Lebanon's Saniora Government & and the Israeli Complex
By: Elias Bejjani
February 23/08
("News Agencies (Naharnet) Beirut, 19 Feb 08: Syrian Border Guards Kill
Lebanese Child/Syrian border guards on Tuesday opened fire at a Lebanese child
killing him, the state-run National News Agency reported. The short report said
Abbas Abbas, 16, was shot and seriously wounded by Syrian border guards at the
Grand River borderline in north Lebanon. He died later at hospital. The
development is the second of its kind in about a week. Lebanon has been
demanding demarcation of its borders with Syria in an effort to control illegal
activities in both directions".)
During his two years in office, Lebanon's PM, Mr. Fouad Saniora has proved time
after time, and without any shed of doubt that psychologically he is like many
other "day dreaming Arabs", still possessed by the obsolete rhetoric of the
"Nasser phenomenon", that was founded by the late Egyptian President Jamal Abdel
Nasser. In the fifties and sixties Nasser promised his fellow Arabs a strong,
unified Arab nation, and advocated for throwing the State of Israel into the
sea. In the end, he caused the Arabs more and more divisions and led them in the
six days war with Israel in 1967, to the worst humiliating defeat in their
history.
Mr. Saniora, despite all of the serious difficulties, obstacles, hardships, and
setbacks that the Syrian-Iranian-Hezbollah Axis of Evil and their puppet
Lebanese machineries continue to inflict on his government, including tagging
its members with treason, often falls prey to the rhetoric of this axis and
issues impulsive statements or declares stances that are not in the interest of
the Lebanese people, and merely motivated by the "Nasser phenomenon." Such
statements and stances are usually void of any logic, common sense or gratitude
for the Western countries that strongly support his government against the Axis
of Evil's overt scheme to overthrow the whole Lebanese regime and erect on its
ruins a Shiite (Welaet Al Fakeh) Islamic state, a replicate of the Iranian
Mullahs Islamic Khomaini Republic.
One of the most devastating symptoms of the "Nasser phenomena" is an
unconscious inclination to overlook all logic, reason, fairness, laws,
international agreements, UN resolutions, national interests, etc. whenever
Israel is the issue. This phenomenon comes to the surface with anything and
everything that has to do with Israel, with no thought of what is right or
wrong.
It might be very helpful to inject Mr. Saniora and all those Arabs who are hit
by the "Nasser Phenomenon" with a big dose of reality, and remind them that
Egypt, Jordan and all the Arab countries, including Syria and the Palestinians
themselves have already and for many years officially recognized the State of
Israel, either covertly or overtly. Many of these countries exchange full
diplomatic relations with Israel and receive the Israeli officials openly and
publically. Yet, all these countries with no exception forbid to Lebanon and the
Lebanese what they legalize and okay for themselves.
These Arab countries want to fight Israel from Lebanon and through the Lebanese
people, while they enjoy peace and stability in their own countries and forge
peaceful agreements with Israel, directly or indirectly. They, the Arabs and the
Iranian Mullahs have been and are still using Lebanon as an arena for their
wars. Hezbollah, the Iranian armed Shiite fundamentalist militia has been since
1982 the spearhead for this heresy rhetoric.
We have surprisingly heard, Mr. Saniora several times fiercely criticize and
reprimanded the United States for providing Israel with weapons and other aid,
although Washington is his government's strongest ally, and its staunch
supporter in the face of the of Axis of Evil's bloody scheme against Lebanon.
That scheme aims to erect through Hezbollah, the terrorist militia, an Islamic
Shiite republic in Lebanon, a replica of that which the Mullahs run in Iran.
We have witnessed a trend of repeated frenetic Saniora reactions to extremely
minor incidents on the Lebanese-Israeli border. He called many times for filing
official Lebanese complaints against Israel at the Security Council for trivial
reasons, e.g. Lebanese shepherds being arrested by the Israeli troops when they
get lost and cross the border between the two countries. He often overlooks the
obliging requirements of the Armistice agreement with Israel, the UN resolutions
425, 426, 242, 383, 1559 and 1701 as well as the "Taef Accord". All these call
among many other things, for controlling the borders with Israel, disarmament of
all militias, especially Hezbollah, and the enforcement of security, law and
order all over the Lebanese territories through the legitimate Lebanese armed
forces. Unfortunately, Saniora loses both track and vision whenever Israeli is
the issue. Here he falls into the Axis of Evil rhetoric trap, and the "Nasser
Phenomena" surfaces.
Sadly, Saniora's government reaction and official stance in addressing the cold
blood killing of a Lebanese child on February 19/08 by the Syrian border guards
was so shy, extremely pathetic, shameful, inappropriate and disproportional.
This blatant double standard that the Saniora government exercises regarding
Syria is not acceptable and lacks credibility.
We call on the Lebanese government to file immediately an official complaint
against Syria at the UN Security Council and demand that the Syrian regime be
fully accountable on all levels for this savage, heinous and cowardly crime.
We also demand that the Saniora government, as well as many members in the
Lebanese majority coalition of 14th of March, put an end once and for all to
their camouflaging and dhimmitude rhetoric regarding the false and fabricated
role that Hezbollah alleges to have played in 2000 in forcing Israel to withdraw
its troops from South Lebanon
The blunt reality is that Israel withdrew its troops in accordance with the UN
resolution 425, and the whole matter had nothing to do with Hezbollah. The
Israeli decision for withdrawal that was regretted later was based completely on
domestic strategies. Hezbollah did not liberate South Lebanon in 2000; in fact
Syria and Iran, through Hezbollah, were the reason the Israelis delayed their
troops' withdrawal for 14 years.
Meanwhile PM Saniora and many other Lebanese politicians and officials ought to
stop their monotonous, dull and empty statement and say: Lebanon will be the
last Arabic country to sign a peace treaty with Israel. In fact, all these
Lebanese dignitaries should wake up and admit the fact that all the Arab
countries including Syria and the Palestinians themselves have already
recognized the State of Israel covertly or overtly. Only Lebanon is left as an
open arena for Arab-Iranian, Israeli fights and an outlet for inter-Arab fights
and conflicts.
Enough is enough. Lebanon and the Lebanese people deserve to enjoy peace with
their neighbors, Syria and Israel alike.
The Lebanese leaders and politicians have an obligation to our people, to give
priority to Lebanon's interests and only to Lebanon.
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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