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Lebanon: The Cedar Revolutiuon Betrayed
The Security Councils 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 Hezbollahs 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 2006-08-14 |
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