Appeal to the
silent majority in Lebanon
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An appeal to
all Lebanese regardless of their sectarian or
political affiliations.
Lebanese Information Center - August 6, 2006
You are bearing the brunt
of this calamity. Anyone who has seen Lebanon
before July 12th would have thought that war and
destruction were gone forever. You went about your
daily lives, in your recently freed country,
believing that whatever remaining issues would be
solved on the table of dialogue. You were wrong. A
Lebanese party, Hezbollah, has chosen to execute a
different agenda. While you were building your
homes, planning for your future, they were building
bunkers and planning for war. While they were
affirming to their counterparts that their weapons
are only to “deter” and that they will not initiate
any fights, their men were preparing for a major
breach of international law on the Israeli border.
One has to wonder “why did they do
that”. They obviously had no internal motives to
explode the situation. By threatening to "cut the
arms and necks of those who dared to touch the
weapons of the resistance”, they intimidated
political leaders and warranted the acceptance of
their presence pending further political
negotiations. The regional allegiances of Hezbollah
caused the clash with Israel. Iran was searching for
a diversion from the climaxing pressure over its
nuclear programs and Syria wanted to cause the
destruction of Lebanon and to explore the ensuing
disorder to reenter and influence the Lebanese scene
again.
In every country there is a silent
majority. They are citizens who go about their daily
lives without direct involvement in any political
activities. This appeal is especially for you, the
silent majority. Your silence was interpreted by
Hezbollah as an approval of its false claims of
“resistance” and “liberation”. For sectarian and
economic reasons, Hezbollah has some hardcore
supporters. You should not allow yourselves to be
bunched up with those. Supporting the adventures of
Hezbollah for the sake of Iran and Syria has proven
to be deadly. Hezbollah drafted you to become
martyrs of its “Islamic revolution”. If you do not
speak up now your blood will be spilled for the
wrong cause. The future of Lebanon depends on you
solely. Like you made your voice heard during the
“Cedar Revolution” you should do it now. Then, you
were outraged by the loss of a great political
leader, now, all of Lebanon could be lost.
Hezbollah is presenting itself as an
achiever of a miracle. It wants us to admire and
applaud its feats. Granted it has some devoted and
ideologically motivated fighters but what good are
they doing for Lebanon. Do you believe, as
Hezbollah does, that the destruction of your homes
and neighborhoods is a necessary price to pay to
cure the inferiority complex of the UMMA? Did you
need to be displaced, watch friends and family
killed and all your dreams and aspirations destroyed
so Hezbollah can prove to the world that it could
lob rockets on Israel or it could kill a few
soldiers? Do you accept the winning theory of
Hezbollah? If this is “Victory” how does defeat
look like for Lebanon and the Lebanese?
You, the silent majority, should
raise your voices against being deprived from your
rights and safety for an ideological fanaticism
foreign to you and your culture. You have to act now
to dismantle the moral pedestal over which Hezbollah
claims to stand. You have to unravel the cloak of
patriotism under which Hezbollah pretends to
operate. No single party should be allowed to decide
the fate of Lebanon. The catastrophe will be a lot
more devastating if you remain morally confused or
unaware of whom your true enemy is. While the
fighters of Hezbollah are bunkered and prepared you
are there left helpless under the rain of fire.
It’s time for the Lebanese, the Lebanese Government
and the Lebanese Army to fill the void Hezbollah
exploited in the South of Lebanon.
Our hearts and minds are with you.
May God save Lebanon.
© 2006
Lebanese Information Center – www.licus.org
