It has been around a month and a half since the Oct. 7 operation in the Gaza Envelope; skepticism is increasing and the risks are accumulating. 

In the past 48 hours, the Lebanese people have eagerly awaited the disclosure of the “appointment” file of a president who does not preside … of a republic that is no longer existent … on the land of a defunct “Lebanese state.”

Amid the presidential vacuum in Lebanon and against the backdrop of armies’ experiences of power in the Arab world and even across the Third World, some Lebanese recall a phenomenon called Fouad Chehab.