What they said علي خليفة ×

We are before a new and at the same time repeated chapter in the history of the Shiites and Jabal Amel. And we will cross into a new Middle East, at a heavy price.

It is the result of the wrong choices of the political and religious officials in the Shiite community. Joining the Iranian project makes Jabal Amel a card in the game of nations competing for influence in the region and turns southerners into scapegoats and Jabal Amel into scorched land. The Shiites need an alternative narrative, open to peace in the region with Israel, and less tied to religious and superstitious legacies.

The Shiite displacement is not the first in their history. The most recent was the campaign of Wali Ahmad Pasha on Jabal Amel as a result of a miscalculation in the political position of the Shiite leader in Jabal Amel at the time, Nassif al-Nassar, and his affiliations. And a military miscalculation, as the latter thought he would fight the army of al-Jazzar and the Janissary army with hundreds of sons of the villages.