On Wednesday a demonstration against the high prices and low incomes in the country started in Lebanon by the 8 March and Hezbollah followers and the airport was supposed to close for only 4 hours due to strikes.
But what started as demonstration has today evolved into clashing of violence among mainly Sunnis and Shias in the Beirut area. The way to the airport is blocked by burning tires and the airport is still closed. Yesterday I woke up hoping the violence would have stopped and that the airport would have re-opened but instead I was reading headlines on face book and msn displays from friends who live in Lebanon that the war is near and reading their different expressions of fear and hatred to what is going on.
I thought to myself that this is what we have been thinking for the past two years now…we have been expecting a war to break out due to political tensions in the country but no way would a war break out today, right? I mean we probably will get some kind of warning first...and the Lebanese have made it clear they do not want to fight each other; they want peaceful dialogues, right?
Wrong!!!!
In July 2006 no one expected a war to break out and yet it did, just like that... in just one week Lebanon's infrastructure was completely destroyed and all the Lebanese with a foreign passport and all the foreigners were evacuated due to the kidnappings of two Israeli's by Hezbollah.
Today almost two years after that Hezbollah is pushing Lebanon into another war only this time they are not fighting their so called enemy, the Israelis, they are instead ready to fight the Lebanese people which they have no intention of doing according to them except to defend themselves and this was re-assured yesterday in a press conference speech made by their great and honorable leader.
This so called leader of a so called God's Party, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader who too many people is supposedly known as a charismatic leader and a man of honor made the most controversial speech in a press conference yesterday noon and actually had the guts to call other politicians liars and killers when he himself can be accused of the same things. Hearing him say that there's nothing going on in the Lebanese airport and that everything was functioning as normal is just so frustrating when we are watching and hearing the opposite on the news and form people who have been stuck at the airport and so on. His followers have burned tires along the road to the airport hindering people to reach it and hindering people to get back home.
When I heard him say that the airport was open and so on I thought to myself I'm not down there so I cannot know for sure what is going and so I continued to listen to what he had to say.
Then he started saying that the government has made a big deal of a bagatelle mentioning a camera in the garbage trail or something. I just read now while writing this that Hezbollah has been monitoring the airport, building up their own telecommunication network system and spying on people through cameras and so on. This has resulted in the government firing the person in charge of head of security in the airport which by the way is one of Hezbollah officials and thus upsetting the party and its followers. But does this justify their actions?
Quoting Nasrallah: "I want to remind them that when we entered the government, we released a statement saying the network was part of the resistance"Excuse me? Reminding who? the government? Releasing a statement? Well yes, let's do that, let's have all the parties ask their represented Mp's and Ministers to issue statements just like that which would justify any actions that would take to preserve in their opinions any threat to national security.Hezbollah officials have supposedly "resigned" from the government and so I wonder how their statement is still valid? Did they even bother to stick around in a government they today are claiming is illegitimate? A government they were chosen into could have more influence in just like in any other democratic countries if they would only participate.
I admit the Lebanese government and especially the latest one now have been basically pretty messed up due to different circumstances and I will dedicate an article on that subject but all I can say now is that I’m not really taking the Saniora and his governments side in all of this because they are the ones who accepted Hezbollah in the first place and they announced them as a Lebanese resistance and backed them up in the 2006 July war. Now suddenly they have decided to not accept them as a resistance or part of the government anymore?
This off course needs further examination but let's continue focusing on Mr Nasrallah and the most controversial quote I have ever heard him say.
”We are not a state within a state; we are the consciousness and logical mind behind the state".
After that I was so angry that I turned off the TV and went out of the house to take some fresh air and forget all about what he said. But how can I? How can I forget the whole situation in Lebanon? My relatives are down there and my sister is there. All I think about is I really don't want a war to break out. Nobody wants a war to break out…We've all had enough!!! People are starving and instead off all Lebanese joining hands and going down the streets to protest we have to worry about another civil war breaking out again!
Not a state within a state? Hello!!!!
Hezbollah have their own communication network, weapons and they are trained and have enough money to feed an army so I'm sorry for freaking out a bit here…what makes me even more mad is the fact that they can themselves the party of God…does God want us to use arms? They became a resistance as a result of the 1982 invasion in Lebanon by Israel in Lebanon. Inspired by the Iranian ideology and trained by the Iranian revolution guard, today they claim that they are protecting Lebanese interests? How can a party that once and probably still today in silence want to enforce Islamist rule in a country that should be a free, democratic and plural country call itself as Lebanese resistance? Do we have Israelis on our soil? No we don't. Not anymore. So I have to ask myself who do we really need protection from? The Israelis who left or from another neighboring country that are is still seeking to take over the influence of our country in every way it can, possibly through Hezbollah?
All of us Lebanese in the Diaspora were looking forward to visit our beautiful country this summer and now all of us are sitting watching the news and praying that our relatives won't get hurt and that we will be able to make that trip to visit them soon. Praying that Lebanon will survive what I would like to call its internal clash of civilizations which is going on today and hopefully someday really soon turn into one civilization, a Lebanese one accepted by the many.
We don't want a state within a state but a peaceful and pluralistic one!
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I value your opinion and your reaction to the events that have shocked our beloved country and it's citizens in recent days, but we have to remind ourselves that this is the result of an ongoing crisis that is left from the war in the 1980's. It has simply continued and been laying low until now when the "Great" leaders (of the whatever they tell themselves they are), have an opportunity to take over our country as they've always wanted from the get go. So they have said themselves!
Comfort in the power of the almighty and just God. He will destroy them and their evil actions because they have no power over him! All we can do is pray and love them for they know not what they do right!!?
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