His enemies wanted to defeat him so they resorted to the only means they know, to the only means he left them with. But his death defeated them and destroyed the idea that in death there is defeat. In the death of the courageous there is deliverance and resurrection.
For generations to come, his name will remain bonded to the quality of courage and to the ideal of Lebanon’s independence. Generations of Lebanese youth will come to regard him as a role model and in the distant future many a soldier will march to the drumbeat of his words. His courage in life and his invincibility in death will forever rally the strength of militants for the cause of independence.
How could they have defeated him if his defiance persists and grows and overwhelms.
That’s why I mourn Gebran Tueni.
