles and his country to become president. Hezbollah then proceeded to paralyze Parliament for 2.5 years to force Aoun into the presidential palace.

Now Bassil, always the reliable imbecile, thought that his blood covenant with Hezbollah included securing him the presidential seat in Baabda after his senile father-in-law's term ended. But in this treacherous masquerade, Hezbollah is the puppeteer and Bassil the puppet, and now the puppeteer has found another more reliable traitor to deal with in the person of the medieval feudal lord from the north, Sleiman Frangiyeh, and has therefore ignored Bassil’s constant drooling and groveling at the feet of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The scorned lover and cuckold Bassil is angry but cannot express his anger freely because the puppeteer is prone to using violence, including assassination, against former puppets who wash dirty laundry in public.

But Bassil is desperate, very desperate. His Christian base has all but deserted him, and his popularity with that base is waning as the old geezer Michel Aoun slips into oblivion, while Bassil's apparent political buoyancy was strictly dependent on his tactical alliances with those he now claims are his enemies, as the May 2022 elections showed. As Hezbollah is dumping him, Bassil finds himself without any ally, so he is trying to cling to a few fibers of Nasrallah's robes while at the same time walking away - or pretending to walk away - from Hezbollah. In other words, he wants his cake and eat it too. He's such an idiot.

For example, he recently declared what he is asking Hezbollah to put aside its coercive confrontational posture and adopt an acceptable national consensus, or alternatively to agree to a democratic competition in parliament by voting. Wow, Bassil used to defend Hezbollah’s coercive and often lethal methods when they favored him and Michel Aoun. Now that it is no longer the case, he is critical of them. He further says that the current performance of the Shiite duo (Amal movement and Hezbollah) is uniting the Christians! Indeed, Bassil’s Christian followers have rallied the Christian base of Bassil’s rival, the Lebanese Forces of Samir Geagea, and any Christian unity will be without him personally. Too bad for Bassil who is begging anyone and everyone to save him from his own self-inflicted political demise.

As his ship is sinking, Bassil continues to flail about by begging former friends and foes. After cursing and badmouthing the Saudis for decades to satisfy his Hezbollah masters, Bassil is now engaged in heavy bootlicking at the feet of the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs. He now says that his FPM never meant to harm the Gulf countries (while he previously remained mum on Hezbollah's manufacturing and smuggling drugs like Captagon to the Arabian Gulf), but that today, faced with the ongoing changes in the region, he has a responsibility to bear. Not short on groveling and brown-nosing given his self-inflicted pathetic situation, Bassil went unusually far in praising Saudi Arabia for its new policies: If the Saudis’ great evolution can be disseminated across the region, we could see a new Europe in its humanitarian concept and its civilizational development, which would have huge repercussions on Lebanon including a rejection of the project of an alliance of minorities.

Bassil and Aoun should be inducted into the “Greatest Traitors Hall of Fame” of the history of Lebanon. To betray, knowing that you are betraying, then when the winds turn, to crawl back on your knees to kiss the feet of those whom you betrayed…is the height of treason and betrayal. Bassil should be given the 2023 Nobel Prize for Betrayal and Treachery.