Hezbollah calls the shots in Lebanon


Despite UN expectations, it is the Lebanese government that is bowing to Hezbollah

Yesterday I got into a spirited discussion about the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.

My opinion was that the UN proposed ceasefire only benefitted Hezbollah and it's patrons in Syria and Iran. It's just another example of the Islamist drive to bind it's opponents in diplomacy and guilt, while ignoring any restrictions against it's actions.

Sadly, it looks like I was right.

Lebanon's army can't disarm Hezbollah.

General Michel Sleiman, commander-in-chief of the Lebanese army, and his lieutenants had been invited to join cabinet meetings to finalise plans to deploy the 15,000-strong force south of the Litani River.

But they were lectured by Hezbollah's two ministers in the coalition Government on what the army could and could not do.

In Beirut, Western diplomats said the standoff raised concerns about the army's ability to deal with Hezbollah. The Lebanese Government is left struggling to maintain a united front after unanimously backing the UN resolution on Saturday.

"The Government can't force Hezbollah to abide by the ceasefire," Economics Minister Sami Haddad said.

"It's unnatural to have an armed political party in cabinet that does not abide by what the Government of Lebanon wants."

Israel's war is not with Lebanon, it's with Hezbollah. Hezbollah is using the emerging Lebanon state to shield itself. Hezbollah is not a nation and is not subject to the wishes of the United Nations. Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy with heavy links in Syria.

And Hezbollah is using this "cease-fire" to rearm and resupply itself.

If Hezbollah believes that "might makes right," then the only way that it will back down is after it is defeated and crushed militarily.

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