In
brief, the SNSP is a party founded on the principles
of Hitler’s Nazi Party – with a peculiarly swastika-ish
flag - and on the basis that the entire Levant was
once Greater Syria and should return to being
Greater Syria as soon as local politics permit. Now,
if one could ignore the long term vision of the
Assad dictatorships, the longevity of the Hashemite
Kingdom in Jordan, the fact that Cypriots can't
speak a word of Arabic, or the amusing detail that
this purported Syrian party was actually founded in
Lebanon, one would still have to get their head
around the concept that Greater Syrians are distinct
in that they might have a unique skull size easily
distinguishable from other humans throughout the
rest of the world.
On
second thought, a clearer minded thinker might find this
the easier concept to digest.
I will
not venture into the suicide death squads and methods of
assassination employed by the SNSP to achieve this
utopian Uber-Syria, but suffice to say that they are
responsible for the death of at least one Lebanese
President and numerous politicians since their
inception.
It
would be good and well if the only issues of the
Lebanese landscape were the redundant political parties,
their respectively obtuse ideologies, their bizarre
propensity for unspeakable violence, and the habitual
invasions by sisterly neighboring countries. No, the
real problem that plagues this tiny piece of AAA Middle
East real estate arises in the remarkable alliances and
how they shift.
And if
I have taken the most absurd of parties in ideological
decrepit-ness with the SNSP, then I must go on to
describe its equivalent in alliances, by examining one
which has recently arisen between Hassan Nassrallah’s
Hezbollah and Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement.
In all
fairness, these two parties have a popularity that is
deceiving. It is not surprising though when one looks
carefully into the rationale of their followers, as it
is quickly apparent that both parties utilize fear and
hatred as a driving source of their appeal. This
is almost as good as the measurement of relative skull
size.
Aoun
has created an entire party of people who hate the
formerly imprisoned Lebanese Forces leader, Samir Geagea.
He has also rallied them around believing that the
Sunnis under Hariri are out to Islamize Lebanon. Here is
a man who is allying with the head of the Shiite Islamic
Resistance in Lebanon, AKA Hezbollah while convincing
his people that the Sunnis who rebuilt downtown Beirut
with more nightclubs than mosques, are the real source
of fear.
Hezbollah, from the other end, has used the age-old rat
bitten, dog chewed excuse of hating Zionism and
liberating the Palestinians to whip his people into a
Heil Hassan frenzy by the likes of which Hamas would be
shocked.
What
is appealing and appalling in the same instant is the
mobilization of people that has culminated as a result
of this recent marriage. One cannot help but be
mesmerized by the sight of thousands and thousands of
people calling out for a cause. That is, on the surface,
the appealing part. What quickly dawns on you when you
scratch lightly beneath the surface, is the appalling.
Aoun and Nassrallah are essentially attempting to
overthrow the first democratically elected and globally
respected Lebanese Government since the early seventies.
They
are doing it for two separate reasons. Nassrallah is
working on a long term goal to Islamize Lebanon and
eradicate Israel and with some luck, all the Jews
therein, while taking great care to support Iran and
Syria’s regional agenda in the interim. Aoun is
determined, at the expense of his constituency and the
future of his country, to get back to the Baabda
Presidential Palace.
These
goals also have immediate checkpoints that must be
reached in the very near future. Crucial to Nassrallah
is the postponement and ultimate cancellation of the
impending international tribunal. This insures that
there will never be an incentive for Bashar to sacrifice
Nassrallah in return for keeping his seat in Damascus.
This also insures, through Hizballahs continued support
in destabilizing Lebanon, that Syria’s incentive will be
to tow the Iranian line and not deal unilaterally with
the USA. Poor Aoun has absolutely nothing driving him
but his degenerating physical condition, increasing
dementia and the brutal fact that because of his bizarre
alliance, Christian supporters are leaving him like
birds fleeing winter.
As far
as reality dating shows, this one has Hassan in the
dress as the dominatrix and Michel as an eligible,
gullible, if slightly aging bachelor. For Lebanon on
the other hand, this is a Marriage Made in Hell.
For
starters, Hezbollah has hijacked the Shiite street in
such a way that any form of dissent is squashed. One has
only to see how Nabih Berri, once the Don Corleone of
Shiites, has become Hassan’s Baghdad Bob to understand
that there is no way out of Hezbollah except as a
Martyr. To add insult to injury, any non-Shiite
speaking out against Holy Hassan will be greeted with
burning tires, rampaging mobs, and a sneering Sayyid who
peacefully calls back his attack dogs from mauling the
rude Israeli agents, once of course, their lesson has
been learned.
Somehow, Lebanon was safe from these tactics because
the Sunnis, Druze and Christians under Samir Geagea had
banded together to find a common ground in confronting
Syria and Iran. But, enter the Orange Aoun who was
rebuked by the March 14 alliance mainly because he has
no concept of sharing power or decision making and now
you have a recipe for poison.
From
taking credit for UN resolution 1559 (With which he had
nothing to do)
