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The Government of Free Lebanon in Exile
Jerusalem & Washington, D.C.
Nagi N. Najjar, Executive Director
February 2, 2004
We, the people of Free Lebanon, thank Prime Minister Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom for the campaign launched by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs aimed at ousting
Syria from occupying Lebanon.
Syria is an occupying power in Lebanon, with some one million Syrian workers in the country. We remind Israel that this current Syria will never sign a Peace accord with Israel, and
its political double standards are designed to reduce US pressure on Damascus in order to better blackmail Jerusalem through Hezbollah and Hamas. Through Hezbollah's strategy of terror in Lebanon, Sheikh Yassin wants to
exacerbate the Iranian - Syrian "organized" campaign of terror, thanks to Damascus's contribution to the process in its involvement and encouragement of Palestinian terror.
We ask the international
community to stop ignoring Syria's occupation of Lebanon, and supply us with meaningful support to change the facts on the ground in Lebanon. We need political support in this direction, in combination with logistical support,
to accomplish the liberation of our country.
We are thankful for the messages of sympathy supporting a Free Lebanon but in real politics they have no real effect.
Lebanese need logistics, along with international
political support, so we can stop procrastinating in the ME Peace process and start delivering concrete actions that will stabilize the region and end an insurgency of terror that lasted for more than twenty years. From the
time Israel tried to stabilize Lebanon and missed the opportunity in 1982, we had enough potential from outside and within Lebanon to end and reverse this "artificial " state of terror in Lebanon, where an
imposed Presidency, Government, and Parliament take their directives from a wanted organization listed on a international terror list .
We hope Israel will raise this issue in its meetings with the
United States, with friendly Heads of States, and all diplomatic representation who have an interest in Peace established in the Middle East, and terror defeated in a solid and concrete base.
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