The return of the deportees to Israel!

As part of the restoration of "Christian rights" and the reduction of Christian representation in Lebanon, Minister Gebran Bbadil raised the issue of "Lebanese deportees in Israel" during his recent visit to southern Lebanon and stated that their problem should stop. Justice Minister Albert Sarhan will present a draft decree to establish a law enforcement mechanism that will help return expellees and begin the process of return. "

The number of Lebanese who left southern Lebanon to visit Israel in 2000 was estimated at 8,000, but today there are only 3,400 people, most of whom have emigrated to Western countries. The question may have a human dimension, but it is undoubtedly a thorny issue that touches on the sensitivities of sectarianism and raises differences of opinion and disagreements in the approach of the Lebanese parties between those who claim that they are agents and those who regard them as deserters or fortresses.

The issue of the deportees has always been at the center of the concerns of the Lebanese Christian parties, especially since about 90% of them are South Christians, they spent about 20 years in the occupied Zionist entity and in the South. the care of its institutions and have become part of its social and economic fabric.

The question is: do they really want to return to Lebanon? And then, a new angel fully integrated into Israeli society has acquired Israeli citizenship and some of them serve in the army. Will they leave their lives to return to Lebanon?

These facts lead us to question the fact that the initiative "general public" opens this file, especially since the "deportees" do not represent a numerical weight, their situation is confused among the first generations of emigrants who did not want to return to Lebanon at the very beginning of their departure, "You may not want to go back there. It is likely that this statement is one of the tools to consolidate the presence of "Basil" in the Lebanese Christian consciousness and place it at the top of the pyramid of Christian leadership and in front of the race for the presidency!

It should be noted that the House of Representatives approved in 2011 a bill submitted by "current" to remedy the situation of the Lebanese in "Israel" and authorized this law for individuals who did not participate militarily or in security in "the South Lebanon Army", as well as their families of wives (or couples). ) And the children, to return to Lebanon without being the subject of an investigation. Those who participated in the ALS militia will be investigated and will be subject to a fair trial, but will not work to implement practical orders, as pointed out Minister Bbadil, and what the Minister of Justice will propose.

There is also a general tendency to include the subject in the full "amnesty basket" that could be discussed soon, including "Islamic detainees", drug traffickers and smugglers. In 2012, the Phalange party proposed an amnesty law for the Lebanese. "Israel", but was not presented at any parliamentary session.

The opening of the issue of the return of the Lebanese living in the occupied Palestinian territories in this critical period is tantamount to creating a new mine that contributes to stir up sectarian conflicts on the national scene, all the more so as a large segment of Lebanon rejects the return of those who call them "And no excuse was … On the other hand, there are those who claim the right of return of these people, because their flight to" Israel "was the result of specific conditions that they lived and threats received during this period.

Between opinion and opinion, this does not diminish the Lebanese situation is fundamentally fragile, not a clumsy and crude spark of this kind, so as to trigger a new sedition to which Lebanon may not survive!