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Monday, August 14, 2006

Lebanon, Wake Up!

Lebanon, Wake Up!

After several years of ceding sovereignty to Syria and the P.L.O., Lebanon has now handed over its sovereignty to Hezbollah. Is there any other country in the world that would allow a non-Government militia to take its nation to war and wield any degree of power? The world press and bleeding-hearts all cry for poor Lebanon, and I too have fallen into that trap in the past. But no more.
Lebanon is continually hijacked because the country has no moral compass. Leaving Syria aside, Lebanon has tolerated, supported and aided organized groups whose aim is to destroy an entire neighboring country, Israel. Did they not learn their lesson for supporting the P.L.O. in the 70's and 80's? Just like Arafat before him, Nasrallah's stated aim is to destroy Israel, and they use Lebanon as their base of operations. How morally bankrupt and utterly stupid.
What do you think Lebanon would do if a private militia formed in Northern Israel whose stated aim was to destroy Lebanon? Better yet, what do you think Israel would do? Like every other nation, Israel would marshall its resources to expel and destroy that internal threat. And there is a real life Arab example of this. In 1970, King Hussein ordered the Jordanian army to expel the P.L.O. from his country because it was using it to target Israel and destabalize Jordan.
The Prime Minister of Lebanon should have asked the UN for a much more aggressive resolution aimed at forcefully disarming Hezbollah and strenghening the Lebanese army. Maybe he didn't, because he is comfortable with Hezbollah and its objectives. If so, the cease-fire he signed will eventually be seen as his country's death sentence.

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