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Column One: Don't wobble, Mr. President
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BobW
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Common wisdom is not resident at the Jerusalem Post.
Hizbollah has strong liaison and coordination with Teheran and Damascus. Hizbullah is already designated a terrorist organization by many.
The phrase "pro-democracy movement" is still not operational until more Jews in Israel are murdered. Although this death rate in Israel should exceed requirements, there are some still mentally resident in Central Park West, excepting for Caribbean vacations.
A "pro-democracy movement" in Lebanon, by demographics alone, results in legitimacy for Hizbollah. It is the strongest minority bloc present on the scene.
Lebannon is a newly created country. It was created as recently as 1941, 1943, during WWII. Lebanon was created from Syria with a governmental power sharing arrangement among the Christians, Shia and Sunni factions. From some views, this is anti-democratic. Imagine Jews being told their faction's political leader is Alan Dershowitz. Imagine Catholics being told they will be represented by the leadership of Planned Parenthood. The initial arrangements for Lebanon were not democratic.
Narrow political structures along strict sectarian lines do not allow for political stability or what's known in the West as "democracy".There are some Shia Lebanonese women not wanting arranged marriages in consonance with the agreed upon political arrangements in Lebanon.
Caroline Glick might see Lebanon free of foreign domination. Without Syria, Lebanon is destined to become an Islamic Republic, based on democratic principles. Lebanon's Maronite Christians must avoid the French/West identification. The Maronites had agreed to this in their original National Convenant with the Muslims.
"Free and fair elections" allows for an Islamic Republic of Lebanon. An independent nation's political echelon will establish who and what will comprise the security establishment. Hizbollah is the Hagganah equivilant awaiting a new flag.
Common wisdom has it that Israel lacks the social, economic and political institutions to identify threats and act accordingly in a concerted manner. The Jerusalem Post, along with the NY Times, Columbia University, ZOA, etc, are all vestages of an earlier era thus generating failure.
Regarding Israel, moral clarity will not eminate from the US Department of State. The cycle will contine.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on March 12, 2005 03:02 AM
Column One: Don't wobble, Mr. President
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST
Common wisdom has it that until Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah launched Tuesday's pro-Syrian demonstration in Beirut, his terror organization had been more or less on the fence regarding its position on Syria's occupation of Lebanon. This view is belied, however, by a speech Nasrallah broadcast on Hizbullah's Al-Manar television on February 17.
In the speech, which was documented by the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Nasrallah warned against the pro-democracy, anti-Syrian opposition. Nasrallah claimed that the opposition, like UN Security Council Resolution 1559 calling for a withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon and the disarming of Hizbullah, had been launched as part of an Israeli-American political war against Hizbullah.
He argued that the political war was "more important and dangerous" than a shooting war, because if it were successful the international community would label Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. If this were to happen, Nasrallah continued, it "would necessarily mean a world war against the resistance [i.e., Hizbullah], which they will call a war against international terrorism. [That will mean] the sources of [our] funding will dry up and the sources of moral, political and material support will be destroyed by exerting pressure on the countries defending the resistance one way or another, and exerting pressure on Lebanon, Iran and Syria, but mainly on Lebanon, to classify it as a country supporting terrorism "
So, far from sitting on the fence, Hizbullah had perceived the danger inherent in the pro-democracy movement in Lebanon, and had broadcast its opposition to it, from the start. Tuesday's rally, where Nasrallah led hundreds of thousands of Lebanese in chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" while applauding Syria for its domination of their country, was the result of this perceived threat. MORE
Posted by Ted Belman at March 11, 2005 05:53 PM