October 13, 2006: Shocking Truth & Fallen Masks
By: Elias Bejjani
October 13/06
The destructive and satanic role played with extreme insolence by the Syrian
Baath regime is hidden to no one, as it continues directly and through Hezbollah
and its allies the fundamentalist Palestinian and Lebanese militias, and in
total harmony with opportunistic groups which never acknowledged or believed in
Lebanon as an independent entity and in its distinct identity. This Baathist-Fundamentalist
-Opportunist, bug has spread regrettably like cancer throughout our Lebanese
communities and regions.
Old and new Syrian-made puppets in Lebanon continue to trade demagogy and spread
incitement, profiting from people’s economic needs and the absence of the
state's law and order. Thanks to the Iranian petro dollars, their consciences
are numbed, and their bank accounts and pockets inflated.
They only care for their positions, personal interests, and greed. They are
nothing but robots and dirty instruments bent on Lebanon's destabilization,
blocking the return of peace and order to its people, aborting the mission of
the international forces and the UN security council (UNSC) resolutions, in
particular resolution 1701. They are hired by the axis of evil nations and
organizations to keep our homeland, the land of the Cedars, an arena and a
backyard for “The Wars of the Others”, a base for chaos and a breeding culture
for hatred, terrorism, hostility and fundamentalism.
In this hellish context come the Syrian president's statements to the Spanish
“El Pais” newspaper on September 30, 2006, and to the Kuwaiti "Al Anbaa"
newspaper on September 7, 2006, where he boldly interfered in Lebanese internal
affairs, and challenged the nations of the Free World, the Security Council and
the Free Lebanese. He declared with no shame that no international force can
inhibit the arms smuggling to Hezbollah through his country's borders with
Lebanon. He stated: “Neither UN resolutions, nor all the technology of all the
armies of the world, can hinder this operation.”
President Assad was joined on Monday, October 3/06 by Hezbollah’s commander of
Lebanon's southern region, Sheikh Nabil Kawouk, who declared: “The Islamic
Resistance Jihadists remain armed in the villages of confrontation facing the
Israeli border just as they were before July 12, 2006. He added: “The enemy has
used in his last battle all weapons and surprises, but in return, we, the
resistance did not expose all our military surprises because we were in a
position of strength”.
Hezbollah's Secretary General, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah confirmed during his
“Godly victory” celebration, that his group's arsenal has doubled and that he
now
possesses 20,000 missiles, and that he will only surrender this arsenal to a
“Resistance State”, i.e., a “Jihadist State”, effectively headed by him.
Based on the aftermath of the last Israel-Hezbollah war of devastation,
activist Lebanese both back home and in the Diaspora take the following
positions:
Any Lebanese group, regardless of its political or ethnic affiliation and
irrespective of its size and influence, that tries to benefit from despicable
alliances while ignoring the core of the problem, namely the continuation of
Hezbollah's state-within-the-state program, its holding on to its illegal
weapons and the impending dangers they present to the nation, the principle of
democratic coexistence, and freedom of belief, is a partner in the conspiracy
against the Lebanese.
Any group that sabotages the deployment of the international forces of
deterrence on the Syrian-Lebanese borders, whose mission is to inhibit the flow
of arms and terrorists to the fundamentalist and terrorist organizations in
Lebanon, is a partner in the conspiracy against the Lebanese.
Any group that links the disposition of Hezbollah’s weapons with a resolution of
the Arab-Israeli conflict and its derivatives, including the Palestinian camps'
(located in Lebanon) weapons and international resolutions (194, 242, 338), is a
partner in the conspiracy against Lebanon and the Lebanese, especially when such
position does not rest on constant principle but evolves according to the whims
of personal interests and shoddy ambitions. The travesty of conditioning the disarmament of Hizbollah
to the rise of a strong Lebanese state is ridiculous. The goals of those who
advocate such an equation are clear, for how could a strong state rise in the
midst of mini-states, private security zones, open porous borders, and the
influx of illegal arms and anarchy.
Any group that fails to see that the international forces representing the will
of a united international community is a lifeboat with which to bring an end to
this old and bitter conflict that brought barbaric attacks against Lebanon, its
demographics and identity since 1975, is a partner in the conspiracy against the
Lebanese.
All those who oppose the classification of the mission of international forces
under chapter seven of the UN Charter and who claim that they are forces of
occupation and hegemony are compromisers and weak. The Lebanese people will have
no mercy on them and history will trash them in its dustbin.
All those who trade with the rights of the Christians are living an illusion if
they believe that their society in Lebanon and the Diaspora is naïve, amnesiac
or unaware of the unfolding of events. Those who think they can manipulate the
Christians' fears and suffering through speeches and assemblies and by opening
past issues and wounds are fantasizing politicians who resort to the language of
ethnic rights and religious incitement only to slide from the back door to their
false banners of secularism and emancipation.
Any group that is not serious in its demand for a just election law compatible
with the background and rights of each and every Lebanese community is a partner
in
the conspiracy against Lebanon and the Lebanese. This point is the scale on
which to judge the honesty of all participants in the nation's affairs.
Meanwhile, we were not surprised with the denial of the Syrian regime, a
couple days ago, of the existence of Lebanese prisoners in its jails. We are
used to this inhumane and immoral style. But what saddened and shocked us was
the silence of those Lebanese leaders and parties who were part of the
Sovereignty current, but who in their pursuit of personal gains, changed their
skin and negated promises.
What truly saddens us is the continuing suffering of our refugees in Israel
since 2000 despite all the recent developments. This is due to the stark
servitude of those Lebanese Leaders and politicians on whom we held our hopes
for a courageous resolution to this humane problem. Instead, they shed their
responsibilities and voided the cause from its humane content, and furthermore,
in order to satisfy their alliances with fundamentalists and radicals, they
betrayed their own people and the cause of Lebanon by agreeing to label our
heroic southern refugees as criminals. Our refugees in Israel are the ultimate
Lebanese patriots who did no wrong, but who simply suffered for 30 years trying
to defend their land, their homes, their children and their dignity against
Syria and the hordes of Islamic fundamentalists,
outlaw Palestinian militias, and even renegade battalions of the Lebanese Army
itself that seceded from the government to fight alongside the outlaw
organizations and militias against Lebanon, the Lebanese State and the Lebanese
people.
On October 13, 1990 the Syrian Army savagely invaded the last remaining free
regions of Lebanon, killed and mutilated hundreds of Lebanese soldiers and
innocent citizens in cold blooded murder, kidnapped tens of soldiers, officers,
clergymen, politicians and citizens, sent the legitimate government into exile
and erected a subservient and puppet government. Since then, we commemorate the
painful event each year on October 13.
In this year's commemoration for the passing and disappearance of hundreds of
our people, civilian, military, and religious personnel who gladly sacrified
themselves on Lebanon’s altar in defense of freedom, dignity and identity, we
raise our prayers for the rest of their souls and for the safe return of all our
prisoners held arbitrarily in the dungeons of the Syrian Baath. We ask for
consolation to all their families, hoping that their grand sacrifices were not
in vain, now that prominent leaders and politicians of that era changed sides
and joined the killers after the liberation of the country. Those Pharisees were
in positions of responsibility to safeguard the nation and its dignity, and were
entrusted to defend the identity, the homeland and the beliefs.
Our martyrs, the living and dead alike, must be rolling in anger in their graves
and in the Syrian Baath dungeons as they witness these leaders today, upon whom
they laid their hope, fall into the gutter of cheap politics. The leaders who
reversed all their theses and slogans and joined the same powers that invaded
the free Lebanon region on October 13, 1990. They forgot who they are and who
their people are, and negated everything they advocated and lobbied for.
On October 13, on the sixteenth commemoration of the Syrian invasion to
Lebanon's free regions, we shall pray for the souls of all those Lebanese
comrades who
fell in the battles of confrontation, for all our citizens who are arbitrarily
detained in Syria's notorious jails, for the safe and dignified return of our
refugees from Israel, for the return of peace to the homeland, and for the
repentance of Lebanon's leaders and politicians who for personal gains have
turned against their own people, negated their declared convictions, downtrodden
their freedom and liberation slogans, sided with the Syrian Baathists and forged
an alliance with Hezbollah whose ultimate aim is to replicate the Iranian
Mullahs' regime in Lebanon.
Long Live Freedom
*Elias Bejjani
Chairman for the Canadian Lebanese Coordinating Council (LCCC)
Human Rights activist, journalist & political commentator.
Spokesman for the Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation (CLHRF)
E.Mail phoenicia@hotmail.com
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