Lebanon, either the state or the battlefield
By: Elias Bejjani *
May 20/2011
Medically proved scientific strategies teach us that treating any disease has
to start first with an accurate diagnosis in accordance with recognizing a set
of signs and symptoms. Once the diagnosis and the cause or causes are pinpointed
and identified, the treatment is initiated through which the main cause of the
disease is targeted. Meanwhile, treating only the diseases' signs and symptoms
without identifying and treating the primary cause is a waste of time, effort
and resources. Such a derailed strategy leads to the disease becoming worse and
putting the patient’s life at dire risk.
Based on this scientific strategy and concept one can examine Lebanon's ongoing
problems. Since the early seventies Lebanon's main and disastrous problem has
been the confiscation of its independent, freedom, and sovereignty as a state.
Sadly, the Arab states and Iran have turned this multicultural, democratic and
deeply rooted country into an arena, a mail box and a battlefield for their
deceit and a windmill of wars against the State of Israel.
The Arab regimes without any exception and the Iranian mullahs were able to
achieve this evil ploy and turn Lebanon an into arena and a backyard for their
fake wars and schemes because certain Lebanese communities have never recognized
Lebanon since 1920 as an independent entity, and, accordingly, became
Trojan horses for foreign and neighboring powers: the Egyptians, Syrians,
Iranians, Libyans, Islamic terrorists, fundamentalists, etc.
To secure stability in their countries, safeguard their thrones, wealth and
ruling power, and to conceal their corrupt nature and practices, these
dictatorships, Stone Age and oppressive regimes aimed on destabilizing Lebanon
through religious strife, bribery, fraud, terrorism, murder, assassinations,
ministates, militias and division.
Sadly, these regimes with the help of Lebanese Trojans, fundamentalists,
opportunists and mercenaries were able to dismantle the foundations of the
Lebanese state and to turn the whole country into an arena for their destructive
ploys. They used the Lebanese people as fuel in their camouflaging war against
Israel under fake banners of resistance (Mukawama), obstruction (mumanaa)
liberation, Arabism and fundamentalism; while in reality the majority of them
have either officially signed peace accords with Israel or covertly have
established very close and friendly relations with her government.
An independent Lebanon with democracy, freedom, openness, equality, respect of
human rand a just judiciary is the worst enemy for all Arab regimes as for Iran
because such a Lebanon exposes their oppressive and dictatorial regimes. They
all continue hindering Lebanon from regaining its independence, unity and
stability so they can keep on forcing their own people into intolerance,
fanaticism, ignorance, illiteracy, rejection of others and fundamentalism.
The Syrian totalitarian Baathist regime is the most notorious in all schemes of
deception, oppression, fundamentalism, ethnic cleansing, crime, assassinations,
hatching and exporting terrorism, and in all matters of malicious interference
in other countries' internal affairs. This regime has managed to remain in power
since the early sixties because of the no peace, no war status in the Middle
East that its rulers adopt, advocate and implement.
Under the camouflage of resisting Israel, the Syrian regime oppresses,
impoverishes, humiliates, persecutes and kills its own people, while at the same
time keeps on destabilizing neighboring Lebanon through all means, including
murder, sectarian strife, fake resistance against Israel, terrorism and bloody
abuse and manipulation of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian refugees in
both Lebanon and Syria..
In this devilish context, the Syrian regime derives its life elixir from the
false and deceptive support it allegedly provides to the Palestinian cause,
while for the last 40 years has been aborting all peace initiatives between
Israel and the Arab countries under the big lie of resistance. Peace with Israel
is the number one enemy for the Syrian regime because once it happens, all its
lies and deception will be unveiled and the Syrian people would revolt and
eliminate it. The kind of brutality and massive slaughter that this regime has
been using against the Syrian peoples' uprising for the last three months
explains its evil and deceptive nature and mentality.
Last Sunday, on the Palestinian Nakba Day, (anniversary of Israel’s founding in
1948), the Syrian rulers with their vicious Iranian allies instigated and
orchestrated bloody confrontations on both Syrian and Lebanese borders with
Israel. The victims and fuel for these futile confrontations were sadly the
Palestinian refugees who by thousands were bused by Syrian and Iranian means of
transportation, full supervision, facilitations and financing to Majdal Shams on
the Golan Heights and the Maroun al-Rass in south Lebanon. The demonstrations
ended with more than 13 Palestinians killed and hundreds injured when the
Palestinian demonstrators tried to cross the border fences to attack the Israeli
army.
According to a report published by Ken Timmerman on May
17/11(
http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/iran-israel-syria-hamas/2011/05/17/id/396681)
"The Iranian regime called the political leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah to
Tehran last month, to work out the details of an unprecedented series of
protests they wanted them to launch along Israel’s border on the anniversary of
Israel’s founding in 1948, according to Iranian dissidents. The meetings were an
overwhelming success. Thousands of Palestinians participated in organized
protests, storming across mine fields and border fences into Israel from the
Palestinian territories, Lebanon, and Syria."
Based on all of the above, we strongly believe that Lebanon will not know peace
or stability before its borders with Syria are fully controlled, and not before
forging a peace accord with Israel as Egypt and Jordan did years ago, and as is
the case with most of the Arab countries which overtly or covertly has ended the
war status with the Jewish state.
In conclusion, the Lebanese people and their leaders need to pinpoint the main
problem of their country and accordingly look for an everlasting and curative
solution. Lebanon's main problem lies in the "arena, battlefield and mailbox"
status that has been forced on the country by Iran, Syria and their militant
proxies and outlawed Syrian Iranian and Palestinian ministates. To finally put
an end to this bizarre status, Lebanon needs to immediately close this "arena",
end the war status, sign a peace accord with Israel, and then work hard to
regain its independence, free decision making process, and sovereignty. All
ministates erected in Lebanon by Syria, Iran, and the Palestinians must be
dismantled and all militias disarmed. All other temporary endeavors that address
only the symptoms of the problem and not the main cause will make things worse.
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*Elias Bejjani
*Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political
commentator
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