Lebanon... I turned a page and the file remained

Written by: Nabil Amr
If the surprise of the last hours did not happen, it seems that Lebanon is on its way to signing an agreement to demarcate the maritime borders with Israel, to benefit from the gas whose extraction is expected to help save Lebanon from its major crisis, the likes of which it has not gone through since its founding... It has never happened that the Lebanese citizen needed bread without which there is no human life.
Lebanon, which is heavy with wounds and conflicting agendas, showed remarkable flexibility in its indirect negotiations with the Israelis, and more than directly with the Americans, as well as its intra-Lebanese negotiations, on the basis of "needs or initiatives" and it is not permissible to say concessions, because Lebanon took a lot of what it had and left a lot of what Time remains, because the demarcation of the maritime borders is not everything, and what remains between Lebanon and Israel is an extension of what remains between Israel and the Palestinians and most of the Arabs. .
Closing the file of the maritime borders between Lebanon and Israel, with a persistent and effective American effort, whets our appetite and even urges us, the Palestinians, to open our files with Israel. Palestine no.
With all sincerity and sincerity, we wish Lebanon to obtain all that it aspires for, and we are happy with what makes it happy. It is, in a way, our twin in suffering from Israel, and it is one of the countries in the world that embraces the most Palestinian refugees before the Syrians overtake them. Our revolution is on his land and among his people. Al-Fadl who kept our cause and our liberation movement alive and entered into equations.
It is our logical right to take what happened with Lebanon as a model that does not mention only some of our rights, but also the inevitability of obtaining them. We do not lack gas in the depths of our sea, nor are we denied fishing in the sea adjacent to our shores, nor do we miss the minimum level of freedom of movement for our citizens within their homeland. We do not miss safety for our children, who go to schools and some of whom do not return home. We miss all of that, and above it a homeland and a destiny.
We congratulate Lebanon before the gas field, the unanimity of its people on this achievement, which, no matter how important it may seem, remains partial until now, and requires a collective effort to preserve it. We say to Israel that if you turn a page from the book of your conflict in the region and with it, it will not work for you or the region except to turn the most important page, which is exactly the end of the occupation and the birth of an independent Palestinian state, and the solution to the refugee issue concerned by Lebanon as much as we care about it, not us Only the Palestinians and the Arabs say that, and let us read the summary of a report published yesterday by the most widely circulated newspaper in Israel, Yedioth Ahronoth, and I quote what it says verbatim...
"It must be realized that the current wave of violence differs from the previous waves of violence, and for this reason a new method must be thought of to confront it, and the fact that the insistence on continuing to control 2.6 million Palestinians leads not only to the continuation of the waves of violence, but to an increase in their intensity, and it is unfortunate, as Yedioth says, The continued political instability in Israel over the past four years has prevented work on reaching a long-term settlement with the Palestinians.
Once again an important page has been turned, but the danger will remain if the file remains intact.