The Lebanese Government needs to
declare Hezbollah a Terrorist Organization
By: Elias Bejjani
March 28/08
This boycott affirms a proper stand which
should have been the framework of the government since the resignation of
Hezbollah’s and Amal Movement's Shiite ministers
in accordance with Syria’s leaders
instructions in fear of the
Hariri international Tribunal. Our country,
Lebanon, would have been in much
better shape had the Saniora government shown
firmness earlier. We would have had a president by now, and the downtown
protest would have been over.
The thousand miles trip always starts with the first step. We hope that the
Saniora government, after all the disappointments it caused to itself and to
Lebanon, has decided to exit the bondage of hesitation to deal with the
Syrian-Iranian agents (Hezbollah, Amal Movement,
Fundamentalists and Syrian made Lebanese and Palestinian military armed
groups) as such, and not as resistance, otherwise we will remain in
the endless circle.
The government must begin immediately
to name political matters clearly and frankly, and abandon its calling of
Hezbollah as resistance, such falsification of history as the liberation of
the south, and that prior to the year 2000 it enjoyed the support of all the
Lebanese people.
Fundamentalist Persian Hezbollah is nothing but an Iranian army in Lebanon
according to all measures. Everyone knows it has only retarded the
liberation of the south for 14 years. It has never been a Lebanese option
never received unanimity in any fashion or shape.
During the Syrian despicable occupation, Hezbollah, the
Iranian armed militia in Lebanon, was imposed logistically upon the
Lebanese, and specifically on the Shiite
community, with financing, organization, command,
decision making process and political will of the Iranian
revolutionary guard, as an instrument to export the Iranian Khomeini
Islamic revolution.
Hezbollah was supposed to disarm like all
other Lebanese militias after the
"Taef accord"
in 1990, but the Syrian occupation hindered this
procedure and imposed it as a resistance armed
organization through force and terror and
not through consensus.
In summary, we wish to state that the Lebanese government has taken an
important step today on the road of national and independent governance. But
it will not be able to continue this trek unless it
maintains its honesty and
witness to the truth. This
Government must move with courage and chivalry from the reaction to the
action mode. Will it do so? We hope.
Background
Lebanon Boycotts Damascus Summit, Urges Arabs to 'Shepherd' Relations
with Syria
Naharnet/Beirut, 25 Mar 08/ The Lebanese government on Tuesday decided
to boycott the forthcoming summit in Damascus and urged Arabs to tackle the
deteriorating Lebanese-Syrian relations. Information Minister Ghazi Aridi,
reading a statement after a meeting by Premier Fouad Saniora's government, said
Lebanon would also boycott preparatory meetings that set the stage for the
summit that would convene in Damascus on March 29. The government urged "Arab
brethren to shepherd Lebanese-Syrian relations to help Lebanon spread its
sovereignty over its territories," the statement said. Such an Arab effort
should lead to "sound relations between Lebanon and Syria," it added. The
decision, according to the statement, is not tantamount to a breach of Lebanon's
relations with Syria, but it reflects the need "to respect Lebanon's sovereignty
and independence." The decision was adopted in light of blocking presidential
elections and Lebanon's determination to be represented at the summit by "the
only Christian president among all Arab heads of state," the statement noted. It
also reflects the rejection by the Lebanese people to adapt to the existing
presidential void, according to the statement. Such a boycott is a "precedent
that has been imposed on us," it noted.
The statement concluded that Lebanon would remain committed to inter-Arab
relations "especially in confronting Israeli threats."
*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)
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