I agree with your point that it is ironic that HA wants to liberate the area “occupied” by Israel and is not even willing to “discuss” the demarcation of the border with Syria! HA strives for attention to keep getting the support of Lebanese by showing that they are the protectors of Lebanon. On the other hand, Israel should stop its daily violations of Lebanese sovereignty. If I am Israel, I will just handover Shebba’ Farms to the UN, give the maps of mines location to Lebanon and release the Lebanese prisoners in its jails. HA then will have no excuse to have arms and Lebanese will tell HA thank you and you are not needed anymore!

On the night of “independance” HA wants to say that we are not independant yet.They are right. Not until HA and Palestinians disarm.
Walla they are not intelligent. They keep on repeating the same scenario over and over again.BORING,mahek?
They think lebanese will run in all the directions crying for HA’s help.Walla “been there done that” NEXT!

I agree that Hezbollah is directed from outside. When Hezbollah attacked last year, Israel retaliated by striking Syrian targets, causing Hezbollah’s Gun to fall silent for a long time. But I think this time around, Syria would welcome a strife against its territories, because that will bring the rest of the Arabs to its support, which she badly needs at this time. I don’t think the US and Israel will dance to Syria’s drum.

Listen bwana: Hezbullalmighty are “bad” “terrorist” “evil” “enemies of Liberty” “warmongering Baathist stooges”…”provoking the peaceful state of Yisrael into an unnecessary confrontation”… blah blah etc. … Sheik Rafiq on the other hand is a “clean, cool, good kid, and he’s been to [Saudistani] college too”… etc.

Ah, if only it were that simple my dear Mr. Mousse!

Me thinks IsrAmerika needs conveniently picturesque bearded buffoons Hezbollah-style and/or moustached “evil-doers” à la Saddam Hussein to feed the furnace of their Gargantuan propaganda machine…

And when it comes to the Neocon propaganda factory, old Marxist/Trotskyite habits die hard: in many ways, HA’s sheikh Nasrallah and Al Qaeda’s Abu Musab Al-I don’tknowwhatawi are the Emmanuel Goldstein of our age : just like the famous character from George Orwell’s novel, the Lebanese firebrand cleric and the Jordanian-born “Super-Terrorist” started home-grown organizations known as “The Brotherhood”, dedicated to the fall of the sole superpower…and the rest is History.

In “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, comrade Goldstein is the main character of the “Two Minutes Hate,” a daily information video clip shown on “The Telescreen”- the ancestor of Fox News and the TeX-Aviv Broadcasting Company…

Sounds familiar??…

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Post-PS: Zarqawi’s fate, updated, redux:

We’re now told that “in Beijing, China, a stop on President Bush’s trip to Asia, National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones discounted the prospect of al-Zarqawi’s death.
The report is highly unlikely and not credible” [sic] he said

Guess Abu Musab Al- Idon’tknowwhatawi will “live to fight another battle” as they say in Koranic/Neocon circles…

Too bad his “ancestral tribe” back in Jordanistan disowned him three times…kind of just like Saint Peter and the man they call Christ…the Madison Avenue-trained gurus at the PR and Public Disinformation section of our embassy in Amman are simply too brilliant!

Abu Musab père surely couldn’t stand the thought of his son going postal on full jacket jihad in Ayyraq…but rest assured the Mohammedan Emmanuel Goldstein of our age will (once again!) lick his wounds and bounce back blah blah blah Zzzzzzzzzzz…..

Stay tuned my dear fellow citizen/dupes for the born-again Abu Musab will be reappearing soon in a Fox News premiere and/or a White House press conference theater near you!

Well i think that HA is working to the benefit of israel more then it s fighting it.HA is never a LEBANESE partie,it ’s ideologie doesn’t fit with the identitie of a modern lenanon.

HA needs to decide whether or not it is Lebanese. If it is Lebanese, then it needs to take strictly Lebanese interests into consideration and join the Lebanese political system wihtout any conditions.

If it insists on taking wider “muslim,” “Iranian” or “Arab” considerations at the expense of Lebanon, then we need to look at Hizballah as we looked at the PLO: A foreign organization fighting a foreign war on Lebanese soil.

i don’t care about anything. All the Lebanese politicians can be the most corrupt, brutal sons of bitches in the world. The reality is that no one party can take all of us (the entire country) to war without having the support of the majority - at the very least!

If Hizballah wants to continue acting like it has today, then it should come out and proclaim that it wishes to separate the Bekaa and the South from Greater Lebanon, and create its own ministate, which can conduct its own foreign policy.

Raja - You are doing exactly what HA would not accept, dictating terms. In the Lebanese Republic of Hizbullahistan, HA gets to determine the size of the playing field, set the rules, AND choose who the referees will be. And why would they accept anything short of that? They have the weapons, and besides, they have had it this way in the south for several years already. If you’re an HA man, why change now?

Footnote: the action on the eve of Indep. Day also makes the army look very bad.

HA has demondtrated again that they march to their own drummer and that the national interest is not important to them. It is clear, to this observer, that HA’s last actions at Sheeba farms is a delayed reaction to Syrias request that they rock the boat of the Lebanese government last Thursday. I trust that Syria is running out of options in its delaying tactics. Actually this might be their last card. I do not blame HA for being themselves. The real blame is when the rest of society {Government}acquiesces and decides to close its eyes to the fact that since HA is a fundamentalist group of theocrats that cannot and will not recognize and respect the other then they should not be allowed to act outside of the legal umbrella of the state. No group of individuals , no matter how grand are its aspirations and dreams should ever be allowed to take action on behalf of the state.

(And please spare us the constant chatter that the PM and his Saad owe their allegiance to the Hanbalis in Sauestan. Even if one is to grant you the point you must admit that two wrongs do not make a right. Where does it say that if one does not approve of one party then the other becomes acceptable?)

Dear Moustapha.

Happy Independence Day 2005. Keep up the good work.
Lebanon needs more people like you.
Ralf

Raja, HA has already decided. It will not changed. We should try to focus on Hezbollah’s weak point: its constituency. The rest of the Lebanese should go for a “containment” policy.