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The Government of Free Lebanon in Exile
Jerusalem & Washington, D.C.
Nagi N. Najjar, Executive Director
August 12, 2003
Israel Must Be Free to React to Islamic Provocations
By restraining Israel, the U.S. is losing the momentum in its war against terrorism. Today's double suicide attack in Israel came about because of the U.S. policy of restraint against
Hizbollah. Iran and Syria feel that they have a free hand in striking Israel at a time they know in advance that D.C. will restrain Jerusalem from responding to these attacks.
The Government Of Free Lebanon reminds the
United States and Israel that it is ready to support actions to suppress the terrorism of Hezbollah that is threatening the Peace in the M.E.. President Bush should understand that he cannot appease all players, try to keep
everyone happy with his political approach, otherwise he will lose the entire impetus of the war against terrorism.
The Baath Party in Syria – in collusion with Iran – succeeded in diverting the center stage of the U.S.
war against terrorism by offering Oil contracts, with the help of some U.S. congressmen, in order to appease oil interests and at the same time support the Iraqi Baath resistance. This support maximizes casualties of US troops
and provokes militarily the southern Lebanese front against Israel through Hezbollah in an attempt to destabilize any U.S. backed Peace progress .
Hezbollah has 10,000 missiles deployed in Southern Lebanon, not only to
be used against Israel but against every Peace initiative that Washington will undertake in the M.E.. Why has this terrorist organization as well as Syria and Iran been ignored by the Bush Administration?
A Terrorist
supporting nation the likes of Syria should be banned from its seat from the United Nation and sanctioned instead for supporting the terrorist networks of Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan
should help win this war against terrorism and not ignore the matter. If he feels he is not the right man for the job, he should be resign.
The security of the world is at stake, and the inaction of the U.N. is
emboldening the fundamentalists in the M.E. and neutralizing the U.S. political role against terrorism. The point of no return has been achieved by Hezbollah actions.
Israel, the U.S., and the West, cannot live at the
mercy of this band of criminals. They should stand up, face reality, and take appropriate action to ensure that this will never happen again.
We urge Prime Minister Sharon to rectify the historical mistake of the Barak
2000 withdrawal from Lebanon as UN resolution 425 didn't bring Peace nor stability to Israel and the M.E..
Hezbollah is the instrument of fear and instability in the M.E. region. This organization cannot exist without
the support of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. Their agenda is to remove any U.S. progress from the M.E. by force and to the evolution of the Islamic revolution that was initiated in the Beirut bombing of 1983 that cost the lives of
243 U.S. Marines.
The late Hafez Assad bluffed President Clinton in Geneva with visions of Peace with Israel and seized the M.E. momentum of terror by controlling southern Lebanon and blackmailing Israel through the
threat of Hezbollah. Barak submitted to Clinton's pressure and the whole area came under the flame of a ferocious fundamentalism that led to 9/11. Their philosophy is that nothing will stand in the way of a victorious,
fundamentalist Islam: from Beirut in 1983, to the deadly intifada in Israel, to 9/11 in the United States. Neither Israel nor the United States will resist the pressure of militant Islam.
The ineffective Israeli air
strikes will not bring peace as shown by the useless air strikes of former Israeli P.M. Barak when he responded to Hebollah terror by bombing an electrical reactor in Lebanon. Indeed, this useless response only emboldened
Hizbollah.
The terrorist supported Governments in Lebanon and Syria need a regime change before any stability can take foot and progress in the M.E..
The pressure by the U.S. to implement the roadmap was
translated in Damascus and Teheran into a weakness of Israel's inability to respond due to U.S. pressure.
Iran and Syria are gaining ground in Iraq by increasing the attacks against the U.S. Forces, preventing
stabilization, and gaining ground over Israel by manipulating Hezbollah to blackmail any Peace progress toward Israel.
When will this stop?
The Government of Lebanon in Exile speaks out from Jerusalem and stands
by Prime Minister Sharon in the fight against Terrorism and reminds him that it is ready to support any action his Government takes to curb and eradicate Terrorism in Lebanon and bring stability to a volatile region.
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