Thanks to L’Orient Today, Bambi learned that the Lebanese Prime Minister said the following words, during a dinner at Beirut’s Makassed Islamic Charitable Society: “The state can only exist through a single national decision, that of its constitutional institutions; a single weapon, that of its national army; and a single law” (https://tinyurl.com/mwyaxt93)” (https://tinyurl.com/mwyaxt93). He even added “Enough accusations of treason, this will never intimidate us“. He was referring to the third round of direct negotiations with Israel, which took place in Washington yesterday and today (https://tinyurl.com/mwyaxt93).
Of course, Hezbollah is categorical: it refuses those talks, insisting on keeping its weapons and on continuing its suicidal war with Israel, which is now occupying about 16% of Lebanon with about 68 villages emptied and destroyed.
Instead of choosing reason, and most significantly Lebanon, Hezbollah seems to be still serving the Iranian regime’s interests. It seems ready to do it until the last breath–its own as well as the last breath of the innocent Lebanese civilians. Once again, the latter are caught in the middle of a regional war that does not belong to them. When it is not to support Gaza, it is to support the Iranian regime and before the Syrian regime and in 2006 and earlier, the same old wars that everyone is sick and tired of.
Of course, we can criticize and be angry toward Israel endlessly for being powerful, and without mercy, when it comes to defending its people. However, one must not forget that the weapons of the Hezbollah are problematic to Lebanon before any other foreign entity. They should have been confiscated at the end of the civil war, as they were from the other militias. It is about time now.
So, yes Mr. Nawaf Salam, you are right: “The state can only exist through a single national decision, that of its constitutional institutions; a single weapon, that of its national army; and a single law” (https://tinyurl.com/mwyaxt93).
