"Hands off Lebanon," out cried Tueni in an article setting the options under the headline "pacify Lebanon or (face) mass suicide" and published by the daily an-Nahar.
What if attempts by Iranian-backed Syria "lead to Iraqizing Lebanon?" Tueni asked.
"Isn't it time for the Lebanese, all the Lebanese, to realize and repeat President Anwar Sadat's outcry … hands off Lebanon?" Tueni asked, recalling that the late Egyptian president made the remark while attempts were underway to "shift the war against Camp David to Lebanon."
"The war proved that only Lebanon was destroyed and Camp David was not called off and Israel was not defeated," he noted.
"Once again: Hands off Lebanon," Tueni wrote.
Addressing the "Arabs, Iranians and recruits of Syria in Lebanon and Palestine," Tueni wrote: "Pacify Lebanon to ensure your safety as well as Lebanon's."
He concluded: "What we do not accept, and there is nothing to force us to accept, is to be called to walk alone into the inferno while others get rewards, one after the other, for abiding by peace and the wish to negotiate.
"Only a positively pacified Lebanon could be the Arab and Islamic salvation log against joint suicide."
Picture: Lebanon's leading columnist MP Ghassan Tueni. In the background is a portrait of his slain son Gibran Tueni who was assassinated on Dec. 12, 2005. Syria was accused of being behind the murder.
Sources: Naharnet
Tags: Anwar Sadat, Ghassan Tueni, Gibran Tueini, Iran, Lebanon, Syria
