Liquidation of Hezbollah is the target [Archives:2006/974/Opinion]
Prof. Abdulaziz Al-Tarb
It appeared hard for the Israeli Prime Minister Ulmert to get down off the tree after he Israeli army establishment was exposed to humiliation. Therefore he mobilized his military machine and escalated the war on the two fronts: the north against Hezbollah and the south against the Palestinians. What Israel was doing in Gaza it is now doing in Lebanon where it has bombarded bridges and residential houses and killed or wounded hundreds of innocent people. It raided the airport and imposed a complete air, land and sea blockade on Lebanon.
Israel was aiming at instigating the Lebanese against the resistance. And in fact Bush did not hesitate supporting Israel and said Israel has the right to defend itself. That phrase constituted a motive for Israel to continue its aggression and granted it full authority and a green light to do everything and anything. Bush gave Israel an excuse to destroy Lebanon just for the sake of two prisoners.
What had happened constituted the opportune opportunity for Israel to push Hezbollah from the Lebanon's south. America, France and the United Nations participated together in the scheme and the goal was deployment of the Lebanese army on its borders.
The tepid reaction in the United Nations and the Security Council were intentionally imposed by the United States to abort a resolution at the Security Council demanding cessation of the attacks on Gaza and tried to prolong and delay the issuance of a resolution regarding Lebanon and its argument was that there was no use for it. America wanted time to enable Israel to deal a deadly blow to Hezbollah with the aim of expulsion of Hezbollah from the south completely. It is a goal Israel has been working to achieve for many years particularly after Hezbollah has been representing a balance of horror since they forced Israel to withdraw from south Lebanon May 24, 2000.
Presently the aggression on Lebanon aims to drag the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Al-Seniora to a stand-still through which Israel could end the resistance, disarming them and allowing the deployment of the Lebanese army in the south which practically means the full implementation of the UN Security Council resolution 1559.
The strange matter is the statement by Bush in imposing a blackout on the genocide Israel is perpetrating on the Palestinian and Lebanese territories, saying Syria must account for its acts. That is a kind of confusion that could be uttered but by a maniac who has lost his way. Maybe Bush wanted that statement to give Israel an excuse to extend its military operations to Syria, which could be convenient for him.
When will the Arab and Islamic peoples and rulers understand that the liquidation of Hezbollah will be the last stage and target of the Arab and Islamic resistance in all Israel's continued abstinence.
Prof. Abdulaziz Al-Tarb is an economist and a professor in Political Science. He is the head of the Arab Group for Investment and Development.
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