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2014-08-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, ISIS and Hezbollah
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The additional $1 billion which Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
offered to the Lebanese army this week is not a gift but a political act that comes within the remit of curbing the current strife in Leb and its surroundings.
Saudi Arabia could have offered this financial aid to build up a Lebanese Sunni militia and would have had many reasons for doing so, from fighting the Sunni Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to deterring the Shiite Hezbollah and Bashir al-Assad's intelligence forces.
Instead, Saudi Arabia chose to support the army in Leb - a country full of Christian, Druze and Shiite militias. So why does Saudi Arabia support the army and not Ahmad al-Assir, Khaled al-Daher or Adnan Imama and other Sunnis looking for a funder? It's not in Saudi Arabia's interest for Leb to turn into an arena for sectarian militias fighting each other on behalf of the region's countries. It's also not in the interest of Leb's Sunnis and Shiites to support taking up arms and rebelling against the state. Despite liquidations and political mobilization, Lebanese public opinion remains mostly against resorting to arms, particularly following the destructive civil war that erupted in the 1970s. Therefore, the choice was made to support the Lebanese state and arm its military institution so the army can carry out its duties of protecting the Sunnis and the rest of the country's factions. Let us recall that although Hezbollah has better arms and has had a fighting force for more than 30 years, it has failed to gain legitimacy despite its claim that it's a resistance group and the guardian of Leb's borders.
Strengthening the Lebanese army means weakening Hezbollah's scheme to dominate Leb
It's expected that supporting the army and strengthening it will anger groups such as Hezbollah. Hezbollah prefers the creation of Sunni militias so it can justify its existence as an armed Shiite militia. It prefers this scenario over strengthening the Lebanese army — something that can legitimately and militarily threaten it raison d'etre.
Standing against militias
Saudi Arabia has taken a decision against supporting the concept of militias, whether Sunni or Shiite, in Leb and other countries. It considers strengthening the state to be the correct option, not just for the Lebanese people, but for all the region's countries which are concerned with establishing security. To respond to Saudi Arabia's decision not to stand against legitimacy, Assad and the Iranian regime have since the 1980s invented religious Sunni leaders that compete with the civil Sunni leadership in order to hijack authority from leaders such as Karami, Solh and Hariri. Even Leb's Sunni mufti, Mohammad Rashid Qabbani is rejected by Leb's Sunnis because they consider him as an employee of the Assad regime! The Lebanese situation is similar to the Paleostinian one as Fatah al-Islam
A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred.
, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
are linked to the Iranian and Syrian regimes.
Strengthening the Lebanese army means weakening Hezbollah's scheme to dominate Leb and turn it into an Iranian emirate. It will enable the Lebanese to confront Sunni terrorist organizations which came running behind Hezbollah from Syria into Leb in this cat and mouse chase. The events in Arsal have proven the importance of having a strong army that stops the meddling of Hezbollah which sought to clash with Syrian groups under the Lebanese army's flag. Military challenges at state level, from the events in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp to the recent events in Arsal, have proven that it's not possible to trust Hezbollah and that the Lebanese people will not accept that any party besides the army defends their security.
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
strengthening the Lebanese army does not promise salvation from Hezbollah and other militias as this aim is impossible to achieve in the near future. The aim is to halt Hezbollah's progress towards its goal of playing the role of the Syrian army, which was expelled from Leb after a UNSC decision following Syria's involvement in the liquidation of Hariri nine years ago. A strong Lebanese army will either weaken the militia's justification that they should have a presence in the country or restrict their activity. In this case, Hezbollah will become a Shiite problem, and resolving it will be left to Leb's Shiites. 
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