The Best Defense Strategy for Lebanon is a Peace Treaty with Israel
By: Charles Jalkh (Freedom Fighter)
August 12/08

Hezbollah’s propaganda has been focusing the Lebanese people into a single argument of how can we defend Lebanon from “Israeli aggressions and designs” over Lebanese territory and resources. Lets us analyze Hezbollah’s premise in its 2 parts; the ”assumption” of Israeli aggression, and then the “designs/wants” of Lebanese territory and resources.

The original myth, the falsehood of Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and Lebanon, has never existed in reality and the whole world recognizes this fact except the poor Arab masses programmed for 60 years by dictatorial regimes who maintained themselves in absolute power by inventing the absolute enemy; Israel. First of all, and contrary to mass programming of the Arab masses, Israel has never been an aggressor with Lebanon, not one single time. In 1948, on the night of May 14–15, five of the seven countries of the Arab League at that time, namely Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon and Syria, backed with Saudi Arabian and Yemenite contingents invaded Israel in violation of UN resolution 181 which fairly partitioned Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states.

The Arabs armies were subsequently defeated causing additional Palestinian territory to be seized beyond the original UN allocated plan and a partial exodus of Palestinian civilians ensued. Modern documented history of all nations clearly shows these events as facts, except in the selective memory, history books, and literature of the Arab states.

In order to channel their masses’ frustrations away from their daily miseries and regime change, Arab regimes invented the “Evil” Israeli enemy and caused the sufferings of millions of their own people. For the following 60 years, Arab states abandoned their own Palestinian brothers to rotten in refugee camps, denied basic human rights, living in abject poverty and neglect, while they collected billions and by today’s count, trillions of oil dollars. More Palestinians were even massacred at the hands of their own Arab brothers than by all Israeli defensive actions.

Twenty thousands died in Black September 1970 (Jordan) when they attempted a coup against the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan. Hundreds were savagely gunned down in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps (Lebanon). Thousands faced mass arrests and torture in Syria. Hundreds of thousands were mass deported from Kuwait and the Gulf (after the PLO’s support of Saddam Hussein’s invasion).

So numerically, far more Palestinians cruelly died and suffered at the hands of their own Arab brothers, than Israel’s. At least Israel does not kidnap, jail, torture, and murder its own people for their political opinions as do most of the Arab states today.

Returning to the topic of Israel and Lebanon, Israel did not attack Lebanon in its 1948 independence war despite Lebanon’s unprovoked attack, nor in the 1956 Suez war, nor the 1967 Six Days war, nor in the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Lebanon was safe from the Israeli-Arab conflict for decades, until it opened its territory through Syrian sabotage, facilitation, and pressure, to Palestinian guerilla attacks, legalized by our own Lebanese government in the famous “Cairo Accord” which granted the PLO the southern “Arkoub” territory to attack Israel, thereby providing the justification for Israel’s legitimate self-defense against Lebanon.

Palestinian guerilla attacks from Lebanon against the state of Israel persisted in the 1970s and 1980’s, and were faced by reciprocal Israeli retaliations and counter attacks. Finally in 1982, Israel “cleaned” up Lebanon from the Palestinian threat and freely handed the Lebanese back their state and sovereignty embodied in the Election of Freedom Fighter Martyr President Bachir Gemayel, who was quickly assassinated by the Syrian Assad regime, and the cycle of using Lebanon again as a staging ground for the “wars of others” resumed.

By 1982, Syria and Iran invented Hezbollah as a substitute to the Palestinian resistance which they had already cashed by exiling Arafat to Tunis, and attacks against Israel resumed, this time with a new mask; Shiite Radicalism, or Hezbollah. These “Lebanese” aggressions resulted in several Israeli retaliations, and finally culminated with an outright occupation of a buffer zone in south Lebanon to protect Israel from the absent and irresponsible Lebanese governments.

Since 1982, Israel tried to seek peace with Lebanon, but Lebanon failed to meet it one tenth of the way. All due to the Syrian Assad regime’s sabotage of the independence of Lebanon and finally its outright occupation of the county in 1990. All what Israel asked for, was security for its border and population. Is that too much to ask? Since 1992 Israel faced stubborn, idiotic, and evil attacks from Lebanon’s Hezbollah, or we should rather say, Syrian-Iranian Hezbollah.

Let’s take a jump in history to current 2008 and observe the nation of Jordan today. Jordan has a peace treaty with Israel. It enjoys a US-NATO de-facto protection, and tons of economic agreements and aid to lift its economy and secure its nation. Jordan does not need 40,000 missiles in its defense strategy to protect itself against Israel, nor does Lebanon. The logic circulated by Iranian-Hezbollah today, that force is what protects Lebanon is absolutely erroneous and fraudulent. It is based on the hate of some old senile Mullahs whose mind has remained fixated in the 7th Century.

A peace treaty with Israel, a neighbor that does not, and has never coveted land from Lebanon, and was never the aggressor against Lebanon, is the best solution to protect Lebanon. IT IS THE ULTIMATE DEFENSE STRATEGY! Peace with our democratic neighbor Israel, is the best God-Given gift to the Lebanese people. And all talk of resistance is pure rubbish and criminal. It is being marketed only by the real enemies of Lebanon; Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran.

The Lebanese people have been programmed for 60 years and need de-programming. There is nothing wrong with our Israeli neighbors. They are good people and a fascinating civilization. We are losing most by not getting to know them and befriend them. They are a million time more decent and humane than the Syrian regimes we have always experienced.

Now that our new government has merged with Hezbollah, we Lebanese are all threatened existentially. The next Israeli retaliation against Hezbollah will include a total and massive destruction to everything standing in Lebanon and the exchange may even include chemical and atomic weapons, whether fission of dirty-bomb based. Our situation is extremely grave! All those MPs today granting confidence, are better off surrendering the state to Hezbollah, refusing to participate in its falsehood, and going home to shelter and pray. Or… stand tall, carry arms and fight to defend Lebanon against the Hezbollah occupation! The Lebanese must understand that claiming sovereignty over the 10452 KLM2 means assuming responsibility for all actions emanating from it.

Since we cannot establish control over the totality of the land, we are better off disconnecting ourselves from the Hezbollah zones officially and formally so that we spare ourselves from the coming total destruction. We must ally yourselves clearly with the global peace camp, and we must defend ourselves in Free Lebanon.

If things continue on the current track, nothing will be spared, all regions, all communities, all bridges, all infrastructure, the South, Solidere, the Saraya, Yarze, the presidential palace, Fayadiye, Jounieh, Sanine, all Lebanon will be target in the next theater of action. Wake up Lebanese, time is running short.