In Lebanon, it evokes more than national unity, as if it was not a natural thing than being welded face misfortune whatever its origins.
In reality in the discourse of political "national unity" is a formula goes everywhere, the latest installment of waffling Lebanese version. I found during the war the unit was effective chain of solidarity between people of different culture without doubt, but sharing a common ground so the same identity. The bombs in south Lebanon was dismembered, disarticulated, without reference as a sick body under the gaze of the world condescending.
Early in the conflict, when Israel began the embargo in place I thought of a film by Luis Bunuel "the exterminating angel." A group of wealthy people in town happily dine in a luxurious house, and then late at night without any real reason, they seem unable to cross the door to go home. The film, a satire of bourgeois society in Mexico is also a study of the psychology of these honorable people apparently trapped like rats. United against the doom that prevents them from releasing imaginary chains imposed by the filmmaker, they become aggressive as the hours like animals in cages, each wants to impose its laws, its desires, its power over the rest of the group. They thus reveal their true nature, a mixture of hypocrisy and cowardice.
Lebanon was in a similar situation for 33 days, cut off from the world in military and psychological pressure. But if our policies have often behaved much like the guests of "The Exterminating Angel" in a veiled race to power, the majority of the population has shown humanity instinctively. It is not national unity but of greatness of soul of another Lebanon, Lebanon tolerant, Lebanon compassion. This
Lebanon that is not nationalistic or patriotic ... just human.
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