Hezbollah and its
satellites are either mercenaries or opportunists
By: Elias Bejjani/LCCC Chairman
January 30/2007
The Lebanese Canadian Coordination Council (LCCC) condemns the bloody coup-d’etat,
militia-style riots perpetrated last Tuesday and Thursday in Lebanon which
resulted in nine deaths, more than 250 injuries, and material damage in the
hundred of millions. The LCCC also condemns in the strongest terms the
expansionist, terrorist, and destructive plans originating from two members of
the Axis of Evil, Iran and Syria. These plans target Lebanon in its existence,
regime, culture, history, identity, and all its institutions. It also targets
its freedoms, and the basis of its people’s coexistence, as well as the tenets
of democracy and human rights.
Syria and Iran’s bridgehead in Lebanon is the Hezbollah fundamentalist and
militia organization. Hezbollah grew during the despicable Syrian occupation of
Lebanon between 1976 and 2005. Aided by financial and nursing guardianship from
Iran along with massive logistic and military facilitations from Syria,
Hezbollah erected a state within all the components of the Lebanese state. With
external and internal financing, Hezbollah imposed security zones, built
prisons, formed an army and a police force, organized intelligence and security
services, and formed media outlets including TV, radio, internet and written
press. Finally, Hezbollah created a service infrastructure which provided
educational, medical, and social services. It even maintains its own diplomatic
relations.
The chronology of the Syrian-Iranian master plan to rule Lebanon and merge it
into their axis can be summarized as:
In 2005, when the Lebanese people along with the international community forced
the Baathist rulers of Damascus to withdraw their Stalinist army of occupation
from Lebanon in accordance with UN Resolution 1559, Iran which fully controls
the command and decision making process of Hezbollah, directly and through its
embassy in Beirut, assigned Hezbollah the mission of gradually attacking the new
Free Lebanon regime emerging from the Cedars Revolution. This plan was gradual
and executed in phases to empty, paralyze, and marginalize Lebanon’s
institutions like the parliament, the presidency of the republic, the cabinet,
and the judicial system to name a few. The objective being the replacement of
the democratic, free, and coexistence-based , with a totalitarian one, a
replicate of the oppressive Iranian Mullahs' regime.
An element of the Iran-Syria plan is behind Hezbollah’s staunch opposition to
surrendering its formidable and superior weaponry (in numbers and quality), to
the Lebanese state, and tying it to holiness, honour, and the existence of the
state of Israel. Hezbollah then refused to cede its mini-state to the Lebanese
central state. Last July, it even launched a war against Israel as ordered by
Iran and Syria to serve their interests, with neither the knowledge nor the
agreement of Lebanon's legitimate government. Hezbollah’s war lasted 34 days,
resulted in 1500 deaths, a massive destruction estimated at 11 billion US
dollars, and the displacement of one million Lebanese whose homes were destroyed
during the fighting.
Within the same hellish framework, and following the deployment of the United
Nations International (UNIFIL) Forces and Lebanese army troops into south
Lebanon last year in compliance with UN Resolution 1701 which ended that round
between Hezbollah and Israel, and in conjunction with the imminent formation
of the international tribunal charged with the investigation of assassinated
Lebanese former prime minister Rafik Hariri, as well as the remainder of the
terrorist crimes that targeted scores of MPs, cabinet members, journalists, and
politicians opposed to the Syrian occupation, in this juncture, Hezbollah
conducted systematic disguised manoeuvres aimed to control the Lebanese
government, abort its decisions, and specifically those concerned with the
international court, UN Resolution 1701, and the Paris-3 economic conference.
When it failed to achieve these objectives, it withdrew its five Shiite cabinet
members and deployed its crowd in the streets of downtown Beirut in destructive
sit-ins paralysing the heart of the country's financial, business and government
infrastructure. Hezbollah paraded along a number of its satellite groups with
politicians who are orphans of the Syrian occupation era.
Hezbollah tied the halt of its protest to the resignation of the government, or
its amendment by introducing new ministers members of a Christian parliamentary
block headed by MP, Michel Aoun who allied himself with Hezbollah after reneging
on his history and self-contradicting all his past positions, electoral and
national platforms and programs, and focusing his attention solely on becoming
president. Two months into the sit-ins, Hezbollah demanded a third of the
cabinet seats under its command to sabotage any decision or laws that may be
incompatible with the Iranian/Syrian instructions or that fail to serve their
expansionist, terrorist, and
fundamentalist interests.
After two months of coup-d’etat sit-ins, Hezbollah and those behind it
failed to achieve any of their Iranian/Syrian objectives. The Saniora
government, despite all obstacles and conspiracies, stood steadfast backed by
large, effective, and noticeable popular and international support, and reached
with success the Paris-3 conference designed to help the Lebanese economy.
That is when the instructions arrived to Hezbollah and its agents from Teheran
and Damascus. The order of the day was to topple the government through an
internal
violent escalation, occupy the capital or surround it, suffocate it, paralyze
its life, terrorize the people, and abort their work and services. Hezbollah did
precisely that last Tuesday and Thursday first in the streets, then the
university campuses, specifically Beirut Arab University. It followed the
Khomeini Iranian tactics by killing innocent bystanders, blocking roads,
lighting fires, and threatening citizens, erecting sand walls, ditches and
obstacles on main arteries, and on to a psychological media war whose goals and
methods are clear. Here too, the Syrian-Iranian plan failed again, and forced
Hezbollah and its followers, especially the few in the Christian constituency to
cancel their military demonstrations.
MP Michel Aoun’s failure in his own Christian districts was clearest when his
own milieu soundly rejected and reprimanded his stances and refused to follow
his path nor abide by his destructive pro-Syrian/Iranian choices. So he lost his
nerve and started accusing randomly and hysterically left and right. His rants
included attacks against His Beatitude the Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Sfeir and
the Council of the Maronite Bishops.
It is very important that all parties concerned with Lebanon and the Middle East
along with the free nations such as our dear Canada, and the Lebanese Diaspora
everywhere, that they understand that the fundamentalist Hezbollah is an
Iranian-Syrian army par excellence, and is an obedient instrument in the hands
of the leaders of these two nations deployed in the Lebanese arena. Through
Hezbollah, they will continue their systematic, gradual, and military attempts
to overthrow the Lebanese regime and replace it with a regime controlled by
Hezbollah as a carbon copy of the Iranian Mullahs regime.
As to all the demands and justifications behind which Hezbollah hides, such as
participation in the government, rights, elections, and national unity, they are
smoke screens designed to blind the Lebanese and the world from seeing the real
objectives, paramount among them is a regime change.
Therefore, the status of opposition as measured by the standards of democracy,
civility, and peace, does not apply to Hezbollah, its followers and agents. The
Hezbollah crowd is rather insurrectionist by design, its members pursue their
plans and objectives in servitude to external powers. These groupings are either
fundamentalist and armed militias such as Hezbollah, or local profiteering and
selfish personalities estranged from their society such as the MP, Michel Aoun
and the likes.
In order to defeat the fundamentalist armed militias and profiteers plans, and
to maintain Lebanese social peace, freedoms, democracy, and coexistence, and to
dismantle Lebanon the fighting arena, and save it from the jaws of the Evil
Iran-Syria Axis and the adventures of their agents, the Lebanese Canadian
Coordination Council requests the following:
1- The security control issue of the Lebanese-Syrian borders. This matter is of extreme importance to enable the Lebanese State to exert its authority over all the national territory. Consequently, the delineation of these borders with the effective assistance of the international community, as well as their control to prevent weapons smuggling and armed infiltration from Syria into Lebanon, as required by UN resolution 1701 are all essential and pivotal tasks that must be focused on by the international community and the Security Council. Lebanon will never know peace, security or stability without the control of these borders by international forces equipped with all the necessary equipment to executer the mission, provided they are given the international mandate to do so with a resolution issued under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter.
2. The Security Council amends resolution 1701 at the earliest possible and re-classify it under Chapter Seven of the United Nations charter, so that the international forces supported by the Lebanese army can disarm Hezbollah and the rest of the Lebanese and Palestinian militias, and give the legitimate Lebanese armed forces the sole monopoly over arms, and end for good the autonomous cantons and all the security districts in favour of the central Lebanese state.
3. The banning of all Lebanese parties that do not recognize or pledge allegiance to the Lebanese Constitution and the Lebanese identity and the withdrawal of their permits.
4. The enactment of an electoral law that allows all the varied components of Lebanese society their full right to chose their representatives in parliaments. There should also be acknowledgement that the Lebanese of the Diaspora are also citizens with equal rights to run and vote in elections.
5. Resolution of our political refugees in Israel through an amnesty public law enacted by the parliament similarly to how other groups and individuals were granted this kind of amnesty.
6. The implementation of all UN Resolutions regarding Lebanon, amongst them the international tribunal, and especially SCR 1559, and 1701.
7. Strong and effective judicial emphasis should be placed on the assassinations, terrorist, and criminal files which have reached many Lebanese, individuals, groups, or institutions, in order to uncover the assassins who planned and executed the crimes and bringing them to justice.
8. Lebanese, regional, and international entities would deal with terrorists
in accordance with international laws and resolutions.
Finally, while some praised Sheik Hassan Nasrallah’s Fatwa (Islamic religious
decree ) promulgated Thursday night, ordering his followers to vacate the
streets, stop their attacks, and leave the security in Beirut in the hands of
the Lebanese army, we however see in this Fatwa a scary symptom of a very
dangerous phenomenon that clearly describes the cultural and fundamentalist
condition, narrow confessionalism, and rejection of the other, that Hezbollah
succeeded in spreading in its society within the security districts where it
established its mini state. This trend is also practiced within the Hezbollah
educational, religious, and social institutions which it controls totally,
infrastructure, management, and curricula with massive financial support from
Iran where whole generations are being produced under the doctrine rule of the
High Shiite Clergy Governance (WELAYET AL-FAKIH)
Hezbollah's General Secretary, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's Fatwa should be a
warning to all Lebanese, and to all the free world countries to work together
seriously and immediately to stop the spread of the culture of death,
isolationism, and fundamentalism and promote the culture of life, openness, and
the acceptance of the other.
*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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