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| Lebanon: The Cedar Revolutiuon Betrayed |
| 2006-08-14 |
| The Security Council’s Resolution 1559 – that demanded that OUR government deploy OUR army on OUR sovereign territory, along OUR international border with Israel and that it disarm all the militia on OUR land – was voted on 2 September 2004. We had two years to put implement this resolution and thus guarantee a peaceful future to our children but we did strictly nothing. Our greatest crime – which was not the only one! – was not that we did not succeed but that we did not attempt or undertake anything. And that was the fault of none else than the pathetic Lebanese politicians. Our government, from the very moment the Syrian occupier left, let ships and truckloads of arms pour into our country. Without even bothering to look at their cargo. They jeopardized all chances for the rebirth of our country by confusing the Cedar Revolution with the liberation of Beirut. In reality, we had just received the chance – a sort of unhoped-for moratorium – that allowed us to take the future into our own hands, nothing more. Lebanon a victim? What a joke! Before the Israeli attack, Lebanon no longer existed, it was no more than a hologram. At Beirut innocent citizens like myself were forbidden access to certain areas of their own capital. But our police, our army and our judges were also excluded. That was the case, for example, of Hezbollah’s and the Syrians’ command zone in the Haret Hreik quarter. A square measuring a kilometer wide, a capital within the capital, permanently guarded by a Horla army, possessing its own institutions, its schools, its crèches, its tribunals, its radio, its television and, above all… its government. A “government” that, alone decided, in the place of the figureheads of the Lebanese government – in which Hezbollah also had its ministers! – to attack a neighboring state, with which we had no substantial or grounded quarrel, and to plunge us into a bloody conflict. And if attacking a sovereign nation on its territory, assassinating eight of its soldiers, kidnapping two others and, simultaneously, launching missiles on nine of its towns does not constitute a casus belli, the latter juridical principle will seriously need revising. As they say, read the whole thing. Its stuff you will not see in the US Press with its bias. |
| Posted by:Oldspook |
| #4 I don't think Siniora is a whimp. I do think he is a man with a bull's eye on his forehead and a knife in his back. After the PM's assassination, several other pro-democracy politicans and journalists were assassinated. I suspect that Siniora and other pro-democracy members of the cabinet see the new resolution as a mandate to disarm Hezbo. They didn't get the backing of the UN with 1559. The cabinet meeting that Hezbo backed out of yesterday, when it does finally meet, will be most telling. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-08-14 13:25 |
| #3 It's not about land ; it's about islamo fascism Siniora is a whimp and the "government" a parody. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-08-14 08:11 |
| #2 Probably a bit higher than that when you add in the "American citizens" (whatever that means today) of "Lebanese decent....." whom the U.S. Gummit has flown back here for their "safety" and continued prostilzation of Jewish hatred. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-08-14 08:05 |
| #1 but we're told the Hezbs have 105% support of the Leb public? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-08-14 07:56 |