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The Wrong Side of History in Lebanon
Andrew L. Jaffee, March 26, 2005 |
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Fascists struck against Lebanese Christians today, on the eve of Easter, their most meaningful high holiday. This is the third attack against Christians in a week, not only because they largely oppose Syria’s occupation of the Cedar Land, but because they represent what the fascists consider an abomination, a free and democratic homeland for people of all faiths -- those “western” ideals that Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah’s terrorist leaders fear most. Their fears are based on a lie, on a distortion of history, on a coerced amnesia. They want to forget the Lebanon which once was the flower of Arab unity and democracy in the Levant – when Cedar Land was fondly known as the “Switzerland of the Middle East” and its capital, Beirut, was known as the “Paris of the Middle East.” The terror/puppet masters want to forget Lebanon’s “National Pact” of 1943, when Christians and Muslims came together …implementing a distribution of seats in the parliament on a ratio of 6 to 5: Christians to Muslims. The Major administrative positions were also distributed among major sects with: the President is to be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim and the Speaker of the parliament a Shiite Muslim. Christians are the focus of the rotten root system of Lebanon’s ills, the weird combination of the Iranian-financed Hezbollah terrorist group and Syria’s Baathist/Socialist/Alawite minority despots, the Assad dynasty. These are strange bedfellows perhaps, but united in their fear of losing power. These false gods; these overlords; they can only dwell on the rage that may be unleashed against them if they for one second loosen their grip on the millions they have so efficiently oppressed for decades. Drunk on power and fear, the axis – Syria Iran, and Hezbollah -- cannot see the beauty of people power, the Cedar Revolution, trying now to bud. The terrorists cannot appreciate a time when “Lebanon finds unity in street rallies,” when 1 million Christians and Muslims march together in Beirut, peacefully demanding democracy. The phony photo opportunities – “pro-Syria rallies” -- orchestrated by Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran's terror masters could not marshal the numbers which Lebanon’s opposition produced spontaneously, using only cell phones, Internet connections, and word of mouth to organize. This people power is what the terrorists are most terrified by. Lebanon’s opposition is the real thing, la vraie chose, people power at its best. The dictators may have a coerced amnesia of Lebanon’s history, but they are clever enough to remember what Gandhi achieved in India, what Martin Luther King, Jr. achieved in the U.S., and what Vaclav Havel achieved in Czechoslovakia -- all “velvet revolutions” fueled with peaceful people-power. Democracy is breaking out everywhere. The democratic domino theory is no theory anymore. Kyrgyz, Afghans, Iraqis, Ukrainians, Abkhazians, and Romanians have all voted, all in the span of a year. The path is clear. The path is peaceful revolution. The terrorists will not give up without a fight, but they are on the wrong side of history. Lebanon will be free sooner than later. That is an undeniable fact. |