After 13 days of protests, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced that he resigned on Tuesday.
After two weeks of protests, the Lebanese government has fallen. Prime Minister Saad Harriri has resigned.
A clamor greeted the news. The protesters sang the national anthem, honked the victory, fired fireworks and in the south, it was general tour of orangeade and Turkish coffee.
On the Titanic Bridge, the orchestra played during the sinking. In Beirut, passengers dance.
The Prime Minister throws in the towel and the crowd repeats that everyone must leave. President Aoun consults but "all, that means all". Hezbollah sends its militiamen to beat protesters, its leader Hassan Nasrallah forbids Harriri to flee: the party of God is no longer obeyed. He drowned the administration, as he stuffed the basement with arsenals but the Lebanese are like hostages who have just escaped.
The state is still standing.
There is no real state anymore. A rump army, an abysmal debt, the old warlords shared the country, in Taef, 30 years ago stack.
But there is a Lebanese nation that has survived the worst and even the ridiculous. A Lebanese people able to form Sunday, a human chain from the Sunni heart of Tripoli in the north to the exit of Saida in southern Shiite, 170 kilometers of national unity, hand in hand. Never seen.
It is all the more exhilarating that the governor of the Bank of Lebanon announces the bankruptcy, the economy that will collapse, it's a matter of days.