Hezbollah and the Betrayal of the Arab Spring - Part 3

I have never agreed with Hezbollah, especially not with their militant reason d'etre, I have never even sympathized with Hezbollah, always maintaining that they should be disarmed, regardless of the Israeli occupation. For to allow a faction in Lebanon to be the only one that bares arms is an invitation for that faction the right to impose its hegemony. Especially when dealing with the other feudal lords. 

However, I have, or had, respected Hezbollah, because they, at least politically, where far less corrupt, and far more honest than all the other pseudo Lebanese politicians, aka feudal lords. 

That however, does not mean that I ever agreed with their principles or that I would have allowed myself to follow them. 

I did however, respect them, because they were to only force that stood in the way of Israeli aggression and championed the cause of the underdog, the David, manifested in Palestinians, against the goliath, manifested in the Israelis. 

But I never had respect for Hezbollah’s methods which combined all Israelis in the same category; enemies for the killing, be they soldiers, civilians, elderly, women and even children. Such methods I can never condone, for a life is not a thing to be toyed with and just as there are innocent people on this side of the fence so there be on the other side as will. No one is inherently evil, people are perceived to be evil because circumstances have driven them to desperation. The desperation of the Jewish people over the last 2 millennia cannot be shunned. Should never be forgotten… should never be allowed to happen again. But that too is totally different story. 

On the other hand Hezbollah has provided Lebanon with security in the form of a deterrent against the Israeli armed forces. And they have been far less corrupt, though cruder than most Lebanese politicians. They were honorable, in spite of their resort to barbaric methods. But they blew it. They allowed power to get to their heads and now they have irrevocably doomed themselves. 

Any respect I had for Hezbollah died completely the minute that they started regurgitating the Syrian regime’s propaganda against the protesters. Salafists?!? Extremists?!? Sunnis on the rise to bring strife against the Shia?!? Does the secretary general of Hezbollah not realize that he is doing exactly what he has accused all the other Lebanese factions of doing? Sowing sectarian strife? And for what? To back a despot? A tyrant? A regime responsible for a big part of the turmoil that Lebanon has, and still endures? Because Amina, the gay girl of Damascus, is an extremist Salafist? On what planet? Because the Christians that are rising to the call of unity of the bilad are Salafists? Because the Kurds are Salafists? Because the Druze are Salafists? On what planet? Who is Nasralah trying to deceive? Does he believe the lies that come out of his mouth? All that to support his master the Syrian self-proclaimed Baathist king of an illegitimate regime that oppresses its people? A regime that has cost all of Lebanon including the Shia many, many lives? A regime that robed Lebanon of its wealth only to hand it back to the feudal lords who continued to robe the people blind of their rights? 

I understand Nasralah is eager to stand by his ally, but does he not realize that he is supporting a monster, a criminal against humanity, the very kind of person that Nasralah himself has spoken out against; Netanyahu, Qadafi or Mubarak.. 

Is Nasralah so eager to defend his master that he has forgotten the price that the honorable Syrian people have had to pay in blood? Nasralah should be ashamed of himself and his unwavering support for crimes against humanity. It is easy to accuse the Israelis of such crimes, they are usual the scapegoat out here, but now that his own allies have been shown to be no better than their Israeli counterparts he still gives him support? How hypocritical of Nasralah and his Hezbollah, the party that does not deserve its name. The party that stands against everything Allah is. And I say this as an agnostic. 

No. Hezbollah has betrayed the Arab Spring. Hezbollah has betrayed its principles. Hezbollah has betrayed everything that they stand for and proven once and for all that they are nothing more than an over powered militia not worthy of the respect or the power that is in its hand. 

Hezbollah is accused, as are all the other Lebanese feudal lords of both march 8 and 14, of betraying dignity of the Lebanese people, and of the Syrian people, and of the Palestinian people. The time for secularism is now. And the time for Hezbollah to disarm is yesterday. There can be no more excuses. Hezbollah must do so willingly or risk plunging the entire region in to absolute chaos. It is on your head Nasralah, and it is also on the head of all the other Lebanese leaders for they are, in their own way, looking for a fight, and will be unchecked when Hezbollah disintegrates and will be far more corrupt and uncontrollable. 

The time for a secular Lebanon is now. It is time we overthrow our own tyrants… plural… for Lebanon has many of them and they have all contributed to our collective misery. 

But back to Hezbollah; They have now lost all credibility by abandoning the Syrian people to the wolves. The Syrian regime will fall and then Hezbollah is going to have to pay for this grave mistake. All for nothing.