What to do about Hezbollahstan

May 13, 2008

What to do about Hezbollahstan

The U.S. allies in Lebanon lost out against Hizbullah. The Shia in Lebanon, represented by Hizbullah, are some 35% of the population. They may now actually achieve a better representation than the 20% of parliament seats allocated to them by the Taif accord.

Universial suffrage is a pain in the ass, if a third of votes are against the imperial, colonist USrael agenda. Something must be done about such an awesome Hezbollahstan.

The neocons, out of ideas, have their usual answer:

Bombing the runway of the Damascus airport for the role [Syria] plays in serving as a conduit for Iranian arms to Hezbollah would also be an appropriate signal of American displeasure.

Another idea, from an Israeli, is a bit more refined:

Upon the elimination of the Christian hegemony in Lebanon, the old Israeli interest in maintaining an independent Lebanon will dissipate. The real alternatives are an Iranian Lebanon or a Syrian Lebanon. We do not know the price Syria will be willing to pay for a secret pledge that Israel would not do a thing to prevent Lebanon’s annexation to Syria, but it is worthwhile looking into it – this price may be Syrian willing to renounce its claims for the Golan.

Pretty cool and much more thoughtful than the bomb, bomb, bomb neconed one.

"I’ve stolen your Porsche. So what. Now stop nagging about that little robbery and I’ll let you take your neighbours Jetta."

Chutzpa is a quite inimitable word.

Posted by b on May 13, 2008 at 18:38 UTC | Permalink

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Great post as ever B, and your link to Ynetnews got me surfing across their website. I have bookmarked the link tothem, after reading much but especially this:

The Shah, who had left Iran during Mutzadak’s rule, returned to his country. With American support, Mohammed Reza initiated his so-called White Revolution, which featured widespread reforms and infrastructure development. However, the r evolution failed. Poverty increased throughout Iran, as did the enmity of the people and the religious leaders. The Shah’s secret police arrested and tortured many citizens, and the population became ever more hostile to the regime. Furthermore, many Iranians perceived the Shah as a puppet of imperialistic masters who willingly submitted to international involvement in Iran.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shiite preacher who was arrested in 1963, was one of the leaders of the opposition to Mohammed Reza Shah. His arrest set off public riots, and the Iranian police killed over 600 and wounded thousands in their attempts to quell the disturbances. Khomeini was exiled to Iraq in 1964, but continued to maintain close ties with his supporters in Iran.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | May 13 2008 19:54 utc | 1

Acts of War and War Crimes are thown out as THE answers.

Posted by: R.L. | May 13 2008 19:57 utc | 2

Its a pretty good idea, except that Syria will soon have defacto control of Lebanon anyway. They achieved that in the 80’s despite an Israeli invasion and U.S. troop presence…not to mention French and Italians.
You can not give your enemy what he already has.

Posted by: Lysander | May 13 2008 21:31 utc | 3

Solo Para Ti Entonces Ciudades Siguientes de la Frontera

Posted by: Manuel Noriega | May 14 2008 3:01 utc | 4

Syria can’t move against Iran like that, and USrael can’t allow it; Nasrallah has it like he likes it for now, and he is giving up nothing to Israel. USrael can’t give him another victory, it all goes sideways until the US makes way for war on 12 fronts and breakup of Iraq. All the arms and suicide bombers at Israel’s doorstep at that juncture will be an added bonus to the wonderful economic conditions we can enjoy around the world, with pipeline sabotage across Iraq and the Saudi kingdom. We can sadly look forward to the sight of munitions reaching all points in Israeli and Lebonese territory, if not Syrian, Shiite Iraq and Iran. Our Saudi friends want us in Iraq, they want us to stay, and the media machine will not be kind to Obama, who might want to keep making unannounced missile strikes against pseudoislamic militants, but who is bound to his primary run promises to withdraw the troops. He will not be able to maintain the Iraq state from the air, nor from the ground with blackwater and a third of current troops. That will fail and we’ll be back to just bombing as need be. The political logic will carry forward on both sides of the aisle that we are just protecting our interests and that of Israel, but at least the dems will get us on alternative energy and out of the killing in a decade, while the RNC truly wants the last drop and the blood just makes it all the more fun. Welcome to the collective hell.
Fortunately for individuals, when Sri takes your head, what is left is amrit. We can only thank goodness for that.

Posted by: aumana | May 14 2008 5:50 utc | 5

Of course that most of what peeps currently call ‘Lebanon’ was once a province of Syria is a ‘fact’ which many choose to ignore. The europeans in particular the french, have managed to ensure the lives of the former Syrians currently known as Lebanese, are kept as miserable as possible from their intermittent interventions dating from the first crusades to the so-called ‘holy lands’.
As Lebanese historian Kemal Salibi discusses here control of the area currently known as Lebanon was ceded to the french by the english in return for france dropping any claim to Mesopotamia and not blocking england’s grab for Mesopotamia (currently known as Iraq).
The zionists unmitigated gall in now ‘offering’ Lebanon back to Syria is also revealed in Salibi’s writings when he discusses the zionist push for england to betray the undertaking given ibn-Saud in return for Arab assistance against the Ottoman Empire in WW1.
In a display typical of the perfidy which has characterised zionist leadership from at least the time directly prior to the Balfour declaration, Israel’s leaders are now trying to move the pea of Arab self determination under a different shell for as long as it takes to sequester the region’s remaining unalienated water supply.
If the zionists follow their usual modus operandi, once the water has been stolen, all undertakings about the future of Lebanon will be rescinded and the zionist oppression of anyone not of their creed who is unlucky enough to live within range of their murderous ‘weapons platforms’ will return to it’s previous levels.
Back in 2005 Shameem Akhtar predicted the rise of Hezbollah if amerika continued it’s support of israel and it’s unwanted interference in the region. In his closing sentence he predicted that resistance will extend beyond Lebanon to encompass most of the eastern Mediterranean seaboard.
I wonder if the zionists truly understand the nature of the tiger they have by the tail. Without giving a complete exposition on the nature of huge organisations’ particular behaviours, two of the most typical characteristics of large organisations come to mind.
The first is that because of their size and the necessity of keeping thinking standardised, large organisations over-simplify complex issues. There is no subtlety in their approach to these complex issues. A sort of lowest common denominator effect of the kind which is most apparent in broadcast network TV shows, is the rule throughout amerika’s mass institutions.
The current one piece, one size fits all meme in regard to zionism and the impact zionism has on the indigenous people of the western ME, the simple rule is; israel always good, arabs always bad.
The zionist leadership in israel and amerika don’t question this over-simplification, in fact they encourage it, an amazingly stupid and short-sighted attitude.
That is because of the second dominant characteristic of large organisations, that is the ponderous and overly regulated routes to leadership in a large organisation ensure that leadership is most easily granted to rather unimaginative but over-ambitious time servers who get to the top by emulating their predecessors.
That is until some more ambitious and impatient smarty comes along. The smarty quickly comprehends the only way to get to power ‘fast enough’ in the monolith is by successfully advocating and implementing radical change.
In other words there will come a time, quite soon too, given the increasing difficulty amerikan power is having expressing itself in the ME, that some totally ruthless, ambitious individual (or more likely a cadre of ruthless ambitious individuals) will successfully advocate a ‘sea-change’ in amerika’s ME foreign policy.
As with the sea-change on global warming, the philosophy and ethics which inspired the segment of the community which had initially pressured for radical change will be either suborned, or ignored. (ie “shit or get off the pot, Abdul”)and what was black will now be white and vice versa.
The excesses of AIPAC and the other mega-lobbyists will be held against them. The once powerful lobby groups will be rendered powerless, just as the once unified voice of amerika’s jewish supporters of israel will have been splintered into warring factions by the excesses and corruption of the amerikan based israel lobby and israel’s increasingly corrupt ruling elite. Is there anyone who doesn’t know that swapping Olmert for Netanyahu on the grounds of Olmert’s corruption is like swapping out eliot spitzer for spiro agnew? The backlash against israel and it’s treasonous lobby is building up a head of steam.
The fence jump will fall due, remember most of these xtian fundie superstitions have a much longer history of judeophobia than they do zionism and switching the peeps back will only take one aipac lobbyist’s conviction for treason plus two fire and brimstone ‘god is on our side’ sermons.
Then washington’s reaction to israel’s petulant demands is going to change from immediate obeisance to total rejection.

Posted by: Debs is dead | May 14 2008 7:02 utc | 6

Saudis secretly funneled weapons to anti-Hezbollah forces – U.S.-approved shipments preceded gunbattles paralyzing Lebanon

JERUSALEM – With U.S. approval, Saudi Arabia in recent months provided weaponry to militias associated with anti-Syrian Lebanese opposition leaders to bolster them against the Hezbollah terror organization, informed security officials told WND.
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The Saudi weapons were provided to militias associated with Lebanon’s Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, Parliament Leader Saad Hariri, and former president Amin Gemayel, according to security officials.
The weapons mostly consisted of assault rifles, rocket propelled grenades, and combat equipment such as military boot, tents and night-vision goggles, the officials said.

Posted by: b | May 14 2008 7:46 utc | 7

and they still got their asses kicked B.
it’s almost like it’s gonna take more than shiny new weapons to whip even Hezbollah’s second team. too funny.

Posted by: ran | May 15 2008 1:10 utc | 8

The Siniora government now officially backed down:
Cabinet Backs Off in Scrap With Hezbollah

The Lebanese government rescinded two decisions Wednesday that had targeted Hezbollah and ignited the worst internal fighting since the end of the 15-year civil war, underlining the group’s sense of victory in a battle that has recalibrated Lebanese politics.
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In a statement read by a grim-faced Ghazi Aridi, the information minister, the cabinet cast the decision as a move “in view of the higher national interest,” rescuing Lebanon from a civil war that seemed dangerously close just days ago. At a televised news conference, Aridi said the step was taken in line with a request by the military and to facilitate a high-profile Arab mediation effort that began Wednesday.

Posted by: b | May 15 2008 6:13 utc | 9

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