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Head of “Loyalty to the Resistance” bloc, MP Mohammad Raad, on Monday indicated that the US ambassador to Lebanon has been preventing the removal of the judicial investigator into Beirut blast, Tarek Bitar.
Al-Bitar had issued arrest warrants against officials as well as military figures on an illogical basis, pushing the defendants and observers to cast doubts on his probe.
“There are honest judges in Lebanon, and those who politicize matters. The judiciary and its structure need to be reconsidered,” MP Raad added.
MP Raad expressed during a political meeting in the southern town of Rayhan a will to engage in the forthcoming electoral and constitutional entitlements to enhance the country’s stability.
“We want to participate in them, but this conspiracy, authoritarianism, abolition, and racist thinking have come to an end,” he said.
“We want our people to know that we are open to solutions under national dignity, sovereignty, and security, but we want double standards to come to end now,” MP Raad added.
The attack bore all the hallmarks of a US-backed intervention, and it doesn’t take much digging to find the links between the murky hand of Washington and the dark forces behind the bloodshed on the streets and a cover-up by a compliant western media.
Last week’s killing of seven people in the Lebanese capital Beirut, widely believed to be carried out by a far-right Christian fascist militia, is a worrying sign that the US wants to provoke a new civil war to destabilize the country in a change in its Middle East strategy.
The attack bore all the hallmarks of a US-backed intervention, and it doesn’t take much digging to find the links between the murky hand of Washington and the dark forces behind the bloodshed on the streets and a cover-up by a compliant western media.
Supporters of the Shi’ite Amal and Hezbollah movements were fired upon as they made their way to the Palace of Justice for a peaceful demonstration against what they perceive as the politicization of a probe into last year’s devastating port explosion.
The judge heading up the investigations, Tarek Bitar, is being directed by the US Embassy they claim, accusing him of unfairly and disproportionately targeting their allies while ignoring those close to Washington.
They may have a point. But the debate over the fairness and transparency of the judicial report is a side issue to the events that took place in the Tayouneh district of Beirut last week.
A peaceful march that had been approved by the authorities was fired upon by snipers placed on buildings along its route. It was an ambush by US-backed fascists who are hell-bent on plunging Lebanon into chaos.
None of the seven people killed in the protest were armed. Among the dead was Meryem Farhat, a mother shot through the head as she was getting ready to collect her child from kindergarten. Delivery driver Ali Ibrahim was also killed by sniper fire.
Not that you would know any of this judging by how the incident was reported by the western press. Readers would be forgiven for thinking that it was a Hezbollah march that turned violent, with the movement seemingly responsible for the deaths of its own supporters.
Liberal British mouthpiece The Guardian explained to its readers: “The trigger for the clashes in neighborhoods near the justice courts, which left dozens more injured, was a protest by members of Amal and Hezbollah, two predominantly Shia political parties, against a judicial probe into the massive blast in the port last year.”
“…eyewitnesses said they heard at least two explosions near the site where a protest was supposed to be held by Iran-backed Shia militia Hezbollah against a judge who is investigating last year’s devastating blast at Beirut’s port. Thursday’s shootings mark the deadliest civil violence in Beirut since 2008,” reported the part Saudi-owned Independent.
It concluded in carefully chosen language: “The heavily armed Hezbollah has accused Mr. Bitar of conducting a politicized probe.”
The Independent failed to mention the Lebanese Forces at all. Instead, it opted to make vague references to ‘unidentified gunmen.’ The Guardian mentioned their name once, but only to say that Hezbollah ‘claimed’ to have been shot at by the Christian militia.
The rest of the article followed a similar pattern to that of TheIndependent, containing snippets such as ‘chants of “Shia, Shia, Shia’ were heard on the streets.
“Large numbers of men brandishing weapons took to the streets throughout the day, and gun trucks flying Hezbollah and Amal flags paraded through the Bekaa Valley in a show of strength not seen since Hezbollah overran west Beirut in May 2008…” it added, failing to mention that Bekaa is nowhere near the Lebanese capital. This was the crowning glory of The Guardian hatchet job, evoking images of violent Muslims seeking to overthrow Lebanon, no doubt to impose an Islamist caliphate.
France 24 went with: “Last week, Hezbollah led a protest to demand his dismissal. It sparked a gun battle in the heart of Beirut that left seven people dead and reignited fears of new sectarian violence.”
It continued with a paragraph about “hostage diplomacy and what it means for those imprisoned by Tehran” in an exceptionally tenuous attempt to link the shootings to Iran.
That they let the Lebanese Forces, a US-backed right-wing militia led by a war criminal, off the hook is no mere accident.
Nor is the reporting down to lazy journalism. This would be to deny the role of the media as a propaganda tool used and manipulated by western imperialism to manufacture a consensus among the public.
That is that Hezbollah and Amal are the bad guys and it is up to the west, always the good guys in any situation, to step in and save the people of Lebanon from their evil clutches.
The use of descriptions such as ‘Iran-backed Shia militia Hezbollah’ is a not particularly subtle, but deliberate attempt to paint the movement – which is a legitimate political force with representatives in the Lebanese parliament – as a foreign-controlled entity.
The irony of this is, that it is, in fact, the very group responsible for the attack that is in hock to external forces, namely the US, “Israel” and Saudi Arabia who see the Lebanese Forces as its proxy inside the country.
It is perhaps best known in the west for its role in the brutal massacre of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children on behalf of “Israel” at the Sabra and Chatila camps during the Lebanese civil war.
I visited the camps and met survivors of the three-day pogrom in Beirut earlier this year and they described how the Christian militia raped and executed more than three thousand defenseless people, as the camps were surrounded by Israeli soldiers.
The leader of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, has been convicted of war crimes, sentenced to life in prison for ordering four political assassinations, including that of former prime minister Rashid Karami in 1988.
For many, he will always be associated with the massacre of scores of people, including the bombing of Sayidat al-Najat church in Jounieh killing 10 people and wounding 54, with Christians also targeted by the bloodthirsty Geagea.
But he was released under an amnesty in 2005 following Lebanon’s so-called Cedar Revolution which took place after the assassination of prime minister Rafik Hariri, the perpetrators of which have never been brought to justice.
Geagea’s propulsion into the limelight once more comes with the US suffering a series of defeats across the Middle East, including its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan and its failure to dislodge Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
His reelection in May has led many Arab and European nations to restore diplomatic relations with Damascus, with border crossings reopening along with the return of ambassadors and consulates as they recognize political reality.
But Assad could not have held on to power without the explicit support of the Syrian people. No leader could have withstood the pressure exerted on him without it.
Not only has he defeated Washington’s regime-change operations – he has come out the other side stronger, having faced down five US presidents; Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and now Joe Biden.
The US now appears to be strengthening its relations with Kurds in the north of the country once more where its soldiers are based as an occupying force. The Biden administration recently announced there would be no troop withdrawal, reassuring Kurdish officials after the debacle in Afghanistan.
Despite Assad’s plans for decentralization announced in April, the Kurdish administration there is pursuing a policy that seeks political recognition from the US. It is a move that has alienated many of its supporters and undermines its dismissal of claims it acts as a “proxy force” in the region.
Having lost the military and now the political war on Syria, it seems logical that the US would change its strategy to foment further instability in Lebanon, with a return to civil war only serving to benefit Washington and Tel Aviv as they hope for the sectarian division of the country.
The hands of the US were all over the Tayouneh attack, which came straight out of the Washington/CIA copybook, mirroring its interventions and use of proxy forces to oust governments or prop up its client states in Latin America and across the world.
Geagea’s militia – many of whom have been trained by “Israel” – would be an obvious choice for the US given his previous overtures to Washington, confirmed in a 2008 Wikileaks cable.
He claimed that the Lebanese Forces had as many as 10,000 well-trained soldiers, telling the US embassy: “We can fight against Hezbollah. We just need your support to get arms for these fighters.”
But, speaking in a public address on Monday, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah explained that the Shi’ite movement commands a 100,000 fighters-strong military structure, dwarfing that of the Lebanese Forces. The difference between the two, he pointed out, is that Hezbollah’s forces protect the Lebanese people.
It may be enough to concentrate the minds of the more pragmatic US officials, but the links between Washington and the Lebanese Forces run much deeper than that of Geagea who, despite his delusions of grandeur, remains a marginal figure and is unlikely to be trusted with a leading political role.
Walid Phares, a former leading light in the Lebanese Forces, now acts as a national security advisor and consultant on Middle Eastern politics in the US. Fleeing the country in 1990, he went on to advise the presidential election campaigns of Mitt Romney and then Donald Trump.
During the Lebanese Civil War, Phares told Christian militiamen that they were the vanguard of a war between the West and Islam. He justified the fight against Muslims by saying “we must have our own country, our own state, our own entity, and we have to be separate.”
Despite his peddling of far-right, Islamophobic conspiracy theories, he has rebranded himself as an academic and has testified to international bodies including the European Parliament and UN Security Council on international security matters and the Middle East.
He does not appear to have held any official government post, but his closeness to a former president and his movement in elite circles is clearly a cause for alarm.
The links do not end there. Soon after the shootings, journalist Hosein Mortada claimed to have identified one of the snipers as Shukri Abu Saab – who he said works as a security official at the US embassy.
Perhaps unsurprisingly there has been a blanket media silence over the revelations, while the embassy itself has not responded to the allegations, raising suspicions further.
US ambassador Dorothy Shea has long been accused of using the embassy as an outpost for the imperialist carve-up of Lebanon and opening the country up to the mercy of the World Bank and the IMF.
It may be passed off as a mere coincidence that under secretary of state Victoria Nuland was in the Lebanese capital at the time the ambush took place, pledging an additional $67 million to the country’s armed forces as she demanded economic reform and the need to hold elections as a prerequisite for continued US support.
It also may be a mere coincidence that the Lebanese army changed its narrative of events soon after the US cash boost to appear to blame Hezbollah for its own supporters being shot at. This is despite footage circulating that appears to show a Lebanese soldier shooting at protesters.
But the attempts to destabilize Lebanon came soon after the formation of a new government, ending 13-months of political deadlock, along with the US failure to disarm Hezbollah despite sanctions and other external pressure.
The US is also angered after Hezbollah smashed sanctions imposed by Washington on Iran and Syria, by importing oil to alleviate Lebanon’s fuel crisis. This slap in the face for imperialism was a humiliating defeat, breaking the siege of Lebanon with ease and at the same time rendering the restrictive measures meaningless.
It also exposed the declining power of the US on a global stage, with the dollar at risk of losing its position as the world currency and with it Washington’s ability to control global financial markets.
Solidarity among nations has proved vital in defeating the US, and it is solidarity among the Lebanese people that will help the country rise up once more and consign the likes of Geagea and the Lebanese Forces along with all those who seek to destroy Lebanon to the dustbin of history.
Hezbollah said it trucked more than a million gallons of Iranian diesel fuel into Lebanon from Syria on Thursday, celebrating the move as a way of spiting the United States while bringing much-needed aid to a country nearly paralyzed by fuel shortages.
With Lebanon suffering one of the worst economic collapses in modern history, Hezbollah portrayed itself as a national savior, stepping in where the Lebanese government and its Western backers had failed.
Hezbollah supporters lined roads in northeastern Lebanon as dozens of tanker trucks arrived. They waved Hezbollah flags, distributed sweets, and blasted heroic anthems in celebration.
The fuel delivery — which a Hezbollah official said was the first installment of more than 13 million gallons — underscored the severity of Lebanon’s crisis, as well as the government’s failure to address it.
The move appeared to violate American sanctions involving the purchase of Iranian oil, but it was unclear Thursday whether the United States would press the issue. Hezbollah, blacklisted by the United States, is already subject to American sanctions. Although the group is part of Lebanon’s government, it appeared to be acting independently.
The American Embassy in Beirut declined to comment on Thursday. But when Hezbollah announced last month that fuel was on the way from Iran, the American ambassador played down any threat of punitive measures.
“I don’t think anyone is going to fall on their sword if someone’s able to get fuel into hospitals that need it,” the ambassador, Dorothy Shea, told Al Arabiya English.
The fuel arrived as Lebanon struggles through what the World Bank has called one of the world’s worst economic meltdowns since the mid-1800s. Since the fall of 2019, the national currency has lost 90 percent of its value, and prices for many goods have tripled.
Fuel shortages have caused widespread electricity cuts and left many Lebanese waiting in long lines to fill up their cars.
The government bodies charged with overseeing energy imports were not involved with the delivery. The trucks drove from Syria into Lebanon over an open stretch of land, not via an official border crossing, with no customs or security checks. It was unclear whether the imports had any legal authorization or if any taxes would be paid on them.
Prime Minister Najib Mikati, who formed a new cabinet this week and has vowed to work to ease the country’s woes, made no public statement about the fuel shipment on Thursday. Nor did the authorities overseeing the borders.
“The country is facing a serious crisis, so the government couldn’t care less whether the trucks entered legally or illegally,” said Elias Farhat, a retired general in the Lebanese Army. “We’re in an emergency situation.”
The shipment was the first tranche of 13.2 million gallons an Iranian ship delivered to the port of Baniyas, Syria, this week, Ahmed Raya, a Hezbollah media official, said. The rest will take several days to offload and transport to Lebanon.
TankerTrackers.com, a group that tracks global oil shipments, estimated that the ship carried less than eight million gallons.
The fuel crisis set off a showdown of sorts between Hezbollah and its allies and the United States over who could act faster to ease the people’s pain, a competition that Hezbollah won, at least for the day.
Nearly every step of the fuel’s journey was a challenge to the United States, which has imposed sanctions on the purchase of Iranian oil, the Syrian government, Hezbollah and the Hezbollah-linked company that will distribute the fuel inside Lebanon.
Hezbollah’s Secretary General, [His Eminence Sayyed] Hassan Nasrallah, said the fuel had been paid for by unnamed Lebanese businessmen and that most of it would be donated to institutions that included government hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, the Lebanese Red Cross and organizations involved in water distribution.
Cut-rate fuel will also be sold to private hospitals, medicine factories, bakeries, supermarkets and private electricity providers, he said.
“Our aim is not trade or profit,” Mr. Nasrallah said in a speech on Tuesday. “Our aim is to alleviate the suffering of the people.”
He also said three more Iranian ships, one carrying gasoline and two carrying diesel, were en route to Syria.
Jessica Obeid, an energy policy consultant and nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute, said that the one million gallons Hezbollah reported bringing on Thursday was not a lot relative to the country’s needs, but that it could help individual institutions.
A hospital generator, for example, might burn about 26 gallons per hour, she said.
Hezbollah has blamed the United States for Lebanon’s economic crisis, claiming that it has put Lebanon under siege.
“This feeds into the image that Hezbollah has won the battle of perseverance against the US siege,” said Mohanad Hage Ali, a fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.
After Mr. Nasrallah’s announcement, Shea, the United States ambassador, said she was working to put in place another arrangement to help solve Lebanon’s energy crisis. It calls for natural gas from Egypt to be sent to Jordan and transferred to Lebanon via a pipeline through Syria.
A high-level delegation from Lebanon visited Damascus, Syria, this month to discuss the plan, but its details remain unclear, including how long it will take to repair the pipeline, who will pay for it and what fees Syria will charge for letting the gas pass through its territory.
That could pose yet another challenge to the United States, which has sanctions against anyone who does business with the Syrian government.
“I’m not sure how willing the US is to risk placing sanctions on a needy population,” Mr. Hage Ali said. “That would paint the US as being harsh and heavy-handed, and that is a win for Hezbollah.”
Hezbollah’s initiative to bring ships of Iranian fuel to Lebanon has prompted Washington and its allies to kick start actions to sabotage the step or to lessen its positive effects on Lebanon and the Lebanese.
The US administration is heavily involved in the Lebanese affairs and following up attentively daily politics in the country, yet all this to no avail.
The US Congress delegation to Lebanon last week expressed dismay over the Iranian fuel supplies saying that Lebanon is not in need for Iranian petroleum and provoking Saudi Arabia to play a role in blocking Tehran’s help and replacing it by a Saudi one.
In another position, the delegation described Hezbollah as a cancer that should be eradicated. This reflects Washington’s rage and frustration from the influential role the party is playing in Lebanon as well as in the region.
First, the US ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea has mocked the step and did not take it seriously when Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced it. The head of American diplomacy made consultations and wrongly concluded this is not serious enough, but when Sayyed Nasrallah announced the shipment was on its way she was heavily shocked about her hasty calculations.
Second, the American delegation in an arrogant blackmail threatened there will be sanctions against those who deal with Iran to import oil, and some Lebanese parties mistakenly, or with bad intentions, started to talk about international sanctions though they know for a fact it is only Washington, due to its animosity to the Resistance, and complete bias to ‘Israel’, may impose such sanctions.
Third, the American embassy in Lebanon has become a kind of oil agency that dictates on the distributors the directives on when, where and what quantities of gasoline they would distribute to the stations. According to reports, lists of distributors and distribution places would first arrive to and be approved by the embassy before the process of distribution takes place.
Fourth, the American embassy has recently and repeatedly scorned many of the pro US NGO’S for their failure to confront Hezbollah or to gain influence in the party’s areas. Dorothy Shea expressed her resentment and frustration that not much has been done so far, and it is not enough at all to influence the party followers or supporters.
Fifth, the black propaganda that is being orchestrated and designed in the embassy to distort the party’s reputation, to tarnish its image, and to demonize it in the eyes of the Lebanese and to hold it responsible for all what Lebanon and the Lebanese are going through has come into a complete failure. New plans and more campaigns are in the making now to make up for previous failures.
Sixth, in the same vein, Washington is urging its gulf allies especially Saudi Arabia and UAE to take the initiative from Hezbollah and send supplies to the tormented country so they would earn good reputation that could be later translated into political influence and thus ballots to be casted during the next parliamentary elections.
Seventh, the pro-US gulf countries that are heavily involved in Lebanon and the Lebanese politics are not encouraged enough to send money and supplies because they are not pretty sure this would reach to their proper receivers. In Lebanon, the pro-West, pro-Gulf camp is very notorious for its corruption, malfunction, and its trust unworthiness.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah continues, as planned, its efforts on many levels to alleviate the suffering of the people. Aside from the fuel shipments coming from Iran, the party has launched a series of many vital and very important projects that make people life easier; this includes electricity, water, health and medical facilities, along with streets repair and educational services.
To sum up, Washington with all its tools in the region and the country are waging a relentless war against all those who oppose its hegemony and its imperialist colonialist policies. Thankfully and hopefully, it is losing, and they are winning.
This is going to show us, sooner or later the writing of a new chapter where the US hegemony loses and our people achieve more independence, prosperity and freedom away from Washington sinister plans and conspiracies.
يعرف الذين ينادون بمثول الرئيس حسان دياب أمام المحقق العدلي طارق البيطار، أنّ الأمر ليس مثولاً، بل قبول الاستدعاء كمُتهم، وهو ما يعني التعرّض لتجربة شبيهة بتجربة الضباط الأربعة في جريمة اغتيال الرئيس رفيق الحريري، وهو ما تكشفه مذكرة الإحضار والتلويح بمذكرة توقيف، فعلى هؤلاء عدم التذاكي والقول علناً إنهم يطالبون بتوقيف الرئيس دياب كمُتهم بجريمة تفجير المرفأ دون مواربة، ودون حديث عن أنّ الجميع تحت سقف القانون، لأنّ الحقيقة هي انّ الجميع ليسوا تحت سقف القانون بدليل السؤال لماذا حصر الادّعاء بالرئيس دياب دون سائر رؤساء الحكومات، والنترات التي تفجرت في المرفأ بقيت ست سنوات في عهود ثلاثة رؤساء حكومة سواه، ولا يشفع لهؤلاء ما لم يقدّموا رواية مقنعة لانتقاء اتهام دياب، بأن يثقلوا آذاننا بالمقولة السمجة للثقة بالقضاء ورفع الحصانات، للتهرّب من النقاش الجدي في جريمة حسان دياب.
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جريمة حسان دياب ليست أنه رئيس حكومة وأنّ الموقع يمثل طائفة، كما ذهب كلام بيان رؤساء الحكومات السابقين، وكلام مفتي الجمهورية، والا لماذا حصر به دون سواه من رؤساء الحكومات المتعاقبين على ملف النترات، أمر الاتهام والملاحقة، وليست جريمة حسان دياب التي تستوجب الملاحقة هي التهاون الوظيفي أو التقصير الإداري، كما تقول مطالعة القاضي بيطار، وإلا لارتضى المحقق العدلي المعادلة التي ينص عليها الدستور وتدعو لمحاكمته أمام المجلس الأعلى لمحاكمة الرؤساء والوزراء، لأنه لا يتطلع في حالة التقصير الإداري لما هو أكثر مما يخشى أن يفعله هذا المجلس، فلماذا يخوض معركة الصلاحيات ضدّ النص الدستوري غير آبه بالتبعات، هل هي الشجاعة في ملاحقة المجرم، طالما انه لن يستطيع فعل المثل مع الوزراء النواب المحميّين بالحصانة النيابية التي لن يجرؤ المحقق العدلي على كسرها، لأنّ كلّ اجتهاداته لن تنفع في تخطيها، وهو يسلّم بذلك بدليل طلبه رفع الحصانة عن الوزراء النواب تمهيداً للسير بملاحقتهم، وهكذا يصبح المجرم الذي يجب إذلاله وتوقيفه هو حسان دياب حصراً، وهذا هو التفسير الوحيد لإصرار المحقق العدلي على رفع سقف الملاحقة والسير بها منفردة أمام الإستحالة التي تواجهه في سواها، اي في حالة النواب والمدراء العامين الذين فشل في نيل الإذن بملاحقتهم.
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حسان دياب مجرم الجمهورية، ليست قضية لإرواء عطش الغضب لدى أهالي شهداء التفجير من باب الشعبوية، بل العكس هو الصحيح، يتمّ الاستقواء بآلام هؤلاء الموجوعين للاحتماء بهم لمواصلة الملاحقة، والقضية ليست كما قال بيان رئاسة الجمهورية، بأنّ الخلاف مع ملاحقات المحقق العدلي وانتقادها، هو مشاركة بتهميش القضاء، وأن مجرّد أن تتمّ الملاحقة من المرجع القضائي المختص بحق الموقع الدستوري، فذلك لا ينتقص من هذا الموقع، فنحن يا فخامة الرئيس أمام حملة ديماغوجية للنيل من حسان دياب والاحتماء بالعنوان القضائي، ولا نريدك أن تتورّط في توفير الغطاء لها، فالرئيس دياب الذي تختلف معه على الكثير من الأداء خصوصاً عدم دعوته للحكومة الاجتماع لا يستحق هذا العقاب، ونحن مثلك لنا الكثير من الانتقادات على الرئيس دياب، لكننا نعذره، ونحمّلكم كحلفاء له جميعا دون استثناء مسؤولية الكثير مما ننتقده عليه، بسبب تحمّله منفرداً مسؤولية ضخمة في ظرف شديد القسوة، وفي وقت تخلى عنه جميع الحلفاء، واعتبارهم لوجوده على رأس الحكومة مجرد ملء لوقت ضائع، بعضهم لوهم المجيء بالرئيس سعد الحريري، وبعضهم لوهم المجيء بمرشح يعتقدون انه الأصلح لبرامجهم، لكن هل تعلمون جميعاً لماذا يلاحق الرئيس دياب وما هي جريمته؟ لو علمتم لقلتم كوطنيين لبنانيين رفضوا الانصياع للمشيئة الأميركية، أُكلنا جميعاً يوم أُكل الثور الأبيض!
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هناك دبلوماسي أميركي شهير خرج عام 2005 وفي ذروة التحضير لاقتحام قصر بعبدا بتجيير مسيرات 14 آذار نحو القصر، وقال أمام زواره على العشاء وكانوا بالعشرات، اليوم سيدفع الرئيس إميل لحود ثمن تجاهله لوزيرة خارجية الولايات المتحدة الأميركية مادلين أولبرايت عام 2000، ونقول اليوم يُراد أن يدفع الرئيس حسان دياب ثمن تجاهله لتعلميات السفيرة الأميركية، يوم قال لها رداً على تدخلها في تعيينات مصرف لبنان، أجد نفسي مضطراً لتذكيرك بأننا نتحدث عن مصرف لبنان المركزي وليس عن المصرف الفدرالي الأميركي!
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المطلوب صورة لحسان دياب مكبّل الأيدي، وراء القضبان، ليس للقول بأنّ القضاء أعلى من الجميع، ولا للقول لقد كشفنا المجرم الذي فجر المرفأ وها هو يلقى العقاب، بل للقول هذا هو مصير من يفكر ان يتجرأ على المشيئة الأميركية، فليكن عبرة لمن يفكر بالتجرّؤ، وواشنطن تثأر ولو متأخرة، قد لا يكون القاضي بيطار على علم بذلك، لكن هناك من يعلم ورسم هذا السياق وجعله سقفاً لمعيار نجاح المحقق العدلي في المهمة، وليس مهمّاً ان يزعج هذا الكلام الرئيس دياب، فهذا الكلام ليس لنيل رضاه، لكن قول الحق واجب ولا يجب ان نخشى فيه لومة لائم.
After the disarray surrounding the recent stances voiced by Lebanese businessman and Member of the Parliament who was previously labelled as a “Lebanese Forces” [LF] affiliate, Cesar Maalouf, al-Ahed News was briefed by the Zahlé MP who asserted that he doesn’t belong the LF Party, and noted that: “I don’t have a ‘Lebanese Forces’ card, I am an ally of this party in Zahlé, and they have been tolerating my words over the past three years; this time, however, they didn’t tolerate what I’ve said, and they blocked me from LF WhatsApp groups.”
Maalouf pointed to that the background of his stances was neither political nor electoral: “I don’t speak politics, and I don’t care for my political position; however, any country that helps Lebanon today is a friend of it. Friends indeed are friends in need. And today, it is clear who is Lebanon’s friends and who is its enemy. The friend is the one that supports Lebanon. In this case I am not speaking about axes, but instead about the conditions of people waiting in front of gas stations, pharmacies and bakeries. Lebanon is at the last gasp, heading towards the brink, and we are just watching.”
Regarding the Christian community’s reaction to Hezbollah’s initiative to import oil from Iran, Maalouf explained that “Christians, just like Sunnis and Shia, don’t care who is the MP, minister, or president, they only care for their dignity and that of their children and their livelihood. They do care for a question which is: Where is the country heading to? And how would the solution be?”
In response to al-Ahed’s question about the reason that pushed an LF-categorized member of the parliament to confront the US Ambassador, which is known to be the patron of the ‘Lebanese Forces’ party, Maalouf answered: “If the Lebanese Forces have a patron, I [myself] am not under anybody’s patronage, I address the US ambassador to tell her: Do not undermine, but help this sinking country. Do offer actual help to the Lebanese Army, or even help improve the supply of electricity. Do not impose a veto on us for drilling oil. We need not slogans or words of support, but rather an actual support.”
In the context of being accused of attacking Saudi Arabia, Maalouf made clear: “I didn’t attack Saudi Arabia. On the contrary, I asked them and all Arab countries not to abandon Lebanon and to help the country and support it. We do thank whoever helps us.” He then underscored that Iran is not a hostile country, it is rather a friendly one. The only enemy is the ‘Israeli’ enemy.
Maalouf then asked: “When was oil categorized as Iranian, Gulf, or American? Does oil belong to a certain sect? Did we ever ask about the sect of oil at gas stations? We shouldn’t sectarianize everything to abet the Christians.”
When asked about his political future, MP Cesar Maalouf affirmed that in the meantime, he doesn’t care about politics, but about “the pain and suffering of people.” The Lebanese lawmaker finally called for a speedy government formation not to have the country being taken to the unknown and to chaos, and to stop this breakdown.
بعد الضجة التي أثارتها المواقف الأخيرة لرجل الأعمال اللبناني والنائب المحسوب سابقًا على حزب “القوات اللبنانية” سيزار معلوف، استصرح موقع “العهد” الاخباري النائب الزحلاوي، الذي أكّد أنه ليس في حزب “القوات اللبنانية”، وقال: “لا أملك بطاقة للقوات، بل أنا حليف لحزب القوات في زحلة وقد تحمّلوا كلامي طيلة 3 سنوات لكنهم هذه المرة لم يتحملوه وقاموا بحظري عن مجموعات القوات على الهواتف”.
معلوف أشار الى أن خلفية مواقفه الأخيرة ليست سياسية او انتخابية: “أنا لا اتحدث سياسة ولا يعني لي موقعي الانتخابي، لكن أي دولة تساعد لبنان اليوم هي صديق للبنان، الصديق وقت الضيق واليوم يتبين من هو صديق لبنان ومن هو عدوه، الصديق يقف اليوم الى جانب لبنان وأنا لا أتحدث هنا عن محاور، بل عن أوضاع الناس أمام محطات البنزين وأمام الصيدليات وأفران الخبز، لبنان يحتضر ويتجه نحو الهاوية ونحن نتفرج”.
وحول ردة الفعل في الشارع المسيحي حول مبادرة استجلاب المحروقات من ايران، أوضح معلوف أن “الشارع المسيحي كما الشارع السني والشيعي، لا يهمه من يكون نائبًا أو وزيرًا، ولا من يكون رئيسًا، بل يهتم لكرامته وكرامة أبنائه وحياته، ويهتم لسؤال الى أين يتجه البلد وكيف يكون الخلاص؟”.
وردًا على سؤال حول السبب الذي يدفع نائبًا محسوبًا على حزب كـ”القوات اللبنانية” الى التصدي للسفيرة الأميركية التي تعتبر راعيًا لـ”القوات”، أجاب معلوف: “اذا كان للقوات اللبنانية راعٍ فأنا لا أحد يرعاني، أنا أتوجه للسفيرة الأميركية كصديقة للبنان وأقول لا تعرقلي بل ساعدي هذا البلد الذي يغرق، قدمي المساعدات الفعلية للجيش أو ساعدي بتحسين الكهرباء ولا تضعي فيتو علينا باستخراج النفط، نحن لا نحتاج الى شعارات والى دعم معنوي بل الى دعم فعلي، وهذا ليس هجومًا بل عتب على قدر المحبة”.
وفي اجابة عن سؤال حول ما اعتبر هجومًا منه على السعودي، قال: “أنا لم أهاجم السعودية بالعكس طلبت منها ومن كل الدول العربية عدم ترك هذا البلد ومساعدته والوقوف الى جانبه، أي أحد يساعد لبنان نؤدي له التحية كائنا من كان”، مؤكدا أن “ايران ليست دولة معادية بل دولة صديقة والعدو الوحيد هو العدو الاسرائيلي”، متسائلًا منذ متى كان يصنف البنزين سعوديا أو ايرانيا أو خليجيا أو أميركيا؟ هل هناك طائفة للنفط؟ هل في يوم من الايام سألنا عن طائفة للنفط على محطات البنزين؟ لا يجب تطييف كل شيء لشد العصب المسيحي”.
وحول مستقبله السياسي، شدد على أنه لا تعنيه السياسة حاليًا بل “وجع وآلام الناس”، مطالبًا بـ”الاسراع بتأليف الحكومة بأسرع وقت ممكن حتى لا نذهب الى المجهول والفوضى، ولوقف هذا الانهيار”.
Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered on Sunday a speech during the memorial ceremony of martyr Hajj Abbas Al-Yatama.
At the beginning of his speech, Sayyed Nasrallah offered condolences to the family of martyr Al-Yatama as well all his beloved people, congratulating them for the fact that this prominent leader has reached his goals. “I personally know martyr Al-Yatama, who belongs to the generation of Hezbollah’s establishment in 1982,” he said, noting that “When speaking about people like Hajj Abbas Al-Yatama, I like to recall the founding generation of the Islamic Resistance, they’re the people of 1982.”
On the characteristics of the martyr, His Eminence highlighted that “Martyr Abbas had a beautiful soul, like his beautiful appearance. He was brave and courageous.”
He recalled that Abu Maitham “joined this resistance at the age of 17, and soon his personal characteristics became evident in front of his brothers. Martyr Abbas started as a fighter, then a trainer and later assumed various leadership responsibilities. He was personally present in the field operations.”
According to the Resistance Leader, “Among the personal characteristics of the martyr Abbas were faith, etiquette, forbearance, patience and good behavior. He further possessed excellent leadership capabilities.”
“Martyr Abbas was one of the military leaders in the South. He is from Hermel and he was as a resistance’s military leader in the South,” he stated, pointing out that “Martyr Abbas, like his brothers, the rest of the martyrs are witnesses that the honorable people of this region embraced the resistance and sacrificed it with the best of their youth.”
In addition Sayyed Nasrallah unveiled that “Abu Maitham was among the military leaders who took part in the July war in South Lebanon, and he was the one who wrote the letter of the Mujahideen [for me] during the war, which conveys his loyalty to the resistance.”
Sayyed Nasrallah further revealed that “When the events in Syria began, martyr Abbas was one of the first leaders who joined the battle and was present in the most dangerous places. Abu Maitham has been to the most dangerous zones from Aleppo, to the besieged city and airport, as well as the road of Ethriya-Khanaser.”
“Martyr Al-Yatama was a field commander next to senior Syrian Army commanders, resistance leaders such as Haj Mustafa Badriddine, and Iranian Generals in Syria, atop of whom was martyr leader Hajj Qassem Soleimani,” His Eminence added.
Emphasizing that “The secret of the resistance’s strength is that it has never sought gains here or there,” Sayyed Nasrallah lamented the fact that “Since the establishment of the state, the Bekaa region has received nothing but deprivation and negligence, but return it has offered honesty, the best of its youth and pure blood.”
“These people spared nothing, neither in confronting the Zionist scheme nor the American project. The people of Baalbek-Hermel did not wait for anyone to defend their villages and all of Lebanon,” he said.
Moving to the political front, Hezbollah Secretary General explained that “The Americans do believe that we are people who seek the worldly life, as if by threatening us with this life they might be able to change our stance. They didn’t understand until now what does it mean to belong to the Islam pf Prophet Mohammad [PBUH] and the Karbala of Imam Hussein [AS].”
In parallel, His Eminence clarified that “The battle that is being waged in Lebanon against the resistance and the true national forces has been run by the American embassy since 2005. However, they have failed.”
On this level, he uncovered that “Tens of billions of dollars have been spent since 2005 in order to distort the image of the resistance, and they failed.”
“The US seeks to set Lebanon under its control so that it does not pose any threat to “Israel”,” Sayyed Nasrallah reminded, warning that “The US embassy in Lebanon is responsible for targeting the livelihood of the Lebanese people as it interferes in every single aspect.”
He also underscored that “The US and Saudi embassies have been working in the past years to ignite a civil war in Lebanon. The American embassy wants to make Lebanon move into chaos. It seeks to strike the Lebanese society and the Lebanese person with his dignity and family.”
Meanwhile, Sayyed Nasrallah reiterated that “After spending $30 billion for political parties that were not able to serve them, they turned to the civil society.”
Urging the Lebanese state to shoulder its responsibility in facing the current crisis, he viewed that “It is not Hezbollah that can open the country in front of Chinese and Russian companies for investment. This is the state’s duty. We urged them to buy from Iran by the Lebanese pound, and they replied that the Americans would put us on the sanctions list. We offered the state options and proposals for which it turned a deaf ear, and Lebanon continued in the path of declining.”
Amid this negligence, Sayyed Nasrallah clearly announced: “Our second ship will sail from Iran within days, and other ships will follow.”
He further stressed that “It is not a matter of one ship or two; this is a path which we will keep moving on as long as Lebanon needs it,” noting that “The goal is to help all the Lebanese people and ease their sufferings.”
However, His Eminence assured that “We-in Hezbollah- are neither a substitute for the state nor for importing companies or stations. We do not want to compete with anyone.”
“We will bring in fair amounts of oil derivatives to ease the pressure against companies, gas stations and the black market,” he said, noting that his party seeks “to break the greedy prices and ease the people’s sufferings.”
In this context, Sayyed Nasrallah went on to say: “We are not supposed to bring Lebanon’s full demand of gasoline and diesel but rather good quantities that alleviate pressure off the companies and the stations.”
Once again, he urged the government to alleviate the suffering of the people and assume its responsibilities.
In parallel, Sayyed Nasrallah denounced “Those monopolizing oil derivatives” calling for arresting and imprisoning them.
Regarding US ambassador Dorothy Shea’s initiative towards Lebanon, His Eminence welcomed the Egyptian gas, the Jordanian electricity project and anything that might help Lebanon.
However, His Eminence reminded that “If the US seeks to help Lebanon, it should lift its veto on providing support to Lebanon.”
To the Lebanese people, he elaborated that “What is important for the Lebanese to know is that the proposal of the American ambassador requires a period between 6 months and 1 year to be done. The US project needs negotiations with Syria and could not be performed in the dark night.”
“The US ambassador is talking illusions, but in case her project could be achieved we won’t be annoyed as this means breaking the siege on Lebanon and Syria.”
To the US administration and its ambassador in Lebanon, Sayyed Nasrallah said: “If you want to help Lebanon, tell your administration to stop preventing other countries from helping Lebanon, and we wouldn’t want neither your initiative nor your money.”
On another level, Sayyed Nasrallah asked “Who will shoulder the responsibility for the Tuleil incident in Akkar, and where did the investigations reach?”
To the Lebanese government, Hezbollah Secretary General said: “If you accept, we have companies that are able to extract oil and gas and sell it. The companies that I mentioned are not afraid of the “Israeli” bombing, and they can extract gas and oil and sell it. If the companies fear “Israel” and the sanctions, we are willing to bring an Iranian drilling company to extract offshore oil and gas, and let “Israel” bomb it.”
“The Resistance after July 2006 war became stronger and after every battle it maintained its existence and ended stronger than before,” he said, concluding that “The enemy and the Americans, and their affiliates, will discover that their popular and political losses will be very huge.”
واشنطن تهدّد المسؤولين والشركات والمؤسسات بالعقوبات إن سهّلوا دخول المشتقات النفطية الإيرانية إلى لبنان (أ ف ب )
لم يكن يوم السفيرة الأميركية في بيروت دوروثي شيا عادياً نهار الرابع من آب الماضي. لكنها في ساعات الليل، غالبت نفسها وحاولت التخفيف عن فريقها بالقول: «كان من الجيد أننا لم نرسل تقديرات بناء على ما قاله لنا المنظّمون، وإلا لكنا وقعنا في فضيحة»!
الفضيحة، بحسب شيا، كانت عنوان اجتماع دعت إليه السفيرة ممثلي نحو 16 جمعية «مدنية» أنفق الأميركيون عليها أموالاً طائلة، وساندوها بحملة إعلامية ضخمة نظّمتها تلفزيونات طحنون بن زايد («أل بي سي» و«أم تي في» و«الجديد») ومواقع إلكترونية وعشرات الناشطين على صفحات التواصل الاجتماعي.
وكان ممثلو هذه الجمعيات قد أعدّوا برنامجاً لنشاط جماهيري قال بعضهم للأميركيين إنه سيحشد مليون لبناني على الأقل، ستتقدّم ثلة منهم وتقتحم مجلس النواب وتعلن السيطرة على البرلمان قبل السيطرة على السراي الحكومي. وهي فكرة أقرّ ناشطون بأنهم عملوا عليها، لكنهم اتهموا زملاء لهم بالخوف والجبن. لكن الفكرة من أساسها كانت مصدر قلق للأميركيين، باعتبار أنه عندما تسمّرت شيا وفريقها أمام الشاشات، لم يعثروا على المليون. وهذا ما دفعها في الاجتماع الذي عقدته في مكتبها في السفارة إلى وصف ممثلي «الثورة الإصلاحية الكبرى» بأنهم فاشلون، ويتحمّلون مسؤولية ما حصل، وأن أكثر ما قدروا عليه لا يتجاوز بضعة آلاف (حصل جدل لاحق حول تقديرات القوى الأمنية لحجم المشاركين في نشاط 4 آب، إذ تم التمييز بين الحشد العام، وبين الذين شاركوا في قداس البطريرك الراعي، وبين من خرجوا من الساحات فور اندلاع المواجهات، وينقل عن مسؤول جهاز أمني رفيع قوله إن المليون الذين انتظرتهم شيا لم يحضر منهم سوى عشرة آلاف على أكثر تقدير).
المهم، بالنسبة إلى السفيرة الأميركية، هو برنامج العمل للمرحلة المقبلة. وهي قرّرت مصارحة الحاضرين بأنه ستكون هناك من الآن وصاعداً رقابة على ما يقومون به. وكرّرت لهم أن ثقة بلادها أكبر بأهمية إنفاقها على الجيش اللبناني وكيفية التعامل مع قوى الأمن الداخلي، وأن واشنطن لا تزال تراهن على المجتمع المدني ووسائل الإعلام الخاضعة لبرنامج التعاون – التمويل، لكن صار من الضروري الانتقال إلى جدول أعمال أكثر وضوحاً: من الآن وصاعداً، مهمتكم محصورة في بند واحد، وهو تحميل حزب الله مسؤولية كل خراب يحصل في البلاد، وأن الحل هو باستسلام حزب الله. والضغط يجب أن يكون على كل من يتعامل معه.
وثمة كلام خطير قالته شيا أمام الحاضرين عن التحقيقات في جريمة مرفأ بيروت. وربما من الضروري أن يوضح المحقق العدلي ما إذا كان صحيحاً أنه يعقد اجتماعات مع سفراء عرب وغربيين وممثلين عنهم، وفي مقدمهم السفيرة الأميركية نفسها.
لكن شيا لم تتوقف عند هذا الحد. المراجعون لإدارتها في واشنطن مباشرة، سمعوا كلاماً عن ضرورة تشكيل الحكومة. لكن مهمة شيا ترتبط بمواجهة حزب الله. وهي مضطرة الآن لمواجهة التحدي الأبرز المتعلق بقرار حزب الله إدخال نفط إيراني إلى لبنان للمساعدة في مواجهة أزمة المشتقات النفطية. وهي، لذلك، قصدت نهاية الأسبوع الماضي الرئيسين ميشال عون ونجيب ميقاتي وقائد الجيش العماد جوزيف عون. وبعدما تلت معزوفة حماية لبنان وأمنه واستقراره وضرورة تشكيل حكومة مستقلين، عادت لتقول بأن هناك أهمية كبرى لضبط الحدود. وحتى لا يفهم المستمعون أنها تشكو من تهريب محروقات من لبنان إلى سوريا، أوضحت أن إدارتها «لن تكون مسرورة من أي مخالفة للقوانين الدولية أو قرارات العقوبات، وأن من يقدم على مخالفة من هذا النوع سيكون عرضة للعقوبات المباشرة».
طبعاً لم يكن ما قصدته شيا يحتاج إلى شرح لأن الكل يعرف، من الرئاسات القائمة أو المستقيلة أو المكلفة مروراً بالوزراء والنواب والمصارف وصولاً إلى الشركات العاملة في حقل النفط ومشتقاته، أن الولايات المتحدة قررت خوض معركة منع وصول أي دعم نفطي إيراني إلى لبنان، سواء عبر البحر أو البرّ أو أي وسيلة أخرى.
كل هذه المقدمة الخبرية الطويلة هدفها الإشارة بوضوح، لا يشبه كل كلام سابق، إلى الدور المباشر الذي تقوده الولايات المتحدة وسفيرتها في لبنان، بمساعدة سفراء بريطانيا وفرنسا وألمانيا والسعودية والإمارات العربية المتحدة، وتعاون غير خفي من سفراء دول عربية وأوروبية أخرى. وكل هؤلاء يعملون وفق نظرية واحدة مفادها أن هزيمة حزب الله تحتاج الآن إلى أمرين: فض الحلفاء عنه مهما كانت الكلفة، وخلق التوترات الناجمة عن أزمات معيشية أينما كان ومهما كانت الكلفة.
أنّبت السفيرة الأميركية ممثليها في الثورة على فشل خطة 4 آب وكرّرت طلبها التركيزعلى خطر حزب الله
قبل 15 سنة. قرر الأميركيون بمساعدة الرئيس الفرنسي الراحل – من دون محاكمة – جاك شيراك (الذي كان يتلو فعل الندامة على غلطته بمعارضة حرب العراق وعدم انخراطه في حرب مباشرة ضد سوريا والمقاومة في لبنان) الشروع في خطة إنهاك لبنان لدفعه، وسوريا، إلى التماهي مع التغييرات الكبيرة التي تلت أكبر عدوان أميركي على العراق. وتظهر وثائق ويكيليكس (النسخة السورية) أنه بدأت في ذلك الحين مشاريع العمل على المعارضة السورية ضد حكم الرئيس بشار الأسد. ولم يكن في لبنان عنوان سوى جمع أركان النظام نفسه، وتخييرهم بين البقاء كما هم لكن تحت المظلة الأميركية – الفرنسية – السعودية، وإما التعرض لضغوطات كبيرة. لم تكن مفاجأة كبرى للفرنسيين والأميركيين عدم موافقة ميشال عون على المقترح. كان الأخير يجد لبنان أمام فرصة استعادة تسوية داخلية كبيرة تتيح بناء حكم مختلف. لذلك قرر الحلف الجديد عزله ومعاقبته. وخرج وليد جنبلاط وسعد الحريري، ومعهما حتى البطريرك الراحل نصرالله صفير، بفكرة أنه يمكن تحييد حزب الله. لكنهم سارعوا إلى تلبية الطلب الأميركي بالضغط عليه، وهو ما دفع برنامج العمل على التحقيق في جريمة اغتيال الرئيس رفيق الحريري إلى الحدّ الأقصى مباشرة: تجييش الشارع ضد حلفاء المقاومة وسوريا، اعتقال الضباط الأربعة وترويع كل من يشكك في نزاهة التحقيق الدولي، الشروع في تغييرات كبيرة على مستوى إدارات الدولة، والسعي إلى الفوز بغالبية نيابية تتيح تنفيذ الانقلاب الكبير. ومع تراجع فرص نجاح المشروع، عاد الجميع وقبل النصيحة الإسرائيلية بالتصويب حصراً على حزب الله. فجأة، خرجت الأوراق التي تقول إن حزب الله، لا سوريا، مسؤول عن قتل الحريري. وبوشر الضغط السياسي عبر وسائل كثيرة قامت على فكرة عزل المقاومة، وصولاً إلى ما اعتُبر في حينه تمهيداً مناسباً لشن العدو «العملية العسكرية الساحقة» التي توفر القضاء على قوة المقاومة العسكرية… وهو ما جعل بعض العرصات – ليس هناك من تعبير لطيف أكثر – يتحدثون عن زنزانات جاهزة لاستقبال حسن نصرالله ورفاقه. ومع الصدمة التي أذهلت العالم كله بفشل الحرب الإسرائيلية، قرر الأميركيون رفع مستوى الضغط الداخلي، وتولى ثلاثي الحريري – جنبلاط – مسيحيي 14 آذار الانتقال إلى خطة الهجوم الداخلي، مع مستوى أعلى من التصعيد، حتى وصلنا إلى ما وصلنا إليه في 7 أيار. ذلك اليوم الذي سبقه إقناع الحريري بأنه يملك جيشاً قادراً على طرد حزب الله من بيروت الكبرى، وأن هناك جيشاً رديفاً ومدداً ينتظره في عاليه والشوف وطريقي البقاع وبيروت قادر على محاصرة المقاومة، وفي اللحظة المناسبة يمكن للجيش اللبناني أن يكون جاهزاً لإدارة استسلام حزب الله… لكنه فيلم أجهزت عليه المقاومة خلال ساعات قليلة. ولم تفشله فحسب، بل أدارت المعركة في حينه بطريقة تمنع إعادة البلاد إلى زمن خطوط التماس والتجمعات المسلحة والمناطق ذات الصفاء الطائفي والمذهبي.
فشل الأميركيون حينها في تدفيع المقاومة في لبنان ثمن انتصارها على إسرائيل بين تجربة العام 2000 والعام 2006. لكن تبدل الخطط العالمية في اتجاه قطع صلة الوصل مع سوريا، جعل العالم في مواجهة جديدة مع حزب الله، وصار لزاماً تدفيعه ثمن الدور الاستراتيجي الذي لعبه في منع إسقاط حكم الرئيس بشار الأسد، وضرب البنية الاستراتيجية للجهات التكفيرية في العراق. وفوق ذلك، مدّ يد العون – على تواضعها – لليمنيين الذين يواجهون إرثاً استعمارياً عمره أكثر من مئة عام. وفوق كل ذلك، ها هو حزب الله، يلعب دوراً في إعادة لمّ شمل قوى المقاومة في فلسطين ولبنان وسوريا والعراق واليمن، ويلعب دوراً محورياً حتى في المواجهة الأخيرة التي شهدتها فلسطين التي خاضت أكبر المعارك وأكثرها أهمية في «سيف القدس».
اليوم، لا يجد الأميركيون، ومعهم فرنسا وبريطانيا وألمانيا (غريبة الجرأة الألمانية في تولي أدوار قذرة في لبنان، وكأنهم لم يتعلموا من دروس الماضي في مواجهة حركات التحرر العربية، أو لا يعون حجم الثمن الذي سيضطرون لدفعه جراء التزامهم تعاليم الولايات المتحدة وإسرائيل). يجتمع كل هؤلاء، بالتعاون مع السعودية (بكل الحقد الذي يسيطر على عقل قادتها) والإمارات العربية (بكل التوتر الذي يسود قادتها جراء الهزائم المتتالية في أكثر من ساحة)، ويقررون استخدام حيلهم اللبنانية، القديمة منها (أحزاب وزعامات إقطاعية ومرجعيات دينية ومؤسسات أكاديمية)، والجديدة (جمعيات للنشاط المدني من نوع غب الطلب، وأفراد يطمحون لتولي أدوار خاصة وربما يفكرون الآن في كيفية مغادرة لبنان والمنطقة قبل رحيل القوات الأميركية لئلا يصيبهم ما أصاب أقرانهم في كابول)، والهدف وحيد: تنفيذ استراتيجية التوتر في حدودها القصوى ضد حزب الله. في السياسة والحصار الاقتصادي وفي الأمن وفي الاجتماع والتحريض الإعلامي، وفي كل ما يقود، في اعتقادهم، إلى محاصرة الحزب وعزله تمهيداً لمحاولة جديدة يفترضون أن إسرائيل ستكون قادرة على إنجازها في مواجهة المقاومة في لبنان.
مع الأسف، قد نشهد كثيراً من الأحداث التي تعكس هذا الفهم الأميركي للفوضى، من نوع مواجهات دامية في أكثر من منطقة لبنانية، أو حملات إعلامية موتورة، أو حتى إجراءات قضائية (كما يحصل في ملف المرفأ)، إضافة إلى ضغوط أكبر لمنع حصول لبنان على أي نوع من الدعم المباشر أو غير المباشر ما لم يخضع لإدارة الغرب. وغداً ستسمعون أن أي قرش يتقرر صرفه في لبنان من خلال صناديق دولية أو عربية، يجب أن يخضع لإدارة مختلفة. وسيطلب الغرب أن يكون الجيش اللبناني هو الإدارة التنفيذية، وأن يكون ممثلو الجمعيات «المدنية» هم الأدوات المشرفة على الأرض، وأن يكون هناك مراقب من قبل المؤسسات الدولية تصدر عنه الموافقة لصرف أي قرش…
حسناً، ها نحن أمام حلقة جديدة من فيلم أميركي لم يتوقف منذ مئة عام وأكثر، وعنوانه خلق الفوضى لمنع استقرار أي حكم يرفض الهيمنة الأميركية. لكن، من الجيد تذكير كل هؤلاء بأن الخصم الذي تواجهه الولايات المتحدة تعلّم الكثير من دروس الماضي. ويعرف كيف يتعامل مع أبناء جلدته، ويجيد التمييز بين المضلَّل وبين العميل المتورط. لكن، متى حانت اللحظة، فالضربات لا توجه إلا إلى المسؤول الفعلي عن كل هذا الشر…
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