Kim Ghattas
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He's president-elect.
He's not been inaugurated yet.
And there are mixed feelings in Lebanon.
The war is over.
You know, eight years of war have come to an end.
The Palestinians are leaving.
It's a shameful moment.
The left has failed.
There's a president of Lebanon that has allied with Israel.
But even in West Beirut, where there was so much sympathy for the Palestinian cause and Palestinian intellectuals, not all Palestinians, by the way, it's important to mention, Anita, lived in the camps.
They were also displaced.
well-to-do intellectuals and officials living very much part of cosmopolitan life in West Beirut.
So it's this mixed feelings of the war is over.
There's a bit of relief.
There's shame.
There's hope for the future.
The Americans are there.
The French are there.
They're overseeing this moment of evacuation.
There's a sense that there could be a new beginning for Lebanon.