الجميل: هناك ثلاثة استحقاقات خطيرة تحدد مستقبل لبنان

(1). We in Lebanon have an old saying, which I will not use as it is said, since it is truly racist, but I will shape it in a different way to make it sound more politically correct and nevertheless convey the message exactly as it should. If we have a girl that's getting too old without marriage (3ansa), we say better to marry her to anyone before she continues single. When that anyone comes, we see it as a salvage to what we would have perceived to be disastrous for the girl and the family, anyone but let she marry. In our current cabinet context, exactly the same principle was applied, anything but let there be a cabinet, even if it's made of the same old rubbish, but let's get that cabinet at last.

(2). And the people of Lebanon will live to see another day with the same old trash, Sukleen maybe is now returning to work after the Al Nehmeh dump site has been reopened, and we can now breathe a sigh of relief after all that our trash is getting picked up again, but the real lethal, deadly and toxic trash of our politicians will be dumped on us again, as highly gangrenous as ever. Score: Politicians: 10 (ten), The People: 0, (nil).

Why the movement in the "all encompassing government" file, all the sudden? Well everyone's interest is served by this. For Hariri, Gemayel and others who had rejected participation in a government with Hezbollah, it seems a quid pro quo has been struck with regard to the STL. If Hariri would participate in the fait accompli 888 government where Hezbollah would control all decisions, then Hezbollah would not obstruct the funding of the STL. Let them try Hezbollah's guys in abstentia.

For Hezbollah, they will get a government that they can control, so as to legalize their theft in the ministries.
For Aoun, he can continue his theft in the ministries.
For the M14 they have some sort of a path toward relevancy which is tiny, but better than the current dead end that they occupy.