Octavia Nasr was forced to leave CNN because she described late Sheikh Fadallah as one of the Hezbollah giants she respected a lot. The American Lebanese former CNN senior editor of Arabic affairs paid the price of sending a 140 tweet from her blackberry where she mourned a man who contributed a lot to his nation and his religion.
Nasr unfortunately had to justify her tweet but of course it was too late and her words were clearly taken as not only as sign of admiration to the late cleric but also to Hezbollah who got giants.
Yes Hezbollah got giants and no one can deny it in Lebanon where it is legal official party participating in the Lebanese political life. Despite our sectarian and political difference ,I can't deny the important role of Sheikh Hussein Fadallah played may Allah bless his soul in the Islamic world as he was the most prominent figures of Shiite sect who worked carefully on building bridges between the Sunni and Shiite for the sake of Islam in that hard time. I believe considering him the main cleric or spiritual leader of Hezbollah only is a way to underestimate that man's role in Lebanese public life.
United States and Israel must understand this reality : Hezbollah is an official political party with a real political power in the country , I think all those years and all these wars proved that it is not a militia or a terrorist group as they claim.
I can't believe that for 140 letters tweet , this lady is going to leave CNN after all those years. Of course some will ask me about her neutrality as a journalist and I will answer again that I do not think that what she tweeted was against her neutrality because Fadallah was a very important and respectable personality in Lebanon not at the Southern suburb or the South only.Of course she would have continued in her place if she tweeted : Fadallah to hell !!!
I think it is Octavia's job to keep open channels and speak about every party in Lebanon in respectable neutral way as much as possible so she would not lose an important source of news but this does not matter because after all those years this lady has to lose her job in less that 48 hours because of 140 tweet !!
First it was Helen Thomas and now Octavia Nasr , who else will pay the price of saying what is on his mind !!??
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