Declaration of the Government of Free Lebanon
Jerusalem
By Nagi N. Najjar
Executive Director: Lebanese Foundation for Peace
Executive Director: The Government of Free Lebanon in Exile
May 28th 2006

The recent fire exchange on the Lebanon-Israel border is a result of Prime Minister Barak's capitulation on May 2000, when Israel pulled its forces out of Lebanon to the UN-approved international border. It is sinister today to read in Israel’s newspapers that some Israeli officials still believe that another retreat from the Shebaa Farms will defuse the situation versus Hezbollah. Ayalon, a former director of the Shin Bet Agency, said that the controversy over the Shaba Farms area between Lebanon and Syria provided "legitimacy in the eyes of many Lebanese" for continued attacks on Israel. "There is no strategic significance to Shaba," Ayalon said. "Until that problem is solved, we won't know to what extent it has been merely an excuse for targeting Israel."

In the lexicon of the Middle East, the excuse and justification will always be there in the Rogues regimes and Islamic organizations of terror, versus it is the Shebaa Farms or the liberation of Jerusalem.

In a situation like in Lebanon, where Hezbollah and multiple pro Syrian and pro Iranian terror Organization control the ground military, whether it is hiding behind the Shebaa Farms or other excuse, any retreat from the ground will not help the momentum rather damage Israel’s national security. “Prime Minister Barak should have understood despite the empty promises of Clinton that backing the State of Israel down a cul-de-sac with Hezbollah is a suicide and not a “positive achievement towards Peace”.

If Israel doesn’t change the course of events, despite who is in charge politically, it will be confronted by these consequences of capitulation.  You don’t challenge the terrorism of Hezbollah by giving in to land concessions.

The withdrawal of Southern Lebanon and Gaza proved it was only catastrophic on a strategic and tactical level

The government in Israel needs to directly engage these terror organizations on the ground and destroy them. Within the context of the future U.N. Bremmer report coming in the context of Syria’s involvement in the assassination of Prime Minister Hariri, Syria, using Hezbollah warfare, wants to create a political-military distraction by enflaming the situation on the Israeli border. The US State Department by calling for restraint is only reinforcing Hezbollah Terrorism in Lebanon. Do these politics apply to the Bush doctrine of preemptive warfare in the post 9/11 world??

The Government of Israel should not take the regime change option for Lebanon and Syria off its table in Jerusalem.

Despite the political nullification of the Free Lebanon Armed Forces, our troops and units stands ready for any clean up operations against terror sanctuaries and bases in Lebanon. should a decision making  prove to be useful to achieve a Lebanon-Israel security momentum.