Posted on 07/03/2024 6:58:01 AM PDT by SJackson
How much do the Mullahs care for the well-being of the Lebanese?
While Hasan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, repeats in Beirut the threats of his puppet-masters in Tehran, who have described the massive destruction they are prepared to visit on the “Zionist entity,” many Lebanese, horrified at what they see as a march toward war with Israel, have been filling social media with both their anguished calls for peace, and with denunciations of Hezbollah for dragging the country into a war that almost all Lebanese, save for the members of Hezbollah, do not want, for they remember what happened to the country in the 2006 Lebanon War. More on their on-line campaign to stop Nasrallah in his dangerous tracks can be found here: “‘Lebanon doesn’t want war’: Online campaign targets Hezbollah,” by Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2024:
As Israel and Hezbollah exchange deadly blows at the border and threats of an imminent war are sounded daily, some activists and media personalities in Lebanon who oppose the Iranian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah have come out with a series of videos and online campaigns in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to turn public opinion in the Land of Cedars against the prospects of war with Israel.
One salient example of these efforts is the hashtag “Lebanon doesn’t want war,” which had almost 40,000 appearances over the last month alone, garnering roughly 100,000 engagements and a potential reach of almost 30 million users. The hashtag was also accompanied by a series of infographics and other hashtags, such as “Disarming Hezbollah is vital” and “Resolution 1701,” [the UN Resolution which required Hezbollah to withdraw its forces well north of the Litani River] which were shared by a wide array of Lebanese activists on social media.
Some commentators directly addressed Hezbollah and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Nancy Nessrine Lakiss, a Lebanese journalist from Elsharq press, posted a picture showing a white dove with the slogan “We shout for peace, not for war,” adding: “Hezbollah published a video from its military media provoking Israel, so Israel decided to threaten us with bombing the airport. Please have mercy on us! How can you bear this much blood and death? Who will build Lebanon again? And if it is built, who will live in the houses after all this destruction and killing?”
In another viral post, Lakiss turned directly to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, demanding: “Mr. Nasrallah, you negotiate for the rights of the Palestinians, but have you forgotten their actions during our civil war, such as violating our women? [a reference to rapes of Christian women by Palestinian women during the 1975-1990 civil war between Christians and Muslims]. Do you value the blood of the Lebanese in your decisions regarding the war? Justice must begin with our country first!
A Christian user named Chris shared a video showing the testimony of an elderly displaced lady who left her home in Southern Lebanon with her family, adding: “Do you want to liberate Jerusalem? You want to destroy Lebanon, displace its people, and kill them … You are worse than the enemy … You are the devil himself… Just let this people live … let these people raise their children in a country in peace and security!”
Another user taunted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah: “Lebanon has gone underground…in the image of Nasrallah. From a country that is friendly and open to countries around the world: American, European, Arab, Gulf, and others, a Lebanon towering above the cedars of the mountains – It is now ruled from underground!” [where Nasrallah is thought to be cowering]…
These are the anguished of Lebanon. Their country is again being pulled by Nasrallah and his goose-stepping bezonians into a war they do not want, for they know the result will be devastation of the country by Israeli airstrikes, setting it back — after the Lebanese had laboriously built up its infrastructure after the 2006 war — by many decades. Such a war will also lead to a colossal brain drain: the young and educated Lebanese will not want to remain in a country where Hezbollah continues to hold sway, and does the bidding of a malignant Iran that is indifferent to the wellbeing of the Lebanese.
Hassan Nasrallah won’t listen to their online outcries, their videos, their cartoons, but perhaps France, the traditional supporter of the Lebanese Christians, with the diplomatic and financial backing of the other members of the European Union, will be able to convince Nasrallah not to drag the Lebanese into yet another disastrous military adventure, that this time might lead to the permanent undoing of the state.
and to think that for quite a while Beiruit was the Riviera alternative for the rich and famous and the vacation spot everyone wanted to go to.
Sounds to me like Lebanon needs to take action and stop Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel from Lebanon’s borders.
They’d probably lose that battle. And they’re also hostile toward Israel
“How much do the Mullahs care for the well-being of the Lebanese?”
Depends which Lebanese. Christians and Druze? Not a bit. Sunnis and other non-Shiite Muslims, a little. Shiites, well, they’re a necessary sacrifice, and they’ll get their very own 72 virgins or something for being sacrificed.
The Lebanese are scared, and rightly so. If we can take out Hizbollah without Syria or Iran getting involved directly, the Lebanese will thank us. But that’s too much to hope for. Hope for the best. Plan for the worst. And the worst is WW III. Planning time.
Sucks to be Lebanese today.
Shoulda taken care of business yesterday.
Too bad, so sad.
EVEN the LEAST educated farmer NEVER LETS THE FOX INTO THE HEN HOUSE.
If only the Lebanese could get their sh*t together and take their country back from usurpers. This is Lebanon’s fate - a divided nation that has no real central government.
The Lebanese are a great people that would benefit from peace with Israel tremendously. This was tried with the Christian “phalange” leader, Bashir Gemayal. He was murdered by pro-Syrian/Iranian agents. Even the great Rafik Hariri tried to rebuild Lebanon until he too was blown up.
Since the 1976 civil war, southern Lebanon has been ruled by militias, (phalanges), Christian, Sunni, Shiite, PLO, etc.
After the 1982 war where Israel had no choice but to push the PLO back to West Beirut, the PLO left and the Israelis withdrew to a security permitter in the south.
Who was born out of that war? The Hizbollah Shiite terror organization. They attacked the French and American peacekeepers and the Israelis in the south.
Hezbollah replaced the PLO and has embedded themselves even deeper into the fabric of Lebanon even though they are Iran’s agents there. They do not care about the Lebanese people and use them (just like HAMAS) as human shields.
Someday, when the Lebanese people take their destiny into their own hands they will be free to make peace with Israel if this is all possible and flourish without fear.
That would take a fairly powerful army. Even for Israel, taking on Hezbollah in an all out war is a dicey proposition. And Hezbollah’s power in the government has decimated the Lebanese economy. There is literally no place for the resources to come from, w2hile Hezbollah is strongly backed by Iran. Only if the mullahs fall and a peaceful government comes to power in Iran does Lebanon ever have any chance of recovery / normality.
Good post.
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