Who Is the Traitor?
By
Ahmed Al-Jarallah
Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times
WHEN countries grow bigger and are busy with their own internal problems, it
is hard for them to ensure their security and maintain their treaties with
others. In such a scenario we say the past was better and start worrying
about the future. We start thinking why people aren’t optimistic and
comfortable any longer. The rise of fundamentalism has led to a situation
where the principles of the past are being applied to the present. Afraid of
being accused as traitors and foreign agents, people are prepared to join
fundamentalist movements.
Hezbollah is one such movement which has imposed itself on Lebanon and
caused more devastation than the enemy. Hezbollah, which has confiscated the
freedom of choice of the Lebanese by pretending to be a religious movement,
is actually using religion as a political tool.
Hezbollah had to justify its existence as a legitimate religious movement which represents a segment of the Lebanese. Because of this need Hezbollah didn’t mind causing the destruction of Lebanon’s infrastructure and leaving thousands of Lebanese homeless. To top it all Secretary-General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah has claimed victory over Israel.
Hezbollah, which is dancing to the tunes of Syrian intelligence, claims to
be a Party of the God and it can’t go wrong. Syrian intelligence didn’t fail
to attend Hezbollah’s “victory celebration” although the people of Lebanon
no longer consider Hezbollah a Lebanese movement.
Not satisfied with claiming victory in the war Nasrallah, who acts under the
instructions of Tehran and Damascus without worrying about Lebanon’s
interests, warned the Lebanese that they would be accused of being traitors
if they didn’t join his movement. Such tribal and sectarian ideology is
unseemly and reveals the ignorance of the man.
If anybody asks who between Nasrallah and Prime Minister of Lebanon Fouad
Al-Siniora is more patriotic, the Lebanese have a ready answer. The people
of Lebanon have rejected fundamentalist projects and defused Hezbollah’s to
establish a totalitarian system in that country.
As sad circumstances have
reached their peak, good things of the past will return, soon.
e-mail: ahmedjarallah@hotmail.com