Beyond the Disarmament of Hezbollah

By Charles Jalkh (Freedom Fighter)

August 15\4/06

The battle for the heart and minds of Hezbollah’s constituency requires halting all Hezbollah’s illegal dealings with the popular base. The system of dependency and handouts that Hezbollah used to gain ground among the Shiite masses must be replaced with non-political humanitarian organizations that conduct the social work without political benefits. Allowing Hezbollah to directly continue its social works is tantamount to vote buying among the Shiite poor.

In addition to dismantling Hezbollah’s military structure and the surrender of all its arms, we also need to cut the umbilical cords that feed the beast, they include:

• An arms embargo

• The closure and guarding of our border with Syria, and the refusal to establish diplomatic relations and exchange until a Syrian regime change.

• A complete international freeze and ban of all Hezbollah’s financial instruments and transactions.

• The disconnection of Hezbollah’s social works links from the political party. These hand outs are best run by non-profit, non-political and only humanitarian organizations.

• The rewriting of Hezbollah’s charter to exclude all religious references. The Lebanese laws need to be upgraded to ban religious parties, and allow only secular ones. Hezbollah’s name could benefit from a change into a non-religious term.

• All incitement to violent ideologies and actions must cease immediately. The language of tolerance, coexistence, and peace with Israel and all nations should be preached.

• A new Shiite moderate generation must be allowed to rise by breaking the lock Hezbollah and Amal placed on the Shiite electorate.

• Nasrallah and the Hezbollah leadership must be held accountable under Lebanese laws for their murderous acts against Lebanon.

Enough slavery to the Ideologies of Hate which retarded our societies and inflicted great pain on all the region’s citizens. The Lebanese deserve to free themselves from the yoke of ignorance. We cannot simply wait for Israel and the World to solve our problems, we need to at least want to be saved, and express it clearly. It is time to shed away the language of diplomacy with the murderous thugs of Hezbollah and deal with them with a language they understand and preach.

Lebanon shall rise again.