Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Every cloud has a silver lining?

Nicholas Noe writes for the Guardian on what he thinks is the silver lining for what is currently a very dark cloud. He is right in thinking that Hezbullah and the Christian Free Patriotic movement are most likely to win the elections, but to think that this would pressure Hezbullah to disarm are naive. When he talks about a "strong" Lebanese army being an incentive for the Party of God to drop their weapons, he misses the point that the majority of the army would be Lebanese Shia. He will also be sorely disappointed to know that the very concept of this "strong" army, in the eyes of Hezbullah and all its supporters, is identical with the capability, position and effectiveness of the movement as it stands at the moment, and the government will also be this way - especially with regards to the Zionist state. Washington and Tel Aviv also know this so I doubt very much that anyone will be taking much attention of Mr Noe's opinion. What a waste of five minutes.

2 comments:

sasa said...

Hizbollah will disarm when there is no threat of invasion, occupation, and random attacks from its friendly southern neighbour. It will not transfer the defence of the state to an army which serves tea to the invaders.

Maybe the obsession should be about Israel disarming, not Hizbollah.

Maysaloon said...

To be fair Sasa the existence of Israel is not subject for debate with Hezbullah. Noe should also realise that a deeper understanding of what drives Hezbullah would quickly reveal that the liberation of "lebanese lands" is only the first step. The liberation of Palestine is, I suspect, taken very seriously as a long term goal amongst some strategists in a bunker somewhere. This is why it is imperative that America and Israel destroy this movement...