Hezbollah is
Iran's Army in Lebanon, not a Militia or Resistance.
By: Elias Bejjani
November 14/07
Hezbollah's General
Secretary Sayed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a fiery and tantamount speech
on Sunday November 11/07 in which he vows to maintain his party's Military
Might, challenged the whole free world, the UN resolutions, the majority of the
Lebanese people, and evilly refused to disarm. His speech was seen by many
observers as an open and bold declaration of war, and a mean Iranian-Syrian
instigation for a coup in Lebanon. He said verbatim: "No one in the world can
disarm Hezbollah, The resistance in Lebanon has determination, will, manpower
and sufficient weapons to face Israel in a new conflict, No to the
implementation of the UN Resolution 1559.(Security
Council Resolution 1559)
Hezbollah's recent maneuvers convey a message that the resistance is ready to
make a historic victory that would change the face of the region. Any Lebanese
president elected by a simple majority will not be recognized by the opposition,
which would consider him to be an impostor,"
Clear, public, strong and deterrent stances in regards to Nasrallah's recent
threats are urgently required from all Lebanese parties, communities and
institutions, the United Nations and its Security Council, Europe, Free world
countries, and the Arab League, because Hezbollah, this
Iranian “Wilayat Al Fakih, Republican Guards” party, is apparently determined to
topple the Lebanese democratic regime and erect in its place a replicate of the
oppressive and religious Iranian Republic.
It is no longer acceptable, by any measure of law and self-respect, for any
Lebanese from any social, religious, or ethnic background to surrender or remain
passive towards these national and moral debaucheries. We, the Lebanese both in
Lebanon and the Diaspora, must rebel against this hostage conditioning imposed
upon us by terrorist and fundamentalist groups.
It is no longer acceptable that the Lebanese tolerate any further coexistence
with conditions of fear, obedience, self-delusion, falsification of facts, and
false witnessing.
It is no longer acceptable that the Lebanese play the role of the falling prey
hiding behind outdated and obsequious political stances.
We should not remain silent watching the madness of pervert politicians whose
only goal is to serve their own self-interest, bank accounts, and lust for power
that inhabits their sick minds, all at the expense of the nation, its survival,
and the Lebanese people's livelihood and dignity.
The highest of these sacrileges is the Hezbollah condition, its confused
terminology, its fabricated accomplishments, its destructive role, its
Irano-Syrian expansionist conspiracies, and its aggressions of all forms. This
party, invented by Iran and nurtured by Syria since 1982 has been tasked with
murder, assassinations, terror, the subjugation of the Lebanese Shiites, and the
sabotage of the Lebanese regime and its dismantlement. This is neither a party,
nor a resistance; rather, it is a formal de facto Iranian Army stationed in
Lebanon, directly backed in weapons and funds by the Iranian regime. Hezbollah's
ties to the Iranian regime transcend Lebanon's
boundaries, and the group returns the favor to Tehran by training Shiite
insurgents in Iraq to attack US interests there and worldwide.
No one among the Lebanese ignores that the financier, the ideologue, and the
decision maker behind Hezbollah's marching orders is simply the Iranian regime.
All Hezbollah’s local leaders are appointed and demoted by Iran. Their absolute
loyalty is to Iran and to the religious edicts originating from its Mullahs.
These Iranian agents have not one grain of loyalty whatsoever to Lebanon, its
institutions, its constitution, and its society.
Hezbollah’s ethics and the doctrine of its masters in Damascus and Teheran
consider Lebanon their war playground, no more no less. And the declared duty of
this “Jihadist”-“Godly” party is to transform Lebanon by all means into a
satellite state to Iran’s “Wilayat Al Fakih” state, a replicate of its
fundamentalist mullah regime imposed through terror on the Iranian people.
The Syrian occupier (1976-2005) nurtured the Iranian Hezbollah during its 30
years of occupation of Lebanon. It provided it with all necessary logistical
support to dominate its zones of influence within Lebanon in all aspects:
militarily, culturally, and religiously. The Assad regime allowed Hezbollah to
erect its own closed security quarters in Beirut, the South, and the Bekaa. As
to the Iranian mullah regime, it committed to the financing, armament, and
training of Hezbollah as well as the control of its administration, direction,
and decision making.
There has never been a consensus on Hezbollah’s “resistance” role, because it
was never a resistance against Israel as it has marketed itself. Neither was
Israel’s withdrawal back in 2000 due to Hezbollah’s “resistance”. It was rather
based on a public decision adopted by the Israeli state since 1985 due to local
Israeli domestic considerations and to constant pressures from the Clinton
Administration. Indeed, Hezbollah's actions played in favor of the Israeli
occupation of the south lasting as long as it did, by delaying for 15 years an
otherwise inevitable withdrawal. The reason: The presence of the Israeli army in
Lebanon was convenient to the Syrian and Iranian regimes. This is why, following
that withdrawal in 2000, Hezbollah - again instructed by Damascus and Tehran -
concocted the Shebaa Farms
charade to justify its continued "resistance" and its raison d'etre to continue
raping Lebanese sovereignty and inflicting harm to Lebanon as a nation and as a
people.
The so-called “consensus” on Hezbollah’s “resistance” during the Syrian
occupation was a coerced position obtained through force and terror, and had
nothing to
do with the deliberate will and thinking of the Lebanese people. The “Shebaa
Farms” themselves were occupied and annexed by Syria from Lebanon in the 1950s -
after the murder of 3 Lebanese gendarmes posted there - until they were captured
by Israel in 1967 during the six-day war. Shebaa falls under UN resolutions 242
(Security
Council Resolution 242) and 338, (Security
Council Resolution 338) and are considered by the international
community as Syrian land. Hezbollah, Syria and Iran have marketed this lie to
justify their continued occupation of Lebanon and to continue fomenting tensions
along the Lebanese-Israeli borders.
It must be noted that the 1989 Taef Accord (Taef
Accord) never mentioned any role of a “resistance”. It banned all armed
organizations and weapons outside the legitimacy of the Lebanese State, and
explicitly called for all militia weapons to be surrendered to the State as well
as for the disbanding of all militias within 6 months of the implementation date
of the Accord . It also upheld
The 1949
Lebanese-Israeli Armistice Agreement
It is to be noted as well that the 2004 UN Resolution 1559 is an international
embodiment of the "Taef Accord". It repeats clearly and without any ambiguity
all of the provisions of Taef as to the disbanding of militias, the collection
of illegal Palestinian and Lebanese weapons, and the support for the
establishment of the Lebanese State's authority over all its territory using its
own armed forces.
So to all the Lebanese sovereignist politicians and all honest Lebanese we say:
Enough self-delusion, end the humiliation and the submission, announce loud and
clear, candidly and without fear, to all the media, that Hezbollah was never a
“resistance”, and that under all international and legal norms, Hezbollah is a
formal Iranian Army stationed in Lebanon. Therefore, all allegations as to its
so-called "resistance" role and its “sacred” weapons, are simply a crime against
the truth and a brazen aggression against the people of Lebanon, against our
existence, history, and dignity. As to those who suggest the merger of Hezbollah
with the Lebanese army, they need to understand that such move would allow
Hezbollah to dominate the army of the Cedars Nation and to consequently
transform the Lebanese state into a total Hezbollah state. So be vigilant
against this mortal ploy.
Any Lebanese presidential candidate who avoids dealing with these truths with
courage and candor will be a toy in the hands of Hezbollah, a hostage in the
hands
of its masters in Damascus and Teheran, and an obedient tool in the hands of
Hassan Nasrallah who would complete his domination of the Lebanese State.
In summary, the entire Lebanese problem today can be defined in two visions. The
first is one of a free, sovereign, and independent Lebanese State with its
thriving civil society, coexistence model, freedoms, democracy, and peace under
international law and UN resolutions. The second is one of an Iranian-Syrian
Hezbollah mini-state which, through threats and force, is expanding like an
octopus to swallow the whole of Lebanon, impose its ideology and stone-age
fundamentalism and totalitarianism, will annihilate everything Lebanese in
identity and history. It will kill all that Lebanon has stood for centuries by
making it a hostage to antiquated Islamic and Arab Nationalist ideologies.
The choice between these two visions is one to be made by the Lebanese who in
their vast majority opted for the Lebanese State when 1.5 million of them
demonstrated on March 14, 2005 during the peaceful and civilized “Cedars
Revolution”. However, the Lebanese cannot on their own deter Hezbollah’s evil
state-within-the-state which is an advanced base for the Axis of Evil
(Syria-Iran). Lebanon therefore needs urgent military assistance from the
international
community in case of a final assault by Hezbollah, Syria and Iran in their
attempt to sabotage the Lebanese presidential elections on November 21.
All free nations, Arab, European, and American, must realize that Lebanon must
not fall under the domination of the two Axis of Evil states through their
Hezbollah army in Lebanon. This is a very dangerous matter that will threaten
stability and the future of sustainable peace, not only in the Middle East, but
around the world. It happened before in Lebanon: In 1975, then in 1983. Both
times, Lebanon was abandoned and the Free World fled before the march of
barbarity, only to see its instruments - bombs, planes, and suicide bombers -
follow it into every one of its cities. It should not happen again. Let those
who have ears listen.
Related Links:
Special
report on the Shebaa Farms exposing the lies and fallacies of the so-called
resistance and liberation.
http://www.10452lccc.com/elias.english06/shaba17.8.06e.htm
Security
Council Resolution 242
http://www.clhrf.com/unresagreements/unresolution242.htm
Security Council
Resolution 338
http://www.clhrf.com/unresagreements/un338.htm
Security Council Resolution 1559
http://www.clhrf.com/unresagreements/text_of_resolution_1559.htm
The 1949
Lebanese-Israeli Armistice Agreement
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/arm02.htm
Taef Accord
http://www.clhrf.com/unresagreements/taefagreement.htm
**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
LCCC Web Site
http://www.10452lccc.com
CLHRF Website http://www.clhrf.com