BEIRUT — One would be correct in imagining that life’s no bowl of cherries for Hezbollah these days.
Pressures, often intense, resulting in being sucked into the vortex of the powerful maelstrom and violent whirlpool of Lebanese and regional politics can’t be bringing much pleasure to Lebanon’s National Resistance led by Hezbollah and that includes this observer’s Dahiyeh neighborhood.
Following their one-on-one meeting last weekend, US secretary of state Clinton and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan are seeking to intensify pressure on both Hezbollah and Syria. One project is reported to be US instructions to their March 14 allies to force a vote in Lebanon’s Parliament allowing the deployment of international troops along Lebanon’s northern border with Syria.
Some March 14 politicians have been publicly calling for the deployment of an international force positioned along the poorly demarcated border between Lebanon and Syria. These US-Saudi supported forces have also revived the Welch Club-Jeffrey Feltman project first floated in 2007 at Israel’s request following its defeat during the 33-day July 2006 war. Hezbollah’s internal and external opponents are reportedly seeking a quick “modernizing” of the current airport at Kleiat near Sunni Akkar, close to Tripoli in North Lebanon. According to one Member of Parliament, “The Americans and some internal sides had already ‘dusted off’ the file of the revival of the Sunni Kleiat Airport.” One of its intended uses is expected to house international troops and American forces for “training, storage and forward supply.”
The Feltman idea, which was publicly exposed four years ago, never died. It was rather put in storage pending future opportunity and now envisages a “liberated geographic zone” to pressure Syria and others with a base for military operations in the region. With the Syrian chaos and crisis, the sought opportunity may have arrived, with Pentagon analysts and American allies agreeing with Clinton and Erdogan that the time for a regional Kleit airbase is now. It may be recalled that in 2008, an American military delegation examined the Kleiat runway “for logistic purposes pertaining to cooperation with the Lebanese Army” according to US Embassy Beirut. During Congressional testimony, the Pentagon told Congress that “the current runway at Kleiat is perfectly suitable for planes transporting military equipment. But it does not have the necessary qualifications to be a civil airport.”
Few political analysts here doubt that such a project would be vigorously opposed by the Lebanese National Resistance. Hezbollah official Sheikh Naim Qassem has condemned such moves “as a method to destroy the country.” He stated last week that “Hezbollah refuses to allow Lebanon to intervene in Syrian affairs and categorically rejects the deployment of international forces to the northern borders. That is a Zionist project to destroy Lebanon in the same way as Syria. When they lost the ability to influence the Syrian equation, they began proposing suspect projects like deploying international forces to the north to support the buffer zone. If the March 14 group stops sabotaging Lebanon’s north with arms, smuggling and militia work, and stability would reign. They are responsible for tensions that hit our people in Tripoli, Akkar and the north in general.”
As though working in concert with the US and its sponsored groups in Lebanon, pressure from the colonial occupiers of Palestine to instill fear among Lebanese is reflected in the increased number of daily warplanes and reconnaissance planes violating this country’s airspaces, recently focusing also on Tripoli and the Kleiat airport area. This week’s incidents included flyovers in the south, east, and north of Lebanon add to a total of more than 8,000 Israeli violations of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 while UNIFIL watches and takes notes from its base in Naquoria, near Tyre.
According to one UNIFIL source, Israel is also trying to tax Resistance forces in the south and force them into revealing some of their locations near Kfar Kila, where Israel recently built another wall, as well as Resistance preparations for the coming Israel-Hezbollah war.
Targeted by Al-Qaeda and Its New Allies
Increasing threats of violence against Hezbollah and Shiites by the Al-Qaeda affiliated Abdallah Azzam Brigades, active in Lebanon and Syria, appear designed to peel away support from Hezbollah and to ignite more sectarian conflict in Lebanon. One recent threat was posted on a jihadist website on August 17 and is being broadcast here by the US-Saudi backed March 14 opposition. The audio recording warns Shiites that “the positions of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement vis-à-vis the Syrian revolution do not serve your best interests … If you maintain your arrogant attitude, you will be punished, and you will pay. You only have yourselves to blame.”
According to Dr. Ahmad Moussalli, political science professor at the American University of Beirut and an expert on political Islam: “This Al-Qaeda unit considers current conditions in Lebanon and Syria to be a golden opportunity to strike against targets that were far from their reach in the past. Looking at the border situation now, they can transfer militants from Syria to Lebanon in order to carry out attacks against Hezbollah and their supporters.”
These forces, increasingly seen as working with some elements in the March 14 grouping, are also trying to instill confusion in Hezbollah neighborhoods over understanding the Party’s role in the Syrian crisis given that Hezbollah officials support the popular uprisings of the Arab spring and Islamic awakening.
A Hezbollah source reports that the complicated environment here in Lebanon and the region are not easy ones given internal and external enemies. One friend acknowledges also the danger of Hezbollah as the leader of the international Resistance risks being viewed as simply a local Shia party which would be dangerous to the party and this country on multiple levels.
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea regularly repeats charges that “the March 8 alliance of being behind the deteriorating security situation in the country in order to create as many spots of tension as possible along with incidents to decrease pressure on the Syrian regime.” In a direct reference to Hezbollah, Geagea said “There are enormous strategic dangers that stem from the presence of a statelet within the state. The state has no authority over it because the owners of this statelet and their allies are paralyzing it.”
Geagea and his allies has also condemned Hezbollah for the “appalling silence” with which it met the abductions of Syrian and Arab nationals in Lebanon. “[We condemn] Hezbollah’s appalling silence regarding these incidents that take place in its regions of influence, while its Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah claims that things got out of hand without condemning these incidents. That means that he gives his total consent for these acts.”
According to Hanin Ghaddar writing in New York Times, “Something fundamental has changed: the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, long Syria’s powerful proxy in Lebanon, has become a wounded beast. And it is walking a very thin line between protecting its assets and aiding a crumbling regime next door.”
The March 14 Youth organizations, normally working within their individual parties, have begun combined efforts to confront elements of the Hezbollah-led Resistance. Last week at the Universite Saint Joseph, hundreds of students from the Lebanese Forces (LF), the Future Movement, the Kataeb, al-Jamaa al-Islamiyah, and the National Liberal Party (NLP) staged a rally ostensibly to call for the resignation of Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour and the expulsion of Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdel-Karim Ali, but also to attack Hezbollah.
Since the surprise arrest of former Information Minister Michel Samaha on August 9, and the subsequent charging him, along and Syrian National Security head General Ali Mamluk, with plotting “terror attacks,” key pillars of government, including the President Suleiman and Prime Minister Miqati, appear to be distancing themselves somewhat from the Assad regime. Rumors are circulating that within the Hezbollah leadership some are having private doubts about the party’s relationship with the Assad regime.
Hezbollah realizes that there is a need to create a balance, however delicate, between Lebanon’s national interest, primarily to be free of future Israeli occupation and enhance Lebanon’s position in regional Arab causes. Presumably, Hezbollah’s research center and other think tanks are reviewing earlier actions and in some cases will modify original stances to meet the changing realities in Lebanon and beyond.
The party and the Shite community are being advised of a need to continue advocating the politics of openness, dialogue, and partnership in order to preserve Lebanon.
There currently exists in Lebanon, as next year’s crucial Parliamentary election approaches, an especially ugly political atmosphere prevailing with internal and external groups seeking to hold Hezbollah and the wider Shia community responsible for many current problems ranging from power cuts, security, public security, poor water quality, inflation, and weak infrastructure. Some from my neighborhood have taken to the streets in the past few months to protect against the increasing power cuts.
The coming weeks will reveal what, if any, success foreign and domestic anti-Resistance forces achieve in using the Syrian crisis to dismantle Hezbollah.
We heard at the American Democrat’s Convention, that the American Democrats are building their strategy to win the Election by saying that they will forsake the Country of Israel.
Yes, we know that the Democrat Convention reluctantly said they support the Country of Israel, but only for as long as Obama is President.
This ploy would please both the Fundamentalist Muslims and the Staunchest Zionists, because Al-Qaeda has been waiting decades for this policy, and the Zionists are relieved that for as long as Obama is President, then Israel is safe, thus ensuring the votes of both Muslims and Jews, and Many other Americans.
This was both very honest and cunning of the America Democrats to do that, because it maximizes their chances of winning the Election in order to make America a Military Dictatorship, as the only way to preserve America’s Hegemony, and American Voters want America to rule the World, but most will be unaware of what is coming if Obama and the American Democrats win the Election.
After having read the Article on Foreign Policy Journal Website that is Titled The Message from Both Parties Is That Americans Are Disposable, at http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/09/08/the-message-from-both-parties-is-that-americans-are-disposable/ , then we can conclude that either both Republicans and Democrats know that Obama is legally entitled to be President, or that they both consider the American Constitution as an Obstacle to a Military Dictatorship in America that will ensure America’s Global Hegemony for a 21st American Century.
The Project for another American Century is reaching fulfilment, but I cannot offer any timeframe, but it could be within the next 4 years, and oil pipelines might be built so that the Strait of Hormuz will not be needed for the shipment of oil from that region.
The plan involves that Israel as a Country ceases to exist, and the first requirement is that Israel is surrounded by Fundamentalist Muslims, and if Obama is a Secret Muslim or not does not matter that much, because Many Americans see little difference between both Major American Political Parties.
The Countries left of Israel are Libya and Egypt under Sharia Law with complements of Obama and of the Congress that did not Impeach him for his Unconstitutional actions over the War he waged on Libya, because he is not White, and so he can America’s Dictator, because any Criticism will be classed as Racism.
The Countries right of Israel are being worked on with Turkey and Syria, with Lebanon and Jordan as possible, but not necessary for the Scheme as the Movement of Muslims and Arabs is fairly porous among all Arab Countries, and even more so depending on the circumstances.
Even though there are Arab Governments who support Israel, it needs to be understood that many of their Citizens want to see Israel wiped off the map.
We know that Zionists have the vision of Israel as a Jewish state from the Nile to the Euphrates, which was promoted by late father of Israel’s Prime Minister, and many other Israelis who want a Greater Israel.
Obama, the American Democrats and Israel are working on these two goals, but I think that Obama and the America Democrats will betray Israel; whereas, the Republicans may not want a Greater Israel, but are loyal to the State of Israel.
We know that Israel has made it public that they might attack Iran, and that they want America’s help for that.
We do not know what the consequences for that will be if that happens, but Al-Qaeda or if some Iranian People Independent of the Iranian Government act to disrupt the Oil Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for 15 % of the Global Oil Supply, then the price of Oil could go close to 300 Dollars a barrel, and cause Economic Collapse and Hyperinflation Globally, and especially in America, where Martial Law will be declared, and a Military Dictatorship Established if Obama is re-elected.
The America People will be disarmed if Obama and the American Democrats win the Election, and Obama and the Democrats are just laying low, because they want Obama to be re-elected, because as a Coloured Person, they know the Obama and the Democrats will much more easily get away with things that a White President would find difficult.
There will be Many Zionists and American Politicians, and American and Israeli Bankers and Plutocrats who know that the Country Israel cannot be sustained if the Fundamentalist Muslims in the tens of millions march toward Israel, but they will become American Citizens, and live in America.
With Oil at 300 Dollars a barrel, then this will send the rest of the World into poverty, giving the undisputed Global Hegemony to Anglo-America, but there will be regions of Countries that be better off than others are, unless they are invaded by Countries, even Countries other than Anglo-America.
This will give America the incentive to disregard all World Trade Organization Agreements, and put up tariffs, and Trade only with themselves as America Has Energy Independence, and has every Natural Resource, and has the capacity to recycle every material, thus ensuring that they do not need other Countries.
The American Government knows that this is the only way to create Full Employment in America and to pay off the Debt.
It means paying off their Debts with Printed Money, as the American Dollar will only be used in America, and Legally only by American Citizens and so the Value of the America Dollar will be what Americans make it.
Countries of the World should realize that Globalization is what caused these problems, and that Economic Recovery will only come if they put up all the Tariffs they want.
If America goes it alone Economically, by acting as if it the only Country on the Planet, and Reliant Only on themselves, then in 3 years they should have Full Employment.
This does not mean that America will be a classless Society, because some jobs will not pay as much as others, for various reasons.
Americans should realize that Governments do not create any real jobs, once they go above the minimum Public Servants required, and they should not think that a Proper Capitalist, or Free Enterprise system is manipulated to advantage the rich, because a Proper Capitalist, or Free Enterprise system is designed to allow People to become rich, or to at least have a job.
I have read Many Americans say the same policy is pursued by both Political Parties, and that both will set up a Military Dictatorship in America.
They could be correct, but what they need to fully understand is that this is a certainty with Obama and the American Democrats, regardless of all of their lies up till Election Day.
We have heard how Obama and the American Democrats blame things on President Bush, and how Obama got Osama bin Laden, and yet whichever President was President while doing what they should be doing, then they just did what they should have done.
There are Many American Voters who do not concentrate on things that Politicians should be doing, but on what they are not doing, and the rich Democrat supporters are glutted on Taxpayers Stimulus Money to create fake temporary jobs just before the Election.
Obama promised a Post Racial America, and this is just another broken Obama promise, because the Democrats who are Obama’s proxies play the Race Card to try to cover up their Dismal Record.
The true standard for a Post Racial America, is if Voters do Vote against an African American, but only if it is for genuine reasons like a Dismal Record on Freedoms, and the Economy.
There are Many American Voters who say that the rich Israelis put Obama in the White House, and now we better understand why Ron Paul would have been a good President for America.
I meant to write that Many American Voters should not praise their Politicians, when they do what they are paid to do, but they should concentrate on what they are not doing their jobs, or keeping their promises.
America can print all the Money to repay its external Debts, and then put up tariffs on All Imports, because America has everything Natural Resource, and America has Energy Independence.
America can determine the value of the American Dollar that can only be spent by American Citizens on American soil, and their Debts could be charged at 0 % interest rates, which means that with Full Employment they will pay off their Debts to themselves, even if it is done slowly.
America can restart its Industries, and if America becomes a Military Dictatorship, then its Military Industries will have great capacity, as was discovered during the Second World War.
Globalization caused the problems with the Global Economy, and because not all Countries are fortunate as America, then they should only trade to a Minimum with other Countries, and this could be done with using the barter system.
If there are major disruptions to most of the Oil Supplies from the Middle East, because of American actions, then I would not put it past certain Americans wanting to make huge profits on Oil Futures or Oil Sales.
A situation like that would enable America to destroy the Economies of many Countries, and to make Huge Profits before America goes it alone Economically, and it will hinder other Countries from defending themselves from Britain and America, who seek to maintain or increase their Global Hegemony.