Archived Reader Mail from March 2000

Judgement of the Gardiens of the Cedars
by Anonymous Lebanese Source
The third post-Taëf president is like the second one: he decides to conduct to its term the judgement of the head of the party of the Gardiens of the Cedars for collaboration with the enemy (understand by that Israël).
The case will be in front of the pro-syrian lebanese tribunal the 18th of april.
Well, I suggest to this tribunal to condemn all the members of this party because almost all of us were or we go to and we still collaborate with the enemy.
The 18th of april will be the biggest farce in the history of post-Taëf Lebanon. I suggest to hire cars, planes and boats to go to the tribunal to follow this farce.
I suggest also to surrender ourselves to the tribunal and to ask forgiveness. Well, if I count the time I have spend in Israël or / and negociating with the Israëlis officials inside and outside Israël, I should take more than 100 years in jail.
Abou arz should take 1000 years. Lallous gave him 7 years only. And after the death of Rabin, he added 5 more because Abou arz attended to the funeral.
To be complete, Emile should appoint a shiite judge, member of Hezballah.
I suggest that the Israëlis release the list of the names of the Lebanese especially the politicians who collaborate with them, so that they can be judged all together once for all. It will be a huge ceremony where the guilties will say in chorus : "Emile who is in heaven, we ask your forgiveness because we committed big mistakes. We offense you and offense our big sister Syria. We are guilty, we are guilty, we are guilty, and thus we merit your punishment".
Also, in order to have a prestigious ceremony, all the heads of the religious communities and the eminent members of the pro syrian lebanese parliament (the actual ones and those who are going to be nominated by Syria next september)should be present.
I can imagine the scene, Nasrallah the syrian vassal saying to the Gardians of the Cedars : "Ask forgiveness because you have fought our brothers the Syrians and the Palestinians, ask forgiveness because you have collaborated with those who have stolen our Jerusalem, let the devil leave your heart and die in peace, die like we are living since now more than 10 years as Syria followers" (understand by that as syrians dogs).
So to all, see you the 18th of april for our redemption.

Letter to the Editor
^{From Lebanese Anonymous Source}

There is a problem somewhere. While Lebanese has fought and still fighting to free Lebanon from the Syrian-iranian-palestinian terrorism, others are working to democratize Syria.
What does it mean ?
I do not know up to now one single arab country who believes in democracy.
The only democracy they believe in is the muslim rule where other religions are accepted (the dihmmis).
Therefore, please stop thinking as people who lives in the west where you have the freedom to speak and to think.
In the Arab area, we do not have this luxury.
Stop playing the intellectuals. The only purpose of our fight should continue :  Liberation of Lebanon and the arrest of Hafez el Assad and his followers for crimes of war and high treason.
If the Jews have the right to arrest the Nazi criminals, we Lebanese have the right and it is our duty to arrest and judge those who have killed and betrayed the Lebanese people.
Stop doing and playing the intellectuals. And to those who are working to free Lebanon, or who are pretending of doing that, please say the truth and only the truth.
Assad and his cronies should be arrested and judged for crimes against humanity.
The United Nations has received officially the request for arresting Hafez Assad, we have received the official acknowledgment and we are wainting for their answer. We hope they understand our message because we are not going to stop until we reach our goal: The liberation of Lebanon and the arrest of Hafez Assad and his cronies.
Pressure should be made and we are going to do it on the Congressmen to ask the American administration for the arrest of Hafez Assad for killing american citizens in Lebanon and for destroying Lebanon.
If up to now, we are not able to free Lebanon, because many Lebanese want to speak the  language of diplomacy and hypocrisy with terrorists.
My personal experience has learned me that with terrorists, we should speak the same langage, the only they understand.
Syria is a terrorist state and we should deal with it as and only as a terrorist state.
In the history of all people who fought for their freedom, they get freedom only by using the langage of their occupiers.
We are tired from you intellectual people, of your hypocrisy and of your cowardice.
I, as a Lebanese, if the freedom of Lebanon needs that Syria has to be destroyed, well I shall work for that.
Syria has built itself only by destroying the economy of Lebanon. So, stop speaking of the democratization of Syria and of the arab world.
There is no democracy without freedom. Peace in  the Middle-East will not be reached untill religious or cultural states are built in the area. These states can then deal with each others as equal and with respect. And thus we can have peace, a real one.

Lebanon Analysis
Letter to the Editor
by anonymous Israeli source
 

[Note: This post is most informative as most of it is true. The Saudi connection has been identified by sources as Prince Bandor, and the topic of quiet Saudi involvement is extensive and will be the subject of a report in the future. MK]

Dear Readers:
Recent occurances in Beirut deserve your attention and merit broad concern. The following truths are most illuminating. The role of Rafik al-Hariri is quite disturbing as is the role of the Clinton Administration.
Several  weeks ago a gentleman who is opposing Hariri in the coming parliamentary  election in Beirut was invited to the U.S. embassy in Beirut by the Ambassador,  David M. Satterfield. What one would have expected to be a pleasant tour d'horizon was not. Satterfield told the gentleman that he should withdraw from the parliamentary electoral race because the U.S. embassy was supporting Hariri.
On March 11 three Senators of a United States Senate delegation, Hollings, Kerrey and Shelby, visited Beirut. They were met at the airport in Beirut by a limo from the U.S embassy and taken directly to the palace of Hariri for a three  hour luncheon meeting. Hariri lectured the high-level visitors about the endemic  corruption in Lebanon and offered the solution - his rule as a political strongman. His arrogance demonstrated his contempt of democracy as did his  warning to the senators that Lebanon would be a dependable friend of the United States as long as the USA supported him as "ruler for life".
The senators also visited the President of the Lebanese Republic, Emile Lahoud. One wonders what President Lahoud thinks of his true status in the eyes of the US  government. One also wonders what role Hariri's immense wealth and Saudi sponsorship play in all this. Lahoud had little to say to the visitors other than to indicate that whatever suited the Syrian government suited the people of Lebanon as well.
Following are examples of Hariri's recent anti-Israeli actions and comments:
a. An extremely libelous anti-Israeli film was shown on a Beirut TV station, Future Television, early this month. That TV station is owned by Hariri.
b. Hariri has stated more than once that he would rather "cut off his arm" than sign a treaty with Israel.
We people of Israel and you of Lebanon have our differences, but we clearly have serious issues that we should address together. In addition to the Syrian issue are the money and motives of the Saudis who support Hariri. There are many concerns that we must face  together.

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Add on by Israeli & Global News (MK):

The picture below was released this  morning and rebroadcast by other groups decrying the use of children as an ominous threat for the future. However, the future is now as the picture proves that the Palestinian rejectionist groups, previously head quartered in Damascus, are now in Lebanon posing yet an additional threat to Israel and a free Lebanon.
Informed sources point out that Syrian special forces are supplying weapons  to the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon that assuredly will be used against Israel and Lebanese freedom fighters.
Since the situation is dynamic and increasingly threatening as anti-Israeli and anti-Lebanese forces build up in strength, PM Baraq's plan for withdrawal is charged with confusion and is non-responsive to threatening events.
Baraq insists he will withdraw shortly AND Israeli spokesmen are now calling for international peacekeeping forces. This is analogous to Baraq receiving 300 million sheqlim as a starter for withdrawal costs without any assurances, indeed almost a certain rejection, that  the US congress will support him financially.
How can Baraq withdraw if he needs international peace keepers that will involve the US against the wishes of Congress and yet protect Israel's northern borders?
How can Baraq withdraw when his own staff officers tell him it's unwise to withdraw under these conditions?
How can Baraq withdraw when the forces determined to destroy Israel are building up on the Lebanese heights overlooking Israel?
How can  Baraq withdraw when these very same forces are rearmed by both Syria and Iran with new weaponry that can easily reach Haifa?
These questions are disturbing and the Israeli government's actions pose an existential threat to Israel. These  actions are not supported by any group in the US as it places the US, US troops, US money, in a precarious position where the US will be asked to support Israel in a defensive war of its own making. And since the US most likely will reject pleas for assistance under these circumstances, Israel will be in dire jeopardy.

A Palestinian boy flashes a victory sign as he raises a gun in front of a poster of Palestinian leader Nayef Hawatmeh during a demonstration held in Ain  al-Hilweh refugee camp near the port-city of Sidon, Thursday. Hundreds of the  Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) members held a rally to  mark the anniversary of 'Land Day', the day Israeli occupied Palestine in 1948.

Letter (No.2) to my cousin Ehud Barak from Husni Mubarak
From Lebanon
Anonymous  Author
Dear cousin Ehud
We are very grateful for your wise decisions to leave Lebanon. We can assure you that Syria will have no problems  to handle the situation after that.
I have called already Hafez and I have assured him that the arab world is going to approve all his decisions during today and tomorrow summit of Beirut (ex-capital of Lebanon.)
The major  decision will be that the arab nation cannot accept any further aggression  against Lebanon, and thus she will ask to reinforce the Syrian presence in Lebanon.
We should let the Lebanese feel that we are supporting them, and that we really like them. this decision has been already approved by many of  their notorious leaders such as Rafic and Emile.
If you want to help us, you may send some bombs around Beirut pretending that you are bombing terrorist groups as you call them. This will help us more and we shall pretend to be very angry and thus it will be very easier for us7 to explain that Syria presence in Lebanon is very important for peace.
Many Lebanese leaders (Hafez let them think that they really are) has already approved all the decisions that we are going to take. They are really naive and stupid. Even one of them (his brother and his family were killed by the Syrians in 1990, but apparently he does not care about his life) wants to send arab troops to the lebanese-israeli frontier. Syrians are not sufficient for him, he wants now others. I have called Aziz bou Toufikka and suggests to him to send members of the GIA to the frontier as peace keepers. He can in this way get rid of them. And there is enough room for more arabs in Lebanon, and since the Lebanese like the complication !!
Dear Ehud
The future seems good for you and Hafez. He told me that the secret  negotiations between the two countries are going well. Apparently he was confident and he told me that the peace treaty will be signed one month after the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Lebanon. Your plan is genius (Hafez  thinks that too). Just after your withdrawal from Lebanon, the Israeli population will be so happy so that they will approve without any problem the  Israeli retreat from the Golan Heights. I suggest to you to make in the same day the referendum for Jerusalem.
Can you imagine, you and Hafez sharing the Nobel prize. Thanks to you and to Hafez, peace has been restored in the Palestine territories with capital as Jerusalem and Lebanon ruled by the Syrians. Finally, this is what I call peace.
Your cousin,
Husni.